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    A Nation of Immigrants on a Path to Self-Immolation

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    By Bear Howard —

    Part one: The Deportation Fantasy: Why America Can’t Arrest Its Way Out of Immigration

    Sedona, AZ — In 2025, the United States stands on the cusp of one of the most ambitious—and in many ways absurd—law enforcement undertakings in its modern history. The stated goal of some in power is simple in theory, yet staggering in practice: to identify, arrest, detain, adjudicate, and deport millions of undocumented immigrants already living and working in the country.

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    On the surface, it’s pitched as a clean, decisive solution—a single sweep of the broom to “restore order.” But beneath that political slogan lies a logistical monster, one so enormous that even the most authoritarian states of the 20th century would raise an eyebrow. When we unpack the real numbers—the agents, detention beds, courtrooms, lawyers, transportation, and costs—the scale is mind-bending. When we add the human consequences, the economic fallout, and the likelihood of unrest, it starts to look less like an enforcement plan and more like a blueprint for national self-harm.

    The Math That Doesn’t Work

    Estimates put the number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. between 10.5 and 11 million. To remove even half that number in a short period would require an operational footprint far larger than ICE’s current size. As of 2025, ICE employs roughly 6,000 Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers. To reach mass-deportation levels—say, 1 million removals a year—those numbers would need to multiply several times over. Even doubling to 12,000 agents would be insufficient given the vast geography, the necessity of surveillance, and the manpower needed for raids, transport, and paperwork.

    Where would these agents come from? Recruitment at that scale would take years, pulling from an already strained pool of law enforcement professionals. And unlike local police, immigration officers require specialized training in federal law, asylum protocols, and evidence handling—assuming we even keep those protocols intact.

    Detention: The Bed Space Problem

    At peak capacity, ICE detention centers can hold around 34,000 people at a time. Let’s imagine that capacity doubles or triples through a flurry of new construction and contracted private facilities. Even then, mass operations would still bottleneck, with tens of thousands waiting for beds after arrest. Detention isn’t a revolving door—cases can take months, sometimes years, to resolve. That means people languish in custody, clogging the system and ballooning costs.

    And speaking of costs: ICE already spends billions annually on detention. The average per-detainee cost is roughly $150–$200 a day. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands of detainees at any given time and you’re talking tens of billions per year, not counting capital expenditures for new facilities. These aren’t short-term motel stays; they’re sprawling compounds with 24/7 security, medical care, food service, and legal access.

    The Legal Backlog from Hell

    Immigration court backlogs are already a national embarrassment—over 3 million cases are pending as of 2025, with average wait times measured in years. Mass arrests would be like pouring gasoline on that fire. To process millions of additional cases, the U.S. would need to hire thousands of new immigration judges, clerks, and interpreters.

    And here’s where it gets even more fantastical: due process. Even in the streamlined, often-criticized system of immigration courts, every individual has some right to make a case—be it for asylum, cancellation of removal, or other relief. That means lawyers, evidence, and hearings. The government would have to either (1) hire enough legal professionals to handle the caseload, which would cost billions, or (2) gut due process protections, opening the door to constitutional challenges that could tie up deportations in federal courts for decades.

    Civil Unrest: The Untold Cost

    America is not 1930s Germany, nor Stalin’s USSR. But forcibly removing millions of people—many of whom have lived here for years, have U.S.-citizen children, and are deeply embedded in communities—would inevitably provoke fierce resistance.

    In neighborhoods across the country, the sight of militarized ICE raids would spark not only fear but also organized pushback. Religious congregations, sanctuary networks, advocacy groups, and even sympathetic local governments would resist. We could see mass protests, work stoppages, and acts of civil disobedience on a scale not seen in decades. In some places, the line between civil resistance and violent confrontation could blur. The human cost—in broken families, traumatized children, and frayed community trust—would echo for generations.

    The Economic Self-Sabotage

    Here’s the cruel irony: the U.S. economy is already facing a demographic cliff. Birth rates are below replacement levels, and labor shortages plague industries from agriculture to construction to elder care. Immigrants—documented or otherwise—are the stopgap keeping some of these sectors alive.

    Removing millions of workers would send shockwaves through the economy. Crops would rot in the fields. Small businesses would shutter. Prices for goods and services would rise. And without a surge in native-born workers—an impossibility given current population trends—entire regions would feel the economic strain.

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    So the very same America that would be pouring tens of billions into detention and deportation would simultaneously be throttling its own productivity and growth. And in a cruel twist, once labor shortages hit, the same policymakers pushing mass removal would likely be forced to pivot toward new guest-worker programs—essentially re-importing the labor they just expelled, but under more exploitative conditions.

    The Political and Moral Fallout

    Globally, America’s reputation would take a hit from which it might not recover for a generation. This is the country that lectures others about human rights, the rule of law, and the dignity of the individual. Images of mass roundups, overcrowded detention centers, and children torn from parents would erase decades of moral capital.

    Domestically, mass deportation would deepen polarization. For some Americans, the sight of buses filled with deportees would be a vindication of promises kept. For others, it would be the breaking point—a sign that the United States had crossed from constitutional republic into something darker, a place where fear is a governing tool.

    Why This Isn’t Just About Immigration

    Mass deportation isn’t simply a bad policy idea; it’s a stress test for democracy itself. It demands that Americans answer some uncomfortable questions:

    • How far are we willing to go in using state power against individuals who are not violent criminals?
    • Do we accept the erosion of due process if it serves a political goal?
    • What precedent do we set for the next group that falls out of political favor?

    If the machinery of mass detention and removal is built, it won’t vanish when immigration politics shift. It will remain, available to future administrations for whatever purpose they deem “necessary.” That’s the real historical echo we should fear—because the SS and KGB didn’t spring up overnight. They grew from institutions whose original missions seemed, at first, more limited.

    The Smarter Path Forward

    If the real concern is border security and orderly immigration, then the answer is not mass expulsion—it’s rational, sustainable policy. That means streamlining legal immigration pathways, investing in asylum processing, targeting true security threats, and building a labor system that acknowledges economic realities.

    It means remembering that immigration enforcement is not a zero-sum game between “law and order” and “open borders.” The U.S. can have secure borders without descending into the logic of roundups and mass detention.

    In the end, the question is not whether America can attempt a mass deportation. With enough money, manpower, and cruelty, it could. The question is whether America can remain America if it tries.

    Summary: The Deportation Fantasy: America’s Fast Track to Irrelevance

    In 2025, some leaders are selling America a dangerous illusion: that we can “restore order” by rounding up and deporting millions of undocumented immigrants already living and working here.

    It sounds simple. It isn’t. The U.S. has about 11 million undocumented residents and just 6,000 ICE removal officers. Detention capacity is roughly 34,000 beds. Immigration courts already face a 3-million-case backlog. Even doubling agents and building more detention centers wouldn’t come close. The costs would soar into tens of billions annually — before even counting the political, social, and moral damage.

    And the economic fallout? Devastating. Immigrants, documented and undocumented, make up 5% of the U.S. workforce and over a quarter of all farmworkers. They build homes, harvest crops, care for our elderly, and staff our restaurants. Remove them and prices rise, small businesses close, and food rots in the fields. With birth rates below replacement, there simply aren’t enough native-born workers to replace them.

    The human toll would be brutal: families torn apart, U.S.-citizen children left behind, communities fractured. Civil unrest would be inevitable. And abroad, America’s moral standing — already fraying — would collapse under images of mass roundups and overcrowded detention camps.

    This is more than bad immigration policy. It’s a test of whether we will abandon due process, normalize state power against non-violent people, and build a permanent deportation machine that future leaders can turn on anyone.

    Mass deportation won’t make America stronger. It will make us smaller, meaner, and less competitive in a world eager to move on without us. The rest of the world will write the future — and be relieved that the bully at the table finally walked away.

    We can have secure borders without destroying ourselves. But only if we choose the smarter path.

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    20 Comments

    1. Jill Dougherty on August 11, 2025 5:48 pm

      Bottom line is-

      If you’re not uber wealthy and or white (especially the Nationalist type) you’re not getting in to King Trumps Multi Billion Dollar Golden Ticket scam to sell citizenship to you. Otherwise you’re getting deported, fired, harassed and jailed for not being those two selfishly ignorant things that MAGA values above all else!

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    2. Jill Dougherty on August 12, 2025 10:45 am

      Bear
      Trump was correct when he said DC has a crime problem! What he failed to mention is it was due to him, his administration and MAGA! They’re primarily responsible for increased violence and crime nationwide too! So they spin and obfuscate and gas light everyone by blaming everyone else (especially brown and black peoples) for the crimes they commit or fail to prevent from mass shootings, corporate greed and crimes, openly violent militias and hate groups, hostile takeovers and much much more they are the key problem not the solution.

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    3. TJ Hall on August 12, 2025 12:01 pm

      Ms Jill you’re 100% correct!

      ‘Hyperbolic and false’: Trump’s portrayal of crime in Washington DC has little to do with facts
      Just as with Los Angeles in June, Trump’s claims about DC are rooted in false and misleading claims about crime and homelessness, experts say.’

      https://apple.news/Add1xdY84SZK9PdvOUapPRA

      Wonder when MAGA will turn on the true Criminals destroying America? Probably never since they’re all complicit and all in on supporting the Criminal and Thief regardless of the facts and evidence against him.

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    4. JB on August 12, 2025 4:47 pm

      DOGE-flation: DOGE’s actual savings are a fraction of what it claims
      A POLITICO analysis of DOGE data reveals the organization saved less than 5 percent of its claimed savings from nearly 10,100 contract terminations.

      https://apple.news/AzEDOoX49QrSviexkip818w

      1.4 billion is what Trump made in one visit to Qatar. Perhaps he should give the money to his sucker constituency that pay exorbitant mark ups for his cheap Chyyyner made crap?

      Just saying-

      The Number
      How much is Trump pocketing off the Presidency?
      https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/the-number

      If Clinstone, Ubama or Sleepy Joe did this MAGA would have lynched them after spending billions upon bogus never ending Senate and Congressional hearings that waste billions in taxpayer dollars like they have their hundreds of other bogus and unfounded hearings of each of the aforementioned and which King Trump demands they continue until charges that can stick are found even if entirely fabricated!

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    5. JB on August 12, 2025 5:39 pm

      Just like J Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy and the Boy who cried Wolf and their drummed up bullshit accusations and charges created to divert from their own criminality! The troops need to march upon DC not as law enforcement but to root the MAGA criminals out of their hidey holes and stop the MAGA coup against our country, democracy and rule of law!
      Don’t get mad at the troops being deployed! Be damned pissed off at those who deployed them for political gain and nothing else!

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      • TJ Hall on August 13, 2025 1:13 pm

        Mr JB

        The average arrest rate in Washington D.C. is approximately 56 arrests per day, according to The Guardian. In 2024, the Metropolitan Police Department reported an average of 56 arrests per day. On Tuesday, the citywide arrests totaled 76, according to The Guardian.

        To date the National Guard and ICE units patrolling DC have made 30-40 arrests per day. That’s way below DC Police averages and it’s only costing US Taxpayers an additional couple billion USD for them to do what was already being done by officers already paid, trained and capable of doing so! It’s all fear mongering lies used as an excuse to circumvent accountability and rule of law or as in this specific instance- violating the Posse Comitatus Act which prevents US Forces being used for Law Enforcement on US Soil just as they very much violated it by sending troops into LA who did in fact go out on patrol with DHS agents and participated in arresting individuals they selected to go after. Bunch of wankers pretending to provide a legitimate law enforcement presence where it is not needed.

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        • JB on August 13, 2025 6:24 pm

          Hello TJ!

          They’re doing the same type of subversion of the Posse Comitatus Act on the southern border by making up and declaring state and privately owned lands as military exclusion zones where GI’s can arrest suspected migrants. These zones are largely un marked and many unsuspecting people have wandered into them and ended up detained or arrested for trespassing. So not only are they circumventing established law and precedent to pull off their sham Captain America made for TV stunts starring ICE Barbie and her crew of unidentifiable (“sterilized”as we say in the military) thugs who snatch people from their homes, families, jobs (MS-13 Gangsters don’t have legitimate jobs they’re just punk thugs like many in MAGA especially those who just joined ICE so they could join in on the hate filled games being played. Most will be 18 years old with zero law enforcement experience and will be granted immunity from prosecution for any and all crimes they willfully commit against terrified people in handcuffs. Their training will be tragically inadequate in a rush to put them out on the streets where they can unlawfully deport completely innocent people without facing any repercussions whatsoever. Reminds me of when I went to court in Europe and the presiding Judge asked a woman on the stand pleading her innocence “why shouldn’t I believe my law enforcement officers” as if being a cop somehow automatically made one a perfect law abiding citizen who would never break laws themselves. Which we all know is not the case!

          There are good and bad cops and most of the good ones either get forced out by their fellow officers who are corrupted through vicious hazing and harassment or they come with tenure, experience and the innate ability to do their jobs of SERVING and PROTECTING while others are serving themselves and protecting no one but themselves until they eventually get caught. It’s a tough job, definitely not for 18 years old old snot nose kids to be performing. Even though at age 18 I carried a fully loaded (round in chamber) M1911A1 and M16A1 & A2, M4, M22, M203, MK19, M2, M60, M-47 Dragon, BGM-71 TOW and LAW all at various times throughout my career depending on my job, position, rank and our mission, I was not mature enough to be making life or death decisions with loaded weapons! No 18 year old is, they just somehow survive the shit storm of Combat and adjusting to civilian life and their own country again. And there’s a Yuge Bigly difference between being a cop and being a soldier unless you work SWAT. On the battlefield it’s total chaos met with madness. On our civilian streets of any town USA things can be chaotic but the chaos has to be met with a lawful measured response equal to the threat being encountered. At least that was how law enforcement operated until we went back to the days of Jim Crowe, Fire Hoses, Rubber Bullets, CS and Tear Gas and attack dogs and a POTUS telling law enforcement recruits to “ it be so gentle with handcuffed suspects as they load them into their patrol vehicles” which is excessive and abuse of force and abuse of a detainee. Again, at least that’s how it was before Fascism swept over the country like COVID 19 did thanks to fascist morons killing millions of Americans for no damned logical reason whatsoever!

          In 2017, then-President Donald Trump suggested to law enforcement recruits that they shouldn’t be overly gentle with handcuffed suspects being placed in patrol cars.
          Specifically, he spoke dismissively of the practice where officers place a hand over a suspect’s head to prevent them from hitting it on the car frame while entering the vehicle.
          Trump said, “You can take the hand away, OK?”, suggesting a less cautious approach during the arrest and transport process.
          These comments drew laughter and applause from the audience, including federal and local law enforcement personnel. However, some law enforcement agencies, like the Suffolk County Police Department where the speech was given, later reiterated their strict policies regarding prisoner handling and stated they would not tolerate rough treatment.

          Ha Ha they think Police Brutality is hilarious! Wait until it happens to them! We’ll see who has the last laugh when all these Criminals currently running our country into oblivion finally face their fate of justice and karma. It’ll be like the Nuremberg trials all over again except far more hi tech and detailed. Should make for good television if we still have such a thing.

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    6. TJ Hall on August 12, 2025 6:04 pm

      White House launches review of Smithsonian museums

      https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5448571-white-house-review-smithsonian-museums/

      Auditing history! That’d be too damned funny if it wasn’t actually happening! So I guess new American History will read something like this-

      The Great God Fearing Evangelicals and Mormons discovered a red skinned heathen infested country of great value to white people but of no value to anyone else. So the founders put the red people into detention camps for safe keeping while they Made America Great Again Again. Sure they used some slave labor from Africa and South America but they’re not really people anyway and they were treated better than family owned dogs. Plus, they all walked away with critical vocational skills, 40 acres and a mule! Jim Crowe was created by the Unionocrats not Dixiecrats who switched over to the Republican Party.
      There is and never was a separation of church and state. The founders were Bible thumpers through and through and they loved and respected King George tremendously! Then over the next 250 years the Democrats robbed America blind, stripped Americans of hard fought for and earned rights, oppressed poor white people and made it impossible for them to compete for jobs, homes or education because of their being white and superior in every way. America was made for wealthy White venture capitalists and White Criminals only! From sea to shining sea! Everyone else is and was just fodder for the ascension of a new King and Supreme Leader by the name of Donald J Trump. Trump was the victim of never ending political and DOJ witch hunts! He was also the first victim of an American Deep State Government that foresaw the future and Trumps rise to power. It was all lies of course and King Trump continues to be America’s longest serving, eldest and wealthiest monarch ever!

      History however has a long long memory and no matter what illusions they create to the contrary the facts remain the same. You cannot erase the collective memories of all Americans despite having brainwashed half of them with the aid of Q and Putin’s propaganda machines!

      😜😂😜😂

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    7. Ted Nichenbergan on August 13, 2025 7:49 pm

      The (ill)logic of MAGA-

      https://youtu.be/zH04L1DsCs8?feature=shared

      Talking to them is like talking to a wall unless it involves hate. Then they’re all ears!

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    8. JB on August 15, 2025 7:57 pm

      Today Donald Trump was schooled by his puppet master Vladimir in the Art of the Cold Steal Deal! Trump thought himself an equal , a pal and Putin showed him the reality door where he realized that Putin is is charge, they’re not equals and Donald will do as he says or “there will be serious consequences” as Trump said pre- “Rusher” summit. Serious as in full disclosure of all of the Kompromat he has on him.
      The Ukrainian people should be incredibly and increasingly concerned about what comes next.
      This is where Trump either complies and obeys and Putin is permitted to continue his crimes against humanity and his genocide of the Ukraine peoples or he grows a pair for the first time in his pampered criminal life and stands against Putin regardless of whatever may be disclosed by him and he gives Ukraine a full complement of both Offensive and Defensive Weapons both long and short range, possibly even publicly putting US boots officially on the ground there rather than pretending to do so Clandestinely when everyone knows we’ve had government contractors and advisors over there since day one! It’s the military industrial complex’s nut to be able to test things like weapons and equipment out in actual combat.
      Hopefully I am wrong about King Trump and he does the right thing on behalf of Ukraine and the free world!

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    9. JB on August 18, 2025 1:50 pm

      Today “The (self proclaimed) Greatest Deal Maker Ever” sat down with Zelenskyy and EU leadership to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. Zelenskyy even wore a suit (as if that should even matter in the first place). But then Major Bone Spurs couldn’t help himself and went off on his usual tangent of blaming Biden for the shitty economy iden inherited from King dumbasses during the very mismanagement COVID 19 pandemic which began under Trumpy Dumty’s watch! His arms must be incredibly strong (despite his obese out of shape appearance) because of the way he continually pats himself on the back for things he had nothing to do with like the 6-7 wars he falsely claims to have stopped-

      Trump had hand in temporary ceasefires around the world but evidence is scant he stopped ‘six wars’

      https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/aug/05/donald-trump/stopped-six-wars-ceasefires-iran-israel/

      His claims about Serbia and Kosovo is complete bullshit! They have not been at war since 1998 following the Serbian invasion of Kosovo to ethnically cleanse it! There have been ethnic tensions (primarily created by Putin and pro Russian Serb extremist)(The Serbian Government is fully aligned with their Slavic brethren Russia despite having been allowed into NATO and the EU) but not war. So that’s an absolute lie!
      His claim to have negotiated Peace between Israel and Serbia during his first crime spree against M’erica is bullshit too! They have never been at war with one another and are separated by many thousands of miles of land and sea!

      There was also NO War in the Congo either despite tensions and a recent M’erican led failed coup attempt upon the Congolese Parliament. Which coincidentally was plotted about the same time that the M’erican led very much failed coup attempt during King Dumpies first tenure as Insurrectionist and Thief.

      Iran was and is at war with Israel. Missiles aren’t flying at the moment but the conflict between the two countries has not and never will be stopped.

      Trump had hand in temporary ceasefires around the world but evidence is scant he stopped ‘six wars’

      https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/aug/05/donald-trump/stopped-six-wars-ceasefires-iran-israel/

      BTW- Did you all know we had M’erican PMC’s or mercenaries in Haiti? Guess who is running that shit show?

      https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/15/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-to-send-forces-to-haiti-to-fight-gangs

      That’s right, Trumps former Oligarch head of the Dept of Education’s (Betsy Devoss) wealthy (through corruption) oligarch brother Erik Prince who was instrumental in using his Employees to infiltrate Democrat and Independent town halls and harass and intimidate people on behalf of Donny “Witch Hunt” Trump.

      Talk about some Deep State Shadow War bullshit! Can’t get any deeper than Blackwater unless you go back to the Watergate Plumbers!

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      • Jill Dougherty on August 18, 2025 4:39 pm

        JB
        I know you know it was a sham meeting and that Trump has no intention whatsoever to do anything to the benefit of Ukraine or detriment to Russia. Our EU counterparts were not present as US allies or friends of America.
        Nope, they were there to ensure the disgraceful attack upon Zelenskyy by someone they view as corrupt, unstable and pro Putin didn’t attempt to pull his good cop bad cop routine with Hillbilly Couch Humper Vance playing the bad cop wearing mascara.
        This is all just distraction and diversion to drag the war out long enough for Trump’s pal Putin to gain substantial ground and or to rebuild and re fit his very decimated military. Watch and see!
        And you’re dead on with regard to Eric Prince and his band of criminal mercenary thugs who should been indicted for War Crimes by the World Court-

        Here’s a more detailed explanation:
        The Nisour Square Incident:
        In 2007, Blackwater contractors fired upon a crowd at Nisour Square in Baghdad, killing 14 unarmed civilians and wounding at least 17.
        U.S. Prosecution:
        The U.S. Department of Justice prosecuted four Blackwater contractors in U.S. federal court for their actions in Nisour Square.
        Convictions and Pardons:
        In 2014, three of the four contractors were convicted of manslaughter and attempted manslaughter, while one was convicted of first-degree murder. However, in 2020, President Donald Trump pardoned all four contractors.
        No ICC Indictment:
        Despite the severity of the incident and the international attention it received, the ICC did not indict any Blackwater personnel for war crimes.
        Arguments for ICC Jurisdiction:
        Some legal scholars have argued that the ICC could have had jurisdiction over the Blackwater case, as the Rome Statute, which established the ICC, includes provisions for war crimes committed by individuals, including those working as private military contractors.
        Reasons for Non-Indictment:
        While the ICC has a broad mandate to prosecute war crimes, the decision to indict rests with the ICC’s Prosecutor. It’s possible that the Prosecutor may have decided not to pursue a case against Blackwater contractors due to a variety of factors, including the ongoing U.S. prosecution and the complexities of prosecuting private military contractors under international

        Why is it that the US, GB, France and Israel have immunity from prosecution for war crimes while policing the world and eliminating others they accuse of the same thing(s)?

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    10. TJ Hall on August 18, 2025 4:51 pm

      Ever see the movie Bushwick starring Dave Bautista? Here’s an overview-

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushwick_(film)

      Acting isn’t top tier but the storyline is completely relatable to what Project 2025 and MAGA are attempting in Democrat run cities while ignoring the MAGA cities with serious Crime problems like Phoenix which has a higher crime rate than DC! Phoenix, the state’s capital and largest city, is third with 785 violent crimes per 100,000 people.4 days ago. So many lies and exaggerations being made to justify the indefensible and inexcusable!

      Wankers every last one of em!

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      • TJ Hall on August 19, 2025 4:07 pm

        GOP states pour National Guard troops into D.C. as Trump tightens control
        Republican governors of six states collectively mobilized roughly 1,200 additional troops to D.C.

        https://apple.news/AM2kZoh8ERVKM20VxG6efmg

        Like I asked yesterday, ever see the movie Bushwick. It’s slowly coming to fruition!

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    11. JB on August 19, 2025 2:06 pm

      A violent criminal is captured, fantastic! However how he was captured is a violation of the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution which prohibits US Border Patrol Agents from operating beyond 100 miles of the US border. Calico Rock AK is over 1,000 miles from the US Border!

      King Trump continues to be emboldened by his new found Immunity Status granted him by his crooked criminal MAGA Judges of SCOTUS who decided the first twice impeached, convicted felon, registered sex offender and insurrectionist should be the first POTUS to have unchecked power and full immunity to continue breaking laws, violating human and civil rights and our supposedly sacred Constitution which is only sacred when it gets misinterpreted to benefit the right wing gun nuts and sovereign citizen lunatics of our country.

      ‘Devil in the Ozarks’ used Sharpie, kitchen aprons and empty food can to craft disguise for escape

      https://apple.news/AS2ztl_OUSjGUfqytcp47nw

      Calico Rock, Arkansas is located approximately 1,028 miles from the nearest point on the US-Mexico border. The closest major border city would be Laredo, Texas, which is about 871 miles away. El Paso, Texas, another major border city, is about 1,075 miles away.

      Know Your Rights-

      https://www.aclumaine.org/en/know-your-rights/100-mile-border-zone

      Still fail to understand how it is that MAGA insists that ALL violent Criminals be deported and yet grant violent sex offender Trump a pass! I sure as hell wouldn’t let any woman I know near the Epstein pal sex offender who lusted after his own “piece of ass” daughter Ivanka (he stated so during a live interview with shock jock Howard Stern) let alone work in one of his bankruptcy magnet businesses or his criminal administration which is loaded with wealthy convicted felons just like Epstein was and is!

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    12. Jill Dougherty on August 19, 2025 4:25 pm

      Humpty Dumpty has circumvented the Constitution, norms and precedent once again-

      Trump bypasses the Senate — and the courts — to install loyal US attorneys
      The lack of oversight raises the specter of politicized U.S. attorney’s offices doing the White House’s bidding.

      https://apple.news/AOcfigPWWSBq3HQVizfcHTA

      And don’t believe the MAGA nonsense about Democrats being ineffective. What can they do when the highest court in the land has granted him full immunity and sides with him on things they swore under oath they would not!

      Our country and government have been hijacked by lawless criminals who pretend to be the “party of law and order”! Problem is the laws they follow they do not exist or they have created out of thin air or by misconstrued interpretation of law by corrupt MAGA loyalists Judges.

      If any other President in history did what this convicted criminal does there would be riots in the streets by members of all parties. But since our government is off the f’ing rails without any oversight or checks and balances and a bit less than half of the country think it grand so long as they don’t have to see brown, black or unhoused Americans and they get their nice millionaire and billionaire tax break for life!

      Our country is the laughingstock of the world because of Trump and his fellow billionaire criminals. This is why EU representatives came with Zelenskyy to the WH, because the world minus the dictators and likely even they do not trust Trump as far as they would like to throw his gross swollen KFC bucket bod!

      Someone used to say something about winter coming on here. Winter set in in 2014 when the Convicted Felon Clown announced his Candidacy. Enjoy the snow MAGA because due to climate change you’re not going to last long!

      There’s already so much in fighting in MAGA you’d think it was a New York Major’s wedding to his cousin!

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    13. JB on August 22, 2025 10:06 am

      FBI Raids Home of Former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton
      Search comes as part of probe into Trump critic’s handling of classified information

      https://apple.news/AW8Sb4Y9hR5u9ogZtWt50ag

      I despise John Bolton for his cockamamie lies about WMD’s being manufactured and stored by Saddam pre Gulf WAR II.

      What I despise even more than liars are fascist corrupt criminal leaders of countries to include our own and Convicted Felon Donald J Trump and his corrupt criminal Attorney General who promised not to be a weapon of vengeance for our convicted sex offender POTUS and yet here we are!

      Big man, pig man
      Ha-ha, charade you are
      Whoo!
      You, well-heeled big wheel
      Ha-ha, charade you are
      And when your hand is on your heart
      You’re nearly a good laugh
      Almost a joker
      With your head down in the pig bin
      Saying, “Keep on digging”
      Pig stain on your fat chin
      What do you hope to find
      Down in the pig mine?
      You’re nearly a laugh
      You’re nearly a laugh, but you’re really a cry
      Bus stop rat bag
      Ha-ha, charade you are
      You, fucked up old hag
      Ha-ha, charade you are
      You radiate cold shafts of broken glass
      You’re nearly a good laugh
      Almost worth a quick grin
      You like the feel of steel
      You’re hot stuff with a hatpin
      And good fun with a handgun
      You’re nearly a laugh
      You’re nearly a laugh, but you’re really a cry
      Hey you, Whitehouse
      Ha-ha, charade you are
      You, house-proud town mouse
      Ha-ha, charade you are
      You’re trying to keep our feelings off the street
      You’re nearly a real treat
      All tight lips and cold feet
      And do you feel abused?
      You!
      Gotta stem the evil tide
      And keep it all on the inside
      Mary, you’re nearly a treat
      Mary, you’re nearly a treat, but you’re really a cry

      -Roger Waters

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      • JB on August 22, 2025 4:54 pm

        Trump lies and says he is “the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the US”. For a “pant load” who never wore a uniform he sure likes to pretend he has and does. From his bullshit multi billion dollar military parade to honor King Nothing to “I guess I’m a War Hero”! And now this horseshit tough guy act he’s nothing but the hot air that keeps him upright! If he was half the man he claims to be he’d have served his country rather than use his privilege to evade serving rather than raping and grifting it into submission!

        Why is it that people don’t stand up to the cowards who are DICKtators ? They’re absolutely NOTHING without their sycophantic followers who are willing to do their dirty work for them like all of the new ICE recruits. You know it’s one thing to take the oath to your Country or to Protect and Serve because you truly need a job and truly are Patriotic. Signing on for a 50K bonus just to be a dick in a uniform who gets to hunt down brown and black people while incognito and traveling in heavily armed groups to do so is just pure COWARDICE! They are nothing more than King Dump’s personal Brown Shirt Army like the Criminals who assaulted DC and Capitol Law Enforcement Officers at the direction of Dump.

        Did Trump go to the Capitol during his insurrection? NO! Why? Not because his USSS Agents refused to take him as he has people convinced (because we all know he does whatever the F he wants to) but because he’s a friggin COWARD that’s precisely why! Now he hides behind his DEEP STATE SYCOPHANTIC Army of racist fascist haters! Just like ever other COWARDLY DICKtator ever!

        No, the President is not the chief law enforcement officer; that role is held by the Attorney General, who heads the Department of Justice and serves as the head of the federal government’s law enforcement efforts. While the President is constitutionally obligated to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” this authority is exercised through the Attorney General and other department heads, rather than direct personal enforcement.
        President’s Role in Law Enforcement
        Ensuring Laws are Executed:
        The President’s duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed” means they are responsible for overseeing the implementation and enforcement of federal laws.
        Delegating Authority:
        This responsibility is delegated to the heads of executive departments, such as the Attorney General, who then carries out the duties through their respective agencies.
        Executive Orders:
        The President can issue executive orders to direct government action and help implement or clarify existing laws, which is another way they exercise this responsibility.
        Attorney General’s Role
        Chief Law Enforcement Officer:
        The Attorney General is the nation’s chief law enforcement officer and the head of the Department of Justice.
        Central Agency:
        The Department of Justice is the central agency for enforcing federal laws and includes components like the FBI and the DEA.
        Legal Counsel:
        The Attorney General also represents the United States in legal matters and provides legal advice to the President and other government officials.

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    14. TJ Hall on August 22, 2025 2:50 pm

      America doesn’t have a Migrant problem it has an Asshole’s emboldened by access to guns problem. Take the guns away and watch em tuck tail and run! F’ing cowards.
      Torturing and killing an innocent wounded protected animal should be a life sentence. It’s the type of behavior that results in Jeffery Dahmer psycho’s of the human species!

      Wyoming man accused of parading injured wolf at bar charged with cruelty
      Cody Roberts, whose actions sparked global outrage, was indicted for allegedly running over the wolf with a snowmobile, taping its mouth shut and hauling it to a bar.

      https://apple.news/ABE7G8gXRSlCcdpTOCv4IaQ

      Reply
    15. Jill Dougherty on August 22, 2025 5:02 pm

      Hegseth Fires Defense Intelligence Agency Chief After Iran Report
      Trump officials criticized an agency report that concluded days after U.S. strikes on Iran that the attack set back Tehran’s program only by months

      https://apple.news/A5uGs4wlpRZ2PMIu7O3FNsA

      Because pretty boy homophobe Major Hegseth is smarter than the Generals just like his bloated orange daddy!

      They fear TRUTH and Facts so they silence it!

      Reply

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