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hw's avatar

The calm of Americans as basic civil rights are eroded is unnerving.

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foofaraw & Chiquita(ARF!)'s avatar

They still believe MUMP's plan to create enough chaos to please PUTIN is actually about "ending waste", though how they ignore the 50% partnership the GOP shares is a mystery.

As well will be their mysterious acceptance of $4,500,000,000,000 to be transferred from the pockets of the 99% to the 3 Americans who did the most to put him in office, but they certainly had no issues when he did it before, and even accepted the "reality" that Biden was responsible for the 2025 deficit.

Here in the rural Deep South, ignorance is common. But being accepted (and even LOVED) for it is new, and NO ONE wants to miss out.

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Christy's avatar

Some of them are cheering it on simply out of adoration for the Cabal of Criminals! 🤯🤯

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Ms. M's avatar

People until we start protesting in the millions, if we don't anyone one of us could be next!!! So many Americans taking this moment in our country to lightly, many in my own family!!! I just wish they would wake the F up!!!

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NativeTx's avatar

There is hope my husband was telling me I was over reacting that everything would be fine. This Friday he came home with stuff I had on my list and he is taking it very seriously now.

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Shannon's avatar

My husband was saying the same thing, stay out of the news, nothing will happen, the Courts won’t allow this. I think he’s finally coming around.

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Rebecca's avatar

Holy 💩! This is terrifying. My heart aches for this family.

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Tara's avatar

Absolutely horrifying. I'm sickened.

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S Russell's avatar

Fuck all of this neo-fascist, White Christian nationalist bullshit. When the fuck is someone with the ability to organize a nationwide protest gonna step up and call everyone to action? What is it gonna take? Writing letters and making calls to fascists DOES NOTHING. These mother fuckers don't give a flying shit about any of that, and that includes the fascists in the Republican AND in the Democratic party.

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Ellen Bender's avatar

I kept thinking about David Pepper's Project 25 novel. Something like this happens in one of the early chapters. Chilling how far we've descended toward authoritarianism so quickly.

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virginia arthur's avatar

This can’t be happening here! What has happened to due process? His wife is an American citizen. She should be able to find out where her husband is being kept.

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Linda Ann Niro's avatar

Horrifying, anti American and anti democratic. The felon and his fascist regime are destroying our country.

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LadyHistorian's avatar

He “lost” children via family separation during 1.0. American mothers, where was your protest then and since for those little ones crying from _cages_ for their parents? The BBC News has a recording in one of their news stories. Go look it up.

It is ***Stalin’s playbook he is following.*** Read Solzhenitsyn’s, _A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich_ to learn what to expect and prevent.

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LadyHistorian's avatar

Yes, and it’s important to realise how much Hitler learned from Stalin about how to consolidate power. Also, how he killed his perceived enemies right up to the end of his life. They had to bring doctors out of the Gulag to take care of him when he had his final event. Nobody wanted to be able to blame for it. Look back also to the ancient Classics about the reigns of Caligula and Nero. The world has been through this kind of personality problem many times in the past, and none of it played well for the regular people just trying to live their lives as best able.

It’s an unhappy thing to have to say, but if we plan to have Anything left of that which is good or about in America, impeachment AND conviction must occur. Why? Because in the meantime, all the evil he is perpetrating is being done in the name of the American people, and it is inevitably turning people against us worldwide. As Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is paraphrased, ‘ in the end, it’s not the betrayal of enemies, but the silence of our friends that we remember.‘ that is so very true, and for the sake of how we will be remembered in the world, we have to stand up for that which is correct and good and innocent and those in need of help in their hours of need. Full stop.

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Marycat2021's avatar

And Ruth Ben-Ghiat's book "Strongmen."

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Judy Seguin's avatar

Rule of law? What law did he break?

This is exactly how a dictatorship starts. If they get away with this, they’ll come after more…and more…and more. They are soulless.

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Marycat2021's avatar

It started with the Supreme Court ruling about presidential immunity.

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Bonnie  Reeves's avatar

It did start with the Immunity of a president and it has to stop with the S upreme court making amends to their decision.

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Ms. M's avatar

Your right! And we had him after January 6th but senator Grham failed to do his job!!!

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Robert Libby's avatar

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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Rain Robinson's avatar

This headlong rush into the abyss of fascism is terrifyingly real. I am thunderstruck that this US Congress, DOJ law enforcement, and the SC are colluding to allow an unelected, unconfirmed, rogue billionaire to fire federal employees and gut funding for federal agencies. I get that he has fpotus's permission, but that's not constitutional nor legal either. WTF???? Is MuskX now our emperor?

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Rain Robinson's avatar

I meant to add further that Khalil's kidnapping and unknown whereabouts is hideously frightening, because this is exactly what happens in Russia and North Korea. A hellish coup has occurred in the USA now. What are we going to do to stop this?

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John Sheppard's avatar

hit the streets en masse! and stay there!

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SPW's avatar

This story is truly horrible and it’s a very dark warning to those who might entertain any ideas of protesting. It goes along with what he ordered done to Columbia; cutting $400 M in federal funds. Retribution. He’s MAGA’s retribution for all their ills, hates and every other problem, real or imagined, they may have. Mahmoud Khalil has been “disappeared” by ICE, his green card supposedly revoked and his very pregnant wife not knowing where he could be. Mahmoud was the public face and voice for the Palestinian protests at Columbia. What happens to one may as well be happening to all of us. In America, this is not normal!

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Murray Smart's avatar

Just like Nazi Germany.

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virginia arthur's avatar

Mr. Wellman, please follow up with us on this and let us know how we can help him. This is not right, no matter whether you agree with the protest or not.

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MacroV's avatar

Wow. That is not only outrageous, but surely unconstitutional and illegal. You can lose a green card due to criminal convictions, but not this. I assume he at least will get good legal support but what about the next people?

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