Shaun, as the times get darker, let's never fotget who we are:
"The person down the street who votes differently than you is not your enemy. They are your neighbor. They worry about the same things you worry about. They want their kids to be safe and their bills to be paid and their country to be a place worth living in. They have been manipulated just like you have been manipulated, fed a different flavor of the same poison, sorted into a different tribe by the same algorithm, pointed at you as the enemy by the same people who point you at them.
The working class Republican and the working class Democrat have more in common with each other than either of them has with the billionaire class that funds both parties.
You share the same struggles. You face the same rigged systems. You are being crushed by the same economic forces that have transferred more wealth upward in the last fifty years than at any point in human history. And instead of uniting against the people doing this to you, you are screaming at each other on the internet about pronouns and flags and whatever fresh outrage the algorithm served up this morning.
This is exactly what they want. A nation at war with itself cannot resist a takeover. A people consumed by mutual hatred will accept any authority that promises to protect them from the manufactured enemy. Every empire that fell was divided before it was conquered. Every free people who lost their freedom were set against each other first.
The red versus blue war is not real. It is a show put on by people who own both teams. It is professional wrestling and you think it is a real fight. The wrestlers go backstage after the match and laugh together while you are still screaming at the guy in the other section who was rooting for the wrong character.
This Is Our Country Not Theirs
This nation belongs to the people who live here and work here and raise families here and will be buried here. It does not belong to billionaires who hold citizenship in three countries and will flee to their bunkers the moment things get bad. It does not belong to tech oligarchs who view democracy as an obstacle to efficiency. It does not belong to foreign interests who have purchased so much influence that they might as well be writing our laws themselves.
We have to stop letting them divide us. We have to start seeing each other as fellow Americans again instead of enemy combatants in a culture war that was manufactured to keep us weak. We have to remember that the person screaming at us online is also a victim of the same manipulation, and maybe if we stopped screaming back and started talking, we might realize we have been fighting the wrong enemy this entire time.
Turn off the television. It is not informing you. It is programming you. Question everything, including the sources you trust, especially the sources you trust. Talk to people who disagree with you and do it without trying to win. Listen to why they believe what they believe. You might discover that the monster you have been told to hate is actually just another person trying to make sense of a confusing world with imperfect information, exactly like you.
Remember who you are. You are an American. Your ancestors came to this land or were brought to this land or were already on this land, and regardless of how they got here, they built something together that was supposed to be different from the old world’s tyrannies and aristocracies. That project is not finished. Every generation has to fight to keep it alive against the forces that want to drag us back to a world where a handful of rulers own everything and everyone else serves at their pleasure.
Stop letting them divide you. Your enemies are not your neighbors. Your enemies are the people who profit from your division and are building machines to replace you the moment you are no longer useful.
Start acting like it before it is too late". —The Wise Wolf
I don't think of people who vote different as an enemy. But someone who loves Trump isn't a friend either. I won't stop them from eating but I won't invite them to eat at my table either.
P.S. I've tried to reason with Trumpanzees in the past but it's like teaching a dog to play the piano
Oh man. Your comment hit hard. I’m 33 and just now I started to realize that the same brainwashing that’s used by the Israelis to fill their people with hatred against the Palestinians has been used on me to turn me against everyone else who is different from me - in religion, in culture, in any way, you name it. Only now I’ve started to break away from that and tell myself “we are all human, all the same, trying to have a good life and pay the bills and care for our children.” I now see the divide and conquer strategy ingrained in our minds for generations. The “we’re better bc we’re x religion, or from x land, or x color, or x working class.” The looking down on others. Thinking you’re the chosen people. Esp being a Muslim, raised with that “we are going to heaven and they’re going to hell” is the same “we're the chosen people” thinking that the Jews had that Allah warned us of. Also being a Palestinian, an Arab, along with being a Muslim - there’s so much arrogance just for being what Allah created us as! We are not better, and we are not worse for being what Allah chose for us, we just are, just as everyone else is, and realizing that enables you to get to know your neighbors and communities and meet new people and feel a sense of belonging in this world wherever you may be. There’s a lot of unlearning we need to do on an individual as well as community level, and it starts with us waking up and realizing these divisions aren’t from us but from people who want to control us and benefit from turning us against each other.
This is a gulag, we deployed the conditions in the Soviet gulag, in the 1950's but now we normalize them because we don't teach this history, people don't learn this history.
This is immoral, unethical, sickening and frightening.
Any American, with green cards or without can be taken.
It's a bunch of 🐂 💩. Satan Trump pardons violent insurrectionists and convicted drug dealers but this is where he draws the line? And pretty much only in Democratic cities. I don't see the demon going after "illegal" white people in Brighton Beach...
The Epstein Laboratory is imperially extracting our food water shelter and health dollars using the human rights violations of the thirteenth amendment for its billionaire networks pockets while the segregated country protests no kings.
Over 70% have charges against them and or have committed violent crimes. Im so sick of the lies repeated ad nauseum by irresponsible reporters not fact checking. . https://www.facebook.com/reel/1423249952763747
Like we're supposed to believe her?????? They keep saying shit like this and never provide any proof, BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE TO when there's plenty pf bootlickers like you who believe anything they say.
Mr. King: Wouldn't it be more fair and better writing to present the reasons for the immigration system being so jammed? The system was overwhelmed by millions coming into the country in caravans for a couple of years. The illegal crossings were in the millions. Many dispersed in our country as "runaways" and even alleged terrorists. The system could not hold and process so many people at once. Waits for initial hearings are longer and longer. Research that for a change and watch videos of the caravans and entries to get an idea of the magnitude of this outrageous public policy. It will help you understand the current situation. Thank you.
LOL. You know why the system was overwhelmed with caravans? It's called ACTIONS and CONSEQUENCES, or FAFO if you prefer. Where did they come from? Mostly they were Hondurans finally leaving the shithole that was created after the coup that we totally pretended didn't happen. But we didn't like the socialist guy so we turned a blind eye to the coup because we liked the guy that afterward. Then the death squads came out. Yes, WE supported the corrupt leader(s) that made it a hellhole. Then we're SHOCKED when they head here. So many Venezuelans have come as well, not because of Maduro, but because of the sanctions that are strangling the country. Salvadorans are trapped by a corrupt government THAT WE SUPPORT. There are women in prison for miscarrying. Yes, for having a miscarriage! Their corrupt government charges them with having abortions and throws them in prison. But that corrupt government is our friend and we gave them lots of money, no doubt pocketed by Bukele, to sent people to their prison.
Want to start limiting illegal immigration? Then we need to stop supporting these corrupt FAR RIGHT leaders who make life hell for their people. We also need to start going after businesses. In all this ICE garbage, have you read ANYTHING about businesses being closed down or investigated or ANYTHING? No, of course not. That right there should tell you it's not about "legality." Those businesses are quite aware of the legal status of their employees. Some big ag businesses, like meat processing plants in the Midwest, are raided over and over and over, with no punishment for the owners.
Research that for a change. It will help you understand the current situation. Thank you
And they openly admit they want this number to keep growing and growing. It's so evil. And it's truly a money grab as well.
Shaun, as the times get darker, let's never fotget who we are:
"The person down the street who votes differently than you is not your enemy. They are your neighbor. They worry about the same things you worry about. They want their kids to be safe and their bills to be paid and their country to be a place worth living in. They have been manipulated just like you have been manipulated, fed a different flavor of the same poison, sorted into a different tribe by the same algorithm, pointed at you as the enemy by the same people who point you at them.
The working class Republican and the working class Democrat have more in common with each other than either of them has with the billionaire class that funds both parties.
You share the same struggles. You face the same rigged systems. You are being crushed by the same economic forces that have transferred more wealth upward in the last fifty years than at any point in human history. And instead of uniting against the people doing this to you, you are screaming at each other on the internet about pronouns and flags and whatever fresh outrage the algorithm served up this morning.
This is exactly what they want. A nation at war with itself cannot resist a takeover. A people consumed by mutual hatred will accept any authority that promises to protect them from the manufactured enemy. Every empire that fell was divided before it was conquered. Every free people who lost their freedom were set against each other first.
The red versus blue war is not real. It is a show put on by people who own both teams. It is professional wrestling and you think it is a real fight. The wrestlers go backstage after the match and laugh together while you are still screaming at the guy in the other section who was rooting for the wrong character.
This Is Our Country Not Theirs
This nation belongs to the people who live here and work here and raise families here and will be buried here. It does not belong to billionaires who hold citizenship in three countries and will flee to their bunkers the moment things get bad. It does not belong to tech oligarchs who view democracy as an obstacle to efficiency. It does not belong to foreign interests who have purchased so much influence that they might as well be writing our laws themselves.
We have to stop letting them divide us. We have to start seeing each other as fellow Americans again instead of enemy combatants in a culture war that was manufactured to keep us weak. We have to remember that the person screaming at us online is also a victim of the same manipulation, and maybe if we stopped screaming back and started talking, we might realize we have been fighting the wrong enemy this entire time.
Turn off the television. It is not informing you. It is programming you. Question everything, including the sources you trust, especially the sources you trust. Talk to people who disagree with you and do it without trying to win. Listen to why they believe what they believe. You might discover that the monster you have been told to hate is actually just another person trying to make sense of a confusing world with imperfect information, exactly like you.
Remember who you are. You are an American. Your ancestors came to this land or were brought to this land or were already on this land, and regardless of how they got here, they built something together that was supposed to be different from the old world’s tyrannies and aristocracies. That project is not finished. Every generation has to fight to keep it alive against the forces that want to drag us back to a world where a handful of rulers own everything and everyone else serves at their pleasure.
Stop letting them divide you. Your enemies are not your neighbors. Your enemies are the people who profit from your division and are building machines to replace you the moment you are no longer useful.
Start acting like it before it is too late". —The Wise Wolf
I don't think of people who vote different as an enemy. But someone who loves Trump isn't a friend either. I won't stop them from eating but I won't invite them to eat at my table either.
P.S. I've tried to reason with Trumpanzees in the past but it's like teaching a dog to play the piano
Oh man. Your comment hit hard. I’m 33 and just now I started to realize that the same brainwashing that’s used by the Israelis to fill their people with hatred against the Palestinians has been used on me to turn me against everyone else who is different from me - in religion, in culture, in any way, you name it. Only now I’ve started to break away from that and tell myself “we are all human, all the same, trying to have a good life and pay the bills and care for our children.” I now see the divide and conquer strategy ingrained in our minds for generations. The “we’re better bc we’re x religion, or from x land, or x color, or x working class.” The looking down on others. Thinking you’re the chosen people. Esp being a Muslim, raised with that “we are going to heaven and they’re going to hell” is the same “we're the chosen people” thinking that the Jews had that Allah warned us of. Also being a Palestinian, an Arab, along with being a Muslim - there’s so much arrogance just for being what Allah created us as! We are not better, and we are not worse for being what Allah chose for us, we just are, just as everyone else is, and realizing that enables you to get to know your neighbors and communities and meet new people and feel a sense of belonging in this world wherever you may be. There’s a lot of unlearning we need to do on an individual as well as community level, and it starts with us waking up and realizing these divisions aren’t from us but from people who want to control us and benefit from turning us against each other.
A a that is a smaller part of a larger, absolutely phenomenal article that you can find here: https://tritorch.substack.com/p/everything-you-watch-or-read-is-owned
It will almost certainly be worth every second of your time.
This is a gulag, we deployed the conditions in the Soviet gulag, in the 1950's but now we normalize them because we don't teach this history, people don't learn this history.
This is immoral, unethical, sickening and frightening.
Any American, with green cards or without can be taken.
We must care and we must fight!
I agree
Business is booming for the jail industry.
It truly is. They will make BILLIONS in profits this year.
Some of them are in Congress and the Whitehouse
I came to say the same thing. Many of these detention centers are privately owned, so Trump has to make sure his friends get paid.
This is why certain government jobs should NOT be privatized. Prisons are one of them.
Equally important is that conflicts of interests are not to be allowed and enforced.
"Conflict of interest" doesn't exist anymore. Our current president is a big time grifter.
Like most things for which Trump gets the credit, the entirety of the GOP allows it and participates.
I would add that the majority of Dems just sit there with their thumbs up their asses. Neither party cares about any of us.
Some Democrats yes, the Corporate Democrats. I disagree about the Progressives.
Congrats US citizens! Is that what this "orange man" was elected for??
My question is for those who chose him, and I'm 100 percent sure that some of them are arrested and thrown in ICE dungeons.
To answer the question: a totalitarian government.
Indeed.
It's a bunch of 🐂 💩. Satan Trump pardons violent insurrectionists and convicted drug dealers but this is where he draws the line? And pretty much only in Democratic cities. I don't see the demon going after "illegal" white people in Brighton Beach...
Its a really good time to start brushing up on your Chinese and or maybe Russian. The wave will break and maybe soon.
The Epstein Laboratory is imperially extracting our food water shelter and health dollars using the human rights violations of the thirteenth amendment for its billionaire networks pockets while the segregated country protests no kings.
Over 70% have charges against them and or have committed violent crimes. Im so sick of the lies repeated ad nauseum by irresponsible reporters not fact checking. . https://www.facebook.com/reel/1423249952763747
Like we're supposed to believe her?????? They keep saying shit like this and never provide any proof, BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE TO when there's plenty pf bootlickers like you who believe anything they say.
This is the Whitenizing of the nation.
Mr. King: Wouldn't it be more fair and better writing to present the reasons for the immigration system being so jammed? The system was overwhelmed by millions coming into the country in caravans for a couple of years. The illegal crossings were in the millions. Many dispersed in our country as "runaways" and even alleged terrorists. The system could not hold and process so many people at once. Waits for initial hearings are longer and longer. Research that for a change and watch videos of the caravans and entries to get an idea of the magnitude of this outrageous public policy. It will help you understand the current situation. Thank you.
You didn’t read my article did you? Even the Trump administration admits THE MAJORITY of people they are detaining have no criminal record whatsoever
LOL. You know why the system was overwhelmed with caravans? It's called ACTIONS and CONSEQUENCES, or FAFO if you prefer. Where did they come from? Mostly they were Hondurans finally leaving the shithole that was created after the coup that we totally pretended didn't happen. But we didn't like the socialist guy so we turned a blind eye to the coup because we liked the guy that afterward. Then the death squads came out. Yes, WE supported the corrupt leader(s) that made it a hellhole. Then we're SHOCKED when they head here. So many Venezuelans have come as well, not because of Maduro, but because of the sanctions that are strangling the country. Salvadorans are trapped by a corrupt government THAT WE SUPPORT. There are women in prison for miscarrying. Yes, for having a miscarriage! Their corrupt government charges them with having abortions and throws them in prison. But that corrupt government is our friend and we gave them lots of money, no doubt pocketed by Bukele, to sent people to their prison.
Want to start limiting illegal immigration? Then we need to stop supporting these corrupt FAR RIGHT leaders who make life hell for their people. We also need to start going after businesses. In all this ICE garbage, have you read ANYTHING about businesses being closed down or investigated or ANYTHING? No, of course not. That right there should tell you it's not about "legality." Those businesses are quite aware of the legal status of their employees. Some big ag businesses, like meat processing plants in the Midwest, are raided over and over and over, with no punishment for the owners.
Research that for a change. It will help you understand the current situation. Thank you