Every time this president attacks immigrants, Democrats should counterattack with “Epstein." Every time he hollers “sedition,” Democrats should holler “Epstein." Every time he accuses someone of fake news or sues for libel, Democrats should demand “Epstein.” Every time he shout a vulgar insult to anyone, Democrats should “Where are the Pedophile Files?” Where are the Epstein files? Where are the boat videos? Where are the tax returns? Where is the Resolute Desk?
Because all the immigration cruelty, all the lies, all the avoidance of truth, these are all deflection. Deflection from his hollowness and total unfitness for office.
Unfortunately the Dems aren't smart enough to see this as an effective approach. I suggested that, during the campaign, they should have run ads at least once a day showing the Jan 6 video. The other thing they might do is holding the media's feet to the fire. It seems to work for Trump. The media capitulates to Trump because he is relentless. Even when they push back they rarely stay with it.
Run ads that ask where were her colleagues when Trump said "quiet piggy" to Catherine Lucey. The sleazy, demented, nastiness of this comment is actually much worse than his "grab 'em by the..." comment of his. Did a single one of them speak up? If they did I missed it.
They should constantly badger Trump about why he doesn't fulfill his challenge to Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to take an IQ (dementia) test with him. They've both accepted and now we don't hear a word from him...don't let him get away with it, hammer him with it!
There are innumerable examples of these incidents that the media and the Dems just let him slide on. Forget your "sternly worded" letters, take a page from his playbook and hammer him with his most embarrassing moments.
You are so right. Every time he hurls a slur or an accusation or a lie, he should be stopped cold. This is what the media should have been doing starting in 2015. He constantly 'filibusters' anyone who tries to question him; his interlocutors must cut him short. They're too polite (and believe me, usually I'm a big believer in politeness) and deferential. He's never learned to listen, never been made to listen. No one stands up to him in any way. Not even foreign leaders who should have little to fear from him. How I'd love to see Jasmine Crockett take him on.
What a masterful application of distraction! Investigation of that would require either (A) DOJ investigation or (B) congressional hearings. Neither is possible without tRump's support. Homan has passed the first two gates to the inner sanction of the tRump club:
1. Will you lie for me? check
2. Will you break the law for me? check
3. Will you go to jail for me? TBD
4. Are you totally loyal to me above all else including the Constitution? so far, check.
Trump is revealing the fundamental problem of democracy. That is, once an autocratic leader is elected, it is impossible to stop its working till next election and by then much damage will be done.
If there is a next election. If Trump gets desperate, he will almost certainly find an excuse to cancel the 2026 election, and his toadies in Congress and on the Supreme Court will let him do it.
Carole, I am so glad that you linked the American Nazi Stephen (aka Adolph Eichmann) Miller to the "final solution." His evil predecessor had a pathological hatred of Jews that resulted in millions being murdered during the WW2 Holocaust.
Miller has a pathological hatred of brown people and doesn't care if the dragnet snares American citizens or those who are legally in this country as long as he meets his arbitrary quota. He was aided and abetted by an insane ruling by the SCOTUS this year that allows agents to target people due to "apparent ethnicity," speaking Spanish or hanging out at a carwash. Brett Kavanaugh's concurrence is the reason these illegal actions by ICE are called "Kavanaugh stops."
Referring to Eichmann, one of his former aids stated that "He gave no indication of any human feeling toward these people (Jews). He was not immoral: he was amoral and completely ice-cold in his attitude." Replacing "Jews" with "brown people" in this comment sure does fit Herr Miller, doesn't it?
Carole Langston: How dare she. But the ICE people are nothing but unhinged BOUNTY HUNTERS--the do it with such zeal . . . my guess is they get paid for each brown person they "catch."
It's horribly racist, vile, deeply immoral and destructive on every level. The fact that for-profit prisons are making a killing to torture our neighbors for nothing- except the color of their skin and a broken immigration policy with little-to-no pathways to citizenship- should enrage every person with any moral fiber in the country.
Dems also need to step up bold and courageous language....still being timid. We cannot afford for people to see soldiers in the city streets as normal. That's the hope of Miller and others. They also hope that exhaustion will set in and we will give up....that would be truly unforgiveable. Thanks for keeping this front and center. Dems would do well to repeat daily that Felon#47 is pardoning major criminals faster than any other group!!!
It would be better if local uniformed law enforcement stepped up to arrest and incarcerate the invaders. Create a real news story of the Feds fighting against the law, not just protesters.
In more than a thousand communities, ICE has contracts with local law enforcement to help them. They are using some of their monstrous budget to coopt local law enforcement. "Immigrants" are only the beginning.
This has been the argument of Christopher Armitage for some time now. Let the blue state AGs begin aggressive prosecutions of ICE agents when they break state laws. Presidential pardons won’t help these miscreants if they’re locked up in a state penitentiary for twenty years.
Those PRRI reports are telling! Picking up criminals is not really their objective they just want to go after people they don’t like or don’t want to be here. Democrats should shine a light on the wasted money. It’s time to call bs where it is. So much more can be done to fix this issue.
So what if they're armed? Can you imagine the kerfuffle that would erupt across the nation were bullets started to fly against 'we the people'? Protests need to continue in support of democracy.
Trump, MAGA and the compliant GOP are burying themselves with hateful, racist and fascist tactics. The stench is overwhelming. Whether ICE is tormenting Hispanic and Black communities or whether Hegseth's Dept of Murder is wantonly killing defenseless people in the Caribbean, Trump seems joyfully dragging America through the mud into our collective shame. Know for a certainty, Donald Trump, the People are bring Justice for to you soon!
Maybe we should turn the tables. Have masked men chase down white kids and force them into waiting vehicles. THEN white republicans will understand the vileness of what's going on.
Would not work. Those targeted MAGA white Republicans would not understand the vileness against the brown populations that that they hate, they would only understand their victimhood. Turning the tables does not work against people who are actively bigoted.
Amen, Ms. Rubin. The cruelty and racism, not to mention incompetence, of these raids are apparently features, not bugs, to Trump, Miller, and the others.
Seeing his ICE goons terrorizing brown people is no bug to The Orange Monster. He is more likely to have them double down than he is to order restraint. As his dementing illness make him go ever more rigid in his thinking, he will draw more and more wrong conclusions from the polls. I hope I am wrong, but there seems to be an air of inevitably to his mean stupidity.
Forget about getting rid of Kristie Noem (though it would be great to kick her out of gov't too). We need to shout out, "Fire Stephen Miller!" He is the immoral person pushing these tactics.
A related issue that emerges from the priorities of the regime is that the normal purpose of law enforcement is de-emphasized. I suspect that this is considered a feature, not a bug, given the rhetoric and the nature of the pardons.
The normal purpose of law-enforcement is to enforce commonly – agreed to laws. Trump believes law-enforcement is to enforce *his* laws, regardless of what they may be.
When will pundits start saying out loud what we're all seeing: that ICE buildup is not ultimately aimed st immigrants. It's aimed at all of us. Not only are they kidnapping US citizens, and detaining them for hours to days in spite of proof of citizenship. DHS/ICE is spending millions paying local police and sheriffs to help them. This is only incidentally about immigrants. This is about building a domestic police network accountable to no one, and using it against all of us. It's no accident that citizens and media have been among the targets in "immigration" raids. It's only the first step.
Trump's corrupt clown caravan careens catestrophically. Trump pardons drug kingpin while murdering the defenseless & calling for execution of decorated vets. War crimes Kegseth declares exoneration for any & all of his crimes...
I still want to know about Tom Homan and the $50,000. In a normal news world, this would have been supported or debunked by now.
Every time this president attacks immigrants, Democrats should counterattack with “Epstein." Every time he hollers “sedition,” Democrats should holler “Epstein." Every time he accuses someone of fake news or sues for libel, Democrats should demand “Epstein.” Every time he shout a vulgar insult to anyone, Democrats should “Where are the Pedophile Files?” Where are the Epstein files? Where are the boat videos? Where are the tax returns? Where is the Resolute Desk?
Because all the immigration cruelty, all the lies, all the avoidance of truth, these are all deflection. Deflection from his hollowness and total unfitness for office.
THIS!!!
Unfortunately the Dems aren't smart enough to see this as an effective approach. I suggested that, during the campaign, they should have run ads at least once a day showing the Jan 6 video. The other thing they might do is holding the media's feet to the fire. It seems to work for Trump. The media capitulates to Trump because he is relentless. Even when they push back they rarely stay with it.
Run ads that ask where were her colleagues when Trump said "quiet piggy" to Catherine Lucey. The sleazy, demented, nastiness of this comment is actually much worse than his "grab 'em by the..." comment of his. Did a single one of them speak up? If they did I missed it.
They should constantly badger Trump about why he doesn't fulfill his challenge to Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to take an IQ (dementia) test with him. They've both accepted and now we don't hear a word from him...don't let him get away with it, hammer him with it!
There are innumerable examples of these incidents that the media and the Dems just let him slide on. Forget your "sternly worded" letters, take a page from his playbook and hammer him with his most embarrassing moments.
You are so right. Every time he hurls a slur or an accusation or a lie, he should be stopped cold. This is what the media should have been doing starting in 2015. He constantly 'filibusters' anyone who tries to question him; his interlocutors must cut him short. They're too polite (and believe me, usually I'm a big believer in politeness) and deferential. He's never learned to listen, never been made to listen. No one stands up to him in any way. Not even foreign leaders who should have little to fear from him. How I'd love to see Jasmine Crockett take him on.
What a masterful application of distraction! Investigation of that would require either (A) DOJ investigation or (B) congressional hearings. Neither is possible without tRump's support. Homan has passed the first two gates to the inner sanction of the tRump club:
1. Will you lie for me? check
2. Will you break the law for me? check
3. Will you go to jail for me? TBD
4. Are you totally loyal to me above all else including the Constitution? so far, check.
Trump is revealing the fundamental problem of democracy. That is, once an autocratic leader is elected, it is impossible to stop its working till next election and by then much damage will be done.
"till the next election"
If there is a next election. If Trump gets desperate, he will almost certainly find an excuse to cancel the 2026 election, and his toadies in Congress and on the Supreme Court will let him do it.
I doubt it. There’s more of “us” than “them”!
Miami has a newly elected Democrat Mayor. The 1st in 30 years. Miami will be next. Miller is pushing harder on his "final solution ".
Carole, I am so glad that you linked the American Nazi Stephen (aka Adolph Eichmann) Miller to the "final solution." His evil predecessor had a pathological hatred of Jews that resulted in millions being murdered during the WW2 Holocaust.
Miller has a pathological hatred of brown people and doesn't care if the dragnet snares American citizens or those who are legally in this country as long as he meets his arbitrary quota. He was aided and abetted by an insane ruling by the SCOTUS this year that allows agents to target people due to "apparent ethnicity," speaking Spanish or hanging out at a carwash. Brett Kavanaugh's concurrence is the reason these illegal actions by ICE are called "Kavanaugh stops."
Referring to Eichmann, one of his former aids stated that "He gave no indication of any human feeling toward these people (Jews). He was not immoral: he was amoral and completely ice-cold in his attitude." Replacing "Jews" with "brown people" in this comment sure does fit Herr Miller, doesn't it?
It's not that he doesn't care if his invasions hurt citizens. It's that he WANTS them to. He wants all of us afraid and compliant.
Yes, Celia, with this gaggle of goons, cruelty and stoking fear is the point. However, we will not give in.
And it supposedly stems from being rejected by a Young Mexican lady, who had dated him. Couldn't move on? It is so puerile psychologically.
Insiders claim he gets all G'd up over the thought of bombing Mexico. Welcome to WTF USA.
Carole Langston: How dare she. But the ICE people are nothing but unhinged BOUNTY HUNTERS--the do it with such zeal . . . my guess is they get paid for each brown person they "catch."
Albuquerque just re-elected Tim Keller. His opponent, Darren White would have invited ICE to town so he could fill a Coyote Concentration Camp.
Great to know. Thanks, nmgirl! 🌶️
It's horribly racist, vile, deeply immoral and destructive on every level. The fact that for-profit prisons are making a killing to torture our neighbors for nothing- except the color of their skin and a broken immigration policy with little-to-no pathways to citizenship- should enrage every person with any moral fiber in the country.
Thank you, Jen.
I think we can guess which candidate receives more donations from the for-profit prison business.
Agreed. C'mon Dems, get out there!!! We need another mass protest about the cruelty and BS of Trump's "policies"
Dems also need to step up bold and courageous language....still being timid. We cannot afford for people to see soldiers in the city streets as normal. That's the hope of Miller and others. They also hope that exhaustion will set in and we will give up....that would be truly unforgiveable. Thanks for keeping this front and center. Dems would do well to repeat daily that Felon#47 is pardoning major criminals faster than any other group!!!
It would be better if local uniformed law enforcement stepped up to arrest and incarcerate the invaders. Create a real news story of the Feds fighting against the law, not just protesters.
In more than a thousand communities, ICE has contracts with local law enforcement to help them. They are using some of their monstrous budget to coopt local law enforcement. "Immigrants" are only the beginning.
Unfortunately, a little bribe and kickback goes a long way in a hyper-capitalist transactional-only culture like ours.
Our county law enforcement gets nothing, as far as I know, than "prestige."
This has been the argument of Christopher Armitage for some time now. Let the blue state AGs begin aggressive prosecutions of ICE agents when they break state laws. Presidential pardons won’t help these miscreants if they’re locked up in a state penitentiary for twenty years.
Those PRRI reports are telling! Picking up criminals is not really their objective they just want to go after people they don’t like or don’t want to be here. Democrats should shine a light on the wasted money. It’s time to call bs where it is. So much more can be done to fix this issue.
Congress and supreme court could put an end to all of this immediately. Instead, they either do nothing or abet the Criminal in Chief.
Republicans MUST be blamed loudly and repeatedly!
More? Like what? They are armed.
So what if they're armed? Can you imagine the kerfuffle that would erupt across the nation were bullets started to fly against 'we the people'? Protests need to continue in support of democracy.
“the Trump regime invades yet another American city”…..
Think about THAT statement! What OTHER President does that?! Only one that is the ENEMY of the people!
OUT with him…AND his enablers! Vote Blue! It’s the only way out of this mess!
Trump, MAGA and the compliant GOP are burying themselves with hateful, racist and fascist tactics. The stench is overwhelming. Whether ICE is tormenting Hispanic and Black communities or whether Hegseth's Dept of Murder is wantonly killing defenseless people in the Caribbean, Trump seems joyfully dragging America through the mud into our collective shame. Know for a certainty, Donald Trump, the People are bring Justice for to you soon!
this explains hitler and nazism so clearly. these people would put the immigrants in concentration camps and crematoriums if they could .....
That video of the young woman being chased is appalling.
There is no genuine reason for ICE agents to be masked. They must be. required to display their ID's
Maybe we should turn the tables. Have masked men chase down white kids and force them into waiting vehicles. THEN white republicans will understand the vileness of what's going on.
Would not work. Those targeted MAGA white Republicans would not understand the vileness against the brown populations that that they hate, they would only understand their victimhood. Turning the tables does not work against people who are actively bigoted.
Amen, Ms. Rubin. The cruelty and racism, not to mention incompetence, of these raids are apparently features, not bugs, to Trump, Miller, and the others.
The cruelty and racism yes, the incompetency, not so much. The incompetency is apparently what is landing Christe Noem in such hot water with DT.
Don Kennedy: That's what they get when their criteria for excellence is a Hollywood casting call.
Seeing his ICE goons terrorizing brown people is no bug to The Orange Monster. He is more likely to have them double down than he is to order restraint. As his dementing illness make him go ever more rigid in his thinking, he will draw more and more wrong conclusions from the polls. I hope I am wrong, but there seems to be an air of inevitably to his mean stupidity.
Forget about getting rid of Kristie Noem (though it would be great to kick her out of gov't too). We need to shout out, "Fire Stephen Miller!" He is the immoral person pushing these tactics.
Miller is the voice. There are plenty of receptive ears.
Why limit yourself? Out with the lot of these louts, and start at the top.
A related issue that emerges from the priorities of the regime is that the normal purpose of law enforcement is de-emphasized. I suspect that this is considered a feature, not a bug, given the rhetoric and the nature of the pardons.
The normal purpose of law-enforcement is to enforce commonly – agreed to laws. Trump believes law-enforcement is to enforce *his* laws, regardless of what they may be.
"People who wear masks cannot be trusted." -- Inigo Montoya
When will pundits start saying out loud what we're all seeing: that ICE buildup is not ultimately aimed st immigrants. It's aimed at all of us. Not only are they kidnapping US citizens, and detaining them for hours to days in spite of proof of citizenship. DHS/ICE is spending millions paying local police and sheriffs to help them. This is only incidentally about immigrants. This is about building a domestic police network accountable to no one, and using it against all of us. It's no accident that citizens and media have been among the targets in "immigration" raids. It's only the first step.
Trump's corrupt clown caravan careens catestrophically. Trump pardons drug kingpin while murdering the defenseless & calling for execution of decorated vets. War crimes Kegseth declares exoneration for any & all of his crimes...
Provoking internal threats by labelling critics as traitors & immigrants or naturalized citizens as “garbage”. Why aren't you grateful? https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/trump-says-that-you-are-the-problem?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Resist the fraudster authoritarians. #VoteBlue!