Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Kaleredar]

What you aren't factoring in is how much those cuts will cost the poor vs the rich specifically vis Medicare Medicaid and social security not to mention the massive research and clean energy cuts along with cutting staff from essential programs all in pursuit of giving the rich a massive tax cut.

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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politic...-habeas-corpus


https://apnews.com/article/immigrati...d2f85831cf2194

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2747948.html

Welp we are fucked.

From how things are going it really seems like only a matter of time until one of these ICE thugs runs up on someone keen on exercising their second amendment rights.

[PACOX]

From how things are going it really seems like only a matter of time until one of these ICE thugs runs up on someone keen on exercising their second amendment rights.

They are rolling with the police in some areas now so I'm guessing there have been some incidents. Of course that's regressive because it causes locals to turn against their local pds, which is why sanctuary cities had to become a thing.

[Paranoid Android]

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey mayor is arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting its opening, acting US attorney says.

Vid in link.

I watched another vid and there was pushing and shoving of Congress people (idk if US or state) and the Newark Mayor trying to get into detention center. Anyways cops arrested Newark Mayor.

Ironically Alina Habdid says "No one is above the law".

Umm, yeah. Pretty crazy they arrested on a protest of politicians trying to get into what is suppose to be a US government facility, with no Security clearance. This happened back in the day in Texas if I remember.

[Xath]

From how things are going it really seems like only a matter of time until one of these ICE thugs runs up on someone keen on exercising their second amendment rights.

That's what they want why do you think they want to suspend due process this is either ending in civil war or an authoritarian regime.

[Paranoid Android]

Alina Habba tells Fox News that Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested and is being held in a secret location right now.

Martha MacCallum: "Where is he being held?"

Habba: 'I'm not going to speak to that right now. He's obviously in New Jersey."

Holy Bleep! They took a US Mayor to a dark site! Crazy

[SAY HER NAME]

LMAO so the Iran deal is literally the old deal but renames. Ok I guess

[Gorsameth]

That's what they want why do you think they want to suspend due process this is either ending in civil war or an authoritarian regime.

Considering the general apathy of America, the latter...

[Paranoid Android]

“The controversial 1,000-bed facility is owned by the private prison company GEO Group, which entered into a 15-year, $1 billion contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February.”

$1 BILLION dollars lining the pockets of a private prison company.

www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...

https://bsky.app/profile/katiephang..../3lor7swedr22w

Ahh private prisons. Must be about the profit.

I wonder if this is the angle of private property. Yet detained by Fed police now being held somewhere.

[Breccia]

My End Crypto Corruption Act is simple: no elected official should be engaging in a crypto scheme to enrich themselves and sell influence—like Trump is doing right now.

Let’s seize the day! This is the right moment to have anti-corruption provisions included in the GENUIS Act.

-- Jeff Merkley, fairly and legally elected Senator from Oregon

Trump is cashing in on his presidency and making millions from his own crypto coins. It’s corruption in broad daylight.

I’m co-sponsoring a bill to make it illegal for the President, the Vice President, administration officials, and members of Congress to issue, sponsor, or endorse crypto assets for profit.

It’s time to put a stop to this.

--Mark Kelly, fairly and legally elected Senator from Arizona, responding to the above

Senator Mark Kelly is cashing in on his US Senate seat as a partner in a Chinese communist company that makes surveillance balloons. He should be charged with treason and if convicted executed , consistent with federal law.

-- known Trump ally Roger Stone, unelected and not in any government position, even Trump's WH

"What? An elected official, taking foreign money?"

You can read more in this two-year-old Axios article, the punch line of which is "the Arizona Senator started a company in Arizona, and the Chinese bought something from them once". Kelly is hands-off the company and has been since at least 2020.

"Still, this is an outrage. All elected officials should not get any money in any way from any foreign source!"

Trump tried to sell 666 5th Ave to foreign governments in full view of everyone. Trump supporters, even those calling for the death penalty for their political adversaries, are assumed to be disingenuous and their objections are handwaved.

[SAY HER NAME]

It reminds me of the billion hundreds of millions of deals the Trump family is engaged wrt real estate and when confronted by it their response is that Hunter Biden sold paintings.

As a reminder, the Burisma scheme at its highest estimates netted Hunter Biden 5 million over a period of 10 years. These people are cashing in hundreds of millions up to billions in blatant favour selling. Does anyone wonder why Trump praises Qatar so much these days?

[Moralgy]

This too.

Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.

Vid in Link.

Man this little fascist fuck has openly talked about removing judges, getting rid of the judicial branch. Now Habeas Corpus, the basis of 5th Amendment.

Conservatives are fucked up because they are going to mindlessly support this despite spending their entire lives screaming about a tyrannical government. Just a wander over to conservative reddit and it took like an hour after a post about this to get an allowed poster to post something reasonable. Everyone else was supporting it.

[Fugus]

Conservatives are fucked up because they are going to mindlessly support this despite spending their entire lives screaming about a tyrannical government. Just a wander over to conservative reddit and it took like an hour after a post about this to get an allowed poster to post something reasonable. Everyone else was supporting it.

One thing most of those tards don’t realize, when you throw away another’s rights, you put your own rights on the chopping block as well.

You allowed that precedence to be set and once it is, it is much easier to expand. And don’t think that you will be safe from that unless you are rich and connected enough to be the ones making the policies.

[s_bushido]

Conservatives are fucked up because they are going to mindlessly support this despite spending their entire lives screaming about a tyrannical government.

Without blatant hypocrisy, conservatives would have nothing. Other than hyperventilating about brown people having the gall to live in this country, I can't think of a single negative thing they pretend to care about that they aren't gleefully doing themselves.

[Breccia]

One thing most of those tards don’t realize, when you throw away another’s rights, you put your own rights on the chopping block as well.

They think they're too white to need them.

[Fugus]

They think they're too white to need them.

Guess they need to be reminded just how much that whiteness helped them in the guided age. Or how much it helped them in the days of slavery when they weren’t the rich and actually had to try and compete against slave labor to get work except now only 2% of the labor force is needed for farming instead of 50%+.

But, can safely say that most of these people appear to hate minorities and facts more than they love themselves or their children.

[Paranoid Android]

So just to clean up my post about Mayor of Newark arrest.

First the Mayor was not protesting but there to observe.

Second the Congress members were granted access and when they left the Brown shirts started shoving and pushing.

Rep. Bonnie Watson first hand account below.

https://x.com/RepBonnie/status/19209...fTnYJRW9A&s=19

[tehdang]

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey mayor is arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting its opening, acting US attorney says.

Vid in link.

I watched another vid and there was pushing and shoving of Congress people (idk if US or state) and the Newark Mayor trying to get into detention center. Anyways cops arrested Newark Mayor.

Ironically Alina Habdid says "No one is above the law".

Umm, yeah. Pretty crazy they arrested on a protest of politicians trying to get into what is suppose to be a US government facility, with no Security clearance. This happened back in the day in Texas if I remember.

They're old enough to know how to make an appointment. This was a photo op, and they got the photo op. Mission accomplished.

[SAY HER NAME]

Mayors dont need an appointment to observe lol

The federal government cannot block access to local authorities. Its literally trampling over state rights (and city rights!!!)

Republicans cant stop being hypocrites again and again

[Tech614]

They're old enough to know how to make an appointment. This was a photo op, and they got the photo op. Mission accomplished.

You're old enough to have learned how to not talk out of your ass and how did that turn out?

[tehdang]

Mayors dont need an appointment to observe lol

The federal government cannot block access to local authorities. Its literally trampling over state rights (and city rights!!!)

Republicans cant stop being hypocrites again and again

I thought he was there to protest?

Let me put it to you this way: Can a mayor demand entry to a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility, simply for being mayor of the town? How about a military base? If the answer to either in your opinion is, "No," then what special rule applies to the Department of Homeland Security? We can get down to the heart of the issue quite fast if you want.

I don't think the law allows certain classes of elected government officials (well, state and local officials) to drop by when they feel like it, and enjoy immunity from trespass laws.

(All the usual caveats on a developing story apply. I read that he claimed on a news program that he was leaving and obeying a command to leave when he was arrested. On the flip side if he was asked nicely to leave, and then arrested when he did not, that's simple trespass and lawful. The arrest is kind of the point if this is a photo op and political stunt.)