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Don't give in to the lies.
Don't give in to the fear.
The current insanity is NOT normal.
The institutional cruelty is wrong.
Trans rights are human rights.
Reject the patriarchy.
LGBTQIANB+ rights are human rights.
Black lives matter.
No discrimination.
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I seriously worry about Trump inciting his fanatical maga followers to attack Democrats, the way the Hutus fomented a genocide of the Tutsi population of Rwanda in 1994.
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I wouldn't characterize their attitude as "comfortable".
Did Padilla look comfortable while they had his face mashed into the ground and his arm twisted up behind his back?
I think "desperate" or "resolved" or "brave" are more apt descriptions of their actions.
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Noem and her agents knew that was Senator Alex Padilla. "I didn't know" is Noem's standard answer when she is caught doing something immoral, or illegal.
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This is the Trump Regime showing that they aren't going to answer to anyone - not even Senators.
How long will it be before DHS agents burst into the house and senate, and round up the democratic representatives, like day laborers outside a Home Depot ?
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This is the fate for all of us. The Trump Regime is going to deal violenty with everyone. They won't even need to give a reason.
And if you think being a faithful MAGA follower will spare you that treatment, think again.
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How long do we have before they start shooting anyone who questions them. It's just a matter of time, unless we get off this path now.
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Krist Noem, Homeland Security, and ICE are not protecting us - they're oppressing us.
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As a citizen of the United States, and the State of California, I stand with you Governor Newsom, in opposition to president Donald Trump's violations of the constitution, and authoritarian actions.
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is forcefully entering without just cause, and they're getting away with it. There will be no repurcussions to those agents, which will embolden them to be even more aggressive in the future.
This is the fascist police state.
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It's barbaric
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They're just following orders.
And yes, comparing them to the Nazis is called for, because that how they're acting. This is how it started in Germany 100 years ago. We know where this leads.
Let's stop it now!
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This is "the secret police". Unidentified government agents grabbing whoever they want off the street, without justification.
No warrants. No Due Process. No Review. No Accountability.
We have to stop this now!
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The rules will be the same for all of us soon. They'll snatch anyone off the street, never to be seen again. Picture this happening to your spouse and children, because that's what's in our future, unless we stop it NOW.
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Don't think this is just going to happen to immigrants! This is how the government is going to deal with all of us.
If we don't stop this now, you, your spouse, your kids, your grandmother could be kidnapped by federal agents, and whisked away, never to be seen again.
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These ICE kidnappings have got to stop ! Federal Agents are operating like thugs, violently abducting people ofc the street without due process!
Any bystanders who try to question these it are dealt with violently as well.
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He also has the power to cause a lot of pain and suffering. Don't dismiss the danger.
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I'm not laughing. Everything the Trump Regime is doing is against the constitution, but they're still doing it. They're ending free speech, silencing critics, and exerting control over the media.
This may have seemed like an absurd situation before Trump got elected, but now it's real.
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The GOP playbook - page 1
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But still a dangerous clown.
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But still very dangerous.
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Gorka is a fascist, and is ignoring the constitution and US law.
The Trump Regime is snatching people off the streets without legal justification, and without due process, and threatening anyone who points out the Trump regime's illegal actions.
The Trump Regime is fascist, and anti-American!
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We are really doing it. The USA is heading for full dystopian nightmare.
The messages "Be Kind" and "We Are Stronger Together" are anti-American now.
That is the heart of MAGA, revealed. The USA will be paradise for hateful, vindictive, bigots, racists, X-phobics, who want to inflict suffering.
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So the logic here is that trans people are always whatever sex allows them to be punished.
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"So the logic here is that trans people are always whatever sex allows them to be punished."
Wow! You nailed it! That one sentence boils it down to the essence of MAGA/Right/GOP.
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Appeasment is a bad strategy. Trump knows he can bully them, so he'll be back for more.
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Not even the MAGA faithful should be okay with US citizens being sent to foreign prisons, without trial.
If Trump is allowed to get away with that, then our whole way of life is changed. Anything a person does, or says, or the lies that someone tells about that person, can get them imprisoned.
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I hope the CBS executives have the sense not to capitulate to Trump. CBS made documentaries about WWII, for heaven's sake!
* Appeasement never works! *
Bullies don't stop bullying when their victims cower and accede to demands. That just encourages the bullies to be worse, and more demanding.
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Image posted on Masto, but looks originally from bird site
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They ARE doing it to anybody.
It's not hypothetical.
The USA is fascist country under Donald Trump.
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"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
RFK jr is unfit to head HHS.
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"Rough with women" ?!
If it's non-consensual, that's assault or abuse. That's not okay. It's criminal.
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If you think the people who elected Trump will ever take responsibility for the damage he's done, you don't understand the MAGA movement.
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And anything else the Trump regime finds, that they don't like.
It's like letting police come into your home. It doesn't matter why they are there; anything they see can give them cause for action against you.
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The GOP use Doublethink.
To be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies.
To hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them.
To repudiate morality while laying claim to it.
George Orwell, 1984
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Yes. I totally agree with you.
And even though I am a white, male, citizen, I'm struggling to be productive, because of what the Trump regime is doing. I'm so worried and angry about the harm Trump is doing that it's hard to focus on anything else. Every day is worse than the day before.
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Trump is targeting transgender people as a bone to throw to the MAGA base. Trump is hoping that his vicious supporters care more about persecuting trans people, than about the economy collapsing.
"I may be broke, and jobless, but at least trans folks, who weren't hurting anyone, are suffering!"
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And yet Trump seems not to understand how tariffs work. Is he pretending, or does he really not know his tariffs are paid by people in the United States?
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NOT rewarded - just spared from the current punishment.
No one prospers under Trump. Trump stabs everyone in the back. Trump has no loyalty, even though he demands it from others. The idea of getting ahead, by working with Trump, is a fantasy. When the US economy crumbles, no one wins.
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I'm sure President Trump will see this, blame the decrease on Biden, and want to get those numbers back up, and to a higher level than anyone has ever seem.
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Trump regime insists that all our federal government agencies are useless and corrupt, and it's dismantling them. Trump is breaking all our alliances with other countries. If the Federal government is goinv to stop serving its purpose,
WHY EVEN HAVE A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ?
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If they stopped giving subsidies and tax breaks to huge corporations and billionaires, there would be plenty of money for Medicare, Social Security, and everything else regular citizens pay taxes for.