“480 Minutes” - AYFKMP?
MAGA followers can be described as “fools driven by Fox-induced fear, limited by a near-total inability to think critically, to whom cruelty (as long as it is aimed at those they fear/hate) is the point.” It is 2026 & millions of Americans would rather allow see their innocent neighbors disappeared than vote against the adminstration that has spent its time fulfilling Putin’s wish list while making their lives demonstrably worse. Are you fucking kidding me, people? It’s as if their professed concerns about the cost of housing, groceries, energy & just about every other necessity aren’t the actual reason they voted Republican in 2024 because all of those things are WAY more expensive now due mainly to self-inflicted idiot policies, yet they still support this administration. It’s as if unnecessary & costly foreign wars aren’t the HUGE deal they said they were when they voted against Biden/Harris b/c despite the “I stopped 8 wars!” gaslighting everyone (even MAGA) knows Dear Leader started his own, one that he can’t message his way out of & that has hurt this country, our military, our military preparedness, our global standing, & our (former?) long-time allies while emboldening dictators & the country Don The Con claims to have “totally obliterated.” It’s almost as if they didn’t trust the Democrats b/c “Sleepy Joe” had been in office, meanwhile they are fine with Sweaty Dozevelt falling asleep during cabinet meetings, funerals, press conferences (including one that was attempting to justify what he did in Venezuela, at an NBA Finals game, amongst others…& all of these were televised events — old age, senility, the inability to stay awake when performing official duties as POTUS. Who cares?
For those who have read the last couple of Friday blog posts, here is a more in-depth piece about Sleepy McFacist’s new totally un-American office attempting to force migrants to anywhere outside of the U.S., regardless of how the danger it puts those human beings in, regardless of whether these human beings have any connection at all the to countries to which are being bribed to take them. Fact: the current adminitration is paying other countries, any countries desperate enough to take our money to enable this horror show by willingly taking in migrants who in most cases don’t speak the language & know nothing about the place to which they are exiled. What are these forcibly displaced human beings facing upon relocation? Nothing good.
These hateful policies are supported by a single, easily disproved lie: according to The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), "third country removals are an essential public safety tool that remove the most dangerous criminal illegal aliens from our streets.” DHS/ICE is disappearing brown people who are not on any lists of bad actors, much less dangerous criminals. These people are criminals like murdered Minnesota nurse was a “domestic terrorist,” as he was labeled by the administration. These are people dropping off their kids at schools, Head Start program locations, & childcare facilities…places these “dangerous criminals” can safely leave their kids when they go to work where they are productive, tax-paying members of society.
This is the monstrous behavior of brutish autocrats, not enlightened democratic societies. It’s entirely on-brand for a political party that has spent decades demonizing “the other” with a major assist from it’s fear-mongering propaganda arm, Fox News, which has for decades fanned the embers of white racial fear & hatred, not to mention being the party trumpantly (sic) bringing back the disempowerment of forced birth.
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