I just had a sick feeling come over me. What if this expansion of ICE is to create a real gestapo. An armed division of the government that will round people up regardless of citizenship. Look at the spending &j the recruitment. This is going to be bad people. We MUST stop this! #GeneralStrike /1
That is EXACTLY what is happening. That is EXACTLY the plan. And anyone who says otherwise is either not paying attention, in denial, or complicit! Every "attack tightens the screw, until the system is locked and the tyrant holds the only key." open.substack.com/pub/thomhart... @hartmannreport.com
He's got this in lockdown. That's why he said there will be no more elections.
We have to resist together.
Yes. That was obvious to those of us with history degrees a long time ago…
IT IS. You are correct, ICE is PEDOtRUmp's PERSONAL ARMY. They have offices/barracks/troops in EVERY MAJOR CITY. He will use it to ENFORCE MARTIAL LAW any day now, definitely before the midterms. Americans will NEVER get to vote fairly again, you are now ruSSia 2.0
Auuuggghhh … my eyes!!
This has to be stopped now
Agreed!
Agree 100%. But this takes organization, union support & time to organize. For success it needs 72 hours & must close shit down. Dems could’ve helped organize but leadership is too weak. We’ve lost time but I hope it happens before his gestapo grows large enough to turn weapons on citizens.
It already is and they are going to grow it bigger yet.
What if? IT IS!
I don’t think it’s a “what if” anymore. The good thing is that governors and mayors have more ways to push back and fight this 🐴 💩
I've had that sick feeling right from the very beginning. It's also why--IMO--Trump insisted on having a military parade in his honor. It was an open threat.
Agreed. I’ve had this feeling for a while. That’s why I’ve been warning people not to be violent. Do not give him an excuse to actually turn the military on its own citizens.
Yes! He's already using that excuse.
Well right now he’s conjuring that up out of thin air, but if things did escalate then we’d be out numbered and certainly out gunned.
Well the problem is, he pays craigslist people to come to his rallies. They would be happy to pay them to riot and bust stuff up. Plus, then ICE gets to practice on these idiots
You mean, he says he will pay them. I truly wonder how many are getting paid?
I’ve seen a number of screenshots of craigslist postings there were specifically for his rallies
Oh, I know he’s advertising and I know he says he will pay them, but that doesn’t mean ultimately he will pay them. You know what I mean?
True although I think a good portion of them are homeless so 10 bucks here and there is worth their while
I’m not talking about the attendees. I’m talking about Trump claiming he will pay people and then he never pays them. Ever.
He doesn’t pay anyone, he thinks he can get away with it.
Bingo
They’re not that stupid are they?
Wellll....
The ones that were “smart enough” to vote for him are 🤯
Of course it fucking is.
Exactly what he is doing. Right out of Hitler’s playbook.
To put this in perspective, if you remove the US budget for defense spending in the world & compare other countries to the ICE spending, it is ranked FIFTEENTH in the world. One division is getting almost as much money as Canada spends on defense each year. What do you think is going to happen? /2
You are not the only one. I have been thinking back on 1984, the Fingerman from V for Vendetta, the Militia from The Handmaid's Tale, the Voice Police from Vox. And then we are look at WWII, and this is exactly what was done at that point to.
Agreed, and it scares me. We must have a #GeneralStrike and sustained protest. WE CANNOT allow this to happen to our country.
I hate to sound doomish, but a general strike will be a firecracker compared to what I think is coming. I posted on my feed some stuff that has been bugging the hell out of me, and yesterday on the bus to work it all came to a head how we are acting too normal in the face of all this.
I don’t agree, what do we have that the billionaires don’t? We work for a living. Their businesses cannot survive without us. That’s why boycotts work (take a look at Target’s 1st quarter earnings & how Tesla’s stock & market share way down). We can make a difference, we just have to band together.
We should either get rid of (my choice) or strongly regulate the stock market. That's where most of them make their money.
Agreed, and our politicians are quietly making money with what most would consider “insider trading”
That should 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 be banned.
Again this is like all these other “rules”. Because they’re not laws the elected officials dance their way around this.
So-called "Gentleman's Agreements" require ladies and gentlemen.
This is all we can do. Boycotting because that’s all that they will feel. They will have to be one major business at a time though. Because we still need to eat and blow our noses
Are way down .. .urg I hate it when I try to shorten my posts and cut out critical words. 🤦🏼♀️
It drives me nuts that we have a word limit and no edit button on here. And I agree. The billionaires can’t live without the workers, but at the same time they swim in rivers of money and worry about nothing where we live paycheck to paycheck. I just got laid off so I am panicked.
Oh no, if their precious shareholders start losing money then they’re (as my husband says) Eff, you, c, T. We hold that power in OUR hands. They can swim that money river all they want, but if we damn up the mouth, that money stops flowing.
Very true.
Sadly the billionaires will always have lapdogs to do their work because some people love serving them. It's those workers and their families that should be targeted. The Billionaires don't give AF about them and they have no security or drive them all to use their money on security.
It's begins to look a lot like fascists
I assumed that this was the case from the beginnign.
Get a gun and train with it, if you don't already.
It is. I had that realization. Last year before the election.