All that DJT’s doing is applauded, enabled, or condoned ‘in silence’ by GOP Senators & House members. EVERYTHING! They provide zero oversight, no pushback & protect EpsTeen’s BFF. When you see one of them, see him. THEY ARE HIM!
Agree. Obviously ICE is hiring violent convicts, criminals, thugs, racists, misogynists and sociopaths made in trump’s image, to do his dirty work, and throw them in as front line foot soldiers. Then add paid mercenaries, like Erik Prince, and BINGO! Demented donny has his fight fight fight club, win-at-all-costs war machine.
So does delusional donny represent the soap salesman Tyler Durden? Well it depends on who ya ask.
“While Tyler Durden operates within the realm of a salesman, his actions are fraudulent and anarchic, making him a "conman" in a broader sense:
“The "Scam" of Luxury: Tyler views selling soap as a symbolic act of irony—selling affluent consumers their own fat, taken from liposuction clinics, as a luxury product.
A Cover for Crime: The soap business serves as a cover that allows him to steal raw materials (fat) and purchase large quantities of chemicals needed to make explosives for his larger, subversive agenda, "Project Mayhem".
The narrative later reveals he is a figment of the narrator's imagination, acting out his suppressed desires, rather than a conventional, independent conman.”
So, Tyler Durden also represents the behavior of a split personality, dissociative identity personality.”
“Living in the now, as Tyler Durden found, was a great way to avenge the bastards who set the rules that held him down. He's a great character in a great movie. But he's not a hero, and the world he inhabits is not the one we actually live in.p”
In any case, DJT is using taxpayer dollars to pay thugs to harass, provoke, violently attack American citizens and even murder them. In there own cars, neighborhoods, schools, communities, towns and cities where they shop, where they live.
The people in Hitler’s Gestapo and the SS were not like the normal Germans who were in the German military. Normal people are unable to act the way members of the SS acted.
I don’t think that every member of ICE is a full blown sociopath but I would think that most of them would not meet the criteria to be part of the American military. You can bet a lot of of them have criminal records. Among civilian law-enforcement wife beating is epidemic and you can make a safe path that these ICE officers have a history of domestic violence.
If you notice the body types of these thugs you will see they are fat boys. If they got into a prolonged struggle with a man have their size or have to wait they would probably gas out and less than 30 seconds. If they didn’t have any of their thug buddies around, the guy half their weight could easily beat the crap out of them. That would be a sight to see.
Agree. Unfortunately a high percentage of ICE agents are unqualified, incompetent, uninformed misfits and thugs. Weaklings who were likely unemployed. And they were swayed to join by an infusion of immediate cash. Uniforms, guns, badges, AUTHORITY AND immunity, which emboldened them. I’d dare say that thousands of then were proud boys who participated in 1/6 insurrection and were convicted or pled guilty then pardoned by Trump.
Like is a magnet, like attracts like. Birds of a feather…
I disagree that all Republicans are responsible. Capital Hill Republicans and the Democrats and the courts and the judicial branch as well as a legislative branch is responsible for the fact that we have a convicted felon in the White House. They are also responsible for the fact that we have a traitorous, pathological lying pedophile in the White House. There’s a lot of blame to go around and it’s not just the Republicans who are to blame.
The attack on democracy began long before Trump got into politics. Congressman Ron Paul, the father of Rand Paul warned us about something called corporatism. Ron Paul at the time referred to it as mild fascism. Fascism is in many ways in economic system.
The soft and mild fascism that Ron Paul warned about is not so soft and mild these days. We are heading and are probably even in hard-core fascism especially when we have a criminal justice industry and that’s right industry that is pretty much a for-profit industry shredding the constitution and trampling on The constitutional rights and the unalienable rights of Americans and others around the world.
I agree, historically speaking, there’s a lot of blame to go around. But the threat Trump represents to democracy exceeds anything we’ve seen in a POTUS before. Considering the immunity SCOTUS (yes, they’re responsible too) bestowed on the wannabe king, the current circumstances demand Congress steps up to its constitutional responsibilities. Since the GOP has majorities in both chambers, they ARE RESPONSIBLE to be the guardrails that no longer exist in the Executive branch. In this critical moment, they are failing us; so it’s imperative they be voted out!
What we have seen from Trump is very different than what we actually know what other administrations were doing. Trump is a dumbass. There was a huge transfer of money from the bottom to the top when the economy crashed in 2008. It was caused by Banking modernization act signed by Bill Clinton. Basically it allowed banks and finance institutions to do whatever the hell they wanted with people’s money. There was so much crime that went on punish. Standard and Poor I was involved in a lot of fraud when it came to bond readings.
Then came the affordable care act which was pretty much in invented by Mitt Romney when he was governor Massachusetts. It mandated people to buy health insurance from corporations. American healthcare is straight up theft by the corporate criminally elite.
In those cases and in the case with Trump’s method of theft, The criminals involved will probably end up unpunished.
Trump and his thugs are too stupid to figure out how to cover it up.
Yeah, well, if I recall correctly, the Democratic controlled House at the time actually voted to impeach Trump TWICE, in 2021 before he left office. It was an easy punt to the Republican controlled senate, but instead of honoring their oaths to protect the Constitution and rule of law, they stared at the ceiling, yawned and looked the other way. And THEN they had the audacity to re-elect him, a convicted felon and sexual predator! And now here we are.
If we simple follow the time line of what happened, but substitute “Senate indicts DJT for inciting a violent insurrection against the United States of America and was removed from office” followed by an investigation and prison sentence, then we might actually be looking at a very different reality right now. But that’s just me, crazy me!
I have been spouting this very same sentiment for a while now! The entire party gives rump all the "permission" he needs to stomp around the government ruling not governing. Without them it doesn't happen.✌️
Mary, what should we do? Your uncle is horrible, but Miller is a monster, and the Gnome needs to be treated as badly as she treats humans and her puppy.
The orange menace got to where he was because people were too chickenshit to stand up to him. His depraved father Fred knew it Donald was destined to be. He put him in a military school for rich boy brats because if he had gone to public school he would’ve gotten the shit beat out of him on a daily basis and he probably wouldn’t be the threat he is today if he was taught a daily lesson in humility by his peers.
His father Fred probably honed Donald’s natural asshole qualities. Even if Donald had really good parents he would’ve turned out to be an asshole.
Donald Trump’s grandmother was the true force behind the Trump Dynasty. Her name was Elizabeth Christ Trump. As far as I know she was a good person.
Elizabeth Christ Trump died on June 6, 1966. A lot of theologians have speculated that Donald Trump is the antichrist or strongly associated with the antichrist. Maybe this is just a coincidence?
Trump learned to be like his father, only worse. While Fred steered New York City politics from behind the scenes, he didn’t run for office and had little influence outside NYC. Plus, he limited his real estate development (and unscrupulous rental and sales practices) mainly to middle-class areas of Brooklyn and Queens. Donald, on the other hand, did his work in the most prominent parts of Manhattan, starting with the old Commodore Hotel, across the street from Grand Central Station, which he tore down to build the Hyatt Regency. Later, he would gleefully destroy the Bonwit Teller building on Fifth Avenue to erect the Trump Tower. (What would Freud say to that?)
Along the way, he learned that some, especially in the media, conflate being rude, loud and aggressive with being bold, strong and masculine. That is especially clear in Mary’s book, especially when she recounts how her father (Fred Jr, Donald ‘s brother) was mocked for being sensitive and introverted (which some take as weak and boring) and having no interest in the family business. Donald must have realized that it was definitely not tne way to get his father’s approval, if not love—which, of course, was not forthcoming in that family.
The more I know about what made Donald Donald (he may have had, as some have said, congenital “asshole” tendencies but nobody becomes like him without influences) the more I admire Mary.
I don’t know how much Trump was taught because you don’t have to teach a snake how to be a snake. Trump inherited about $100 million from his father. Had he put that money in the S&P 500 at the time He would’ve gotten extremely wealthy. Trump is a failure in business with all his bankruptcies which were pretty much scams to defraud banks and launder money for his Russian friends.
If Trump had not been born with a silver shovel up his ass He probably would’ve been a drug deal Or even a bigger loser than he already is. Trump learned a lot of really sleazy stuff from Roy Cohen but for the most part Trump had it in him genetically to be a scumbag and subhuman just like his kids.
Humiliate the menace and his goons relentlessly and bigly? They’re turning everything into a reality show (or a clicktatorship, if you will), so maybe if they get trolled by the millions every day, online or in public, they’ll crash out.
I’m pretty good at trolling people and most people don’t know how to troll they fight with trolls and the trolls sits back and laughs at these marks. Donald is a troll but he’s not a troll I am. He’s a troll that any good troll can troll. It’s easy to push Donald’s buttons and it’s easy to push the buttons of any sociopathic narcissist.
When you’re trolling somebody you never come out directly. For instance you would ask Donald Trump something like this, now that you have so skillfully captured Venezuela’s president Maduro are you going to keep him around for a while and eventually pardon him the way you pardon the other drug dealing president of Honduras? The chickenshit media should ask him a question like that. When he flipped out they should say Donald calm down I was giving you a compliment.
Mary Trump bitches too much. She should have the skills to troll the living shit out of uncle Donald. Donald is so easy to troll. A good troll doesn’t get angry. A good troll sits back and watches their victim squirm and flip out. It’s called psychological operations because physical wounds heal.
I've said online several times the following: Q - What's the difference between ICE and the Gestapo? A - The Gestapo didn't wear masks. But we now know there's another big difference other than that and time and place. Citizens joining the Gestapo, as befitted an elite were expected as with the SS to be well-educated and highly intelligent. Neither is demanded of recruits for ICE, so while the comparison of ICE to the Gestapo as to function is valid, as to composition a better comparison would be to the SA, better known now as Brownshirts, basically paramilitary thugs whose job was in part to fight other parties' thugs and after the Nazi takeover physically terrorize Jews and other minorities and any citizens that defied the regime. No university or college degrees were required for that.
I'm fairly certain we could power a city with how fast both my WWII vet grandfathers are spinning in theirs. If the country is adopting policies the people we call The Greatest Generation fought against, what does that say about the country?
My.older sister was a Marine Corp sergeant in WWII. Taught " blind flying " ( link trainer ) to the pilots.Tommy, you.probably are aware thst the Marine women were not.sent into combat during WW II as they are today. I remember walking down the street beside her in her uniform...bursting.with pride & love....18 years difference in.our ages.
Today...at 91 years of age I weep for this country, its' people.
Ms. Good’s story shows us how enmeshed gender and sexual violence are in all forms of repression. I can’t think of a single instance of totalitarianism—whether through racist ideologies like Nazism or totalitarian theocracy—which wasn’t defined by conformity to some archetype of masculinity as it’s defined by male members of the majority (or dominant) race. That includes intimidating women into whatever pleases those men. Notice how ICE agents and the far right demonize women like Renee Good for not being heterosexual (calling her a “lesbian bitch”)and for “having pronouns on her resume”—or simply speaking up. Really, it’s no different than the hate messages, which often include rape threats, AOC and other female public officials receive.
Need I say how I, as a transgender woman, feel in this climate?
The fact that ICE, among other agencies are politicizing the hiring process and spewing propaganda on their web sites and in communications is a five-alarm fire. If we don't vote them out in the midterms, we'll be facing a wildfire!
I can state with certainty that not too far in the future these goons will go too far, and someone will start shooting back. Insurrection Act threat be damned.
And to everyone crying that Republicans have lost their spines, I say nonsense. They're all in on this, and only mouth the right platitudes whenever they think they might pay at the ballot box. They have been playing the long game to rule this nation since the FDR administration because they just can't stand the thought of how this country might progress. And that's what's at the bottom of this. An absolute fear of change. They fear losing the supremacy of being White and being in control. And their love of money has corrupted them into allowing so many corporate mergers that only a few companies own most of the manufacturing and products in this nation. And they pay big $$$ to ensure that will stay that way. Reagan brought this on by deregulating nearly every industry out there, and Republicans have spent the last 40 years making sure to deregulate the rest.
And I hope the Republican voters who think "owning the libs" is so enjoyable get to eat the dirt off their lawns when they can no longer afford food, and help from the government is non-existent.
While I am nor religious, I never could understand how anyone could square what you’ve described with their professed Christian values. But that was the wind in the sails of the “Reagan Revolution “ and what has brought the ship into these treacherous seas: the fusion of anarcho-capitalism with religious fundamentalism.
IMO...trump & billionaire maggots wish to keep the depths of their pedophyllic." appetites " from reaching.the bright light of day...and the banner headlines of The New York Times.! The Grifter in.Chief will only grow fatter from.the " tariffs " he charges them for his prurient efforts on their behalf...and to keep himself from just one more felony conviction...& prison.! Schadenfreude.! ? You.bet !
Thank you Well said. A well adjusted person in a toxic family environment cannot fix it. You cannot control what other people do. Mary is doing her part by speaking out and providing support through her writings and podcast.
The Kennedy family did what they could to help stop RKJ by signing a letter etc. but here we are.
I have a younger sister with a personality disorder. I cannot make her change. I have to set boundaries and focus on my self care.
That question shows that you have no experience with mentally ill family members. If a family member had tried to stop him 25 years ago trump would have destroyed them financially. No one could have realized it would be worth fighting him because of what he would do 25 years later. The Kennedy family spoke out against Robert Kennedy junior. The gosart family pleaded with Arizonans not to vote for him. Rob Reiner and his wife did everything they could to help their mentally ill son. None of it helped.
Read Mary’s book, “Too Much and Never Enough.” I am not religious and don’t put much stock in the supernatural, but I will say it’s a miracle that she came out of that family, which destroyed her father, with her humanity intact.
One reason why is that Mary, her brother and her mother had limited contact with the Trump family. Mary’s family lived in Florida and only saw their relatives at Christmas or on other holidays.
Mary has always been quite clear about growing up in Queens and spending every weekend with the Trumps. I'm certain not being in The House every day and eventually going to boarding school are what saved her.
I stand corrected, I do have Mary’s book and will need to reread it. I agree that it’s probably a good thing for her and her brother Fred III that they weren’t around their grandfather so much.
A well adjusted person in a toxic family environment cannot fix it. You cannot control what other people do. Mary is doing her part by speaking out and providing support through her writings and podcast.
The Kennedy family did what they could to help stop RKJ by signing a letter etc. but here we are.
I have a younger sister with a personality disorder. I cannot make her change. I have to set boundaries and focus on my self care.
I was married to someone with a personality disorder. Of course, that union might not have lasted anyway because of my gender identity. (I was deeply in the closet during that time.) But as I learned more, I realized if my now-ex was going to get better, it would have nothing to do with me: I was already doing everything I could. Some people thought I was terrible for ending that marriage, but I could see no other way. If anything, staying would have eroded my mental health and made me less able to help.
Also, my father is a classic sociopath and narcissist and I believe my mother had a mental health issue she didn’t want to change. (She didn’t believe in therapists, only in priests.) My siblings and I agree that we’re more or less normal (depending, of course, on how you define it) because we got out of that house as soon as we could.
About ten years ago, I was driving southbound on US 101 through SF. Almost as soon as I was passing the Hall of Justice, three Dodge Charger black-and-whites blew past me in formation. They were legit CA GOV but beyond the plates, all I saw was “ICE” on the doors. I’d heard a little bit about who and what they were, but this was bone chilling beyond reason. Presages often are.
THE GOP IS RESPONSIBLE!
All that DJT’s doing is applauded, enabled, or condoned ‘in silence’ by GOP Senators & House members. EVERYTHING! They provide zero oversight, no pushback & protect EpsTeen’s BFF. When you see one of them, see him. THEY ARE HIM!
Agree. Obviously ICE is hiring violent convicts, criminals, thugs, racists, misogynists and sociopaths made in trump’s image, to do his dirty work, and throw them in as front line foot soldiers. Then add paid mercenaries, like Erik Prince, and BINGO! Demented donny has his fight fight fight club, win-at-all-costs war machine.
So does delusional donny represent the soap salesman Tyler Durden? Well it depends on who ya ask.
“While Tyler Durden operates within the realm of a salesman, his actions are fraudulent and anarchic, making him a "conman" in a broader sense:
“The "Scam" of Luxury: Tyler views selling soap as a symbolic act of irony—selling affluent consumers their own fat, taken from liposuction clinics, as a luxury product.
A Cover for Crime: The soap business serves as a cover that allows him to steal raw materials (fat) and purchase large quantities of chemicals needed to make explosives for his larger, subversive agenda, "Project Mayhem".
The narrative later reveals he is a figment of the narrator's imagination, acting out his suppressed desires, rather than a conventional, independent conman.”
So, Tyler Durden also represents the behavior of a split personality, dissociative identity personality.”
“Living in the now, as Tyler Durden found, was a great way to avenge the bastards who set the rules that held him down. He's a great character in a great movie. But he's not a hero, and the world he inhabits is not the one we actually live in.p”
In any case, DJT is using taxpayer dollars to pay thugs to harass, provoke, violently attack American citizens and even murder them. In there own cars, neighborhoods, schools, communities, towns and cities where they shop, where they live.
https://theweek.com/articles/636620/donald-trump-fight-club-candidate
The people in Hitler’s Gestapo and the SS were not like the normal Germans who were in the German military. Normal people are unable to act the way members of the SS acted.
I don’t think that every member of ICE is a full blown sociopath but I would think that most of them would not meet the criteria to be part of the American military. You can bet a lot of of them have criminal records. Among civilian law-enforcement wife beating is epidemic and you can make a safe path that these ICE officers have a history of domestic violence.
If you notice the body types of these thugs you will see they are fat boys. If they got into a prolonged struggle with a man have their size or have to wait they would probably gas out and less than 30 seconds. If they didn’t have any of their thug buddies around, the guy half their weight could easily beat the crap out of them. That would be a sight to see.
Agree. Unfortunately a high percentage of ICE agents are unqualified, incompetent, uninformed misfits and thugs. Weaklings who were likely unemployed. And they were swayed to join by an infusion of immediate cash. Uniforms, guns, badges, AUTHORITY AND immunity, which emboldened them. I’d dare say that thousands of then were proud boys who participated in 1/6 insurrection and were convicted or pled guilty then pardoned by Trump.
Like is a magnet, like attracts like. Birds of a feather…
I disagree that all Republicans are responsible. Capital Hill Republicans and the Democrats and the courts and the judicial branch as well as a legislative branch is responsible for the fact that we have a convicted felon in the White House. They are also responsible for the fact that we have a traitorous, pathological lying pedophile in the White House. There’s a lot of blame to go around and it’s not just the Republicans who are to blame.
The attack on democracy began long before Trump got into politics. Congressman Ron Paul, the father of Rand Paul warned us about something called corporatism. Ron Paul at the time referred to it as mild fascism. Fascism is in many ways in economic system.
The soft and mild fascism that Ron Paul warned about is not so soft and mild these days. We are heading and are probably even in hard-core fascism especially when we have a criminal justice industry and that’s right industry that is pretty much a for-profit industry shredding the constitution and trampling on The constitutional rights and the unalienable rights of Americans and others around the world.
I agree, historically speaking, there’s a lot of blame to go around. But the threat Trump represents to democracy exceeds anything we’ve seen in a POTUS before. Considering the immunity SCOTUS (yes, they’re responsible too) bestowed on the wannabe king, the current circumstances demand Congress steps up to its constitutional responsibilities. Since the GOP has majorities in both chambers, they ARE RESPONSIBLE to be the guardrails that no longer exist in the Executive branch. In this critical moment, they are failing us; so it’s imperative they be voted out!
What we have seen from Trump is very different than what we actually know what other administrations were doing. Trump is a dumbass. There was a huge transfer of money from the bottom to the top when the economy crashed in 2008. It was caused by Banking modernization act signed by Bill Clinton. Basically it allowed banks and finance institutions to do whatever the hell they wanted with people’s money. There was so much crime that went on punish. Standard and Poor I was involved in a lot of fraud when it came to bond readings.
Then came the affordable care act which was pretty much in invented by Mitt Romney when he was governor Massachusetts. It mandated people to buy health insurance from corporations. American healthcare is straight up theft by the corporate criminally elite.
In those cases and in the case with Trump’s method of theft, The criminals involved will probably end up unpunished.
Trump and his thugs are too stupid to figure out how to cover it up.
Yeah, well, if I recall correctly, the Democratic controlled House at the time actually voted to impeach Trump TWICE, in 2021 before he left office. It was an easy punt to the Republican controlled senate, but instead of honoring their oaths to protect the Constitution and rule of law, they stared at the ceiling, yawned and looked the other way. And THEN they had the audacity to re-elect him, a convicted felon and sexual predator! And now here we are.
If we simple follow the time line of what happened, but substitute “Senate indicts DJT for inciting a violent insurrection against the United States of America and was removed from office” followed by an investigation and prison sentence, then we might actually be looking at a very different reality right now. But that’s just me, crazy me!
This.
I have been spouting this very same sentiment for a while now! The entire party gives rump all the "permission" he needs to stomp around the government ruling not governing. Without them it doesn't happen.✌️
Mary, what should we do? Your uncle is horrible, but Miller is a monster, and the Gnome needs to be treated as badly as she treats humans and her puppy.
The orange menace got to where he was because people were too chickenshit to stand up to him. His depraved father Fred knew it Donald was destined to be. He put him in a military school for rich boy brats because if he had gone to public school he would’ve gotten the shit beat out of him on a daily basis and he probably wouldn’t be the threat he is today if he was taught a daily lesson in humility by his peers.
Donald learned much of it from his father
His father Fred probably honed Donald’s natural asshole qualities. Even if Donald had really good parents he would’ve turned out to be an asshole.
Donald Trump’s grandmother was the true force behind the Trump Dynasty. Her name was Elizabeth Christ Trump. As far as I know she was a good person.
Elizabeth Christ Trump died on June 6, 1966. A lot of theologians have speculated that Donald Trump is the antichrist or strongly associated with the antichrist. Maybe this is just a coincidence?
Trump learned to be like his father, only worse. While Fred steered New York City politics from behind the scenes, he didn’t run for office and had little influence outside NYC. Plus, he limited his real estate development (and unscrupulous rental and sales practices) mainly to middle-class areas of Brooklyn and Queens. Donald, on the other hand, did his work in the most prominent parts of Manhattan, starting with the old Commodore Hotel, across the street from Grand Central Station, which he tore down to build the Hyatt Regency. Later, he would gleefully destroy the Bonwit Teller building on Fifth Avenue to erect the Trump Tower. (What would Freud say to that?)
Along the way, he learned that some, especially in the media, conflate being rude, loud and aggressive with being bold, strong and masculine. That is especially clear in Mary’s book, especially when she recounts how her father (Fred Jr, Donald ‘s brother) was mocked for being sensitive and introverted (which some take as weak and boring) and having no interest in the family business. Donald must have realized that it was definitely not tne way to get his father’s approval, if not love—which, of course, was not forthcoming in that family.
The more I know about what made Donald Donald (he may have had, as some have said, congenital “asshole” tendencies but nobody becomes like him without influences) the more I admire Mary.
I don’t know how much Trump was taught because you don’t have to teach a snake how to be a snake. Trump inherited about $100 million from his father. Had he put that money in the S&P 500 at the time He would’ve gotten extremely wealthy. Trump is a failure in business with all his bankruptcies which were pretty much scams to defraud banks and launder money for his Russian friends.
If Trump had not been born with a silver shovel up his ass He probably would’ve been a drug deal Or even a bigger loser than he already is. Trump learned a lot of really sleazy stuff from Roy Cohen but for the most part Trump had it in him genetically to be a scumbag and subhuman just like his kids.
The God-Emperor of the planet has now put a 10% Tariff on any nation refusing to hand him Greenland.
Humiliate the menace and his goons relentlessly and bigly? They’re turning everything into a reality show (or a clicktatorship, if you will), so maybe if they get trolled by the millions every day, online or in public, they’ll crash out.
Clicktatorship!!! 💯
I’m pretty good at trolling people and most people don’t know how to troll they fight with trolls and the trolls sits back and laughs at these marks. Donald is a troll but he’s not a troll I am. He’s a troll that any good troll can troll. It’s easy to push Donald’s buttons and it’s easy to push the buttons of any sociopathic narcissist.
When you’re trolling somebody you never come out directly. For instance you would ask Donald Trump something like this, now that you have so skillfully captured Venezuela’s president Maduro are you going to keep him around for a while and eventually pardon him the way you pardon the other drug dealing president of Honduras? The chickenshit media should ask him a question like that. When he flipped out they should say Donald calm down I was giving you a compliment.
Mary Trump bitches too much. She should have the skills to troll the living shit out of uncle Donald. Donald is so easy to troll. A good troll doesn’t get angry. A good troll sits back and watches their victim squirm and flip out. It’s called psychological operations because physical wounds heal.
I've said online several times the following: Q - What's the difference between ICE and the Gestapo? A - The Gestapo didn't wear masks. But we now know there's another big difference other than that and time and place. Citizens joining the Gestapo, as befitted an elite were expected as with the SS to be well-educated and highly intelligent. Neither is demanded of recruits for ICE, so while the comparison of ICE to the Gestapo as to function is valid, as to composition a better comparison would be to the SA, better known now as Brownshirts, basically paramilitary thugs whose job was in part to fight other parties' thugs and after the Nazi takeover physically terrorize Jews and other minorities and any citizens that defied the regime. No university or college degrees were required for that.
Thank you for an important history lesson and insight!
You're welcome!
This is shocking. The bar has been set so low for ICE hiring standards that it's laying on the ground.
"Heaven help us." - my dad, a WW II Marine Corps and Korean War Navy veteran, currently rolling over in his flag-draped coffin.
My Uncle Jack too! A Korean War Veteran- Army
I'm fairly certain we could power a city with how fast both my WWII vet grandfathers are spinning in theirs. If the country is adopting policies the people we call The Greatest Generation fought against, what does that say about the country?
My.older sister was a Marine Corp sergeant in WWII. Taught " blind flying " ( link trainer ) to the pilots.Tommy, you.probably are aware thst the Marine women were not.sent into combat during WW II as they are today. I remember walking down the street beside her in her uniform...bursting.with pride & love....18 years difference in.our ages.
Today...at 91 years of age I weep for this country, its' people.
Ms. Good’s story shows us how enmeshed gender and sexual violence are in all forms of repression. I can’t think of a single instance of totalitarianism—whether through racist ideologies like Nazism or totalitarian theocracy—which wasn’t defined by conformity to some archetype of masculinity as it’s defined by male members of the majority (or dominant) race. That includes intimidating women into whatever pleases those men. Notice how ICE agents and the far right demonize women like Renee Good for not being heterosexual (calling her a “lesbian bitch”)and for “having pronouns on her resume”—or simply speaking up. Really, it’s no different than the hate messages, which often include rape threats, AOC and other female public officials receive.
Need I say how I, as a transgender woman, feel in this climate?
You are loved 💜
May I add highly articulate?
The fact that ICE, among other agencies are politicizing the hiring process and spewing propaganda on their web sites and in communications is a five-alarm fire. If we don't vote them out in the midterms, we'll be facing a wildfire!
I’m afraid he will do any number of avenues to delay or try to cancel them. Probably got plans for that!
He's already spewing talk about why we don' t need this upcoming election , Shellae.
Yes, as predicted by every lawyer out there. Voter won’t work. The 🌊 is coming and he can’t swim 😁
Ya.. we know; Because a Racist Warm Body Is Better Than A True Professional in that Field of Government Law.
I’m So Tired Of This Sh*t…
I can state with certainty that not too far in the future these goons will go too far, and someone will start shooting back. Insurrection Act threat be damned.
And to everyone crying that Republicans have lost their spines, I say nonsense. They're all in on this, and only mouth the right platitudes whenever they think they might pay at the ballot box. They have been playing the long game to rule this nation since the FDR administration because they just can't stand the thought of how this country might progress. And that's what's at the bottom of this. An absolute fear of change. They fear losing the supremacy of being White and being in control. And their love of money has corrupted them into allowing so many corporate mergers that only a few companies own most of the manufacturing and products in this nation. And they pay big $$$ to ensure that will stay that way. Reagan brought this on by deregulating nearly every industry out there, and Republicans have spent the last 40 years making sure to deregulate the rest.
And I hope the Republican voters who think "owning the libs" is so enjoyable get to eat the dirt off their lawns when they can no longer afford food, and help from the government is non-existent.
ABSOLUTELY TRUE, DonP.
We CANNOT approach our enemies with our mouths closed!
REAL COURAGE is about being afraid of something but doing it anyway!!
WE ALL NEED REAL COURAGE NOW.... and so do our politicians!!
BELIEVE it WHO YOU ARE and WE SHALL OVERCOME!!
While I am nor religious, I never could understand how anyone could square what you’ve described with their professed Christian values. But that was the wind in the sails of the “Reagan Revolution “ and what has brought the ship into these treacherous seas: the fusion of anarcho-capitalism with religious fundamentalism.
Have you considered the possibility that some of these repulsicans just may be included in the Epstein Files...??
All the more reason to release the full files.
Truer words were never spoken, Don P.
IMO...trump & billionaire maggots wish to keep the depths of their pedophyllic." appetites " from reaching.the bright light of day...and the banner headlines of The New York Times.! The Grifter in.Chief will only grow fatter from.the " tariffs " he charges them for his prurient efforts on their behalf...and to keep himself from just one more felony conviction...& prison.! Schadenfreude.! ? You.bet !
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I wonder how many convicted J6ers are now working for ICE.
Probably the ones who haven’t been caught re-committing crimes and aren’t back in jail, because some are back in jail
Thank you for bringing the receipts each and every day.
Anyone left on planet Earth who disagrees that America is now an authoritarian failed state?
Bueller? Bueller?
ICE are nothing but paid assassins. Can't imagine having one of them in my family!
Mary, why can’t your family help stop this Nightmere that belongs to you? Why didn't your family stop this orange shit 25 years ago?
Because everyone in their family BUT Mary is in on the grift
Thank you Well said. A well adjusted person in a toxic family environment cannot fix it. You cannot control what other people do. Mary is doing her part by speaking out and providing support through her writings and podcast.
The Kennedy family did what they could to help stop RKJ by signing a letter etc. but here we are.
I have a younger sister with a personality disorder. I cannot make her change. I have to set boundaries and focus on my self care.
Must be very difficult to share with.others, Marcy.
Take good care of yourself, please.
That question shows that you have no experience with mentally ill family members. If a family member had tried to stop him 25 years ago trump would have destroyed them financially. No one could have realized it would be worth fighting him because of what he would do 25 years later. The Kennedy family spoke out against Robert Kennedy junior. The gosart family pleaded with Arizonans not to vote for him. Rob Reiner and his wife did everything they could to help their mentally ill son. None of it helped.
Read Mary’s book, “Too Much and Never Enough.” I am not religious and don’t put much stock in the supernatural, but I will say it’s a miracle that she came out of that family, which destroyed her father, with her humanity intact.
One reason why is that Mary, her brother and her mother had limited contact with the Trump family. Mary’s family lived in Florida and only saw their relatives at Christmas or on other holidays.
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Mary has always been quite clear about growing up in Queens and spending every weekend with the Trumps. I'm certain not being in The House every day and eventually going to boarding school are what saved her.
I stand corrected, I do have Mary’s book and will need to reread it. I agree that it’s probably a good thing for her and her brother Fred III that they weren’t around their grandfather so much.
Mary's MOTHER'S family lived in Florida, if I recall correctly, and Fred Jr. did move down there for a few years, so the confusion is understandable.
Let us know what they were supposed to do? Bobby Brainworm's family warned repeatedly about giving him that position, to no avail.
A well adjusted person in a toxic family environment cannot fix it. You cannot control what other people do. Mary is doing her part by speaking out and providing support through her writings and podcast.
The Kennedy family did what they could to help stop RKJ by signing a letter etc. but here we are.
I have a younger sister with a personality disorder. I cannot make her change. I have to set boundaries and focus on my self care.
I was married to someone with a personality disorder. Of course, that union might not have lasted anyway because of my gender identity. (I was deeply in the closet during that time.) But as I learned more, I realized if my now-ex was going to get better, it would have nothing to do with me: I was already doing everything I could. Some people thought I was terrible for ending that marriage, but I could see no other way. If anything, staying would have eroded my mental health and made me less able to help.
Also, my father is a classic sociopath and narcissist and I believe my mother had a mental health issue she didn’t want to change. (She didn’t believe in therapists, only in priests.) My siblings and I agree that we’re more or less normal (depending, of course, on how you define it) because we got out of that house as soon as we could.
Thanks for sharing. Sending loving kindness 🌺
Thank you!
Ginger - Do you think you are responsible for immoral behavior in your family?
Thank you Mary so much for speaking up time and time again! Know that what you post is valuable information we all to know and share.
About ten years ago, I was driving southbound on US 101 through SF. Almost as soon as I was passing the Hall of Justice, three Dodge Charger black-and-whites blew past me in formation. They were legit CA GOV but beyond the plates, all I saw was “ICE” on the doors. I’d heard a little bit about who and what they were, but this was bone chilling beyond reason. Presages often are.
Come to think of it, they were •all• black. Shades of the future.