How much longer will we Americans allow this brutal administration to continue their reign of terror?
The US is lost. As lost as it was when it decided to intern Japanese Americans. All the people in this administration and those enabling this will spend the rest of their lives denying they played a role in this horror.
They will be the shame of their children and grandchildren, and the ones who fought it will be the heroes.
Another innocent American citizen kidnapped and brutalized by his own government!
You're much to kind Shaw. The Orange Terror is but a seething stinking pile of human excrement that deserves far worse than the POS is subjecting both American citizens and legal immigrants who happen to be POC to.
ReplyDeleteThe Pathetic POS will not rest until he has destroyed this nation's reputation across the globe and created two Americas divided along lines of political ideology and christian nationalist fascism. Our founders must be spinning in their graves.
This country is indeed being molded by the Orange POS into a lawless, inhumane, brutally hateful, horribly ignorant nation that will be no better than any other third world sh**hole.
I weep for the nation I have loved for 73 years. The Orange POS has redirected my love of country to hating its moronic "leader" and his party of hateful dishonest sheep following their satan to hell.
I wonder if anyone in the Trump regime ever read this: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
DeleteBeing a certain ethnicity isn't *shouldn't be* reasonable cause.
All cheered on by the populist class of the GOP.
ReplyDeleteYesterday the sailors on the Mothership were aghast that a school district in Vermont would dare fly, for a week, the flag of Somalia in support of Somali students who live and study there.
Someone asked if this was a principle or a stance against Somalia.
And of course it has nothing to do with a principle that would say flying any other country flag in the US is wrong, just the one from Somalia. Because "some" in Minnesota are fraudulent criminals.
All while they support a convicted felon in the White House.
The current GOP has no principles. None. Except one. Whatever Trump wants.
What would be the reaction if the school flew a confederate flag.
DeleteIn the Great State we fly the state flag below the US flag because we are part of the US.
The Mother Ship focuses on a Somali flag in a rural town in Vermont instead of the Trump administration's kidnapping, abusing, and brutalizing American citizens and immigrants who are legally in our country! I take that as their being complicit in what the Trump administration is doing to American citizens. It should NEVER happen, not ever, not even by mistake.
DeleteBTW, skud, the Somali flag flew below the American flag in the Winooski School District in Vermont.
Here in my neighborhood, I see the Italian flag flying from buildings. This is true in Southie as well, where one can see Irish flags as well. I've never heard anyone complain about seeing the Italian and Irish flags flying from homes and buildings. But I've heard plenty of complaints when certain Americans see Mexican and now Somali flags. I wonder what the difference is. Hmmm?
That's the best ya got skud? Rather a mute point don'tcha think?
DeleteWho would be surprised at a Criminal Fascist President unleashing thugs and goons to terrorize critics, judges and law enforcement officers holding him accountable, and other Americans and vulnerable immigrants he and his henchmen and supporters hate?
ReplyDeleteIntimidation, fear, and brutality is the point. Believe it. We are living through a dark and miserable era, brought to us by a criminal in the White House.
DeleteHere's what the GOP Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox had to say about Pres Trump... "I understand he’s not interested in uniting the country."
ReplyDeletePerhaps this reality is the root of our problems. A president who, in the view of leaders within his own party, is "not interested in uniting the country".
Because if he was, the events Shaw has cited in her post would not be happening.
After the first American citizen was kidnapped and brutalized by Noem's thugs, Trump should have made a forceful speech about it never being acceptable and for Noem's ICE to vigilant about who they drag out of buildings and cars. (They shouldn't be doing this to ANYONE, BTW!)
DeleteTrump never said a word about his administration's attacking American citizens (and we only know about this from those who have had the courage to speak up!) and he's done and said nothing about stopping this outrage.
What kind of president says nothing about the abuse of American citizens by their own government? Oh, I'll answer that -- a man with no honor or decency, and a man who enjoys seeing people, even his own people, suffer.
Dictatorships do what this administration is doing. The former Soviet Union did things like this. Unless we're a dictatorship or attempting to become the new Soviet Union, none of this should be occurring. Most immigrants are more law abiding than native born Americans. The crime here is what this administration is doing to people who came here because it's not safe for them to remain in their own countries.
ReplyDeleteThis administration doesn't care. But Trump will NOT have the last word, history will. And his name will live in infamy when history is written.
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ReplyDelete”A new Senate report just dropped, paired with searing testimony from U.S. citizens who were unlawfully detained by immigration agents. The report lays out how these cases are not isolated mistakes but part of a broader pattern of unconstitutional detentions.
George Retes, an American citizen born and raised in California who deployed to Iraq, was violently detained and held by ICE for three days in June 2025 after agents grabbed him in a Camarillo parking lot on his way to work. As he told lawmakers, “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car and dragged me out.” This is what it looks like when a supposedly rules based system decides some people are disposable as soon as they look like an immigrant.
He was not alone. Chicago resident Dayanne Figueroa testified that an unmarked SUV slammed into her car after she dropped her son at school, and that masked federal agents then smashed her window, yanked her out, and detained her for hours even though she repeatedly said she is a U.S. citizen.
Many others told similar stories at the forum, echoing a broader investigation that has identified at least 170 U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents this year alone, a number senators say is almost certainly an undercount. She described feeling dehumanized and disgusted, left with serious injuries and the sense that her own government saw her as a threat first and a person second.
Together their testimony paints a picture of federal immigration agencies operating with almost zero accountability, behaving more like a roaming paramilitary than public servants bound by the Constitution. When citizens and veterans can shout their status and still be caged or brutalized, it is not a glitch in the system, it is the system, and it is exactly what civil rights advocates have warned would happen under a crackdown first politics that treats brown bodies as collateral damage.”</b