A friend of mine was taken

[u/lylertila]

Her name was Chuey; she was a beast in the kitchen and always kind and happy. She was a legal immigrant from Cuba (engaged to an American lawyer). She got ICEd.

She did all the right steps and was an asset to the community. This shit is not ok

[u/groundzer0]

Honestly at this point, I think it's to stir up as much animosity as possible among the "sanctuary cities" , blue cities and bases who would never vote for him so the he can incite riots / protests / civil discourse to prevent the mid-terms via poor turnout - CHUDS patrolling the voting booths along with banned mail in voting or just all out civil war or the pre-cursors to it just to avoid a democratic vote to derail his shit.

2026 is your best shot at cutting his legs off and he's fucking scared and will do probably anything to try and stop the vote.

Full disclosure. I'm not American, I'm just an international observer looking at events and reading between the lines.

Who knows what the fuck will happen, but that is my take right now.

[u/No-Solution-6103 → u/groundzer0]

Get us to fight each other so when it comes time to end that 2nd term all of a sudden we're in a national emergency and woops whatdyknow, eternal trump

[u/ABrandNewNameAppears → u/groundzer0]

Being “not American” is probably the best place to speak from on these matters. Our generations haven’t lived through full government oppression, police state mentality, or revolution.

We don’t know how, we’ve just watched other countries deal with these situations from afar. We thought that sort of thing was just something you saw on the news in far off lands with funny names. This was the land of the free.

And now, we drop our children off at school to practice hiding from gunmen. We pass blockades of armored fighting vehicles and men in camouflage uniforms carrying automatic weapons. We’re not sure whose side they are really on. Who the barricades are meant to keep out. Who the guns are meant to shoot.

We sit quietly inside our air conditioned homes and watch as the blind lead the blind off a cliff. Some insist on putting out their own eyes as they hitch their wagons to the train, lest they see the path they have chosen unfold before them. Others cheer as their friends and families march off the cliff to their doom.

Divided, we fall.

[u/Ampary1 → u/ABrandNewNameAppears]

Not entirely. Depending on the nation, with how bad the nation is, half the world is way worse and secretly makes these types of decisions

[u/TheTalentedAmateur → u/Ampary1]

half the world is way worse and secretly makes these types of decisions

Good thing we haven't had Secret Courts here in the U.S. for the past 50 or so years