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Cheeto And Genocide

Typical of a malignant narcissist Cheeto cares little for his fellow human beings and actually takes pleasure in inflicting pain on people, whether they are his “friends”…he turns on them on a dime….or enemies Now there's a Gaza peace plan

And this guy wants a Nobel Peace Prize?? Give me a break He belongs in jail with his counterpart Netanyahu But it’s not just Cheeto but the United States who should be tried in the International Criminal Court(ICC) for supporting Israel in their reign of genocidal terror This is probably why the US has never been supportive of the ICC because of their own pugilistic style of international relations

We’ll see how long Netanyahu can keep his finger off the trigger Like Cheeto he would go back on the ceasefire if he felt it would be to his advantage An evil axis of two

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Bluchek Mark's avatar

Folks on the Right have spewed paranoid nonsense about “jack-booted thugs” coming from the IRS (the IRS!!’) to audit you taxes or something. Or from FEMA to steal your distressed property. Indeed they claimed that their cherished Second Amendment was our best guarantee against “jack-booted” thugs of any imaginable federal agency imposing tyrannical rule.

But now we have MASKED, tac-booted thugs from DHS and DOJ intimidating, beating, and generally terrorizing urban populations and we hear crickets from the Right.

To paraphrase Randy Newman’s Rednecks: They may be masked thugs, but they’re OUR masked thugs.

Oh, and they only target “blue” cities in blue states to avoid the inconvenience of worrying about armed civilians in pesky open-carry and stand-your-ground states.

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Deb Haugh's avatar

Resist. Resist. Resist. Every single way you can.

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Jason Merchey's avatar

May God be with ya’ll!

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Leigh Horne's avatar

Keep up the good work of saying it like it is. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if Governor Pritzker deployed the Illinois Guard to protect his city and its law-abiding citizens from ICE Barbie and her ICE-capades.

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Jason Merchey's avatar

Ya I don’t know if Trump could countermand that order by simply federalizing them. If that were to happen, watch while every Republican in Congress, except Rand Paul, quietly forgets about their previous protestations about state rights.

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Mary's avatar

Our Chicago NO KINGS DAY protest will be HUGE! Sir, we will make the biggest protest ever seen. Tear gassed in Chicago at the young age of 14, so I got skills. Never republican for 51+ years and continuing until I die.

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Roger Poston's avatar

This is nothing more than an overt attempt to subjugate the people of one of our largest, most diverse and American cities. The Trump regime is using excessive and unnecessary force to provoke violence in order to invoke the Insurrection Act and then martial law. This is a naive attempt to use an essentially private army to complete the authoritarian takeover. Oregon will use their National Guard to protect their citizens from the Texas National Guard deployment. Illinois should do the same. Trump is essentially pitting armed Americans against each other. This is an act of aggression of our government against our people. We know who the enemy within is and it is the Trump regime. Simply put, enough is enough. If our elected officials will not stop this insanity they should be removed immediately by a vote of no confidence and replaced with real leadership.

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Carol Moore's avatar

Love you Chicago, thank you for standing so strong for all of us. ❤️❤️❤️

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Peter's avatar

The claim that Trump is sending the army and the ICE thugs into cities to quell violent insurrection is an easily provable lie. Trump is also a complete dumbass who only believes what he sees on Fox. Hence, violent ICE thugs create a violent incident that can be filmed and run on Fox so Trump sees it. The dumb MFer even admitted that what he is seeing is not reality. The danger is that one of these violent ICE thugs is going to trigger a violent response from a person or persons who have had enough. And that's when the shit is going to hit the fan. And it does not end the way Trump and his thugs think it does.

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Diana's avatar

Exactly! I couldn’t have said this any better than you did.

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Maxine Hunter's avatar

Thugs in masks pointing big guns at civilians is sickening. Praise to all the brave civilians on the streets protesting. Thanks, Edwin, for telling it like it is. Take care,

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Nenapoma's avatar

I ll quote Lincoln “In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.”

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Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

My, resistance, is, one, of peace! I heard, someone, say, the, Governor of the, state, belongs, in, prison! I don’t know him! No! Comment on this, matter, of, the, Governor, of, Illinois. Mr. Sykes, should, be, our, next, president, as, the, Governor, of, Kentucky, should, be, the, vice President! Next Presidential Election!

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