DHS restricts congressional visits to ICE facilities in Minneapolis
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> Noem also said "there is an increasing trend of replacing legitimate oversight activities with circus-like publicity stunts, all of which creates a chaotic environment with heightened emotions."
Wow, just wow! The sheer brazenness of calling legitimate congressional oversight 'circus-like publicity stunts' is on a whole new level. Apparently, the administration at it's sole discretion can decide that congressional oversight is a 'publicity stunt' and disallow it.
Forget doing what is right for the country. At point do the MAGA folks realize that they are enabling a future Democrat in the White House to do the exact same thing, except for causes they don't agree with when they cheer on such blatant authoritarian behaviour.
It’s obvious that they don’t plan on a future Democrat ever occupying the White House again.
The sad fact is that many of our colleagues, friends, and neighbors have been closeted white supremacists and are actively enjoying this.
Is it? I feel like the mud slinging has been in vogue for a few decades.
The willful lawbreaking is new. But the rhetoric feels familiar.
> point do the MAGA folks realize that they are enabling a future Democrat in the White House to do the exact same thing
None of them do. (To be fair, administrations have been expanding the Presidenxy since WWII. We never had a Constitutional discussion of strategic nuclear command or a standing superpower’s army.)
My pet projects are shredding federal student loan records, tearing the turbines out of coal plants and ceasing enforcement on tariffs and duties on all imported food on day one.
Assuming there will be a future D in the white house, I don't believe they will do the exact same thing.
I don't think the current administration does either.
What pisses me off about this story is, that's the end of the story. We went in, they told us to get out, we told them they're breaking the law, they said "We don't care," and we realized how cogent and amazing that was, and said "Welp, that satisfies me! They sure did win that argument! Let's skedaddle everybody!" The only acceptable end of the story is that you went around and deputized whoever you needed and went back in there and got what you came for.
Tim Waltz's decision to increasing the readiness of Minnesotas National guard shows that the situation is extremely tense and the opposition to the administration is forced to walk on eggshells.
It's a near perfect catch: do too little and they won't care and continue implementing their playbook. Do too much and they can and will move faster.
Unfortunately history has taught us that tyranny can only be defeated with force.
On that path, the current order would have to be broken down completely before a new one can be fully established. That would mean at least a new constitutional order and the US isn't ready for that. The reverence for the current constitution is has very strong roots in US society.
A constitution should have peace and prosperity for the country as one of its goals. This means that force against the people should be the monopoly of an institution that is governed by laws in order to uphold at least a minimum amount of order in pursuit of the other goals. That legitimizes police.
Now we get to the matter of how a certain constitutional order is allowed to defend itself against domestic threats within its own legal framework. The US constitution relies a lot on balance of power and does not regulate much else in case that this fails. I do not know of any constitutional right for a congressman to lead violent actions against other parts of the government. And that leads to the situation where the most effective actions to restore order are more detrimental to that order in the short term.
And the Democratic party is refusing to go there. Think of that what you will, but that's why their actions amd responses are so tame.
Republicans are the majority party. The opposition party constituents need to persuade only a handful of Republicans in each house, get them to caucus with Democrats, and you have an entirely lawful, civil, non-violent way of opposing a president.
This has a greater chance of enduring success than expecting an increasing body count of people getting shot in the face to persuade more people to participate.
I am aware most Republicans in Congress were elected expressly to enable Trump. But accepting that as the intractable part of the problem? No, the intractable part is extracting more votes out of the party in the minority.
Almost all Republicans in Congress who challenged Trump have quit or lost their elections. The survivors do his bidding.
Hopefully they still have some limits we’re as yet unaware.
That is the appeal I’m making, is for these elected officials who ostensibly represent everyone in their district or state, not only the people who voted for them. They really do still old school tally up letters and phone calls.
I’m saying before the next election, that’s what we have. And peaceful assembly.
Ok then. What's your plan to defeat them with force? Literally: Where's your army? Where are your guns?
The only institution that matters once a regime rejects law and order, is we the people. If the people roll over, then they are submitting to their dominators, and no one is free.
Same thing has been happening at least since the Mayans... they refused to give up their lifestyles even in the face of their own surrounding natural resources being eaten up from their fast expansion, and they eventually died off.
And for reference, ICE as we speak is doing door to door raids in Minneapolis targeting everyone, including American citizens.
A new police force is needed to arrest the president and others in the executive branch who break the law. Otherwise the political system of America is broken.
The day before these people said a woman deserved to be shot in the face 3 times for bumping into a federal officer they said that January 6th was peaceful and celebrated a president pardoning... people that attacked federal officers.
Hopefully Omar are going to get a restraining order...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/ice-inspectio...
The DHS (Kristi Noem) now claims their repeat of the same illegal policy is now legal because it is using a different funding source, which is obviously false. It’s all the same pool of money.
So far, that has been the case. The constitution has become meaningless thanks to maga, and you're better off recognizing that America no longer exists the way you thought about the country.
> thanks to maga
I'd say a failure to do something about it is everyone's fault.
Spending injects money into the economy and revenues extract it. The two roughly balance each other but only because overspending/undertaxing increases the money supply in negative ways and under pending/overtaxing decreased the money supply in other negative ways. Besides these, interest rates are the third lever of the economic engine.
The constraint is inflation rather than solvency for states who have monetary sovereignty.
I get the appeal and the logical, rational appeal of the purse model, but it leads to a warped idea of how the government and economy interact.
MIGHT MAKES RIGHT. HEIL.