Republicans want a police state. Never forgive them. Masked armed men asking for papers ends with tyranny or at the point of another country’s gun.
Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley: "The last 2 weeks we as a law enforcement community have been receiving endless complaints about civil rights violations in our streets from US citizens. What we're hearing is they're being stopped in traffic stops or on the street with no cause and being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they are here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints as they fell victim to this while off duty. Every one of these individuals is a person of color ... it has to stop"
How many are black? Likely not many. If the vast majority of illegal immigrants are “brown” that’s who’ll be swept up
This is absurd. There is a positive correlation between higher education and voting Democrat. The MORE education you have, the more likely you are to vote D. Of course, your counter-argument is that colleges make people dumb and the real smart people are the ones who "do their own research," watch extensive YouTube videos, and have an honorary doctorate from Trump U.
Every paid journalist in the history of America will be interested to learn that, apparently, the First Amendment only applies to professionals. MAGA.
Similarly, tons of protesters are pissed that they still haven’t received their pay.
Impeach Soros!!
The reason Trump and Miller keep with the ridiculous paid protester stuff is because they need an organization (even a fake one) to be at war with to expand his power grab. Like Aunt Tifa. Like Tren de Aragua. Like Greenland.
Nobody needs to be paid to despise Trump and to show it.
No, I’m a protester, and I want my Soros/Auntie Tifa check!
Imagine voting for putin's tool for president and not changing your mind after seeing the results. Imagine being that pig headed.
WSJ editorial
For more than 75 years, the fondest dream of Russian strategy has been to divide Western Europe from the U.S. and break the NATO alliance. That is now a possibility as President Trump presses his campaign to capture Greenland no matter what the locals or its Denmark owner thinks.
It’s a good thing that no one was ever silly enough to suggest that Putin might have pee tapes and/or some other form(s) of blackmail against Trump.
Imagine voting for putin's tool for president and not changing your mind after seeing the results. Imagine being that pig headed.
WSJ editorial
For more than 75 years, the fondest dream of Russian strategy has been to divide Western Europe from the U.S. and break the NATO alliance. That is now a possibility as President Trump presses his campaign to capture Greenland no matter what the locals or its Denmark owner thinks.
Yeah. Jeffrey Blehar writes piece after piece over the years excoriating Democrats for their painful and obvious shortcomings, and his readership overwhelmingly loves it. He turns that same critical eye on Trump’s painful and obvious shortcomings and, well, you can imagine the results:
”The piece I wrote in reaction to the sordidness of it all has proven exactly as unpopular with readers as I expected it to be. … But I knew I didn’t have to respond to the naysayers; all I had to do was wait, and Trump himself would say or do something that would prove my argument beyond all rational doubt. (You work a gig long enough, you learn a few tricks.) And since Thursday, Trump has done this several times, as he pounds the table with ever more bilious rhetoric, demanding that the entire Western alliance allow him to extort Greenland from Denmark.”
“Who knows if Trump will actually go through with it; half of what he writes on Truth Social is bloviation, but the other half is deadly serious, and given this, the only safe thing to do is to take him at his word. But I have no time for those who blithely wave off this sort of wildly destructive behavior as ‘dealmaking.’ It is no such thing; it is outright megalomania. There is no other way, no more ‘neutral’ a term, to describe a president who now mutters about his personal right to ‘a sacred piece of Land’ …”
“Because yes, that’s where Trump is at now rhetorically, and if you didn’t see the tie-in coming from a mile away, you need to update your Unified Theory of Trump.”
”To paraphrase the verdict of Cormac McCarthy in Blood Meridian, what’s wrong with Donald Trump is wrong all the way through him.”
So that’s Blehar’s take in brief. I mean, I would think that a lot of this was something you could see more than a mile away. By the mid-1980s, the guy had provided a clear enough public picture of who he is, and it was a sad and alarming picture. In all the years since, a few ticks in the “pro” column have done nothing close to offsetting the snowballing accumulation in the “con” column.
As ever, the whole piece is worth reading.
Sounds like maybe a relatively sophisticated stating of the obvious?
... ”To paraphrase the verdict of Cormac McCarthy in Blood Meridian, what’s wrong with Donald Trump is wrong all the way through him.”...
Image a bully being protected by bodyguards since before the bully entered elementary school.
The problem is that Fred Trump hired bodyguards to protect his bully child from kids who would have beaten the krap out of little Donny in elementary school. Several good beatings would have solved many of the problems back in the early 1950s.
I never thought of this before, but bullies become experts on cowards (i.e., MOST people). Which then makes it easier to be a bully.
This is absurd. There is a positive correlation between higher education and voting Democrat. The MORE education you have, the more likely you are to vote D.
If Democrats were educated, they would vote Republican.
Just pulling that D lever blindly is prima facie evidence of lack of critical thinking.
Yes. What he “needs” and why he “needs” that are the key problems. Thanks to Greenland and Denmark (and NATO more broadly), the US has nearly unlimited military access to Greenland, a military base there, and assurances of additional openness to US military/strategic needs. But I guess the party line is that such a situation doesn’t keep the US as safe as demanding Greenland outright and potentially losing access to major portions of its military support elsewhere throughout Europe.
Regarding NATO:
No single person, or President, has done more for NATO than President Donald J. Trump. If I didn’t come along, there would be no NATO right now!!! It would have been in the ash heap of History. Sad, but TRUE!!! President DJT
Republicans want a police state. Never forgive them. Masked armed men asking for papers ends with tyranny or at the point of another country’s gun.
Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley: "The last 2 weeks we as a law enforcement community have been receiving endless complaints about civil rights violations in our streets from US citizens. What we're hearing is they're being stopped in traffic stops or on the street with no cause and being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they are here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints as they fell victim to this while off duty. Every one of these individuals is a person of color ... it has to stop"
This is the result of Trump paying ICE agents bounty hunter fees per person abducted. They are paid off-the-books, in cash, so that it does not have to be paid back, and the racist ICEes can continue Trump's "secret" ethnic cleansing campaign.
Image a bully being protected by bodyguards since before the bully entered elementary school.
The problem is that Fred Trump hired bodyguards to protect his bully child from kids who would have beaten the krap out of little Donny in elementary school. Several good beatings would have solved many of the problems back in the early 1950s.
I never thought of this before, but bullies become experts on cowards (i.e., MOST people). Which then makes it easier to be a bully.
It's like many bullies are. Make threats with their toady friends behind them. Trump's toadies as a child were adult ARMED bodyguards. Trump could launch an attack against any bully, even those backed by strong adults. "Touch the boy (Donny) and we will shoot you."
BTW: I don't believe Trump has ever punched anyone in his pathetic life. That would have revealed how physically incapable of defending himself he was.
Yeah. Jeffrey Blehar writes piece after piece over the years excoriating Democrats for their painful and …
On X, Frank J. Fleming makes a point similar to ones I’ve seen here and on social media over the years: ”People who don't understand Trump just focus on how bad he is. To really understand Trump, you have to focus on how bad everyone else is that made him the better option.”
I have long agreed, at least generally, more or less, about “how bad everyone else is.” I have long disagreed that he has ever been “the better option.” So I wouldn’t grant that point.
But for the sake of argument, I can see at work from another’s perspective about thinking in an individual general election that he is “the better option.”
But I believe that misses the point, because it forces us into a situation where he is the “better option,” when in fact, it seems clearer that one could, at best (again, granting a point for the sake of argument) refer to him as the second-best option — in cases where he really shouldn’t have been an option at all (i.e., the Republican Party never should have considered him a possibility as a standard-bearer).
In any case of considering him a “better option,” his party basically gets no good policies and/or actions they wouldn’t have gotten with a DeSantis or a Rubio, and for the most part even Haley.
A further issue is that they would have gotten those things without all of Trump’s worst policies and first-tier corruption and chaos.
But the more important thing is that they would have gotten those things without breaking Democratic norms, sowing additional division domestically, and dissolving trust internationally.
(for those who want to dismiss the importance of “Democratic norms”: the norms are a major reason you can’t just write a constitution, have elections, and automatically turn any country on the planet into a stable, functioning Democracy).
“You made us choose Trump” is incredibly weak reasoning from that perspective.
I think that a great majority of it can be described by this:
- Trump is a very bad (and incompetent) person.
- His supporters/voters are some combination of:
1) Similarly ethically and morally bad.
2) Dumb enough to believe that he has the ability to improve, or not make worse, virtually anything, including the economy.
3) Dumb and/or bad enough to think that whatever he MIGHT improve would ever counterbalance all that he would destroy.
A recent Quinnipiac survey reported that 53% of those polled thought the shooting unjustified (though the vast majority of Republicans said otherwise). It is by no means an outlier. A CNN poll said ICE is making American cities less safe. The same goes for a Wall Street Journal poll that found the effort to deport has gone too far. Missing in most of this is the understanding that the sides aren’t equal. The president has the legal authority to do what he is doing. Those trying to interfere with ICE’s actions don’t. If ICE is really the problem, why is there no crisis in red states? Mr. Frey clearly feels he is riding high. But there’s still the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, which gives the federal government authority over immigration. What’s more, Mr. Trump promised to enforce the immigration laws during his campaign, so he can claim a mandate.
What is Frey doing to interfere?
And that’s before you even get to the civil disobedience part.
A recent Quinnipiac survey reported that 53% of those polled thought the shooting unjustified (though the vast majority of Republicans said otherwise). It is by no means an outlier. A CNN poll said ICE is making American cities less safe. The same goes for a Wall Street Journal poll that found the effort to deport has gone too far. Missing in most of this is the understanding that the sides aren’t equal. The president has the legal authority to do what he is doing. Those trying to interfere with ICE’s actions don’t. If ICE is really the problem, why is there no crisis in red states? Mr. Frey clearly feels he is riding high. But there’s still the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, which gives the federal government authority over immigration. What’s more, Mr. Trump promised to enforce the immigration laws during his campaign, so he can claim a mandate.
If that’s a direct quote from them, it’s pretty shameful. Rough translation: If you campaign on something and win, you can implement it any way you want.
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