As long as the voters continue to vote for MAGA morons to represent them in Congress, they are tacitly protecting and supporting this slow coup that is tearing down our constitution. Every accusation is an admission of guilt. So it's really the ICE and federal govt that are the domestic terrorists who've declared war on America and democracy.
Well said. The ONLY violence I've seen is coming from Federal agents, ICE thugs and Gestapo tactics that our government refuses to reign in.
If ICE wanted to actually solve most real crime in the US, they would just remove our current administration from the Country. Obviously they enjoy the crime and just hate any non-white people that exist at all.
These ICE agents are J6ers, bounty hunters, Proud Boys and MAGA masked thugs pretending to uphold the law and refusing to ID themselves. Their mission is obedience but their legacy will be SHAME. These are not soldiers of a nation. They are the REAL enemies of the people. They are nothing but uneducated thugs, hillbilly morons who have now been given free range to bully and intimidate people while brandishing weapons. They blame immigrants so you won't blame THEM!
Please don’t call them law enforcement, call it what it is: state-sponsored terror.
Shirt I wear regularly: "Keep the immigrants, deport the racists." 👇
Immigrants are good for our country. This is NOT how you solve the problems that do exist with immigration. Trump and MAGA’s hatred and racism is the cause of whatever happens!
One of the problems during the election was that polls showed that even among Democratic voters, immigration had a bad rep. There are STILL Democrats who say things like, "We need to control our borders."
This is bullshit. America can EASILY absorb 2-3 million immigrants OVERNIGHT. The immediate impact would be more jobs for everyone, more businesses able hire more people to do work WE don't want to do, more subcontractors completing projects they have had to abandon, and harvested fields.
Immigrants do not cause housing shortages. Those are caused by private equity firms controlling the mortgage and housing markets.
Dem messaging needs to have the courage to change.
Right now, polling is showing Americans much more favorable views towards immigration. Dem leaders need to take advantage of the situation, finally grow some stones, and tell it like it is.
Spot on. We need immigrants to grow the economy especially after we clean up the mess this regime is causing. The seasonal worker immigrant visa program should be restored in updated form, as part of the overhaul of the entire immigration law reform that congress has been kicking down the road for too long.
Exactly. And another issue rarely addressed is the changing demographics. We are an aging population whose very low birth rate is below replacement levels. Immigration is critical to averting population decline, sustaining our viability, keeping our workforce and funding social security, healthcare, etc.
Ice is the S.A., like Hitler had in the early 30's. It was made of the people with little to no experience in law enforcement and were mostly 'Wanna Bee" Criminal Gangs, causing Riots and Crimes just as the S.A. and Then S.S. did.
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Even before the movement seizes power, it possesses a secret police and spy service with branches in various countries. Later its agents receive more money and authority than the regular military intelligence service and are frequently the secret chiefs of embassies and consulates abroad. Its main tasks consist in forming fifth columns, directing the branches of the movement, influencing the domestic policies of the respective countries, and generally preparing for the time when the totalitarian ruler — after overthrow of the government or military victory — can openly feel at home. In other words, the international branches of the secret police are the transmission belts which constantly transform the ostensibly foreign policy of the totalitarian state into the potentially domestic business of the totalitarian movement.
Page 420-421, Ch 12 Totalitarianism in Power, The Origins of Totalitarianism — Hannah Arendt.
The task of the totalitarian police is not to discover crimes, but to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population. Their chief political distinction is that they alone are in the confidence of the highest authority and know which political line will be enforced. Page 426 Chap 12 Totalitarism in Power, II : The Secret Police, The Origins of Totalitarianism -- Hannah Arendt
I wish one of our Democrat pols would stand up and say "When the trump administration is gone, and sanity is restored in America, one of the first tasks of the new government will be to imprison all those who committed crimes under the umbrella of "ICE".
Just curious how you feel statements like that will have any positive impact in the current situation. At the moment, Democrats in Congress have no means to follow through on such threats. So how is rattling our sabers any different than what the regime is doing?
We are not them, nor do we want to be. Let’s keep our eyes on the prize of restoring integrity to our federal government by winning the majorities needed to accomplish that.
Putting a sign on a stove saying "HOT! DO NOT TOUCH!" is not "threatening" I am not suggesting that we threaten retribution.
I am suggesting that they need a reminder that the rule of law WILL one day be restored in this country - and that while they are in power, they should behave as though they remember that.
Does the name "My Lai" ring any bells? Those troops thought they had permission to do what they liked. Turned out they were wrong.
I believe that ICE agents a currently very badly trained - and even worse informed.
Correct...this is not how you fix the broken immigration system...and it is fixable, it once worked. Congress and presidents of both parties stopped paying attention to problems as they developed, failed to increase funding and failure to come up with a modern, well oiled, machine that organizes and welcomes people who want to become US citizens. You called it what it is.
tRump is firmly on the public record stating that the Jan6 riots were "peaceful demonstrations", in which "patriots" participated to protest the "stealing" of his "election win"...all this while he was STILL PRESIDENT. Now, if context means anything, and a president's postings on SM are a guide to "bad faith" vs "good faith" in issuing orders to use federal/federalized military against ICE protestors — e.g., people dressed up in clown costumes in Portland taking the piss — who manifest ZERO threat to heavily armed CBP and ICE goons, federal judges rightfully should hold tRump to his "state of mind" when he attributes small demonstrations to outright "insurrection", while condoning by anybody's reckoning a mass assault on the Capitol, where Capitol police were clearly unable to restore order.
tRump, by his own hand, has placed these military invasions by using "bad faith" arguments, and therefore — as Judge Immergut has carefully documented — the 9th CA ruling on "deference to the president" cannot be interpreted as a blank check and "good faith" taken *a priori*, when none exists.
I expect that should the TRO appeal go to the 9th en banc, the plaintiffs win...but as to the Supremes, I shudder to imagine how they will vote.
This post is very powerful. You connected a lot of dots, and while that clarity has frightening prospects about it, it also gives me an action plan and therefore hope. Thank you!
That video of the priest being shot in the head with a pepper ball is horrifying. There was zero cause to do that. Other than sadistic glee on the part of the shooter. And perhaps being told that the "rules of engagement" no longer apply??
Do "rules of engagement" actually apply to ICE? They seem to be a ragtag bunch of miscreants and down-and-outers looking for big $ and a way to beat up on others without incurring legal sanctions.
Step 3 is not only a weak point but an opportunity to start turning it all around. Governors could welcome the National Guard ; tell their citizens to greet them with 60’s peace signs and flower power. Thank them for protecting their right to peaceful protest 😉. Take selfies of themselves smiling and joking with them. Flood internet with citizens commingling with troops. Troll trmpfl
This is clever. Remember, too, that people don't join the National Guard to police their fellow citizens. They join to be of service in emergencies. They'd welcome this.
Yes, Trump is gaslighting. But call it what it is -- Trump is lying and he is a liar. Media has failed to do this since he came down the golden escalator, and that aids Trump.
The letter we should all be sending to every Senator and Congressperson: (Don’t just send this letter to your Senators and Congresspersons, send it to the Senators and Congresspersons of every state!)
Dear Senator __________(or Dear Representative ___________),
It is not possible to be so ignorant that you are not aware that the President of the United States is a liar, a fraud, a con, a grifter, a puppet of Putin, a traitor, a convicted felon, a law-breaker, an inciter of violence, a scumbag, a sexual predator, a friend and associate of one of the worst pedophiles in the history of the U.S., an abuser of human rights, a racist, a fascist, a person who has populated his cabinet (and other important positions) with inept, incompetent people who are endangering the safety and security of our country. Fascist Trump is our nation's presidential accident and disgrace.
We, The People, damn well know that you are aware of these facts! Therefore, do it now, get rid of Trump. Impeach!
We can do this the easy way or the hard way. Your choice.
Naah, what we're getting from Tillis and Murkowski are feeble bleats from failed would-be leaders who are trapped in the consequences of their cowardice and dereliction of duty. They helped pave the highway to fascism, and now they're just moral road kill littering the break-down lane.
My friend and I registered for the NO KINGS RALLY at the Colorado State Capital in Denver on October 18th!
The logistics of deploying the National Guard in multiple Blue cities, is something to consider. Where do they sleep, eat and live during their deployment? The orange blight strikes first, then leaves it up to others to work out the messy details. The government is shut down. Funding is frozen. Federal workers are be threatened with job loss and lost wages. How does any government function effectively under such circumstances?
The aim of an arbitrary system is to destroy the civil rights of the whole population, who ultimately become just as outlawed in their own country as the stateless and homeless. The destruction of a man's rights, the killing of the juridical person in him, is a prerequisite for dominating him entirely. And this applies not only to special categories such as criminals, political opponents, Jews, homosexuals, on whom the early experiments were made, but to every inhabitant of a totalitarian state. Free consent is as much an obstacle to total domination as free opposition. The arbitrary arrest which chooses among innocent people destroys the validity of free consent, just as torture — as distinguished from death — destroys the possibility of opposition.
Page 451 - The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3 Chapter 12, Totalitarianism in power, III: Total Domination - Hannah Arendt
Beautifully outlined. Thank you for this analysis.
Trump and his criminal minions are caught between two events that would affect the efficacy of his using the Insurrection Act. The first has already been described in this piece, that of the mid-terms themselves. If he pulls the trigger too soon, he might already have lost control of the court challenges by the time the mid-terms happen. The second is the release of the Epstein Files, which the looming discharge petition will demand. Eric Swalwell has posted that as many as 100 Republicans are ready to do a "jailbreak" when the files are released, a move that would end this phase of Trump's control over the legislative branch. Trump has to do pretty much all that he can to delay the release of the files so that their impact can be nullified, and the window between the release of the files and the mid-terms closed as tightly as possible, if not eliminated altogether. I anticipate Bondi simply refusing to comply when Congress demands them and a protracted court battle to determine the matter.
In this instance, I believe that Swalwell was referring to disobeying Trump and Johnson as a "jailbreak," rather than leaving the party. It would be awfully nice if even one Republican jumped the gun before the new Democratic representative was seated.
I about spit my coffee out reading this title. Love it!!😂. Although I certainly don’t love the subject matter. Praying we get to and through No Kings Day 2 without further violence but I doubt it. I worry about them quelling further protests. We must do our best to remain non-violent. Their provocations are sickening. Not to mention the quelling effect this will have on soldiers re-upping for Nat’l Guard duty. And we need those folks when we have real crises due to environmental disasters, terrorist strikes. etc. I don’t envy them right now. We are putting our citizens at real risk here while Drumpf and Hegover play war games.
As long as the voters continue to vote for MAGA morons to represent them in Congress, they are tacitly protecting and supporting this slow coup that is tearing down our constitution. Every accusation is an admission of guilt. So it's really the ICE and federal govt that are the domestic terrorists who've declared war on America and democracy.
Well said. The ONLY violence I've seen is coming from Federal agents, ICE thugs and Gestapo tactics that our government refuses to reign in.
If ICE wanted to actually solve most real crime in the US, they would just remove our current administration from the Country. Obviously they enjoy the crime and just hate any non-white people that exist at all.
These ICE agents are J6ers, bounty hunters, Proud Boys and MAGA masked thugs pretending to uphold the law and refusing to ID themselves. Their mission is obedience but their legacy will be SHAME. These are not soldiers of a nation. They are the REAL enemies of the people. They are nothing but uneducated thugs, hillbilly morons who have now been given free range to bully and intimidate people while brandishing weapons. They blame immigrants so you won't blame THEM!
Please don’t call them law enforcement, call it what it is: state-sponsored terror.
Shirt I wear regularly: "Keep the immigrants, deport the racists." 👇
https://libtees.dashery.com/products/34623496-keep-the-immigrants-t-shirt
Immigrants are good for our country. This is NOT how you solve the problems that do exist with immigration. Trump and MAGA’s hatred and racism is the cause of whatever happens!
"Immigrants are good for our country."
One of the problems during the election was that polls showed that even among Democratic voters, immigration had a bad rep. There are STILL Democrats who say things like, "We need to control our borders."
This is bullshit. America can EASILY absorb 2-3 million immigrants OVERNIGHT. The immediate impact would be more jobs for everyone, more businesses able hire more people to do work WE don't want to do, more subcontractors completing projects they have had to abandon, and harvested fields.
Immigrants do not cause housing shortages. Those are caused by private equity firms controlling the mortgage and housing markets.
Dem messaging needs to have the courage to change.
Right now, polling is showing Americans much more favorable views towards immigration. Dem leaders need to take advantage of the situation, finally grow some stones, and tell it like it is.
Spot on. We need immigrants to grow the economy especially after we clean up the mess this regime is causing. The seasonal worker immigrant visa program should be restored in updated form, as part of the overhaul of the entire immigration law reform that congress has been kicking down the road for too long.
Thanks for saying this. I agree.
Exactly. And another issue rarely addressed is the changing demographics. We are an aging population whose very low birth rate is below replacement levels. Immigration is critical to averting population decline, sustaining our viability, keeping our workforce and funding social security, healthcare, etc.
Trump et al is circling up his firing squad.
Ice is the S.A., like Hitler had in the early 30's. It was made of the people with little to no experience in law enforcement and were mostly 'Wanna Bee" Criminal Gangs, causing Riots and Crimes just as the S.A. and Then S.S. did.
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Even before the movement seizes power, it possesses a secret police and spy service with branches in various countries. Later its agents receive more money and authority than the regular military intelligence service and are frequently the secret chiefs of embassies and consulates abroad. Its main tasks consist in forming fifth columns, directing the branches of the movement, influencing the domestic policies of the respective countries, and generally preparing for the time when the totalitarian ruler — after overthrow of the government or military victory — can openly feel at home. In other words, the international branches of the secret police are the transmission belts which constantly transform the ostensibly foreign policy of the totalitarian state into the potentially domestic business of the totalitarian movement.
Page 420-421, Ch 12 Totalitarianism in Power, The Origins of Totalitarianism — Hannah Arendt.
The task of the totalitarian police is not to discover crimes, but to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population. Their chief political distinction is that they alone are in the confidence of the highest authority and know which political line will be enforced. Page 426 Chap 12 Totalitarism in Power, II : The Secret Police, The Origins of Totalitarianism -- Hannah Arendt
This Chicago born and bred fella has been watching a lot of ICE videos lately. In addition to all that you both said, they're poorly trained clowns.
I wish one of our Democrat pols would stand up and say "When the trump administration is gone, and sanity is restored in America, one of the first tasks of the new government will be to imprison all those who committed crimes under the umbrella of "ICE".
That would be great!
Just curious how you feel statements like that will have any positive impact in the current situation. At the moment, Democrats in Congress have no means to follow through on such threats. So how is rattling our sabers any different than what the regime is doing?
We are not them, nor do we want to be. Let’s keep our eyes on the prize of restoring integrity to our federal government by winning the majorities needed to accomplish that.
Putting a sign on a stove saying "HOT! DO NOT TOUCH!" is not "threatening" I am not suggesting that we threaten retribution.
I am suggesting that they need a reminder that the rule of law WILL one day be restored in this country - and that while they are in power, they should behave as though they remember that.
Does the name "My Lai" ring any bells? Those troops thought they had permission to do what they liked. Turned out they were wrong.
I believe that ICE agents a currently very badly trained - and even worse informed.
Correct...this is not how you fix the broken immigration system...and it is fixable, it once worked. Congress and presidents of both parties stopped paying attention to problems as they developed, failed to increase funding and failure to come up with a modern, well oiled, machine that organizes and welcomes people who want to become US citizens. You called it what it is.
tRump is firmly on the public record stating that the Jan6 riots were "peaceful demonstrations", in which "patriots" participated to protest the "stealing" of his "election win"...all this while he was STILL PRESIDENT. Now, if context means anything, and a president's postings on SM are a guide to "bad faith" vs "good faith" in issuing orders to use federal/federalized military against ICE protestors — e.g., people dressed up in clown costumes in Portland taking the piss — who manifest ZERO threat to heavily armed CBP and ICE goons, federal judges rightfully should hold tRump to his "state of mind" when he attributes small demonstrations to outright "insurrection", while condoning by anybody's reckoning a mass assault on the Capitol, where Capitol police were clearly unable to restore order.
tRump, by his own hand, has placed these military invasions by using "bad faith" arguments, and therefore — as Judge Immergut has carefully documented — the 9th CA ruling on "deference to the president" cannot be interpreted as a blank check and "good faith" taken *a priori*, when none exists.
I expect that should the TRO appeal go to the 9th en banc, the plaintiffs win...but as to the Supremes, I shudder to imagine how they will vote.
This post is very powerful. You connected a lot of dots, and while that clarity has frightening prospects about it, it also gives me an action plan and therefore hope. Thank you!
That video of the priest being shot in the head with a pepper ball is horrifying. There was zero cause to do that. Other than sadistic glee on the part of the shooter. And perhaps being told that the "rules of engagement" no longer apply??
Do "rules of engagement" actually apply to ICE? They seem to be a ragtag bunch of miscreants and down-and-outers looking for big $ and a way to beat up on others without incurring legal sanctions.
Yes, it made me feel more hopeful, too!
Yes...the NO KINGS 2.0 must be peaceful...thank you Jay for making that point.
Step 3 is not only a weak point but an opportunity to start turning it all around. Governors could welcome the National Guard ; tell their citizens to greet them with 60’s peace signs and flower power. Thank them for protecting their right to peaceful protest 😉. Take selfies of themselves smiling and joking with them. Flood internet with citizens commingling with troops. Troll trmpfl
This is clever. Remember, too, that people don't join the National Guard to police their fellow citizens. They join to be of service in emergencies. They'd welcome this.
They could hold up signs saying 'Welcome, National Guard[eners]!' and offering rakes and gardening gloves.
I think yours is a great idea, vhenlie!
The world is upside down. The ICE terrorists and Orange Douche's regime are the war mongers.
Murkowski says she’s worried all the time, then caves to the White Hose so her “worry” doesn’t mean a whole hell of a lot.
Seems she's been hanging out with Susan Collins too long, ya think?
Yes, Trump is gaslighting. But call it what it is -- Trump is lying and he is a liar. Media has failed to do this since he came down the golden escalator, and that aids Trump.
The letter we should all be sending to every Senator and Congressperson: (Don’t just send this letter to your Senators and Congresspersons, send it to the Senators and Congresspersons of every state!)
Dear Senator __________(or Dear Representative ___________),
It is not possible to be so ignorant that you are not aware that the President of the United States is a liar, a fraud, a con, a grifter, a puppet of Putin, a traitor, a convicted felon, a law-breaker, an inciter of violence, a scumbag, a sexual predator, a friend and associate of one of the worst pedophiles in the history of the U.S., an abuser of human rights, a racist, a fascist, a person who has populated his cabinet (and other important positions) with inept, incompetent people who are endangering the safety and security of our country. Fascist Trump is our nation's presidential accident and disgrace.
We, The People, damn well know that you are aware of these facts! Therefore, do it now, get rid of Trump. Impeach!
We can do this the easy way or the hard way. Your choice.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER."
Well done! I'll use it, thank you.
I love this!! Thank you ! Finishing some postcards for upcoming election; then will switch to this! Good antidote for anxietyyy.
Tillis and Murkowski both should have thought about this before they decided to kiss the ring. Now they are suddenly growing spines?
I wouldn’t call these spines yet…
Perhaps a "concept of a spine".
:-)
👍😁
Spinelets?
Naah, what we're getting from Tillis and Murkowski are feeble bleats from failed would-be leaders who are trapped in the consequences of their cowardice and dereliction of duty. They helped pave the highway to fascism, and now they're just moral road kill littering the break-down lane.
⭐️
Not growing a spine...more like demonstrating a little buyers' remorse.
I wonder how many of the J6 rioters are now in ICE
One is too many.
I do not think it is a coincidence that all this talk of insurrection is coming up the closer we come to no Kings protest October 18
My friend and I registered for the NO KINGS RALLY at the Colorado State Capital in Denver on October 18th!
The logistics of deploying the National Guard in multiple Blue cities, is something to consider. Where do they sleep, eat and live during their deployment? The orange blight strikes first, then leaves it up to others to work out the messy details. The government is shut down. Funding is frozen. Federal workers are be threatened with job loss and lost wages. How does any government function effectively under such circumstances?
“When the military becomes the police, the people become enemies of the state” - William Adama
The ICE-S.A. are the shock troops, and are committing war crimes and Arbitrary illegal arrests to put Stochastic Terrorism into the public's
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The aim of an arbitrary system is to destroy the civil rights of the whole population, who ultimately become just as outlawed in their own country as the stateless and homeless. The destruction of a man's rights, the killing of the juridical person in him, is a prerequisite for dominating him entirely. And this applies not only to special categories such as criminals, political opponents, Jews, homosexuals, on whom the early experiments were made, but to every inhabitant of a totalitarian state. Free consent is as much an obstacle to total domination as free opposition. The arbitrary arrest which chooses among innocent people destroys the validity of free consent, just as torture — as distinguished from death — destroys the possibility of opposition.
Page 451 - The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3 Chapter 12, Totalitarianism in power, III: Total Domination - Hannah Arendt
Not much point in quoting Murkowski when we all know good and well she’ll do exactly as she’s told.
Beautifully outlined. Thank you for this analysis.
Trump and his criminal minions are caught between two events that would affect the efficacy of his using the Insurrection Act. The first has already been described in this piece, that of the mid-terms themselves. If he pulls the trigger too soon, he might already have lost control of the court challenges by the time the mid-terms happen. The second is the release of the Epstein Files, which the looming discharge petition will demand. Eric Swalwell has posted that as many as 100 Republicans are ready to do a "jailbreak" when the files are released, a move that would end this phase of Trump's control over the legislative branch. Trump has to do pretty much all that he can to delay the release of the files so that their impact can be nullified, and the window between the release of the files and the mid-terms closed as tightly as possible, if not eliminated altogether. I anticipate Bondi simply refusing to comply when Congress demands them and a protracted court battle to determine the matter.
If they will do a “jailbreak,” why don’t they just add their names to the whatchacallit… if they are ever at work again.
That is, if I understood correctly that “jailbreak” means leave the MAGA party.
In this instance, I believe that Swalwell was referring to disobeying Trump and Johnson as a "jailbreak," rather than leaving the party. It would be awfully nice if even one Republican jumped the gun before the new Democratic representative was seated.
Truth. My fear (one of them) is that one of the R signers will jump (crawl) off the list.😬
I about spit my coffee out reading this title. Love it!!😂. Although I certainly don’t love the subject matter. Praying we get to and through No Kings Day 2 without further violence but I doubt it. I worry about them quelling further protests. We must do our best to remain non-violent. Their provocations are sickening. Not to mention the quelling effect this will have on soldiers re-upping for Nat’l Guard duty. And we need those folks when we have real crises due to environmental disasters, terrorist strikes. etc. I don’t envy them right now. We are putting our citizens at real risk here while Drumpf and Hegover play war games.