• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    24 days ago

    I would like to see how much damage was done Saturday night. Hint: not much. I watched the live streams and it was just a lot of ICE standing in a line and LA peeps walking around. Very few protesters.

    Then I would like to see the damage from Sunday. Hint: It was a few cars and waymos. The rest was a bit of flags and rubber bullets aimed at reporters and protestors to do harm. Oh yeah, I lot of smoke by soldiers and/or agents. Nothing makes great photos like smoke and fire when there really isn’t much else going on. The reporting photos this morning made me laugh at how they focused on the pretty waymo fires and smoke.

    Saturdays Live Streams:

    Sunday’s Live Streams:

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      23 days ago

      From what I’ve seen as well most fires aside from the Waymos were started by the flashbangs and smoke grenades the police were using.

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    Looking in from the outside, the US 100% does seem like it’s thiiiiiis close to being a far right dictatorship.

    I see many commentators, both foreign and domestic (to the US), saying that there’s no way Republicans will win the next election after this clusterfuck, and I can’t help but wonder if it isn’t a bit premature to assume that there will be anything resembling fair elections in the US in the future – at least at a federal level or in any red state. What with the Trump regime taking an axe to federal election security etc etc

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      the US 100% does seem like it’s thiiiiiis close to being a far right dictatorship.

      Driving out to the Indian Reservation to tell all the First Nations people that we’re extremely worried about the direction our government has taken. Heading back through the black ghettos with a big mega-phone strapped to my car, warning people about over-policing and the gestapo-like tactics of county-wide sheriffs’ gangs. Rounding out my Paul Revere-esque ride at the US/Mexico border to inform all the migrant laborers who make their living doing piecework and odd-jobs and letting them know that they should not, in fact, trust the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Turns out they’re implementing a lawless pogrom across the southern border and are not, in fact, just protecting neighborhoods from people who are doing evil crimes.

      there’s no way Republicans will win the next election after this clusterfuck

      I mean, historically, the President’s party eats shit in the midterms. Very possible we’ll get a 2006 or 2018 blue wave of legislators as public opinion of the Trump administration sours again.

      But what does Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies do with an incoming Dem majority? Do they rewrite budgets to curtail the resources afforded to Trump-loyal rogue agencies? Do they claw back executive authority in the next NDAA and budget bills? Do they reject Trump cabinet appointees and judges who continue to defend unconstitutional governance? Do they advance new legislation to reform the immigration process, expand the authority of state governments to protect women’s health and voting rights, and prohibit executive appointees from hijacking the digital tools of the bureaucracy in order to override legislative intent?

      Or do they whine about not having veto-proof majorities and sit on their hands until 2028?

      I am far less worried by the prospect of “rigged elections”, because the US election system has always been janky and corrupt but so heavily decentralized that it’s a rats’ warren of different reporting systems you’d need to hijack.

      I am far more worried by the prospect of a Controlled Opposition of Democrats, who show up to lend legitimacy to Trump policy through their own tenure of ratification, while making a stink about Trump’s sex habits and online persona that lead to another series of nothingburger investigations and indictments that produce no penalty even when convictions are achieved.

      What happens if Dems win for the next four years and then repeat 2020?

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          23 days ago

          Hey now don’t be unfair, they showed immense strength and resolve when they fixed systemic racism by wearing Kente cloth and kneeling in 2020. For the history books, this was the day racism in America was forever abolished: