Fascism may be here

[O Really]

It is my understanding these first deportees are criminals in addition to being illegal.

Ummm, you might want to check that.

[Vrede too]

Damn! Using restraints to control a bunch of criminals.

Ut-oh, heartless SoupySales got a hard-on. You should be careful posting such provocative images, Whack9.

Crossing the border without ever having been deported is NOT a "criminal" offense. Ironic that you, a US citizen, fail Civics and current events. However, it's not surprising for a bigoted Trumpette. SSDD.

Are you stupid?

SoupySales is a MAGAt CPFer, so . . .

I'm not arguing that violent criminals shouldn't be shackled. If someone is guilty of a heinous crime or has a history of violence then yeah, they need to go.

If your only crime is coming here illegally and you're an otherwise decent human being, then no. Just go through the legal avenues and put them on a flight home and be done with it. I don't think there's a need to chain them up and make a spectacle out of it. I don't think there's a need to make a spectacle out of any of it. Just do the job. Tactfully.

We, including SoupySales, scream bloody murder when this is done to US GI POWs. Such displays are war crimes.

It is my understanding these first deportees are criminals in addition to being illegal.

Ummm, you might want to check that.

MAGAts are sooo gullible.

'Disgusting': Trump White House Slammed Over 'Extremely Psychopathic' Migrant Video
Critics called the footage "unconscionable" and "grotesque."

This is disgusting and really disturbing.

Coming from the official WH account.

Again, this is where we are now. This is what some folks signed up for.

If anything about treating human beings like this appeals to you I’d ask that you never associate with me again in any way. I’ll defend your right to live freely and say what you want but I don’t want to know you. This is as grotesque a tweet as I’ve ever seen

This feels really fascist

Linda Tsungirirai Masarira
(Mother of 6 | Mambokadzi | Wife |Human Rights Defender | Development & Socioeconomic Rights activist | Feminist | LEAD President | COPAN 3rd Vice President | )
The chaining of undocumented migrants as they board deportation flights by the United States government is a blatant violation of human dignity and fundamental human rights. This degrading treatment, which likens migrants to violent criminals, is not only unnecessary but also deeply inhumane.

Many of these individuals are not criminals but people seeking refuge, economic opportunities, or reunification with their families. Subjecting them to shackles and public humiliation during deportation is a cruel and unjust practice that reflects a broken and punitive immigration system.

We strongly condemn this act of dehumanization and call upon the US government to adopt humane and dignified deportation procedures. Immigration enforcement should never equate to cruelty. We urge international human rights bodies, civil society organizations, and global leaders to speak out against this degrading treatment and demand reforms that respect the basic rights of all migrants, regardless of their legal status.

No human being deserves to be treated as less than human. The US must uphold the principles of dignity, fairness, and justice in its immigration policies.

ASMR? Whomever decided to post this is truly a sick individual. Anyone know who signed off on this? This is not dignified.

What strikes me most about the Trump administration isn't just the abject cruelty of its policies, but the way the whole thing is treated as a meme. This is real life, not a comedy. These are real people they're making a spectacle of

Why is treating human beings this way entertainment for you?

SoupySales? Jasmine?

It is beyond depressing that we live in a world where so many people find this funny and/or entertaining.

This is heinous, disgusting, and vile…
And worse, coming from the official White House account? It’s depraved and performative. This administration is a fucking joke.

This is the most dystopian, disgusting, deplorable and downright shameful post I could ever imagine coming from the OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE ACCOUNT. We are going backwards with dangerous speed. Fuck everything about this, and fuck you if you’re cool with this.

We’ve seen a lot of vile and shocking stuff from the Trump administration over the years, but watching this video and seeing that it was tweeted out by the official White House account is a whole new level of depravity

This is the official, verified account of the White House.

The cruelty is the point.

Deranged, vile shit.

More tweets at the link.

[O Really]

"We are better than this"
Ummm, no, "we're" not. This is "us" now.

[Whack9]

I thought we didn't like kings here in the US.

[neoplacebo]

Not long ago I commented that I figured the country has another two years. I've changed my mind. I now give it less than a year.

[Vrede too]

I thought we didn't like kings here in the US.

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1892295984928993698

Not long ago I commented that I figured the country has another two years. I've changed my mind. I now give it less than a year.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump ... 57424.html

Modern cons like SoupySales and Jasmine love "King" Big Brother and auto congestion/pollution, and despise local control.

[Whack9]

I thought we didn't like kings here in the US.

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1892295984928993698

Not long ago I commented that I figured the country has another two years. I've changed my mind. I now give it less than a year.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump ... 57424.html

Modern cons like SoupySales and Jasmine love "King" Big Brother and auto congestion/pollution, and despise local control.

Yeah, modern American conservatives are better described as monarchists.

[Vrede too]

It is my understanding these first deportees are criminals in addition to being illegal.

Ummm, you might want to check that.

MAGAts are sooo gullible.

Migrants who escaped an oppressive communist dictatorship:

3 migrants beat the Trump administration in court. They got deported the next day

The future looked bright for Luis Eduardo Perez Parra, Leonel Rivas Gonzalez and Abrahan Josue Barrios last week.

After being held in immigration custody for over a year and facing the possibility of transfer to Guantánamo Bay, the three men asked a federal court to intervene, warning they might have “disappeared into the legal black hole” of Guantánamo.

Last Sunday, a federal judge in New Mexico handed down a surprise ruling blocking the Trump administration from sending the men to Guantánamo -- the first successful legal challenge to the policy since it was enacted last month.

But their victory was short-lived.

The very next day, the men were placed on the first deportation flight back to Venezuela in over a year, according to their lawyer Jessica Vosburgh.

“It's hard to imagine that it didn't have something to do with them filing a habeas petition and then stepping forward to challenge these threatened Guantanamo transfers,” Vosburgh told ABC News. “The court's order only applied to transfers to Guantánamo, this is just a slap in the face to get deported the next day.”

While Vosburgh stopped short of calling the deportations retaliatory, she said she struggles to see what else could have led to the sudden deportation.

“With thousands of other post-order Venezuelans detained in the United States awaiting removal, it is hard to imagine that petitioners would have been prioritized for these first deportation flights if they had not filed this habeas action, and courageously challenged the executive branch’s reprehensible and legally unsupportable decision to begin shipping detained migrants to the notorious military prison at Guantánamo and holding them there incommunicado,” Vosburgh argued in a court filing voluntarily dismissing the case.

Vosburgh also called out the Trump administration for alleging that her clients -- two of whom have no criminal records, and one who was accused of a non-violent offense -- were members of the infamous Tren de Aragua gang, which could cause severe harm now that they are back in Venezuela where President Nicolás Maduro has linked the gang to his political opposition.

“Respondents’ reckless labeling of these two Petitioners as gang-affiliated is part of a disturbing pattern, beginning on the Trump campaign trail, of scapegoating and criminalizing migrants who come to this country seeking protection and a better life,” Vosburgh wrote. “It is also part of a trend, fueled by President Trump and his administration and supporters, of painting all Venezuelan migrant men as dangerous gang members deserving of being disappeared into the legal black hole of Guantánamo.”...

SoupySales is a prime audience for swallowing such LIES.

[Vrede too]

Permission granted for local cops to engage in racist stop and hassle anywhere, anytime:

ICE lets local officials stop immigrants on the streets as task force program is back

Never mind that local PDs suffered huge civil rights judgements before, PINO, Fascist DerSantis, Abbott and others want to repeat the FAILED programatic bigotry.

[Vrede too]

Free press? Nope. Even Faux Noise is revolted and frightened:

Fox News correspondent slams Trump administration for new press access rules that ‘gives power to the White House’

Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich condemned the White House on Tuesday after it announced that it was seizing power from the White House Correspondents’ Association and would now handpick news outlets that will be allowed to participate in the presidential press pool.

“This move does not give the power back to the people - it gives power to the White House. The WHCA is democratically elected by the full-time White House press corps,” Heinrich, who is a board member of the WHCA, tweeted.

“WHCA has determined pools for decades because only representatives FROM our outlets can determine resources all those outlets have - such as staffing - in order to get the President's message out to the largest possible audience, no matter the day or hour,” she added....

Guess what? Outlets that have been critical of MAGA, or who print/speak "Gulf of Mexico", get shut out of the pools.

[GoCubsGo]

Almost wish they'd collectively boycott the Whitehouse.

For DonOld, that's a fate worse than death.

[Vrede too]

Almost wish they'd collectively boycott the White House.

For DonOld, that's a fate worse than death.

Tempting, but cockroaches and rats thrive in the dark.

[O Really]

Well, it's not like any reliable information is ever transmitted at press conferences or by shouting at Trump on his way to/from the plane.

[Vrede too]

Well, it's not like any reliable information is ever transmitted at press conferences or by shouting at Trump on his way to/from the plane.

, but I think pool reporters do more than that.

White House Kicks Out HuffPost Reporter From Press Pool
Breaking with decades of precedent, the Trump White House is insisting on the ability to choose which reporters cover the president.

... The White House also kicked the Reuters wire service out of its spot in the pool for Wednesday, escalating a fight which began after the White House insisted The Associated Press comply with Trump’s decision to arbitrarily rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.”

The moves fit in with the increasingly authoritarian nature of Trump’s second term, which has seen him deploy the federal government to go after his critics and political enemies, and work to expand the powers of the executive branch to unprecedented levels.

“HuffPost condemns this egregious violation of the First Amendment. Americans deserve fair and honest reporting on their president,” HuffPost editor-in-chief Whitney Snyder said. “The White House must stop this cowardly behavior and restore HuffPost’s place in the press pool immediately.”

... For decades, the White House Correspondents’ Association has determined the rotation of reporters who fill spots dedicated for radio, television, print and wire service reporters.

But after 10 p.m. on Tuesday night, the White House informed Date there was “no room” for him in the pool. A reporter from Axios, a digital publication famous for its extreme commitment to brevity, is instead serving as the print pooler. There is also only one wire service in the pool instead of the typical three, while spots were handed to Newsmax and The Blaze, two right-wing outlets.

... “This move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States,” WHCA President Eugene Daniels, a reporter at Politico, said after Leavitt’s announcement. “It suggests the government will choose the journalists who cover the president. In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps.”...

Retaliation for this reporting?
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[Vrede too]

Senators Slam White House For 'Petty' Decision To Bar Associated Press Reporters

... “I guess different administrations have barred different reporters from press conferences for a long period of time, depending on who they like. It seems pretty petty to me,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said Thursday.

Murkowski also objected to Trump’s order changing the Indigenous name of North America’s highest mountain, Denali, back to Mt. McKinley, the name many non-Alaskans had used before the Obama administration changed it. She reintroduced legislation that would codify “Denali” into law.

GoLisaGo! Denali rules, Mt. McKinley drools.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), meanwhile, offered a more forceful condemnation of the decision to bar the AP from attending events at the White House, calling it a “red alert moment” for democracy under the Trump administration.

“The freedom of the press is in the fucking Constitution and they are banning outlets from covering the White House because those outlets don’t do exactly what the administration tells them to do,” Murphy told HuffPost.

Pretty salty for a senator. 'Defend the Fucking Constitution' would make a cool bumper sticker.

The senator added of the president: “He doesn’t own the White House. The White House is owned by the people of this country. That press room and the seat(s in it) are owned by the American people, and it’s not like the freedom of the press was a suggestion by our founding fathers.”

“I just think people kind of need to get a sense of urgency about what’s about to happen here,” he added.

GoChrisGo!

... “As a global news agency that disseminates news around the world, the AP must ensure that place names and geography are easily recognizable to all audiences,” the AP said in a statement last month....

Duh, a concept that's lost on thin-skinned crybaby PINO and his adoring MAGAts.

[neoplacebo]

Ah, to the trump cult, law stands for Lie And Whine. They are obsessed with law. It's very obvious.

[Vrede too]

Press Advocates Outraged By Judge Who Made Newspaper Remove Editorial
Mississippi judge Crystal Wise Martin ordered a newspaper to remove an editorial criticizing the mayor and city leaders after the officials sued.

[Vrede too]

Ah, to the trump cult, law stands for Lie And Whine. They are obsessed with law. It's very obvious.

Yep. The trump cult sure doesn't stands for the actual law:

CNN’s Elie Honig Sounds ‘Alarm Bells’ Over Trump DOJ Appointee: ‘Toxic Blend of Traits’ and ‘No Qualifications’



Nominee Ed Martin does do a lot of lying and whining, though.

[GoCubsGo]

Ah, to the trump cult, law stands for Lie And Whine. They are obsessed with law. It's very obvious.

Yep. The trump cult sure doesn't stands for the actual law:

CNN’s Elie Honig Sounds ‘Alarm Bells’ Over Trump DOJ Appointee: ‘Toxic Blend of Traits’ and ‘No Qualifications’



Nominee Ed Martin does do a lot of lying and whining, though.

He's got the one qualification that counts.

Fealty.

[Whack9]

Holy shit how do these people figure out how to put their own pants on in the morning