So, Washington is pulling out of the UN human rights council.

[gsdx]

Apparently, Trump and his administration are ticked off at the council chiefly because of their biases against Israel.

One more step toward complete isolation. I found the last statement below quite amusing. I mean, NOBODY know human rights like Trump, right?

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States announced Tuesday it was leaving the United Nations' Human Rights Council, with Ambassador Nikki Haley calling it "an organization that is not worthy of its name." It was the latest withdrawal by the Trump administration from an international institution.

Haley, Trump's envoy to the U.N., said the U.S. had given the human rights body "opportunity after opportunity" to make changes. She lambasted the council for "its chronic bias against Israel" and lamented the fact that its membership includes accused human rights abusers such as China, Cuba, Venezuela and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

"We take this step because our commitment does not allow us to remain a part of a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights," Haley said.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/us-poised-...-politics.html

[rareboy]

The US doesn't want its own hypocrisy on human rights thrown in its face over the concentration camps for kids.

[opinterph]

The US doesn't want its own hypocrisy on human rights thrown in its face over the concentration camps for kids.

The US withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council came the day after the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned President Trump’s zero-tolerance policy on migrants at the US southern border.

Neither the United Nations nor anyone else will dictate how the United States upholds its borders. – Nikki Haley, US Ambassador to the United Nations

[ballcaphair]

Yes, another way to ignore the civilized world.

[jockofstrap]

This country is now pulling out of the universe.

[gsdx]

The US withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council came the day after the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned President Trump’s zero-tolerance policy on migrants at the US southern border.

Hands up anyone who is surprised by this.

Anyone?




Anyone?

[Alistair]

This country is now pulling out of the universe.

What? America is the universe

[ballcaphair]

What? America is the universe

I think mr trump's base is the universe

I'm not trying to be funny. This is cruel, at best.

[nyctopgam]

Hands up anyone who is surprised by this. Anyone? Anyone?

Yes. I thought there were some levels that America would not slip beneath of. Impressive progress was made till the 1970s but I guess they were not deeply rooted enough.

[fabulouslyghetto]

Yes. I thought there were some levels that America would not slip beneath of. Impressive progress was made till the 1970s but I guess they were not deeply rooted enough.

when you consider how the country was founded [and run] this falls perfectly in line with America's principles. The ACTUAL principles, not the ones it espouses with cheap lip service in songs and quasi-patriotic rituals.

[ballcaphair]

when you consider how the country was founded [and run] this falls perfectly in line with America's principles. The ACTUAL principles, not the ones it espouses with cheap lip service in songs and quasi-patriotic rituals.

Let us take a knee and hold our heads up high.

[Dystopian]

Yes. I thought there were some levels that America would not slip beneath of. Impressive progress was made till the 1970s but I guess they were not deeply rooted enough.

Let's be clear. The bar by which history judges presidencies is now in free fall. It's difficult to assess just how low Trump and his hate-driven band of sycophants will drag America. Each time one thinks it can't get any worse, POTUS proves us wrong. There are not ethics,no moral compass in this presidency. They cannot exist in an environment of lies driven by personality and hatred of many of the people they are supposed to serve.

[nyctopgam]

It's difficult to assess just how low Trump and his hate-driven band of sycophants will drag America.

There are not ethics,no moral compass in this presidency.

What will remain to mark the country as national character after this presidency? And to think we'd made some progress, unthinkable 50 or 60 years ago: a black president, gay marriage, abortion rights.... So easily uprooted, undone. My friends are upset but their lives haven't really changed - dinners, openings, shopping, vacations, kitty pictures....