Additionally,
“This comes as House Republicans have proposed a bill that would charge people arriving at a U.S. port of entry $1,000 in order to file an asylum claim — and a $3,500 fee for those sponsoring children. The right to seek asylum is a fundamental human right enshrined in international law, and the U.S. has never before charged petitioners.”
This is enough grounds for impeachment.
Everything he does can be grounds for impeachment, but if the republicans control all branches of government even if impeached (he was impeached 3 times last time) they will never remove him from office.
EDIT: Y’all notice a common pattern on all those “peace officers” on the picture?
They all look like Confederate zombies taken from the pages of the Time Life Book The Civil War and their family tree is a pole?
I have some gloves-off shit I need to get off my mind and I feel the time and place for it is now because I’m very angry:
So… non voters, remember when we were telling everyone that would listen to “vote blue no matter who? Remember that? Of course you do- you threw that shit back at us like it was a god damned grenade. Remember that?
Yeah, well…. THIS is why we were saying that.
You see, we all saw this shit coming. Which is why we were saying to plug your fucking noses and just vote. Hell…, We even tried to reason with you- suggesting that-
“You’re not voting FOR Harris, you’re voting AGAINST fascism!”
You didn’t listen.
Your “…but, they’re doing a genocide!” was so deeply embedded via your little edgelord wind-tunnels, that most of you began to see it as an argument to win, instead of a point to be made-
Instead of doing anything substantial to help end it.
Well. Your point was definitely made. We all have heard you loud and clear. You collectively and VERY loudly agreed that you would be fine with the outcome either way- since genocide was going to be happening no matter who you voted for, right?
I do have to ask though…
Are you still fine with your choice? How about the memory of you, sitting on your asses and laughing at all the people rushing to voting booths in-between work and picking their kids up from daycare… How is that sitting with you? All those jokes and inflammatory remarks you hurled at the people who tried their fucking best to stop this with the only thing they have- their vote. The people, who tried to protect your sorry asses that couldn’t be bothered to even do the BARE FUCKING MINIMUM asked to protect our democracy.
I ask you… are those jokes still funny?
Is there any chance that any of you want to walk back all those accusations you made about everyone being sheep? What about those smug and arrogant jabs about how both sides are the same? About how democrats and republicans are somehow working together…
care to issue a statement here?
Because I’m pretty damned certain that NONE of this shit would be happening right now if you had listened to us when we told you that this was going to happen.
When HE fucking told you this would happen.
And while very few people here were ever in favor of the genocide in Palestine- much to the disagreement of the few that are around that are STILL arguing against this point- we knew and know- that the pain we face at home must be resolved before we can be of any aid in the pain endured by others in theirs… Especially when most of you couldn’t have even pointed to any of those homes on a map a year ago and a half ago.
It should be noted that this is not in any way to lay the entirety of blame at the feet of the stay-at-home/its-someone-else’s-problem protestors, but the numbers are in, and while your combined lack of effort might not make up the entirety of the ninety one million registered voters that stayed home, it’s a fair guess that between you and the ones that voted third party-
We could have avoided this.
Roughly four to five million votes. That’s all we needed. Just four to five million of you to have listened. But your arrogance, your fucking entitlement- wouldn’t let this happen.
So now here we are. With this shit. This tyrant king and his pet tech-gremlin, stripping away our rights hour by hour, day by day. And while dealing with this shit, I as an American, have to carry on hour by hour, day by day- being tossed into the same bucked with you.
I have to shoulder the blame right along side you. And it’s not fucking fair. I did my part. I voted. I canvased, I shouted from the fucking rooftops.
But I’ll digress…
I sincerely hope that high road you thought you were taking lands you all right to where it seems the rest of us are going….
Because no one deserves it more.
I have so many idiot friends who said “I’m not voting for Harris cause of Israel”. I’m betting that line was a plant by the Republicans or Putin. but it stuck. and my friends bought it hook line and sinker.
Yep. They sure as shit did.
Or, here’s the apparently radical third option… do what the voters want and reel Bibi/Givir/Smotrich in, or at the very least stop giving Israel outright political cover. “Israel gets to do war crimes and/or genocide… and you pay for it” was a uni-party stance in the 2024 cycle, and it’s fucking infuriating. I expect the right to back Israel reflexively, but I did NOT expect to see y’all pull the mental gymnastics make yourselves be okay with it. And then have the gall to shout down and bully away criticism of the party’s complicity.
If your candidate can mostly be summed up as “less shit” then that damning sales pitch to get the ‘apolitical normie’ vote out to win elections s. Kamala barely stood tall on any firm policy - let along a coherent platform, didn’t distance herself sufficiently from Biden, and didn’t respond to voters’ legitimate economic anxieties. At that point a demonstrable lies become the sound bites differentiating Trump from Kamala.
If their candidate is the only thing standing between a half-assed working system of government, and an outright dictatorship- and you don’t vote for them…
well, we see very well what happens, don’t we?
I don’t know about you, but I sure as shit am glad we dodged that “no policy having, pro-democracy” bullet, eh?
I mean… things are SO much better without that obnoxious democracy getting in the way.
If their candidate is the only thing standing between a half-assed working system of government, and an outright dictatorship- and you don’t vote for them…
I did, so put the straw man away. In a swing state, because I understand that at a minimum I’m negating someone else’s R vote. I’m following politics outside the election cycle and aware of the FPTP game. You can make the “less shit” argument to me, and have it work because I recognize it’s true.
But that’s exactly my point about the apolitical and/or low propensity ‘normie’ voters - Trump has confidence and an answer for everything, if you ignore the absence of details. Harris struggled/refused to define herself and her platform - effectively giving that job to the media and the opposition. “Everything will stay fundamentally the same” was a vote loser for most of America this cycle, and that was the Democratic platform.
I don’t know about you, but I sure as shit am glad we dodged that “no policy having, pro-democracy” bullet, eh?
In a way, kinda? Trump is on a fascism speed run through the Project 2025 goals, and has a sycophantic circle of incompetence around him that keeps making blunders atop his own. Going this hard and this fast has had blowback, with him tanking his approval rating accordingly in record time.
Were he an actually steady hand that could play long chess, build coalitions, and quietly place plans in motion? Deport worst-of-the-worst criminals instead of literally whoever is brown, quietly subvert NATO and hamstring the unified command instead of JD and Hegseth chastising Europe and openly questioning Article 5, give Israel/Saudis a browbeating in public whilst increasing arms sales instead of ‘hell yeah, kill them all’ tweets, etc
Effective dictatorship I fear a lot more than an incompetent strongman. People bend and mold themselves to the former over time, the latter rips off the bandage too fast and pisses off voters who form resistance coalitions.
Just people with principles. This “non voters cost us the election” is a nonsense division tactic. Stop going after people for voting their conscience and morals. You’re just making it easier for the fascists.
Not all non voters are equal thanks to our shitty election system. Swing states, ill give you that one. Those folks contributed but are still not the reason he won. Some dude in Michigan who sat out is not the same as a dude in Tennessee. One matters much more than the other.
I choked back my vomit (yet again) to participate in a process I abhor and yet again it didnt amount to shit. Maybe work on getting that extra third of the electorate instead of kneecapping a portion who will show up if you’re reasonable because you need them. And no, i don’t believe supporting genocide is reasonable.
Just people with principles.
idealists are a liability. naive suckers.
Lol. Idealists because they don’t support people who lie and tell them they are working towards an end to a genocide when they arent? A lie they have now admitted?
Democrats shovel their lies about working toward a ceasefire and naive people eat it up. I showed up and voted against my principles and morals yet again despite knowing it was a lie and centrists in the democratic party still cant help but blame other people for their own failures.
It wasn’t the left that cost Kamala the spot. It was 70million fascists.
70million fascists.
sounds like we need a final solution then.
Well said brother.
I didn’t even have to hold my nose for Kamala. She seemed fine. Nothing amazing but fine, just like Biden.
But then again I don’t care about the pressing issues like how someone laughs.
I hear she wore a tan suit just like Obama
90 million voters don’t know just how fucking good they have it. They think America is America because it’s America. America is America because the people before us were willing to die for human rights.
I was one of those people right there with you, screaming at the non voters to vote.
Given what the Election Truth Alliance, and The Voice of San Diego have uncovered, I don’t think it would have mattered. They used every single method to steal the election that they could.
https://sdvoice.info/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/
Am Not an American . Are the Democrats now doing something to be more appealing in the future, or they just rely on Trump to keep being awful?
I voted liberal in Canada specifically because the conservatives were becoming more MAGA adjacent. I don’t like the libs much, but I will have them over PP’s Trump ass kissing any day.
the non-voters either dint bother voter, or said it doesnt affect them right now.
The genocide stuff(yes we know its deplorable) was a wedge issue grift started and perpetuated by russia
Yeah, funny how after election day, genocide stopped being the #1 voting issue here, but that said, there were a handful of useless idiots who actually bought into the rooskie psyop, and you occasionally see their pathetic attempts to justify their choices up to today.
Excuse me, but if I remember correctly, wasn’t that election one with the most people voting ever? Kind of odd to be blaming non-voters when the voting turnout was a lot larger than usual.
Where do you get your news?
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No, the correct paraphrasing is
“When given the choice between a less than perfect, but educated, compliant and compassionate candidate, or Hitler-without-class, pick the first one, otherwise you’ll get the second.”
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I rest my case.
Maybe one day you will realize it is the complete and willing ineptitude of democrats domestically and their never-ending bloodlust in foreign policy that got us here in the first place and then you will be correct when you righteously shake your fists while scolding them.
It’s a big maybe.
How’s all that nothing you did working out for Gaza right now, bud? Happy for your decisions? No? Yeah, I get that. I see it too and it’s a huge bummer. Well…
Did your lack of effort do well for your loved ones in the LGBTQ+? No? Okay, well…
What about all the women in your life? Do you think your inaction helped them in a way you fell they deserved?
Meh…
Either way, I’m not debating this shit with you. You’re unhinged and incapable of being reasoned with.
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if you truly believe what you just said, then i assume you are currently plotting to overthrow the current admin. otherwise, you’re just an armchair quarterback or working for the other side.
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I think I already said I’m not going to argue with your unhinged rhetoric.
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Block me.
When you are done on your soapbox, maybe talk about what can be done instead of who you blame.
The bed is made, all we have left to do now is lie in it.
Moving forward, the best thing that can happen from this is to ensure that those that caused it see the damage they helped create so that if we ever have the opportunity again, they’ll have learned from it.
And I’ll be on this soapbox until I feel like I’ve said my fucking peace.
Block me.
praise the lord, but really… it’s time to think about what the people have to do to reign this nightmare in.
i agree with rhoeri, but you make an excellent point. the past is the past. we can learn from our mistakes when we have a future to look forward to.
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I rest my case.
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You didn’t vote. And you’re running away to allow everyone else to deal with it?
Yeah. Please. GTFO.
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Now put here your copypasta about ranked voting!
A second order further militarizes local police departments, while providing legal resources to officers accused of abuses; it also seeks to undo federal consent decrees for departments that have committed civil rights abuses and seeks to punish local officials who “unlawfully prohibit law enforcement officers from carrying out duties.”
That’s not militarization, it’s promoting lawlessness and removing any remaining accountability.
Seattle PD literally had to be partially taken over by the federal government because it was so corrupt and would not curb its officers… this is going to be VERY problematic in Seattle and surrounding areas.
By definition the federal government will return Seattle PD back into what it was, but with federal backing and technical support.
I’m in a smaller city and even our local PD has two apcs. This is a nightmare.
Have you not wondered why they keep trying to get the military involved? It’s because they think the military is above the law and can just shoot anyone and do what they want.
A third executive order requires professional truck drivers to be proficient in English.
Higher requirements than the office of president.
Welcome to the police state, y’all
The governors have to allow it. The federal government cannot mobilize the military in a state unless the governor of that state allows it. Posse Comitatus, if Trump attempts to send in the military against the governors wishes, we are talking civil war levels of federal vs state’s rights. I hope state militias are ready to defend themselves.
We’ll see what happens with the new yes men in place. However, there was a DoD wide email that went out when he first started snatching people (though some didn’t get it for some reason). It stated:
Think long and hard before assisting other agencies outside the DoD. If your actions are deemed to be against your oath, you could be investigated and actions taken against you. Remember, you serve the constitution of the United States. Not the president.
Wa state has just passed a law stating that other state’s national guard, cannot enter our borders to take any actions. I would bet that that would include military personnel stationed in state.
What consequences for breaking the laws that enforce rules like those have have been applied so far to this administration?
Knowing Texas, Abbott will roll out the red carpet for this. Maybe I need to move to California or Illinois to get a governor that won’t bend over.
Hell, Abbot and Paxton probably called Trump and directly suggested it. Fuck Texas.
$100 he declares martial law in those cities.
So…those of you who have lived though things like this, realistically what can an individual do?
Im talking beyond voting. Stock up on things? Get to know all my neighbors?
Because of an earlier Executive order, ICE (and related law enforcement) no longer needs to have a warrant. Now we are talking about militarizing local police forces. What happens if my family and I get disappeared?
Organize. Organize. And organize.
Not speaking from experience, but if history has taught us anything, the best course of action is practicing mutual aid. Talk to locals. And arm yourselves.
Check in with friends and family regularly. If you go missing, have them report it and call your lawyer.
Ideally you wouldn’t let them take you alive, since CECOT is a death sentence anyway.
I am going to short on my American stocks for the next four years. Trump won’t want to step down at the end of his term and when that happens, there will be chaos.
Building a corrupt police state one EO at a time.
Holy fucking shit… 1000$ for an asylum claim? And 3500$ for children. This is monstrous. I am an immigrant and naturalized citizen to Canada and I never had to pay that much legal fees for immigration and citizenship.
The cruelty is the point. In fascism, empathy is seen as a sign of weakness and emasculation.
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not a person of color to be seen for miles and miles of this fucking picture. until later when these pale pink fucks are turned loose against anyone not them.
easily led shit bird white christian dog shit eating idiots allowed this while swearing they’d never allow it to happen.
lol. that one christian downvoted you.
fuck you christians. we’re coming for you once this shit is over.
And the police, like the little lapdogs they are, will happily stomp on people’s rights for a chance to cosplay war
What did you expect? They’ve been doing exactly that for their whole history.
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I have a buddy who told me this was awesome. This same buddy dog walked Clinton’s crime bill from sea to shining sea back in the 90s. Are they stupid or is it me? Anyway I pointed out the similarities and he got mad at me.
If you don’t have a gun, it’s time to get one and learn how to use it.
…also how to carry safely. Don’t be that guy.
Including when to use it. It is a last resort. If you pull a gun on any law enforcement officer, even if fully justified, you will be going to jail at best, and killed on the spot at worst.
