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Donald Trump ordered ICE officers to prioritize deportations in Democrat-run cities in a wild Truth Social rant Sunday night.

Trump issued the unprecedented, politically motivated orders just hours after millions of protesters gathered in major American cities, calling for Trump’s megalomania to be curbed.

Trump told ICE staff to “do all in their power” to detain and deport undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York.

Protests in these cities—and many more Democrat-controlled districts—attracted millions of citizens on Saturday, dwarfing the crowd that attended Trump’s birthday parade in Washington, D.C.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

There aren't enough of them to enforce this. Keep obstructing them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

ICE really is his GeStaPo.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

How is this man our president

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago

Broken election system that let's the PACs and the rich control it. Ban PAC donations and limit campaign funding.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

We're an empire in decline. I imagine we'd probably feel quite a deal of spiritual kinship with Romans living under Nero or Caligula

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

By stealing elections

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

Is this a red line

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Trump wants ICE to get shot

[–] [email protected] 32 points 21 hours ago

Hey DOGE! I found the waste, fraud, and corruption. ICE.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 20 hours ago

Oh, you mean most of them?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 22 hours ago

Literally gestapo

[–] [email protected] 32 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

He's trying to get us mad and become violent so he can declare martial law. He wants his opposition to look more like bad guys to his fan base.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 18 hours ago

They'll false-flag or just start killing people. They don't need a reason anymore.

This whole "don't have violent protests because they'll declare martial law" is a psyop preparing people for martial law and pre-loading it with the assumption that when it does happen (and it will) it will be the fault of the protesters, despite evidence to the contrary.

Fascism 101 guys. Don't be a sucker.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago

He doesn't need to try shit. Trump does what ever the fuck he wants. Both Congress and the courts just go along with it because apparently our founding fathers wanted the president to have absolute power. The deployment of the national guard and the Marines to LA is unequivocally illegal, but Trump did it anyway and the government dosen't seem to be in a hurry to remove the troops.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago

Those fucking idiots only need a pointed finger and the word "liberal" to believe something is bad.

[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 day ago (2 children)

‘No Kings’ protest cities

So ... like all the cities?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

ICE doesn't have enough people to intimidate a single blue city, let alone the country. They can't even operate in Los Angeles without the backup of a small number of National Guard and Marines and they're doing that illegal action over the governor's explicit objections.

ICE are a bunch of cowards, doing safe, comfortable hits in suburbs and on people who are complying with the law. (Immigration hearings and workplaces.)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 19 hours ago

When I saw the pictures of the protests in multiple cities, I realized that ICE, law enforcement, and the military don't stand a chance. They might be able to wipe out one protest, maybe even 2 or 3, but they could never get them all, and it's likely they'd be spread so thin, they couldn't significantly impact any of them.

They have to be looking at the sizes of those protests, and getting worried. And they know there are plenty more at home. All they have is intimidation, the fear of violence, but now they know they are badly outnumbered, and the people know it, too.

Crackdowns on these cities is a sign of panic, and panic is very dangerous. Stay alert, Patriots.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This has kind of been the plan from the begining. He's trying to set metros to be in the position NYC was when he bought it for cheap.

COVID blaming cities, riots flamed to get people to move out and not want to be there. It's geo politics. Once it gets shitty enough he will just buy up property and market it to wealthy.

That's the game. Homies got his hustle. Mainstream or street it's all the same evil.

[–] [email protected] 134 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I screamed "No ICE in Wichita" for 4 hours, and Im willing to continue that stance with a bat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

"Move ice! Get out the way! Get out the way ice, get out the way!"

The "move" part hits pretty hard when you got thousands of people hitting it together. That one was my favorite.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I saw someone with the classic John f Kennedy quote "those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable" on a sign that was taped to a classic wooden bat. Probably my favor sign I've seen yet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Eye catching, easy to carry, makes a memorable statement, and handy if things get froggy.

I like it, a lot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

If any terries on this here plane try getting froggy...

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[–] [email protected] 227 points 1 day ago (26 children)

Sure looks illegal to me. I keep hoping one of his crimes will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, but damned if this isn't one tough camel.

The post in question:

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

I don't think there's "legal" and "illegal" anymore in the US. It's "allowed" or "not allowed" by the king+oligarch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

Radical Democrats is awfully close to illegal Democrats.

[–] [email protected] 167 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If he knows there are millions and millions of illegal aliens, why is he rounding up the legal ones?

[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ding! Ding! Ding!

This is why I am having a hard time feeling bad for Trump supporters who just found out that Trump wants them out too despite them being legal residents. There were never enough undocumented immigrants to meet the deportation numbers he wants. He was always planning on cancelling work and student visas and anything else to kick brown people out of the country.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

It’s exactly that. If he wants to kick out all the international students and such, all he has to do is withdraw from NPT (I can actually see them doing this).

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

we know ICE are less than 8k. As that’s all who attended the military parade if you’re not counting the geriatric and children who were dragged along to it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

We, as a people, can crush ICE.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Weren't the protests in pretty much every city in the country?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

About 2100 locations, per Indivisible. So yeah, ICE gonna be spread thin, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

The best I saw reporting in was a town of 800 in deep red Trump country with a turnout of 400. Wish I could remember the town. Faiy certain it was a rey on Lemmy but may have been bluesky.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

175 people showed up in Pulaski, TN. I live about an hour from there. That's where the KKK was founded. Deep as red gets (At least in my experience)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stop payment of federal taxes

[–] kent_eh 1 points 15 hours ago

Newsom is already threatening to do exactly that.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago

We’re already expecting the spite, personal attacks … even smaller places. My town is still pissed off from the last few weeks

  • masked thugs kidnapped a guy off the street and left his kid abandoned on the sidewalk (neighbors got him home)
  • other masked thugs roughed up and arrested a city councilor exercising his right to take videos from an appropriate distance
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shouldn't he be focused on the G7?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Trump already left G7 to supposedly "focus on the escalating Israeli-Iran conflict."

That's not the reason why he left. He's leaving early because he tried to hijack the G7 conference with his usual, personal grievance bullshit and to make the entire conference all about HIM, like he always does. But they weren't having it and they told him to go home and get his f*cking shine box. So now, he's leaving in a huff because they hurt his childish, rodentine feelings.

[–] melsaskca 9 points 22 hours ago

"Rodentine". I like that word and I'll be adding it to my repertoire. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago

But don't you remember that time Biden said, "I want double, triple vaccinations in red states! They'll pay for calling COVID 'the flu'!" /s

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