One thing that is fairly clear at this point is that the entire point of whisking people out of the country with no due process in defiance of a judge's orders to put them into a foreign gulag *was so they could produce fascist content*.
One thing that is fairly clear at this point is that the entire point of whisking people out of the country with no due process in defiance of a judge's orders to put them into a foreign gulag *was so they could produce fascist content*.
Get used to being Nazis or start killing them.
Day of... bsky.app/profile/gran...
Exactly! Thank you for saying this.
Imagine you want to reduce immigration and the only tool you know, because your parents never hugged you or something, is instilling a fear of abuse. In that case all of this makes perfect sense. It's government by domestic violence.
Practicing for American citizens
Gruesome
“The best way to establish terror is to punish the innocent.”
Maybe if we start having other countries pull students into jail, maybe Trump would begin to trade persons from Salvador to free them. Fight fire with fire, person for person!
Does that really sound like a good idea?
With the students help, and also the country. Why not.
Who is going to pick the country that does this student kidnapping? You want Iran to kidnap American students and holding them hostage? Is torture included in this hostage situation you've dreamed up? I don't think you've given that enough thought.
America was warned time and again. This superb article was published on Feb. 4, 2021. www.justsecurity.org/74504/movie-... #TrumpIsAFascist
One of the foremost experts on fascism, Robert Paxton, on 1/11/21: "Trump's incitement of the invasion of the Capitol on January 6, 2020 removes my objection to the fascist label. His open encouragement of civic violence to overturn an election crosses a red line." www.newsweek.com/robert-paxto...
This performative garbage should be blacked out and never aired.
Genuinely gross that the MAGA fascist fetishists exist. We used to do something about Nazis back in the day, not put them in the White House.
Fascist content? Oh boy, I'll bet. I wonder what the fascist gets?
He learned all he needed to know from The Appentice and pro wrestling. It's all a reality show.
It also changes facts on the ground, such that nobody can run to the courthouse fast enough to stop it.
Well, I don’t think they’re only *acting* fascist in order to “produce fascist content”. I think they’re *being* fascist to, you know, fash. But ok, yeah, content is a secondary “benefit”.
She just went down south to check the new condos we bought. I just wonder what they see in the mirror? Can they really look at themselves and think they are doing the right thing? If they followed the law and provided due process (proof) this could be a different talking point. But, they can't.
🎯
Lots of folks need to read this ASAP, especially journalists and media: datasociety.net/library/oxyg...
What are the people of the USA going to do about it Chris? It's insane.
The main point is to keep the public silent. 90% of people are scared to protest.
Ironic that ppl voted for a convicted felon, sex abuser and fraud who places innocent people in prison. Stupidity is a harsh evil.
I often think of this Trump was unvotable. Yet ppl voted for him There's a part of america which is quite simply gullible and another part which extremely racist/bigoted/hypocritical. Both of them voted for him
The varieties in human consciousness are astonishing, eh? What appears simplistically logical to some is incomprehensible to others. 🤭
Belief is disconnected from fact/truth. Facts and truth don't change but beliefs do We largely choose our beliefs. It's a very powerful psychological concept
Little Nazi Noem's cosplay jaunts are hilarious. There isn't enough tattooed criminals here for her production so she heads to El Salvador for the fear effect. Reminds me of Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham on gunboats in Texas.
Hey radar. Where were you when all these felons were "whisked" into the country illegally by your leaders? If you make a fucking mess don't bitch about the people that clean up after you.
Yes, it totally satisfies a bizarre, perverse itch
Do they have ANY IDEA how many MILLIONS of Americans they will have to “whisk” to other places?? We are not going without a fight. This isn’t going to happen unless we all lay down and take it. NO. FUCKING. WAY. 🥷🤺
It’s porn to them
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2... "Concerns about even low levels of exposure began in the 1970s; in the decades since, scientists have concluded that no safe threshold for lead exposure exists"
Image is everything to these cosplayers.
This is all to make up for the fact that ICE hasn't been to meet their unrealistic deportation quotas. Do something horrible instead to get publicity to make yourself look "strong." The grabbing of easily targeted students who are in the country legally follows the same logic.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2vDb4KN/
well yeah the media picks presidents now so yeah
www.mobilize.us/joshweilforc...
They want to scare people into leaving on their own.
@papst-ny.bsky.social
They also like to terrorize women.
Hitler fed on big crowds. Publicity is 34-felons "big crowds".
They want to scare migrants so they run away from the country. Germans did this against Jews destroying their shops and beating them, before they started creating ghettos.
In example: ICE Barbie advertisement.
Yep
Jesus how did I miss that
It's great TV according to dear leader. #fotus
The selection criteria had nothing to do with criminality. It was all about the appearances Stephen Miller and Kristie Noem wanted from their central casting team. They’ve got two important quotas - torture porn for FoxNews and souls for their new slave trade.
Well it also scares people. How many journalists, some already cowardly, are going to self censor even more now?
Vladdy must be so proud of Donny.
They have to start slow. Get us used to fascism done to immigrants on foreign soil. They will ramp it up to white citizens on US soil eventually.
I feel like Lucille and Gob Bluth are running through country.
This is why those planes HAD to get to El Salvador. It’s a fucking terror campaign! Did Mark Burnett develop it? I bet he did…
Trump uses NAZI plan: With the reinterpretation of "protective custody" in 1933, police power became independent of judicial controls. In Nazi terminology, protective custody meant the arrest without judicial review of real and potential opponents of the regime.
"Protective custody" (Schutzhaft) prisoners were not confined within the normal prison system but in concentration camps under the exclusive authority of the SS (Schutzstaffel; the elite guard of the Nazi state). This is where we are now only Trump is paying El Salvador to run the Camps.
Oh yes, striking fear throughout the nation is entirely the point.
HEY some lawyer somewhere CAN WE FILE A MASSIVE JOINT CLASS ACTION SUIT? CIVIL RIGHTS? Against these guys? For the Social Security threats alone, not to mention everything else the MFs are doing.. Can WE?
Correct 🤬
Propaganda machine alive and functioning under the Trump Regime backed by Musk-rat, E-dog, criminals and pardoned convicts. Did I leave something out? KGB lessons are in full view!
They're testing the judicial branch.
Sure was. And not care who they rounded up. Gang member or not. Anyone who had the right look and color. On the taxpayer dime.
That’s not the entire point but is part if it.
Expensive.
We now have a corrupt government made deal with dictator Bukele to send Venezuelan deportees to CECOT in exchange for extraditing 26 MS13 gang members to keep them from exposing El Salvador government gang negotiations!
Horrifying.
They’re destroying real lives of productive citizens for a few cheap videos. This is beyond the pale.
Sure, some Republicans are crooks, but most of them are just amoral content creators for Fox News.
It’s frightening
Speaking of “producing fascist content,” this photo op looks like a new Pornhub category: Moms I’d Like to Strangle From Behind Bars.
I wish they had opened the gates.
It's time for special prosecutors and perhaps some very public tribunals as the DOJ has utterly failed.
Prosecute these fascists. They are out of touch with what is lawful. Human rights are being broken with each action of human trafficking that she is involved with. International law is being violated. Release these people. She has no regard for human life just like most pro- life people.
it is past time for massive protests every day! we have to resist this lunacy-there is nothing acceptable about this-more focus has to be on overturning this authoritarian government more we wait the more they brush it off & say we can do whatever we want & no one can stop us-we need to stop them
Can any of the detainees be returned to the USA? This authoritarian regime is unbelievable. Trump is evil but Miller Bannon Voight have black hearts. How could Kristi Noem sleep at night -(but she did kill her dog -heartless slime)
Jack Smith’s old buddies in the Hague just might have some upcoming business with the Trump mafia. And they won’t give 💩💩 about MAGA influence. Lock ‘em up!
The focus on horrifying visuals to feed their nationalist base is so apparent.
Also helps to desensitize the populace.
So you are telling me some Americans are ok with this?! Using people as props?
They have no soul
50k in jewelry and half naked men behind her . Who da rebel now ? Shes got serious mental problems
She is a prop herself.
People as props is the MAGA fascist way.
All dressed up.....$60k Rolex and all.... and posing all pretty at the world's most infamous ☠️ death camp. Who wouldn't sport their $60,000 Rolex to pose in front of the world's most infamous 💀 death camp?🤔 The world's most infamous puppy-killer would🤗.
This is so wrong. It is a horror show, beyond disgusting.
Yes, they are called Republicans. You'll find them on Facebook and Twitter
Yes, I think so. If we've learned anything it's that there are a lot of truly heinous people in this country. They didn't vote for cheap eggs, they voted for cruelty. As far as they're concerned, Trump's finally getting to the good stuff.
Yep. The 77 million who voted for this evil.
WOW. 🤦♂️
Everything is a prop... as long as they can make money off of it.
Nazi Kristi Noem wearing a $60,000 Rolex watch as she poses using caged humans as a background for a photo op to get the attention she craves. She is an evil souless narcissist. I am so disappointed that my Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan voted for her in the Congressional hearings.
She may also be a wanted criminal now. The International Criminal Court (ICC) works with the United Nations and issues arrest warrants for violations of the Geneva Convention. I wouldn't be surprised if they did so in this case. I hope to hell they do.
Holy moly 😱. Full on fascist state. The deterioration in morality is speeding up.
Noem wearing a $60k Rolex for the cosplay pic is...disturbing
And even more than that in manhours spent on her surgeries.
And the "Melania" hairstyle
And the teeth and and and. www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...
🤢
She should be wearing a stab vest, you know there are hardened criminals just back there, right? Or was it green screen? 🤨
She is supposedly wearing a $60k Rolex here.
I hope her cunny rusts shut, the abhorrent ginch.
About 40% of Americans voted for it. They want to see it.
The good news is that it's not "40% of Americans" who voted for it. 31.78% of *registered voters*, voted for Trump. That's a far cry different from the total American population.
She isn't good for anything else. Oh, you mean the prisoners. No, we're not okay with that.
Well politicians sure as shit are
A certain type of American (ie. would-be Confederate) used to send commemorative postcards depicting lynchings: the worst of us have long been ok with social media content promoting racialized extrajudicial violence
A LOT more people than I would have expected. WTAF!
dehumanizing is the point with fascists. Come on America oust this f*ker
Yes, and deeply disturbing.
Like my wife said, the cruelty is the point.
in this case the cruelty is specifically in service to the production of Content
DT’s peanut-sized marketing brain thinks if he gets enough publicity of arrests & kidnappings, it’ll deter others from following suit. He’s using a sledgehammer to swat a fly: DT’s killing $44B influx of cash paid by Int’l students who pay full-price tuition to attend colleges in US.
Of course, it’s no mystery WHY: DT knows largest colleges are in Blue states, so there’s going to be less impact on Red State voters (eg TX, as college cities tend to be blue cities, eg Austin, TX). It’s perfectly consistent w/ DT’s anti-intellectual campaign, as Pol Pot conducted w/ Khmer Rouge.
This is blatant sabotage while we split hairs. THEY ARE DESTROYING ANYTHING "AMERICAN" THEY CAN GET THEIR HANDS ON, NEXT IS PEOPLE (AND NOT ONLY OF COLOR). We are in THAT type of situation and until we ALL realize it conciously and verbalize it we'll b in real danger. Might b too late. Hope not.
Relax, Chicken lil’. This is what low-attention voters wanted, so we’ll all have to pay the price for their gullibility. Trolling unserious MAGATs had their fun “owning libs”, so we’ll have to pay the price so they learn about fascism “the hard way”, & eventually they’ll start to figure it out.
Your words give me hope Frankie! 😉😁
It’s going to be ugly but good news is greedy oligarchs can’t help but over-reach & DT’s as dumb as a rock; US has been here before during late 19th C. (robber barons & Capts of Industry), but that led to progressive reforms of early 20th C. as nothing is permanent, even wanna-be fascists.
As that post shows, Kellyanne wasn’t lying when she said people will tolerate what offends them as long as it doesn’t affect them. Voters are about to be affected firsthand by DT’s bumbling mismanagement of foreign policy, starting trade wars with all of our allies. So buckle up for a recession.
the fact of the matter is the large colleges with deep endowments can weather this storm. there are a LOT of intl students studying STEM at state schools and if they get cold feet because of this slow pogrom, they will find something or somewhere else and the red state colleges will suffer too.
If they use them. They have been conservative so far. Proj. 2025 targets the endowments. Now is the time to leverage them before they are pilfered, even schools with smaller funds.
Huh, it’s almost like DT is doing everything he can do to crash the economy, no? Wonder Y that would be? (It’s the oldest trick in the book: GOP crash the economy, leaving Dems to fix the mess they made). Oligarchs LOVE a recession, as it’s when they buy assets on sale. bsky.app/profile/feef...
yeah indeed. is that parkrose perma? i watch her on the regular
oops just saw underneath. my eyesight's not great
He's intentionally crashing the economy because it, 1. flattens out the income brackets to a two-tiered (owners & workers) society 2. ensures abundant, desperate, fearful, cheap labor pool with no union, whistle-blower, nor legal protections (aka indentured servants).
Elite 1%ers love recessions: it’s Y smart $ went to cash/gold 1 mo. ago, knowing DT is triggering recession/depression. Big Corps LOVE tariffs, as its when eg agribusiness (eg ADM, ConAgra) pick up land of BK family-owned farms/ranches who can’t sell their products, consolidating corp. portfolios.
Tax cuts and deregulation benefits corporations and tariffs hurt working class. Corporations could give a shit less about working class.
Which is ironic, since corporate profits generally rise when middle-class CONSUMERS do well & have discretionary spending money. Granted, manufacturers of high-end items (Gucci, Prada, Lamborghini, Bentleys, etc) do well when wealth of elites rises, but most elites don’t flaunt their wealth.
It is why I have never agreed with trickle down economics. You put money in the hands of middle and lower class workers, they spend it and by the end of the day business owners and wealthy get it. Money flows up the chain WAY faster than it trickles down the chain.
Especially since 70% of the US economy depends on consumer consumption - buying & providing goods & services.
JD Vance is waiting to pick up the pieces…
Yet another reason why they fired all of the IGs. 😑
Is your wife Adam Serwer?
your wife isn’t?
Occasionally I try to understand their perspective so I seek out their comments on these things & I saw people asking for deportation live streams, it hurts my heart.
They eat it up.
Disgusting
OH YES, SOOOO TRUE! I once HAD friends as a child that I cherished! But NOW, AS ADULTS, I've learned some of them were t-Rump supporters who ADMIRE him for that hate he spews and harm he inflicts! And I COULDN'T BELIEVE OR UNDERSTAND HOW AND WHY they became this way! It's so sad!
💯.
Trump and his fake reality show needs feeding, regardless of the actual reality ruining their script.It's amazing how their fallback position is to plow through reality with a new script of lies and denials. They are terminally immature and in love with their sociopathy.
bsky.app/profile/evan...
MAGA have a kink for torture porn. It is disturbing and terrifying
It is also to terrify the rest of us. So that we think twice about "creating a ruckus", just incase citizens are also "disappeared" in the coming weeks.
Notice they show the HELL They set them to AND BRAG ABOUT IT?
And absolutely abhorrent. They should be ashamed but of course they are not
Exactly!
Holy fuck its all of them
youtu.be/k-eYHp7hGgw
I think it's race baiting Chris!, he wants martial law so he can declare himself king and end elections...scotus opened that door. Are you guys talking about their role in this ?, NO, bc you also have a corp. Agenda
MAGAts are sadists.
It was def for the camera
chump's administration is a TV reality show, I mean, just look at the characters he's brought in
www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...
It’s important to them that people fear them. Fox is the fire hose of fear. From taking away their guns to minorities/libs eating their pets/children.
The haze (no pun) of protecting Americans while building an authoritarian state. We told you, you needed our protection and now our reality show will prove it.
Perhaps another entire point of why… is to push the court, in the name of protecting Americans flout the rule of law,
Which obviously and unfortunately, much of America has an endless appetite for. Adam Servers “the cruelty is the point “is because there’s an audience for cruelty here.
Maybe Brian Thompson's lack of due process ought not have been celebrated.
Wondering if the truth about his whole administration making a fool out of tRump personally will get to his attention?
They seem very capable of producing fascist boners. Using the word as intended. Every fascist , bungled move they make is in the news, thanks to you, Chris.
"it's all copmuter" and it' simportant corollary, "it's also all content"
Leni Riefenstahl they ain’t.
Noem’s video is sickening. She flew all the way to El Salvador to post content from one of the most brutal prisons. The Women in Trump’s admin., are as vile, and lie just like their male colleagues.
"The cruelty is the point." Hegseth set up as a doctrine that the military should not be constrained by moral concerns. In effect, he decided actions should be instead governed by an instinct towards cruelty.
Yes, but folks are on to his shenanigans.
They are softening us up so that it's not just immigrants or it's everyone! "First they came for..."
Pam Bondi refuses to investigate and prosecute Trump's appointees for "Gross Negligence." Instead, she tells us what we "should" think and talk about. Apparently, the Trump administration not only no longer cares about Veterans, but they also don't care about active-duty heroes in mortal danger.
It could also be that the Trump administration wants their activities to ultimately get before the USSC so the Supremes can find reasons to uphold his authoritarian practices. They made him almost untouchable now they can transform him into a true despot
Kristi Photo Opp is on the job! bsky.app/profile/chri...
I have never seen such horrific content as Noem standing in front of cages of people!
Same. It was sickening. She’s a fucking ghoul.
My blood ran cold.
Same. Pure evil.
Noem is a sociopath—who shoots their dog in the face? Know who else is a sociopath? Everyone who supports Noem.
Or her boss.
I agree that was terrible, but I hate that stupid ad of hers even more. It’s so dystopian, in the future people are not gonna believe that’s an actual government ad. She should be horrified being in it. That’s the type of ad that never goes away. Just absolutely shameful
Those were killers, rapists, etc and et al. U want one?
Fuck off into the sun, asshole
They are human beings - many of them incarcerated WITHOUT DUE PROCESS.
That video needs to be Exhibit A at a trial for crimes against humanity.
While proudly displaying her $50,000 Rolex in front of captives who are certainly being tortured while the taxpayers pay for the prison
Reminiscent of 1940 Germany.
Kind of saw something similar, but it was the movie called Schindler’s list
Abu Ghraib now normalized.
Was about to say-- It's Abu Ghraib for prime time.
With Rolex glamour.
I noticed that too.
We weren't supposed to know about Abu Ghraib. This is way fucking worse 😞
It’s the message
Wearing jewelry.........
$60,000 jewelry
Does this picture make her brain look small?
Oh pls it’s not a gulag stop pushing lies. These were the evil doers to the Cuban people and some of the Ms house go straight to jail. They r the equivalent oligarchs of Cuba
"Recent Supreme Court immigration rulings include denying U.S. citizens judicial review of visa denials for their non-citizen spouses, allowing deportations without adequate notice, and affirming the President's power to set immigration enforcement priorities. "
Yes, really.
I guess that thing about being a dictator only on day one got extended.
They’re trying to scare us, but they’re scared too. They are playing with fire.
Yep. They want everyone afraid. Everyone hiding in their homes too scared to stand up for their beliefs.
yes, they’re serving their base. their base just wants to own libs. the jar of lib tears is renewed once again.
Next are American citizens who protest
They cannot easily collect or trade in Nazi memorabilia, so they create their own with the gaudy MAGA aesthetic.
It's a neverending campaign ad.
It is so gross to go back and look at statements like this from @repdangoldman.bsky.social only a month ago and have to wonder if he was actively complicit in Kahlil getting rounded up by Trump.
Be ready to defend yourself. At whatever level you are comfortable and FULLY prepared.
Yes!! Much better we keep the border jumping criminals and gang members in our country so they can murder more innocent people.
we have jails in the US already, with gang members in those jails already. so dumb.
To rile the base, demoralize and intimidate everyone else, and continue to burn bridges that lead back to basic decency. Intimidation doesn't work unless everyone knows about it.
The video of the heartless Noem in front of the kidnapped and imprisoned men makes me so fucking sick with rage, and god I'm so fucking terrified
Exactly!
if you guys were more clever...well. but you're not. you're stereotypes, or you produce stereotypical product for a narrow audience to consume. i mean, Rachel Maddow hides stories like this: www.reviewjournal.com/crime/police...
Chris the gang members Noem was standing in front of would literally tear you apart. it's just like when you guys in the left defend Hamas, you know full well what they would have done to you on October 7th, but your crowd defends them anyways. it's no wonder you guys lost the elections so badly.
Am having a really hard time believing we are talking about America! How is this possible in America? In 2025?? How is this happening people??? This is NOT America, cannot be!
👊Maybe in hindsight! The reason they did it in the middle of the night under the veil of darkness without due process. Was because a lot of them shouldn't have been there! And they knew it. Otherwise, why not give them due process? Those people were rounded up for being Brown! That's all!
Red meat for the hungry MAGA masses. This is how genocides are justified. Where are you headed America? www.ngrippel.com/ngr-politics...
Operation Aurora: 400 agents from DHS, ICE & DEA, 8 operations.... "We will hunt diwn every last one until there is none." One. One suspected gang member was arrest. Wanna know why there're (hi Kristi Noem!) doing photo ops in El Salvador & on the streets? This is why.
What would you do if you saw a neighbor being abducted? Asking for a few million friends.
It’s also to achieve compliance in advance, obedience.
New levels of fucked up *unlocked.*
What? Why?
Hey Chris any follow up on this comment of yours from a few years back?
bsky.app/profile/kara...
She thinks she is at the zoo.
Truly bsky.app/profile/phot...
Shameless, evil imbeciles. 🤬
Trump *has* always wanted a tv network. He's just creating MAGA content.
Gotta show the fascist, racist, MAGAts that Trump is serious about being a fascist, racist, MAGAt like them! This is the kind of stupid bullshit that impresses my northern Wisconsin MAGAt family members... a circle jerk of pure fucking idiocy.
I was horrified by the ICE arrest of that legal student at a university in the NE. Surrounded by masked ICE agents on the street. This person was wisked away and sent a few thousand miles away to a detention center in Louisiana. Just so wrong the way they handled that.
That’s why they had a whole team of professional videographers there and a drone taking video too. Quite costly but future campaign video to be sure. See linked photo and video footage. bsky.app/profile/jon-...
‘TRiUMPh of the Will’
The cruelty is the point.
Exactly.
Lol.
this seems racist. something to think about maybe
Keep clutching those pearls.
Absolutely. Terror on TV.
We need Direct Impeachment ! 45harley.github.io/CB/directImp...
It is ALWAYS a TV show first for them, and Himmler Barbie looks so good in her expensive watch as she pumps out America’s new torture slave trade.
bsky.app/profile/whst...
bsky.app/profile/kush...
I really, really don’t want to live in a police state.
Misread that as "consent" and the same is true
I’m sure Barbaric Barbie enjoyed her photo op.
The call went out to Homan to round up enough gang members to make this propaganda video, and he couldn’t find enough. So… they just started “casting” background roles to fill out the scenes. Completely heinous, Hague kind of stuff.
Maybe when the dust settles and you want them dealt with, the US will finally sign the Rome Statue and recognize the International Criminal Court?
The Orlando City Ruckus might want to tone it down on the purple smoke grenades, flares, and noise at the Lions next home game. Many could be seen as foreign gang members and they all could be held for causing a ruckus.
MAGA eat up lousy reality tv 📺 Fits their dystopian world view - as they’ve been taught for generations.
ICE abductions will utterly destroy US tourism and make us look like Russia.
R you so surprised? Do you not understand this is th work of Putin being orchestrated through DT who Putin tightly controls? it is in this vein of thought then that it is no wonder anymore that our nation is beginning to look more and more like Russia than the USA. We Are A Nation In Crisis!
This is past just "looking like". Billionaires paying up are already the new royalty, no laws can touch them, everyone else haven't caught up to the fact yet People forget smart people were fleeing Germany for years before leaving was outlawed. Hope the world doesn't have MAGA opinions on asylum
Apparently, according to Rubio, creating a “ruckus” (however he defines it in his role of judge and jury of the State Department of Fascism) is grounds for visa revocation and expulsion. For writing an op-Ed for example. Along these lines…How about we revoke citizenship for Ruckus Musk?
It’s all about the optics for TV.
this explanation lacks imagination
This poor excuse of a man, is ruining are country. And to think they all voted for him.
Certainly not most. I think 48 million? And I think most of those were voting for the 2019 economy. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
Still not enough to move the 90M dumbasses who were eligible but decided to just sit this one out. If I recall, it was close to 37M registered voters who didn't vote and could have easily made a difference!
Some people see lazy people, I see successful voter suppression. Probably a little of both.
don't forget the single-voter causes that were dominant in the "media" -- people wanting more COVID money, egg prices under Biden (any prices under Biden), Gaza genocide under Biden, etc. Yes, voter suppression and yes, lazy electors for listening to the one-liner headlines and not doing research.
I think the media made those sound more common than they were. I don't think people REALLY expected Trump to lower eggs, but they remembered things being ok when he was president and worse after. Failure of economic education. Media did a horrible job communicating how insane Trump is.
A few bomb scares from the Russkis (polling locations in five battleground states - Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania) will suppress turn out.
And it's limited hours, limited advance voting, limited support for hurricanes, limiting mail in ballots, photo IDs...it all takes a toll.
😞
Most of us clearly see Elon-Trump as an all out war on pluralism, democracy, and the law to manifest Project 2025 and the Dark Enlightenment. What many fail to grasp is the diabolical techniques of the billionaire class. Strangling free speech is the hammer of fascism. youtu.be/jwra0BJ9P3o?...
cruelty theater was a campaign promise. its the only one they will deliver on.
panem et circenes. Though I‘m not so sure of the panem part as it might be considered „socialism“.
You better fucking hope that’s the reason. Seems extremely short sighted to think this. But wtf do I know.
You really think they’re doing this just for content? Man.
All I want to know if the people involved in these operations will face any consequences. I'm afraid not.
If ICE's justification was 'the tattoos,' we're just one step away from wearing pink triangles or yellow stars.
100%, it's all about their "Christian" marketing.
Also, they are bullshitters.
Never, ever allow yourself to forget they are NOT running a country, but *programming a TV show*,
The Hunger Games premise is starting to look mild in comparison.
“We are going to take one brown boy and girl from parents in each state not here legally and make them fight to the death.” I just haven’t figured out if they more resemble Snow or Coin.
Wow. I remember the speculation the first time around that Trump’s aim was not in fact to win the presidency, but to launch a Trump TV enterprise… it didn’t occur to me that I’m looking at a “both-and” or something, with the TV logic taking precedence I need to re-read Baudrillard
Fascist content where the victims are *innocent people.* That’s also crucial.
You’re right. That’s actually important too, isn’t it? It’s important that their dragnets catch total innocents, and also that minor dissenters suffer hugely disproportionate penalties… they need to broadcast how much they DGAF and are willing to exercise max oppression
Right. Ultimately, they want all of us to feel that our freedom is precarious. The first flex comes against visa and greencard holders; onward from there. Horrifying stuff.
They actually can’t disappear and black hole that many people yet, so they need to be egregious with the ones they do, to seem more menacing than they are
Steven Miller is exactly that menacing, considering that he seems to be running this. Marco Rubio said that he's already revoked the green cards of 300 people (probably got the list from Miller). There are surely more victims who've been disappeared than the three we know.
True. I was reflecting on how these folks have different blends of dark personality traits - narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism & sadism. I see mostly narcissism and sadism in Hegseth & he’s a fool. Miller? Pure psychopathy & patient Machiavellianism. More machine than person. Terrifying
It's working. I know naturalized citizens running scared right now, saying they won't leave the country. You can't blame them, and yet, this is exactly where Trump wants us. Scared, isolated, and protecting our own - not united to take him down.
Um. Yeah. Obvi.
The way I see it, more than anything, we have a duty to our Constitution & our way of life to get these people that have been illegally removed, returned for their Due Process! Their treatment is the responsibility of all of US!
whatthefuckamerica.org/wtfa.2025012...
That is why when u examine individual cases, the rationale for doing it falls apart.
the most popular aspect of the maga reality show is the cruelty
It's a quid pro quo: the 🍊🤡gets dissenters out of the country and El Salvador gets the cash.
I haven't heard, but I'm wondering if the Massachusetts governor, attorney general, or state police, or even the Somerville police, have taken steps to identify, apprehend, and arrest the kidnapers? And those who ordered the kidnaping?
Performers.
What if this administration is kidnapping foreign people as a bargaining tool to use in negotiations like Putin does? It sure looks like it to me when plain clothes people kidnap citizens off the street. These are Turkey & Iranian citizens.
So normalizing the fascist message is the point. We've been saying the cruelty is the point.
Yup, they need to have their "Loose Lips, Sink Ships" Propaganda. Oh...wait...they are the Loose Lips
It’s disappointing that MSNBC is running those propaganda ads NON-STOP! I’ve canceled my TV subscription because of that.
I know! It's crazy. I work from home and get up around 4:00 am and it's always on.
Oh my gosh. It’s worse than I thought. But they are spending $200 million of taxpayer money to do this campaign. Surely they can’t think the propaganda ads are going to work on the MSNBC audience.
Judge Boasberg should demand a sworn declaration from Noem how many of the people in the video she posted are members of the class that the judge certified.
Noem is disgusting for using prisoners as props for her campaign. They have no human decency. No humanity. The Republicans today are all scum of the earth.
I think the cell was hand selected to include people with the tattoos they claim the people they deported had.
💯 and ON OUR TAX DOLLARS! Full video production yesterday and upon arrival! One purpose to film propaganda for "the other" guys! I've been saying it since I saw the videos of them arriving! What else I see is Human Rights violations on tape!
Good evidence for a trial.
The question is, for whom? It will have to be outside the US now I'm afaid. Who knows the reality of what the meetings in Europe are about. More than just the war in Ukraine, Im certain! Hopefully, the ICC is working on getting him charged with something! 🙏
Money for torture-fetish-porn for MAGA ---no money for Meals on Wheels.
It's appalling on both fronts! Just appalling!
Yes! bsky.app/profile/jon-...
And massive cases of kidnapping.
And it IS fascist content. Terrifying.
Donald deputised Jan 6th Insurrectionists to use as ICE agents. 😝
I don't agree it's the entire point. I think poking at the boundaries and testing the limits of the law and its enforcement is a larger point. The propanganda value of it is just icing on the cake for them.
Reeks of Stephen Miller.
So stripper blood and fear?
it's called KIDNAPPING, could I show you something in a paneled/windowless van?
for a country-bankrupting wanna be dictator