The fact these cowards are allowed to wear masks is riot-worthy.
Imagine doing your job and you need to put on a mask specifically to hide your face—and not questioning whether you’re one of the bad guys.
Not only that, but wearing masks in court!
It’s the same reason Klansman wear hoods
Don’t forget the cowardice of Democrats in general. Why are these lawmakers just going around undefended? They should be being escorted by a contingent of state police fully willing to use lethal force to protect their state’s lawmakers against unlawful and illegal arrest.
If the governor of NY announced that he was sending NY state troopers to arrest Donald Trump for violating the law, do you think the Secret Service would just sit back and let that happen? States and the federal government are both sovereign. The states have just as much authority to unilaterally arrest Trump as Trump does to unilaterally arrest state leaders. Yet the state leaders are just spinelessly sitting back and letting themselves be arrested. States have out of control police budgets, but the cowards aren’t even willing to use some of those immense resources to prevent duly elected representatives from being illegally arrested.
Here’s a hint. If the feds come to try and arrest your governor illegally, you shoot them. You put them in the ground. I don’t care if it risks a civil war. This is the kind of thing that is worth risking a civil war over.
But unfortunately these spineless Democrats are not capable of thinking like this. They’re utterly unsuited for the challenge of the moment.
Don’t forget the cowardice of Democrats in general.
The truth is, in practice, Trump would have not been any worse than Biden on Gaza, even if the war had continued. Biden is already giving full US support to Israel. There’s nothing that a president can give Israel that Biden isn’t already giving Israel. I suppose a president could order US troops to directly participate in the fighting, but even Trump’s not that stupid.
Typical liberal obsessed with gotchas. It comes from a place where you assume no one has any consistent beliefs or values. That probably says a lot more about you than it does about anyone else.
Yes, of course that was me. And that statement is as true then as now. Trump and Biden’s Israel policies are indistinguishable from one another. Trump is just a lot more of a crass asshole about it. You’re distracted by messaging rather than actual on-the-ground policy. Trump is a lot ruder, so you assume that his policies are worse on Palestine than Biden’s were.
The truth is you can’t have higher support than 100%.
Can you name a single Trump policy on Israel/Palestine that Biden or Harris have come out to publicly oppose? Can you name a single one? It’s a lot easier for them to do so now as they’re not in office. They have far more free reign now than they ever did while in the oval office. If they’re not willing to denounce any of Trump’s Israel policies today, then it would be brain-dead moronic to assume they would have different policies if they were in office.
Typical liberal obsessed with gotchas.
This is about the response I expected from someone like you when called out on your hypocrisy.
Trump and Biden’s Israel policies are indistinguishable from one another.
Biden and his administration regularly condemned Israel for their actions. They also tried to help broker a peace deal. They also floated arms shipment cancellations. All pretty ballsy considering Israel is America’s most important geopolitical ally in the Middle East.
These are all decidedly different than “Full speed ahead, and maybe we can turn Gaza into a resort destination after displacing the Palestinians” which is literally Donald Trump’s policy, out of his mouth. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your defective brain at fault.
Can you name a single Trump policy on Israel/Palestine that Biden or Harris have come out to publicly oppose?
Sure howabout the annexation of Gaza for a luxury beach resort?
tbh I don’t have a Harris or Biden quote on that queued up, but maybe we could allow that they might, in fact, oppose it.
So you’ve failed my simple request. Biden is such a Zionist he can’t even be bothered to denounce outright ethnic cleansing.
Hint. The reason he can’t is that his adminstration made their own attempt to arrange the explusion of the Gaza population. The Biden admin was fully onboard with ethnic cleansing. Trump is just more crass about it. You’re distracted by shiny over substance.
Ah, I can see you’re a real wonk who knows what a policy is. Well, since that didn’t impress you and you need more proof you simply can’t find, though Oh how you try, here’s some more:
Trump Reverses Sanctions on Israelis in Day 1 Executive Order Trump reversed the Biden administration’s sanctions on Israelis, suspended new aid for the Palestinians, and took measures against international bodies hostile to Israel. The president also spoke of confronting Iran and normalizing Israeli-Saudi relations
Policy enough? No? You’re just a little tough customer aren’t ya! Okay howabout
Trump signs order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel
No still, huh? Boy, it’s like you’re just not able to be convinced somehow. Well, what the hay howabout
In 2020, Trump released a plan that would have limited a Palestinian state’s sovereign powers and allowed Israel to controlsecurity over the Palestinian state, which would be demilitarized. Israel would also have sovereignty over certain parts of the occupied West Bank.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/sep/11/how-kamala-harris-and-donald-trump-compare-on-isra/
So there’s a little bit of insight into your beloved leader’s policies which I feel pretty comfortable in saying Harris/Biden would disagree with.
Since you’ll just take this link-beating with absolutely no humility, grace, or consideration, this will likely be my adieu. But just real quick I don’t know what country you’re from but “liberal” means “left” here so if you’re advocating for some kind of anarchist front or something, you’re gonna be SoL in the US but good luck in wherever you are.
Jesus Christ, you’ll twist yourself in knots to make everything the Democrats’ fault.
What does this even mean dude? You want them to all just get arrested? Like, actually, what the fuck does this mean?
The hell are you talking about? ICE is turning into the gestapo and that dude wants to blame Democrats for it.
You’ll twist yourself into knots to forgive any behavior as long as it’s your team doing it.
A democratic candidate just got put in handcuffs because ICE is going all fascist and you’re somehow making it the Democrats’ fault. Fuck off with that.
I haven’t forgiven anything in either of these comments. Try harder next time.
A democratic candidate just got put in handcuffs because ICE is going all fascist and you’re somehow making it the Democrats’ fault.
Yes, because it’s all pointlessly performative. It’s like that stupid taco truck or those signs at the state of the union. Pointless performative crap.
Democrats have forgotten how to actually use and exercise POWER. Republicans still remember how to use it. And this is why Democrats are losing.
I really do wonder if at this point, progressive candidates might gain more traction by running as Republicans. The Republican party is not ideologically libertarian, and it has proven far more receptive to outsiders and new ideas than the Democratic party.
Who’s your team?
Cringe liberal cyber-stalker.
All you’re doing is telling on yourself. You’re obsessed with teams. You hold no real values. You don’t believe in anything. Politics is just a sports game to you. And yes, I care about actually making meaningful improvement in people’s lives. If the DNC has the Democratic party locked down on permanent regressive mode, then progressives should seek all other options. If that means running third party, so be it. If that means trying to coopt and take over the Republican party, so be it. I care about outcomes. You care about sports teams.
You’re obsessed with teams.
From the guy trash talking liberals, specifically, by generalizing.
I care about outcomes.
You’re not very good at reaching them. Your opinions are infantile. You act like the world is black and white. Nuance is lost on you.
You’re a troll who shit on Harris thinking trump would be delightful payback. Well, here you go. Oh and look you’re interested in the republiQans. I hope you’re really high.
I never suggested Trump winning would be a good thing, or payback for anyone. And in my hypothetical, I was suggesting progressives might have a better time winning in a Republican primary than a Democratic one.
What you’re saying is that you’re so myopically blinded by partisanship, that if someone like Bernie somehow won the Republican nomination, you would still vote for the Democrat out of team loyalty. Again, this is all just sports to you. You don’t believe in anything except the blue team winning.
“Mayoral candidate kidnapped by group of armed, masked individuals claiming to be immigration agents.”
FTFY.
Is he a immigrant? Legal or not ICE can’t arrest American citizens. Its time to fucking riot time to take the nazi scum down.
They actually can arrest anyone because they are immigration and customs enforcement. They are still law enforcement, so they can enforce any law. If you import something illegal or try to smuggle drugs into that is one agency that can investigate you. They arrest people for things like importing fake luxury items.
They still need a motherfucking warrant or probable cause!!!
What possible probable cause could they have against a political candidate who’s not crossing a border? Fuck-all, that’s what!
They’re holding 63 people in Omaha right now without any charge. Maybe you saw that habeas corpus thing in the news recently. One of the MAGA Barbies got it wrong and the articles indicated that was funny.
fake luxury items
holy shit i know a president who sells thousands of those
New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was detained Tuesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as he was escorting a defendant out of immigration court, his wife said in a statement.
“While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE,” Lander’s wife, Meg Barnette, wrote on X.
I thought someone running for political office can’t be arrested or tried for a crime in case they eventually win election (at which point all possible charges are automatically dropped)?
another proof that Biden was way too soft to be president
Some states actually ban criminals from holding office. State constitutions outside the original 13 are written long after the inital founding and state constitutions also more easily amended.
And no, candidates can get arrested. Some socialist person tried running from prison, running didn’t free that person, not even temporarily.
Its just that democrats think that “being impartial” is more important that safeguarding democracy.
They wear masks because their family would be embarrassed by this Nazi shit. Fucking disgraceful cowards.
They wear masks because otherwise they would be rightfully hunted down and shot
Idea why arrested?
escorting a defendant out of immigration court
That’s all it takes now.
That and being a Democrat
By their definition, defending a migrant, housing them, transporting them, waving/smiling at them, is tantamount to criminal conspiracy. Interestingly you don’t see the .eat packing ceos hauled away for hiding them right up until they unionize. This is just the beginning of the violence the fed is going to impose on anyone who dares to stand up to the gestapo in any form.
Sounds like it was because he was attempted to keep ICE from arresting an immigrant.
For doing his job to protect people in his community. Won’t catch cuomo doing the right thing out there
Because in New York City, a global megalopolis with one of the largest and most well-funded police departments in the country…can’t be arsed to provide police protection to its highest ranking elected officials.
Imagine if the NYPD tried to arrest Trump. Do you think the Secret Service would just let that happen? Yet state and local Democratic officials aren’t willing to actually use their legal power to protect themselves from unlawful arrest. These leaders should be under constant state or local police protection. But they’re so addicted to normalcy that they simply cannot bring themselves to take reasonable but unusual steps like this. They just can’t mentally handle it, so they let themselves go unprotected.
It should not be possible to arrest the Comptroller of the largest city in the country without first having to go through a whole bunch of local police officers.
But Democrats are cowards, so they let themselves be lead to the showers.
If you haven’t, it’s time to start arming yourself and your friends and family.
As anti-gun as I typically am, the bottom line is a decline into fascism requires as many guns as possible in as many hands as possible to end it as quickly as possible.
And it’s wayyyyy beyond time for any politician or candidate with a D by their name to have some goddamn private security.
None American here, but I believe the most important right you Americans have, beside the right to free speech and vote, is the right to bear arms.
Not many other countries have that.
Cant believe one day I actually say that, but the 2nd Ammendment is so important. And yes, I am also anti gun and pro gun control.
Still, the situation is getting so fucked up I think it is better to arm and protect yourselves.
Weren’t they supposed to use these guns against threats to their democracy, from within and without? I can’t see any other more applicable scenario.
This is such an American response.
If conflict escalates with an armed vigilante uprising, it will be used by Trump to justify everything the military does, which will include live rounds on civilian targets. An armed militia cannot compete with the military.
The only way victory (hopefully through a mutual desire not to have a civil war) is possible is if state national guard and police remain loyal to their local governor and vow to fight against the federal government on the people’s behalf. But that’s still massively risky.
The best thing as always otherwise is a large scale non-violent protest. Bigger and more persistent than the No Kings protests.
Pushing it to that point is the most likely way to get the military to fracture. Which is the only realistic way to win this by force. Not saying force is the only way, but if it is the way, you need to force a split.
If they open fire on unarmed civilians fracture is much more likely than if they open fire on an armed milita. I’m just looking to encourage avoiding giving the authoritarian side any excuse to claim the higher ground.
What I’m learning is that if I want to abduct someone I just need to wear a convincing enough ICE uniform and nobody will stop me.
It’s already been reported on multiple times, and that’s just the ones we know about. Also, I don’t think it’s a “uniform” so much as just whatever tacticool mall ninja gear they decided to put on that morning.
This won’t end until ICE agents start being disappeared by people dressed up as ICE agents.
To defeat the ICE we must become the ICE
Weird Flex bro, you do you.
How long must we keep up this charade of law and order if Trump pick and chooses which laws he will follow.
Arresting leaders because they asked to see a warrant. ICE is being used as Trump’s personal Gestapo to haunt down anyone who doesn’t fit Trump’s vision of a white ethnostate.
So, what was he arrested for? Attending an open court immigration hearing?
“Our heroic ICE law enforcement officers face a 413 percent increase in assaults against them,”
The fact that no one has yet arrested Trump shows what a farce the US legal system is – it has absolutely nothing to do with justice or fairness, but rather facilitates organized crime on a massive scale.
If there’s anything I’ve learned over the last decade it’s that the U.S. justice system is the butt of a joke. And you better believe all the criminals out there, from the petty thieves to the politicians, have taken note of that fact.
Crime will rise.
Yes, even I, as a European, have the impression that the US system has become so infiltrated by criminals that it has itself become a significant part of the problem. I mean, it couldn’t be any more obvious when even a constitutional judge like Clarence Thomas no longer has to be ashamed of his open corruption – and that’s been the case for decades, if we’re being honest.
I would say that this corrupt system is what makes organized crime possible in the first place. This system is broken beyond repair because it not only fails to fulfill its function, but actually achieves the opposite - so imo: it cannot be repaired from within.
Specifically, with a functioning legal system, an obvious criminal like Trump would never have become president, because he would have been in prison for decades. Instead, he is now president and is exploiting the legal system for his crimes.
In a statement, Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Homeland Security Department, the parent agency of ICE, said that Mr. Lander “was arrested for assaulting law enforcement and impeding a federal officer.”
“Our heroic ICE law enforcement officers face a 413 percent increase in assaults against them,” she added. “It is wrong that politicians seeking higher office undermine law enforcement safety to get a viral moment. No one is above the law, and if you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will face consequences.”
New York Times - Brad Lander Is Arrested by ICE Agents at Immigration Courthouse
Jesus. Mental gymnastics of the right.
Mmh… that´s a nice fascist state you have here.
This is awful. Now the Democrats will have to set up internal meetings over the next few weeks to figure out the most appropriate language to condemn this, after which they will forget this happened.
The silence and inaction of the Democratic leadership since Trump took office is a major contributor to the Republicans and the police state to keep escalating project 2025 agenda without impunity.
