Its not like there are enough people in the country illegally to fill the concentration camps the budget bill is going to pay for
So when are you yanks going to actually start shooting each other?
I expect it within the next 12 months. California is going to 3nd up withholding federal income tax and it’s going to start a new civil war.
I work from home, and my wife has started looking for work from home or in California so we can move there. We want to be on the correct side of this.
Soon a critical mass will have nothing left to lose
When did we ever stop?
Happens every day already. Just not organized
Literally what Stalin did.
Gulags at least had trials. Our system isn’t even bothering to do that.
Turns out the sham trials were the excessive part.
Well… if you look a the history of the US you COULD argue that most of its inhabitants are offspring of illegal immigrants, sooo…
I can’t get over just how short sighted MAGA is… They give the president this power like it will never be used against them by the next Democrat president.
It won’t, democrats are giant pussies. They gave Biden a blank check from the supreme court to do official acts and he barely even got Trump prosecuted let alone actually punished.
Given that Democrats still have no idea that the GOP are champion Calvin Ball players, pretty sure it won’t
You think that after the changes made to the voting systems, the SAVE voting act, the firing of people at CISA responsible for election safety and security, and the migration of the voting devices to Starlink (even with orage mussilini and muskrat falling out) that there’s ever going to be a Democratic president again? I wish I had your optimism. That’s if a state of emergency/war isn’t called that halts all elections, which is far more likely to be what happens.
Plus, the Democrats will just play good and “not stoop to the opposition’s level”, letting them just get creamed and steamrolled again in the following election, even if they do somehow manage to win. The Democrats had a chance to fight facism and they welcomed it with open arms. Without turning over nearly the entirety of the party, why does anyone think anything is ever going to change?
The supreme court gave total immunity to the president while Biden was president. He didn’t use it a single time.
Like how Biden had Trump killed in 2024.
If democrats ever had a candidate willing to whip his balls out and do something aggressively for a change.
You think the democrats would actually do that? They’d make a big deal about how they won’t do that, because they are cowards. The only spine they ever grow is when their corporate owners tell them to. Other than that, they care about nothing but maintaining the status quo.
Probably not, but one can hope
I mean you can but it’s foolish. What has the democratic party done to deserve your hope other than not be Trump?
That’s fair
Funny thing is. Republicans allow their red-ass state legislatures to gerrymander their districts, while democrats act so high and nobel implementing their “non-partisan” commissions to “draw fair districts”.
The house is forever skewed in favor of the right wing unless democrats play dirty and also gerrymander the shit out of those seats.
Yeah, I hate gerrymandering but the notion that the Democrats should unilaterally disarm is very stupid.
They tried in New York the last time the maps were redrawn. If Dems really wanted to gerrymander New York, they could likely win every single district.
The courts shot that one down, and now New York is just heavily favored to Dems. The House would be majority Dems right now if not for that alone.
next up: calling it a “concentration camp” is grounds to have your citizenship revoked
Imagine getting murdered by the regime for saying “alligator auschwitz”
take it seriously. fascist regimes wont’ tolerate criticism, or mockery, or pointing out how fucking evil they are. the direction we’re rapidly mimicking is north korea. btw fun fact: it’s illegal to call it “north korea” in north korea; it’s “democratic people’s republic of korea,” and south korea isn’t called south korea, it’s called “puppet regime”
“that could never happen in america!!!” too many people are still saying
while it’s literally happening
I feel like a boiling fn frog at this point.
Yup. Since Reagan…
you’re not alone. it’s so depressing, shit getting worse every single day. whatever “good” things are happening don’t outweigh the fascism
I’m in my forties, and it just feels like we’ve been constantly losing ground since Obama left office, I’m just so frustrated by all of the apathy, corruption, and dishonesty, and have been since 2015.
same. add to that, that everyone i try to talk to about this would rather pretend it’s somehow going to get better, or that somehow “the law” will catch up to these fascists and stop them in their tracks.
i guess we’ve been conditioned to believe that the bad things will just go away if we just say ‘this is fine’
the protests are a noble effort. but they’ve done nothing
Nothing? The protests are a big part of the reason the richest man on earth got kicked out of D.C.
That Civil War movie from last year is looking pretty damn prophetic.
the year is 2025, a Chinese citizen responds to the Tiananmen Square copypasta with a picture of BB Vance and the Alligator Auschwitz copypasta. The American citizen’s internet access is immediately cut off and they are ordered to lay face down outside where the Amazon Prime predator drone can see them to wait for an ICE collection crew.
EU Citizens be making fun of both regimes
As well they should
Not gonna have to imagine it for long
“If you have one group of people who feels very comfortable that their citizenship is secure, they will feel much more comfortable being politically active,” she said. “And if you have another group of people who worries that if their political activity gets on the wrong side of somebody in power, that their lives and livelihoods might be vulnerable — that is a lesser citizenship. That is a reason why people might step back from political participation.”
And there it is, reduce resistance little by little, then eliminate everyone.
Second amendment looking like the only alternative.
Too late, the opposition (my fellow Democrats) made sure most of us aren’t armed.
No they didn’t you idiot.
Lives in a nation with more gun deaths than a major conflict every year.
“We need more guns!”
If guns stopped fascism we should be the least fascist nation ever. Since we are the most fascist nation it is more likely guns are part of the problem, not the solution.
Counterpoint: They most definitely are the solution.
The neoliberal controlled opposition is disarmed, because you don’t need personal arms when you have cops and your goal is preserving the power of the state and the capitalist boot.
The actual opposition (who have been disenfranchised by your fellow Democrats), were never so naive and are armed just fine. Just disorganized and excluded from the political machinery.
Sounds like a personal problem.
“Most of us aren’t armed”? Homie US citizens own 120 guns per 100 people. The fucking answer to absolutely every problem here, left or right, has been to arm themselves. We have literally never had more left-wing people carrying pistols.
Like Jesus Christ, someone got shot and killed at the ‘No Kings’ rally in Idaho, and all three parties involved were left-wing. I am not sure what planet you’re on, but it ain’t Earth.
Chilling effect until barren tundra. Got it.
Traitors, all of them.
But I thought they were only going after people in the country illegally, I thought they were okay with immigration as long as they followed legal processes (sarcasm)
They even made us memorize this one in grade school:
- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Note that this says nothing about having to be a citizen for this to apply to you, either. And while we’re at it, see also this.
Well you see, congress isn’t making a law, the executive branch is just doing blatantly illegal shit with impunity, because congress is full of spineless coward sellouts
They are just imagining they will wield that power someday so they don’t want to rock the boat.
They are all temporarily embarrassed ruling party. Otherwise they would want to remove or restrict these powers. This did not happen overnight either.
We have known for several decades now the extreme problems with executive overreach. The President should be a figured head only and Congress should increase in size and do its job.
This is blatant corruption and a dereliction of their duty. It really is disgusting to see how little regard these jokers have for their positions. Electing a literal carnival barker and giving his team of racist rejects the keys to the country is mind bogglingly stupid.
Meanwhile, the plan is to feed everyone who isnt white enough to alligators.
The right of the people would be interpreted to be citizens 100% guaranteed.
Those who gain citizenship through unlawful means and endanger our national security will not maintain the benefits of being an American citizen
Lmao… Benefits? What exactly are those benefits? Not being on the receiving end of a bombing? Not having our country destabilized by a narcissist (we don’t even get that benefit anymore). Having healthcare taken away? A secret police force take you away for wrongthink? Lol benefits of being an American…
Bruh what do you mean the best American benefit is living in a 3rd world country while giving your taxes to hardworking billionaires who use it to control you and blowing up brown kids in the Middle East
Very true! I’m so ungrateful! :(
Have you even said thank you?
Only country in the world to tax based on citizenship instead of residency… Being forced to declare taxes as an expat is a hassle. What are these benefits they speak of??? I’d gladly give mine up if it wasn’t such a hassle and so expensive to do so.
Here’s a question I have never understood about this. I understand all of this if you are planning on returning to living in the US at some point. But if you’ve moved to a foreign country with no plans on returning to the US, why are you still paying taxes? What is stopping you from telling the US government to go pound sand?
I’m not meaning to sound sarcastic. It’s a legit question. I don’t know how any of this works and the issues surrounding it. Because I would think that if I lived in a foreign country I’d be telling Uncle Sam where he can stick his tax bill. That’s kinda the whole point of leaving. What prevents people from doing this, especially if they don’t plan to return to the US?
FATCA Act. Canada and USA have an agreement. The USA can literally take money from a Canadian citizen’s bank account.
This baffles me. I just can’t see where, as a world leader, I would ever allow a foreign government access to my country’s banking system at all, let alone just yank money out of someone’s account. I’d be telling the US exactly where they can stick that idea. If they have a problem with a US citizen not paying taxes, then the US can handle it if and when that person sets foot on US soil.
I’d be curious as to how much revenue this generates for the US government. I’d also love to see other countries start rescinding these permissions in retaliation for Trump violating established trade deals. It might not be enough to get Trump to back down, but I still see it as a good opportunity to get bad policies off the books that should never have existed in the first place.
Countries need to start doing shit like that even if only to send a message to Trump and the US that no, the US doesn’t actually rule the world. It’ll never happen, I know, but one can dream.
Extradition.
Well, you guys had a good run being a semi normal country. Now you’re fucked.
semi normal
Extremely generous thank you for that.
No worries mate, you had a good run, all things come to an end and all that!. On a serious note I do empathise a bit for the normals among you. But as a recipient of some foreign policy freedom in the 80s by the USS new Jersey on Beirut, I wish I could be selective in whose face the leopards eat under this administration. Unfortunately I can’t.
You can advocate for allowing refugees against the regime.
So like anyone not in the party will be excluded from society?
This administration is traitorous and needs to be removed immediately. They are enemies of the American people and the American States themselves.
It’s not just the administration. Every republican, and many democrats in congress anre also supporting this.
Citizenship? I think you mean Party Membership.
