Jim Carrey's comment on ICE stealing kids:

[dixiegrrrrl]

Link to tweet

[Bernardo de La Paz]

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Jim Carrey
‏Verified account @JimCarrey

1500 innocent children ripped from their mothers’ arms at our border. Lost in Trump’s “system”. Give us your tired, your poor, your huddle masses yearning to breathe free -- and we will torture them for wanting a better life. From Shining City to Evil Empire in under 500 days.

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. Thank you....

[Snotcicles]

19. Torchin the flag. nt

[Owl]

2. Love Jim Carrey!

[Lucinda]

3. KNR

[Lucinda]

4. KNR

[keithbvadu2]

5. Who is the large face in the background?

[samir.g]

8. I was wondering the same thing.

[Honeycombe8]

10. ???

???

[Nitram]

28. Pence?

[Tarc]

6. There are better voices to lead us in this fight that an anti-vaxxer loon

Surely the DU can do better than to parrot a conspiracy theorist's twitter feed.

[Honeycombe8]

11. He's a talented artist, and that's a pretty good illustration of the situation.

Doesn't mean yu have to sign on to everything someone believes in. There is no one in the world who believes 100% as each of us does.

[womanofthehills]

14. We need all the dem voices we can get and Jim's drawings are spectacular

Besides from Jim's twitter feed:

[alp227]

27. So? Distinction without a difference.

Thimerosal used to be in some childhood vaccines, but companies removed it due in part to the hysteria sparked by a fraudulent scientific publication. But even a large-scale analysis comparing children who got thimerosal-containing vaccines to those who got the same vaccines without thimerosal prove there's no link between thimerosal and autism.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/10/opinions/vox-vaccination/index.html

[TexasBushwhacker]

18. He was only anti-vax because he was dating Jenny McCarthy

He may have softened his stance since they split.

[LiberalLovinLug]

21. First off he's not "leading us". But is a force for sure.

Stop with all these purity tests.
The GOP love it when our PC infighting slogs us down.

[Tarc]

23. He is an actor, not a politician

There is no "us", here.

[LiberalLovinLug]

24. I was quoting your own post

And you just reaffirmed my point that he is only a piece of the resistance. He is an actor, not a politician, as you said. One of the fighters. As we all should be. No one has ever proposed he is regarded as a "leader" other than yourself.

Not sure where you are going. That we should all just sit back and let the 'politicians' handle it?

[Nitram]

30. Tarc, feel free to criticize his stance on vaccinations. I do. But when he's right, I cheer.

He just created a powerful image of the horror of what ICE is doing. That helps millions of immigrant families. Criticize there bad, welcome the good. Purity tests are for chumps.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

7. Thanks, Dixie. Love Jim's art - very expressive.

If he ever has to give up acting, he would make a damn good political cartoonist!......

[TheBlackAdder]

9. "Shining city on a hill" John Winthrop never used "shining." Reagan misquoted his "favorite" read.

.

If you watch Reagan's last national address, about 2/3rds into it he misquotes John Winthrop, 'A Model of Christian Charity,' sermon and the Republicans have been fucking that line up ever since. So much so, that most Americans probably now think that it was written as a " shining city on a hill."

.

[a kennedy]

12. Jim is this generation's Mark Twain.

[Codeine]

35. Oh good lord.

I like the guy, but that’s really over the top.

[a kennedy]

38. Well ok then.....may-be not.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

37. Oh my damn.

[a kennedy]

39. OMGOSH, this is me rereading my post.

[guss]

13. I think the big face is John Kelly

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. I think you are correct.

Kelly's the one who made that now infamous callous remark about concerns over the kids.

[helpisontheway]

17. I think you are right. It is John Kelly..nt

[karin_sj]

20. That was my first thought too

You can tell by the eyes. Jim Carrey is a national treasure and even more so lately with his paintings about our current horrible political environment.

[Demovictory9]

25. needs to show more of Kelly's distinctive nose

[tavernier]

29. My first thought.

[spanone]

22. K&R...

[oberliner]

31. The kids were not separated from their parents at the border

They crossed the border alone or arrived here without a parent.

This tweet is conflating two separate issues.

[JBoy]

32. Correct. Two separate issues.

[Grokenstein]

33. John Kelly disagrees

As chief of staff John Kelly told NPR in an interview three weeks ago, the plan to forcibly separate mothers from their children was explicitly designed as a “tough deterrent” to scare immigrants from trying to enter the U.S. “The children will be taken care of—put into foster care or whatever,” he said flippantly. “But the big point is they elected to come illegally into the United States and this is a technique that no one hopes will be used extensively or for very long.” He also implied that those who wished to come across the border were “overwhelmingly rural” people who would find assimilating into the U.S. difficult. “They don’t speak English. They don’t integrate well. They don’t have skills.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/05/trump-blames-his-own-child-separation-policy-on-democrats

Here are some other tactics you may wish to pursue:
(1) BUT WHAT ABOUT OBAMA
(2) FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS
(3) THEY CAME HERE ILLEGALLY SO WHO GIVES A DAMN

[oberliner]

34. No, he doesn't

These are two separate situations.

Were these 1,475 children separated from their parents at the border?

No. The children unaccounted for in last year’s HHS survey all arrived at the Southwest border alone. The government refers to these children as “unaccompanied alien children,” or UACs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/05/27/the-u-s-lost-track-of-1500-immigrant-children-last-year-heres-why-people-are-outraged-now/

[leftyladyfrommo]

36. I like Jim Carrey. He is an exceptional person.

He has every right to be heard.

I never cared for his movies but I really like this man.

[oberliner]

40. Except in this case he is lying

Or, at best, inadvertently passing along misinformation.

[leftyladyfrommo]

41. I don't think he 's lying. That was tge first

info that came out. Later it was corrected. But those children are lost in the system. And now they are separating children from their mothers.

It is absolutely appalling and unbelivably cruel. These people are not just awful. They are monsters and we should be screaming from the rooftops about this.

[oberliner]

42. The 1500 children were unaccompanied minors, not children taken from their parents

That being said, the fact that families are currently being separated at the behest of the Trump admin is awful.

It's just important not to conflate the two, as he is doing with this tweet.