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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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