Trump’s proposed election "reforms" show that he has no faith that his followers will continue to follow his agenda voluntarily. It's an admission that for MAGA to win, the game has to be rigged.
All of this is so true and was evident to me before the Presiential election. It is clear that the Feau News Propaganda machine continues to mesmerize too many Americans into believing that the destruction of personal Freedoms would somehow not apply to them because they support the current regime. I was amazed to see Latin American and Muslim supporters of Trump, vocally reveal their views only to be deported shortly thereafter. If ICE is legal, then why do they arrest people while driving unmarked vehicles, masked to hide their identity, no uniform, no ID and no documents.
The new "brownshirts" can be easily recruited from the - how many? - 1,600 pardoned extremists of Jan.6 fame. They owe Trump something now. We´ll probably see or are seeing (or not see, due to masks) them as ICE agents. Hitler came to power when Germany was in the financial dregs - daily inflation, poverty, all effects from WW1. It seems to me that Trump is trying to artificially create the same scenario.
I should not lose my ability to vote absentee since I live in Portugal, but I wouldn't be surprised if they try. I would think, like me, that you are horrified at the building in Florida of what I call Alligator Auschwitz! The Big Ugly Bill triples the ICE budget so that it becomes the President's equivalent of Hitler's SS.
I have the same thoughts as an ex-pat in Germany. Who knows where this is all going for us. They might strip us of our voting rights. Or even citizenship. Their tentacles are becoming far-reaching, especially with their "affiliation" with AfD (Vance´s "darling" and their installation of Palantir technology for use by the Bavarian police.
I remember the Jonestown massacre like it was yesterday. The news coverage went on for weeks, but the actual news started over the Thanksgiving holiday. People could not believe the numbers. Photos of the bodies, and it was hot, down there. It was awful. My first experience of witnessing a religious cult. I was 26 years old.
Cults were much more prevelent then, though no less dangerous. I had several survivors of cults in my congregations at the time, whse parents often had to risk their lives with interventions.
I have a friend here in Ozark whose son was captured into a religious cult in the mountains of North Carolina. He was in it for about 15 years. He fled, with his arranged wife and three children when the cult leader decided that their oldest child wasn’t to go further than a home schooled 8th grade. But it was very difficult to disengage. They are clever now. My friend spent all the money they would have spent on his college education on lawyers to get them out. It really messed up
those 5 lives. Problems still exist. But they’re formerly, legally out.
P.S. I try not to remember that Thanksgiving. Too many tragedies. I was in my first year as a music major, and one of my musical influences, Frank Rosolino, lost his mind and shot both of his sons and killed himself. I was devastated.
All of this is so true and was evident to me before the Presiential election. It is clear that the Feau News Propaganda machine continues to mesmerize too many Americans into believing that the destruction of personal Freedoms would somehow not apply to them because they support the current regime. I was amazed to see Latin American and Muslim supporters of Trump, vocally reveal their views only to be deported shortly thereafter. If ICE is legal, then why do they arrest people while driving unmarked vehicles, masked to hide their identity, no uniform, no ID and no documents.
Welcome the new SS.
The new "brownshirts" can be easily recruited from the - how many? - 1,600 pardoned extremists of Jan.6 fame. They owe Trump something now. We´ll probably see or are seeing (or not see, due to masks) them as ICE agents. Hitler came to power when Germany was in the financial dregs - daily inflation, poverty, all effects from WW1. It seems to me that Trump is trying to artificially create the same scenario.
Thank you, Rabbi. Disturbing as it is, we need to know.
I should not lose my ability to vote absentee since I live in Portugal, but I wouldn't be surprised if they try. I would think, like me, that you are horrified at the building in Florida of what I call Alligator Auschwitz! The Big Ugly Bill triples the ICE budget so that it becomes the President's equivalent of Hitler's SS.
I have the same thoughts as an ex-pat in Germany. Who knows where this is all going for us. They might strip us of our voting rights. Or even citizenship. Their tentacles are becoming far-reaching, especially with their "affiliation" with AfD (Vance´s "darling" and their installation of Palantir technology for use by the Bavarian police.
I remember the Jonestown massacre like it was yesterday. The news coverage went on for weeks, but the actual news started over the Thanksgiving holiday. People could not believe the numbers. Photos of the bodies, and it was hot, down there. It was awful. My first experience of witnessing a religious cult. I was 26 years old.
Cults were much more prevelent then, though no less dangerous. I had several survivors of cults in my congregations at the time, whse parents often had to risk their lives with interventions.
I have a friend here in Ozark whose son was captured into a religious cult in the mountains of North Carolina. He was in it for about 15 years. He fled, with his arranged wife and three children when the cult leader decided that their oldest child wasn’t to go further than a home schooled 8th grade. But it was very difficult to disengage. They are clever now. My friend spent all the money they would have spent on his college education on lawyers to get them out. It really messed up
those 5 lives. Problems still exist. But they’re formerly, legally out.
Being a Giants fan (1950's - 1982) could cause someone to move to Vermont!
lol
It was actually a knock off brand called Flavor Aid, not Kool Aid that the People's Temple cult drank to kill themselves:
https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/jonestown-how-did-it-feel-to-die-of-cyanide-poisoning
P.S. I try not to remember that Thanksgiving. Too many tragedies. I was in my first year as a music major, and one of my musical influences, Frank Rosolino, lost his mind and shot both of his sons and killed himself. I was devastated.
What a tragic memory! So sorry!