Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin last month cited an “ongoing investigation” that he suggested was examining potential fraud in her family’s immigration paperwork. “Something’s going to happen,” he said in a potential foreshadowing of the search.
Just run of the mill racism.
My spider sense is tingling.
Oh, so America is okay with deep investigations into prominent immigrants, to ensure there were no mistakes made?
Cool. Hope Elon Musk is okay with being raided and investigated. If he lied on his immigration paperwork, his citizenship should be stripped and him deported
There’s no way this is a tyrant using government agencies to persecute his enemies. That could neeeeeevvvvver happen here. That’s why we’re Great Again™️.
Hey look! Blatant fascist sham political investigations! Neat!
Another check down on the “Road to Nazi Germany” check list!
Now remember everyone don’t call them fascist or nazis. Because that will hurt their little pedo protector feelings.
They’re all pedos
Fraudulent immigration papers you say, hmmmm. Considering other notable examples of this, I say she’s either going to be the next FLOTUS or a trillionaire (multibillionaire).
Fascist government sending their secret police after its political opponents.
Not very secret,but yes
Intimidation tactics
Desperation tactics
Weaponization of the government in full fascist fashion.
If the centrist Democrats don’t investigate this overt and obvious abuse of power by the Trump administration if we vote them back in…
…we kill the fucking lot of them?
Smells like bullshit harassment to me
Smells like fascism to me.
A smaller part of the whole, yes
Who knew white supremacy would be a world wide scourge in the 21st century? I really thought we were getting past all this shit coming of age in the 1990s…
Same. I truly thought Republicans were on deaths door. I wish there were more xennials we could have made a difference
We were lied to as kids
As a fellow Xennial, I resonate with this so much.
I don’t know about you but I always have felt isolated in everything, I know that’s a gen x thing to say, but when you look at movies music for people our age, 48 leading the way There’s not a lot of 47-52 year olds out there representing us.
Like when we can get together and unite i think we’re successful but there are so few of us 77-82 it just doesn’t happen anymore and we have been divided now.
Like we grew up with the reality of the aids epidemic but our schools were still successful and I think we were the last ones to have good public schools before Regan and his policies destroyed what was still working.
Like believe it or not despite her being being a complete racist piece of shit. A lot of my morals came from the Roseanne show. My parents were never home. My dad tried to push church on me but I always saw the church crowd as hypocrits and have never went back
We Gen-X saw both a broken world but had hope of change (a lot of it was misleading, but we didn’t know then). You had that same hope, but saw problems on the horizon. Millennials were the first to see the hope was more propaganda and gaslighting than anything, and Gen Z… yeah, I feel bad for you guys, what a mess you grew into.
I.e., it was always messed up, they just were able to lie better back then. Now they’re not even trying, they just shrug and laugh.
another gen-xer here. What haunts me a tad is that we are such a quiet generational cohort that we risk not even existing in future historical anlyses of the decline of the US. We may just get lumped in with the boomers. I do feel like we were much different than them, but we never got anything done, or led anything. There was always this feeling that we’d get our chance when the boomers faded out of the picture and they just never did. I suppose we had to fight for it and we didnt (enough), or something.
If you Google prominent gen-X politicians a list of republicans come up starting with vance. No dems on the list. Then ask again for prominent genX politicians on the left and you get cory booker, Gavin Newsom, and Beto Orourke. Its like my whole generation never existed.
I don’t think we were ever designed to lead. We basically learned to survive on our own and grew to like being alone with no rules or schedule
I think the extremely young millennials and the old gen z helped create this right wing bullshit but it’s partly because we failed in teaching them we were just to busy trying to survive
They were new meat, ignorant thanks to failing schools and parents, and the conservative echo chamber was right there to give them something to grab onto, just like the Boomers designed it to do.
I’m most upset at my fellow Gen-Xs. My first taste of Facebook long ago showed me how so many of them completely went stupid. I knew these people, and yet some of the shit I saw them post. So it’s the Boomers’ fault, but damn, we dropped the balls too.
I get it completely. I have always felt as if we’re supposed to just shut up and take it, by our Boomer parents, our GenX elder siblings, etc. But as far as I’m concerned at this point in my life, they can all screw off. They have knowingly turned America into a shit hole and have the audacity to blame everyone else, including the younger generations. They were handed peace on a silver platter by their parents who fought and died in WWII. And they squandered it because of their macho ego.
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We still can.
Xennials not represented there (part of why they’re part Gen-X, never recognized). They have one foot in each generation, a group growing up in a small gap of time where they were part of before and after the technological swing. Shows how the explosion of tech created its own subset of generation.
It’s literally a 5 year gap towards the end of gen x. I didn’t see my first webpage until the day I graduated highschool and I immediately knew whatever school tried to prepare me for was outdated and then I helped my dad on the farm for 20 years and never really had a need for it despite being heavily interested in gaming and PCs
The generation thing is messy and inaccurate, and regionally shifted too because some people even as Millennials didn’t have access to things that characterize that generation. But as a trend yes, you were part of the last Gen-X, AND shared a lot of the Millennial aspects as you grew up with things Gen-X didn’t even dream about.
We were susceptible to it, and Russia has taken advantage of that big time.
This may be the last gasp of people who are desperate and seeing the changing demographics…
It’s not a last gasp when they are getting away with everything.
This is our last gasp seeing the changing power dynamics. We can seize the means of production now (necessary but impossible) or be relegated to disposable when not nearly as many labourers are needed (inevitable)
I’d start reading some better history books. After purchasing a firearm of course. They never went away.
The 90s sucked ass for a lot of people, but the culture of the time, as presented through a bunch of media, children’s shows, movies, and random TV, was pushing the message that we could do better. That we owed it to each other to do better.
And then Fox news started ramping up, then 9/11 hit and everyone lost their god damn minds.
9/11 was the single most successful act of war/terrorism in human history, bin Laden succeeded in ways I’m sure he never imagined.
I’m conflicted in that theory as time goes on. Prior to 2020, I would have agreed with you entirely.
Now, I’m not so sure. He fought against the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, defense is and easy thing to understand. His goals with the US are much less clear to me. If it was to merely punish the entirety of US citizens and weaken US international influence, I say yes, easily.
But that doesn’t make sense, as it has been confirmed that the US provided military training directly to bin Laden but military aid was not sent directly to his militia and funneled through Pakistan. I dont know enough about the guy, but it is quite possible that he was entirely unaware of the indirect nature of the aid to him. So he just could have been retaliating for the perception that the U.S. gave him training and abandoned him.
It was a failed act of terrorism that served as a pretext for a successful assault on the rule of law in the US.
There’s little evidence that Binladen ever had operational command over AQ. His role was more as a figurehead, money-raiser and recruiter. Zawahiri was the tactician. Binladen’s objectives, which he repeatedly stated, and which were supported by internal AQ documents that were later obtained, were to overthrow the Saudi state (which failed), to drive US troops out of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf (which failed) and to strengthen the global jihad (which briefly grew, then largely collapsed). He also made repeated calls for the US to convert to Islam, but that’s standard Islamic rhetoric. Give 'em an offer to join you; if they don’t, it’s OK to go ahead and kill them all.
The US assisted Binladen when Russia was in Afghanistan, because Binladen was a bagman for Saudi money to the jihadis. When the Russians were driven out, that Saudi money largely dried up, except contributions from a small number of fanatical Wahhabi minor royals. Pakistan’s role was ambiguous: the Pakistani state is weak relative to the military and the intelligence service. The latter two organizations leaned heavily towards Islamism. But the US needed the Pakistanis to at least pretend to be on-side, and to effectively be more or less neutral, during the US invasion of Afghanistan. That meant a big flow of bribe money to Pakistan, and substantial leakage of some of that money to Al Qaida and to the Taliban (a group which was largely created and nurtured by the Pakistani intelligence service, the ISI). And, of course, the Pakistani military sheltered Binladen once he was on the run.
So Binladen was never a US puppet, and, once the Saudi royals realized what his plans were for their cosy family business, he was their enemy too, though, as I mentioned, there were a small number among the 5000 princes who supported him. AQ did, though, have support among some of the non-royal Saudis, as can be seen by the national origin of many of the jihadis including the 9/11 hijackers.
Bin Laden was not removed from CIA payroll after 9/11, or not announced as removed from payroll. Bin Laden was essential in maintaining/reviving US militarism. Bin Laden was staying in a heart of Pakistani ISI/military buildings, when captured. ISIS/Al Quada are US/Israel allies today. Instrumental in invasion of Syria, and in destabilizing Iraq so that they needed US to stay longer.
We live in a cynically amoral time where there seems to be no philosophical or political objective except to hurt people. People are only just now coming around to understand how dangerous it is, at least economically, but it might be too late. This is how empires fall.
I heard someone say it’s like the 70s all over again with power and greed coming back just without the cocaine.
Which to me is more dangerous. I get how cocaine could drive that. But just power and greed for the sake of it is just evil
You’re kinda right, but the problem was that a lot of mainstream liberals’ idea of doing better meant just forgetting what people like CIA Director George HW Bush had done and instead focusing on how people like Sister Souljah were actually the real problem now
It was supposed to be The End of History.
That was a bunch of neocon triumphalist bullshit that not even the majority of neocons bought.
Who knew white supremacy would be a world wide scourge in the 21st century?
Communists.
From Dorothee Sölle to Noam Chomsky to Gus Hall.
The notion of a worldwide shift towards christianized fascism has literally been on the communists’ radar for decades, if not centuries. The worldwide shift towards fascism is only befuddling to liberals who live under the philosophy that we’ve reached the end of history, and that the wheel of progress will always inevitably turn towards justice and equality thanks to the advent of the infallibly progressive “marketplace of ideas”.
And the liberals haven’t learned their lesson. In the face of explosive excitement about fascism, liberals are still bashing pinko “tankies” who continue to sound the alarm.
“Guten tag, Frauline. Are you harboring any enemies of the state?”
*Guten Tag, Fräulein.
Tag (day) is a noun and nouns always get capitalized in German.
ä is an Umlaut and the dots are important, cause the word would be pronounced frouw-line and not froi-line otherwise.
Also its lein not line, but it’s pronounced line.
I know it “started” awhile ago. But “my Rubicon” was AoC, Omar, Summer Lee, ect, getting arrested.
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. This administration is a struggle between evil and stupidity and sometimes both win.
