Says the fucker that gave them almost $30 billion less than a year ago. We're here because you all tripled their annual budget. What the fuck did you think was going to happen?
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7 Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to fund them. It's unconscionable, and those seven should be primaried, as well as party leadership who decided not to do a whip vote, but blaming the entire Democratic Party, including the Senate which hasn't voted yet and is vowing to block it, is quite ignorant, to be honest.
What are you hoping to accomplish by responding to Senate Democrats saying they won't allow the funding, by saying "You already allowed the funding"?
Wait for the Senate to vote, see if they keep their word. Don't preemptively blame them for the thing they're saying they're going to try to stop.
And if they don't keep their word, run for their seat and primary them. But all this "Dems are fascist-lite/controlled-opposition" seems like a combination of foreign disinfo and right-wing psyop, both of which are meant to sow discord and weaken opposition. And it's working, because idiots like you keep falling for it.
If you haven't seen establishment Dem's efforts to maintain the power of the GOP and this new fascist paradigm, you have paid zero attention and are just as painted-face-sports-fan for the Dems as MAGA is for Trump.
I'm not saying we don't vote Dem. We should all vote Dem. Entirely NEW dems. Every incumbent must go, every last one. I stopped caring when they stopped caring about us. Fuck every last one, I hope they end up prosecuted at the Hague with the GOP who enabled this. Or at least disappear into obscurity.
We have no advocates in federal power.
We also have a LOT of pro-establishment Dem accounts being made across Lemmy with account ages less than a month old. That part makes me go "huh." It should make everyone roll their eyes.
That's precisely the kind of no-nuance take that I would expect from maga.
Pointing out obvious untruths and presenting easily verifiable facts is not the same as being pro-establishment Dem.
I'm not happy about the response seen so far, and I think any Dem who votes with Republicans should be primaried. I think the Democratic Party leadership should be replaced. But painting the entire Democratic Party with a broad-brush and saying they're all to blame/controlled opposition/fascist-lite is as I said both counter-factual and counter-productive.
There are plenty of Democrats voting against Republicans and doing all they can to oppose them, and lumping them in with republicans and DINOs is not going to help the situation.
Just because they currently have a minority and the way the system is designed makes it extremely difficult for them to oppose the majority party doesn't mean they're all complicit. If you want to see them make a difference, try voting in more Dems so that they get a sabotage-proof majority.
Until then, try directing your ire at the people who are actually to blame, such as republicans and the 7 House Democrats who voted with them.
Adam Schiff is not the problem, and attacking him for making headlines with an oppositional statement is only going to disincentivize any remaining Democrats from speaking up or standing out. And that is not what we need.
Every last one needs to go, you have presented ZERO case for allowing these useless traitors to keep representing us.
Seriously? Arguing for ESTABLISHMENT DEMOCRATS on Lemmy? What are you even smoking? Do you think this is some tuned-out liberal site?
No really, what's your game. You in India? Philippines? Russia? making a dime trying to protect these old liches? Have a conscience, quit this stupid game.
Just ignore everything I said and keep your head up your ass, why don't you? I'm not going to bother repeating myself if you're just going to keep ignoring reality and pretending I said things that I didn't.
You in India? Philippines? Russia?
Projection much? You trolls keep telling on yourselves.
I'll believe it when I see it. The current Democrat leadership is nothing but a bunch of flip-flopping pussies.
It goes beyond flip-flopping. It looks like a party of calculated self-sabotage. It appears Schumer organizes votes to ensure there are just enough dissenters that he and others can pretend to want the right thing but hey, what can they do, unfortunately they just didn't get enough votes. Every time. All that changes is who they pick to be on dissent duty.
You'll see it for about a week before some Democrats "care about the American people's* suffering" and vote with their Republican party to fund more ICE murders and the leadership go "well at least we tried".
DNC will need to do a lot of work before i believe they're anything but controlled opposition.
Funny, I'm not guving Schiff another dime either, for completely different reasons
Every incumbent dem must go. The reckoning is 10 months away.
Well, assuming the midterms happen and are actually free of interference, neither of which is necessarily a given.
I think we have far better chances than they want you to believe. We aren't a single, small nation with one vote. We are 50 separate countries basically. "State" doesn't mean subservient to a greater power, it means State. States have a lot of power and independence if they choose, and the administration would have to not just rig one election, they would have to rig 50, and that's a HUGE task with massive chances of being caught.
But they will likely seed the public discourse with the suspicion that they will cheat, this will discourage some amount of people from voting at all. This might be all they have.
It's not impossible for them to cheat, they very well might, they have a LOT of money to do so, but the question they need to ask is if they feel confident enough with the consequences and stability post-cheat when it inevitably comes out and nothing in the country changes and people get more and more angry.
“You guys kill six, seven, eight or ten more white people and I’m gonna be really mad”
Just text ANGRY to 463737 and donate $5, $10, or $25 so we can do anything
No fucking shit. Do something. Minnesota is entirely working within our communities and expect nothing from our governments. If I had the option, I would opt out of America at this point. Imagine if MN didn't have to pay federal taxes, that'd be great.
The moment the current regime ends, ICE needs to be disbanded, and people has to be held accountable.
There needs to be a completely new organization for dealing with immigration, this one has been and continues to be rolling in shit so deep you can't get the stink out.
ICE and DHS both need to be disbanded, they're useless organizations whose function can be met equally or better by other groups. DHS has always been a sad joke of an agency, let the FBI/CIA, federal marshals or state troops handle that stuff. Likewise ICE has no need to exist, anything they do can just as easily be handled by some other law enforcement agency.
Worst case scenario they create a new agency with no law enforcement powers to handle immigration paperwork. Make them a pure bureaucracy that only exists to file reports and help people go through the immigration process. If someone over stays their visa then the immigration bureau can refer that person to traditional LEOs at the state or federal level. There's no reason at all why they need a dedicated law enforcement agency purely for immigrants.
It's good to remember that DHS was invented as a response to 9/11 during all the rush to "Keep us Safe from Terrorists" when we lost a lot of freedom and privacy. We were doing just fine without them before.
Unless we somehow miraculously manage to throw every single one of them into prison. Disbanding ICE and making a new organization just means these fuckers are going to be recycled and rebranded. Nothing will change.
Dude is owned by Israel. I hope he does the right thing for once but I won’t hold my breath
Schiff: it’s not just GOP members who will see more Americans die. Is this comeback really the extent of what you’re willing to do? The people you’re berating this way see this as a feature, not a flaw. They have no issues with the “wrong type” of American dying like this.
Maybe refuse to caucus with anyone who doesn’t support your NEW bill removing the funding granted by the one YOU JUST SUPPORTED?
He didn't support the ice bill that I can tell. There were 7 democrats and he wasn't on the list.
Democratic Congressmen are all pussies. Have a spine. I know they won't because they're complicit.
He's a senator now. Still he doesn't inspire me. He needs to stop accepting AIPAC, stop working for the donor class, start representing California values.
"Congressman" is a generic term that covers people in both houses of Congress.
Huh, I usually call house of reps Congress members and refer to senators as senator.
Also since Schiff only recently ascended from the house of reps to the Senate, wanted to clarify his current role.
Most people do the same. While it is technically correct that congressman applies to both houses, it's generally understood that if you're referring to a member of the senate they're referred to as a senator rather than as a congressman and that therefore if you say "congressman" you're implicitly not referring to a member of the senate but a member of the house of representatives.
The Senate is also Congress...
It is infuriating to see how many people think the legislative branch is divided into Senate and Congress. Or worse, how many people think the 3 branches of government are "the President, Congress, and Senate."
That's why Trump loves the poorly educated. America has the dumbest, least informed general public in any first world country, I really believe that.
He needs to retire.
Yes, that's the point. Stop pretending that that's not the point
Yeah I was about to make this exact same comment. They want to see people suffer and die, that's why they're allowing all this to happen.
People need to stop pretending that the murders are some unfortunate side product
I'd love to see a Democratic DOGE that focused on shit like ICE.
I'd love for them to sit there with smarmy fuck-you smiles and keep repeating that they are just going after "real waste, fraud and abuse" with a scripted set of talking points as they dismantle things like ICE.
Part of the script would be to point out that the cuts the conservatives made under their fake "doge" were only harming and killing people, and didn't really save any money at all. The liberal DOGE aims to get rid of "waste, fraud and abuse" that is actively harmful.
Those assholes that sat there and smiled the biggest of shit-eating grins knew full well that they were actively trolling everyone that was not a stupid redcap when they kept repeating "waste, fraud and abuse" "waste, fraud and abuse" like good little parrots. I'd love to see that thrown right back in their face as the things that get them so hard like the terrorists that are known as ICE are just disbanded.
Who 10% of his party
I suspect there will be a new rotating villain to vote for it.
Ive been very aggressive in my outrage to him, my senator, so this is at least a lil good news
Tomorrow: let’s give ICE money
We need a third Socialist Party that appeals to everyone regardless of where they stand in the spectrum (and uses euphemisms because Red Scare and all).
I dont even get why they need that much funding. It plays like a scheme.
To kill people.