Clearly many people in this country do not understand what a psychopath IS. You can see the remorse among the Trumplican voters that are just beginning to LOSE BIGLY. The losses will be huge from unemployment and where we depend on tourist dollars. Why take the chance of crossing our border?
Clearly they thought someone would always protect their constitutional rights. Humane judges want to protect everyone equally under our laws, but they will become irrelevant or at-risk themselves. We are living under a psychopathic dictator with an Administration filled with sickos just like him.
We told them CLEARLY this would happen. The radical right told them. Project 2025 was pretty damn clear!
The radical right is just beginning to whine and suffer, and I say just desserts, yet they still make excuses and rationalize, just like an abused spouse does.
I actually was considering buying a gun, but I then realized the very thought of needing a gun is telling me it’s time to escape from this lawless country. Sorry to see and say, the US has become a 3rd world shit hole country with no law and order, the enemy is clearly the Government that is out of control. M
Thank you for all the Likes 👍, fortunately my escape plan includes using my Canadian Citizenship that I am very proud to have received several years ago.
People who are subject to U.S. law should also benefit from our Constitutional protections, period. No ifs, ands, or buts. Because all human beings are human beings.
Meanwhile, most Dems in Congress are sedated; comatose, even.
Some have given up, thrown in the towel, capitulated, have they not, Sen. Schumer?
Habeas corpus is a legal principle that protects individuals from unlawful detention. The term originates from Latin, meaning "you shall have the body." It allows a person imprisoned or detained to challenge the legality of their detention before a court. It ensures that authorities can't hold someone without just cause and requires them to present evidence or justification for the detention. This principle is a cornerstone of justice and individual freedoms in many legal systems worldwide, including Canada and the United States.
America needs a complete exorcism.
We need Father Merrin [Max von Sydow,] and Father Karras [Jason Miller.]
The 'corpus' in habeas corpus is DEAD. If 330 million 'murkan citizens sit on their hands, 5 million outlaws will punch them in the face. Maybe it is time for all of us to read, or re-read, The Prince via Machiavelli. No, not the Little Prince.
Another noteworthy children's book for adults to read is 'Wind in the Willows.' So simple and so astoundingly adroit, it depicts humans as common animals, and shows the qualitative differences between the good, the bad and the foolishly ugly. I am serious about these two reads, which will not be available if you are in an ICE detention dungeon.
People who gravitate towards these kind of jobs are bullies and thugs.
ICE, CBP, DEA, FBI the worst. Part of the reason is the training and purpose, they are trained to be bad asses, use force, to shoot and as a consequence they look for an excuse to put their training and purpose to use.
A Stanford Study in the 1960' worked up a psychological profile of cops and criminals. Their conclusion a cop could have become a criminal and vice versa, except that circumstances were that they chose a difference career path.
I've known a few LEO in my life time, and an ex son in law was a prison guard, and there job alone has stilted their opinion, they believe that everyone is a criminal but they just haven't been caught
My dad was an assistat DA and a DA. Special prosecutor. It's true that police have to be reactive and too many are overly aggressive, but bad apples can be identified and removed befolre the barrel is worthless.
My mother in law was a WAC in WWII and worked for the Baltimore police....
I know for a fact that the feds use MMPIs and other tests that may identify abnormal agression. I've perviously discussed usze of lie detectors and other tests....
FBI agents used to be lawyers and accountants. I have a cousin who was head of an FBI department until she retired. My dad's secretary was married to the former head of the international division. Virtually all are college graduates. In more recent times, they accepted many former cops....
When my wife worked for the justice department we socialized with many agents from many agencies. You take people as you find them.
My experience is that the feds -- and that includes the Federal Protective Service -- live in a fishbowl, are continually evaluated.
Trump and Homan don't care about the law or orders from judges. They will simply disregard everything because they know they won't suffer any consequences. It's how authoritarians roll.
If you had told me 20 years ago that the Gestapo would be arresting and imprisoning people in the USA without cause I would have laughed. I'm not laughing anymore. I think the purpose of these arrests is to scare the hell out of anyone considering entering the country legally or not and fuck due process.
I also think their purpose is to scare the hell out of the general populace, keep them in line. I watched the movie 'I'm still here' about the military dictatorship in Brazil the other night, and what is happening is identical to what went on during that time, people just disappeared as did this poor woman's husband. The military dictatorship in Brazil lasted 21 years - scary.
Yup, it’s tyranny by the stupid minority. If it wasn’t for the “purity “ voter morons who willfully ignored the red flashing lights and didn’t vote for the sane democracy supporting candidate, America would be facing the future in good standing instead of going backwards. And of course the usual lying, stealing, gerrymandering and removing voters off the rolls, you know, the usual republican method of anti-democratic politics.
True, but now we can make the best out a bad situation. Trump/Musk are "way past their skis" and vulnerable. Our national sovereignty has been lost. We lost the cold war. Patriotic Americans of all stripes should oppose that.
Last night MSNBC showed several Republican House members validating complaints about Trump/Putin and Musk. Those are the folks we need. I keep sayin' that
22 Republican senators, dozens of Republican House members voted to fund Ukraine. Many of them call Trump a liar about Putin.
Yesterday I discussed how car manufacturers, car dealers, rancehrs, farmers and others are upset with Trump/Muak. We need to pressure Congressional Republicans to end tryanny.
Ok, so another thing to worry about, not getting my SS check deposited. I remember last month when I saw it hit my account breathing a sigh of relief, yet at the same time having anxiety about next month. Well, all I can say is Trump is going to have a lot of haters out there - foreign and domestic.
I am waiting to see if my SS check drops on the 27th, (4th Wednesday of each month) If it doesn't it won't really hurt me, but all of those people who depend on it, like my Mother in Law, who gets $1,000 a month, and we send her an additional $300 a month. They are condemned to death.
My wife applied for SS in January, and hasn't heard a thing, though I understand that your wife did as well and has been getting a benefit.
What amazes me about the few acquaintances I have who are Trumpers, is that you can have a good conversation with these people on so many other topics, and they are not stupid, just completely brainwashed with what's going on, if I bring something up as to what is actually happening, they just dismiss it and call me Woke.
I know, I have family/friends that voted for the rapey felon (refuse to use his name) for whatever reasons. They are convinced in their delusional minds that the rapey felon would “fix” the country, economy, Ukraine war, the blah blah justifications go on. They aren’t obnoxious or ignorant about some things but believe the republican mantra of Harris was too leftist, “both sides do it “ etc. to the detriment of our democracy and they still downplay the illegal, regressive policies of this administration. I am not sure what it will take for those people to wake TFU but staying in the Faux news bubble and relying on MSM sites who sane wash the administration lies continues the damage. But too many of these people will not admit their colossal mistake.
Maybe now 'murkan vanity will feel what its own victims have experienced for so long. Native First Nations folks number less than 2% of our current population. Some estimates put the genocide at more than 20 million across more than 200 years. Black African folks, kidnapped and herded like cattle onto small boats for weeks, only to be sold off to lazy white landowners for unforgivable purposes - forced hard labor, beatings, torture, rapes, murders, housing befitting farm animals, constant verbal and physical and psychological denigration. Asians, Mexicans, Meso-Americans, Irish, Italians, all manipulated into subservient roles to build the illusion of the USA.
I could go on, but why? What goes around comes around. The innocent are swept up with the guilty, by the guilty who have no shame and no honor. Does this make what is occurring OK? Of course not, but the Thomm Hartmann avenue for communication is perhaps the most open, welcoming and available channel for ideas and observations and strategies out there today. And yet I view so few concerned 'murkans reading, calling in, or writing on several available venues.
Fear, intimidation, harassment, extortion, invasion of privacy, scapegoating and attacks against the most vulnerable are the methods of control Nazis use, then and now. Brownshirts, belligerent militias, trolls, bullies, gestapo-type enforcers, media attackers and misinformationists abound on the pathetically addictive 'social media' tropes that most 'murkans have capitulated into using as 'news.'
Are we actually a nation of callous sheep? Are we actually infested with treasonous fellow travelers? Are we essentially nothing more than barbarians in tricked out costumes and fancy vehicles? What do we most relish for consuming our time? Sports, guns, guns, guns, violence, fictional entertainment, glamour, real estate, posh food and a million cooking shows, belittling each other on ambush-laden gossip sites? Drugs, drugs, drugs. Lousy diets.
I am no fan of the NY Times, but the morning after the Nov.5 election, the headline read: 'This Is Who We Are.' If we indeed have souls, we should search them now, if we can even find them. You do not have to be locked inside an ICE cage to be a prisoner in your own life.
This is who we are: Three coal waste dams in West Virginia failed, killing 125 people and injuring 1,100 more in communities downstream of the dams., Google Buffalo Creek, Mine disaster, people who lived down stream, knew that the dam could break, it was an earthen dam, Everyday the men would get up, trudge to the coal mine, risking death, the same people today vote Trump and against Green energy factories and employment.
I just watched a report on a community that lives in Cancer Alley, that part that stretches from Baton Rouge to NOLA. This area contains 20 petroleum refining and chemical plants, built on what was once plantations.
Butted up against the fence are communities, that have suffered and will suffer premature deaths from cancer. virtually all families are affected, one woman lost all of her family to cancer. they can smell the noxious fumes when the weather and winds are just right, they permeate the clothes, the furniture and can't be aired out.
The families have lived there for generations, since reconstruction, and are proud defiant and are not going to leave, but the refineries and chemical plants are not going to leave either, regardless of legal action and TV exposure.
Thus they accept death by cancer or respiratory disease, in their defiance.
My fathers family settled Ashley County, AR and my great grandfather sold 160 acres to a carpet bagger name of E.S. Crossett, who build a saw mill and town on the property
After WWII, the company and the business and homes that it owned were sold off, and eventually bought by the Koch Brothers, and they built a pulp mill, paper plant - Georgia Paific.
It earned the reputation of Cancer Capital of the US. Most of my family moved, during WWII, to the western side of Cancer Alley, Port Neches, Texas, Those that stayed have all died of cancer, my aunt and 1st cousins, and I have or had a "passel" of send cousins in Crossett and every family has suffered cancer. And yet no one thinks of moving to a more healthy environment.
People choose to live in tornado alley, cancer alley, the cancer capital, hurricane central
in flood plains, on the San Andreas Juan de Fuca fault
This is who we are indeed, there was maybe one or two men on the Titanic willing to give up their seat on a lifeboat, and certainly no women.
Naturalized citizens are next. As # 45 Trump tried. In 2010, Operation Janus was launched to expand the Department of Homeland Security’s (“DHS”) efforts to identify individuals with a final deportation order who naturalized or obtained legal permanent residence status under a different identity. A 2016 DHS Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) report determined that there were 1,029 such cases and identified the lack of digital fingerprint records as the main cause of the problem. DHS identified another 953 cases of naturalized citizens with prior deportation orders under other identities. The OIG report also noted that fingerprint records were lacking in approximately 315,000 cases of non-citizens with final deportation orders or criminal convictions and that in about 148,000 cases Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) had not yet reviewed and tried to retrieve and digitize old fingerprint cards. The OIG report noted that as of September 2016, United States Attorney’s Offices had accepted two Operation Janus cases for criminal prosecution and declined twenty-six others.
Under the first Trump administration, the government significantly increased its capacity to investigate U.S. citizens and pursue denaturalization cases. In 2018, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) announced that it intended to refer approximately 1,600 cases to the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) forprosecution and the creation of a new office dedicated to reviewing and referring denaturalization cases to DOJ. DHS also diverted funds from USCIS’s budget to ICE in order to conduct investigations of naturalized citizens. As a result of these investigations, denaturalization case referrals to DOJ increased 600 percent over
the last three years.10 In February 2020, DOJ announced the creation of the Denaturalization Section within DOJ’s Office of Immigration Litigation which will be “dedicated to investigating and litigating revocation of naturalization.”
Tucked among the priorities listed in his Day 1 executive orders was a one-line reference to enforcing a section of immigration law under which the government can revoke an immigrant's U.S. citizenship if it was "unlawfully procured."
In the red-baiting 1950s, the U.S. government used its considerable power to strip citizenship from immigrants it viewed as political enemies – labor leaders, journalists, or critics of the government accused of being Communists.
the last three years.10 In February 2020, DOJ announced the creation of the Denaturalization Section within DOJ’s Office of Immigration Litigation which will be “dedicated to investigating and litigating revocation of naturalization.”
Biden was sworn in on Jan 20, 2020 therefore this is a bipartisan effort.
When are the American people going to rise up and march on Washington en masse? I don't mean a few thousand people: I mean MILLIONS of Americans who love democracy more than they love Trump, greed, and power. When is it going to happen? If it doesn't happen soon, we won't have a country left to save. We need hope, but it is not a strategy. Hope without action is merely a wish, and countries don't run on wishes. We have to act, and no one is coming to save us. We are going to have to save ourselves from the republican nazis.
Join up with Indivisible ( indivisibl.org ) and Move On ( https://front.moveon.org/ ). We need at least 3.5% of the US population up in arms. Quit wishing, start joining and acting!
How will it be huge? Apparently very few people even know about it. We've got to do a much, much better job of publicizing these things if we want to get civic engagement. Right now I have zero expectations that many people will show up on April 5th, because there's been no PR about the event. (I hope I'm wrong about that, but we'll see.)
Trumpet and his Goon Squad (ICE) have been given unfettered immunity from prosecution for any illegal action he may do while President. The SCOTUS has allowed him this “get out of jail free” card when dealing with ordinary citizens and legal aliens. But let him go after a judge and it’s “hands off the judiciary!”
Chris,this is "Neo Nazi Amerrica" .The arrests are designed to scare people who are protesting,entering the country legally,stopped for a traffice violation. You are seeing all the reincarnation of the " Third Reich"we now call it the "Fourth Reich".
Speaking of fear; am I the only person who believes that there were high ranking secret service officials who must have known that the kid with a rifle was on the roof in PA with a plan to shoot when Trump was at his rally and who waited until he opened fire to take him down? Call me a conspiracy theorist. But maybe someone should notify him that he might have agents close to him who are loyal first to the Constitution and to the country who are not as loyal to him as he thinks they are. People with great power always need to fear the people who protect them because they know just how weak and feckless they truly are.
When are the American people going to rise up and march on Washington en masse? I don't mean a few thousand people: I mean MILLIONS of Americans who love democracy more than they love Trump, greed, and power. When is it going to happen? If it doesn't happen soon, we won't have a country left to save.
CLEARLY
Clearly many people in this country do not understand what a psychopath IS. You can see the remorse among the Trumplican voters that are just beginning to LOSE BIGLY. The losses will be huge from unemployment and where we depend on tourist dollars. Why take the chance of crossing our border?
Clearly they thought someone would always protect their constitutional rights. Humane judges want to protect everyone equally under our laws, but they will become irrelevant or at-risk themselves. We are living under a psychopathic dictator with an Administration filled with sickos just like him.
We told them CLEARLY this would happen. The radical right told them. Project 2025 was pretty damn clear!
Keep teaching Thom.
The radical right is just beginning to whine and suffer, and I say just desserts, yet they still make excuses and rationalize, just like an abused spouse does.
Stockholm Syndrome.
Psychopaths yes. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/mentally-impaired-psychopathic-neo?r=3m1bs
I actually was considering buying a gun, but I then realized the very thought of needing a gun is telling me it’s time to escape from this lawless country. Sorry to see and say, the US has become a 3rd world shit hole country with no law and order, the enemy is clearly the Government that is out of control. M
Thank you for all the Likes 👍, fortunately my escape plan includes using my Canadian Citizenship that I am very proud to have received several years ago.
People who are subject to U.S. law should also benefit from our Constitutional protections, period. No ifs, ands, or buts. Because all human beings are human beings.
ICE = American SA [Storm Troopers]
Maybe gibbets are coming. Defenestrations?
Meanwhile, most Dems in Congress are sedated; comatose, even.
Some have given up, thrown in the towel, capitulated, have they not, Sen. Schumer?
Habeas corpus is a legal principle that protects individuals from unlawful detention. The term originates from Latin, meaning "you shall have the body." It allows a person imprisoned or detained to challenge the legality of their detention before a court. It ensures that authorities can't hold someone without just cause and requires them to present evidence or justification for the detention. This principle is a cornerstone of justice and individual freedoms in many legal systems worldwide, including Canada and the United States.
America needs a complete exorcism.
We need Father Merrin [Max von Sydow,] and Father Karras [Jason Miller.]
The 'corpus' in habeas corpus is DEAD. If 330 million 'murkan citizens sit on their hands, 5 million outlaws will punch them in the face. Maybe it is time for all of us to read, or re-read, The Prince via Machiavelli. No, not the Little Prince.
Another noteworthy children's book for adults to read is 'Wind in the Willows.' So simple and so astoundingly adroit, it depicts humans as common animals, and shows the qualitative differences between the good, the bad and the foolishly ugly. I am serious about these two reads, which will not be available if you are in an ICE detention dungeon.
Not dead yet.
Nor I. Strength and honor.
People who gravitate towards these kind of jobs are bullies and thugs.
ICE, CBP, DEA, FBI the worst. Part of the reason is the training and purpose, they are trained to be bad asses, use force, to shoot and as a consequence they look for an excuse to put their training and purpose to use.
A Stanford Study in the 1960' worked up a psychological profile of cops and criminals. Their conclusion a cop could have become a criminal and vice versa, except that circumstances were that they chose a difference career path.
I've known a few LEO in my life time, and an ex son in law was a prison guard, and there job alone has stilted their opinion, they believe that everyone is a criminal but they just haven't been caught
My dad was an assistat DA and a DA. Special prosecutor. It's true that police have to be reactive and too many are overly aggressive, but bad apples can be identified and removed befolre the barrel is worthless.
My mother in law was a WAC in WWII and worked for the Baltimore police....
I know for a fact that the feds use MMPIs and other tests that may identify abnormal agression. I've perviously discussed usze of lie detectors and other tests....
FBI agents used to be lawyers and accountants. I have a cousin who was head of an FBI department until she retired. My dad's secretary was married to the former head of the international division. Virtually all are college graduates. In more recent times, they accepted many former cops....
When my wife worked for the justice department we socialized with many agents from many agencies. You take people as you find them.
My experience is that the feds -- and that includes the Federal Protective Service -- live in a fishbowl, are continually evaluated.
This will be resolved when folks like Tom Homan are brought into court, and are found in civil contempt for disobeying a judge's order.
Trump's immunity doesn't cover civil contempt committed by his underlings.
Trump and Homan don't care about the law or orders from judges. They will simply disregard everything because they know they won't suffer any consequences. It's how authoritarians roll.
No, what is needed is a 1789.
I agree.
One word answer to this from the President----PARDON.
Wish you were right and it would stick, Terry
If you had told me 20 years ago that the Gestapo would be arresting and imprisoning people in the USA without cause I would have laughed. I'm not laughing anymore. I think the purpose of these arrests is to scare the hell out of anyone considering entering the country legally or not and fuck due process.
I also think their purpose is to scare the hell out of the general populace, keep them in line. I watched the movie 'I'm still here' about the military dictatorship in Brazil the other night, and what is happening is identical to what went on during that time, people just disappeared as did this poor woman's husband. The military dictatorship in Brazil lasted 21 years - scary.
You missed the '50's and the Nixon administration.
Yeh, and all of those kids that fled to Canada, but were given blanket pardon by Carter.
Maybe it’s always been a fascist country but we are noticing it more because it’s hitting closer to home.
Welcome to Trumpistan folks 😱
Yup, it’s tyranny by the stupid minority. If it wasn’t for the “purity “ voter morons who willfully ignored the red flashing lights and didn’t vote for the sane democracy supporting candidate, America would be facing the future in good standing instead of going backwards. And of course the usual lying, stealing, gerrymandering and removing voters off the rolls, you know, the usual republican method of anti-democratic politics.
True, but now we can make the best out a bad situation. Trump/Musk are "way past their skis" and vulnerable. Our national sovereignty has been lost. We lost the cold war. Patriotic Americans of all stripes should oppose that.
Last night MSNBC showed several Republican House members validating complaints about Trump/Putin and Musk. Those are the folks we need. I keep sayin' that
22 Republican senators, dozens of Republican House members voted to fund Ukraine. Many of them call Trump a liar about Putin.
On another site, some people say their SS checks were not deposited, Trump should be held in contempt in seveal courts. https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/. Every lawyer in Congress should speak up. Get them on the record. https://clerk.house.gov/documents/Lawyers.pdf
Yesterday I discussed how car manufacturers, car dealers, rancehrs, farmers and others are upset with Trump/Muak. We need to pressure Congressional Republicans to end tryanny.
https://jerryweiss.substack.com/p/democrats-unite-we-have-a-coup-to
Ok, so another thing to worry about, not getting my SS check deposited. I remember last month when I saw it hit my account breathing a sigh of relief, yet at the same time having anxiety about next month. Well, all I can say is Trump is going to have a lot of haters out there - foreign and domestic.
We got ours on the 12th. I watch Ed Weir, who gives a play by play recount daily. https://www.youtube.com/@MyGovExpert
I also get emails from a number of SS lawyers who seem to think Musk will be the SS lawyer full employment act.
Thanks for the link.
I am waiting to see if my SS check drops on the 27th, (4th Wednesday of each month) If it doesn't it won't really hurt me, but all of those people who depend on it, like my Mother in Law, who gets $1,000 a month, and we send her an additional $300 a month. They are condemned to death.
My wife applied for SS in January, and hasn't heard a thing, though I understand that your wife did as well and has been getting a benefit.
What amazes me about the few acquaintances I have who are Trumpers, is that you can have a good conversation with these people on so many other topics, and they are not stupid, just completely brainwashed with what's going on, if I bring something up as to what is actually happening, they just dismiss it and call me Woke.
I know, I have family/friends that voted for the rapey felon (refuse to use his name) for whatever reasons. They are convinced in their delusional minds that the rapey felon would “fix” the country, economy, Ukraine war, the blah blah justifications go on. They aren’t obnoxious or ignorant about some things but believe the republican mantra of Harris was too leftist, “both sides do it “ etc. to the detriment of our democracy and they still downplay the illegal, regressive policies of this administration. I am not sure what it will take for those people to wake TFU but staying in the Faux news bubble and relying on MSM sites who sane wash the administration lies continues the damage. But too many of these people will not admit their colossal mistake.
When I tell them that Trump raised enough to give every American at least a $million, and he probably pocketed most of it, they don't believe me.
https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/donald-trump/candidate?id=N00023864
Now that it looks like Musk is stealing from SS maybe they will.
I still think "Trump hates dogs" and "Trump stole from kids with cancer" should have been Harris' message.
I feel your pain. In my family too.
Yes , trump will laugh, and plan another injustice. I have no hope in the court system either,
Ditto M !!
A malignant and sadistic cruelty has infected the Republican mind - for decades.
In yesterday's Washington Post, Phillip Bump wrote about his poll of "Americans favorability" rankings of 50 selected leaders.
Among Republicans, Hitler is more favorable than Biden.
https://wapo.st/4hiRHtN
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around all this as I search for solutions!
Psy ops works.
Maybe now 'murkan vanity will feel what its own victims have experienced for so long. Native First Nations folks number less than 2% of our current population. Some estimates put the genocide at more than 20 million across more than 200 years. Black African folks, kidnapped and herded like cattle onto small boats for weeks, only to be sold off to lazy white landowners for unforgivable purposes - forced hard labor, beatings, torture, rapes, murders, housing befitting farm animals, constant verbal and physical and psychological denigration. Asians, Mexicans, Meso-Americans, Irish, Italians, all manipulated into subservient roles to build the illusion of the USA.
I could go on, but why? What goes around comes around. The innocent are swept up with the guilty, by the guilty who have no shame and no honor. Does this make what is occurring OK? Of course not, but the Thomm Hartmann avenue for communication is perhaps the most open, welcoming and available channel for ideas and observations and strategies out there today. And yet I view so few concerned 'murkans reading, calling in, or writing on several available venues.
Fear, intimidation, harassment, extortion, invasion of privacy, scapegoating and attacks against the most vulnerable are the methods of control Nazis use, then and now. Brownshirts, belligerent militias, trolls, bullies, gestapo-type enforcers, media attackers and misinformationists abound on the pathetically addictive 'social media' tropes that most 'murkans have capitulated into using as 'news.'
Are we actually a nation of callous sheep? Are we actually infested with treasonous fellow travelers? Are we essentially nothing more than barbarians in tricked out costumes and fancy vehicles? What do we most relish for consuming our time? Sports, guns, guns, guns, violence, fictional entertainment, glamour, real estate, posh food and a million cooking shows, belittling each other on ambush-laden gossip sites? Drugs, drugs, drugs. Lousy diets.
I am no fan of the NY Times, but the morning after the Nov.5 election, the headline read: 'This Is Who We Are.' If we indeed have souls, we should search them now, if we can even find them. You do not have to be locked inside an ICE cage to be a prisoner in your own life.
This is who we are: Three coal waste dams in West Virginia failed, killing 125 people and injuring 1,100 more in communities downstream of the dams., Google Buffalo Creek, Mine disaster, people who lived down stream, knew that the dam could break, it was an earthen dam, Everyday the men would get up, trudge to the coal mine, risking death, the same people today vote Trump and against Green energy factories and employment.
I just watched a report on a community that lives in Cancer Alley, that part that stretches from Baton Rouge to NOLA. This area contains 20 petroleum refining and chemical plants, built on what was once plantations.
Butted up against the fence are communities, that have suffered and will suffer premature deaths from cancer. virtually all families are affected, one woman lost all of her family to cancer. they can smell the noxious fumes when the weather and winds are just right, they permeate the clothes, the furniture and can't be aired out.
The families have lived there for generations, since reconstruction, and are proud defiant and are not going to leave, but the refineries and chemical plants are not going to leave either, regardless of legal action and TV exposure.
Thus they accept death by cancer or respiratory disease, in their defiance.
My fathers family settled Ashley County, AR and my great grandfather sold 160 acres to a carpet bagger name of E.S. Crossett, who build a saw mill and town on the property
After WWII, the company and the business and homes that it owned were sold off, and eventually bought by the Koch Brothers, and they built a pulp mill, paper plant - Georgia Paific.
It earned the reputation of Cancer Capital of the US. Most of my family moved, during WWII, to the western side of Cancer Alley, Port Neches, Texas, Those that stayed have all died of cancer, my aunt and 1st cousins, and I have or had a "passel" of send cousins in Crossett and every family has suffered cancer. And yet no one thinks of moving to a more healthy environment.
People choose to live in tornado alley, cancer alley, the cancer capital, hurricane central
in flood plains, on the San Andreas Juan de Fuca fault
This is who we are indeed, there was maybe one or two men on the Titanic willing to give up their seat on a lifeboat, and certainly no women.
How can we most effectively push back, especially in a ruby red state with Repugnant super majority?
Move to a blue state.
That's a glib answer, considering that at least 2 ICE detentions or deportations have taken place at Logan Airport in bright blue MA.
Glib? Not at all. I live in a blue state, and don't have to worry about Trumps repression. You asked what to do in a repugnant super majority state.
I said move to a blue state, Maybe you don't want an answer. Continue to live in your repugnant super majority red state.
Feathers of Hope.
Feathers are what's left in the yard after all the chickens have had their heads chopped. Hope is not a tactic.
Murkowski today.....https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/lisa-murkowski-musk-primary-026590
Shades of Bracero!
Naturalized citizens are next. As # 45 Trump tried. In 2010, Operation Janus was launched to expand the Department of Homeland Security’s (“DHS”) efforts to identify individuals with a final deportation order who naturalized or obtained legal permanent residence status under a different identity. A 2016 DHS Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) report determined that there were 1,029 such cases and identified the lack of digital fingerprint records as the main cause of the problem. DHS identified another 953 cases of naturalized citizens with prior deportation orders under other identities. The OIG report also noted that fingerprint records were lacking in approximately 315,000 cases of non-citizens with final deportation orders or criminal convictions and that in about 148,000 cases Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) had not yet reviewed and tried to retrieve and digitize old fingerprint cards. The OIG report noted that as of September 2016, United States Attorney’s Offices had accepted two Operation Janus cases for criminal prosecution and declined twenty-six others.
Under the first Trump administration, the government significantly increased its capacity to investigate U.S. citizens and pursue denaturalization cases. In 2018, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) announced that it intended to refer approximately 1,600 cases to the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) forprosecution and the creation of a new office dedicated to reviewing and referring denaturalization cases to DOJ. DHS also diverted funds from USCIS’s budget to ICE in order to conduct investigations of naturalized citizens. As a result of these investigations, denaturalization case referrals to DOJ increased 600 percent over
the last three years.10 In February 2020, DOJ announced the creation of the Denaturalization Section within DOJ’s Office of Immigration Litigation which will be “dedicated to investigating and litigating revocation of naturalization.”
Tucked among the priorities listed in his Day 1 executive orders was a one-line reference to enforcing a section of immigration law under which the government can revoke an immigrant's U.S. citizenship if it was "unlawfully procured."
In the red-baiting 1950s, the U.S. government used its considerable power to strip citizenship from immigrants it viewed as political enemies – labor leaders, journalists, or critics of the government accused of being Communists.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/27/trump-resumes-threat-to-denaturalize-citizens/77905612007/
Some of the following members of Congress are naturalized citizens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign-born_United_States_politicians
Deport Bernie Mareno.
the last three years.10 In February 2020, DOJ announced the creation of the Denaturalization Section within DOJ’s Office of Immigration Litigation which will be “dedicated to investigating and litigating revocation of naturalization.”
Biden was sworn in on Jan 20, 2020 therefore this is a bipartisan effort.
When are the American people going to rise up and march on Washington en masse? I don't mean a few thousand people: I mean MILLIONS of Americans who love democracy more than they love Trump, greed, and power. When is it going to happen? If it doesn't happen soon, we won't have a country left to save. We need hope, but it is not a strategy. Hope without action is merely a wish, and countries don't run on wishes. We have to act, and no one is coming to save us. We are going to have to save ourselves from the republican nazis.
Join up with Indivisible ( indivisibl.org ) and Move On ( https://front.moveon.org/ ). We need at least 3.5% of the US population up in arms. Quit wishing, start joining and acting!
Indivisible needs to speak to Jerry Weiss.
April 5 Nation wide. Huge march on Washington
How will it be huge? Apparently very few people even know about it. We've got to do a much, much better job of publicizing these things if we want to get civic engagement. Right now I have zero expectations that many people will show up on April 5th, because there's been no PR about the event. (I hope I'm wrong about that, but we'll see.)
Trumpet and his Goon Squad (ICE) have been given unfettered immunity from prosecution for any illegal action he may do while President. The SCOTUS has allowed him this “get out of jail free” card when dealing with ordinary citizens and legal aliens. But let him go after a judge and it’s “hands off the judiciary!”
Chris,this is "Neo Nazi Amerrica" .The arrests are designed to scare people who are protesting,entering the country legally,stopped for a traffice violation. You are seeing all the reincarnation of the " Third Reich"we now call it the "Fourth Reich".
Speaking of fear; am I the only person who believes that there were high ranking secret service officials who must have known that the kid with a rifle was on the roof in PA with a plan to shoot when Trump was at his rally and who waited until he opened fire to take him down? Call me a conspiracy theorist. But maybe someone should notify him that he might have agents close to him who are loyal first to the Constitution and to the country who are not as loyal to him as he thinks they are. People with great power always need to fear the people who protect them because they know just how weak and feckless they truly are.
To your point the following Emperors were killed by their Praetorian Guard
Aurelian
Balbinus
Caligula
Caracalla
Commodus
Elagabalus
Galba
Gordian III
Numerian
Pertinax
Philip II (Roman emperor)
Probus (emperor)
Pupienus
But this isn't Rome, where the legions and guards were bought by Senators.
Trumps Secret Service are loyal cult members, There pocketbook, and future are dependent on his favor.
When are the American people going to rise up and march on Washington en masse? I don't mean a few thousand people: I mean MILLIONS of Americans who love democracy more than they love Trump, greed, and power. When is it going to happen? If it doesn't happen soon, we won't have a country left to save.