An Own Goal by Trump on immigration. He won on this issue promising to get rid of the worst or the worst. But he unleashed an army of storm trooper who acted with impunity and cruelty on non bad actors and USA citizens. Turned a win into a loss
Meanwhile Trump, his family, the MAL-administration, and their donors are lying nonstop, covering up the Trump-Epstein files, and breaking every law they can to fill their pockets. Ever wonder who the real criminals are?
I believe your comparison of Trump's ICE troops to Hitler's storm trooprs is close. I submit they are closer to Hitler's Brownshirts. Their real purpose is to create chaos and intimidation. It's right out of the "authoritarians playbook."
"The worst of the worst" was just another Trump lie. No one supports violent criminals- that's a MAGA talking point to rile up the base.
Trump convinced the GOP to kill the immigration reform bill in the spring of 2024. He has yet to offer any substitute that might offer sensible reform, and I suspect that's because Trump lives in a fantasy in which hordes of white men are lined up to immigrate.
I agree. Trump killed a bipartisan bill that should have been passed. I was making a tactical analysis. Of course he used the term “ worst of the worst” as rhetorical propaganda. There are actually really bad illegal immigrants and if he had screened an focused on them it would have been a political win. What he actually did has disgusted much of the country. Because it is disgusting
During the Republican Convention of 2024, I decided to see what they were saying and changed channels to have a look. The crowd were holding signs that said "Mass Deportation Now". As an immigrant rights activist for years, I felt physically sick and had to click away. I wanted to holler at the TV, "If you all knew what mass deportation would mean for our country, you wouldn't be holding those signs." I am very very sad to have been proved right. Any child in detention is one child too many. Any death in detention is one death too many.
To which.I would add, any young girl impregnated by rape in an ICE prison is one too many. This IS happening, just as it did in the kiddie concentration camps during Trump's first term.
Just a reminder: Stephen Miller's great-great grandparents came to this country as asylum seekers: Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. They spoke no English.
We must broadcast this always and everywhere.
PS Many of the original white settlers here were also asylum seekers from religious persecution back in Europe. Let's not forget that either.
“Trump cannot govern; Republicans will not govern.”
Bingo! EXACTLY right! That would be an EXCELLENT Democrat Campaign slogan!
“Trump and the Republicans are in a political death spiral….”
We can only hope! I am reticent to underestimate the ignorance/stupidity of the voting public. HOW could they voted these obvious and destructive Clowns into office in the first place, let alone, AGAIN?!
The propaganda machines of Faux Noise, and many social media sites have been misinforming and uneducating the public for decades. A lot of it stuck, and the people voted accordingly.
Democrats need to constantly remind Americans of the many instances of Trump’s total ineptitude, e.g. Covid mismanagement, flawed Taliban Peace Treaty that freed the Abbey Gate suicide bomber, ICE murders and concentration camps, $4 per gallon gasoline, rising inflation and unemployment, measles epidemics, the White House East Wing demolition etc. There should be no let up!
There's enough for new billboards every day. We can't forget Trump's destruction of environmental protections and insistence on making human-caused climate change worse by demanding more use of coal, oil, and natural gas.
Considering that the legacy media has either been bought or threatened into submission, you are not likely to see reports of pushback. Read The Guardian, The Contrarian, Robert Reich, Heather Cox Richardson, Dan Rather's Steady essays and others, and watch PBS and the BBC. There are sources that are accurate.
This: "Democrats falling over themselves to applaud the “character” of an election denier with “anger” issues (as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) observed) beggars belief." I am unsurprised. After all, they voted unanimously for L'il Marco for the same reason. I also expect the Dems to cave on their demands for reforms of ICE in the next 48 hours.
What were those Americans thinking when they voted for Don the Con?!? He's been preaching hatred, bigotry, xenophobia and racism his entire adult life, going back to the early 70s when the US government sued him and his father for refusing to rent to African-Americans; and also when he said that the "Central Park Five" should be put to death-- and he stuck to that even after they were clearly proven innocent!
Did they think that Trump was only fooling during the campaign? Gimme a break. But at least some of those numbskulls are turning on him.
Let's not forget the millions of lazy or apathetic citizens who didn't vote at all. Their refusal to do their civic duty and participate in the election is as much to blame for Trump being reelected as those stupid enough to vote for him.
Remember George Bernard Shaw condesendingly preaching to the British public "Don't worry about Mr. Hitler!"? The gist of his remarks was that the allies had abused Germsny after the treaty of Versailles (true) and that Hitler was finally restoring their national pride. And if he was doing so by advocating ethnic cleansing and invading neighboring countries? Oh hush,he won't actually do it. Now, that is exactly the same crap.we've been hearing from the media and the Dems in congress since 2016, and even more mind bogglingly in 2024, four years after Trump.had shown us exactly what he was capable of doing when he led a violent insurrection. Denial in not just a river in Egypt.
But most are not Ivan. Which mostly confirms my assumption that they are totally stupid or totally cruel and not able to feel any emphaty for other human beings .
Who are the 5% of Democrats xenophobic and depraved enough to approve of this illegal insanity, Fetterman voters?!? (In other words, people who aren't actually Democrats.)
I don't think we've even gotten near the point where we see the full effects of Miller's xenophobic policy. IMO, when Trump's gone, Miller's mass deportations will probably impact the number of people willing to come here, legally or illegally, from Latin America for years. It's those people who are willing to do jobs native-born Americans don't want to do, and do those jobs for less $. We may be (literally) paying for this in terms of higher prices for years. So not only is this a Trump own goal, Miller scored a goal against his own team that'll be a problem for them for years.
"Who are the 5% of Democrats xenophobic and depraved enough to approve of this illegal insanity, Fetterman voters?!? (In other words, people who aren't actually Democrats.)"
We obviousl didn't do enough housecleaning when we sorted out Manchin and Sinema.
Democrats MUST not cave on anything that smacks of Trumpism. Aligning themselves (and us) with murderers, pedophiles, healthcare thieves, gestapo agents, election riggers, Constitution ignorers, war mongers and voting-right deniers and those who support them put us in the same category as all the hypocritical abettors of the Felon's cruel and sadistic insanity.
So many excellent points here! The statistics don’t lie. This is part of if not the main reason why No Kings 3.0 will be bigger and better ever. Yup, the GOP has clearly lost this issue. When most Americans see what is happening to immigrants they realize if they don’t do what is solidly right they could be next. They realize too much presidential power could be the end of our democracy as we know it.
When most Americans see what is happening to immigrants and the country as a whole is enough to drive many to the No Kings protests. May they be immense and peaceful. Public opinion may be slow, though in the end, it's effective.
Thank you for mentioning the great work of PRRI. Dr. Jones and his team are doing amazing work. And we do not want a thing to do with the weapons and tactics of ICE and CBP, nor the moral insanity of for-profit concentration camps.
Stories of Trump's self dealing keeps expanding. Won't it be ironic if the crimes that finally bring down the House of Trump are insider trading around his self-dealing criminal behavior. Not pedophilia, not tariffs, not DOGE, not "It's Going to be Wild" RFK Jr, not a big pile of Constitutional violations, not his in your face graft, not ICE murders, not the murder of alleged drug runners in boats, not decapitation of foreign leaders and so forth. It's like mobsters of yore who never paid for their murders but went to prison for tax evasion. Whatever it takes, the American People are abandoning Trump/MAGA in droves. Retribution is coming. A MASSIVE No Kings rally this weekend will keep the ball rolling.
Fetterman did, however, withdraw his vote for the SAVE ACT after a beating in the Philadelphia Inquirer and a dismal rating on the job he’s doing. I hope his wife read him the riot act. As far as I remember from his campaign, she was a homeless immigrant when he met her.
Not sure Fetterman will even run again. But hey, go easy on the circular firing squad. We don't need self-inflicted wounds as we go into the most critical midterm election in our history.
I will believe that Trump & "Republicans" are in a "death spiral" when some of those Toadies running for reelection publicly criticize the WH Crime Boss in their reelection campaigns. The MAGA HOWLER MONKEYS may be in the minority but they are still in control and will be as long as the Crime Boss is in the WH.
Those percentages are too high and are indicative of the truly deep rooted racism in this country.
RemoveTheRegime has noted that the number of kidnapped immigrants in the concentration camps across Our Country now surpasses the numbers in the Nazi Concentration Camps Pre 1939.
An Own Goal by Trump on immigration. He won on this issue promising to get rid of the worst or the worst. But he unleashed an army of storm trooper who acted with impunity and cruelty on non bad actors and USA citizens. Turned a win into a loss
Meanwhile Trump, his family, the MAL-administration, and their donors are lying nonstop, covering up the Trump-Epstein files, and breaking every law they can to fill their pockets. Ever wonder who the real criminals are?
I believe your comparison of Trump's ICE troops to Hitler's storm trooprs is close. I submit they are closer to Hitler's Brownshirts. Their real purpose is to create chaos and intimidation. It's right out of the "authoritarians playbook."
Precisely
"The worst of the worst" was just another Trump lie. No one supports violent criminals- that's a MAGA talking point to rile up the base.
Trump convinced the GOP to kill the immigration reform bill in the spring of 2024. He has yet to offer any substitute that might offer sensible reform, and I suspect that's because Trump lives in a fantasy in which hordes of white men are lined up to immigrate.
I agree. Trump killed a bipartisan bill that should have been passed. I was making a tactical analysis. Of course he used the term “ worst of the worst” as rhetorical propaganda. There are actually really bad illegal immigrants and if he had screened an focused on them it would have been a political win. What he actually did has disgusted much of the country. Because it is disgusting
During the Republican Convention of 2024, I decided to see what they were saying and changed channels to have a look. The crowd were holding signs that said "Mass Deportation Now". As an immigrant rights activist for years, I felt physically sick and had to click away. I wanted to holler at the TV, "If you all knew what mass deportation would mean for our country, you wouldn't be holding those signs." I am very very sad to have been proved right. Any child in detention is one child too many. Any death in detention is one death too many.
To which.I would add, any young girl impregnated by rape in an ICE prison is one too many. This IS happening, just as it did in the kiddie concentration camps during Trump's first term.
Sue yes! And the pregnant women who are denied sufficient nutritious food, water, and medical attention, and sometimes kept shackled.
Just a reminder: Stephen Miller's great-great grandparents came to this country as asylum seekers: Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. They spoke no English.
We must broadcast this always and everywhere.
PS Many of the original white settlers here were also asylum seekers from religious persecution back in Europe. Let's not forget that either.
“Trump cannot govern; Republicans will not govern.”
Bingo! EXACTLY right! That would be an EXCELLENT Democrat Campaign slogan!
“Trump and the Republicans are in a political death spiral….”
We can only hope! I am reticent to underestimate the ignorance/stupidity of the voting public. HOW could they voted these obvious and destructive Clowns into office in the first place, let alone, AGAIN?!
The propaganda machines of Faux Noise, and many social media sites have been misinforming and uneducating the public for decades. A lot of it stuck, and the people voted accordingly.
Democrats need to constantly remind Americans of the many instances of Trump’s total ineptitude, e.g. Covid mismanagement, flawed Taliban Peace Treaty that freed the Abbey Gate suicide bomber, ICE murders and concentration camps, $4 per gallon gasoline, rising inflation and unemployment, measles epidemics, the White House East Wing demolition etc. There should be no let up!
There's enough for new billboards every day. We can't forget Trump's destruction of environmental protections and insistence on making human-caused climate change worse by demanding more use of coal, oil, and natural gas.
Trump is the gift that keeps on giving - his total ineptitude continues to provide reasons why he should never be in charge of anything.
Amen to that. I wouldn't let him walk my dog.
Or, the grift that keeps on taking
Now that is a lot closer to the mark!
I am in the mid-Atlantic, and see no push-back from Dems over the many lies pushed by the R's
Considering that the legacy media has either been bought or threatened into submission, you are not likely to see reports of pushback. Read The Guardian, The Contrarian, Robert Reich, Heather Cox Richardson, Dan Rather's Steady essays and others, and watch PBS and the BBC. There are sources that are accurate.
This: "Democrats falling over themselves to applaud the “character” of an election denier with “anger” issues (as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) observed) beggars belief." I am unsurprised. After all, they voted unanimously for L'il Marco for the same reason. I also expect the Dems to cave on their demands for reforms of ICE in the next 48 hours.
I bet they will not cave. Hope I’m correct. And name those specifically who you think will cave.
What were those Americans thinking when they voted for Don the Con?!? He's been preaching hatred, bigotry, xenophobia and racism his entire adult life, going back to the early 70s when the US government sued him and his father for refusing to rent to African-Americans; and also when he said that the "Central Park Five" should be put to death-- and he stuck to that even after they were clearly proven innocent!
Did they think that Trump was only fooling during the campaign? Gimme a break. But at least some of those numbskulls are turning on him.
That very bigotry xenophobia and racism is why MAGA voted for him. They got exactly the president they wanted.
And too many undecided voters were afraid of having a black woman as a president.
Let's not forget the millions of lazy or apathetic citizens who didn't vote at all. Their refusal to do their civic duty and participate in the election is as much to blame for Trump being reelected as those stupid enough to vote for him.
Remember George Bernard Shaw condesendingly preaching to the British public "Don't worry about Mr. Hitler!"? The gist of his remarks was that the allies had abused Germsny after the treaty of Versailles (true) and that Hitler was finally restoring their national pride. And if he was doing so by advocating ethnic cleansing and invading neighboring countries? Oh hush,he won't actually do it. Now, that is exactly the same crap.we've been hearing from the media and the Dems in congress since 2016, and even more mind bogglingly in 2024, four years after Trump.had shown us exactly what he was capable of doing when he led a violent insurrection. Denial in not just a river in Egypt.
But most are not Ivan. Which mostly confirms my assumption that they are totally stupid or totally cruel and not able to feel any emphaty for other human beings .
Some voter support Trump's same positions in their own thinking. They are only happy to vote for him.
Who are the 5% of Democrats xenophobic and depraved enough to approve of this illegal insanity, Fetterman voters?!? (In other words, people who aren't actually Democrats.)
I don't think we've even gotten near the point where we see the full effects of Miller's xenophobic policy. IMO, when Trump's gone, Miller's mass deportations will probably impact the number of people willing to come here, legally or illegally, from Latin America for years. It's those people who are willing to do jobs native-born Americans don't want to do, and do those jobs for less $. We may be (literally) paying for this in terms of higher prices for years. So not only is this a Trump own goal, Miller scored a goal against his own team that'll be a problem for them for years.
Fetterman was running against Oz. Fetterman was a Pennsylvanian, Oz was not. Did we know he was a turncoat? Believe me. PENNSYLVANIA IS PISSED!
"Who are the 5% of Democrats xenophobic and depraved enough to approve of this illegal insanity, Fetterman voters?!? (In other words, people who aren't actually Democrats.)"
We obviousl didn't do enough housecleaning when we sorted out Manchin and Sinema.
Democrats MUST not cave on anything that smacks of Trumpism. Aligning themselves (and us) with murderers, pedophiles, healthcare thieves, gestapo agents, election riggers, Constitution ignorers, war mongers and voting-right deniers and those who support them put us in the same category as all the hypocritical abettors of the Felon's cruel and sadistic insanity.
So many excellent points here! The statistics don’t lie. This is part of if not the main reason why No Kings 3.0 will be bigger and better ever. Yup, the GOP has clearly lost this issue. When most Americans see what is happening to immigrants they realize if they don’t do what is solidly right they could be next. They realize too much presidential power could be the end of our democracy as we know it.
When most Americans see what is happening to immigrants and the country as a whole is enough to drive many to the No Kings protests. May they be immense and peaceful. Public opinion may be slow, though in the end, it's effective.
Thank you for mentioning the great work of PRRI. Dr. Jones and his team are doing amazing work. And we do not want a thing to do with the weapons and tactics of ICE and CBP, nor the moral insanity of for-profit concentration camps.
Stories of Trump's self dealing keeps expanding. Won't it be ironic if the crimes that finally bring down the House of Trump are insider trading around his self-dealing criminal behavior. Not pedophilia, not tariffs, not DOGE, not "It's Going to be Wild" RFK Jr, not a big pile of Constitutional violations, not his in your face graft, not ICE murders, not the murder of alleged drug runners in boats, not decapitation of foreign leaders and so forth. It's like mobsters of yore who never paid for their murders but went to prison for tax evasion. Whatever it takes, the American People are abandoning Trump/MAGA in droves. Retribution is coming. A MASSIVE No Kings rally this weekend will keep the ball rolling.
At this point, almost anything that brings the Trump regime to a halt would be of benefit.
Not sure Fetterman even counts any more but these “democrats” voted to confirm Markwayne:
• John Fetterman (Pennsylvania)
• Martin Heinrich (New Mexico)
Heinrich needs to be added to the list of “democrats” to be ousted at the earliest opportunity.
https://chatgpt.com/s/t_69c52570a538819198b1f214adb1d891
Fetterman did, however, withdraw his vote for the SAVE ACT after a beating in the Philadelphia Inquirer and a dismal rating on the job he’s doing. I hope his wife read him the riot act. As far as I remember from his campaign, she was a homeless immigrant when he met her.
Not sure Fetterman will even run again. But hey, go easy on the circular firing squad. We don't need self-inflicted wounds as we go into the most critical midterm election in our history.
I will believe that Trump & "Republicans" are in a "death spiral" when some of those Toadies running for reelection publicly criticize the WH Crime Boss in their reelection campaigns. The MAGA HOWLER MONKEYS may be in the minority but they are still in control and will be as long as the Crime Boss is in the WH.
Those percentages are too high and are indicative of the truly deep rooted racism in this country.
RemoveTheRegime has noted that the number of kidnapped immigrants in the concentration camps across Our Country now surpasses the numbers in the Nazi Concentration Camps Pre 1939.
Speaks volumes.
One Big Ugly Bill = OBUB. How did our side miss the opportunity to popularize THAT nomenclature?