Amid unprecedented backlash against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, California Gov. Gavin Newsom—considered a leading contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination—is being accused of giving the increasingly violent agency a pass after an interview with right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro in which he softened his criticism of ICE.
In recent days, following an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent’s fatal shooting of 37-year-old mother of three Renee Good last week in Minneapolis, officers of ICE and other federal agencies have been documented engaging in blatant racial profiling, unconstitutional “citizenship checks,” and extreme uses of physical force, including dragging a disabled US citizen from her car on the way to a doctor’s appointment, as the Associated Press reported Friday.
Ben, what is terrorism?
terrorism /tĕr′ə-rĭz″əm/
noun
- The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.
- The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.
- The practise of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
The third one is what people usually mean, but the Trump administration is waist deep in the first two.
Progressives and anyone left of progressives need to very loudly let the establishment know that we absolutely will not vote for Newsom in either a primary, or a general election. The establishment is getting ready to anoint this fucking goblin.
Tell that to the people who think voting doesn’t matter. As many people can say it as loudly as they want; if they don’t vote in the primaries then they shouldn’t be surprised when it doesn’t turn out the way they want.
Leftists boycotting elections is part of the reason we’re in this mess.
Cripes, this is like, easy-mode. The way to push back without giving them a soundbite is dead simple:
Our ICE officers obviously are not terrorists.
Reply: “Is it obvious? What distinguishes the way they act from terrorists, Ben?”
Goes to show how out-of-touch from reality these major political parties are. It’s just not sustainable when the backbone of any and every economy (the human worker who toils day after day) isn’t able to survive the crushing pressure from the elites (paying huge taxes while the elite find loopholes for paying their fair share; the economic disease from their corruption; privatised gains and socialised losses for the elites’ business ventures)
And Every. Single. Bloody. Time. it ends in mass violent revolution. The so-called “geniuses” that own the extreme majority of the world’s wealth really have no fucking clue what theyre doing and what the consequences of their selfish and short-sighted actions are.
The rich don’t think past the next quarter. Besides, whats a doomsday bunker cost, $10 or $20 mill? That’s pocket change to a billionaire. Everyone of them thinks they are 100% safe from the unwashed masses, even though they probably have a mexican lady cleaning their house and making their meals.