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.
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!
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 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'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.
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?
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.
Well GD, what the hell can be done about this INCREDIBLE reveal? Are we just to accept this as our new normal. I can't foresee anything changing as long as this Orange regime is in charge with hooligans given carte blanche to maime or kill anyone they want. Hunger Games anyone?
More years ago than I will admit (!), my high school English teachers assigned books like “Lord of the Flies,” “1984” and “ Brave New World” in addition to Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and “Othello.” Little did I know how much they were preparing, if unwittingly, for what we see now.
I’m sure every one of those works has either been banned or gotten some teacher or librarian fired.
All this books, especially Brave New World were eye opening to me in the 60-70s in school. Vote as much as much as you can and support those candidates.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
This is shocking. The bar has been set so low for ICE hiring standards that it's laying on the ground.
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!
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!
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?
"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
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…
Thank you for bringing the receipts each and every day.
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.
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 Mary so much for speaking up time and time again! Know that what you post is valuable information we all to know and share.
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!
Well GD, what the hell can be done about this INCREDIBLE reveal? Are we just to accept this as our new normal. I can't foresee anything changing as long as this Orange regime is in charge with hooligans given carte blanche to maime or kill anyone they want. Hunger Games anyone?
More years ago than I will admit (!), my high school English teachers assigned books like “Lord of the Flies,” “1984” and “ Brave New World” in addition to Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and “Othello.” Little did I know how much they were preparing, if unwittingly, for what we see now.
I’m sure every one of those works has either been banned or gotten some teacher or librarian fired.
All this books, especially Brave New World were eye opening to me in the 60-70s in school. Vote as much as much as you can and support those candidates.
Yes!
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.
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.
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.
Ginger - Do you think you are responsible for immoral behavior in your family?