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[-] womjunru@lemmy.cafe 99 points 1 year ago

That would be

  • White
  • Woman
  • LGBT
  • Born in USA

That’s a big move…

[-] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, they massively expanded jail space everywhere, as well as funding for ICE. Of course they're going after much more people than just "illegal immigrants". That's just the low-hanging fruit for them (still anti-constitutional). Fascists will always move on to other groups of people because they constantly need to find new enemies, not realizing that they themselves are the only ones causing actual harm. They will also turn on each other if someone blames another one of "treason" or "aiding the enemy" or whatever. It's a purely destructive cult-like force and if you can't stop it it will cost millions of lives over a couple of years.

[-] SpaceShort@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

"They will also turn on each other if someone blames another one of "treason" or "aiding the enemy" or whatever."

We should encourage them.to do just that. Would make it easier to overthrow them too.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 76 points 1 year ago

He's going after citizens now, testing the waters. Either that, or it's a distraction. Maybe both.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 year ago

Don't underestimate him and assume it's just a distraction. He's willing to do far more than this.

[-] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

I really don't like the "it's a distraction" argument. If everything today is a distraction for yesterday and tomorrow will have more distractions for today, then they are no longer distractions. It's a figurative shotgun blast of bullshit on a daily basis and hoping most of it sticks.

Like the gish gallop of authoritarian power. Pretty sure the Nazis did the same.

[-] msprout@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. There is no Merlin in a tower exacting immaculate designs through an orb on a table here — it's just a bunch of people who were raised on the dark liquor of grievance culture who were given power. They're all taking out their grievances. That's gonna be the entire story of the next however long. Measure your place in that paradigm and plan accordingly.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Bannon called for it, explicitly - they want to flood the zone with shit, and they hit the ground running with Project 2025 as well as lots of Taco's personal vendettas and weird proclivities (like the tariffs, like invading Greenland and Panama, and renaming the Gulf of Mexico, etc.).

[-] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

What the fuck do you mean "now" it's been happening for weeks

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I'm guessing both. He'd do it, might still even try, but this and the tarrifs are to distract everyone from the Epstein debacle.

[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.snekerpimp.space 55 points 1 year ago

“Stop talking about Epstein!!!”

[-] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 42 points 1 year ago

Well, well, well. Isn't that the racist raping bankrupt fraudster conman pot calling the kettle black.

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

“Epstein? Who’s that?” 🫲🍊🫱 “We need to take Rosie O’Donnells citizenship away.”

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Isn't it an international human rights violation to make somebody stateless? For that matter is there literally any legal mechanism in the US to strip citizenship from someone once it has been granted?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Since when has legality mattered?

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the thing about international law is that there's no real enforcement mechanism. If you break it, either your own country has to arrest you, or you'd have to be dumb enough to travel to a country that will do that. It's why Putin didn't travel to South Africa for a summit, and why Netanyahu is happily travelling all over the US and Europe while continuing a genocide.

[-] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Isn’t it an international human rights violation to make somebody stateless?

Yes.

Isn't it an international human rights violation to make somebody stateless?

The US is one of the only attending countries that refused to sign during the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

I don’t think she would be stateless. Seems she’s living in Ireland and has an Irish born parent. She might have dual citizenship at this point.

That’s not to say there is any legal mechanism to take away her American citizenship, just that being left stateless would likely not be the result.

[-] renrenPDX@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Rosie has been living rent free in his head for well over a decade. It’s like Hillary lite.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Nearly 20 years. I guess his butthurt goes back to 2006 when it comes to Rosie. She told the truth about him and he hates that. She called into question his bullshit image, and of course, he threatened to sue her for making "false statements".

Which of course were true statements, and nearly anyone that even looked into Taco back in the 80s would know....I'm sure most Americans that only knew Taco from his stupid game show believed his image of being a self-made bigly successful bidness man.

Of course, her being an overweight, outspoken lesbian makes him even more angry....lol.

[-] zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

...and so it begins.

Godspeed America. It's gonna get real hot this summer.

[-] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Sadly it began a long time ago

[-] zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah of course. But it's getting more and more blatant. What begins is the regime criminalizing and disappearing US citizens (with the help of Palantir). That's the ultimate end state, and where Putin is now.

[-] fistac0rpse@fedia.io 17 points 1 year ago

For what its worth, not mentioned in the article:

In early 2025, shortly after Trump was inaugurated for a second term, O'Donnell moved to Ireland, where she is in the process of securing Irish citizenship through descent

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

Seems like she'd actually welcome getting her citizenship stripped, might be better for her tax liabilities as well.

[-] fulcrummed@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Seriously, did he hit on her early in her career and she turned him down or something? This is outright obsession. She must have rejected him in a way so emasculating and demeaning and humiliating, and categorically undeniable with such confidence and self-assurance that he has gone full comic book villain. She’s his origin story. He’s still bullying her so hard I think he still wants her. He’s the high school kid who got rejected by his crush and so he becomes her persecutor. Bullying and ostracising at every opportunity - and with a brain so underdeveloped (demented) there is no sense of self-awareness or self-control. He’s basically at the stage of school shooting.

[-] arin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Projection, Trump is a threat to humanity

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Nice to see that Taco is taking his job so very seriously.

This guy is still spinning over Rosie, FFS. What a gigantic fucking baby he is.

[-] Wytch@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

Old man (with nearly unfettered authority) yells at cloud

[-] SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de 6 points 1 year ago

Threat to humanity projecting again. News at 11.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Trump is the biggest threat to humanity! Rosie isn't the one throwing people to the alligators!

[-] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 5 points 1 year ago

Trump is just like Putin. He accuses other people of what he actually is. Hes the threat to humanity clearly. His subconscious rules him.

[-] SpaceShort@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Time for more mass protests. Shut down the streets. Surround ICE headquarters. Stop anyone from entering or leaving until this madness is stopped.

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Never threatened me.

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