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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

fun fact: the first draft headline was 'fascism, coming to a city near you,' and Ms Spouse was all 'no way, pick something less depressing'

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

"what the fuck is this" is such an evergreen headline. this is in fact the second — or maybe even the third time — I've used it

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Bonnie Council's avatar

Well, it caught my eye. The problem is you could use it daily. And therein lies the rub.

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Eva Porter's avatar

I thought “what the fuck is this” spoke well to the moment.

Meanwhile this morning an LA live shot on multiple networks showed some humvees and nearby men in fatigues standing around looking sheepish. Like “what the fuck is this?”

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Lois Henry's avatar

- now what? or - what fresh hell is this? are evergreen too

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Pere Ubu's avatar

"What fresh hell is THIS?" is my favorite reaction.

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Bob Bowden's avatar

I’ve made some “snarky” comments in this space that generated a few likes. The following plea is completely serious and sincere: https://open.substack.com/pub/bobbowden209566/p/wtf-are-we-doing-about-this-horror?r=1pv3tg&utm_medium=ios

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Anita Rosen's avatar

Probably won't be the last time.

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P123Sunny's avatar

😆

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Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

But do gif the stumble for eternity!! Of course we know Biden made him do it!!!

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Jayme Wolworth's avatar

And now there will be no more of those pesky cameras allowed as he ascends the stairs!!!

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arne link's avatar

True. They will have to use long-distance lenses.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

It won’t be long until AnusMouthOverfilledPantload goes pinballing down those steps. It’s a 50/50 bet in Vegas right now.

Maybe he can have the Qatari’s put in soft rubber steps so his big fat pumpkin head doesn’t explode when it bounces off them.

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Jodi Richard's avatar

Ooh can someone gif that “big fat pumpkin head exploding” please? Pretty please???

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George in Atlanta's avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0FnfGblLr8

Somebody with skillz should be able to filter in the pumpkin head in question.

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Bonnie Council's avatar

I'm waiting - impatiently - for that day. I have noticed he descends slowly these days, without taking his eyes off his feet. All we need is a momentary distraction.

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Lisa's avatar

He's got a left foot drop doing on. Saw it when he got out of his golfmobile a while back. Sad that as a retired medical professional, I'm laser focused on any sign of his medical weakness that might save us all from more misery, death and destruction.

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KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

Ivanka in a bikini.

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Emma Ray's avatar

Good one, Arne!

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Steve Kelly's avatar

Likely. Too bad he didn't have some rainbow-colored toilet paper stuck on his shoes. What a jerk.

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Michelle Kenoyer's avatar

Fortunately, he had Marco Rubio ascend the steps behind him and pretend to stumble himself so his boss wouldn't look bad, and probably so people would think the steps were slippery. When the fuck did Marco sell the last shreds of his withered soul?

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Eva Porter's avatar

I wish his face had hit the stair. Is that bad?

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

I rather enjoy the very notion Eva!!

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Clytie Rimberg's avatar

Hard no

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Salspho's avatar

Yes, but maybe no. Hmmm?

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Dallaso's avatar

I wish the stair rail would have broken off just as he desperately grabbed for it. Then maybe his ugly mug would've slammed into a step or two.

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David A Pitock's avatar

You and a billion others, foreign and domestic.

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Katy Abshire DeBernardi's avatar

Not at all! He and the Space Nazi could have had matching shiners.

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Bonnie Boyce's avatar

O, schadenfreude, dear schadenfreude!!

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Lisa's avatar

Dark Brandon greased the stairs.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

He missed Rubio faking a stumble so Dear Leader wouldn't feel so bad. An airman followed Li'l Marco up the stairs with two heavy suitcases and no problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHk2Trw-d_o

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cablecargal's avatar

That was a fake stumble. He faked it to make Drumpf feel better. What a total sycophant!

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arne link's avatar

IT is so depressing. No matter the headline, it's just so depressing. Put that stumble on an endless loop. Too bad he didn't fall right down a break his crown.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

And then Super-Sycophant Rubio ascends the stairs and trips on the same spot, maybe to demonstrate that it wasn't Trump's knees buckling but an actual physical hazard. It's still kind of like the old gag, "Follow me. Walk this way."

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Zito, Anthony's avatar

We so, so need a laugh button.

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monimuikko's avatar

When I told my sister I wished he tumbled down , she told me I was mean . It will come back to me . So I told her , I will take one for the country , although I'm German .

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Lisa's avatar

I'm feeling like karma isn't a thing now, or maybe never was? Because if it was a thing, well we just wouldn't be dealing with all the things in DC right now.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Thanks for your service moni !!

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

He almost ate it trying to clamber into his garbage truck. That one was really close to a face plant.

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Tess's avatar

Thanks Ms. Spouse….what’s going on is depressing as hell! But great post Jeff!

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Anne's avatar

not sure how you can have a non-depressing headline today.

re stairs - now all the Maga people will be stumbling when climbing stairs - it will be the new way to signal you're part of the in-group. The felon's stumbling was another classic chess move that shows his brilliance - he's using it as a way to anoint the true believers.

gad I hate this timeline.

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DuduLovesBubu's avatar

Just as long as MAGA stumbles on the stairs, falls down the stairs, hit their head, and finally peace.

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Edwin Hurwitz's avatar

And then, JD Vance! Essentially a Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin puppet. That's why he was selected because there has always been a good chance that Trump won't make it through the term.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

That is probably true. But, will the MAGAT movement survive? Shitler has some kind of ethereal hold on those non-thinkers. Couchfuck Magee has zero charisma. He is universally hated. I’m not sure he can pull off the transition.

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

Well, what with a MAGA hat, lint on the ear, a diaper and gold trainers, they should be easy to spot!

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Nice of them to ID themselves that way.

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Wendy🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

You know jeff with all the California shit going on. We ran with profiling Newsom. Its hard to see him as an ally or an opponent, and the truth as it turns out , is even more disturbing and unsettling. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-phoenix-and-the-paradox-who-is

Not so much depressing as just kind of meh.

As always, liked, restacked, quoted, and x-posted.

Keep up the good fight Jeff.

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Gary D's avatar

As a resident of Los Angeles - I am quite happy with our governor. Is this character assassination remotely helpful in the face of this national catastrophe?

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celeste k.'s avatar

Well said, Gary. The last thing we need is infighting. It's what trump and his ilk have been trying to do to us...don't let them. Stand together and focus on the big picture.

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Wendy🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

All people have had good and bad moments. I think what is important to understand is that no one is perfect. Be that Newsom's Trans flip flop comments, or how hes handled other things in the past. Its ADMIRABLE for what he is doing now, but also understanding that hes human.

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Gary D's avatar

The last thing the resistance needs at the moment is eating our own. If Newsom is the self-aggrandizing opportunist & showboat described in this profile (that reads more like a Newsmax hit job) isn't that precisely what progressives have been bitching for? Where's OUR loudmouth antidote to Trump? Newsome just generated more headlines in the last 24 hours than our entire Democratic representation in congress has done since the inauguration. I hope he gets louder & more obnoxious. It'll drive Babyhands nuts.

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Juli's avatar

Totally agree! Our governor totally decimated trump in that interview

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Victoria Wilson's avatar

A fucking men!

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Robert Eckert's avatar

No, we don't want a Trump on our side.

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Zito, Anthony's avatar

Whether there is a perfect person somewhere is not really the question. When we could wake up any day now, in a fully-loaded police state with no rights, why is it essential to pick apart the Governor of California. Is this profile really the political action we need? There is broken circuit in some journalists that disables them from understanding an emergency that invalidates their usual habits.

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Victoria Wilson's avatar

We absolutely cannot eat our young here. We are united against Trump and his fascist regime. Period. Full stop. Once we get rid of this scourge then we can tweak what we have.

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Alison Parker's avatar

Well, looks like you changed your mind since apparently the post has been replaced with "Nothing to see here. Removed. Go about your business. Those responsible have been sacked." Look, I'm pissed as hell about his words and actions regarding trans kids. But why do you think anyone needs to be reminded that he's human and imperfect? I've voted for him many times, ever since I lived in SF when he was mayor, but I never once thought he was perfect and have often taken issue with things he's done.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Yeah, let's all pull together now and get through the emergency (which the do-nothing congressional Democrats had a hand in enabling), then when it's more or less over and all you amateurs go home, we same old mostly white mostly guys will climb back into the saddle and get back to our fundraisers.

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David A Pitock's avatar

Who is the poster and the motivation? we need all hands on deck

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

We need to stick together not be distracted by those wanting to smear and sow divisions.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

This is confusing. Your post is a "move along, etc."

What are you saying?

I don't get it.

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Wendy🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

The original article was removed because of a flood of negativity that I received over Posting it

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Hollie Rood's avatar

Pls thank Ms. Spouse for me as I’ve been going down the Martial Law route myself recently, convinced that’s tRUMP’s intended destination and it’s terrifying. He doesn’t give a flying fvck about the rule of law, just his. Thanks to the corrupt SCOTUS our checks and balances are all but gone and fascism is becoming the US’ new norm

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Often, when Trump is compared to Hitler, I hear people reply with something along the lines of, “Trump is not Hitler. Only Hitler was Hitler.“ I think they need to stop saying that.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

It's not a fair comparison. Hitler could speak in complete sentences, had artistic ambitions, and was kind to dogs.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

You’re absolutely right.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

I must vote against Ms Spouse this time. z

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Kay-El's avatar

She’s correct, but you wouldn’t have been wrong. This is going to happen with more frequency.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

It’s inevitable, Kay-El. They are just getting started. How will protesters be capable of zero violence when they are being shot at, gassed, and attacked by the very police paid to “protect and serve.” I’ve known German Shepherds with more bravery and fidelity. Repeat - they are just getting started.

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Chet Brandt's avatar

Herr drumph is looking for his “Reichstag fire” excuse to implement the Insurrection Act…which the mango moron did not initiate on January 6th? Go figure…

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Kay-El's avatar

Welp, Trump just ordered 700 Marines from 29 Palms to LA. That should ease tensions. 🙄

Doing everything he can to force escalation so he can declare martial law.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Sad truth Jeff, that’s the plan!!

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Debra T's avatar

You cannot make this shit less depressing, but good on her for the optimism.

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Tama2U's avatar

Depressing but true. Sounds like breakfast was lively at the Tiedrich abode 🤓

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Mombeka's avatar

Ms. Spouse is a woman after my own heart. If we don’t stay positive and “keep moving forward” to quote Mr.(mombekerz)Spouse, we are certainly if you see kayed up where the sun don’t never shine.

Put on that great album by Eliza Gilkyson and march around the neighborhood singing at the top of your lungs. It helps a lot.

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Mark L's avatar

Be Strong Stay Strong

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Susan Niemann's avatar

“ICE went looking for trouble and when they didn’t find any, they started some”.

That’s it in a nutshell!

When will the madness end? That’s the question.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

I’ve got a feeling this is just the beginning, Susan.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

I’m quite certain that “coming to a city near you” is factual Walt/Susan!!

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Ralph Roberts's avatar

Coming to Denver soon and some are ready

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Lisa's avatar

We've got this Colorado! Stay peaceful.

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Abbi's avatar

They did the same in 2020 with Barr’s goons, but there were grown-ups, however corrupt, then to stop things from escalating the way miller/trump wanted them to. Now there’s no back-stop.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Yes Abbi, all guardrails have been removed!!

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

The madness won’t end until rump is not in charge.

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Bonnie Council's avatar

True. And the really worrisome part is wondering what this smokescreen (because it's always a smokescreen of some kind) is hiding. What are they doing elsewhere while we're all looking at LA?

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GeorgeC's avatar

This is a desperate distraction for Cheetolini's very public feud with his emotional-support oligarch, (the space nazi) and all the truth coming out about the budget bill disaster. A clear sign of weakness . . .

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

The madness will end when there's nothing left to destroy.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Or steal

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

It’s only a Big Mac, or Colonel’s bucket away, is how I choose to look at it Linda!!

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Lisa's avatar

I'm starting to believe rumps latest projection of Biden being a robot. (obviously President Biden is not a robot, let me be clear.) But, I cannot understand the notion that our addled obese dictator-wanna-be is STILL staying up at all hours hate tweeting, stressed out 24/7, and a processed food eating angry old man hasn't had a full on medical emergency. This screams AI.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Trump has not only an IQ in the 74 range of idiocy, but his semi illiteracy leaves a question mark on his ability to tweet anything above 4th grade level tweets Sue, he obviously has someone on his staff helping him!!

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Chet Brandt's avatar

I suppose drugs still work for the old man— I think they continue to work for Don, Jr.? Maybe they share their stuff with each other? Inquiring minds want to know!

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Rick Calegari's avatar

That's what happens when you have a bunch of armed, masked, pardoned insurrectionists starting as much wrongful lawless shit as possible. Anxiety is high here in SoCal but these pissed off folks aren't backing down even with the use of rubber bullets and all of the thuggery these assholes salivate over. In the meantime, let's hope for this be over soon and the latest weather forecast holds for the bullshit military parade.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

The most successful response I've seen was in San Diego, with the customers coming out of the restaurant that was being raided by ICE, pointing their fingers and yelling "Shame, Shame!" After about five minutes, ICE, which was backing up, finally got in their trucks and drove away. Do that every time you're faced with ICE, police, and the National Guard. See what happens. Don't stop until they back up and go away.

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Lisa59's avatar

King Shitpants is excited about his little boner he gets from inciting violence and pain. He runs the circle jerk administration of gutless cowards. This is part 2 of their coup. They're so excited. No end in sight. Shitpants supporters still love their abuser. Sick fucks. 🖕🖕🖕 They love watching parents being abducted by fake wannabe GI Joe pencil dick motherfuckers and leave their children abandoned in the streets. Amerikkka.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I can’t hate anything or anyone more than this demented old fuck. 🤬

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Lisa59's avatar

Agreed! And his Heritage/Federalist buttplugs.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

sshhhh, the universe will take that as a challenge

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Dave Drell's avatar

Just like the Brownshirts did in the ghettos.

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DR Darke's avatar

THIS is what happens when you create a "Reichsprotektorate" like "The Department of Homeland Security", which ICE is a part of.

I'm just surprised he hasn't deputized all those Brownshirts he pardoned for their actions on January 6, 2021.....

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

We can't be sure he hasn't.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

When the next staged assassination misses the teleprompter Susan!!

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GeorgeC's avatar

Saw an Australian Reporter get INTENTIONALLY shot by what was probably an LAPD scumwad (that needs to be jailed) this morning. She was at least 30-40 feet away from the line of thugs/cops, WELL away from anything, facing her camera and the scumwad on the end of the line of combat-cosplaying cops turned and shot her in the back of her leg.

All caught on camera. Sadly, the story will be quickly buried in the US since the corporate media is so badly infested with cowardly collaborators. . . .

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P123Sunny's avatar

When there ‘isn’t a market for it’ any more ( to borrow a phrase from Pelosi:/ )

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Aleksander Constantinoropolous's avatar

When a nation’s leader starts cosplaying as Generalissimo Google Translate—mistranslating cruelty into “order” and jackboots into “justice”—you don’t need policy analysis, you need an exorcist.

This wasn’t governance. It was a tantrum with federal funding.

ICE raiding donut shops and Home Depots like they’re filming a MAGA reboot of Scooby-Doo is not border enforcement. It’s state-sponsored cosplay for fascists who couldn’t hack it in community theater.

The National Guard wasn’t deployed to protect. It was summoned like a demon to feed a narcissist’s need for televised fear porn.

None of this is normal. None of this is necessary. But all of it is intentional.

And somewhere, Stephen Miller is in a linen closet, whispering “anchor baby” to a stack of policy binders and calling it foreplay.

Virgin Monk Boy

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Susan Niemann's avatar

A tantrum with federal funding.” Excellent!

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Ralph Roberts's avatar

State sponsored terrorism

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HI2thDoc's avatar

It would be so funny if Lone Smuk turns Pee Wee German into a cuck by making his wife into another Smuk fetus incubator

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arne link's avatar

If she was willing to have three children with Nosferatu, she is willing to carry the Nazi sperm. Will he talk her into it? Money talks, as we know.

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DuduLovesBubu's avatar

Easy peasey. Here comes the turkey baster with the little Leons

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Aleksander, Miller’s wife has left him for (perish the thought) Elon and so for shits and giggles, he eviscerated ICE agents telling them they weren’t working hard enough on their quota of arresting 3000 immigrants a day. He has been salivating for chaos so much that I think he must jack-off at the mere sight of “his” agents following his orders.

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Aleksander Constantinoropolous's avatar

When a man’s wife leaves him and his only remaining pleasure is watching cages fill, you know you’re dealing with a soul so starved it snacks on suffering.

The old teachers warned us: when you worship cruelty, cruelty remakes you in its image.

Watch closely—Miller’s face already looks like it’s trying to catch flies.

— Virgin Monk Boy

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Truer words were never spoken…

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Ralph Roberts's avatar

When they can’t fill the quota with migrants citizens are next

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Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

I laughed so hard and loudly at the paragraph with “MAGA reboot of Scooby Doo.” Damn, Aleksander. That is very funny.

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Betsy L's avatar

Won't we reach a point soon where these orders by the Commander-in-Chief are illegal and should be disobeyed? I think bringing in Marines from Camp Pendleton is pretty close, if not already there.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

That point is receding in the rear view mirror.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

SO TRUE.

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

Pure gold.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

You nailed it

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Carl Selfe's avatar

The Administration’s plan to escalate the peaceful protest in Los Angeles is in full swing. Militarized ICE agents attacking a macho-driven community is not wise. Nevertheless ICE was able to secure their areas with modest support from county and state Local Law Enforcement (LLE). No Federal assistance was requested; however, the Trump administration illegally mobilized and seconded the California National Guard. That was an inflammatory response fueled simultaneously with rabble-rousing malign words from xenophobic Steven Miller, racist militant Tom Homan, dog shooter Kristi Noem, and the drunk Pete Hegseth. They are all instigating turmoil and fanning the flames. If they had any peace-inducing ideas, they would STFU. I did not know where this protest will lead, but peace during protests is suggested. Stop with the rock throwing, please. Passionate is okay. I suggest just laying down in the streets. Big, heavy protestors should take a rest, as I explain. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/uninvited-trump-escalates-conflict?r=3m1bs

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Mark Slattery's avatar

100% correct, but I'm certain there will be white supremacists creating violence to be blamed on the protesters.

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Lisa's avatar

There's been so many decades of lying, nothing is to be trusted. Unfortunately, that was always the plan. However, the history of actions by the rethugs have shown us to trust ourselves and I wholeheartedly agree with you that we're being surrounded by J-6ers and white "supremacists" creating as much chaos as they can to then look like heroes to people who haven't given an ounce to society in any positive way.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

I just watched a news video of an ICE agent intentionally taking aim and shooting a female journalist in the leg during her televised reporting. Trump's military occupiers want peace as much as Netanyahu's IDF thugs want peace in Gaza.

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Patty Mooney's avatar

I just saw that. He shot her with her back turned to him WTF? He was wearing a mask.

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Lisa's avatar

"Law enforcement" seems to be melding into one big icky power grab over anyone who isn't male or white. Disgusting.

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Patty Mooney's avatar

So interesting that the whole thing was caught on video and will now be circulating around the globe.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

FYI, Sharon, a quick search shows that most of the reporting, including Nancie's linked article below, says it was LAPD, not ICE, who shot the reporter.

That doesn't make the shooting any more justified, of course.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

During a previous Covid-era demonstration, an LAPD agent intentionally shot a homeless man in his wheelchair. Another shoved an elderly man down, cracking his head open on the sidewalk -- blood everywhere. So they can stop making TV programs glorifying LAPD as the guardian angels of Los Angeles now.

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Robyn myers's avatar

LAPD is looking into it. I have my suspicions but then I live in Los Angeles.

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michellefromchicago's avatar

Let a thousand lawsuits bloom!!!

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

For all the good they'll do....sadly.

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

Hard to believe, but - I can't find a single mention of it on mainstream media. HAs anyone else?

I posted it on a WaPo comments column and was accused of lying - till I sent the vid.

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Alison Parker's avatar

A friend shared an image of a map of Los Angeles with a circle drawn around the protest area, and it is LAUGHABLY small. Like one unpopped popcorn kernel in an extra-large movie bucket. But sure yeah, the entire city has been invaded and destroyed. Sure, Jan.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I wish I'd seen it, sounds like it would have been a perfect thing to include in my post. do you have a link?

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Alison Parker's avatar

She posted it on FB but I can email it to you if you'd like.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I've updated the post to include your map. thanks again!

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Alison Parker's avatar

No prob!

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

thanks

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247kath's avatar

It was on Bluesky too

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Clint Opine's avatar

Encourage everyone to seek out live webcams all over L.A. The proof is in the pudding. They'll mostly see a bunch of quiet streets and neighborhoods.

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Mary Hall's avatar

Or, as my other must-read Substack, God, would put it, "Sure, Jan 6."

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Lisa's avatar

Loved the "Sure, Jan" reference! Brady Bunch addict here. Thank you for the info on LA as well.

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Hi Jeff, fellow travelers predicted these events if El Grande Taco#47 was elected again, we all know his ultimate goals. Here’s the thing and I have posted elsewhere and some Latino spokespeople have said the same…. Why doesn’t ICE and NG just roll into south central LA or Pico or Compton? Those are where the dangerous gangsters and criminals hang. But I guess ICE and NG only want soft targets like an elementary school graduation or raiding Home Depot.. they refuse to go into a heavily armed areas and they would be sitting ducks as the citizens that live in those neighborhoods, well they know the territory better than anyone… so please Tom Holman go.. and enter at your own risk….

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Excellent post, Fredo. They should indeed go.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Yes, that reminds me. Do what the Panthers might do. Bring your law books. Bring your visible unloaded guns (you know, like they did in 1967) and stand in front. Remember the Second Amendment. Think about the NRA.

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DuduLovesBubu's avatar

I'm surprised the folks in the gangs haven't been affected by having a relative harassed and the rage is building until there is response that, how shall we say, shows these jack booted thugs they are not invincible.

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Monnina's avatar

Thanks - I was just wondering the same thing. If MAGA wanted to do other than fake being fascist thugs and illegally arresting law abiding citizens or picking off soft targets with rubber bullets, they should have gone into these areas wherein they would have to show their actual capabilities and do more than pretend policing indulging their casual cruelty.

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Peter's avatar

He does this shit for a few simple, obvious reasons. 1) It makes his mushroom hard. 2) It makes his racist moronic base's chubbies, chub. 3) It pisses off the liberals.

All he, Miller, Noem, Bondi, Homan, Hegseth and the others have done is guarantee that when 2029 rolls around they will have a choice - beg for asylum in Russia or Qatar or face life in prison. And the thugs that are carrying out this are also going to be deserving of jail time. The American people are not going to tolerate another Merrick Garland.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

I take it you're assuming there will be free, fair elections in 2028? That's a planet-sized "IF."

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Peter's avatar

Elections are state, not national affairs even for national office. Emperor Dipshit may well do one of his bullshit EOs to try and cancel them, but he will fail...as long as we don't surrender in advance.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

I realize that elections are run by the states. But Miller is already talking about suspending habeas corpus, and what we're seeing in L.A. could well be the prelude to a declaration of martial law before the midterms. Such a declaration would be illegal, but that hasn’t stopped Cheeto Man so far.

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Joyce's avatar

It's key to the Nazi platform to disrupt or eliminate the mid-term elections--remember when Donnie Demento promised his cult members that, if they voted for him this time, they'd never have to vote again? The horseshit about the supposedly out-of-control violence and the alleged LA insurrection is the cover story for canceling the election. Legality doesn't matter--it hasn't so far; the end point of any and all legal channels is the bought and paid for Extreme Court; the Nazis on the Court will happily aid the destruction of the US.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Couldn’t agree more on all points, Joyce. I, too, keep going back to that comment about never having to vote again. Also the part about Orange and Muck having a secret, along with Mike Johnson. As you reference, the plan was put in place long ago.

And even if SCOTUS were to try to rein in Cheetolini (not bloody likely), then 1) it would be too late; and 2) he'd ignore the ruling.

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Peter's avatar

Miller says a lot of things. He's a nasty little prick with an overblown sense of his power. It's only a matter of time before one of his bullshit moves blows up in Donnie's face and then he'll be disappeared faster than Peter Navarro.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

We can only hope. But I'm not optimistic---Miller seems to be insidiously tuned in to Cheeto's psyche, and is certainly no threat to hus ego..

In any case, even if Miller gets the boot, the damage will already be done. Cases in point: Elno and USAID (has any of the confiscated funding been returned?); and Navarro---the tariffs have rattled markets and jacked up prices, regardless what happens with them going forward.

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Joyce's avatar

Miller is the one in charge of all this: this is his policy, with which Donnie Demento agrees. But it's Miller's ideas, based upon, as I believe he may actually have said, long ago, 'the Hitler playbook.'

This is also the culmination of what people like Timothy McVeigh hoped to achieve. I'm hearing a lot on the news about over-reach and escalation--in terms of those being 'mistakes' on the part of the administration. They're not: it's exactly what has been planned for; this is intention.

And now--700 Marines are headed to LA. The US Armed Forces are about to march on American citizens, in an American city. It's Nosferatu Miller's dream come true.

Donnie Demento can't wait to exact revenge on Gavin Newsom (there's been the call to have him arrested....I guess he'll be charged with following the law). Swear to god, it's because Melania kissed him.......

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Peter's avatar

Think about those two outrages. Who benefitted financially? Then think about who benefits from Miller's fuckery. Yes, for now he is tuned to Donnie's ego, but in Donnieworld loyalty only goes so far. When this immigration shit blows up in his face, and it will sooner now that he has escalated it, Donnie will be looking to blame someone. Homan goes first, then ICE Barbie, then Miller. For my money, he doesn't last the summer.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Like a hundred times!!

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Bonnie Boyce's avatar

tRumpism : the almost magical quality of being able to create a crisis in order to justify launching a response to a crisis.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Yep. A hurricane is not a crisis, so dismantle FEMA. An illegal in a donut shop is a crisis, so send in the Marines.

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Theresa Breach's avatar

We see what is happening and we’re horrified from across the pond .

Plastic bullets were used during the early days of the troubles in Northern Ireland and they kill and they kill children .

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Irascible Ink's avatar

They already shot an Australian reporter in the leg with a rubber bullet. But, to be fair, she WAS wielding that big microphone dangerously close to her own mouth.

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Hazel Brown 🐾's avatar

Let's not forget that Terry Moran of ABC was suspended for speaking the truth.

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AddaGurl's avatar

Yup. After the Out House, uh, I mean White House started melting down about it. Those douchebsgs can dish it out but they sure can not take it.

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PTW's avatar

Was he? I saw a post last night attributed to him but I wasn’t sure it was real. Spoke the plain, hard truth. It was so honest I thought it must be a hoax.

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AddaGurl's avatar

And the Poynter Institute had something to say about it. https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/abc-news-suspends-terry-moran-trump-post/

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Robert Eckert's avatar

No lie detected

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Mark Slattery's avatar

This is all in large part a distraction from the failure of DOGE, the fight with the drug-addicted nazi, his BFF Jeffrey Epstein, and the constant backing-down on tariffs.

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Gina's avatar

a distraction from all the other distractions

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Abbi's avatar

It’s a 2fer: distraction & prelude to the unthinkable they’ve been itching for since before the election.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Every day this mega narcissist needs, craves, lusts for attention. It doesn’t matter what the situation or topic - it HAS to be centered on him & his ego.

What a despicable human being - the lowest of the low.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Have you seen those pictures of Epstein and t with young girls?

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john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)'s avatar

UNCOMFORTABLY NUMB OR NEVER SUCCUMB? WHICH WILL YOU CHOOSE?

Not a day goes by where the news doesn't disgust me. What's worse is that no matter how insane or cruel, it no longer comes as a surprise. The once unbelievable has become the norm.

We’ve come to expect dishonesty and corruption from our politicians, as well as the implementation of underhanded policies behind the scenes. America has a history of meddling in foreign countries’ politics, orchestrating coups and supporting dictators, if these actions supported U.S. dominance. Under Trump and his criminal Republican Regime, the same tactics have come home to roost and subvert the rights of American citizens.

The fact that human beings are suffering and dying is downplayed constantly by this administration’s greed and power lust. The hypocrisy of claiming to fight antisemitism and supporting the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, while Neo Nazis frequent Mara Lago is stunning. The abandonment of Ukraine as it fights for survival against Russian hostilities is despicable, and obviously motivated by Trump’s and the majority of his Cabinet Comrades’ fealty to Putin.

The DOGE desecration of departments like USAID, will continue to erode America’s reputation and the soft power gained through humanitarian efforts worldwide. Instead, this regime’s callous lack of concern for the survival of others in foreign nations will foster a whole new generation of “Death to America,” chanting terrorists.

The across the board dismantling of programs customarily lauded as mandatory and compassionate social safety nets at home, will further condemn the less fortunate among us to suffering, hunger and even death. The denial of climate change and the erasure of environmental protections, will lead to the exploitation of treasured conservation land and national parks and rob our children of their rightful inheritance.

Trump’s racist persecution and purge of immigrants, while serving to pacify the most extreme MAGA members of his base, is decimating families in the most cruel and humiliating ways. Deporting those the Regime considers sub human is not only a tragedy for those hard working people simply trying for a better future, it will also prove disastorous to farmers and other employers who rely heavily on the labours of those immigrants.

The deployment of 2,000 National Guard to quell protests in Los Angeles is a disgrace. Trump is salivating at the opportunity to demonstrate his control over the U.S. military. Pete Hegseth, the white nationalist head of the Department of Defence has already indicated that the Marines are ready to join in with the subversion of legal protests.

Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan is happily using ICE and wrongfully pardoned J6 insurrections, to fill domestic GEO Corp concentration camps. Homan served as an adviser to GEO, before being appointed Border Czar by Trump. GEO was a major contributor to a PAC supporting Trump’s reelection. It’s worth noting that Attorney General Pam Bondi served as a lobbyist for Geo as well.

In mere months, Republicans have accomplished what they have desired for decades. They have erased human rights and empathy for others from their political vocabulary. They intend to dismantle the remnants of democracy completely, if their Big Bullshit Bill passes in the Senate.

Everyone knew everything despicable about Trump, and yet here we are, in autocratic hell. It's hard to believe that some of our species has not evolved beyond barbaric tribalism. We must stand against the rampant corruption. We must rescue, preserve and cherish the freedoms we are entitled to, before the soulless megalomaniacs destroy all that is priceless and honourable.

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Monnina's avatar

Well said. Such ignorant sadists are ever with us. Some eras push them to the edges of society and others, like ours, choose to be complicit and cowardly calling them Great. The Algonquin Indians call them Wetiko: https://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/seeing-wetiko-on-capitalism-mind-viruses-and-antidotes-for-a-world-in-transition/

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Darrell Smith's avatar

Trump wants the military everywhere. The military needs to remove the criminal scum from the White House using whatever means necessary. Cut off the head of the snake and the rest will die. MAGA is the deadliest snake America has ever experienced.

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Dina's avatar

My fantasy is for the military to arrest him right in the middle of his stupid parade...

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DuduLovesBubu's avatar

My fantasy involves a woke patriot turning the tank turret and giving the viewing platform the proper send off.

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Dina's avatar

Well, yeah, that too! As I've said somewhere before, the military has an opportunity to do the most hilarious thing on Saturday...

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Dave Drell's avatar

🙏🏻

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Trump intends to prevent nationwide protests on Saturday. This shit in LA is just the beginning. He will invoke the Insurrection Act and then attempt to declare martial law. The "immigration crackdown" was designed as an excuse to destroy dissent.

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George in Atlanta's avatar

You're assuming a Command and Control model for how things work now. At last count, Indivisible alone has clocked in 1,500 separate demos. This is not centralized, this is a game of Whack A Mole, and the regime has a finite number of mallets.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

There have been protests everywhere, yet it's the one in California that gets the boot. I'm so tired of the constant demonizing of CA. I swear, If Trump nuked Los Angeles, half the Foxaddle-brained MAGA would actually cheer.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

I live in Houston TX, and I just had an insight. We've got as many illegals in Texas as there are in California, but Trump is willing to make the life of California Democratic politicians hell, while our Texas Republicans get a break. I am SO GLAD that we won't be seeing this in Houston.

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Dave Drell's avatar

That’s why ICE won’t stroll in to little Cuba in Miami- they actually support him- so he won’t rock the political boat down there. only NYC Chicago and Philly will bear the brunt of his misguided rath

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Of course they would!!!

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HI2thDoc's avatar

I would love to see whichever fuckwit wrote that diss of Kamala to eat crow

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

It was an opinion piece by Derek Hunter (from Heritage Foundation, Americans for Tax Reform, and co-founder of Daily Caller)

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HI2thDoc's avatar

So the Hill just boosted it? Why the fuck would they do that, considering who and where it was from?

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

They wrap batshit up with a "diverse viewpoints" cloak like Politico does but not quite as bad

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