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Also Thursday, #Honduras’ foreign ministry announced that the country had accepted a flight with what it said were 174 Venezuelan #immigrants from the #US on board, who would immediately be removed from Honduras to #Venezuela.

The official also said that the varying numbers between the #Trump admin & Honduras could just be a discrepancy.

#immigration #law #MassDeportations #Guantanamo #Gitmo #ConcentrationCamps

There comes a point where the only solution to fascists is violence because they have usurped the democratic process and nullified the law. And it's a scary thing, which a handful of people could prevent if they had any principles. But I'm not holding my breath. It seems to me the US has to learn it's neither immune to nor above political violence. That imperial boomerang is going to have to hit hard before it sinks in.

The pretense that America is too good, too civilized, and too white to have to contend with violent uprisings, whether coups or revolutions, took away the fundamental threat keeping fascists in check. Once they were normalized as politics as usual, and money was allowed to veto votes and prison sentences, it was inevitable that our imperishable democratic order would collapse. Effortlessly. And return to a corrupt state any 19th century American would recognize.

Shit is not going well, and given all that I hope you'll understand that I'm more or less done with the reply tab. I'm past the point of arguing with randos on the internet and every keystroke is precious because I pay for them in pain. Type whatever dumb shit you want in there, I literally no longer care. I can't afford to.

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Further complicating matters, a serious back injury a couple years ago has finally combined with a lifestyle that consists of reading and typing for hours and hours a day, to fuck up my body enough that my dominant arm is now a useless fried chicken wing about 50% of the time; which uh, impacts my ability to write for the money I need to keep my soon-to-be-twice-widowed mother from being homeless.

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Look, I'm just gonna be real with y'all: my health is shot, I'm sick all the time because of my immune condition. My stepdad is still dying of cancer, my mom is still on the brink of losing everything unless I keep coming up money to stave the bank off every month. I'm sitting in the middle of a fascist hurricane I ACTIVELY predicted a decade in ADVANCE, right down to billionaire nazi death cultists running the show, and it's not even worth saying "i told you so" because who fucking cares?

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A very warm "fuck you, you absolute fucking muppets" to everyone that argued with me about who O'Brien is and suggested that he was just working within the system to help workers.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/teamsters-president-backlash-right-to-work

Here's a hint man, anyone who publicly runs cover for rich nazis ain't your friend. You don't "accidentally" support neofeudalist nazi shitbags; doing so MEANS something and in this case it means selling every Teamster in America out - just like pinkos told you fucking muppets what elected him

I have avoided talking (and caring) about the NHL's 4 Nations exhibition because the scenario we watched play out here is PRECISELY why folks have decried tying nationalism and nationalist ideology to sport, but I can't watch dipshit Amerikkkans booing the Canadian national anthem anymore without pointing out how crass and disgusting our behavior is.

Canadians are booing a fascist regime openly attacking their economy and trying to annex their country. What are YOU booing? Fighting back? GFY.

Brey, it is not a coincidence that leaders of this movement keep tossing up Sieg Heil Nazi salutes; ask yourself how many times in your life you ever "accidentally" tossed up a Nazi salute, let alone while everyone was staring right at you.

I spent 10 years arguing with dipshits that it didn't matter that fascists were not wearing Hugo Boss uniforms and declaring allegiance to Hitler, they're still fascists - and inside of three months these assclowns are just more or less admitting it now.

"As a presidential candidate last fall, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to battle for US workers, but ever since he returned to the White House, he has taken a surprisingly large number of anti-worker actions, labor experts say."

I don't think "surprisingly" is the word I would have used there...

Absolutely starting to lose my shit with all the polite fictions and playing dumb going on in what passes for our media and "opposition" political circles.

It would be really, really nice if tonight some very generous moot or financially secure angel could drop $1,000 onto me.

Or, maybe, $500??

Just getting a bit tired of having to rely on the kindness of strangers to survive because I face fainting spells and dizziness if I exert myself for even 5 dang minutes.

#CapitalismAndPuritanismSUCKS

Fascists care about and attack all fronts at once. They remove Black employees from the federal government as part of "DEI" on the same day as they apply pressure into getting Jordan to accept the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. They antagonize trans women at breakfast and consolidate the power entire federal branch by dinner. 1/2

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That said, Bernie Sanders was pretty successful with that demographic just by making vaguely populist shouty noises. Likewise, AOC has won over people -- including, weirdly, a lot of Trump guys -- just by being forthright about what the problems are.

The big problem with left-leaning political messaging is no one in the mainstream wants to pay for it because it runs counter to the do nothing conservative orthodoxy of the Democratic Party.

People bring up Rogan as an example, I think, because they want someone who can make left-ish ideas palatable to young men. But young white men are a right-leaning demographic because they have everything to gain from the status quo, and any outreach designed to appeal to them specifically risks merely reaffirming their biases.

Joe Rogan's entire bit is being an agreeable stoner dipshit who normalizes vaguely conspiratorial fashy garbage to his audience of dipshits because right-wingers realized the Rush Limbaugh model of obnoxiously shouting at people is a turnoff. That doesn't map well onto left politics either way.

But, wait.... there's MORE!!!

Read these screenshots taken directly from the Snopes article....right after you have taken your heart medicine.

Alt-text incoming...

@snopes

44,000 out of 18,600,000. Yeah, some "fraud".

And remember, that's 18.6 million out of 315 MILLION LEGAL CITIZENS of these United States of America that received actual Social Security checks in 2023.

This isn't a "mistake" or an "accounting error". This is a deliberate staight-ASS LIE intended to cover up a mass looting of the Social Security Trust Fund by DOGE and Trumpster to cover MusKKKrat's KetamineKoup.

@ItsJenNotGoblin

And now, Snopes enters the chat to further bust even bigger mudholes into DOGE's mountain of horseshit about "150+ year old zombies collecting Social Security checks!!!"

Tl;Dr: Out of 18.6 million Social Security recipients listed in the database they use that are listed as 100+ years old and not listed as deceased, only 44,000 was found to have still received SS payments.

Details below:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/18/musk-150-year-old-social-security/

Democrats struggle to get traction with voters because they all seem like phonies. And for the most part, they are.