The fact all these ice agents look like they are in a militia really shows their agenda. Why can't they look like normal police officers?
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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Let's see, Healthcare United just got caught killing elders by forging DNRs and not treating stroke victims. Then the conservatives snuck in an amendment to ban all abortion nationwide from being covered by healthcare. Radio silence....
Yeah it is clear media is complicit at this point. They don't want you to know the truth.
What was the abortion thing?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/trump-bill-planned-parenthood-gender-affirming-care/
They are trying to ban all ACA health plans from covering abortion. This hits home for me because we lost a child at nine months and we have a certificate of abortion.
These dumb fucks don't even know that technically all miscarriages and pregnancy complications that result in the death of the fetus are considered abortions.
Fucking pig men making decisions about shit they don't even understand.
"The ACA marketplaces provide affordable health insurance plans to a large number of Americans, with over 96% of HealthCare.gov enrollees"
Needless to say this is completely illegal in a reconciliation bill that is supposed to contain no new policies. They don't care they are breaking the law because no one will call them on it. Hell, people don't even know it happened.
Wait until they start arresting media figures.
TL;DR:
The DOJ charged Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver with "assaulting" an ICE agent after she tried to visit a detention center in her district.
Footage shows ICE agents were the aggressors during McIver’s visit.
The charges are politically motivated and part of a broader pattern of Trump targeting opposition figures (especially Black Democrats) who challenge his policies.
The media’s coverage has been extremely soft on criticism for these alarming abuses of executive power, but this is nothing new to those of us who have seen the news in the last 12 years.
Somehow the article (and your summary) leave out the actual complain.
ABC news: "She is accused of making "forcible contact" with authorities, including allegedly slamming her forearm into a Homeland Security Investigations agent and pushing and using "each of her forearms to forcibly strike" an ICE officer, according to the complaint".
Exactly, trumped up charges so they pretend they have an actual reason to do what Cheeto Mussolini wants.
Sorry, I'm just summarizing the article to practice my writing. if it isn't in the article I usually won't catch it. Thanks for the additional context though!
I hate how the media doesn't call out anything this regime does as what it is. They softball everything.
And I somewhat get that news articles should be facts with no editorializing. But this stuff is the political weaponization of the DOJ. It's not an opinion, it's a fact at this point.
This is what's been happening throughout both Trump presidencies and elections and probably long before. Sanewashing, attacks on the left, and nothing but compliance. Journalism has been dead in America for decades.
Do you mean the oligarch owned media?
Other citizen-oriented media is better for a broader “allowable discourse” around what big money is up to.
No ody wants to be on the bad side and have the government for after them. It's so funny everything the Republicans blamed them Democrats for they are doing.
Hmm wonder if they have a secret pizzeria where they eat children.
When the regime falls, don't let these feckless enablers off the hook.
Bullshit. The united states has always failed to prosecute bad actors. They executed 1 general after the civil war. The rest of the Confederate government got to live out their days free. All of the governors that fought civil rights never got punished, nor did the cops that still tried to enforce segregation after the civil rights act. Nixon and everyone that worked with him got away with Watergate. What didn't Reagan get away with?
The US will only punish poor people with no political power if they dare try to change the system.
I hope I'm wrong this time, but US history is disappointing
I hope I'm wrong this time, but US history is disappointing
When examined closely, you'll find that there's a reason that I'm calling it a regime, and not administration.
What this regime is doing (forcing out good people in every sector, replacing them with regime loyalists), is exactly what must be done when this regime falls.
There is absolutely no doubt that they must be purged from every sector.
No help is coming from the outside, so Americans need to decide for how long they'll allow the regime to shred all checks and balances, and vandalize their economy, and shred their ability to cover the basic necessities.
Then make the regime fall.
We allowed Confederates to serve in the Senate after the war. These people were part of an armed rebellion against the US government and we allowed them to take office
Every empire's days are numbered, but I don't think I can count that high
Every empire's days are numbered, but I don't think I can count that high
You probably didn't consider alternate readings of this statement.
It won't fall
Watch and learn.
Despite its popularity on the Right, Don't Tread On Me has functional appeal across the political spectrum.
Also, if they wanted a meek and incapable populace, they would have restricted firearms purchases, rather than flog the idea that as many firearms as possible should be sold to the public.
Don't Tread On Me.
I mean maybe but the ultimate "dont tread on me" is about the death penalty and nobody is at his court house. Nobody is bothering to keep that story alive and thriving. It had it's 2 minutes of fame. We moved on. Rinse and repeat for everything on the left. Like there's no momentum for anything worthwhile. The only time there's traction is for things that really do not have clear goals. It all seems like the left is led astray and herded. Why isn't Luigi on every Reddit and Lemmy and Twitter and Facebook thread right now? It leaves me with no hope for anything else.
Yawn.
Thanks for illustrating my point.
How's that Canadian boycott going. You still seeing momentum for that? How's Galen Weston doing this quarter? We have no ability to maintain
How's that Canadian boycott going.
It's fun! We have apps that we use to scan barcodes, helping us identify American products so we can leave them on the shelf! Any sense of loss on any nostalgic product, is easily forgotten, as i purchase trays of one and a half dozen eggs at will.
How's Galen Weston doing this quarter?
Quite well in imagine. He'll be eaten if and when it becomes warranted.
We have no ability to maintain
Which is why we look elsewhere for reliable trade partners.
The momentum is dead. I get you want to say "we're doing great" but our fellow Canadians already forgot. This is my point in all of this. Not being honest in this very serious situation is not doing any favors. The news cycle moved on. The mob moved on. There's outliers holding the fort but that main body moved on and it's frustrating to not address that. It's extra frustrating that I know you care but that you'll say "it's going great" when you and I both know it isn't. That the pressure stopped building.
The momentum is dead.
The fuck it is.
I get you want to say "we're doing great" but our fellow Canadians already forgot.
Maybe the clowns you hang out with, but I'm not interested in wimps, or their wimpy friends.
This is my point in all of this. Not being honest in this very serious situation is not doing any favors.
Your point is to supress meaningful actions and attitudes, so I don't give a shit. Patiently unhelpful.
The news cycle moved on.
The doom and gloom is gloomy, because i said so.
The mob moved on.
According to me, and in keeping with my goals of dissuading activism. You must believe my assessment.
There's outliers holding the fort but that main body moved on and it's frustrating to not address that.
Don't know what you're trying to say here, other than trying to be a momentum killer, so who gives a fuck.
It's extra frustrating that I know you care but that you'll say "it's going great" when you and I both know it isn't.
Your disingenuous empathy simulation has done nothing to move me towards the specific futility that you're marketing.
That the pressure stopped building.
Just like your credibility as a reporter of reality.
Incidentally, your posting history defines exactly what you are. Not only am I unmoved by your bullshit, I'm now enjoying how inept you are at this.
You probably should have left it at one pithy comment and then left.
How much credibility can you possibly have, when you post about Joe Rogan praising Trump?
Hopefully you're not a Russian on a troll farm, as your work sucks, and your superiors would move you to the front as drone fodder.
"Without saying the word boycott, Loblaw chief financial officer Richard Dufresne acknowledged on a conference call with analysts that the company "did notice a bit of an impact in certain markets." However, he said that sales had returned to normal by the end of the second quarter, which closed June 15."
"The overall financial impact was minor for us," Loblaw CEO Per Bank told analysts."
Just like the last boycott was super effective 😆 We're fucking cooked man. Living in denial isn't helping shit.
Look I like your passion. You care. But don't let that cloud the reality of how fucking garbage we all are at this. You're holding on too tightly to people who aren't putting in the work. They're all waiting for media or politicians to help them. These people can't be bothered to maintain any of these movements. They'll stand around in a street for 8 hours, go home and just move on with things. Rinse and repeat.
It's like being in a boat with a hole in it. You can keep bailing out the water for everybody, but until you patch that hole, you're just going to keep sinking.
But I'll listen. What metric are you using to determine the boycotts are having any kind of significant impact. I can go on many sites and barely see any mention of things. No new contact. No discussion. Maybe an article a week mildly related to it.
The right has tapped into something. Go mention Rosanne on a YouTube video and watch the comments come in. There was a video of Jon Stewart skewering Republican the other week. Fuck all for engagement, a lot of comments were shitting on Stewart for being a fascist sympathizer. The right are playing chess and we're eating the pieces from the checkers box in the garage. They're putting in the work and it's fucking brutal to realize. But it's true.
So I'm scrolling, look at this
Do you think you'll see memes and jokes of this huge L for Trump or it go away in like a day or two? I haven't read the comments, how many are just "he's racist" said ad infinitum. Not only is there no momentum. The memory fatigue and lack of content refreshing is killing us
Just like the last boycott was super effective 😆 We're fucking cooked man. Living in denial isn't helping shit.
Unconvinced. Watch me not buy American goods.
Look I like your passion.
No you don't. I find your faux empathy to be idiotic.
You care.
Significantly more than you do.
But don't let that cloud the reality of how fucking garbage we all are at this.
Your failures are your own. Quit chirping, start lifting.
You're holding on too tightly to people who aren't putting in the work.
Remarkably, your words do nothing to draw me to your idiotc side.
They're all waiting for media or politicians to help them. These people can't be bothered to maintain any of these movements. They'll stand around in a street for 8 hours, go home and just move on with things. Rinse and repeat.
While i campaign relentlessly for complicity. My view only coincidentally in lock-step with foreign propaganda efforts to undermine national unity.
It's like being in a boat with a hole in it. You can keep bailing out the water for everybody, but until you patch that hole, you're just going to keep sinking.
Enjoy more doom and gloom imagery, in keeping with my brief to sow discontent and pessimism.
But I'll listen.
Of course you will.
What metric are you using to determine the boycotts are having any kind of significant impact. I can go on many sites and barely see any mention of things. No new contact. No discussion. Maybe an article a week mildly related to it.
You're working under the assumption that I give a fuck about your points. Your overarching agenda is clear, and there is no useful function in attempting to persuade you of anything.
The only thing that you could possibly get me to do, is boycott a specific American company or industry harder by naming it.
Not only would that be personally delightful on principal, I'd enjoy knowing it was because of something stupid you said.
Furthermore, you get me all excited about thinking of trade agreements with everyone but the United States.
You've inspired me to redouble my efforts.
Elbows Up!
They also arrested a whistleblower and is now charging him with a misdemeanor. Notice the headline doesn't even mention that part.
FBI whistleblower claims he tried to get to Musk to warn him he was being targeted by Russia
Why would they put a totally different story in the headline for this one?
As other commenter stated, I was saying that for the linked headline.
I think the point is that the linked article doesn't mention in the headline that said whistleblower was arrested.
Yep, that's right.
I can't wait for this orange fucker to die. Hopefully slowly and painfully.
Sadly, he's not the only problem anymore.
But a very big catalyst to the whole thing.
Hope when he die they all kill themselves fighting to fill the power vacuum.
Hope when he die they all kill themselves ~~fighting to fill the power vacuum.~~
Don’t forget soon!
He's alive now. Why aren't people making me thing to make him look like a weak idiot
The media's real response..."Cha-ching! Feed me!"
Ah, this must be the "meritocracy" I keep hearing about. For some reason I thought you had to be a member of the Trump family or a Fox News host to take part.
I love this VR simulation of Turkey, where are going next? Russia?
Wait how do I get out of the VR, I think my system is bugged.