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I feel pretty prepared.
Best case scenario is Trump fuelling and stealing all that money
He kinda is. He’s made deals with the companies that will get rich from the semi-legal human trafficking profits that this creates.
So ICE now formally is the US SS. The presidents personal army, police force, secret police, border guard and prison management in one.
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ICE has only existed since 2003.
Shut up, Meg 🤦♂️
Dont engage the gestapo. That is the only way they can fight, through confrontation. Bullets, fists, crowd control.
Get a propane torch, you know for some light plumbing.
Always have an angle grinder, these things can cut steel, but are also useful for shaving down rusted iron bars and aluminum. Keep these separated for safety reasons.
Also, if you need something very bright and very hot, magnesium strips can be ignited by the above mentioned torch. Don’t do this near that dust you made.
Seriously don’t. That kind of reaction, depending on the amount, will melt through solid steel.
Also, never mix grape juice with yeast and sugar. If you put it in a warm place, it will make a light poison appear in the bottle.
I know I love making fun of you yanks, but, y’all stay safe out there.
Uhhhh…we can’t
For now. If you’re a white male/female with at least 2 generations of American citizenship. You’ll be ok.
I’m thinking the next big leap? Gov looks at all social media for what political side you’re on. Then you’ll get thrown in camps. This is maybe year 4 of Trump or whatever comes after him in a rigged election. Maybe an “emergency” skip the elections this time thing.
cis hetero *neurotypical white man/woman. I only fit the white category. The LGBT will be next to be rounded up into camps. Not sure if I should flee the country or just accept my fate.
Palantir is actively collecting a database of dissenting social media accounts
We are not safe and you are naive as fuck if you think we are.
I’m thinking the next big leap? Gov looks at all social media for what political side you’re on. Then you’ll get thrown in camps. This is maybe year 4 of Trump or whatever comes after him in a rigged election. Maybe an “emergency” skip the elections this time thing.
No, the next big leap is transgender people being rounded up. Trans people have been saying this, myself (an Australian) included, since before the election. He’s already made it difficult to impossible to leave the country if you’re trans. Not only are trans people being denied passports in their chosen gender, but those people are being denied them in their gender assigned at birth too. They’re ignoring court orders over it as well.
I’m not so sure. Don’t forget RFK appointed David Geier to “cure US the autism epidemic.”
David worked with his father, a doctor, on a supposed ‘cure’ for autism. They experimented on neighborhood autistic kids in their basement. Their hypothesis is that since autism has links to gender dysphoria, that hormones must be at fault. They began giving the children injections of Lupron, a hormone suppressant that can cause chemical castration over time.
They were both charged with endangering minors, David was charged with practicing medicine without a license, and his father’s medical license was revoked.
Fun fact: Autism Spectrum Disorder was rebranded from Asperger’s when the DSM-5 was updated in 2013. They decided to finally drop the name of Dr. Hans Asperger, the German scientist who experimented on ‘autistic psychopaths’ under Nazi guidance.
Not so sure about what?
That transgender people will be the next target over autistic people. I think it depends on how much support Trump gives RFK for his mission.
Oh boy I’m both!
Same here. Interestingly enough, it’s actually somewhat common.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09593535221074806
Or, hear me out, both can be targeted at the same time. I mean, there’s already a lot of overlap. We don’t have to be out here playing the oppression olympics.
I wasn’t speaking competitively, but as a point of awareness. I fall under both anyway. Sorry if my reply came off as standoffish. Trans people are more aware of their persecution, so I think it’s also important to remind people with ASD that they’re a target for RFK.
That’s 1 million people if you take out the 13-17 demo. That would take a year with the new 200 billion budget. Then they have to find a new target.
Ice is Taco’s secret police.
Gestapo, Stazi, Spanish Inquisition. Some good reading on history.
It absolutely is, and the ramifications of the bill won’t be fully understood until it’s largely too late.
It will have to be challenged in the courts and hopefully held up until a new Congress is seated in '27 and a new President in '29.
until a new Congress is seated in '27
So, you think Trump isn’t going to have democratic candidates arrested and/or disqualified from running? It’s one of the standard next steps for authoritarian leaders.
People said the same thing about W. Bush and the opposing side said the same thing about Obama. I’m cautiously optimistic.
Neither of them ignored court orders the way Trump has done. Neither of them tried to launch an insurrection when they lost an election the way Trump did on Jan 6th. Neither of them called up governors and tried to pressure them to “find a few votes” the way Trump did in Georgia.
a new President in '29
We all hope.
Sure, there will be a new President. Vance will take the job in name with Trump as VP, but will sit back.
Trump is old as shit and loves McDonalds. It’s a medical miracle that he hasn’t died of a heart attack in his sleep already. He’s not going to be here much longer regardless.
Why Vance and not Don Jr? Despots normally hand power down to their kids.
Not successfully. North Korea is a huge exception. Everywhere else, those kids don’t last long.
Yeah usually it either shifts into a democracy, oligarchy, junta, or a new completely random dictator. It’s not exactly easy to predict but there is enough of a pattern to say there’s a good chance none of Trump’s spawn will be in charge.
They may not last long, but it’s rare when the dictator is still in power at the end of his life, has kids and doesn’t try to hand off power to them.
Chiang Kai-shek -> Chiang Ching-kuo
François “Papa Doc” Duvalier -> Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier
Hafez al-Assad -> Bashar al-Assad
There aren’t a whole lot of dictators who died while still having power, but Franco didn’t, Mao didn’t, and Stalin didn’t.
Don Jr would be in over is head within five minutes.
Most dictators don’t die while still in power, but that’s mostly because most of them seize power when they’re relatively young. Often they’re generals in the army and aged 40 or something. That means they need to live 40ish years before dying and handing off power. In many cases they use their time in office to eliminate all opposition so that if they do live long enough to hand over power, it doesn’t matter if their sons are relatively weak.
Trump’s a unique case because he gained power in his 70s, so that’s not a lot of time to shape the country so that his failson can take over.
Assuming law still matters by then, he can’t be VP. VP has to be eligible to be president.
When was the last time the law mattered? It’s been rules for thee but not for me for decades now
You mean centuries? From 1776? When all men were created equally? And just men. None of those pesky women! And obviously only full real men. None of those 3/5ths of a man! Legally speaking of coarse…
I would put /s, but it’s not really sarcasm. More of a condemnation of our entire country which tries to project these ideas that we’re some great country built on respectable principals.
Fact is, our country was a group of alcoholic degenerates, that founded our country by giving the middle finger to the king of England because the King came to collect taxes.
From there, they decided that Native American lives meant nothing, and brutally murdered them for land.
While all this was going on, they also placed an amazon overnight delivery order for some slaves shipped straight from Africa.
And somehow, someway, in all of this, the NEW government decided it needed to collect taxes. You know, the whole thing that prompted this whole thing to begin with. But now they were COLLECTING taxes. Not PAYING them!
Always has been rules for thee but not for me. Since day 1.
Fact is, our country was a group of alcoholic degenerates
Hey, hey, hey… Some of them were just alcoholics. :)
I mean, being a degenerate was almost a prerequisite to get shipped over here. Cultists (puritans), criminals, prostitutes, and undesirables.
At the time of the revolution, the colonists were paying only 10% the tax that English residents were. Taxes were a bit of a figleaf. More important was the “tyranny” of the King refusing to override the elected government’s decision to uphold the treaties with the native Americans and forbid westward colonial expansion.
Japan just happened to punch the wrong bystander in the eye during their last bar brawl. Then, we started shooting everyone associated with Japan. It just happened that we were shooting the countries that were more in the wrong.
All of the people we accidentally protected assumed we were on their side and didn’t realize that we REALLY like shooting things. So much so that we’re willing to give guns away just to have an excuse to start shooting again. But by the time countries realized that we have really strange opinions on religion, the value in starvation and disease, and assigning humanity based on colors, they’d already given us the guest key.
We have no friends, countries are either in our sights or not.
ICE is now upgraded to:
Imperial Command Enforcers
Sure would be nice if people like you didn’t meme the rise of fascism in America
Sure would be nice if Americans didn’t elect fascists to control the world’s most powerful military. But here we are.
Dumb comment.
Fortunately most of this money will be stolen by federal contractors, but yeah, the gICEtappo is going to balloon in size.
That’s the glimmer of hope here. You’ve got greed and inconpetence all dueling with malice.
Billions of dollars will be squandered on overpriced and inappropriate equipment, or laundered through consultancies that won’t be providing proper training, setting the stage for some dramatic rake-in-the-face moments.
My bingo card includes:
- An ICE branded armoured vehicle driven over their commanding officer, DUI optional.
- Antivaxxed recruits getting Super Malaria trying to operate the camps.
- Some dramatic security failure (maybe a domestic-terror plot) that even Biden’s law-enforcement apparatus would have easily stopped except that all resources were focused on ICE.
as if they arnt doing it already, they have A specialized airline solely for deportations.
At the rate things are going, I wouldn’t be surprised if most of that money will end up in the pockets of new American oligarchs.
Everyone try not to be too positive about this now.
What a stupid comment to get blocked over
Yes, and what exactly is she doing about it beyond histrionics?
someones using their word of the day calendar
What are you doing besides complaining?
What exactly is one representative, of a party that is in the minority and therefore has no power, supposed to do other than speak up?
AOC has been doing more than other Dems that’s for sure.
AOC and Bernie are the two you should look too. Hitting the ground game is something every single Dem should be doing
We wouldn’t be here today if the DNC didn’t cripple Bernie’s primaries
Right, too bad we never saw a Bernie as president. Probably would have been hard to get things done but someone of moral character would be an amazing view
histrionics
You really don’t understand how fucking sexist that word is, do you?
