Nightwingdragon

Right. My point is that they (or at least, the Democrats) will pass this with the well-intentioned point of extending protections of EMTs or law enforcement who are engaged in legitimate activity like you said, and will instead be used almost exclusively as a way to protect ICE and punish brown people. I want to support a law like this because of the people that it is intended to help, but also fully acknowledge the reality of the world we live in and know how a law like this will most likely end up being (ab)used in the real world. Hence, the conflict.

This is the kind of propaganda fluff piece you get when the President of the United States is allowed to threaten the media with punitive EOs, frivilous lawsuits, and legislative retribution if they don't start saying nice things about Trump.

Expect more of this in the future. Shame on AP for even running this garbage.

Honestly, I don't know how I feel about this. On one side, I'm all for increasing penalties against those who bring harm to legitimate emergency service workers who are just trying to do their jobs, including cops.

On the other hand, I just see this as a tool that ends up being used against brown people who fight against ICE raids, or to drum up charges against brown people in order to justify their deportation.

Isn't this the same guy who just makes up tournaments at his own golf courses that he always mysteriously "wins"?

Serious question, what would you do if you were in America? Call your buddies and organize a march? Start offing people by yourself? Stand on a street corner with a sign? Donate money to a contradicting politician?

I'll go further than that. What do you expect to accomplish? What are you expecting other citizens to actually accomplish? And what do you think the realistic results of your actions will be?

People keep saying to arm up, as if ICE is going to just show up to your door, see that you're armed, and say "Aw, shucks". They'll go home while you stand on your front porch, standing triumphantly as the evil authorities slink away while the rest of the neighborhood claps?

No, what's going to happen is that they'll call in reinforcements. And by "Reinforcements", I mean they'll have enough people to play Team Deathmatch with your driveway as their base. If you're lucky, they'll drag your ass out of the house, cuffed up and in your underwear at 3 in the morning. Most likely, though, they'll just remove the splattermark that used to be you from the walls with a squeegee after they're done accounting for the 278 rounds, 2 grenades, and a flashbang that they sent into your bedroom. Oh, and if you are alive, now you've got felony gun possession and attempted murder charges tacked to you (or outright murder of an officer if you manage to kill a cop), giving them the exact charges needed to justify the removal you were trying to prevent in the first place.

Planning on storming the capitol alone? The most you can expect is being the subject of another "Man with manifesto shot, killed at state capitol building" article on CNN for about 5 minutes before you're forgotten completely. Well, outside of the stigma that your family will have to deal with every time they have to explain that they're the son/daughter/brother/whatever of "that guy. You know the one. The one that tried to shoot up the capitol that one time....."

Organizing a resistance? Yeah, good luck getting any kind of organization together without getting infiltrated long, long before you achieve any meaningful number or manage to gather any meaningful amount of resources. All it takes is just one suspected member carrying a cell phone and they'll just round up the entire group and send them on an involuntary tropical vacation.

So for all the Rambos out there who think that they're the next John Connor or something, feel free to tell us exactly what you think we should be doing.

The fuck, was this guy an idiot?

"Maybe he will stop these wars." Fucking LOL, are you kidding me? He was literally campaigning on glassing Gaza and turning it into beachfront property for the wealthy. "Maybe we'll see what's up with this Epstein shit". The man was neck deep in Epstein shit. How many pictures of Trump and Epstein together over the years do you need? He's probably got more pictures of him with Epstein than he has of his own kids. "Seeing what's up with this Epstein shit" would mean him finding a nice new home on the sex offender registry.

You knew what he was like. You spent the entire election season stumping for him on your podcast. You helped create this. You don't get to play dumb and absolve yourself of responsibility for your role in allowing all of this to happen in the first place. Fuck you.

Why are they wording this as if it's some kind of secret plan, quietly happening behind the scenes?

It's not like gerrymandering is a new concept or something.....

Heck, I'm surprised Abbot's response to this isn't "Yeah, no shit sherlock. What's your point?"

Well. They didn’t though. In court they say that they don’t, they wouldn’t, and would never dream of defying court orders.

I'm not sure exactly what the rest of your stream of consciousness was supposed to say, but they absolutely did testify in front of the Supreme Court that they would defy court orders that they didn't like.

It's close, but it's still not as good as Trump supporters praising MAGA and denying COVID exists as they are literally taking their dying breaths.

How is this remotely newsworthy? Trump has been openly defying court orders since the start of his 2nd term. Heck, they testified in front of the Supreme Court that they intended to defy court orders they didn't like. They've said it during press briefings. At this point, they might as well start selling T-shirts.

Anyone planning on doing anything about it? No? DIdn't think so.

They'll probably just say that every individual child has to be named, and that children that do not yet exist can't be plaintiffs in a lawsuit.

I've never understood this logic. If they were able-bodied enough to do that kind of labor, wouldn't they be....you know.....working? They're on Medicaid for a reason, right?

Yeah, I know, I know. The GOP and logic don't mix. I get it. But it just boggles my mind how simple concepts like this escape them.