“I just can’t take this complicity. People rolling over. I should’ve brought up a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders.”
— Governor Newsom (California)
#trump #europe #greenland
“They're laughing at him, meanwhile they're sucking up to him. It's embarrassing. I mean, this is... you're modeling behavior for our kids, generations of folks. This is not diplomacy”
@evan @RebelGeek99 Kept thinking about this. It’s the preferred outcome for the people who support & sponsor the chaos monkeys, so how can we avert it?
Regardless of what you think of #Mamdani or #Newsom, they put real effort into conversations & listening - even to people with odious views.
Through-line from the conversations: Show you fight. Social justice? Fight. Rule of law? Fight. Human decency? Fight. Environmental crisis? Fight.
And who’s the common enemy?
#Politico says that #California governor #Newsom is the frontrunner for the 2028 presidential race. His election would be tragic. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/15/gavin-newsom-interview-2028-frontrunner-00652362?ICID=ref_fark&utm_content=link&utm_medium=website&utm_source=fark
#uspol #politics
Making the job bad news:
Suppose that when an ICE agent tries to arrest someone, state and local officials demand to see their identification and the warrant for arresting that person. If the agent fails to provide one, the state law-enforcement officer could say: "Since you are apparently not working for the federal government and have no arrest warrant for this person, I have to assume you are a common criminal trying to kidnap someone. Kidnapping is a state crime. You are under arrest. You have the right to remain silent, etc." Then the ICE agent is handcuffed, taken away and charged with kidnapping. ICE agents who break down doors to gain entry to buildings and can't prove they are federal agents following lawful orders could be arrested for burglary or breaking and entering under state laws. Having states aggressively enforce their own laws against individual agents and doing their best to not have them released on bail changes the incentive structure for wanting to work for ICE. How many headlines do there have to be saying: "ICE agent arrested for kidnapping and held without bail" before many agents start looking for other jobs?
The whole article on how to defeat #Trump #blackmail is excellent. Please boost so the idea takes hold, especially if you k ow people in state and local law enforcement.
#uspol #politics
Making the job bad news:
Suppose that when an ICE agent tries to arrest someone, state and local officials demand to see their identification and the warrant for arresting that person. If the agent fails to provide one, the state law-enforcement officer could say: "Since you are apparently not working for the federal government and have no arrest warrant for this person, I have to assume you are a common criminal trying to kidnap someone. Kidnapping is a state crime. You are under arrest. You have the right to remain silent, etc." Then the ICE agent is handcuffed, taken away and charged with kidnapping. ICE agents who break down doors to gain entry to buildings and can't prove they are federal agents following lawful orders could be arrested for burglary or breaking and entering under state laws. Having states aggressively enforce their own laws against individual agents and doing their best to not have them released on bail changes the incentive structure for wanting to work for ICE. How many headlines do there have to be saying: "ICE agent arrested for kidnapping and held without bail" before many agents start looking for other jobs?
The whole article on how to defeat #Trump #blackmail is excellent. Please boost so the idea takes hold, especially if you k ow people in state and local law enforcement.
TIL who Republican megadonor Charles T. Munger Jr is.
He snail-mailed a 4 page flyer to my house explaining why California countering the Texas gerrymander (that will potentially protect Trump from a 3rd impeachment) is a BAD THING.
Given the messenger, now I'm thinking California's counter is a GOOD THING.
"Trumpworld will now continue its usual comms strategy, insisting that the raid was a completely normal militarized operation that had nothing to do with Newsom, but also bragging about how the raid really put Newsom in his place."
~ Doktor Zoom
#Trump#MAGA #military #fascism#Newsom
/14
https://www.wonkette.com/p/border-patrol-here-to-arrest-california
"Trumpworld will now continue its usual comms strategy, insisting that the raid was a completely normal militarized operation that had nothing to do with Newsom, but also bragging about how the raid really put Newsom in his place."
~ Doktor Zoom
#Trump#MAGA #military #fascism#Newsom
/14
https://www.wonkette.com/p/border-patrol-here-to-arrest-california
"Because Donald is so threatened by the likes of Gavin Newsom and J.B. Pritzker—actual men with actual backbones who actually know what they’re doing—he sent ICE to the event. ...
That’s America under Donald. And if you think they’re going to stop at immigrants or the most vulnerable among us—especially trans people, other members of the LGBTQ+ community, Muslims, Black Americans—you would be wrong."
~ Mary L. Trump
#Trump#MAGA #military #fascism#Newsom
/3
https://www.marytrump.org/p/todays-top-political-news-with-mary-212
"Newsom emphasized that democracy is under siege by Trump and his MAGA loyalists, a point illustrated by the fact that officials had sent more than a dozen masked and armed Border Patrol agents to the Japanese American National Museum in the Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles, where Newsom was speaking. Some of the agents were carrying rifles."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
About time 1/…
Via Kyle Griffin:
Breaking:
#California Gov. Gavin #Newsom says he has formally requested the #Trump admin rescind their "unlawful deployment" of troops in Los Angeles and "return them to my command."
