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Jacque DeWolf's avatar

You are correct no one is SAFE

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Trish Wolfe's avatar

My 2017-18 take on Trump

With apologies to Martin Niemoller

(Tho somehow I don’t think he’d mind.)

First they came for the Native Americans

And I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t Native American.

Then they captured Africans, enslaving and abusing

their bodies, minds, and souls.

And it took the bloodiest war we ever fought to bring it all down;

After which they indentured and lynched their former slaves

And persecuted their children and their children and...

People went back to not stopping it.

And those who tried to

Marched and preached and took a knee

And were assassinated, imprisoned,

And stripped of their titles and their jobs.

And when Joe McCarthy came for the Communists

My parents didn’t speak out because they weren’t Communists

Many lost their jobs

And some were imprisoned.

Two were executed, thanks to Trump’s mentor.

Then Joe Arpaio came for the Latinx community

Imprisoning, torturing and murdering them, like the long line of his anonymous predecessors,

And Donald Trump pardoned him,

Giving a clear “attaboy” to crimes against humanity.

Then the militarized, Klan-infiltrated, police came — as they always had — for People of Color, murdering them with impunity,

But now on camera so all could see...

And they came for immigrants from the Southern Hemisphere

As well as those from a curated list of Muslim countries

Separating parents from children.

And they built a Wall...

All the while displacing more refugees — and creating more people who hate America —

Because nation-building dronestrikes and bombings

Indiscriminately killed even those civilians

On our side of the DMZ.

At the same time — insanely —

Selling military grade weapons to the highest bidder

Until all conflicts were meaningless

in the war on anybody’s terror

Except their own.

And they came again,

After the hard won rights of LGBTQX human beings,

Brothers and Sisters;

And after Women’s rights

Equally hard won.

All the while systematically reducing and eliminating funds to help the old, working poor, and disabled;

Stripping these quiet ones of all means to care,

Ensuring deaths of quiet desperation.

Some of us finally started to name the enemy domestic,

So they reinstated the poll tax — on the formerly incarcerated — gerrymandered; and hid polling places.

They made up a huge, terrifying terrorist group

called AntiFA;

And lumped any of us who uttered a word of protest into that ring of so-called snowflakes and libtards.

And then they began to extraordinarily render us

To offshore prisons and Black Ops sites

Because they could.

The Christofascist state reigned uber alles — at last.

And it was too late to speak out at all.

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Jacque DeWolf's avatar

tRump also said he would go after those who donated to VP Kamala Harris. Oh no guess I might end up at Guantanamo 🤣😛

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Carolea Hassard's avatar

What was this I heard today about Trump lifting the ban on "segregated facilities" for federal contractors? Those facilities include places like restaurants, drinking fountains and waiting rooms. What shit.

The memo, which he actually issued last month, said '"when issuing new solicitations or contracts," civil agencies should no longer include the provision and clause about the "Prohibition of Segregated Facilities."' This report came from Reuters.

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Lana Antar, Esq.'s avatar

Completely right analysis, Haris Tarin.

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Michael Solis's avatar

They are going for it WA. They made their mind up years ago, all or nothing. But, think about it. They video these actions. You know why? They know they have to use 1000% propaganda. But in their stupidity & greed, they rush. The people in red states have realized what is happening. They think the people who voted them in are so stupid they will be satisfied with a video while they steal their money. It isn’t going to work. When Hitler & Stalin did their evil, they took years to do it. They lulled the masses. The majority of people who voted for this criminal are seeing the light. Yes, he is out to screw you. What did you think he was going to do. Act now, or end up in an alley freezing your ass off!

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Michael Shelly-Moody's avatar

The “New McCarthyism” driven by utterly normalized AIPAC, et al and mega-corporate/oligarch corruption of BOTH 🔵 & 🔴😒

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hw's avatar

CBP is now refusing entry to visitors on visas who've made online comments critical of Trump and his administration.

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hw's avatar

Per WSJ, Columbia is caving...completely...to every Trump demand, betraying students, faculty, and alumni.

This has happened in 2 months...

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Jude Montarsi's avatar

Excellent Discussion! Thank you Both!

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Valerie's avatar

I remember those people being picked up in Oregon, in unmarked cars/vans, by unknown individuals ( I think I remember their faces being covered) like it was yesterday. It didn’t nearly as much coverage/outrage as it deserved.😡

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Lorna Shaw's avatar

The ‘enemy within’ is nothing new to justify the use of oppressive state machinery. We saw this for example in the 80’s/90s UK with “black youth” and their “alien counter culture” destroying the British way of life to justify the need for increased policing powers. Yet as many argue it was a useful strategy (misdirection) for dismantling the welfare state and undermining (no pun intended) the miners strike. What lessons can be learnt from these examples in dealing with today’s crises ?

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