Van Hollen and Booker showing how representatives in government should be working for their constituents. I hope their aim is to be as annoying as possible until something good comes of it, but I worry Bukele will just arrest them and further erode the numbers we have in Congress.
Why not all of them? Weren’t they all wrongfully deported?
Meanwhile, in Germany 1934
Bukele will crack by the 18th hour of filibustering.
The bottom line is that man will never be safe in this country again. This fascist regime has made sure of that. He will have a massive target on his back if he ever returns.
American fascism is here.
He’s definitely gonna run for president again and is trying to position himself as relevant. He’ll never win.
“You won’t have to vote ever again”
Lets not conflate Van hollen and Booker.
Van Hollen actually does good with his position and I dont see skeletons in his closet.Booker is a centrist zionist bullshitter trying to ride van hollens coattails. Booker has done some good things, but when the chips are down and his vote is needed, he doesnt show up. A DNC democrat that needs to be removed along with the rest of the so called “liberals”. Lets make these people wear their voting history and not adore them for their purely performative BS or empty words.
Tired of empty cult of personality democrats.
Hard agree. Underrated comment.
Well Booker is doing a hell of a lot more than most other reps when it comes to this, no need to shit on the dude.
Like, I’d take him over the GOP candidate that ran against him.
so would I, but why is our yardstick always “is he better than a republican”. Thats exactly how we lose campaigns.
It’s not but party unity is also important and we won’t find perfection. Working within the confines of our real world is important but I agree that we need better representatives. Booker is just what our system gave us and he’s a lot better than many alternatives and worse than others.
Mostly I think having a unified message and party is important but hard when you’re dealing with people who actually care.
Most would agree he sounds better and seems to do better somewhat, but it is still hard to trust him.
Donald and his many goons has many skeletons in his cabinet. The only difference is, he’s showing it in real time.
If you hate liberals so much, why even vote for them? Just support a 3rd party or force all the liberals out and make them vote Republican.
Your comment makes no sense and jumps to conclusions. Maybe dont bother doing that.
This is a ballsy move on Booker’s part, and shit like this is exactly why nobody likes the left. Make better use of your time.
The left doesnt like centrists either. But neither of us can win without the other. So now what. The centrists would be in charge of the presidency right now if they could have held off sucking off AIPAC for 5 minutes but you lot couldnt even give a little bit on that-- you would rather lose to trump than give up on the genocide and bring the left on side. That election was very winnable but you lot always seem to hate the left more than you hate trump. So what does the left owe you besides the back of our hand?
One of these days you ethics-free troglodyte centrists will have to admit you are in a coalition with the left. Neither of us has to like it-- and we absolutely dont like it-- or you, but we have to do it. And you need to ditch the zionists or get used to trump and losing every election till you do. You think the left will back down, we wont. We will never ever back your dirty genocide.
If I were that man I would not want to return to the US. Send him somewhere safe.
His wife and child are American citizens. His life, job and friends are in the US.
It’s not easy for people to give up the people and places they love.
Where would he go? If he doesn’t have family anywhere else, how do you uproot your life and start 100% fresh elsewhere?
All of them were wrongly deported.
Correct, although I imagine they don’t want to risk the optics of coming to the rescue of everyone only to find out after a court case that at least one of those people were actually guilty, even though you’d have saved hundreds from wrongful imprisonment and stood up for the constitution.
Voters are just too dumb, I guess.
I mean that would be a win. You can show why due process is important and that justice is served with it.
How is it a loss to use the justice system as it was written to convict someone of a crime?
If Democrats are so worried about messaging that they’ll let innocent people rot in prison and only attempt to save one guy for a “win” that just means they actually don’t care about any of them.
The Legislative and Judicial branches need their own armed forces in order to help provide a real counter to unconstitutional executive overreach.
Look for him in this mound
What is that?
That’s the question! These are satellite images from the notorious El Salvadorian prison from 2024. The image is viral online with people claiming this is a pile of bodies and blood, but that’s unsubstantiated (and the image is from before Trump took office). Another idea is that it’s a pile of construction materials and clay.
Doesn’t look like anything to me.
Many stated it’s dead bodies-if you use Google Maps satellite. If you use Apple Maps-it’s very clean. But it seems like Google Maps is more updated than Apple…
We can get satellite imagery that has a resolution of 30cm (1 foot? Fucked if I know) I put in a request to get some of the site but they want $500 because I need to buy 25sq km of imagery. So I’m still looking for another vendor
Super glad he’s going to continue paying lip service. True hero.
I have a feeling this will be the first politician to be arrested.
*By El Salvador and put into an El Salvador prison, for trying to visit a political prisoner.
Many have been arrested in the US and abroad over the years for various reasons.
Why would you think that? Just because he’s not a white m-ohhhhh right.
Yeah, no, you’re probably right. But they’re going to fuck up enough at some point. Hopefully we’ll be here to make them pay for it, and I like Booker. (yeah yeah miss me with the ‘he voted for Israel’ links, I got it, thanks.)
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
I have a feeling you’re wrong.
Cool.
Absolutely.
He obviously needs to bring armed forces with him and extract the guy and watch El Salvador blink in 1 second
And threaten bukele within an inch of his life. Then end it regardless.
Execute Bukele for crimes against humanity, come back and execute Trump for treason
Chuck Schumer and the DNC must be FURIOUS! This TOTALLY RUINS their ENTIRE Plan of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! These Representatives NEED to stick to the DNC tactic of LETTING Americans get Deported so they can WIN the Midterms!
A Nazi at a bar I used to frequent would definitely love to see Cortez and Crockett thrown into a male prison/camp.
Honestly, what is he gonna be able to do?
Try to do the right thing. That’s something.
He’s a US senator, the right thing for him to do would be to draft and pass laws to prevent this, form voting coalitions, you know the job we pay him for. Flying to el Salvador to take a picture with a prisoner after a Maryland congressman just did the same thing?
They are milking this for political points and allowing it to happen.
This is so far from the right thing to do, this is just trying to grasp at some headlines to make you think we’re not already to far gone.
I hope he is successful
Nothing lol he has no power over anything in El Salvador, he can talk to the president but I’m pretty sure the President has prior comittments in this matter. This is a photo op. Like the filibuster, they’re continuing to virtue signal to voters instead of leading and legislating. This does nothign to convince a handful of republicans to join them in reigning in trumps power. Pure optics. No strategy. I’ve seen headless chickens act more decisively.
