These are indeed concentration camps. And don’t respect them by calling them ICE agents. They are the goddamn secret police. Not much better than the gestapo the way they are behaving.
They don't. The vast -- and I do mean vast -- majority of American Jews abhor the behavior of the current Israeli regime. Same with the majority of Israeli people. They are in a very similar situation to ours. Netanyahu stays in power via corruption and the support of a small (1-2 vote) majority of religious fanatics in the Knesset.
The Israeli Supreme Court has ruled to allow the corruption charges against Bibi to go forward. Perhaps a change is forthcoming. This American Jew certainly hopes so!
There's another point to be made here. If Hamas and similar have their way all Jews in Israel will leave or be killed. Leave? Where would they go? After thousands of years of homelessness? They have the right to do whatever it takes to be safe in their homeland.
Yeah, they have the right of self-defense, no one's arguing that, I think. But I can remember when all Israel needed to do was send out a few Mossad and the problem would be quietly taken care of, very effectively. Or, if surrounding countries wanted to pounce, just strike back brilliantly, like what happened in the 6 Days' War. :)
Netanyahu is like a bully created by the Second Method (the First Method being: bully someone, and they'll continue to bully for you): someone who had either been born and raised in a position of wealth and/or power, or into a family ambitious for that, or someone ambitious for it on a personal level...the kind of person who, when challenged by anything/anyone, goes, "Don't you know WHO I AM?! /I/ could have you, your family, your friends, never working or living in this town again!!" just like Trump.
He's not defending Israel with a scalpel, or even a strategic airstrike; he's using a club to beat down another people once and for all, and slaughter every last one of them, so he never has to worry about not looking like a strong-man ever again.
I just wanted to pop on and say f*ck the fascists, f*ck MAGA, f*ck Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation, f*ck fundamentalists and f*ck their ammos*xual lust for g*ns, "violins" and unaliving people. OH and f*ck that I have to rewrite in "doublespeak" so I don't get arrested, but they can say whatever the f*cking well you-da*m h*ll that their twisted minds want to.
As a floridian I am appalled by the hate, cruelty and greed. This is not the state I grew up in. It started to really go bad with Rick Scott. We had had some good Dems in the past but now it is a full red state and unfortunately has 2 of the worst living here: orange cheeto and deathsantis. If I could financially move I would but like all seniors with limited income it is not a reality for me at this time. The Alligator Alcatraz is where an old airplane stripped to be. This will disrupt the everglades environmentally and there are several lawsuits against it. Fingers crossed this gets delayed for a while, if not permanently.
It is already fascism. I just posted something i wrote on Substack called "Crusty Gnome and her Egregious ICE Gremlins" . Ill keep writing until I figure out how to get through to someone
And with all our data now being consolidated into one database to make sure “non-citizens” don’t vote, we all know DHS will be using that database for their own purposes, as well. Where are all these folks who didn’t want “big government” in all their business now?!?
I’m with you, God! P2025 is a manifesto for ethnic cleansing and white supremacy. They are right on schedule with their abhorrent and hateful words and actions.
Between barricading the White House and the treasury, and all of these expenditures for his personal protection against innocent immigrants, we think we see what we see, but rub our eyes in disbelief at what some of our people with their vote have done to us. That's the hard part. Those same people are now roaming the streets with masks depriving us of our Liberty. Their patriotism goes as far as their big bonus checks will take them.
Trump never arrested anybody and threw them in a van himself. Miller never went up to a working man and slapped the handcuffs on him.
The people who are enabling him are actually "The People".
ICE agents don't get switched off and put in a storage facility at the end of the day - they go home to wives, Mom's, friends and family.
The Russian Revolution didn't happen because the Czar got into a fight with the revolutionaries - it happened because the soldiers who supported and protected him finally said "ENOUGH! NO MORE!"
Despite evidence to the contrary, ICE agents are just working guys - and need to be made to realise that what they are doing is evil.
If you know anybody who works for ICE, or their family - let them know what they are doing is wrong.
I fully expect to get replies saying I am naive and that ICE agents ARE evil.
Their leaders are, yes - but I cannot make myself believe that these boots on the ground guys are too. Misled and misinformed, yes. We really need to educate them.
Trump and his thugs are NOTHING without their backup.
You can't talk to Republicans in government - they won't answer you.
But you can speak to the guy next door at a barbeque.
If someone's day job is arresting, beating, and throwing innocent people into gulags, I don't think there's anything anyone can say that will get through to them.
There's a guy, a black jazz musician, whose name I sadly don't recall atm -- David Duane? Something like that...anyway, he's managed to "deprogram" about 200 Klansmen just by being a decent guy and trying to find the decent human inside them. It can work! :)
Sadly, ol' DD is getting a bit long in the tooth now...we need folks like him. :)
Of the 249m voting age citizens - over 170m did not support this tyranny. We have the numbers and therefore the power. We just need to persuade them all to vote.
They very well may not have elections. But elections are organized on the state and local levels, so that is something. If martial law comes it will be inflicted for as long as they want. Good reason to do all we can now. 👹
This regime is full of evil, corrupt, motherfucking grifters that don’t care about anyone but themselves 😡 it’s one thing to threaten adults, but when you start threatening innocent children that’s it for me; I’ll fight them until I no longer can….July 4th there is a No Kings 2.0 protest scheduled in my area, hopefully there will be more scheduled around the country, please try to join in if you can….
I haven’t heard anything about no kings protests on July 4. Disappointing, as there was so much hype for the last one. I thought I heard there would be more protests at the end of July (around the 24th I think), but again, haven’t heard much, and assumed it would be more widely advertised in the next week or two (after the holiday).
Doris, I read that in someone’s Substack post today. Maybe google No Kings 2.0? That’s what I did just to see if there was anything going on in my area and there is.
I’ve also heard there’s supposed to be another No Kings protest on July 17, I found this info about it:
The republicans are committing crimes against humanity. They get giddy over mass murder.
I hope you can selectively smite them all, I know you will sort them out, God.
In Jesus’ name, Amen
Those are not detention camps, they are concentration camps. History is recreating itself with more hate than WW2 Germany.
These are indeed concentration camps. And don’t respect them by calling them ICE agents. They are the goddamn secret police. Not much better than the gestapo the way they are behaving.
Add the Palestinian genocide to the list. How does a people who experienced the mass murder of their own condone the same?
They don't. The vast -- and I do mean vast -- majority of American Jews abhor the behavior of the current Israeli regime. Same with the majority of Israeli people. They are in a very similar situation to ours. Netanyahu stays in power via corruption and the support of a small (1-2 vote) majority of religious fanatics in the Knesset.
The Israeli Supreme Court has ruled to allow the corruption charges against Bibi to go forward. Perhaps a change is forthcoming. This American Jew certainly hopes so!
There's another point to be made here. If Hamas and similar have their way all Jews in Israel will leave or be killed. Leave? Where would they go? After thousands of years of homelessness? They have the right to do whatever it takes to be safe in their homeland.
I’m so old that I remember when there was a country called Palestine.
Yeah, they have the right of self-defense, no one's arguing that, I think. But I can remember when all Israel needed to do was send out a few Mossad and the problem would be quietly taken care of, very effectively. Or, if surrounding countries wanted to pounce, just strike back brilliantly, like what happened in the 6 Days' War. :)
Netanyahu is like a bully created by the Second Method (the First Method being: bully someone, and they'll continue to bully for you): someone who had either been born and raised in a position of wealth and/or power, or into a family ambitious for that, or someone ambitious for it on a personal level...the kind of person who, when challenged by anything/anyone, goes, "Don't you know WHO I AM?! /I/ could have you, your family, your friends, never working or living in this town again!!" just like Trump.
He's not defending Israel with a scalpel, or even a strategic airstrike; he's using a club to beat down another people once and for all, and slaughter every last one of them, so he never has to worry about not looking like a strong-man ever again.
Just like Trump.
And better technology.
I just wanted to pop on and say f*ck the fascists, f*ck MAGA, f*ck Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation, f*ck fundamentalists and f*ck their ammos*xual lust for g*ns, "violins" and unaliving people. OH and f*ck that I have to rewrite in "doublespeak" so I don't get arrested, but they can say whatever the f*cking well you-da*m h*ll that their twisted minds want to.
Ammosexual ugh 😖
Don't worry, Deb; God has a mouth on Him, too! :D
He won't report you to anyone. :)
And if they find out about us here, fuck 'em all anyway! :D
It's getting harder and harder to hear all if the "news." The evil is multiplying. It's hard not to feel helpless. 😥
You are not helpless!
As a floridian I am appalled by the hate, cruelty and greed. This is not the state I grew up in. It started to really go bad with Rick Scott. We had had some good Dems in the past but now it is a full red state and unfortunately has 2 of the worst living here: orange cheeto and deathsantis. If I could financially move I would but like all seniors with limited income it is not a reality for me at this time. The Alligator Alcatraz is where an old airplane stripped to be. This will disrupt the everglades environmentally and there are several lawsuits against it. Fingers crossed this gets delayed for a while, if not permanently.
It is already fascism. I just posted something i wrote on Substack called "Crusty Gnome and her Egregious ICE Gremlins" . Ill keep writing until I figure out how to get through to someone
Thank you for standing for us. SIDNEY SMART
Dear God,
I almost don't have any words today...but I needed to be present in Your Community.
They want us exhausted...and sad...and scared. Too scared to do anything in response. They are COUNTING on us to behave just like 1938 Germans.
But, we're not going to give them that. We are HERE...with YOU and for YOU.
We ARE God's Army. We will protect with love what they are trying to destroy with hate.
Please God, hear our prayers for STRENGTH. Amen.
Love,
me
And with all our data now being consolidated into one database to make sure “non-citizens” don’t vote, we all know DHS will be using that database for their own purposes, as well. Where are all these folks who didn’t want “big government” in all their business now?!?
They are still thinking it will be only "those people" right up until they realize we are all "those people."
Remember the post God had here the other day about the Trump supporter DYING in ICE custody? :-/
I’m with you, God! P2025 is a manifesto for ethnic cleansing and white supremacy. They are right on schedule with their abhorrent and hateful words and actions.
Between barricading the White House and the treasury, and all of these expenditures for his personal protection against innocent immigrants, we think we see what we see, but rub our eyes in disbelief at what some of our people with their vote have done to us. That's the hard part. Those same people are now roaming the streets with masks depriving us of our Liberty. Their patriotism goes as far as their big bonus checks will take them.
Trump never arrested anybody and threw them in a van himself. Miller never went up to a working man and slapped the handcuffs on him.
The people who are enabling him are actually "The People".
ICE agents don't get switched off and put in a storage facility at the end of the day - they go home to wives, Mom's, friends and family.
The Russian Revolution didn't happen because the Czar got into a fight with the revolutionaries - it happened because the soldiers who supported and protected him finally said "ENOUGH! NO MORE!"
Despite evidence to the contrary, ICE agents are just working guys - and need to be made to realise that what they are doing is evil.
If you know anybody who works for ICE, or their family - let them know what they are doing is wrong.
I fully expect to get replies saying I am naive and that ICE agents ARE evil.
Their leaders are, yes - but I cannot make myself believe that these boots on the ground guys are too. Misled and misinformed, yes. We really need to educate them.
Trump and his thugs are NOTHING without their backup.
You can't talk to Republicans in government - they won't answer you.
But you can speak to the guy next door at a barbeque.
If someone's day job is arresting, beating, and throwing innocent people into gulags, I don't think there's anything anyone can say that will get through to them.
But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try.
Time was, you behaved like a decent human being for three reasons:
You actually WERE one.
Your religion taught you that you should be.
Your community shunned you if you weren't.
Religion seems to have become a twisted parody. And Republican politicians have so disdained community feeling that it's almost disappeared.
Time for ALL of us to bring it back.
There's a guy, a black jazz musician, whose name I sadly don't recall atm -- David Duane? Something like that...anyway, he's managed to "deprogram" about 200 Klansmen just by being a decent guy and trying to find the decent human inside them. It can work! :)
Sadly, ol' DD is getting a bit long in the tooth now...we need folks like him. :)
AH! Daryl Davis! :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis
And there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_Courtesy:_Daryl_Davis,_Race_%26_America
It’s time to up the game from polite protesting to FULL ON REBELLION!
Nationwide STRIKES.
We must activate the power and strength by PEACEFULLY and STRATEGICALLY shutting everything this country down.
That’s the only way to show them they can’t get away with their takedown of our democracy.
It’s time for each and every one of us to call the shots.
WE NEED REAL LEADERS TO STEP UP NOT THE BLUE MAGA.
Agree wholeheartedly! Go to generalstrikeus.com. Learn how to prepare. Find your community and create a strike fund.
Of the 249m voting age citizens - over 170m did not support this tyranny. We have the numbers and therefore the power. We just need to persuade them all to vote.
What if they cancel voting? What if they instilled martial law?
They very well may not have elections. But elections are organized on the state and local levels, so that is something. If martial law comes it will be inflicted for as long as they want. Good reason to do all we can now. 👹
Strike.
That is assuming all 170m would vote against this
True but based on the last election we only need a small percentage.
And Steven Miller is profiting off of these concentration camps. What is it gonna take to bust these people?
This regime is full of evil, corrupt, motherfucking grifters that don’t care about anyone but themselves 😡 it’s one thing to threaten adults, but when you start threatening innocent children that’s it for me; I’ll fight them until I no longer can….July 4th there is a No Kings 2.0 protest scheduled in my area, hopefully there will be more scheduled around the country, please try to join in if you can….
I haven’t heard anything about no kings protests on July 4. Disappointing, as there was so much hype for the last one. I thought I heard there would be more protests at the end of July (around the 24th I think), but again, haven’t heard much, and assumed it would be more widely advertised in the next week or two (after the holiday).
Doris, I read that in someone’s Substack post today. Maybe google No Kings 2.0? That’s what I did just to see if there was anything going on in my area and there is.
I’ve also heard there’s supposed to be another No Kings protest on July 17, I found this info about it:
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/17/no-kings-july-17-protests
Thanks Patty!n that’s very helpful. Finally! Something positive about social media!
Doris, you are very welcome 😊