*cough Elon, * cough cough Peter Thiel, *COUGH Melania….
I can’t wait for them to deport her ass so my gas prices and food prices will finally go down.
Like deporting all Somalis will fix Medicaid.
Yeah it’s also holding up releasing the rest of the Epstein files.
Where the fuck are the fucking Democrats springing into action?
Neoliberals are conservatives. That’s how we ended up here.
Conservatism is fascism and it has infested both parties. Allowing conservatives to continue existing among us will always lead to fascism.
Our push to the left must be merciless and unending. Normally, peace cannot cure fascism. We must accept that violence may be necessary to survive this.
Yup. When is the last time we saw dem leadership organize the party effectively, or release meaningful pushback to culture war rhetoric? It’s nada all the time with these clowns. Fucking Schumer and Jeffries apply all their efforts to serving billionaires and are happy to be unpopular as long as they get to lead the losing party. I’m sick to death of hearing how brilliantly Pelosi handled Republicans during her tenure— she literally fucking led us right to where we are now. Fuck anyone who serves billionaire interests.
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I see Yandex is back online.
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The normal people disagree with your defense of conservatism. Conservatives are pure evil and should be dealt with as such. Your insults only add to my motivation to erase them.
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Funny you would suggest that specific activity. I have donated my time at food pantries. Many, many times. One thing I’ve noticed there is a distinct lack of conservative volunteers.
Conservatives are biologically unable to experience empathy for others. This is why conservatives are almost never found giving their time to the vulnerable unless there is something in it for themselves (ex: church cred, entry to heaven, free food).
Conservatives’ inability to experience empathy is also why their relationships are so shallow. For example, a conservative male sees his family as his property. He loves his wife the way a teenager loves a sportscar. He cannot develop a deep personal affection for his wife because that requires empathy.
A conservative’s lack of ability to experience empathy is also why bigotry comes so easily to conservatives. It’s why genocide is so easily supported by conservatives. It’s why conservative policy so consistently harms the vulnerable.
If you are not a conservative, you really shouldn’t defend them. They will never humanize you. Never. They don’t even humanize each other. They simply can’t.
Normally, peace cannot cure fascism. We must accept that violence may be necessary to survive this.
You’re not helping.
They’re doing everything they can: talking about it. We voted them into the minority, they have no ability to do anything.
It’s amazing when the god-damned Nazis are the minority they sure accomplish a lot by stalling everything every way possible
Correct. It is easier to stall and destroy than it is to build.
Which Dem leadership could also certainly do to the MAGA agenda if they wanted to
They do, pretty consistently. At least the parts of the maga agenda that aren’t stopping everything else.
I have yet to see them bring the same energy that republicans bring when they are in the minority.
It must be a great life, living without object permanence.
Lol wtf does some random article from 2019 have to do with today?
object permanence.
Genuine question: are you stupid?
No, but when dealing with fascist enabling liberals like you, it might appear that way.
Well that answers that.
I believe the point OP is trying to make is that they have no problem calling her out, but won’t come to her defense. Why? Because they actually answer to corporate interests, and what’s happening to her now doesn’t matter to those interests.
If their corporate donors called them and expressed their concern, you better believe they would have a press conference and be all over the Sunday political bs shows talking about it.
But…they are. There are many Democrats, including minority speaker, calling this political persecution. OP is conveniently ignoring that, because it doesn’t fit their narrative.
Typical leftist bullshit.
“Republicans are doing something bad so what are the Democrats doing without any power or majorities?”.
This is focusing on legislative abilities and completely ignoring intent. Their silence on it is telling in and of itself. No condemnation? It’s free. Are we to believe that they have to have the house and Senate in order to speak? Real leaders speak up and build back their power. These people just sit there hoping to win the next election solely because the other party screwed up.
If you looked down the thread you’ll see democrats are speaking up for her.
It’s still happening even if you aren’t paying attention.
Liberals: Always making excuses for racism when it comes from the team wearing your preferred sports jersey.
I think it’s the republicans trying to denaturalize and deport her but my little liberal brain might be missing out.
During the Uvalde shooting, did it not upset you that the police stood around doing nothing? Even as the minority party, the Democrats have some power they can exert. At the very least, they can make a big stink about the situation. When the Republicans inevitably obstruct them, the Dems can highlight how the Republicans are obstructing justice.
Instead, what we’ve seen the Democratic party do time and time again is just sit on their hands, defeated. Rolling over like dogs, unwilling to even appear to care. Hiding away and hoping nobody notices them standing off to the side.
Yes, obviously people are upset when the Republicans do something bad. They want the Republicans to be held to account. The people that should be holding them to account is the oppositional party and the Democrats aren’t doing that.
They are doing something about it. They’re writing letters and complaining about it in the news.
That’s all they can do, considering we voted them into the minority.
That’s not true:
I want the ranking Dem member on every committee to conduct inquiries. Make a billion motions, cast votes, debate, whatever to result in some kind of legislative action. Hold formal proceedings, conduct investigations, subpoena people.
I want the Democrats to launch Benghazi style investigations like the Republicans did that helped tank Hillary Clinton’s presidential run. The only difference being that there is actual wrongdoing here.
Well, it’s gonna take about 20-30 years to build up a media empire specifically designed to move democrat’s messaging into every single house in america first. That’s if people with communications degrees start becoming democrats.
Omar does have people fighting on her side. As my Nation colleague John Nichols reports, she remains popular with her constituents in Minnesota, and the state’s Democratic Party has rallied to her side. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries decried Trump’s “vile personal attacks” and the fact that Trump’s “violent mass deportation machine has descended upon the home of a duly elected Member of Congress and her family.” Even former Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was critical of Trump. In a post on X.com, Greene asked how “pretending to get ready to deport Ilhan Omar is going to bring gas down under $2, make health insurance freaking affordable, make a family’s weekly grocery bill make sense, and stop sending our beloved military off to fight for another fucking foreign war???”
Greene’s pointed rebuke of Trump stands in sharp contrast to Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, who in the five days since the raid has yet to say one word in defense of Omar.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ilhan-omar-raid-trump-reaction/
But there are people speaking up for her within the democrats and the media is right lit up about this right now.
Your comparison to the Uvalde shooting is bullshit because the cops there not only didn’t do anything but they actively held people back who were trying to help too.
I agree that it is good that Jeffries is speaking out in defense of Omar, but I would argue that the only reason he is defending his progressive colleague is because he’s been recieving a bunch of pressure to do so. It is very obvious why the leader of the party is not defending Omar; it’s because of the progressive ideals she espouses.
Leftists need to continue pressuring the Dems apparently for them to do the basics of their job. I see no reason why Jeffries would defend Omar without having experienced the pressure and criticism. He and the other Establishment Democrats in leadership positions have been actively sabotaging and holding back their progressive flank.
Don’t move the goalposts you compared the democrat’s reaction to the raid of Omar to be the same as the police response to Uvalde shooting.
Which is bullshit.
Hakeem Jeffries saying, “This is bad y’all” is the same as police showing up to a shooting and playing Candy Crush on their phones. I want Hakeem Jeffries to pledge launching an investigation and using whatever power his party has, even if it ends in the president pardoning the people responsible. Just like I wanted the police to storm into the school and take down the shooter killing children. I want action being done.
I get this all the time from leftists.
“Why aren’t the liberals doing anything?”
“They are you just aren’t paying attention”
“Well they should be doing more!”
You’re just doubling down on the false equivalency now.
Sucking on the corporate teat
“Reportedly”? Like it isn’t obvious? As in, it’s obvious they’re trying to eliminate their political opposition by any means and this is the first step of that?
It’s something like when someone openly commits murder but, until they’re convicted, they only “allegedly” did it
If someone openly commits murder, you are in fact allowed to say they did it without saying “allegedly”. Otherwise there would be no free speech, it would mean you could not say anything that was not already whitelisted by the state.
Then why does the media call mass shooters “accused killers”?
Because it is very expensive to get sued if they get it wrong.
But I’m talking about cases where it is plainly obvious that these people committed the murders, but they still don’t state it as a fact unless they’re convicted
So I am not a lawyer. But it can’t possibly be the case, that you are not allowed to publicly say something trivially provably true, unless you have a court’s word that it is true. That would effectively mean that there is zero free speech.
“I’m sure Kamala would have been just as bad, because something something shitlib”
– the purity ponies
But it’s it really the first step. Feel like they have been making plenty of steps already.
We need to stand with her before he comes after everyone.
Once again fucking the constitution. Trump is a traitor.
Have any leaders or top democrats held press conferences or anything denouncing these actions or showing support for her? It seems like they are just leaving her on her own to deal with this which is pretty shitty…
Unfortunately for Omar, the billionaires who own Dem leadership don’t want any social dems in congress. It’s too popular an idea and billionaires fear the populace taking back power.
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the billionaires who own Dem leadership don’t want any social dems in congress.
The more the rich tighten the screws, the more Jean-Paul Marat seems reasonable.
You think democrats and liberals oppose this?
Yes
I think Jeffries did, but not positive
He sure as shit better. With dark skin and the first name Hakeem he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t say something even if self preservation is his only motivation.
He thinks he’s “one of them” because they throw him a few pennies. Greedy traitor.
He can ask Max Naumann how that went.
The fuck sticks won’t stop until wr have gas chambers again. I’m so tired of humans. How fucking hard is leaving other people alone?
Very hard, when they’re brown.
If you don’t like a political opponent it’s a perfectly normal legitimate strategy to raid their home, demonize them and get them deported.
Hey, uh, guys I just woke up from a fever dream where America became fascistic. Guys? GUYS?
Tbf Trump did get raided first but they never tried to deport Melania or anything soo he is still crossing new lines.
LOL, fair?
They tried to get back the classified documents donnie stole before they finally had to raid his compound. The problem is that donnie thinks the law does not apply to him.
Well Trump actually broke some laws.
Well a judge signed off on these raids so…
Yes but the first instance is the government doing what it’s supposed to and the second is fascsits weaponizing the government.
So when the government prosecutes the people you like it’s good but otherwise bad?
When the government prosecutes people who actually committ crimes then it’s good, yes.
They have to do an investigation to see if she committed a crime…
So? You have a point? Or are you just an idiot?
Dude stop eating paint
Well actually it was
THE FUCKING CAPITAL BUILDING GOT RAIDED FIRST.
But ok whatever.
If only Democrats had the fucking balls - if/when they have power again - to try to do the same to Melania.
We shouldn’t normalize denaturalizing citizens.
We should throw them in giga jail for the rest of their lives.
then they came for Ilhan Omar
Besides the obvious MAGA crap, why start with her? What do they gain to deport Omar?
She’s brown and they hate her. Oh, and she’s a Progressive and a woman fighting for foundational reform and to actually improve people’s lives.
That’s the obvious. I guess I was really asking if there’s a clear tactic/strategy to target her or this is just laziness and good bad news.
Sorry. I just wanted to emphasize that cruelty isn’t just a method, it’s often literally the end-goal for Republicans. It really can be that simple for them…
No need to apologize. I get ya and agree.
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