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GOP Budget Bill Would Make ICE “Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency” in U.S. History (www.democracynow.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

3, 2, ignition!, 1....we have liftoff! Liftoff of the first Fully human powered rocket to the National Pride USA USA ICE space station! Try to say that five times Bob! That's right Stacy! The rocket outputs the entire population of Git-mo every 3 seconds! This country is blessed with perfectly combustible .....Bob sorry to interrupt, but we're entering MECO! The Maximum Enemy Conditional Order, this is when the maximum amount of enemies of the country per second are powering the ascent! Ah yes Stacy! You're right. We have about 10 more seconds of bur....oops! The unscheduled disassembly of this space craft has activated as usually a random time. Well, better luck next time Stacey! That's right Bob, this will take a few months for a refueling....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Remember when Republicans were obsessed with Waco and Ruby Ridge.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Would? Try will. It passed the house 218 to 214, all but two Republicans for and every Democrat against.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ICE = SS

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I'd argue they are the Gestapo. SS was military.

ICE is just a mob of gangsters doing hits and disappearing their rivals. They and their dear leader mob boss are committing more crimes than any of the people they claim are the criminals.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wait it passed? The democrats didn't do anything to stop fascism? Who could have seen this coming?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It helps when they are not the minority… with a 10% margin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They have the filibuster. The thing they refused to get rid of to allow them to do good things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Can't filibuster a budget reconciliation bill. How many times do we have to go through this before people understand that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yup. The Republicans had a similar minority when they successfully gutted Obamacare to where it went from single payer to basically a website.

[+] [email protected] -16 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I'll never vote blue no matter who ever again. We are living the ongoing consequences of Biden's ongoing genocide, and y'all are way too willing to shift all the blame to Trump and GOP.

I'm certain 1 or 2 Democrats would have broken with party line to ensure it passes, we don't have 50 moral Democrats that can't be bought. They didn't need to break the illusion of being the opposition party this time.

Remember that it was under Biden that reporters were dragged out by force for asking questions about Gaza.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"I didn't like getting a paper cut, never doing that again, I'd rather get stabbed with a rusty sword next time."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

First they came for the Palestinians in Gaza And I did not speak out Because I was not a Palestinian in Gaza

Is that clear enough yet? I've watched Americans dismiss the slaughter of our children as a papercut and describe the infinitely preferable (compared to your children being literally shredded to pieced daily, or a paper cut in your words) future of Americans who refused to vote for a viable candidate as being stabbed with a rusty sword.

And you expect us to be there for you when you're the last one left? Fuck you. You described an active Genocide as a paper cut, and the self-destruction of the American empire and the upcoming recession due partly because they got rid of cheap exploitative labor as a stab with a rusty sword. You lack historic perspective, empathy, morals, and certainly class consciousness.

The Democrats are not your friends, do you forget that Debbie W Schultz rejected our demand for Bernie and have us Hillary? That's how we got Trump the first time, and what did the Democrats do? They blamed us, the voters. You forget Hillary's contempt for Bernie voters and how she described him as an infiltrator?

America ruining itself is going to save millions of lives and give many counties the chance to recover from exploitation. You're just being a selfish fuck who's upset now that consequences are home.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Biden’s ongoing genocide

Israel were illegally seizing Palestinian land by force under 45. And Obama. And Bush. In fact pretty much as a matter of ongoing policy going back to 1948. Saying that it's still "Biden's ongoing genocide" isn't fair or reasonable when Trump is posting AI videos of himself and Netanyahu enjoying his new casino on the Gaza strip.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Oh no not AI videos! The horror. Bring back the 2,000lbs bombs on tent encampments and leaving babies to starve to death in hospitals, bring back white phosphorus on civilians, bring back normalizing dead baby pieces hanging from the rubble. But not AI videos!!!

Biden is our Hitler, and our history books will reflect that. You're correct, the Gaza genocide is just one small chapter in the history of England and then the US colonizing Palestine.

Be consistent, if you're able to credit him for the good things he did instead of saying he's just building on what Trump left him, you should be able to recognize that he could have ended this genocide but refused.

Even if Trump was a good president/person and wanted to end it, there's nothing left of Gaza for the remaining population. Biden already wiped it out.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I am not saying Democrats are good (or not corrupted)… but blaming democrats for what Republicans are doing is apologetic to republicans

“They would have done x if they were the majority “ is just your speculation. The reality is that the US voted this… and it’s getting this

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What did I blame the Democrats for what the Republicans are doing?

Are you denying that Biden enthusiastically and fully backed the genocide?

If so, I see no point in arguing with you anymore, you're clearly still in the American politics cult. Democrats are not your friends, they just give you the illusion of someone fighting on your behalf. They are complicit in every major shift the country took to the right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dude I am not even from US.

Not my circus not my monkeys.

But your arguments are flawed

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

If my argument is flawed, you should be able to point out the flaws.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

would

*will

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

It absolutely eclipses the Gestapo.

The Heritage Foundation quite literally took the Nazi Germany history and said "we can do it better."

With 32,000 members, the Gestapo and adjacent effects was able to kill 21m people.

The Foundation wants 258,000,000 dead.

That $170b is going to that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's $170B, not millions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Ooops, I knew that too I'll correct it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

280,000,000 dead

Who exactly?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The Heritage Foundation members have stated a population around 100million would be healthy.

If 75% of Americans were culled (remember the number supposedly "saved") that ends up being near 100m or killing 258m.

65m Hispanic ancestry? 48m Black Americans? 6.5m South Asians? 5m Ethnic Chinese?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Alright thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I know Laura looked said 65 mil but maybe they just want the 1% left and use robots for labor.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is some SS level shit. Or more accurately, Trump wants his own Rosgvardiya.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

National Guard is separate from the Armed Forces.[3] It became a federal executive body in 2016 by a law signed by President Vladimir Putin.

I was not familiar with Rosgvardiya turns out it was founded in 2016. Wow.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

Largest and most expensive are two different things, most expensive could lead to largest, but I guarantee you the plan for spending that money is the size and shape of a napkin and includes a big funnel to the military and prison industrial complexs and with a sketch of some stick figures in suits throwing piles of cash at each other while laughing.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Money to fund gestapo US Border Patrol and ICE-IS but not enough for health care for our elderly, education for our youth, or nutrition and housing assistance for our vets.

This government is morally bankrupt. Error Code: 404

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

Don't worry, there's plenty of money to fund israeli healthcare as well as their genocide.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Oh, look...

That private army Mafia Don Mangolini's always wanted is coming to pass.

Able to do "Daddy's" (🤮) bidding without restraint or consequence.

FFS.

🤡 🖕 🖕 💩

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If I remember something I read earlier, they would be better funded than the Russian military. This is insane.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The russian military literally told their soldiers to show up for war, bringing their own weapons, food, clothes, and tools.

Thats not exactly a great bar to measure funding with....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

They do have tanks, airplanes, and artillery though.

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