"This is the way fascism starts, with the few not the many, but the many are next. ...
Tomorrow it could be you and me."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #immigrants #Venezuelans
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-moves-toward-a-more-efficient
"If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #immigrants #Venezuelans
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/if-trump-can-disappear-them-he-can
"An authoritarian regime doesn’t spare anyone. Ultimately, all have to bend their knee or lose their head. ...
Trump and MAGA aren’t just going after undocumented immigrants, the Muslims, the Black folks in the urban cities, the Latinos, the LGBTQ+, and the poor. They’re coming for everyone, including attractive, white, Canadian actresses, and U.S. citizens."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #immigrants #Venezuelans
/3
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-united-states-of-terror
"Your income, credit score, degrees, suburban neighborhood, Christian background, light skin tone, Republican voting record, and Rust Belt zip code won’t save you. Nobody is safe under fascism. Nobody is safe under Trump’s reign of terror."
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #immigrants #Venezuelans
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"The intake began with slaps. One young man (23 years old) sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. But maybe it’s only because he didn’t look like what I had expected—he wasn’t a tattooed monster.”
~ Philip Holsinger
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #immigrants #Venezuelans
/5
https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/
“Inside the intake room, a sea of trustees descended on the men with electric shavers, stripping heads of hair with haste. The guy who claimed to be a barber began to whimper, folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell. He was slapped. The man asked for his mother, then buried his face in his chained hands and cried as he was slapped again.”
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #immigrants #Venezuelans
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"These countries [warning their citizens about travel to the US] know. They understand what everything Trump is doing adds up to, even if the frogs here at home are letting themselves get boiled before they realize how hot the water is."
~ Joyce Vance
The video in the next posting /8 was featured by Joyce Vance in the posting linked below.
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #immigrants #Venezuelans #travel #tourism
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"My German friends wondered what had hit, them how did it happen, where did it start? It started right here and this was where it could have been stopped. If those people had stood together, if they had protected each other, they could have resisted the Nazi threat together. They would have been strong, but once they allowed themselves to be split apart, they were helpless. When that first minority lost out, everybody lost out."
"The Wisconsin man, who is white, voted for the candidate who said he would expel all those who 'poison the blood of the country.' The man told USA Today that he didn’t believe Trump meant his wife. She was different, he said. He thought Trump 'would target people who snuck over the border and weren’t vetted.' And now that his wife has been detained by ICE, he still can’t believe it. 'It doesn’t make any sense.'”
~ John Stoehr
https://www.editorialboard.com/nows-the-time-for-the-democrats-to-demoralize-trump-voters/
"Bradley Bartell does not regret voting for Trump despite the fact that his wife from Peru is now in ICE custody after she was detained at the airport coming back from their honeymoon in Puerto Rico. Bartell to Newsweek: 'I don't regret the vote, but it's all been a nightmare really. We have an attorney. It has crossed my mind to move to Peru if she gets deported, but it would be very difficult for my son.'"
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #fascism #immigrants
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-c24
"Donald Trump’s second term has so far been a case study in how systems built for those whose rights have been diluted or taken away eventually devour those who were assumed to be safe from such violations."
~ Nesrine Malik
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #immigrants #Venezuelans
/11
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/24/donald-trump-imperial-plan-usa-peoples-rights
"If they can do this to Andrys, who's next?
'Repulsive' and 'evil' don't even scratch the surface—this is one of the darkest periods in American history, and we're living through it right now."
~ Joshua Reed Eakle
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #immigrants #Venezuelans
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Uuuumm, no comment.
@wdlindsy Why would Peru want an additional asshole?
I dunno... I kinda feel like he's _describing regret_.
@wdlindsy
He didn't believe that Trump meant his wife
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@mastoreaderio @cdarwin Wow. Even the bots in some sectors of Mastodon are highly scoldy.
Trump's second term is also a case study about how bigoted tax-evading billionaires can buy a fascist dictatorship...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/billionaires-funding-republicans
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/22/tax-evasion-by-wealthiest-americans-tops-150-billion-a-year-irs.html
The erosion of civil rights profits billionaires.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-megadonors-2024-election/
The DOGE cuts are profiting billionaires.
https://region9a.uaw.org/news/nocutstosocialsecurity
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/trump-tax-priorities-total-5-11-trillion
@wdlindsy He doesn't regret voting for the guy that has flipped his life upside down! I don't see this marriage lasting
@wdlindsy Fool. Blind, clueless fool.
@wdlindsy Bartell is a fucking asshole. I hope his wife divorces his lizard-brained Nazi suck-up ass.
@wdlindsy I have ZERO sympathy for this guy
@wdlindsy Thoughts & Prayers
@wdlindsy "Instead, I think the Democrats should exploit conditions that are never going to change, meaning these people will never vote for a Democrat. From their view, there are only two choices – vote for a Republican or don’t vote at all."
Well and succinctly put. I've watched Democrats try to win over people like this guy for 30 years and it's some Lucy-with-the-football shit.
@wdlindsy The man from Wisconsin is probably not concerned about his Peruvian wife, but only about himself, that he may have lost her completely.
@wdlindsy Makes a lot of sense. Yes, in this era it's about turnout - also, and especially, in the negative sense -, not persuasion.
This is absolutely great
@wdlindsy Thanks so much for sharing the video.
This is the mother of all historical documents of what America once stood for.
Something like this was produced by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. military immediately after World War II - unbelievable.
You think it was a different country - and it WAS a different country.
This brings me to the question: how long will it take for the US National Archive to be deleted?!