Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives have condemned a raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as “deeply disturbing” and accused the Trump administration of a “rogue abuse of power” just weeks ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Let’s see if they do anything besides strong words and maybe some paddles.
Thats all you weak fuckers do, condemn this, condemn that, when are you fucking spineless loser ing actually going to persecute anyone over their crimes.
Condem…… fucking start arresting people!
Sorry, Omar, but when you steal millions of dollars from the taxpayers, you may actually have to put up with the indignity of search, seizure, arrest, and sometimes, just sometimes, a prison sentence.
Omar was financially challenged before “serving” in congress, now she’s a multi-millionaire, she’s one of them. Search “Omar Minnesota Somalia welfare fraud” for more details on this corruption; others are sitting in prison right now for their part in it. It’s Omar’s turn (hopefully, but I won’t hold my breath).
She’s everything wrong with our politicians today, greedy and corrupt.
If you cheer Republican raids and arrests, and booooo Democratic raids and arrests (or vice versa), you now understand why your fellow voters are abandoning your major parties in droves. This is why Ds and Rs are only 29% of registered voters each.
The other 42% of independent Americans want ALL corrupt politicians out of office and serving time, regardless of party affiliation.
I’m happy that Republicans are cleaning the house (regardless of their true motivation, because we all know it’s not ‘justice’), and I hope and pray that Democrats do the exact same thing to Republicans when they take the majority.
Make politicians afraid to steal again.
You kind of seem like you are at least trying to be knowledgeable so I won’t hold it against you but please apply a bit of common sense to the situation. A gotcha article written by a conspiracy theorist is not evidence of a crime. Common sense would tell you if there was evidence, she would be arrested. Republicans want nothing more than to parade a Muslim in the streets as a traitor. If they could they would. Clearly there is no evidence to substantiate this search which is why they used an article 2 judge that essentially approves whatever the president tells them to instead of an actual judge. I am not saying she’s innocent but in America we should strive to give people due process instead of the shitshow we have going on right now.
It’s weird to me that so many people are still convinced there is a peaceful way out of fascism. There can be no peace while conservatives continue to infest our nation. They need to be completely removed before we will find any amount of peace. Conservatives are truly, deeply evil and cannot stop harming everyone around them. They must be forcibly stopped or they will only get worse.
Do you mean authoritarianism or fascism specifically? I mean look at Orban’s Hungary for a mostly non-violent way out.
Then you don’t understand what is actually happening. Just getting trump out of office is not enough. There need to be expedited, quick trials and immediate punishment for the pedophilia and treason that has been livestreamed in 4k for the last decade.
Viktor orban is free. There are some more show trials but even his rival that “defeated” him says “the courts must decide”.
What do you think will happen in our country?
Everyone has been primed for quick and happy acceptance of fascism. We were given an illusion of choice. Descend into techno fascism through physical violence, or administrative means. Either way, the people behind all of the issues here will not face time and are already funding Democrats (Thiel).
People will be so happy that trump is gone and they won’t even remember about flock cameras, employers monitoring your own body heat and emf frequencies to “know your mood”. We will not get any money back from the tarriffs. Prices will not go back down to anything substantial. They will be so distracted by the judge Judy like committee hearings and “special prosecutors” that will be “so close” to convicting anyone meaningful
And you will all cheer
There has to be at least one furrowed brow among them.
Schumer’s glasses are hanging extra low.
When then midterm is done, if the democrats win, the head of DHS (Markwayne Mullin) should be hauled in for contempt of Congress, then thrown in jail. Every agent involved should be put on a list of people unemployable in America and their contacts all investigated and any hint of foreign influence should turn this into treason and conspiracy charges for every last one. It seems we’re paying for a firing squad and money is tight, so let’s get our value out.
I get that this won’t happen, but if Democrats need to compromise, let’s start negotiations from this position.
Tick tock, the doomsday clock Gets closer and closer to Humanitie’s last drop.
took em a minute but at least they are completely stupid.
If they win the midterms you will see political prisoners, then executions.
A senator in Virginia got raided a while back. Another woman of color who was a Democrat.
People don’t even remember the MN Democrats that were ASSASSINATED by MAGA (including the “concerned” Democrats that everyone wants to vote for)
Fuck I did completely forget that. We’re definitely in the “Factors Leading Up To” part of the wikipedia entry now.
Way to not address anything. Useless shill
I wonder if we’ll be able to send all of these ICE goons to the Hague once we get a DNC supermajority in office?
You realize the regime isn’t giving up power right? We’re not simply going to vote our way out of this. Everyone absolutely needs to vote first, as a bare minimum requirement, but it’s not going to remove them. It’s gonna get real ugly pretty soon, like November, and then January.
I really hope I’m being over dramatic, but they’re saying this shit themselves. They’re telling us they have secret plans to hold on to power.
We’re going to vote, get your ass out there and vote if you live in the USA vote the candidate most likely to remove the GOP at all costs, and when that fails for clear and blatant corruption then you’ll finally have your willing and able masses to revolt with.
Until then you’re just going to be treated as the sort of accelerationist that voted for Trump in the first place, so can it.
uh, did you read my comment even…
I predict this comment aging poorly
You clearly don’t remember Trump’s first term. Right before it was over they were tear-gassing crowds right outside the whitehouse.
We can use those internment camps and alligator alcatraz locations they so thoughtfully set up to put all of us in.
The dnc can get fucked. I hope the only ppl that win their elections are socialist candidates that want universal healthcare, taxing the rich, et al. Maybe then the dnc will get the message
DNC will declare bankruptcy before they change their tune
The GOP will bankrupt your country and massacre thousands on thousands before they change.
Get some fucking perspective and take action instead of moping.
Isn’t that the point? That we shouldn’t wait for the DNC to act but take matters into our own hands? That’s not moping, it’s saying no one is coming to save us so we don’t need permission to act.
I understand your point, but…
They’re not taking matters into their own hands either. They’re just waiting for someone DIFFERENT to come save them.
So what are you doing? Besides just being a doomist?
Isn’t this the meme “I like pancakes” - “So you hate waffles?”
Recently went to a community organized meeting where we coordinated ICE watch actions, how to pressure our school board, care packages for those they release, etc. They also asked us to vote and to talk to our families about voting.
I hope the only ppl that win their elections are socialist candidates…
I mean, I want to have those policies and services too, but you’re saying if it’s a non-socialist Democrat versus a Republican, you want the Republican to win?
I’m guessing if that happens you’ll get your wish for no DNC by 2028, because we’ll be a state-enforced one-party system by then.
but you’re saying if it’s a non-socialist Democrat versus a Republican, you want the Republican to win
We’re saying if its fascist or fascist-lite, we’ll select neither in order to pressure fascist-lite to do better. And if the Dems still dont wanna then they can lose. Its the only way to prerssure them. We cant play chicken we have to give them real consequences.
So you’ll accelerate the fascism to punish the significantly empirically less fascist group? Sound fuckin logic there brainiac. So you want fascism. You’re a fascist accelerationist.
So you admit that Democrats are fascist, just not AS fascist as those Republicans they bump elbows with and share donors with, right?
No I’m saying your “logic” is stupid and self defeating because it is.
That would be YOUR words, GENIUS
How can one accelerate what is not there to begin with?
Sorry, but that doesn’t really make sense. Here are your options:
You don’t vote at all, or vote third party: If you totally sit out the vote, you are having no effect, or are voting for the status quo by omission.
You vote republican: You are voting for the worst outcome.
You vote democrat: You are voting harm reduction.
Now to be clear:
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“Harm reduction” is not just about you. It’s about LGBTQ people, it’s about people who are on ACA who will die due to continued cuts, it’s about immigrants who are going to be abused. Even if you think the democrats are “fascism-lite” (which I think is severely reductionist), you are severely downplaying, to the point that it mirrors GOP lack of empathy, the harms others are experiencing due to your refusal to vote for harm reduction.
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In the primary, please, please vote for the most progressive person you can find, and let corporate democrats eat all the dicks. But in the general, please don’t just think of yourself and your emotional response of “screw them all!” Because “them all” includes your allies.
P.S.: Also, what is the point of downvoting good faith discussion? It really is not nice.
You’re right, and I see the hope for pressuring to work but doubtful. If Harris won there wouldn’t be all this damage to the world. Wouldn’t have all the suffering in concentration camps paid by taxes, and they would be contributing to the communities they were. Things were better two years ago and all the regression is directly related to bad maga choices. All the blame on Biden for global issues was dumb, but too many don’t care or know better so it will continue unfortunately.
These ideal purists don’t believe in harm reduction. The actual outcome isn’t important, they only care that their hands are clean.
They’re not debating in good faith. They’re accelerationists and both sidesers, they work for MAGA.
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you’re saying if it’s a non-socialist Democrat versus a Republican, you want the Republican to win?
I’m glad people are finally starting to understand how Tankies work. I’d be real skeptical of any lemmy_today accounts you see, they’re still federated with the Tankie hive that is Hexbear. They’re just Russian and Chinese trolls, the lot of them. It’ll be nice once everyone decent finally makes the move over to piefed and we can start delisting all of the lemmy instances.
Well its not up to you, finitebanjo. The dems dont have the votes to lose their progressive voting block and still win elections-- even against trump-- so they can choose to do their effing jobs or they can lose. We’re well aware you’ll vote for them either way, thats factored into the math already.
And you can call people names all day finitebanjo, no one could possibly care any less what centrist armchair generals like yourself think. All you lot do is lose and cave constantly. You centrists are a complete clownshow.
Kreskin your post and comment history are visible. Anybody can just click on your name and see that your whole account exists just to denigrate democrats. You’re a bad faith accelerationist. That’s not me calling you a name, that’s all your posts and comments outing you for what you are.
Well check mine since I agree with him. People should look up what an illusion of choice is.
The Democrats have not GIVEN anything for 40 years. They have not restored anything that was cut by Republicans.
The only thing I cant stand more than MAGA are you pieces of crap that can’t admit to being maga.
You are all just capitalists, our country IS capitalism. What policy decisions are YOU complaining about?
Here is why I say voting for the Democrats is no longer a viable option:
Hakeem Jeffries is secretly meeting with Kushner. He also takes Thiel money and started an AI regulatory committee with 6 other Dems that take Thiel money
Tammy duckworth has stated that after midterms, NOONE should be impeached and Dems should work WITH the pedophilic traitors (that would be YOU, working with them)
Gavin Newsome won’t even COMMIT TO TAXING BILLIONAIRES. Why on earth are you gonna run your mouth and say that he is going to hold anyone responsible and arrest anyone?
Thiel has a abandoned MAGA and is now funding Democrats
AIPAC DEMOCRATS ARE FUNDING AIPAC MAGA CANDIDATES OVER LEFT AND DSA CANDIDTAES.
Can you please explain to us how voting for Democrats will achieve anything for working class people?
No. All you will say is that the margins will be tight, we have to vote harder to get a majority, oh, the parliamentarian shot it down, oh the SCOTUS shut it down. We can’t elect progressives right now, they aren’t electable
Then admit you’re just as willing as MAGA to sacrifice all the people that maga intend to kill because your stance helps maga kill all those people. Congratulations, you’re a fascist accelerationist, not an ally, and you deserve whatever the republicans do to us because you’re actively working towards it.
No. I would want to see Americans free themselves of a fake two party system. It is revolution time and the only thing that pisses me off more than MAGA right now is every agency and institution that everyone allowed to fail that got us here.
Republican actions, followed by Democrat inaction, allowed FASCISM to coup America already.
There is no more America, we need something new and the people that got us here are not going to fix or stop it, or they would have
I’m well aware that I keep my comment list open. People who are honest about their positions and have no shenanigans to hide tend to leave their comments open.
Whats a “bad faith accelerationist” exectly? One who is not commited to true accelerationism? Or are you trying to say any accelerationist are bad faith?
I wont lift a finger to help dems until they stop it with the war crimes and embrace what used to be the core or the Democratic party platform. And the republicans are a completely lost cause and not worth addressing at all. So I yell at dems to do the right thing, and I promise them that until they do I sit on the couch. I dont ever vote for republicans. If thats bad faith to you, then I think your “faith” is worthless slave-like drivel.
Anyone who genuinely equates republicans and democrats is an idiot working for MAGA. If you didn’t exist in bad faith you’d know the parties aren’t the same, since their voting records are public. But you’re not engaging in good faith. If your position isn’t “prevent republicans from holding power by any means necessary” then you’re an accelerationist. If you don’t believe in strategic voting and harm reduction and the spoiler effect then you’re engaging in bad faith and are an accelerationist. That’s your whole account. You’re a bad faith MAGAt bot actively working to elect republicans. Now call in your little bitch brigade or use your alts to upvote your position like it’s the sane take, you fuckers do that shit constantly here.
ICE is going to kidnap her and she’s going to be deported… it’s all part of the plan.
It’s a good plan
Get this, they’re already trying to create justification: Donald Trump has repeated the false claim that Ilhan Omar married her own brother to abuse the greencard system, despite the fact that the rumour started on a blog in 2016 from some random guy in Minnesota and has never resulted in any evidence.
I feel like if there was a shred of plausibility to this outrageous and infantile claim that it wouldn’t take over 10 years to find anything even when the admin deeply despised her for 6 of those years.
According to Omar, she and her family fled the Somalian civil war in 1991. They moved to the U.S. in 1995 after residing for four years in a Kenyan refugee camp. Omar’s mother had died, so her father and grandfather raised her and her siblings. In 2018, Omar showed a reporter from the Minneapolis Star Tribune photos of documents from her family’s entry into the U.S. after fleeing the civil war. She did not provide the reporter with copies of these papers but showed that they listed her father and showed her as the youngest of seven children. There was no one named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi listed in the documents.
We previously noted that Omar and her siblings all arrived in U.S. with refugee statuses. Omar was a minor when she became a naturalized U.S. citizen. How one sibling could end up with a completely different immigration status from the others remains unexplained by the claims.
They’ve just announced their 1st public execution. I have a feeling this is going to become an expanding trend.
They what?
I didn’t doubt you, but fucking ew.
People are comparing it to the live broadcast execution from the incompetent fascist government in the Starship Troopers movie. I called it “somewhere between clockwork orange and running man”.
I don’t know what that means, but it’s so vile from a human rights perspective. I keep forgetting that the U.S. still does executions. Baffling how the U.S. has posed themselves as the “leader of the free world”, and how many just willingly suck that up for so long when they are brutal, cruel, and inhumane in all aspects of living.
Yeah, “deported”.
More like “disappeared”. I hope not.
Yeah that would be another major escalation in the ongoing constitutional crisis. It’s one more bizarre take from Republicans. They would have lost their minds if Obama went after a member of congress. I will say this for the current administration, though, they’re doing a fantastic job of highlighting improvement opportunities for the Constitution. If the country miraculously pulls itself together enough to pass any kind of amendments at all, but especially one limiting executive powers, they should definitely be named after the person whose kind of behavior it’s trying to limit. I know they’re just numbered. I mean a name like “The Bill of Rights,” which describes the first ten amendments.
“The Agenda of Executing Trumpists”, perhaps?
Yep. I said this earlier. She’s going to be removed from the country.
Imagine a political party that deposes and defames a former federal special counsel by condemning subpoenas for republican members of congress toll records and then crickets* when a democratic congresswoman’s home is invaded and searched. All while saying the former was partisan tactics due to the proximity of charges filed to the elections but again, not a peep about the latter.
Well, now that it’s been condemned, we should definitely see an apology forthright and a promise that it’ll never happen again!
You see…. this how we pretend things work in America. Becasue to speak plainly- it’s just easier to digest this than it is to accept that he’s allowed to do whatever the fuck he wants because there’s no one in the American govdmrt with the balls to stop him.
