Trump's budget makes the U.S. a police state, throwing millions off healthcare while giving ICE $168 billion, including $45 billion to build internal concentration camps.
trump, vance, little marco, musk and Lucifer all applaud this feed the wealthy, starve the children, the infirm, veterans, and elderly bill, although Lucifer is somewhat taken aback by its sheer, soulless cruelty...
The top photo at Alligator Auschwitz? By a White House photographer? That man aka the pumpkin peril looks like someone who wandered away from a "rest home," ie - he isn't wrapped tight.
Throughout our history, we've been subjected to periodic outbreaks of hysteria of one kind or another. In the 17th century it was witchcraft trials that resulted in the deaths of innocent people. We've had violent, nationalist movements like the Know Nothings, followed later by Neo-fascist movements involving prominent Americans like Father Coughlin and Charles Lindbergh. That was followed by Japanese-American internment camps here in the US, which ironically was fighting a war against fascism. We've had the ugliness of Jim Crow in which countless black lives were lost to lynchings, some carried by our own states. We've endured the Red Scare in which Americans accused their fellow citizens of communism to save their own hides. And, worst of all, we've had slavery and genocides of non-white people; slavery was even written into our Constitution.
These hysterias keep happening because we never learn our lesson and hold the people responsible for them accountable. Our history is sanitized and Disney-fied. Trump and MAGA world are pushing the teaching of 'patriotic' history where only the good and uplifting parts are taught - not the sad, often ugly, side effects of our actions.
Right now we're living through a lengthy backlash against the election of our first Black president. Trump rose to prominence on the strength of the lie that Obama wasn't really an American - something the good and decent among us were shocked to find far too many of our neighbors wanted to believe. The current purge of DEI, 'wokeness', the erasure of non-white Americans from our history, and especially the physical removal of brown people from our midst all has its origin in the election of a Black man to the presidency, something that shattered the comfort of too many Americans even if they won't own up to it. Yet, those very people are cheering the idea of brown bodies being thrown into cages in a Florida swamp with the possibility they'll be attacked by alligators or pythons. It's bread and circuses in modern America.
A couple of weeks ago, Jim Acosta said we're suffering from a 'decency crisis' in this country. If you look at the actions of this administration and the compliant, servile republicans who support it, it's hard to argue with that premise.
It would be much simpler and more cost effective to pay each person they wish to deport $45k to leave the country and sign an agreement to not ever re-enter! Of course, I am not sure where ‘Merican businesses would get their cheap labor force after that, but….. details!
We don't need to build more "Alligator Alcatraz" camps. We just need to rehab the 120 year old ones we already have--Manzanar, Tule Lake, etc.--all of which are in remote locations. As a bonus, we could hire George Takei as a consultant who had spent a part of his childhood in the original ones.
America never truly had its bearings. Native Americans and black Americans have been dealing with the ugliness for generations. The failure to combat this lunacy decades ago has now allowed the rot to spread throughout the entire body politic.
Thanks for the honest incite
Please, Please, Please start calling it the “Big Bastard Bill”.
Only a bastard would take from the weak, poor, and sick and give to the rich!
Only a bastard would punish his teammates who don’t worship and kowtow to him.
Only a bastard would make humiliate a reporter with a medical condition.
Only a bastard would denigrate a war hero that was captured and refused an offer to be released without his men.
Only a bastard would cheat on his taxes and his wives.
The Big Bronze Bastard. The Big Bigoted Bastard.
Etc. Etc. Etc. Fill in the blanks.
I hope Canada is prepared for all the requests for asylum they are about to receive.
trump, vance, little marco, musk and Lucifer all applaud this feed the wealthy, starve the children, the infirm, veterans, and elderly bill, although Lucifer is somewhat taken aback by its sheer, soulless cruelty...
The top photo at Alligator Auschwitz? By a White House photographer? That man aka the pumpkin peril looks like someone who wandered away from a "rest home," ie - he isn't wrapped tight.
“We?” Who’s “we.”
Because “we” weren’t doing this 6 months ago.
Throughout our history, we've been subjected to periodic outbreaks of hysteria of one kind or another. In the 17th century it was witchcraft trials that resulted in the deaths of innocent people. We've had violent, nationalist movements like the Know Nothings, followed later by Neo-fascist movements involving prominent Americans like Father Coughlin and Charles Lindbergh. That was followed by Japanese-American internment camps here in the US, which ironically was fighting a war against fascism. We've had the ugliness of Jim Crow in which countless black lives were lost to lynchings, some carried by our own states. We've endured the Red Scare in which Americans accused their fellow citizens of communism to save their own hides. And, worst of all, we've had slavery and genocides of non-white people; slavery was even written into our Constitution.
These hysterias keep happening because we never learn our lesson and hold the people responsible for them accountable. Our history is sanitized and Disney-fied. Trump and MAGA world are pushing the teaching of 'patriotic' history where only the good and uplifting parts are taught - not the sad, often ugly, side effects of our actions.
Right now we're living through a lengthy backlash against the election of our first Black president. Trump rose to prominence on the strength of the lie that Obama wasn't really an American - something the good and decent among us were shocked to find far too many of our neighbors wanted to believe. The current purge of DEI, 'wokeness', the erasure of non-white Americans from our history, and especially the physical removal of brown people from our midst all has its origin in the election of a Black man to the presidency, something that shattered the comfort of too many Americans even if they won't own up to it. Yet, those very people are cheering the idea of brown bodies being thrown into cages in a Florida swamp with the possibility they'll be attacked by alligators or pythons. It's bread and circuses in modern America.
A couple of weeks ago, Jim Acosta said we're suffering from a 'decency crisis' in this country. If you look at the actions of this administration and the compliant, servile republicans who support it, it's hard to argue with that premise.
It would be much simpler and more cost effective to pay each person they wish to deport $45k to leave the country and sign an agreement to not ever re-enter! Of course, I am not sure where ‘Merican businesses would get their cheap labor force after that, but….. details!
Every reading of portions of the BBB brings new horrors to the forefront. How does ANYONE think ANY of it is acceptable?
We don't need to build more "Alligator Alcatraz" camps. We just need to rehab the 120 year old ones we already have--Manzanar, Tule Lake, etc.--all of which are in remote locations. As a bonus, we could hire George Takei as a consultant who had spent a part of his childhood in the original ones.
We have lost our bearings and our minds. Again.
What’s logic got to do with it.
America never truly had its bearings. Native Americans and black Americans have been dealing with the ugliness for generations. The failure to combat this lunacy decades ago has now allowed the rot to spread throughout the entire body politic.