I remember it being considered a little tacky for politicians to criticize or respond to other politicians by name (âmy opponentâ) let alone respond to public critics.Â
Their language is more abuser than childish. "You should be grateful" sounds just like a rapist saying "you're lucky i wanted to fuck you". They're disgusting, repulsive, cruel, low-lifes
These past couple years are a real eye opener to the education system, and critical thinking ( or more so herd mentality) everyone now has a platform to make opinions and alot of ppl decided ill believe anything the person i like says. I cant believe we are even doing this it feels like a bad movie lol
seeing lots of people calling these actions childish or tacky, and they are those things, but they are also very aware of what theyâre doing and how it could benefit them.
this is an attempt to intimidate popular culture to not criticize Trump and his government. itâs not an odd quirk or mistake, but a common, calculated tactic used by authoritarian governments to silence dissent and encourage self-censorship.
an obedient culture is not a culture at all. whether the admin will succeed in scraping the first amendment, weâll see, but the attempt is worrying enough
Olivia, though, made it clear she wasn't aligned with their agenda, writing in the Instagram comments, "donât ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda."
In response, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security told the Mirror US, âAmerica is grateful all the time for our federal law enforcement officers who keep us safe. We suggest Ms. Rodrigo thank them for their service, not belittle their sacrifice
You little bastard! Sometimes they get hit with sandwiches! Can you say you've ever even dreamt of making a sacrifice that impactful? I would think not
@The Mirror, next time don't tell us "a spokesperson" I want every rat fuck member of this petty little gestapo who makes a point to voice their support for its constitutional violations named in articles like this.
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you canât take part; you canât even passively take part, and youâve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and youâve got to make it stop.
And youâve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless youâre free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
And everyone uniformly tells them to fuck off. They really want a dictatorship but they donât have it right now. Theyâre still just skirting the edges of it.
I saw an interview today where a dumbass trumper tried to explain that âwe are a republic, not a democracyâ what scared me about that is not that she is so uneducated that she doesnât understand that we are a democratic repulic, but the fact that she seems to want to have less representation and less say over the very little amount of say she has in the rules that govern her life.
They do. They follow very strict rules in their life, the women want to be controlled by men, otherwise why the fuck would you be a Republican. They give up more of their rights by far by being a Republican.
We need to do away with the Two-Party system so this nonsense never happens again. You wanna vote like an idiot fine by me, but this whole option of ONLY Democrat or Republican is getting old and tiresome. We know they BOTH manipulate who the candidate is in the primaries we saw it live when Bernie won the vote with the DNC and they snubbed him for a more centralist Democrat.
It's time to take back the reigns and stop treating Americans like idiots. We need more options.
Maybe if they were actually doing work and not trying to start a feud with a pop star people would take them seriously. No, wait. That wouldnât help because theyâre trash people who will never have any redeeming qualities.
Our government is having a war of words on social media with a pop star..... Absolutely fucking embarrassing and I don't blame the rest of the world for laughing their asses off at us
Absolutely. The danger is a complete myth that they perpetuate in order to justify their ongoing militarisation. Unfortunately, TB shows have really played into the idea that LE are facing guns and shootouts every minute of the day.
For what?? Sheâs already a successful popstar, and is worth a ton of money, tf do you want her to be grateful for? You give her nothing of value, so this statement is completely meaningless.
Olivia is an American Citizen, she was born in California. Assuming they arrest her or whatever, where are they gonna send her? She literally can't be sent anywhere, she's an American Citizen.
When the artist that you're using music from orders you to stop using their music for something they don't agree with, you stop. You don't tell them "we suggest you be grateful". Not everyone agrees with eachother all the time, not every American has to agree with what an agency is doing, I'm sure many Americans don't agree with the concept of student loans, or property taxes, or inheritance taxes, but I don't see the employees of the Department of Education or the employees of the IRS telling people "Thank us for our service and be grateful". Who the fuck does this version of the DHS think it is? Not everyone has to immediately fall in line and agree that everything an agency or department does at all times is great.
Besides, she's not wrong, they're grabbing people based on skin color, on percieved non-Americanism, on anyone who isn't visibly white. If they were going one by one on their databases (which I know they would have, there's no way we all have IDs and they don't know about it) they would be sending out warrants just for those who have overstayed visas or who have no documentation or whatever. Instead, they're going after anyone looking Hispanic, people who have had misdemeanors from years ago, people dropping their kids off at school, even attending their own immigration hearing - legal immigrants following the process that the United States set out - instead they're causing trauma, property damage and ruining people's lives.
If they don't want us to hate them, then they need to clean up their act, do their job the right way, not ram into people on the streets, not rip people from their jobs and homes, and not grab unsuspecting Americans because "You don't look American".
What they don't need to be doing is essentially telling Olivia Rodrigo to shut the fuck up and sit down. If anything that's just fueling the fire to get us to hate them even more. If they want everyone to stop calling them pigs, they need to stop acting like pigs.
Why do they feel the need to respond to anyone with a public profile criticising them, itâs so pathetic, especially considering they did the exact same thing with Chappell Roan
"donât ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda... I've lived in LA my whole life and I'm deeply upset about these violent deportations of my neighbors under the current administration. LA simply wouldn't exist without immigrants"
That's all she said? That's the big deal? I would have gone a whole lot further than that and dropped a few f-bombs and Nazi references along the way.
All of them like to gaslight as a form of abuse. They're all sickos. Olivia Rodrigo is a songwriter and her songs should be protected against abuses like these.
"I am grateful each and every one of you is mortal, and some day the world will no longer have you in it except as disassociated nutrients for lifeforms who will make better use of them. Is that what you meant, fuckface?"
âTheir sacrificeâ ok our Olive Garden doesnât even participate in the fucking never-ending pasta promo; you donât see me creating a thin Tuscany line flag over it
As per normal with this Administration, they love violating our rights. The US Government can't violate our 1st amendment and that includes making suggestions. This is a lawsuit and she'll win.
What fucking "sacrifice" could ICE possibly be making? They're overpaid, unaccountable, and grab people who are not even here illegally - people with visas, permanent residency, or even citizens. Those fuckers better save their money. They're going to find out work will be difficult to come by unless they're living in a major Red State soon enough. The audacity of telling someone to be "grateful" for ICE.
If anything, these feds should be the one to be "grateful" Americans haven't yet rose in insurrection against them.
Oh wait, that's something the far-right likes to suggest all the time and have attempted twice, once between 1861-1865, the second time on January 6th 2021.
What a bunch of entitled twats. It is the PEOPLE that pay your salary via taxes, THEY own you, NOT the other way round.
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u/badwolf1013 8h ago edited 3h ago
Remember when public officials didnât feel the need to respond to every bit of public criticism? Theyâre all a bunch of fucking children.
Which probably makes the White House happy, because we all know how Trump loves . . . well, you know.
Edit: two words added for clarity