I have decided that I agree, with great regret, that we must turn against any Democrat who supports, in any way, the secret police called ICE, an American nightmare.
ICE thugs forced open a door and attacked a citizen at gunpoint in his Minnesota home without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions and carted him away. There was no reason — zero, nothing — to do this. What kind of country is this?
Anyone with a microphone, whether in entertainment, journalism, or politics who does not shout out for the removal of Trump from office through impeachment or the 25th amendment is deserving of our contempt and disdain. I will no longer defend or attempt to justify the failure of any member of either party who betrays the nation in their own selfish interests by refusing to call Trump and his cabinet what they are, traitors, un-American, authoritarian enemies of all that is good. Any legislator who supports any aspect of Trump's policies, budgetary or otherwise, is a contemptible and selfish coward not deserving of any public office.
They must do whatever is necessary to get Trump out of office. Nothing is more important. We the people must protest everywhere and in every way we can.
I salute the Danes, Greenlanders and all others who are MAGA: Make America Go Away
At least until the current regime is ended, by whatever means it takes.
If I have said this once, I’ve said it 1000 times……we can and should have vigorous and spirited debate. We should have differences that need to be talked about civilly and fairly in an open democratic forum / system. That is a sign of a healthy functioning democracy.
What the orange imbecile and his MAGANAZIs are doing is dismantling that system. In short it’s my ( their ) way or the highway. A very un-American value that’s called a fascist dictatorship. Control the media. Control the message. Control the courts. Control the military. Check, check, check and check.
I agree 100% that the 25th should be invoked. If there ever was a time, if there ever was a POTUS that should have it invoked it is the current dictator dotard in the White House.
No need for apologies. Open democratic debate is a good process to sort out our priorities. The R MAGA cultists will do all to prevent such debate through intimidation and control of the corporate media.
The question is always "will Democrats find their spine?" when it should be "why does doing the right thing require extraordinary courage?"
You and George both see it: DHS concentrated power, made it ripe for abuse, and needs to be dismantled. That used to be conservative doctrine.
So when Democrats inevitably fold again, how do we make that the catalyzing moment instead of the demoralizing one? Because you're both describing the same thing from different angles: this isn't a personnel problem, it's an architecture problem. You can't fix DHS. You can't reform ICE. You can't make Schumer brave. You have to dismantle the structures that make cowardice the rational choice.
I think his pivot need to be explicit:
This isn't about Schumer lacking courage. It's about a system where holding the line costs him his position, his funding, and his institutional power. That's the architecture we have to dismantle.
Power pools, and accountability dissolves, and the people who should stop it have too much to lose.
Keep pushing the "busting up power" frame. That's where the real work is.
Citizens United v. FEC and Mc Cutchenson Untied v. FEC need to die. They need to be buried with a stake in their hearts so they never rise again.
In their place will be put a 100% public funded election(s). No outside money allowed. Period, full stop.If any illegal outside money is put into a campaign or politico it should result in a 30 year prison sentence without the option of parole or house arrest.
This is the root of all that is rotten in our political system. This is the root of why orange imbeciles can be “ elected “ twice.
Oh, and while we’re at it……let’s shit can the Electoral College. This is one college that doesn’t make you smart.
It is almost certain that ICE, as I and many others have written, the Trumpian equivalent of the Gestapo, will go only when Trump (or Vance, or whomever,) is no longer in the White House. ICE is the fascists' enforcer. If Congress ends funding (highly unlikely, unless the Dems take over in 2027, which the TrumpRepubloFascists are working everso hard to prevent, legally or illegally, they will find another way to fund it. An interesting side-note is that as increasingly brutal they become, ICE is coming to resemble not only the Nazi Gestapo, but also the Nazi Party's private army, Die Sturmabteilung, the Storm Troopers, the Brown Shirts. (Is ICE's uniform color just a coincidence?)
The moronic demented behavior of Cheeto and the Denmark Greenland controversy may have significant US bond market implications as the Danes in retaliation to Cheeto's claim that Greenland is US property have sold off their US treasury holdings
The point is that if the bond yields reach 5%....now at 4.26-4.13....the US dollar will essentially collapse ie zero value and the debt unsustainable Currently foreign holders of US treasuries is around $30T A foreign sell off of US bonds will eventuate in higher bond yields thus leading US economic collapse
Bessent is skitterish as he should be as Wall Street is squeamish as gold hits new record highs It the Danes lobby for other EU nations to follow the trend that would put Cheeto and his Greenland conquest on the skids Since a demented malignant narcissist can't take no for an answer he will be the direct cause of US dollar and economic collapse The EU should tread lightly as their fiat currencies will also be in peril and they are pegged to the dollar
As a 'progressive' from California, I subscribe to you and just sent a donation for Conway's Congressional race. There is no contradiction of my support to you both, and my 'progressive' values and lifelong support of other like-minded politicians. Let's all resist together and bring about the abolishment of ICE and this regime.
Steve and George, I hope many others are listening. History doesn't repeat but it is rhyming so much it could win a Grammy. Trump wants to take us back to 19th Century Pres. McKinley, a mediocre one at best, from 1897 to 1901 when he was assassinated. He was controlled by his political cronies and was pressured into war with Spain by the press, i.e. William Randolph Hearst and oversaw the beginning of our empire by annexing Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, Samoa, and the Philippines. He tried to negotiate the sale of Cuba by Spain which said NO. He was the 19th Century's TARIFF KING which is taught in schools today as an unmitigated disaster.
So, now an administrative warrant allows ICE to break down my door and seize me, detain me, deport me, search? Well, it's time to get your guns out and shoot them as they come through the door if you are an American citizen. If We the People no longer have protection from a masked mob of men dressed as police, have no ID or badges, why should We assume they are police with legal, judicial warrant. Females in particular are very afraid of predators exactly like ICE. Females are taught to be wary of males and their violent, thuggish behaviors. Females have every right to shoot first, ask for judicial warrant and order ICE to identify themselves and take their pictures. File for damages to property and sue government for not enforcing the US Constitution and US Laws. Between pardons, no law enforcement, no protection of anyone being seized, no cases to sue ICE, no emergency docket at US Supreme Court to stop ICE, Congress just increasing funding for ICE, it's time to step up Resistance and be an underground Resistance like existed in WWII Europe. Sorry, to say but I have lost all respect for law/order, Federal Government checks and balances and see evil, corruption, insanity in GOP/trump/MAGA Fascist Dictatorship. If our homes, cars, streets cannot, will not protect our Constitutional, law/order rights, We are forced to step IT up. I will not be complicit in funding Feds with IRS TAX payments. I will do what I think is moral and right because We are on our own now. Nothing left to lose erases fear.
Steve, I want your vision to be reality, but wanting something doesn’t make it so. The question is not whether it would be good for Jeffries and Schumer to follow your advice, but whether they will actually do so? If they do not, what alternatives do Americans have?
A line has been drawn, do not fund ICE in the Democratic Party, it has to be put in place as we go on from here, abolish ICE
I have decided that I agree, with great regret, that we must turn against any Democrat who supports, in any way, the secret police called ICE, an American nightmare.
ICE thugs forced open a door and attacked a citizen at gunpoint in his Minnesota home without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions and carted him away. There was no reason — zero, nothing — to do this. What kind of country is this?
And, a US citizen as well.
What kind of country is this indeed! I’d say a pretty eff-ed up one currently.
Anyone with a microphone, whether in entertainment, journalism, or politics who does not shout out for the removal of Trump from office through impeachment or the 25th amendment is deserving of our contempt and disdain. I will no longer defend or attempt to justify the failure of any member of either party who betrays the nation in their own selfish interests by refusing to call Trump and his cabinet what they are, traitors, un-American, authoritarian enemies of all that is good. Any legislator who supports any aspect of Trump's policies, budgetary or otherwise, is a contemptible and selfish coward not deserving of any public office.
They must do whatever is necessary to get Trump out of office. Nothing is more important. We the people must protest everywhere and in every way we can.
I salute the Danes, Greenlanders and all others who are MAGA: Make America Go Away
At least until the current regime is ended, by whatever means it takes.
My apologies to Jim Jorgensen!
MANA - Make America Normal Again
If I have said this once, I’ve said it 1000 times……we can and should have vigorous and spirited debate. We should have differences that need to be talked about civilly and fairly in an open democratic forum / system. That is a sign of a healthy functioning democracy.
What the orange imbecile and his MAGANAZIs are doing is dismantling that system. In short it’s my ( their ) way or the highway. A very un-American value that’s called a fascist dictatorship. Control the media. Control the message. Control the courts. Control the military. Check, check, check and check.
I agree 100% that the 25th should be invoked. If there ever was a time, if there ever was a POTUS that should have it invoked it is the current dictator dotard in the White House.
No need for apologies. Open democratic debate is a good process to sort out our priorities. The R MAGA cultists will do all to prevent such debate through intimidation and control of the corporate media.
Steve-
The question is always "will Democrats find their spine?" when it should be "why does doing the right thing require extraordinary courage?"
You and George both see it: DHS concentrated power, made it ripe for abuse, and needs to be dismantled. That used to be conservative doctrine.
So when Democrats inevitably fold again, how do we make that the catalyzing moment instead of the demoralizing one? Because you're both describing the same thing from different angles: this isn't a personnel problem, it's an architecture problem. You can't fix DHS. You can't reform ICE. You can't make Schumer brave. You have to dismantle the structures that make cowardice the rational choice.
I think his pivot need to be explicit:
This isn't about Schumer lacking courage. It's about a system where holding the line costs him his position, his funding, and his institutional power. That's the architecture we have to dismantle.
Power pools, and accountability dissolves, and the people who should stop it have too much to lose.
Keep pushing the "busting up power" frame. That's where the real work is.
Mika-
Citizens United v. FEC and Mc Cutchenson Untied v. FEC need to die. They need to be buried with a stake in their hearts so they never rise again.
In their place will be put a 100% public funded election(s). No outside money allowed. Period, full stop.If any illegal outside money is put into a campaign or politico it should result in a 30 year prison sentence without the option of parole or house arrest.
This is the root of all that is rotten in our political system. This is the root of why orange imbeciles can be “ elected “ twice.
Oh, and while we’re at it……let’s shit can the Electoral College. This is one college that doesn’t make you smart.
It is almost certain that ICE, as I and many others have written, the Trumpian equivalent of the Gestapo, will go only when Trump (or Vance, or whomever,) is no longer in the White House. ICE is the fascists' enforcer. If Congress ends funding (highly unlikely, unless the Dems take over in 2027, which the TrumpRepubloFascists are working everso hard to prevent, legally or illegally, they will find another way to fund it. An interesting side-note is that as increasingly brutal they become, ICE is coming to resemble not only the Nazi Gestapo, but also the Nazi Party's private army, Die Sturmabteilung, the Storm Troopers, the Brown Shirts. (Is ICE's uniform color just a coincidence?)
Danes Sell Off American Treasuries
The moronic demented behavior of Cheeto and the Denmark Greenland controversy may have significant US bond market implications as the Danes in retaliation to Cheeto's claim that Greenland is US property have sold off their US treasury holdings
The point is that if the bond yields reach 5%....now at 4.26-4.13....the US dollar will essentially collapse ie zero value and the debt unsustainable Currently foreign holders of US treasuries is around $30T A foreign sell off of US bonds will eventuate in higher bond yields thus leading US economic collapse
Bessent is skitterish as he should be as Wall Street is squeamish as gold hits new record highs It the Danes lobby for other EU nations to follow the trend that would put Cheeto and his Greenland conquest on the skids Since a demented malignant narcissist can't take no for an answer he will be the direct cause of US dollar and economic collapse The EU should tread lightly as their fiat currencies will also be in peril and they are pegged to the dollar
Schumer is always in the wrong place at the wrong time.
As a 'progressive' from California, I subscribe to you and just sent a donation for Conway's Congressional race. There is no contradiction of my support to you both, and my 'progressive' values and lifelong support of other like-minded politicians. Let's all resist together and bring about the abolishment of ICE and this regime.
I like what George is saying.
Steve and George, I hope many others are listening. History doesn't repeat but it is rhyming so much it could win a Grammy. Trump wants to take us back to 19th Century Pres. McKinley, a mediocre one at best, from 1897 to 1901 when he was assassinated. He was controlled by his political cronies and was pressured into war with Spain by the press, i.e. William Randolph Hearst and oversaw the beginning of our empire by annexing Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, Samoa, and the Philippines. He tried to negotiate the sale of Cuba by Spain which said NO. He was the 19th Century's TARIFF KING which is taught in schools today as an unmitigated disaster.
So, now an administrative warrant allows ICE to break down my door and seize me, detain me, deport me, search? Well, it's time to get your guns out and shoot them as they come through the door if you are an American citizen. If We the People no longer have protection from a masked mob of men dressed as police, have no ID or badges, why should We assume they are police with legal, judicial warrant. Females in particular are very afraid of predators exactly like ICE. Females are taught to be wary of males and their violent, thuggish behaviors. Females have every right to shoot first, ask for judicial warrant and order ICE to identify themselves and take their pictures. File for damages to property and sue government for not enforcing the US Constitution and US Laws. Between pardons, no law enforcement, no protection of anyone being seized, no cases to sue ICE, no emergency docket at US Supreme Court to stop ICE, Congress just increasing funding for ICE, it's time to step up Resistance and be an underground Resistance like existed in WWII Europe. Sorry, to say but I have lost all respect for law/order, Federal Government checks and balances and see evil, corruption, insanity in GOP/trump/MAGA Fascist Dictatorship. If our homes, cars, streets cannot, will not protect our Constitutional, law/order rights, We are forced to step IT up. I will not be complicit in funding Feds with IRS TAX payments. I will do what I think is moral and right because We are on our own now. Nothing left to lose erases fear.
would be great to have heard less from Steve and more form George - a hero of the rule-of-law conservatives.
They are wasting taxpayer money on ICE! We can put the money back into research and scientific studies.
Steve, I want your vision to be reality, but wanting something doesn’t make it so. The question is not whether it would be good for Jeffries and Schumer to follow your advice, but whether they will actually do so? If they do not, what alternatives do Americans have?
Steve, you are great but you never gave George enough time to share more with us. Too often we hear one more time all about you and time runs short.
with a government shut down?
No Steve. that is not the line. the only line is to abolish ICE. that money should be spent on health care for all. I agree with your candidate.