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Well for someone who works for the department of justice, calling police officers fascists seems a tad less than even handed. What sort of sandwich was it?

like a half eaten sub if i recall correctly. sort of half threw it into the officers vest

I mean the guy works for justice department and lives in DC. His local police force temporarily replaced by a theatrical presence of national guards, FBI and the new ICE recruits donning masks and unmarked vehicles. His taxpayer money funding this temporary takeover, let's not forget.

He looks at his phone and to the street; at the mall an ICE agent repeatedly goes up and down the escalator to try intimidate the public. Trump's on the news talking about how all of a sudden DC crime is a national emergency (last few months he's been busier renovating the white house lawn and talking about Tariffs). Main videos include people being harrassed on their porch, others arrested for smoking and now a man failing to pay for transport... This sandwich man lives in DC, has seen the DoJ changes firsthand.

"calling police officers fascists seems a tad less than even handed."

• Sure, if you discredit sandwichman and the numerous DC protests resisting the takeover
  • DoJ worker, lives in DC, has a first hand account of changes under Trump and crime
  • Why do you know better than him? Why are officers selected from the 6 republican states + the pro-deportation / anti-dueprocess ICE agent newhires immediately more credible?

Say you're wrong and this is early Nazi Germany - is it OK for Germans to resist the sudden increase in Gestapo-style agents ('blackshirts') establishing their presence and attempting to intimidate or arrest undesirables (left-wing, jews, mentally disabled).

• Here, substitute Germans for DC citizens, Gestapo for ICE/MAGA-affiliated agencies. For undesirables substitute blacks, MAGA opposition, mexicans, hispanics
• Wouldn't surprise me if Trump is waiting on a Reichstag fire event

 

[Brookie1973]

Is AI MAGA?

 

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I’ll have a few weeks off politics / silvertails again and start catching up on it all once I hear of anything interesting that pops up. Started getting way too many political / news videos popping on my YouTube feed !! I don’t mind having 1-2 day bursts where I’m interested in it, but then tend to switch off for a while.

Will forward on a few videos I thought were somewhat relevant to a few of the topics discussed in recent days. Hate YouTube shorts, hard to stop doom scrolling once you start (hence why I want to get news out of my feed for a while !)

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Video of US “immigration agents” shooting at what appears to be a Hispanic dad and his son after breaking their car windows

• Unmarked vehicles, masks
• Refused to identify themselves and one agent walked up to the car with his gun drawn
• Guys in car offered to show their id and kept asking what they wanted. Windows broken, dad panicked and an agent shot at them 3 times from close range
• Department of Homeland and defence tried to claim they wanted to hit the officers with their car; contrary to the video footage

Another guy died 6 days ago while fleeing a random raid at a home depot - ran into traffic and was mowed down by a bus. ICE did the raid / chased him. US govt offering people a 40K signup bonus to join immigration agencies. Apparently quotas too / financial incentives. You can imagine the type of people that have been signing up for it… training and background checks essentially non-existent …

Taxpayer-funded too, already budgeted at around $30 billion. Simultaneously, people getting kicked off Medicaid; some examples include losing access to support programs for autistic kids

“Do I need to answer to you?”

Kash Patel accidentally contradicted the “crime crisis” messaging on DC last week by bringing up actual stats (trump wasn’t happy…).

smithsonian museum attendees reacting to trumps threats against slave history

 

[Brookie1973]

Weaponisation of the justice department being exposed and nullified.

 

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Weaponisation of the justice department being exposed and nullified.

Checked for any final replies and … another Fox video. Here they feign some tears about a billionaire nearly having to pay some spare change. In the same breath they’d probably say it’s a great thing that they’re all of a sudden cutting Medicaid to give billionaires tax cuts

Another video feeding you the bare minimum in terms of details too; yet a whole lot of narrative.

That’ll do it for me actually. Total waste of time reading what has essentially become your twitter feed. The delusional don’t need convincing, they need diagnosis. Go ahead and buy a trump hat to stick on the back of your car. Outing yourself saves people having to find out the hard way

Anyways, was a nice green sky today,

Fox News; capturing the imagination of America’s stupidest and most ignorant for decades. What happens when entertainment tv meets politics. Creating a disaster group of reactionary bigots with a fluid ideology guided by hate, religious hiveminds and an unfortunate lack of information. It’ll all come crashing down again sooner or later - history doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes

MAGA will not be remembered as a political ideology. It will be remembered for everything ugly that it is as yet another reminder that democracy and diversity are two things not to be taken for granted.

Ann Johnson delivered a sharp message to the Texas dinosaurs that don’t believe in democracy

As for my final words, what quote do I think best sums up MAGA?

“don’t treat others like you want to be treated”​

So long and farewell