First, MAGA went after trans people, and we said nothing. Then, they went after undocumented immigrants and college students, and we said nothing. The Trump regime is now coming for all of us.
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.
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!
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.😡
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 ?
You are correct no one is SAFE
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.
tRump also said he would go after those who donated to VP Kamala Harris. Oh no guess I might end up at Guantanamo 🤣😛
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.
Completely right analysis, Haris Tarin.
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!
The “New McCarthyism” driven by utterly normalized AIPAC, et al and mega-corporate/oligarch corruption of BOTH 🔵 & 🔴😒
CBP is now refusing entry to visitors on visas who've made online comments critical of Trump and his administration.
Per WSJ, Columbia is caving...completely...to every Trump demand, betraying students, faculty, and alumni.
This has happened in 2 months...
Excellent Discussion! Thank you Both!
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.😡
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 ?