"Other than a personnel shuffle, nothing has substantively changed. Five days after a second American was gunned down in the street by agents of the federal government, heads should be rolling. People should be held to account and fired. Agents should have been marched out of the city. The Department of Justice & the FBI should have opened an investigation.
Instead, the president is still playing the bully."
~ Dan Rather
"Other than a personnel shuffle, nothing has substantively changed. Five days after a second American was gunned down in the street by agents of the federal government, heads should be rolling. People should be held to account and fired. Agents should have been marched out of the city. The Department of Justice & the FBI should have opened an investigation.
Instead, the president is still playing the bully."
~ Dan Rather
"If you were wondering if that 'draw down' is at all real, know that literally as Homan’s press conference was occurring, ICE agents abducted one person in Minneapolis from their vehicle, and, in trying to abduct an additional person, hit their car. Much kinder and gentler and definitely lowering the temperature, right?"
~ Lisa Needham
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #Minnesota #ICE #violence #MaskedThugs #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #WhiteSupremacy
/15
"(As this newsletter was being finalized Thursday evening, Trump did a gaggle where he admitted there is no draw down in Minnesota, telling reporters he’s not pulling back and 'nothing is going to change.')"
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #Minnesota #ICE #violence #MaskedThugs #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #WhiteSupremacy
/16
"The actual physical seizure of a state’s voting materials was a Rubicon we hoped Trump would not dare cross. But here we are, and it’s only January."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #TulsiGabbard #FultonCounty #BigLie #2020Election #lies #disinformation
/17
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/theyre-seizing-the-ballots-and-voter
As Jennifer Rubin explains, the reason Trump's ratcheting up the diversionary fits — the FBI raid in Georgia, arresting Don Lemon, etc. — even as he refuses de-escalation in Minnesota is that he's caught between a rock and a hard place.
MAGA is driven by theocratic fury fed by white supremacy. MAGA wants the assaults on immigrants.
#Trump #AlexPretti #ICE #Minnesota #lies #disinformation #gaslighting #violence #BigLie #TulsiGabbard #DonLemon #FultonCounty
/18
https://newrepublic.com/article/205923/trump-gop-panic-ice-grows-maga-goes-off-rails-race-traitor
But "normal" Republicans see that this cruelty and fury are not playing well with the non-MAGA majority, and are increasingly frightened about GOP prospects.
Rubin says,
"You have now, I think, a phenomenon that is frightful for the GOP.
They have always thought they control the culture wars, but in fact, they control it in a very narrow stratum of their own base."
#Trump #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #ICE #Minnesota #MAGA #Republicans #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #EthnicCleansing
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