Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives have condemned a raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as “deeply disturbing” and accused the Trump administration of a “rogue abuse of power” just weeks ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Let’s see if they do anything besides strong words and maybe some paddles.
took em a minute but at least they are completely stupid.
If they win the midterms you will see political prisoners, then executions.
I wonder if we’ll be able to send all of these ICE goons to the Hague once we get a DNC supermajority in office?
We can use those internment camps and alligator alcatraz locations they so thoughtfully set up to put all of us in.
A senator in Virginia got raided a while back. Another woman of color who was a Democrat.
Well, now that it’s been condemned, we should definitely see an apology forthright and a promise that it’ll never happen again!
You see…. this how we pretend things work in America. Becasue to speak plainly- it’s just easier to digest this than it is to accept that he’s allowed to do whatever the fuck he wants because there’s no one in the American govdmrt with the balls to stop him.
The dnc can get fucked. I hope the only ppl that win their elections are socialist candidates that want universal healthcare, taxing the rich, et al. Maybe then the dnc will get the message
DNC will declare bankruptcy before they change their tune
The GOP will bankrupt your country and massacre thousands on thousands before they change.
Get some fucking perspective and take action instead of moping.
Isn’t that the point? That we shouldn’t wait for the DNC to act but take matters into our own hands? That’s not moping, it’s saying no one is coming to save us so we don’t need permission to act.
I understand your point, but…
They’re not taking matters into their own hands either. They’re just waiting for someone DIFFERENT to come save them.
Isn’t this the meme “I like pancakes” - “So you hate waffles?”
Recently went to a community organized meeting where we coordinated ICE watch actions, how to pressure our school board, care packages for those they release, etc. They also asked us to vote and to talk to our families about voting.
I hope the only ppl that win their elections are socialist candidates…
I mean, I want to have those policies and services too, but you’re saying if it’s a non-socialist Democrat versus a Republican, you want the Republican to win?
I’m guessing if that happens you’ll get your wish for no DNC by 2028, because we’ll be a state-enforced one-party system by then.
but you’re saying if it’s a non-socialist Democrat versus a Republican, you want the Republican to win
We’re saying if its fascist or fascist-lite, we’ll select neither in order to pressure fascist-lite to do better. And if the Dems still dont wanna then they can lose. Its the only way to prerssure them. We cant play chicken we have to give them real consequences.
you’re saying if it’s a non-socialist Democrat versus a Republican, you want the Republican to win?
I’m glad people are finally starting to understand how Tankies work. I’d be real skeptical of any lemmy_today accounts you see, they’re still federated with the Tankie hive that is Hexbear. They’re just Russian and Chinese trolls, the lot of them. It’ll be nice once everyone decent finally makes the move over to piefed and we can start delisting all of the lemmy instances.
Well its not up to you, finitebanjo. The dems dont have the votes to lose their progressive voting block and still win elections-- even against trump-- so they can choose to do their effing jobs or they can lose. We’re well aware you’ll vote for them either way, thats factored into the math already.
And you can call people names all day finitebanjo, no one could possibly care any less what centrist armchair generals like yourself think. All you lot do is lose and cave constantly. You centrists are a complete clownshow.
Imagine a political party that deposes and defames a former federal special counsel by condemning subpoenas for republican members of congress toll records and then crickets* when a democratic congresswoman’s home is invaded and searched. All while saying the former was partisan tactics due to the proximity of charges filed to the elections but again, not a peep about the latter.
TWO Strongly worded Letters are ABOUT to Drop!
ICE is going to kidnap her and she’s going to be deported… it’s all part of the plan.
Get this, they’re already trying to create justification: Donald Trump has repeated the false claim that Ilhan Omar married her own brother to abuse the greencard system, despite the fact that the rumour started on a blog in 2016 from some random guy in Minnesota and has never resulted in any evidence.
I feel like if there was a shred of plausibility to this outrageous and infantile claim that it wouldn’t take over 10 years to find anything even when the admin deeply despised her for 6 of those years.
According to Omar, she and her family fled the Somalian civil war in 1991. They moved to the U.S. in 1995 after residing for four years in a Kenyan refugee camp. Omar’s mother had died, so her father and grandfather raised her and her siblings. In 2018, Omar showed a reporter from the Minneapolis Star Tribune photos of documents from her family’s entry into the U.S. after fleeing the civil war. She did not provide the reporter with copies of these papers but showed that they listed her father and showed her as the youngest of seven children. There was no one named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi listed in the documents.
We previously noted that Omar and her siblings all arrived in U.S. with refugee statuses. Omar was a minor when she became a naturalized U.S. citizen. How one sibling could end up with a completely different immigration status from the others remains unexplained by the claims.
They’ve just announced their 1st public execution. I have a feeling this is going to become an expanding trend.
They what?
I didn’t doubt you, but fucking ew.
People are comparing it to the live broadcast execution from the incompetent fascist government in the Starship Troopers movie. I called it “somewhere between clockwork orange and running man”.
I don’t know what that means, but it’s so vile from a human rights perspective. I keep forgetting that the U.S. still does executions. Baffling how the U.S. has posed themselves as the “leader of the free world”, and how many just willingly suck that up for so long when they are brutal, cruel, and inhumane in all aspects of living.
Yeah, “deported”.
More like “disappeared”. I hope not.
Yeah that would be another major escalation in the ongoing constitutional crisis. It’s one more bizarre take from Republicans. They would have lost their minds if Obama went after a member of congress. I will say this for the current administration, though, they’re doing a fantastic job of highlighting improvement opportunities for the Constitution. If the country miraculously pulls itself together enough to pass any kind of amendments at all, but especially one limiting executive powers, they should definitely be named after the person whose kind of behavior it’s trying to limit. I know they’re just numbered. I mean a name like “The Bill of Rights,” which describes the first ten amendments.
Yep. I said this earlier. She’s going to be removed from the country.
“Honorable officer of ICE, I am deeply disturbed by your decision to hold a gun to my-” BANG
