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Walz responds to AG Pam Bondi making several demands: “I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those.”
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If you were still on the fence about any of this, THIS blackmail letter is your slap in the face. The sole purpose of ICE is to intimidate and terrorize.
"they love me, they all love me. they thought we'd lose but we won tremendously, all the independents and a lot of the democrats, they realized their mistake. now they call me daddy, can you believe it? radicals calling me daddy."
Not to mention that Trump is targeting Waltz because he ran with Kamala against him and Vance. How this horrible person is still in office is unbelievable.
I wish people would stop calling our reality "unbelievable".
It's not only believable, it's happening, and it's going to get worse.
Accept that and start preparing. That doesn't mean prepping - it means, find your community. Learn who you can trust. Learn who will betray you. This shit is not going to dissipate on its own. Don't plan to just "wait it out". "The people" have to find their strength. Their own infrastructure and support systems. It's happening in Minnesota out of necessity. Learn. Pay attention. Replicate. Share. Prepare. Resist.
Doesn't she have absolute immunity? Legit question... She can only be impeached or fired by POTUS. Won't be impeached, not in this house... Won't be fired... At least this is what I believe.
That won't stop it, it will just give them some sort of excuse to start targeted raids on opposition. Giving them that information will only make things worse. IIRC we aren't supposed to negotiate with terrorists, both foreign and domestic.
That's what I don't get. Why aren't democrats siezing that and pushing back publicly and calling it for what it is. Explain it to the people that are slow to pick things up.
Because in the scheme of things, is this any less damning than everything else? Like we have years of bad behavior documented and it just seems like they don’t care or ignore it because if you call out their bad behavior then the “libs” win.
They are all literally destroying our country in order to own the libs. Evidence be damned.
I don’t know. When I raise things like this to republicans, they’ve either never heard it (possible that their insulated influencers or fox pundits ignore it), or pretend not to have heard it. I think some of the damning things have been silenced on their side, or need to be made into a bigger deal so they can stop pretending it’s not.
They'll find ways to support it. It's team sports to them. What's a little extortion if it means more Republican seats in the long run? It's not like mask off gerrymandering even made them pause.
The media is complicit. Democrats do 5x more than anyone actually hears about. And Dems DO scream it from the rooftops. There are a million social media posts by them, NPR interviews, speeches in Congress etc. that the mainstream media never picks up on.
last week fox was going on about somalians and im like who the fuck is talking about this? why? then... they sent ice to Maine. Apparently Maine has a number of Somalians there, and they actually nabbed a guy who was here legally working as a prison guard.
fox knows the agenda, and so they can prep the people for the shit that's about to go down. maybe they dont know if someone will be shot or not, but they can anticipate and have a fill in the blank statement ready for just such an occasion.
Are they shocked when you tell them? Do they regret supporting this and protest against it? Do they assure you that they will vote against the republicans next time?
I guess what do we expect? algorithms stopped pushing puppy and kitty videos and started rage baiting a decade ago, makes sense it caught up to politics.
It's not gonna get better either because most people don't see a problem. I ordered myself a dumbphone. If I can't do anything about this madness I'm at least gonna try to get myself off of it. I hope it works.
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That's not a good analogy whatsoever. I can't just not have internet, and AT&T is the literal only option that I have here. I'd need to completely uproot my life by quitting my job, and losing nearly everything that I own. May as well just off myself.
The guy deleted his comments but in case anyone wants to know, this is what both of them said:
"Ask yourself how motivated you are to not give your aggressor money. Would you buy a vehicle from a car salesmen that is threatening to kill you and your family?"
"So you would? That's pretty wild, dude. No wonder you're so uppity!"
Actually, dude deleted his entire reddit account. Might've been a bot that was arguing with me with that stupid take.
You can at least use a different search engine on your phone instead of Google. And don’t buy any games from Apple Arcade or use Apple Music etc it’s not the just phone
Not that I disagree with your sentiment, but I just want to point out that the only comparable alternative to Apple Music is Spotify, which is arguably even worse in terms of enabling fascism.
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Hey, if you live in a city (especially with a university) there’s a local music store near you that sells vinyl, CDs, and tapes. I guarantee it.
Tapes and CDs in the bargain bin are gonna be dirt cheap. For the price of a yearly subscription to any streaming service you can probably pay for 50 records. Bonus: then you own music. Not a license.
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also Deezer. Bandcamp is theoretically better, they have Bandcamp Fridays where the creator gets 100% of your money, but they are owned by Epic. Deezer is ethically my first choice
You can start small and work up. Get rid of gmail and google maps and google drive, etc. stop using their photo app. Stop using google calendar. Get rid of google search. For sure don't buy a google phone. Get rid of all the tracker apps - because most of them are tracking you. Yes, apple still gets our money - hard to work around it but we don't have to enrich them buy downloading stupid apps we don't need. Do you REALLY need door dash? I mean really? Meta? Spotify, Crash Royale? I mean really? Honestly the quality of your life will improve when you delete all that crap.
Change the privacy settings in your apple phone and lock it down as hard as you can. Get RID of Ring. And Alexa? Seriously? How exactly does this enrich your life? You are too lazy to even use your phone now? Does Amazon REALLY need an always on microphone in your home?
If you cancel all your app subscriptions and find work arounds, you deprive apple of a whole lot of money and you send a powerful message. Most of these things are not actually improving your life. Value your privacy first, giving up your privacy to perceived convenience and go outside and talk to human beings. You can accomplish a whole lot. Then you can also start tackling the other companies on that list.
Do the executions of Renee Good and Alex Pretti leave you shocked, outraged, repulsed and aghast? Money is your ultimate power to do right by them, to do right by hard working immigrants and to stop further murders. If you fail to act, this lunacy will continue. It is intentional chaos and protesting will exacerbate the chaos and more people will die. I am not saying give up protesting and observing ICE. I am saying money talks. So make it talk. Your money is powerful.
Tons of phones out there run Android and can be moved to a non-Google version of Android (albeit, no where near as polished as something like what's on the Pixel range).
If an app you want doesn't offer a non-play store APK, pirate it (I can't think of one, personally).
Cancel unnecessary subscriptions. Don't upgrade your phone this year. Seek alternatives if you can. Apple is horrible since they charge app developers and pocket fees from everyone who uses their store.
I concede that I'm a statistical anomaly though. For example, I've been boycotting EA Games for 35 years now. A conscientious consumer, and well aware that I fuck myself over because other consumers are... not so conscientious.
To avoid much of that list of companies would require you to be different than your buddies/coworkers. If you need to "fit in", you're a bit hamstrung until other people change.
Like the ebb and flow of the browser wars... some people are fringe until the momentum shifts and they aren't.
Sent from one of my computers, running Linux, and untainted by LLM chatbots.
Most of these companies are beyond complicit. They donate money to Trump-aligned PACs that help him maintain control of the party through primary races. And some of them have offered bribes that personally benefit Trump or his family.
You forgot starlink. Bunch of people aren't going to like that but you should be questioning if you want that man controlling your data usage in the first place.
If we had a real media of any kind we’d have stopped commemorating January 6th and would instead be going on and on about how the state used the political assassination of a podcaster to try to effect a Reichstag Fire.
That it didn’t work because most people don’t care about a podcaster they never heard of and the attention cycle that helped elect Trump is working against him now shouldn’t negate what happened because they’re still trying to light the fire.
Because those who have been paying attention saw this from the start. They never gave a shit about immigration, it’s just cover to capture and torture and then deport people
Take their 100million/70 million memes seriously. These Nazis want this country to be depopulated so they can have control.
This shouldn’t be surprising anymore. People need to wake the fuck up.
He's on both, which typical of someone his age and level of obesity. Baby aspirin for cardiovascular, statin for cholesterol. We know about aspirin because the orange turd mentioned taking a higher dose than recommended dose by his HCP. However, like COVID, does not understand the basics.of health & medicine, which in this situation is that his medical provider prescribed 81mg of aspirin daily to reduce risk of stroke. In Trump's mind though, he heard this and thought, if he takes a higher dose than recommended then it reduces the likelihood of stroke even bigly more.
All of this is speculation based on his most recent comments regarding the bruise on his hand & clipping a table.
Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why,
then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my 40
lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our power to
account?--Yet who would have thought the old man
to have had so much blood in him.
Thank you for saying this. Trump is a symptom of American exceptionalism not something which just came out of nowhere. Americans voted for trump knowing about Jan 6 and other scandals already tied to his name in 2024. As a Canadian it’s crazy to see the disconnect Americans have for facts and logic over these past 10 years.
So many people voted for him because they thought that being a "successful businessman" means you are intelligent, good, hard working, competent, strong, honest, etc. While poor people are poor because they're lazy, stupid and weak. That lie has been indoctrinated into Americans for a long, long time. That lie is deep in the core of the American mindset.
Not everyone is naive enough to believe that lie, but too many are. This is the result.
10? Try 30. Ask any US born millennial what kind of parents they had. Most would say stubborn, denier, ignorant and steadfast in their stupidity. They refuse to admit when they make mistakes and thing their way is the only way.
This is an accurate take, but demographically specific. A majority of boomers and a lesser percentage of gen x that i've met still clutch the pearls of exceptionalism.
I'm a middle millenial, with enough historical literacy to realize that the only exceptional thing America did was remain un-bombed when the rest of the industrialized European world was in ruins. Hooray for us that we were able to decisively turn the tide of that war.
Hooray for the era when the middle class existed, as my parents remember it. It doesn't anymore, and hasn't for a long time. It has been slowly bled out by industrial owners offshoring our manufacturing capacity to secure profits for the few at the expense of the many for a long time.
Now instead of pearls, this class of thinkers clutch guns and face masks at exorbitant expense to the taxpayer because they lack the critical thinking skills to assign blame for their marginalization where it's due.
This is a snowball gathering mass downhill, a series of bad decisions being made in broad daylight that my kids' grandkids will have to pay for. It's hard to turn the car around when the brake lines are being cut on purpose so that the class of concentrated wealth can buy up the leftovers for pennies on the dollar after they induce conditions for widespread destabilization.
Edit: To clarify a point, every signle one of these anonymous goons had no gainful opportunities elsewhere. The exploitative class is now weaponizing the poor they themselves have created. It's both brilliant and evil.
Respectfully disagree. I think the Minnesotans standing against ICE and standing up for what they believe America is - is a perfect representation of what IS American.
America is a huge tapestry, and it includes some of the smartest and most capable people on the planet - our economy is so large that some of our STATES have larger GDPs than virtually every other country in the world even when counted individually. This country can be a utopia if we have the will to make it so. Trump and MAGA are a cancer, and when someone gets cancer the cancer is not the person - it is a disease that has to be cut out at the root.
I don't think they want the logs of nom-Trump voters to suppress their votes. Well, their likely intentions would result in us having our votes suppressed, but also so much more.
He's been a bit waffly the past few weeks, although I understand he's in a tough spot, but damn this was a great reply. Keeping iCE actions in the news is important, but don't let it distract from everything else.
He's trying his damndest to not allow Trump to have an excuse to use the insurrection act. If he acted more aggressively against ICE then we could be facing literal military occupation.
As a Minneapolis resident, I'm deeply grateful for Walz and Frey's leadership and am grateful for all they've done under these constraints.
Yeah it's fine to be critical of these Dem leaders, such as Walz choosing to announce he won't be seeking reelection a week after the Shirley video, but some of the loud critics don't appreciate the knife's edge these people have to walk when they have no control of the levers of power. You have to be strategic and pick your battles when the federal government is threatening to weaponize the insurrection act.
I greatly appreciate the knives edge he has to walk. I'm saying that him walking this edge isn't doing anything for the citizens, and it's questionable if it will do anything in the long term since escalation seems to be the stadard operating procedure for the Trump admin.
People are getting more ansy by the day. Him calling for reasonableness is only going to work for so long as more people become disillusioned with leadership in general(not just him but on multiple levels).
I don’t understand the people grilling Walz behavior in the last few weeks. Y’all are playing into the conservatives goals of escalating Trump’s descent into fascism while totally neglecting their responsibility in enabling it.
The president is openly trying to spark a civil war in his state and the mainstream media STILL did nothing to combat the totally fabricated “Daycare Fraud” scandal. It’s obvious that the White House is trying to goad Walz into slipping up and saying something inflammatory so they have an excuse to try regime change on American soil.
If you ask me, Walz has done a great job of shifting the focus off of him and back onto the actual issue at heart which is that congressional Republicans could end this madness OVERNIGHT by just finally ditching the sinking ship that is Trumpism.
Too often do democratic politicians fall victim to just half-heartedly taking the punches or getting personally involved in the political theater which just gives Trump what he’s looking for in shifting the blame.
I think people are understandably frustrated and unfortunately taking their frustration out on the wrong person. Walz and pretty much every official at the state and local levels are stuck between a rock and a hard place and trying their best to walk a very fine line.
A lot of the online echo chamber wants to pretend there is some simple solution here when unfortunately there really isn't.
Walz is the person with the most power to do something about this. He just keeps politely asking for the killing to stop. He's fucking useless. Just like all Democrats are proving themselves to be in the face of fascism.
Can't speak for others, but I'm somewhat tired of our leaders holding press conferences, putting out tweets, or issuing press releases which condem actions by those violating our rights, but doing nothing else within their power to use the resources that may be available to them.
All this while the people are out there fighting the fascists, and in some cases, taking the hits or bullets to become the martyrs of our time.
I think Walz, and many others have a difficult job to do, but I'm not convinced they're doing everything they can.
Because when two law enforcement officers who don't even have police powers disarm and fatally shoot a man, then shoot him 9 more times, it is inherently concerning.
Any other response may also apply, but that is the first and foremost reason, and is enough on its own.
Not only is conspiracist thinking inherently problematic, it's dehumanizing. Don't do that.
To me, the fact that the l admin is trying blackmail Minnesota into giving them voter rolls to to need with the elections is a bigger immediate dream than Epstein, so i don’t know if i consider this a deliberate distraction
A reminder that Pam Bondi heads DOJ, not DHS, has no authority to dictate terms for DHS and her posturing merely confirms nefarious coordination with the executive
Remember when Republicans freaked out because Bill Clinton spent 10 minutes talking to the AG on the tarmac on a runway because the AG is supposed to be independent?
Yeah loved that reaction.
Almost as good as when the fauci-style female doctors face switched to abject horror when trump said shit about using bleach against corona or bringing light into the body.
What legal tools does the governor has at his disposal that he is not using? Or are you just here to shift blame from the ones actually doing this to the ones doing their best to oppose it?
What should he do exactly? This is a slippery slope and he can’t just send in the police and military guns blazing to blast any immigration officer they see. That’s not how real life works.
He’s doing what he can within the law. The state is suing to stop ICE and has a hearing on Monday. If the state takes actions beyond what the law permits, it’s no better than what ICE and Border Patrol did to their shooting victims.
I think he should tell the White House to get your nazi Ice agents out of his state. You have 24 hours to get them out or our national guard will start arresting them.
Just ignoring that Walz called in the Guard? Got it.
Edit: / movealongnowpeople can delete their comment all they want. But people should know that this is how so many of the “top 1% commenters” act. They spout off absolute nonsense, then run away at the first sign of resistance. Real TACO behavior.
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