Mass Deportations Round One

When conservatives get all three branches, they always go all "Plato's Stepchildren" then wonder why we side-eye them the rest of the time.

How about this?
How about Israel never treated Palestinians like an apartheid state?
Or barring that:
How about instead of bombing hospitals, they send in their vastly superior armed forces to guard the hospital and inspect it with UN oversight?
Holy shit, and that idea took me all of, i dunno, two minutes to think of.
But nah, fuck it, just bomb the kids.

So if you have overtly genocidal intentions, but you're too poor to do more than a few cowardly attacks, you get a pass. Got it.

What ARE those other answers?

So if Israel stops all that, they will not be attacked again? Are you seriously claiming that?

This is invention, so you don't got it.

For war criminals? These ones.

For the entire clusterfuck, which you appear to be reducing to another dumb binary choice of "capitulate" or "commit genocide", there is the option of making long-term agreements (the general form of which is not a mystery to anyone) and sticking to them.

No. Because I'm not an idiot.
But I'm also not going to shrug about children dying for the "greater good". Because I'm not a monster, either.

SCOTUS has upheld their block on removing migrants under the Alien Enemies Act, saying the admin must give them sufficient notice so they can legally challenge their removal - explicitly saying "24 hours does not pass muster".

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...lf-tax-bill-medicaid-us-politics-live-updates

Donny Two-Dolls is ketchuping:

https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lpd2pq353c27

Ooooh! Maybe UA's shop can get the contract to stamp out the door hinges!
It's a non-union shop! Repugs love that shit!

I could see her reading Stephen King's book The Long Walk and thinking it's a great idea.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/19/el-salvador-lawyer-arrested-deported-venezuelans

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/...in-blatant-defiance-of-judge-attorneys-allege

https://www.mississippifreepress.or...-citizenship-hearing-threatening-deportation/


He’s Danish.

Republicans: "We just want them to come into the country the right and legal way."

Also Republicans:

When Shakespeare said "There's something rotten in Denmark" this is NOT what he meant

So the issue is that republicans and their followers are morons.

They all really believed that there were a bunch of undocumented criminals that the police knew about but weren’t arresting because of woke.

And that once Trump was in office and ‘let the dogs off the chain’ there would be a mass roundup.

But again, they are morons. That whole fantasy was in their head. The known criminals were already being arrested and deported.

So once in office they were deporting a fraction of the ‘bad guys’ they promised and now have to make their numbers up.

So what do they do? They go after the people they know how to find. The ones doing the right thing and registering their addresses and showing up to immigration courts.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...rrests-phoenix-immigration-court/83772323007/

For real. Read the article. ICE is now staking out immigration courts and arresting anyone showing up for a hearing.

This is what America voted for.

I tried to tell the MAGA people around here that Biden was deporting thousands of immigrants a day, that he actually had one of the highest deportation rates in modern US history, and they wouldn't believe me. I showed them the numbers, fake news. I showed them charts and news stories, fake news. They were damn determined to believe that there were tens of millions of "illegals" in the country living fat off of government checks, and nothing anyone told them would sway them. Now Trump's gutting every social service there is, and sending US citizens to foreign prison camps.

I blame that rat bastard Reagan who popularized the belief in a "welfare Queen" and bitter old white people haven't forgotten it ever since.

You can tell a MAGA but you can't tell them much.

That is true. Like all cultists, when they realize what you're actually saying, and it goes against Dear Leader's narrative, the brakes kick in and you've gone too far, even if what you're saying is something they agree with.

My best friend's mother growing up is a racist. I was going to say "has turned in to" but as she is telling me current maga stories I realize she has been racist all along. It's hard to take. They helped raise me. I never paid attention to the edges tho. Now I can't unsee or hear it. Neither can my friend.

https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3lpr5ziyn3k2v


BTW, that’s the same town that inspired this thread: http://wordforge.net/index.php?threads/i-guess-this-is-why-the-chief-says-no-hugging.123308/

To answer their question, yes, they are okay with this. This is the anticipated outcome. The more "undesirable" people who die the better.

“Take a breath man, it’s not that serious.”
Unbelievable statement an ICE agent told a man who collapsed after being handcuffed following his immigration hearing.
The overzealous agents had the wrong man & would have kidnapped him had his attorney not insisted in reviewing the arrest warrant.

https://bsky.app/profile/pedroconsafos.bsky.social/post/3lpsthowdoc2d

A U.S.-born citizen who was wrestled into the dirt, handcuffed and detained in a vehicle as part of an immigration raid had a REAL ID on him that was dismissed as fake, the man's cousin said Friday.

Video of the arrest, aired by Noticias Telemundo, showed authorities grabbing Leonardo Garcia Venegas, 25, while at a job site in Foley, Alabama, on Wednesday and bending his arms behind him. Someone off-camera can be heard yelling, "He's a citizen."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-citizen-immigration-raid-real-id-handcuffed-alabama-rcna208794

I'm old enough to remember when "papers please!" was something American conservatives used to mock other countries.

Holy shit!

It was my ex-college gf’s husband yelling HE’S A CITIZEN!



God damn those titties… two handers… *sigh*

For a single tit? Too big.

But good on her and her husband though .

Lies!

Let it not be said all South Alabamians are assholes.

I am special.

U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed and held in immigration raid before being released