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bigtree

(91,939 posts)
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 06:32 PM Jul 2

Insanity of a president convicted of 34 felony counts of election fraud demanding convicted criminals be deported

...as his Stasi KGB raids homes, schools, churches, and courtrooms and kidnapping and jailing working people in this country and their families without due process.

Sandi Bachom 📹@sandibachom
🔥🔥🔥60 seconds in Trump’s America, played out 3,000 times a day across the country. An immigrant shows up for a regularly scheduled court date. It happens very fast. It seems random but it’s accelerated. They are taken after leaving the court. They disappear them.



Sarah Reese Jones @PoliticusSarah 2h
ICE grabbed the wrong man in front of an immigration building. His children started sobbing as his wife refused to leave his side. Turns out, they grabbed the wrong man.

report/video: https://www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/shame-ice-inflicts-generational-trauma?r=f805&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web


Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian 8h
Do you understand what is happening to you now?

You are next.






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Insanity of a president convicted of 34 felony counts of election fraud demanding convicted criminals be deported (Original Post) bigtree Jul 2 OP
It's beyond insanity. mdbl Jul 2 #1
This 4th of July.... Blue Owl Jul 2 #2
Including current American citizens KentuckyWoman Jul 2 #3
Yah think? malaise Jul 2 #4
It's insanity that this man was even allowed to run for office again in the first place. Initech Jul 2 #5
I hear ya! Greg_In_SF Jul 2 #6
Stasi? KGB? Gimpyknee Jul 2 #7
At which point Fascism and Communism merge into one? Justice matters. Jul 2 #8
I thought about making the analogy with Nazis. It's an apt one, I think. bigtree Jul 2 #9

Blue Owl

(56,737 posts)
2. This 4th of July....
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 06:36 PM
Jul 2

I’ve never been so fucking ASHAMED to be an “American” — whatever that means nowadays….

I hope the orange fat fuck croaks on the 4th and proceeds to hell where he belongs….

KentuckyWoman

(7,140 posts)
3. Including current American citizens
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 06:48 PM
Jul 2

He wants to snatch anyone he wants and send them anywhere he wants. Citizens included. Naturalized, born here, he doesn't really care. He's been telling us this for, what, 15 years? He ran around for how long claiming Obama can't be a citizen because only 1 parent was a citizen.

They'll find an excuse to rip citizenship away. If you even see a judge you won't have a lawyer and you won't a say. You'll just be disappeared. SCOTUS won't stop it. Even if they try Trump lawyers already said he won't obey any ruling he doesn't like. Supposedly Amy Barrett had the gall to be shocked.

Personally, I don't care if someone is citizen or not, papers or not, I don't care if they are great folks or murderers - everyone deserves basic human rights. Everyone deserves fair access to the judicial system. A lot of the liberal battles of my 80+ yr lifetime were for that cause. In just a few months... it is nearly wiped away.

I thought it would not come to this. I still hope it doesn't, but I think now I was wrong.

malaise

(286,869 posts)
4. Yah think?
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 06:57 PM
Jul 2

Last edited Wed Jul 2, 2025, 09:49 PM - Edit history (1)

Now he’s declaring that Mamdani I is an illegal.
Remember when he said Obama wasn’t born in The USA.

See a pattern - white supremacy trumps nationality.

Initech

(105,693 posts)
5. It's insanity that this man was even allowed to run for office again in the first place.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 06:59 PM
Jul 2

January 6th should have been the end of his political career period. Fucking disgusting.

Greg_In_SF

(386 posts)
6. I hear ya!
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 07:01 PM
Jul 2

But, just to be clear, he was found guilty of falsifying business records, not election fraud.

Justice matters.

(8,654 posts)
8. At which point Fascism and Communism merge into one?
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 08:49 PM
Jul 2

Gangsterism at the highest level of government.

bigtree

(91,939 posts)
9. I thought about making the analogy with Nazis. It's an apt one, I think.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 09:10 PM
Jul 2

Last edited Wed Jul 2, 2025, 10:17 PM - Edit history (1)

...but this totalitarianism comes with a strong Russian influence, both in the actual subversion from Putin and Trump's collusion and in the way the Stasi was used to crush and materially eliminate political dissent, and the way it appeared to be modeled after the KGB which was also used to maintain imposed authority through fear and intimidation, including jailing of dissidents and others, using a large paramilitary force at the control and direction of the central governments.


Trump’s spending cuts and border security package would inject roughly $150 billion into his mass deportation agenda over the next four years, funding everything from an extension of the United States’ southern border wall to detention centers to thousands of additional law enforcement staff.

The current annual budget for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the government’s primary department for immigration enforcement, is around $10 billion. If the Republican president’s big bill passes in Congress, the immense cash infusion could reshape America’s immigration system by expanding the law enforcement and detention network while increasing costs to legally immigrate to the U.S.

“One thing about this bill, these sections are super vague,” said Adam Isacson, a researcher with the Washington-based human rights advocacy organization WOLA, including multibillion-dollar expenditures sometimes explained in just a few vague lines. “There’s no real specificity in the bill about how it’s going to be spent.”

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-budget-congress-trump-bill-e37bb0a5c5ca883438db349239a6c251


...or, is it $175 billion?

Overall, the Senate version will dedicate $175 billion to an immigration crackdown, including an extra $30 billion for ICE, which can be spent over four years. To put that in perspective, ICE’s current budget is about $8 billion per year.

The bill also designates $45 billion for detention facilities, which can also be spent at any time over the next four years. By comparison, the U.S. spends about $8 billion a year on the Bureau of Prisons.

Although the Senate budget bill contains a dizzying array of provisions, ranging from tax breaks for the wealthy to massive cuts to Medicaid, Vice President JD Vance argued Monday that immigration is the main reason to pass it.

“Everything else — the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy — is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions,” he said.

https://theintercept.com/2025/07/01/trump-big-beautiful-bill-passes-ice-budget/

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