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I uhh.
I think the “boring” part is over.
Yeah it’s just full on dystopia
So let me know when you want to organize international brigades. John brown clubs are welcome to connect with me.
Asking this in public makes you look like a fool.
Not really , at one point or another you need to normalize it. Also doxxing me would be difficult.
This is wild fucking times, civil war is coming.
Yeah send me the meme bro, i dont see the muricans getting their guns yet, they have to be starving
They’re gonna be at the Canadian border blocking aid from entering in through Montana to reach the starving Wyomingans.
So he visited him and then what…. Back into the cell? They didn’t take him right then and there?
I had the same thought, this is so peak lib.
You’re there with the guy, and you have a court ruling saying facilitate his return. Do that, by cuffing him to yourself, and demanding they let you both walk away. El Salvador don’t want heat from abducting a US statesman.
But no, this is just a photo op it seems.
Right, you the hero would cuff yourself to Garcia. Then the guards would simply stop you (possibly before you’d even manage to do it), unlock or cut the handcuffs if needed, forbid you from entering the country ever again if not outright prosecute you, and possibly put Garcia under even stricter control and isolation, to, you know, prevent having people try to get him out.
Because realistically considering the consequences is… liberal.
You know Trump would absolutely tell the El Salvadorans to keep him out of spite. He’d have been fucked.
You are right. Please pm me your name and address and if you are ever deported to a torture camp in a foreign country I will let all senators know that you don’t want them to visit and will only accept help that meets lemmy.ml fever dream standards.
They might think this is edgy but it’s actually very damaging to the US. Not only will no other country ever take this administration seriously, but if the government breaks their own laws, then other countries will also feel comfortable breaking laws
Gotta say, detaining a sitting US senator would be a hell of an escalation.
I think they mean Garcia isn’t coming back, not the Senator.
As is evident in damn near every Trump social media post, they’re not big on things like clarity in writing, grammar, proper use of capitalization, correct punctuation or things as simple as a fucking paragraph.
America is scary
They want people to be scared and not fight back. We have strength in numbers and they know it.
Nice one. When is the fighting back part going to happen?
They mobilised 5 million people for a protest recently. 5th largest protest in america: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protests_and_demonstrations_in_the_United_States_by_size
Nice one. When’s the actual fighting back going to happen?
Depends on your definition of fighting back.
Are all Republicans this childish and petty?
Edit: And this is the official White House account as well.
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They’re actually not.
A lot of them are, and definitely the ones online 24/7.
But trump having the actual official White House communicate like this does add up and will hurt Republican votes.
trump isoving to fast and it’s what’s gonna end up stopping it. It’s why I hate when people act like trump is the problem, if he died today Vance takes over and they do the same evil shit, just smarter about it
While not the problem, Trump is still a problem. Vance doesn’t command the loyalty of the cult in the same way that Trump does. His closest successor in that regard is Musk.
If trump dies in office he doesn’t have to have cult backing.
But he is more conservative than HW, and HW got the win after Reagan.
Vance was groomed to lead this movement he even got set up with his wife by the “Tiger Mom” at Yale and then she got the wife SC clerkships.
People are underestimating Vance just like they did trump
Hillary pushed him to run because she thought he’d be the worst, and it backfired spectacularly. Don’t assume Vance can’t grab the reigns when crazier shit is literally happening as I type this.
Childish and petty? Or “winning”?
I feel like a corner piece of the puzzle of MAGA is feeling like some how sending a brown Maryland father to El Salvador makes them feel better about their shitty lives. It’s a superiority thing.
And some how Trump and Fox News have convinced them that they share in the victories of guys like Mush and Trump enriching themselves.
My mom said something completely asinine (and factually false) once.
“I’m way too successful to be a Democrat.”
If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
- Lyndon Johnson
The boomers are dying off.
They’ve decided to go after the edge lord young men for their next voter base.
Unfortunately it appears to be working.
Remember when you have been 16 and you fell for every single rage bait there is on the internet, wasting your next 2-3 years on defending gaming and your virginity from SJWs and radical feminism?
Imagine you never grew out of that. That’s your modern day republican.
Some people never mature past middle school
and failed to to develop maturity and independence in middle school?…
In the terminally internet-bound, this has led to some consternation.
This is what they want. See, Trump is utterly destroying America’s economy and nucleus of global hegemony. The people are in for increasingly tough circumstances as China just stops trading with America, and all previous allies start to shun the country. Trump is trying to grow the US military to start his fascist wars of conquest both south and north. This will also put the people in increasingly dire circumstances, both with the massive amount of death involved in such a conflict and in the mass reallocation of resources towards war efforts. He can’t talk about those things openly to the people because he’d have to admit their lives are going to get significantly worse. So, what can he do instead?
He can do the same thing he’s been doing the entire time. Build a fervore for ethnic cleansing and eugencist racialist politics. The people are trained to lap it up without even thinking, and they get genuinely itchy for their next fix. Who’s the minority we’re hating today? Who’s the person of color we’re going to commit vile acts of cruelty on today? Where do I direct my homicidal rage at the threat to my inherent superiority today? This is how they are. Every single day, Fox News, Twitter, and the White House all come together to deliver. They fill the bowl, and the bigots heads are down gorging themselves on it while their own lives are horrifically torn apart around them.
It doesn’t matter what else he’s doing. He’s fighting DEI. He’s putting black people and women in their place. He’s making immigrants, muslims, jews, and the queers afraid again. His support base is unyielding. We know they will never yield because fascists never do. Even decades after the end of World War 2, many former SS and former Nazi supporters STILL thought Hitler was sent from God and that everything he did was right. Even as Soviet bombs were falling on their heads. The ardent supporters of fascism will support it literally until they die. They loved that Hitler was committing genocide. They loved that he was cruel and inhuman. They admired how the image he portrayed so neatly fit with their patriarchal worldview. Its why they supported him to begin with. Economy this, nationalism that, but down to the line it was all about cruelty.
Are the people who support these kinds of tweets petty and childish? Absolutely they are. This isn’t even about pettiness though. This is what they voted for. They voted for people of color to suffer. They voted for immigrants to suffer. If it came out tomorrow that he died in that hellhole they’d all cheer.
99.9% of them, yes
Yeah, and the engagement metrics are massive. This reaching people. Heck, I wonder if more eyeballs see this than the actual NYT article.
God, anyone, please send some meteors to Twitter data centers. And Facebook while you’re at it…
Yeah I see that pic pop up a lot but I have yet to see the news about a huge shout-out between ice and immigrants
Because ICE is targeting people who aren’t likely to be armed. As the net broadens and they start targeting more explicitly based on political affiliation, gender, etc. rather than just race, they’ll start running into people who will shoot back
Because ICE is targeting people who aren’t likely to be armed.
Exactly: did you know that MS-13 is the world’s only pacifist street gang? It’s true!
(It’s not true. The fact that your comment is correct is another way you can tell the claim that the kidnappees are gang members is a lie.)
Part of how you know that no one they send there is going to actually be a gang member or terrorist or anything like that. Those guys wouldn’t be going without a fight. And with no due process and no chance of ever getting out, it’s not like they have anything to lose.
Fascists are cowards and will only fight when they are certain of victory.
That’s why “it’s ok to punch a Nazi” was an effective deterrent.
Happy to see that the guy looks physically ok. Hope he returns safely home soon.
Let’s do some fact checking.
THEY said he was wrongly deported. Repeatedly. And refused to do anything about it.
Our jackass Attorney General shared a link recently that said he had “no criminal background” and there’s been no actual evidence that shows he was in MS-13.
And while I’m not sure of his technical, official status, I would say somebody who was allowed to stay in the United States by a judge because of dangers back home, isn’t consider an illegal alien any more, but a political refugee who has asylum in our country.
You have to wonder if this whole thing is just a petty attempt at retribution by Trump, because this guy was allowed to stay in the country the first time.
You have to wonder if this whole thing is just a petty attempt at retribution by Trump, because this guy was allowed to stay in the country the first time.
I think it’s simpler than that. Bringing him back would show they did something wrong, and that’s obviously impossible, because he’s the second coming of Prosperity Gospel Jesus.
Simpler even than that. It would mean someone gets to tell them no.
It would also mean we’d have a witness able to report on the prison’s conditions. And the administration can say he’s lying, but when there’s no other source of information about it, people are going to hear him out.
Yes. Fascism is about normalizing treating outsiders as non-human. To do this you expand your crimes step by step. Justifying and normalizing each step. And you don’t have to do it for long. You just move onto the next worse thing quickly.
There was a really good, almost poetic, video that covered this just as Trump took office. It’s been a good reminder for me to keep my compass and perspective.
It’s even worse than that: he’s testing the boundaries.
He’s testing if he can get away with deporting an innocent man. He’s testing if he can ignore the Supreme Court without consequences. He’s testing if the Salvadorian president will stand firm and be his good little concentration camp boy.
If they are successful, it means they can imprison ANYONE they want to.
If they are successful, our Bill of Rights is about to come crashing down.
If they are successful, our Bill of Rights has come crashing down. Past tense!
Does the Grinch now manage the accounts for the White House?
Jesus tapdancing christ
Omg. I just realized this is really from The white house???!!??
I thought this was some stupid meme… Omg
I just can’t even…omg
cruelty is the point. guns.
You should see the other stuff they post now: https://xcancel.com/WhiteHouse/
I’m gobsmacked.
Oh dear fuck i looked at it and they made a covid.gov site that claims that covid originated from lab in Wuhan and was leaked. That fringe conspiracy now being peddled by the white house.
That’s actually not unlikely, but the way china handles critical information we will never be sure.
I imagine they also have other false claims on there that are much worse though.
Yeah, it’s one thing to make it known that it is a possible explanation, it’s another to claim that it is a fact without evidence.
What is xcancel?
A service that proxies and cleans xitters content so musk doesn’t get the money from the few advertisers left in that cesspool
It also enables a few of the older features, like being able to read replies to a Tweet, now that the website formerly known as Twitter bars it if you’re not logged in.
You’re not alone. I see this shit and I say aloud “woww” and pass my phone to my partner. I’ve never seen such unhinged shit from the official white house communications team.
This is stuff any self-respecting 15yo would be embarrassed to post. I know they have been posting other cringey memes recently too. Seems like the person managing the account came straight from 4chan.
