The part that hits hardest here is the moral knot: a union built to protect workers also representing the people terrorizing workers. You canβt chant βan injury to one is an injury to allβ while cashing dues from the arm doing the injuring.
And calling the victim a βterroristβ before the body is even cold isnβt spin, itβs moral rot. If a union canβt draw a bright line between caregivers and armed political enforcers, it stops being a union and starts being a liability.
This is going to be a very sticky situation with the unions. Just like a lot of sovereign nations, they're going to have to balance their conservative-coded bigotries with their financial and safety interests.
Yep; and the Fulvous Fuckwad is sending ICEholes to the Olympics to assist with security... even though no one requested them.
Plus, packing firearms as part of the security detail will entail special permits from Italy, something I don't see happening given how media have covered ICE's extensive abuses using guns. Without firearms I don't think the ICEholes will be a very effective addition to security, no?
I don't know why Italy doesn't plan on arresting immediately anyone who isn't legitimately an athlete or team manager. Put 'wen on a plane seems them back, and bill the US government for the trouble.
You know how people LOVE 20 degree below zero temperature and LOVE to rush out into it just for whimsy's sake?
Yeah, people don't do that at all.
So you have definitely SCREWED THE POOCH if you have motivated 50,000 people to risk frostbite and pneumonia just to lift a collective finger to you and tell you to fuck the fuck fucking off!
Add the fact that many of those 50,000 have NEVER done this kind of thing before and that pooch you screwed has shaken you off it's back and has latched it's jaws on your throat.
Both the ICE and the CBP councils bucked the AFGE and the AFL-CIO back in 2016. AFL-CIO asked the various councils to issue endorsements for Ms. Clinton and ICE/CBP both refused and endorsed donnie instead. This had NEVER happened before.
Not every member of ICE/CBP pays dues and supports the union. But the leadership of both councils is made up of dues paying shitheels who led campaigns to recruit other RWNJ / racists into the union to take control of both Councils and pursue a reactionary agenda and thus foil the union.
An incidental rant I've put out there, ICE raids at workplaces are an efficient use of resources and within their powers and jurisdiction, given that employers are supposed to verify their employees are eligible to work. In many/ most cases, such operations are easily conducted away from members of the general public and in settings where rules against carrying firearms are in effect. It is the fact that ICE insists on also conducting operations in public places where it is extremely difficult to keep the area secure which proves that their "crackdowns" are a pissing contest with local authorities as well as a circus to impress Drumpf and his base.
Just to piggyback on this, this whole thing would've been moot with card check. I remember I was required to fill out an I-9 form for every job I've held.
Let me add that ***none*** of this shit would be going down if McConnell had done his job and not told his caucus to acquit the Fulvous Fuckwad in 2020. The Turtle is and always has been a party loyalist, putting the needs/wants of the of the party before his obligations to the truth and all Americans, not just RINOs.
That's why most immigration enforcement is, or should be, a matter of reviewing paperwork. That also offers a straightforward explanation why MAGA always insisted that Democrats were refusing to enforce immigration laws regardless of actual deportation numbers. To them, policies that can be carried out without police brutality on TV simply don't exist.
Of course not. They just needed someone to throw under the bus who was a face of the operation but not a high-ranking official β and he fit the bill.
I wonder if he'll still walk around in his Nazi uniform back in El Centro.
The most revealing thing about the absolute unprofessional behavior of these fools, besides the murder of onlookers, is the fact that there seems to be no supervision, control, or accepted police practice to what they do. Earlier this week I watched them throw tear gas INTO the wind. Protesters simply took a few steps back and watched as the gas blew back onto the fools who threw it, forcing them to don gas masks and obscuring any view of the crowd. When the smoke cleared, rather than acting in an organized way, they scurried about willy-nilly like cockroaches on a kitchen floor instead of forming up and advancing slowly in a line as a unit.
"The most revealing thing about the absolute unprofessional behavior of these fools, besides the murder of onlookers, is the fact that there seems to be no supervision, control, or accepted police practice to what they do."
Masha Gessen wrote a piece - in *2016* - about how "The Accountability of Nobody" is a classic authoritarian technique
Were people just too lazy to read it? Did they not want to know?
I saw a video of five ICE agents escorting a zipcuffed protester out. One up front and four with the protester.
They stop because of people in front of them, and while the guy in front is dealing with that, the rest are just standing around. The zipcuffed guy takes off running, the crowd opens up, and he disappears into them.
Everyone surrounding him, none of whom had him under their control, watched him run away and didn't do a thing.
In case anyone is still confused about which side Big Tech is on, Tim Apple attended the Melaina screening at the White House. You know, where the ballroom he donated to is being built.
"Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino confirmed that the two agents who shot 37-year-old Alex Pretti were already back on duty, but not in Minneapolis, and has refused to identify them."
They are out there somewhere else. Three days later.
Canada sending naval patrol vessel to Greenland for opening of new consulate.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Canadaβs βprincipled pragmatismβ in foreign policy will be on full display next week in Greenland when she opens Canadaβs new consulate in the Danish territory with Inuit representatives attending and a navy vessel in the background.
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Maybe they've actually heard the saying, "If you are sitting at a table with nine Nazis, there are 10 Nazis at the table."
Ta, Robyn. If there's anything, anything at all that this maladministration has gotten right, I haven't seen it.
Hannity only wants the Home Depot abductions to stop while his remodel is going on
The part that hits hardest here is the moral knot: a union built to protect workers also representing the people terrorizing workers. You canβt chant βan injury to one is an injury to allβ while cashing dues from the arm doing the injuring.
And calling the victim a βterroristβ before the body is even cold isnβt spin, itβs moral rot. If a union canβt draw a bright line between caregivers and armed political enforcers, it stops being a union and starts being a liability.
This is going to be a very sticky situation with the unions. Just like a lot of sovereign nations, they're going to have to balance their conservative-coded bigotries with their financial and safety interests.
Yes, and cf. Italy and the upcoming Olympics, as that is coming to the fore.
Yep; and the Fulvous Fuckwad is sending ICEholes to the Olympics to assist with security... even though no one requested them.
Plus, packing firearms as part of the security detail will entail special permits from Italy, something I don't see happening given how media have covered ICE's extensive abuses using guns. Without firearms I don't think the ICEholes will be a very effective addition to security, no?
fnord
I don't know why Italy doesn't plan on arresting immediately anyone who isn't legitimately an athlete or team manager. Put 'wen on a plane seems them back, and bill the US government for the trouble.
YES, I was just reading about that shit earlier. I hope they don't manage to get the actual athletes disinvited, but I wouldn't be surprised either.
You know how people LOVE 20 degree below zero temperature and LOVE to rush out into it just for whimsy's sake?
Yeah, people don't do that at all.
So you have definitely SCREWED THE POOCH if you have motivated 50,000 people to risk frostbite and pneumonia just to lift a collective finger to you and tell you to fuck the fuck fucking off!
Add the fact that many of those 50,000 have NEVER done this kind of thing before and that pooch you screwed has shaken you off it's back and has latched it's jaws on your throat.
Both the ICE and the CBP councils bucked the AFGE and the AFL-CIO back in 2016. AFL-CIO asked the various councils to issue endorsements for Ms. Clinton and ICE/CBP both refused and endorsed donnie instead. This had NEVER happened before.
Not every member of ICE/CBP pays dues and supports the union. But the leadership of both councils is made up of dues paying shitheels who led campaigns to recruit other RWNJ / racists into the union to take control of both Councils and pursue a reactionary agenda and thus foil the union.
An incidental rant I've put out there, ICE raids at workplaces are an efficient use of resources and within their powers and jurisdiction, given that employers are supposed to verify their employees are eligible to work. In many/ most cases, such operations are easily conducted away from members of the general public and in settings where rules against carrying firearms are in effect. It is the fact that ICE insists on also conducting operations in public places where it is extremely difficult to keep the area secure which proves that their "crackdowns" are a pissing contest with local authorities as well as a circus to impress Drumpf and his base.
Just to piggyback on this, this whole thing would've been moot with card check. I remember I was required to fill out an I-9 form for every job I've held.
Let me add that ***none*** of this shit would be going down if McConnell had done his job and not told his caucus to acquit the Fulvous Fuckwad in 2020. The Turtle is and always has been a party loyalist, putting the needs/wants of the of the party before his obligations to the truth and all Americans, not just RINOs.
fnord
That's why most immigration enforcement is, or should be, a matter of reviewing paperwork. That also offers a straightforward explanation why MAGA always insisted that Democrats were refusing to enforce immigration laws regardless of actual deportation numbers. To them, policies that can be carried out without police brutality on TV simply don't exist.
AFSCME
We get shit done!
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Trump admin isnβt removing Greg Bovino because what he did was wrong.
Theyβre removing him because of bad press
Of course not. They just needed someone to throw under the bus who was a face of the operation but not a high-ranking official β and he fit the bill.
I wonder if he'll still walk around in his Nazi uniform back in El Centro.
Brian Kilmeade suggested replacing Bovino with Homan on FOX News.
Twenty minutes later, that's exactly what happened.
Leave it to FOX to solve the problem of a city on fire by dropping a nuclear weapon into the blazing inferno just to see what happens.
Oh, and Inhuman Homan is SO MUCH BETTER in front of the cameras. He is as bad as Stephen Miller.
The most revealing thing about the absolute unprofessional behavior of these fools, besides the murder of onlookers, is the fact that there seems to be no supervision, control, or accepted police practice to what they do. Earlier this week I watched them throw tear gas INTO the wind. Protesters simply took a few steps back and watched as the gas blew back onto the fools who threw it, forcing them to don gas masks and obscuring any view of the crowd. When the smoke cleared, rather than acting in an organized way, they scurried about willy-nilly like cockroaches on a kitchen floor instead of forming up and advancing slowly in a line as a unit.
"The most revealing thing about the absolute unprofessional behavior of these fools, besides the murder of onlookers, is the fact that there seems to be no supervision, control, or accepted police practice to what they do."
Masha Gessen wrote a piece - in *2016* - about how "The Accountability of Nobody" is a classic authoritarian technique
Were people just too lazy to read it? Did they not want to know?
I saw a video of five ICE agents escorting a zipcuffed protester out. One up front and four with the protester.
They stop because of people in front of them, and while the guy in front is dealing with that, the rest are just standing around. The zipcuffed guy takes off running, the crowd opens up, and he disappears into them.
Everyone surrounding him, none of whom had him under their control, watched him run away and didn't do a thing.
A pocket knife or even fingernail clippers result in no more zip cuffs. They only work if the person is under control.
I think that's exactly what will be their downfall. A girl can hope, anyway.
Thank heavens they're stupid. Imagine what havoc they would wreak if they were intelligent!
A vicious and vindictive absence of any remotely responsible adults results in considerable destruction.
J6ers and Gravy Seals.
They think their GI Joe.
Poorly-trained halfwits in power?
Rings a bell somehow
Canada's PM Mark Carney will visit India in March to sign deals on uranium, energy, minerals and AI.
The US better hurry if they want to trade with Canada at all.
In case anyone is still confused about which side Big Tech is on, Tim Apple attended the Melaina screening at the White House. You know, where the ballroom he donated to is being built.
The only movie I'd walk out of on an airplane.
And Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon
"Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino confirmed that the two agents who shot 37-year-old Alex Pretti were already back on duty, but not in Minneapolis, and has refused to identify them."
They are out there somewhere else. Three days later.
We'll find them.
Treating them ust like pedo priests.
My anger is attaining some dangerously damned destructive levels...
They're claiming that naming them would be "doxxing" them.
They're probably shitting their pants. They WILL be identified. It's only a matter of time.
Oh yeah. Assholes like them will open their mouths in some bar, somewhere, sooner or later.
Good.
Canada sending naval patrol vessel to Greenland for opening of new consulate.
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Canadaβs βprincipled pragmatismβ in foreign policy will be on full display next week in Greenland when she opens Canadaβs new consulate in the Danish territory with Inuit representatives attending and a navy vessel in the background.
I'm guessing it'll be we won't talk about your human rights failings if it costs us too much money?
I know, I know. Trying not to be a purity pony...
But smart all things considered. Probably that billion dollar hi tech icebreaker.
ICE.
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"Le Monde's cartoon of the day, Marco de Angelis"
Chillingly accurate and timely.