It hurts my heart that our country keeps repeating the same, cruel, racist mistakes. This is why we have the electoral college, the War Between the States, Jim Crow, America First, the fake Moral Majority, and now MAGA. Hopefully We the People, the actual majority, can find a way to finally relegate this chronic oppression to a dustbin of history that cannot be reopened.
This is horrible. And in no way am I suggesting that this is deserved. But this admnistration made it crystal clear what they were about. Perhaps people of color should have thought about this potential problem after the "floating island of garbage" comment, or the many other indicators of racism that this government has demonstrated, before a majority of them voted for Trump. Unless they felt that it was okay for it to happen to others, as long as they weren't specifically targeted.
Excellent point for me to remember. Democrats are just an organization with flaws, like every other. But at least their flaw is not deliberate cruelty. Republicans put this thing into power, not Democrats. Rs had multiple opportunities to protect us from this crisis, and refused at every one. All they had to do was secretly cast a ballot for the other candidate. The power was in their hands, and they chose to give it to a madman.
Correction...not a majority. But according to AP votecast "roughly half of Latino men voted for Trump." By my count, any more than 1 person voting for him is too many votes.
I wonder how those in the Latino community who voted for the lawless, orange menace feel now? Maybe they've learned if you aren't white, you aren't welcome here in magatville. Buyer's remorse...they can stand in line with those who thought Biden's Gaza response was not sufficiently friendly towards Palestinians and either voted for the lawless menace or didn't vote at all
“You might remember Chicago as the site of recent raids, and Homan’s frustration over Chicago residents being too prepared and fending off ICE with what they learned in ‘Know Your Rights’ training.”
Adrian, one of the things I like so much about your reporting is that you not only describe the awfulness of this administration’s policies and capriciousness, but also the strength of immigrant communities. We owe so much to immigrants and have for generations. We have also discriminated against and oppressed immigrants (and people who some deny are “real” Americans) for generations. And yet they continue to live, work, support their communities, and learn how to defend themselves. I am in awe.
Thank you, Gretchen. So many of our immigrant sisters & brothers sacrificed enormously to arrive here. They are generally not lazy or complacent. They take quite seriously the ideals & promise on which this country was built. They are us.
Ladies and Gentlemen, pay attention: THIS IS NOT ACTUALLY ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Immigrants just happen to be the most convenient Jews of Opportunity. Yes, immigrants will be persecuted, many will be deported, many will be disappeared. But in a real sense it's just business; when you overrun another nation or people or state, and set yourself up as the new masters, you you need serfs and helots.
We are in the midst of a revolution. It's not a contest of ideologies or even a re-ordering of social and economic relationships. It's not about changing game rules to favor a new team. MAGA is a creation by gangsters to break all will to resist. It's a decapitation strategy: activate the mob to smash the old order so its leadership can be extirpated, and the gangsters can take ownership of what's left. To the extent they create an appearance of traditional policy goals (i/e., "defending our borders", "ending discrimination against [white] people", "pushing back against socialism" and so forth) it's a cunning fraud.
These people are not concerned with courts or with laws or moral values. Like William the Conqueror in 1066 they mean to occupy the land and hold it... and to that end they are clear-eyed about willingness to do whatever circumstances require. Which the old order still somehow can't quite imagine. Even now, with all that is happening and has already transpired, it can't bring itself to acknowledge that the gangsters really mean it when they say the revolution will be bloodless ... provided "the left" puts up no resistance.
Some contests are unwinnable. They can't even be fought to a draw. When your opponent's credo is "Carthago delenda est", and will prosecute it to death and beyond, and cannot be deterred while he draws breath, what hope can there be in trying to oppose him other than by replicating his ferocity? In whch case, since what we wish to defend is Rule of Law and associated anachronisms, either he destroys it when we are subjugated, or we destroy it ourselves in order to save it.
this isn't collateral damage - this is part of the racial and ethnic cleansing of America aimed at reducing or eliminating anyone of brown or black skin. ICE is blatantly practicing racial and ethnic profiling. Look brown, speak Spanish? grab em. I wonder how many of the estimated 599,000 Europeans living in the US have been targeted or picked up.
In the first weekend of them targeting immigrants, I read that a Puerto Rican woman in NY who did not speak English went to the store without her ID, and she was picked up and sent to Mexico, where her husband had to fax her passport pictures to ICE in order to get her back. He had been in Columbia visiting his sick father. This was posted by someone in a Substack, so while I was not surprised, I was horrified.
I have brown skin and speak German, so I know that when I am in the US, I will be carrying my passport with me everywhere.
If you survey the elected members of Congress and other powerful Republicans, you are not likely to find protests being lodged by Republicans. They sit quietly by and let these travesties happen. The Democrats have yet to identify a real leader in helping with resistance. Where are the Clintons and Obama. Jimmy Carter is dead, but if he were healthy, he would be leading.
Every time we've done this, this has happened. In the infamously named 'Operation Wetback' during the Eisenhower years, US citizens were dropped in the middle of nowhere in Mexico, nowhere near anywhere they knew. In the "Great [Mexican] Repatriation" of the 1930s (Hoover AND FDR), between 40-60% of the deported were actually US citizens.
The difference between those times and this one? There was no Internet, no social media, no smartphones with digital cameras. This is going to go very very badly for MAGA, esp given research showing that the only people Americans wanted deported in this "mass deportation" were real criminals and recent border crossers.
President Trump on Friday ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the resettling of white, “Afrikaner refugees” into the United States because of what he called actions by the country’s government that “racially disfavored landowners.”
Polling data shows that the clear majority of the Latino vote was AGAINST Trump. Had the entire electorate matched the Latino vote percentages, President Harris would be providing a more stable government today.
It hurts my heart that our country keeps repeating the same, cruel, racist mistakes. This is why we have the electoral college, the War Between the States, Jim Crow, America First, the fake Moral Majority, and now MAGA. Hopefully We the People, the actual majority, can find a way to finally relegate this chronic oppression to a dustbin of history that cannot be reopened.
These were all expected before the election. People who did not believe us will still deny the reality until they are personally impacted.
This will not end well...
This is horrible. And in no way am I suggesting that this is deserved. But this admnistration made it crystal clear what they were about. Perhaps people of color should have thought about this potential problem after the "floating island of garbage" comment, or the many other indicators of racism that this government has demonstrated, before a majority of them voted for Trump. Unless they felt that it was okay for it to happen to others, as long as they weren't specifically targeted.
Excellent point for me to remember. Democrats are just an organization with flaws, like every other. But at least their flaw is not deliberate cruelty. Republicans put this thing into power, not Democrats. Rs had multiple opportunities to protect us from this crisis, and refused at every one. All they had to do was secretly cast a ballot for the other candidate. The power was in their hands, and they chose to give it to a madman.
Correction...not a majority. But according to AP votecast "roughly half of Latino men voted for Trump." By my count, any more than 1 person voting for him is too many votes.
I wonder how those in the Latino community who voted for the lawless, orange menace feel now? Maybe they've learned if you aren't white, you aren't welcome here in magatville. Buyer's remorse...they can stand in line with those who thought Biden's Gaza response was not sufficiently friendly towards Palestinians and either voted for the lawless menace or didn't vote at all
No se puede habla Espanol aqui en los Estados Unidos de MAGA.
“You might remember Chicago as the site of recent raids, and Homan’s frustration over Chicago residents being too prepared and fending off ICE with what they learned in ‘Know Your Rights’ training.”
Adrian, one of the things I like so much about your reporting is that you not only describe the awfulness of this administration’s policies and capriciousness, but also the strength of immigrant communities. We owe so much to immigrants and have for generations. We have also discriminated against and oppressed immigrants (and people who some deny are “real” Americans) for generations. And yet they continue to live, work, support their communities, and learn how to defend themselves. I am in awe.
Thank you, Gretchen. So many of our immigrant sisters & brothers sacrificed enormously to arrive here. They are generally not lazy or complacent. They take quite seriously the ideals & promise on which this country was built. They are us.
Don’t let the facts get in the way of the narrative for the MAGA crowd. That hurts their brain too much.
Ladies and Gentlemen, pay attention: THIS IS NOT ACTUALLY ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Immigrants just happen to be the most convenient Jews of Opportunity. Yes, immigrants will be persecuted, many will be deported, many will be disappeared. But in a real sense it's just business; when you overrun another nation or people or state, and set yourself up as the new masters, you you need serfs and helots.
We are in the midst of a revolution. It's not a contest of ideologies or even a re-ordering of social and economic relationships. It's not about changing game rules to favor a new team. MAGA is a creation by gangsters to break all will to resist. It's a decapitation strategy: activate the mob to smash the old order so its leadership can be extirpated, and the gangsters can take ownership of what's left. To the extent they create an appearance of traditional policy goals (i/e., "defending our borders", "ending discrimination against [white] people", "pushing back against socialism" and so forth) it's a cunning fraud.
These people are not concerned with courts or with laws or moral values. Like William the Conqueror in 1066 they mean to occupy the land and hold it... and to that end they are clear-eyed about willingness to do whatever circumstances require. Which the old order still somehow can't quite imagine. Even now, with all that is happening and has already transpired, it can't bring itself to acknowledge that the gangsters really mean it when they say the revolution will be bloodless ... provided "the left" puts up no resistance.
Some contests are unwinnable. They can't even be fought to a draw. When your opponent's credo is "Carthago delenda est", and will prosecute it to death and beyond, and cannot be deterred while he draws breath, what hope can there be in trying to oppose him other than by replicating his ferocity? In whch case, since what we wish to defend is Rule of Law and associated anachronisms, either he destroys it when we are subjugated, or we destroy it ourselves in order to save it.
this isn't collateral damage - this is part of the racial and ethnic cleansing of America aimed at reducing or eliminating anyone of brown or black skin. ICE is blatantly practicing racial and ethnic profiling. Look brown, speak Spanish? grab em. I wonder how many of the estimated 599,000 Europeans living in the US have been targeted or picked up.
In the first weekend of them targeting immigrants, I read that a Puerto Rican woman in NY who did not speak English went to the store without her ID, and she was picked up and sent to Mexico, where her husband had to fax her passport pictures to ICE in order to get her back. He had been in Columbia visiting his sick father. This was posted by someone in a Substack, so while I was not surprised, I was horrified.
I have brown skin and speak German, so I know that when I am in the US, I will be carrying my passport with me everywhere.
Viel Gluck. Und in seiner sache, ich wuerde nicht mehr als notwendig in America reisen.
If you survey the elected members of Congress and other powerful Republicans, you are not likely to find protests being lodged by Republicans. They sit quietly by and let these travesties happen. The Democrats have yet to identify a real leader in helping with resistance. Where are the Clintons and Obama. Jimmy Carter is dead, but if he were healthy, he would be leading.
Every time we've done this, this has happened. In the infamously named 'Operation Wetback' during the Eisenhower years, US citizens were dropped in the middle of nowhere in Mexico, nowhere near anywhere they knew. In the "Great [Mexican] Repatriation" of the 1930s (Hoover AND FDR), between 40-60% of the deported were actually US citizens.
The difference between those times and this one? There was no Internet, no social media, no smartphones with digital cameras. This is going to go very very badly for MAGA, esp given research showing that the only people Americans wanted deported in this "mass deportation" were real criminals and recent border crossers.
From NYT this evening:
President Trump on Friday ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the resettling of white, “Afrikaner refugees” into the United States because of what he called actions by the country’s government that “racially disfavored landowners.”
There are just no words.
I would be entirely unsurprised to find out that Trump isn't aware that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens.
Hadn't you noticed? He has already shown us that citizenship, like truth, is whatever he says it is.
What was the US Hispanic community thinking, voting for him? Did they really imagine that "good credentials " would change their profiles?
Polling data shows that the clear majority of the Latino vote was AGAINST Trump. Had the entire electorate matched the Latino vote percentages, President Harris would be providing a more stable government today.
They rounded up 7 Navajo in one raid. You cannot get more wrong than that.