Consider this: ICE agents smashed in a car window in Minneapolis, and dragged a pregnant woman through the snow and ice on our cold hard streets, the week before Christmas.
Minnesotans on the scene reacted by shouting and throwing snowballs and ice at the thugs, because you must do whatever you can to stop the violence, and sometimes that means fighting back. The commenters online are full of hate for the helpless pregnant woman.
@chuckkugler1646
Why would a pregnant woman put herself in that situation? Wow is this a protest manipulation?
Blame the woman for existing.
@dianehaines1220
Unbelievable how the news will AlWAYS tell you that the illegal was pregnant, has autism, is breast feeding a 2 yr old, has cancer, has diabetes, has no criminal history (they committed a crime by being in the USA illegally), etc. Why, Media, do you always side with illegal aliens that have no authorization to be in the USA, and you give a Bleeding Heart story? Certainly you can do better!
I’m sarry, Diane, but most of us haven’t as thoroughly dehumanized “illegal aliens” (being in the US is not automatically a crime) as you have. These are human beings, and some of them will be pregnant, have autism, be breast feeding a 2 yr old, have cancer, have diabetes, have no criminal history, and a host of other human traits. They are people, not plastic mannequins lacking in all humanity, as you wish.
@DeannaEstrada-ki2ug
Get those criminals 🧊⛄🧊⛄🧊 ICE 🧊⛄🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💯❤️🤍💙🦅👍😂🤣😂
There’s the mindless, hateful creature Diane was looking for.
Then I found this: WHEN IT HAPPENS by Tom Ellison. It made me feel a little better. I’m stealing the whole thing because I need this.
It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN.
It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until IT HAPPENS. Looking at the data (age, high-stress job, cardiac history), it is statistically plausible that IT will HAPPEN in the next thirty-six months.
Eighteen, if you factor in hamburger consumption and all the weird bruising.
Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned.
But regardless, IT is going to HAPPEN. So you’re allowed to think about IT.
Theoretically, some longevity breakthrough could happen that would enable IT to NEVER HAPPEN. Just the idea is PSYCHOLOGICALLY COMPLICATED. But realistically, IT will HAPPEN. After all, the medical research apparatus will shortly be fully dismantled, unless IT HAPPENS soon.
So, it’s fair to say that IT will happen. But you also prepare for the possibility, even if unlikely, that IT won’t HAPPEN for a long time. Some of you may not last long enough to see IT HAPPEN, which is RICH.
But you imagine where you might be, eventually, when you learn IT has HAPPENED.
Maybe you will wake up, anxious and scared and angry (i.e., normal).
Walk past the armed men and the protesters and the destitute.
Then, out of nowhere, the push notification from THE NEWS: “Breaking: IT Has HAPPENED.”
What will you feel like? When IT HAPPENS?
When IT HAPPENS, it will probably be FEELING. Just a huge, overwhelming sense of FEELING, the kind where you didn’t even realize how starved you were for FEELING. Punctuated with alternating waves of SECOND FEELING, as well as SENSATION.
Plus, a sudden absence of THIRD FEELING, which makes you realize the toll of A CONSTANT BASELINE OF LOW-GRADE THIRD FEELING for ten goddamn TIME PERIODS straight, even though you were still plenty aware of THIRD FEELING, trust me.
How might IT HAPPEN?
It may be morbid, but as it happens, there are many ways IT could HAPPEN.
Heart attack.
Golfing mishap.
An especially frightening NEWS SEGMENT on COASTAL CITY, which is generally not a statistically likely cause of IT HAPPENING, but is not out of the question, in THIS SPECIFIC CASE.
You may consider other WAYS IT might HAPPEN, especially when you are overwhelmed with THIRD FEELING.
You might then feel EMOTION, but don’t beat yourself up.
You wonder how THEY will react. When IT HAPPENS. It will probably be a complete SITUATION. It will be hard not to feel some amount of perverse SENSATION, watching THEIR POLITICAL FORTUNES.
And of course, you will have to tread carefully around RELATIVES, who will probably throw an absolute REACTION when IT HAPPENS. But WE can be MAGNANIMOUS in this new, post–IT HAPPENING world.
Still, you wonder what you’ll do, right after IT HAPPENS. Perhaps you will clutch your loved ones and watch TV, as the news anchors ACT APPROPRIATELY.
Perhaps you will SCREAM, out of OTHER FEELING.
Perhaps you will pop open a SPECIFIC BEVERAGE.
Perhaps you will scroll post after post.
Posts of INCREDULITY.
Posts of ANALYSIS OF WHAT COMES NEXT, WHICH CAN WAIT.
Posts of JOKES THAT EVEN YOU WOULD FIND TO BE IN POOR TASTE, NORMALLY, BUT NOT IN THIS CASE.
Posts SCOLDING THE PREVIOUS POSTS, AND POSTS REPLYING “WHATEVER MAN.”
Posts ABOUT OTHER TOPICS, AND IT’S LIKE, DON’T THEY KNOW IT HAPPENED?
Perhaps you will think of the countless people whose lives might have been DIFFERENT, if IT had HAPPENED sooner.
The important thing to remember, though, is that IT will HAPPEN.
I will not be magnanimous after IT HAPPENS. I want every enabler and apparatchik who went along with this tyranny to be torn down from their perches and deported in disgrace. I want to see the Potomac sanctified by the desecrated corpse thrown into it, as has been done with the Tiber and Thames. I want every wanna-be autocrat to know that there is nothing but shame and disgust awaiting them in the history books.
Let IT HAPPEN soon.
This isn’t even ICE enforcing our immigration laws.
That is just an excuse.
It is state sponsored terrorism and the intended audience is the American people.
Proof.
.1. We’ve been enforcing our immigration laws for over a century without using random thugs in masks, with no badges or ID visible, kidnapping people on the street, throwing them into unmarked vans, and driving them away to no one knows where.
We can and do enforce our laws every day every where without masks, unmarked cars, and creeps without any sort of identification. I see it every day when I pass the city police, county sheriffs, and state patrol.
.2. ICE/BP are the real criminals here. They routinely violate all our laws hundreds of times every day.
Lack of Due process, Rule of Habeas Corpus, illegal search and seizure, racial profiling, excessive violence, attempted murder, murder, holding people in prisons without access to legal representation, very substandard prison conditions that have this year killed 30 people.
It is not OK or legal for the Federals to violate our Civil Rights.
This is terrorism, cruelty theater.
The message is intended for the American people. It is something like:
“We have a powerful secret police force. They can arrest anyone for anything. And if we want, we are going to arrest you.”
In fact, ICE has arrested quite a few American citizens. They are stopping and arresting people for not looking white enough.
And they arrest and sometimes shoot protesters and lie, claiming they were attacked.
You want to be careful here.
Throwing things at the police can be considered assault and they can and will arrest you and charge you with that.
Remember the sandwich thrower in Washington DC?
Yeah, he beat the rap but just barely.
If the police launch tear gas cannisters at you or shoot steel cored rubber coated bullets at you, that is legal. If you pick up a tear gas cannister and throw it back at them, they can arrest you for assault.
What is effective and legal is photographing and especially these days, video recording the thugs. They really hate and fear cameras because it documents them breaking the law, they can potentially be doxxed, and when they lie in court, their cases routinely get thrown out.
You read a lot about the police and ICE arresting protesters here and there. Most of those cases get thrown out of court if people show up, because protesting is legal and protected by the Fourth Amendment.
The videos help a lot.
The police claim a protester assaulted them. The video shows the protester on the ground while the police beat them with a club.
If you want to throw snow balls at ICE, remember that you may get arrested for it and end up in court.
Who did Nazi this coming?
And Diane knowing ICE’s track record she was probably a US citizen. And Diane your citizenship won’t protect you when the ICE Nazis come for you.
When IT HAPPENS, I don’t want it his bed or a hospital room, but in most humiliating, painful, and gory way possible. e.g. Made to walk a gauntlet of whip-wielding LGBTQ+ folks who will flog him bloody before being handed off to a surgical team who will vivisect him sans anesthesia. Republicans would be forced to watch as their messiah is rendered down organ-by-organ as he screams and begs for a mercy that will not come. Only his head will remain untouched, after which it will be mounted on a pike planted in front of the restored White House.
And yes fellow Babylon 5, I WOULD look up into his lifeless eyes and wave like this…
Edit: …fellow Babylon 5 fans…
Well, it shows how far the US has fallen. Like Cuba years ago, everyone is waiting for the soluciòn biologica. Pitiful.
Also, many deem it unlikely that this flood of shit is simply going to evaporate, never to be smelled again. Fascism has shown itself to be hardy and persistent, not for nothing facists are likened to sewer-dwelling rats and roaches…
The only consolation: there’s going to be a world-wide wild party, like nobody has seen before.
It is the Winter Solstice. We celebrate that the Winter Solstice as the deepest point of winter, in the knowledge that the world will awaken to spring in a while. At this time we enjoy the evergreens as signs that life still endures.
However, other than a handful of decent caring people who try, there is nothing in the grinding destructive machinery of human society that we can celebrate. Those whose lives are obsessed only with on acquisition of obscene amounts of money and power are the most destructive force in this deteriorating world they have created.
This Winter Solstice, the community that is my organization, takes some comfort in, and shares with you, consideration of the fundamentals of modern secular humanism which include these tenets:
Secular Humanism is ethical.
Secular Humanism is rational.
Secular Humanism supports democracy and human rights.
Secular Humanism insists that personal liberty must be combined with social responsibility.
Secular Humanism is a response to the widespread demand for an alternative to dogmatic religion.
Secular Humanism values artistic creativity and imagination and recognizes the transforming power of art.
Secular Humanism is a way of living aiming at the maximum possible fulfillment through the cultivation of ethical and creative living and offers an ethical and rational means of addressing the challenges of our times.
It is our hope that someday, in some unforeseen way, society will awaken from, and reject, this murderous debauchery and reverse the DEATH SPIRAL in which we are currently mired.
https://youtu.be/hsFmWmfuEyw?si=yP5AmOTYnSusHebg
The more things don’t change, the more things don’t change.
The Hague. Now.
I look forward to IT happening – hopefully in the way that would embarrass supporters the most – but I will be extremely worried about what happens next.
The vote was roughly 77 million to 75 million. Citizens won. Illegals lost.
Nobody is disputing the electoral victory. The point is that these people, like the women in Minneapolis, are not “illegals” and that it is dehumanizing and vile that so many citizens are favoring cruelty and ignorance.
77 million stupid people, like you, won. We’ve all lost.
Anyone who uses the term “illegals” is not a decent human being.
Winning an election is not supposed to nullify the Constitution entirely. Anyone supporting ICE is part of the mob of lawless barbarians.
Oh look, nomorefascism has decided to drop some fascism in this thread. Unsurprised, since they have been spouting racist nonsense for days in the I’ve been distracted thread.
@9 wrote “We celebrate that the Winter Solstice as the deepest point of winter….”
I’ll defer to more knowledgeable others, but as far as I understand it, the Winter Solstice is the start of winter, not the deepest point of winter. (And technically, of course, it is the shortest day and longest night of the year….)
@13 “The vote was roughly 77 million to 75 million. Citizens won. Illegals lost.”
You are referring to the Trump versus Harris vote — remember that more people voted against Trump in 2024 than voted for him.
We are not a free country. We are not a nation of laws. Growing up has been a process of realizing just how much America repeatedly fails to live up to its claimed ideals.
Executive orders tell law enforcement to treat me criminal because I was born with a disability and a terrorist for my lack of religion. The problem with YesMoreFascism is that they don’t realize they’ve lost, too. Eventually, the new regime will find an excuse to come for them, too.
Trump didn’t even get 50% of the vote.
He got 49+%.
A lot of those GOP voters have changed their mind since then.
“Trump’s Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low”
Strangely enough, some GOP voters didn’t vote to destroy our democracy and don’t want to live in a wrecked wasteland once known as the USA.
5) @Akira MacKenzie
Sounds to me like you’d be right at home with the Christians whose idea of Heaven is front row seats to the eternal tortures of the damned in Hell.
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If your blood-thirsty fantasies were to actually happen, it would probably be the final straw that made me give up on this country as the haven of irredeemable barbarians.
When I started reading the piece, I thought ‘IT’ referred to a Mad Max-style societal breakdown; took until I saw ‘Golfing mishap.’, when the penny dropped. A bit of a one-note thingy, there, O so coy!
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shermanj, it is the Summer Solstice; the Winter one is on 21 June.
(Such parochialism!)
John @23: Sorry, mate. Your hemisphere has only about 10% of the world’s population. But your parochial concern has been noted!