"Mercy shouldn’t be controversial, but in the current insanity, it is."

~ Mark Jacob

#Trump #Republicans #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #PoliticsofHate #mercy #BishopBudde
/14

https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/we-can-fight-off-trumps-onslaught

"An ideology that places grievance above all else — an ideology that is willing to hurt America if that’s what it takes to reverse the successes of the Biden Administration — is an ideology guaranteed to impose pain far beyond those targeted for spectacle and cruelty."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #economy #eggs #housing #PoliticsofHate
/10

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/26/trumps-slop-and-ouch-first-week/

"Underneath Trump’s Shock and Awe that is doing grave damage to the Constitution and Trump’s marginalized targets, there’s a Slop and Ouch that targets everyone this side of his billionaire friends. And that needs to remain visible, too."

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #economy #eggs #housing #PoliticsofHate
/11

"Fear of deportation has led to a sharp drop in farm worker attendance across California's agricultural heartland, leaving crops unharvested—and this is a direct result of President Trump's announced immigration crackdown.

The California nonprofit news site CalMatters reports farmworkers are not showing up to harvest crops."

~ David Martin Davies writing on Jan. 24

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #economy #eggs #housing #PoliticsofHate
/9

https://www.tpr.org/podcast/texas-matters/2025-01-24/texas-matters-how-mass-deportations-impact-texas-agriculture

"Trump is doing all of this to the exclusion of taking any action whatsoever that would fulfill his reiterated campaign promise of lowering costs. We sat here and – for months, or maybe years – listened to Trump talk about grocery prices and rent prices and housing prices and the price of eggs."

~ Brian Tyler Cohen

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #economy #eggs #housing #PoliticsofHate
/8

https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/trumps-intentional-avalanche-of-garbage

And in the vein of breaking institutions, rules, the law itself — and jubilantly so (see the preceding postings in the thread) — there's Elon Musk engaging in a flagrant, illegal vote-buying scheme on behalf of Trump.

Obviously what they want to do and what gives their puppetmaster Putin great delight is to sh-t all over democratic norms to show that democracy means nothing at all.

#Trump #ElonMusk #PoliticsofHate #fascism
/7

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=146397

"Trump is closing his argument with his base by reminding them how much they are like him, that 'we' all feel the same way he does about immigrants and Blacks and women and the disabled and everyone who is not just like they are, which is white and Christian followers of Donald Trump."

Underscore "white and Christian": over half of white Christians have voted for Trump twice and will do so again. White Christian adults….

#Trump #violence #hate #PoliticsofHate #fascism #immigrants
/6

"All this stuff is far outside the bounds of political discourse in this country, & pundits have pointed out time and again that his MAGA base has come to expect it of Trump. In fact, they love him for it. ...

This stuff is way more dangerous than it seems. Adolf Hitler talked about what 'we' know about the Jews, how 'we' need them out of our country, how 'we' know about their greed and their otherness, their non-Christianity, their Jewishness."

#Trump #PoliticsofHate #fascism #immigrants
/5

"from calling Mexican immigrants 'criminals and rapists' to saying 'there are good people on both sides' of a demonstration by Nazi sympathizers and white supremacists in Charlottesville, to calling the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 'a day of love' in a speech at a rally on Thursday, to comparing those arrested for crimes at the Capitol to 'the Japanese during Second World War, frankly. They were held, too.'”

#Trump #violence #hate #PoliticsofHate #fascism #immigrants
/4

It's about transgression, he thinks. It's about inviting adults who claim to be outraged at being overlooked on behalf of "others," especially immigrants, to throw away the barriers and guardrails and allow themselves to show the very worst side of themselves. With glee.

"Trump has been bringing his MAGA base along with him as he has crossed one boundary after another,"

#Trump #violence #hate #PoliticsofHate #fascism #immigrants
/3

Let me rephrase that: Trump got a crowd of ADULT Americans, a large percentage of whom we know from solid sources are white Christians, chanting the word "sh-t" jubilantly and applying it to the vice-president.

He then told a lewd story about Arnold Palmer to the same crowd, causing those same adults to guffaw with delight.

Why is he behaving this way, Truscott asks?

#Trump #violence #hate #PoliticsofHate #fascism #immigrants
/2

"They want him to violate every one of the Ten Commandments in public view. ...

Nothing you tell a convinced Trump voter about Trump’s qualifications, problems or likely actions matters to them. In fact, you are only convincing them more. Everything you fear and loathe about Trump is a recommendation to them."

And (my footnote), they may very well get their way, this election cycle.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/27

"For nearly a decade, the American mainstream has failed over and over again to understand what Donald Trump is, what he means, how he works. ...

Many of Trump’s voters know exactly what he is. They know he’s going to blow the status quo to smithereens and they want him to. They want him to be incompetent, they want him to be senile, they want him to be cruel."

~ Timothy Burke

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/26

https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/trump-essentials-1

Who will do all these things for us when we vent our rage, drunk with the elation of hurting other people — and when we hurt ourselves badly in the process?

Maybe we should think about this before we get drunk on hate.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/24

For that matter, who will provide medical care for us? A large percentage of my doctors and my dentist, too, are all foreign-born immigrants, highly skilled people whose services we sorely need — just as we need the hard labor of those folks cleaning our houses, doing our garden work and yard work, repairing our streets, putting roofs on our houses, doing tree work.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/23

And as we walk on after those conversations take place, I always ask myself, Who do they think will tend these gardens and clean these houses when they have all those workers rounded up and deported? Who will repair our streets? Who will put new roofs on our houses? Who will take down trees and climb up and cut out diseased limbs in trees?

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/22

As we walk past her house daily, we often see crews of gardeners working in her beautiful gardens. They are ALL Hispanic men. Or we see a car full of Hispanic women parking, the women getting out of the car with cleaning supplies to go into the huge mansion and clean it.

My spouse makes a point always of stopping to talk to these folks in Spanish, greeting them, talking about the weather, asking how they are.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/21

It would affect US. It would seriously affect the very people jubilant about the idea of deporting millions of Americans.

I think about this as my husband and I walk daily past the house of an extremely rich Republican neighbor who had Trump signs in front of her house in 2016 and 2020, though I see none this year. Maybe they're still to come.

#Trump #fascism #violence #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/20