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Patris's avatar

May every member of this administration spend their last days there.

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JoshuaNearly's avatar

Wonder what scares Donald more, being eaten by an alligator or strangled by a 20’ boa constrictor? Hmmm.

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James Vander Poel's avatar

His only fear is that of being ignored. Indifference. The crime of which he is guilty. We owe him only a fair trial. And to be studied in the history books, as was Hitler.

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JustJoy's avatar

Nuremberg type trials for every member of this regime. And the punishment must fit the crimes. No more finger wagging.

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Lillian P.'s avatar

He’s had plenty of fair trials, but look where he is now.

He doesn’t deserve “fair”, not our American type of fair, he deserves brutally, graphically honest fair, to hell with legal rules. You know, fair “Trump-style”.

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Winston Smith London Oceania's avatar

Eye for an eye?

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Jaime Ramirez's avatar

Trump wants to be Hitler. He wants his name to be mentioned as much as Hitler. More than Hitler. So he's following Hitler's playbook, following in his footsteps, step by step, to be this century's Hitler. To be the most famous man in history. It doesn't matter to him if it's through positive or negative deeds. He is incapable of positive deeds, so negative it is, yet he is still able to convince many in his cult that it's positive. The others like that it's negative. And he is achieving his goal as the most famous, & for now, the most powerful, man in the world, perhaps in history, since remarkably, no one has gotten in his way. No one has held him accountable.

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Blanca's avatar

Yes , the world has coward to a single man , but his demise is still there to come !

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Jaime Ramirez's avatar

Yep, that's what also happened to Hitler, so if Trump wants to follow in Hitler's footsteps...

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Winston Smith London Oceania's avatar

"To be the most famous man in history"

You mean most >infamous<. In any case, what you're describing here is the mentality of a psychopath.

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Jaime Ramirez's avatar

Correct on both counts. Famous in a negative way like Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Nero... in his depraved mind it doesn't matter, just as long as he's remembered. And he'll never let us forget him.

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Madelyn's avatar

The families of this regime will wear their names like anchors

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Madelyn's avatar

Around their necks

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Winston Smith London Oceania's avatar

We owe him an all expenses paid trip to the guillotine.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

The release of the Epstein tapes, that Ghislaine says there ARE.

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JoshuaNearly's avatar

Just guessing that Putin’s intelligence services have these. It’s not just the “pee pee tape” that’s been speculated about, but these. Which could lead to a connection between what happened to Epstein, and Trump. Why else would the President of the United States play into everything Russia wants? Merely speculation… but it would explain a lot.

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Winston Smith London Oceania's avatar

There's that and also money to be made.

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LeeAnn's avatar

🙏🙏

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Simon Sez's avatar

Amen!

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L-A's avatar

My vote is for not their ‘last’ days…the ‘rest’ of their days.

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Patris's avatar

Those too

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Karol Ross's avatar

Crimes against humanity.

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REPUBLIA's avatar

What about the dismantling of the independent federal agencies?

They’re responsible for turning statutes into regulations, policies, and enforcement mechanisms.

Without them, do we even have a legislative branch of government?

It’s a good thing that:

https://open.substack.com/pub/republia/p/with-good-along-the-path-to-a-better?r=4ucf6d&utm_medium=ios

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Miranda's avatar

America already has experience building detention/concentration camps. But, so few Americans even know about how Japanese people were caged for 3.5 years in the desert.

I'm so sad and disgusted in our country.

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Rachel C's avatar

The detention of the Japanese was horrible. But they were with their families and not being tortured. Men were allowed to go to the army. This is worse. 👹

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Mark Moberly's avatar

I find the reality, the horror, which they have planned out in this concentrating camp/processing center to be so offensive that, should this be in another country, I would support military intervention to destroy it. And yet it is in our country.

This is actually more offensive than Trump's mere presence which I find extremely offensive. This concentration camp absolutely has no justification for existing in our country. None whatsoever. It is abhorrent. And those who created it and funded it should be convicted of crimes against humanity. It must be destroyed. Totally erased from our country. Otherwise, it's mere presence will poison all of us beyond imagination.

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Kate Weeks's avatar

Exactly, Mark! This is America, this is not who we are , at the least the majority of us! It is disgraceful inhumane offensive deranged. And I find it excruciating to think that they who support this, think it’s ok 😡😡😡😡😡😡🤮🤮🤮🤮

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Jody Drake's avatar

Kinda looks like it IS who we are at this point. I’m disgusted by my own country

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Kate Weeks's avatar

Not the major of us ; sadly minority is in power now they all are a disgrace to their oath and office

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Winston Smith London Oceania's avatar

Actually, the minority has been in power for over four decades, and have always been a disgrace to their oath and office. Indeed, they paved the path for The Orange Scourge.

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Grace Sanchez's avatar

I agree with you completely! Can I please share your words with some of my friends?

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Winston Smith London Oceania's avatar

At this point, I wouldn't object to the military marching into the White House and arresting everyone there. Then the DOJ. Maybe even the SCOTUS gang of six.

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Cheri Johnson's avatar

They’ve violated their oath of office.

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Winston Smith London Oceania's avatar

And then some.

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Virma's avatar

This is not our country anymore. It’s an evil, inept parody.

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Angie's avatar

Ok, you guys are driving me, pardon my language, absolutely fucking bonkers. "Alligator Alcatraz" is a cutesy name that horribly minimizes what we know it is: a concentration camp.

I don't really care what else you call it, I think **American Auschwitz** pretty much nails it but even 'Alligator Auschwitz' is better. Anything but the GOP's precious nickname.

Can my favorite writers on SubStack PLEASE stop this? You're all doing it!

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Dissent in Bloom's avatar

Angie, I get it — truly. You're not wrong about the severity of what this place is. But calling it “Alligator Auschwitz,” while emotionally accurate, would bury the article instantly

if I title it something like “Alligator Auschwitz” or even “American Auschwitz,” it will get flagged, throttled, or outright shadowbanned by content filters. It won’t show up in feeds. It won’t get clicks. It won’t reach the people who need to see it.

I want this to be something that comes up when people search the article and not just puff pieces by right wing media.

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Angie's avatar

I understand the need to reference it by its commonly known name and I understand leaving it out of the title. I just hate it so much. It is a joke and a very, very bad one and it truly is minimizing its existence in the first place. But I do understand.

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Rebecca Lovewell's avatar

Maybe that's why my article got so little engagement. In the title, I call it Alligator Auschwitz.

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Winston Smith London Oceania's avatar

How would the filters react to something along the lines of "The Alligator Alcatraz Concentration Camp"?

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sheri's avatar

The Nazis first called them containment centers, first told people to self deport and then had the people pack their things and board trains that would take them to the deportation locations....but took them to torture and death, as DeSantis and his buddies are making millions off of this nightmare. It's all funded by tax money taken from Medicare, Veteran's Benefits, food for elders and children.

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EvergreenSoul's avatar

Laura Loomer, who has regular access to Trump, tweeted that she expects the alligators could enjoy 65 million meals. I don't know who exactly she meant, but it doesn't matter. It's horrific. Someone pointed out that's the number of Latinos in this country. NOT just undocumented immigrants, but all Latinos. Unconscionable hatred.

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Winston Smith London Oceania's avatar

How obscene is obscene?

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Wendymae's avatar

It is an awful name and it is now its official name. I also call it Alligator Auschwitz. I live in FL and follow the news here closely. DeSantis is threatening to remove any local lawmakers who do not want local law enforcement to assist in his program to remove immigrants. What is the use of having any local elections if the governor can remove whoever disagrees with him?

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Winston Smith London Oceania's avatar

" What is the use of having any local elections if the governor can remove whoever disagrees with him?"

That's the whole idea. Trumpkopf's too, pertaining to national elections.

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Captainlippy's avatar

Auschwitz is highly appropriate ✔️

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Lalisa's avatar

Absolutely it is! What can we do to stop this? All I can think of is targeted boycotts, peaceful protests and general strikes! Any other ideas?

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Lalisa's avatar

Maybe a comprehensive boycott Florida campaign? No Miami / Disneyworld / Universal vacations? No Florida football? Doesn’t Florida depend on tourism?

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Jack's avatar

A general strike is unstoppable, if you can do it

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Lalisa's avatar

You know a general strike could be coupled with a strategic boycott! Let’s say we decide to boycott the FL tourist industry (Disney, Universal, Miami, the Keys, Royal Caribbean, Carnival Cruise Lines).

At the same time, the employees in that state go on a general strike. The employees are supported by public donations.

This could cripple the state of Florida. Let’s make an example out of them!

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Rebecca Lovewell's avatar

You can sign up here for the general strike

https://generalstrikeus.com/

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Jack's avatar

Note that there are completely offline and non-digital alternatives for signing up (lower on the page), for those concerned about their security.

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Rebecca Lovewell's avatar

Thanks for that! I hadn't seen that, but I'll definitely mention it when I post the link to others. Jack - a question for you - what are your feelings about people who don't work or who are home-bound due to a disability of some sort signing a pledge card to participate? A friend mentioned that joining a boycott of all businesses with an active labor strike counts as being a participant in the strike, but I'm wondering if folks who don't work for an employer that might want to sign a pledge card would inadvertently skew the numbers. Any thoughts on that?

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Jack's avatar

I think it's unlikely that will skew the numbers much, certainly don't want to scold anyone for signing up. That said, the local discord groups and organizational materials are available without signing up for the count, and as you say, boycotting during a general strike is absolutely participating for the home-bound, non-working. Self-employed and contract employees 100% should participate in the count, in case there's any doubt about that out there.

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Rebecca Lovewell's avatar

Thank you so much for getting back to me on that.

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Winston Smith London Oceania's avatar

It can be done. But more people need to sign up.

https://generalstrikeus.com/strikecard

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Carol Doeden's avatar

All out Civil War 😭

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EvergreenSoul's avatar

A Gandhi-style hunger strike, say in a state or US capital. I haven't seen anyone suggest such a thing anywhere. Participants would need to research such a thing and know their health limits, etc. While this regime wouldn't be moved to change course, hunger strikes can be effective in raising public awareness.

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Marybeth Roden's avatar

This is a “hell world.” Considering how it’s engineered to destroy people’s psyche (freezing temps, constant light, lack of privacy, inadequate water rations, etc.), I wonder if they secured the participation of doctors and psychiatrists in designing the facility for maximum suffering. Someone should get the photos and reports out to the foreign press. Story should be splashed above the fold in newspapers across Europe and the Pacific Rim.

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Winston Smith London Oceania's avatar

They got their ideas from "The Ministry of Love".

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Lorenzo Aguilar's avatar

This is truly a nightmare and I cannot believe there are people rooting for this.

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Susan Crabtree's avatar

Oh my !! It’s much worse than I thought or imagined! Worse than Dachau!

Yes, Dachau was a horror story from beginning to end, but Trump’s Alligator 🐊 Alcatraz is worse.

The people can’t take a walk. Can’t escape the light, or talk. The freezing of the AC would be enough to wish for death.

But the sum total of it is that it’s a living hell!!

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JustJoy's avatar

I agree it’s horrible but saying worse than Dachau? That’s offensive to every family member of those murdered there and other Nazi death camps.

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Rebecca Lovewell's avatar

Laura Loomer posted a tweet very recently that said, "Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed 65 million meals if we get started now. "

65 million is about the population of brown people in the USA currently.

Trump said on July 1st he plans to build many more camps in multiple states.DHS just received 45 billion just to build and operate these camps.

He also said he plans to resolve the labor crisis they're creating in the hospitality, construction, and farm industries by sending detainees back to "owners" who would be responsible for the behavior and production of the labor.

In May, Ivanka Trump announced her new farm fresh fruits and veggies initiative, a for profit endeavor, in coordination with the owner of Walmart, designed to help MAHA and the farm industry in America deliver food to the country.

All of this is what the Nazis did, in the beginning. Without the alligators...

I honor and grieve the trauma of all who suffered under the Nazi regime. This isn't Germany, and it's not Hitler. But it is way, way too close in parallel - across the board - to not draw those parallels.

It is my hope that we can collectively view the present moment through the lens of what history has to offer us. And if we cannot draw a comparison between what we are seeing today to the Nazi death (and labor) camps of Nazi Germany, what would be a more fitting or more universally recognized parallel to draw?

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Winston Smith London Oceania's avatar

"This isn't Germany, and it's not Hitler." You mean >yet<. They're working towards it.

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Rebecca Lovewell's avatar

Oh, I fully agree they are using the exact same roadmap. I've written multiple posts about this. They've been laying the foundation for it since before 2016.

The only reason I said it's not Germany and not Hitler is that it's America and it's the entire Republican regime, with a leader as charismatic as Hitler, with a strategist at least as cunning as Goebbels. But they're all Nazis. KKK, too.

And, in my view, there's no >yet< left in this equation. We're already here. There isn't one more minute left to waste. We've already wasted them. It's arrived.

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Winston Smith London Oceania's avatar

Totally. It's a five alarm conflagration.

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Susan Crabtree's avatar

No offense intended, & I’ll bet those who experienced those horrors would understand.

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JustJoy's avatar

If they were still alive, I’m sure my husband’s grandparents would see the parallels. But that doesn’t make what’s happening now any worse or better than what happened then. Both are a failure of humanity.

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Jack Straw's avatar

Fuck the Epstein files. I don’t need a little black book to tell me Trump is a pedophile. This is what matters. All of our lives are at risk. A general strike is probably our most effective tool, so start organizing for it now. Prepare and keep the work local. Talk to others about what they could do to help the community. We have the energy. Now, it needs to be focused.

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Maria Tambien's avatar

This sounds like El Salvador’s CECOT gulag in terms of the 24/7 lights, freezing cold, and steel cages. This is horrific and cruel. To be imprisoned because you are an immigrant is a crime against humanity. I am angry and sad. Thank you once again, for telling this story. Your investigative talent never ceases to amaze me. 🫶🏼🫶🏼

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Treading Water's avatar

I don’t even have words to adequately describe how much this upsets me. History repeats 😞

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john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)'s avatar

Note

Wayne Horton

WAYNE HORTON

Do Something About It: GardaWorld’s Villainy for Hire at Alligator Alcatraz

WAYNE HORTON

JUL 07, 2025

The Situation

Montreal-based GardaWorld is now staffing armed guards at Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” — a migrant detention compound deep in the Everglades, designed by the Trump administration to be especially cruel and to circumvent due process for people who often have no pressing immigration issues.

This is cruelty for hire. It’s a stain on every Canadian who believes we stand for something better than profit from human misery.

What You Can Do

GardaWorld relies on its reputation as a “trusted partner” for security and logistics. They need that image to win government and corporate contracts. They need the public to stay quiet.

So don’t.

Call and Write Them

Here’s a professional script you can adapt for phone calls, emails, or letters. Keep it calm, factual, and relentless:

Suggested Script

Subject: Inquiry Regarding GardaWorld’s Contract for “Alligator Alcatraz”

Dear GardaWorld,

I have learned about your contract to provide armed security at the immigration compound known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida. President Trump has made it clear that this facility is an immigration prison designed to be especially cruel to detainees. He has stated that people will be held there specifically to circumvent due process and punish them harshly while they await immigration hearings — including many who have no pressing immigration issues at all.

By choosing to participate in this cruelty, you have made GardaWorld complicit in an operation that likely violates international human rights standards. You have opened your company up to significant legal peril and made it clear what GardaWorld’s values are.

I will do everything in my power to ensure that you face business and legal consequences for your collaboration in what many see as a crime against humanity.

Can you please provide an update on your plans? Do you intend to continue participating in a program that will lead directly to the death and misery of peaceful immigrants?

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

GardaWorld Contacts (Use Them All)

Montreal HQ (Let them know the shame they’re bringing on Canada):

Switchboard: +1 514‑281‑2811

Corporate inquiries: info@garda.com

Media inquiries: media@garda.com

Investor relations: investors@garda.com

Website: www.garda.com

Address: 2300, rue Émile-Bélanger, St-Laurent, Quebec, H4R 3J4, Canada

U.S. Security HQ:

Office: +1 314‑644‑1974

Address: 1699 S Hanley Rd, Suite 350, St. Louis, MO 63144

Florida “Alligator Alcatraz” Contact:

Justin Dalrymple, Florida Security Manager

Direct: +1 561‑601‑6285

Email: justin.dalrymple@garda.com

Keep It Going

If they’re going to profit from cruelty, they should be forced to answer for it — every single day. Use this, share it, and if you hear anything back from them, publish it. Their clients should know exactly what they’re paying for.

Final Call to Action

if you are outraged by this concentration camp, do something about it. This is something you can do. Do it once. Do it once a day. Do it all day, every day. Put them on speed dial and do it every time you take a break, if you like. Justin in particular, might enjoy hearing the public’s thoughts on providing guards for a detainment camp that’s meant to be particularly cruel and also house children.

They should have no peace with this decision. This is not security. This is not prison administration. This is staffing a concentration camp in the swamps of Florida — a facility the President of the United States has openly said is designed to punish immigration applicants, and all those mistakenly caught up in the ICE nets. ICE has had its funding massively increased, so he intends to see it filled to capacity.

Don’t let any person or company that supports, endorses, profits from, or assists this operation rest until this gulag is shut down.

This is actually happening in America. Again.

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Rebecca Lovewell's avatar

This is excellent. Have you considered sending this to the guys at @meidastouch network? They have a lot of Canadian coverage and a fairly large Canadian audience.

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john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)'s avatar

Good idea. I’ve shared it to several Canadian media sites. But the more pressure the better.

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Suzanne Allain's avatar

I have no words to describe how I feel after reading this. My heart bleeds. It's inhuman to treat people who only want to have a better life. I want Trump and his sycophants to die there.

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SandraLea's avatar

I don’t understand how this is possible in my country. When will this Trumpian nightmare end?

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Rebecca Lovewell's avatar

When we collectively decide we are willing to make the sacrifices necessary to bring the US economy to a screeching halt. It's a heavy lift, and we have to be ready and willing to support everyone who strikes - by boycotting any companies that hire scabs, by feeding ourselves locally by buying food that's not produced by slave labor, by refusing to spend money on anything that isn't directly involved with housing and utilities, by divesting from any retirement or banking institutions that prop up this regime, by being loud and clear in terms of why we are boycotting, and by showing up en masse for all protests scheduled to disrupt the normal flows of our society. Over and over, until we undercut and undermine the pillars of support propping up this regime.

For instance, Home Depot is cooperating with ICE, allowing them to enter their stores to run down day laborers there to buy supplies. Home Depot is a MAGA donor. Home Depot supports Trump. We need to boycott Home Depot and tell them exactly why we're doing it. Through fliers, stickers, letters, emails, etc.

This ends when enough Americans are willing to do that work and buy somewhere else (perhaps a bit more expensive, more out of the way). Same goes for every other company that is cooperating with this regime. We have to hit them in their wallets. If they lose enough money, they will abandon the regime.

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SandraLea's avatar

Trump is bringing the economy to a screeching halt all by his lonesome.

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Rebecca Lovewell's avatar

I get that. By design. I believe they are trying to cause a great depression so that he can starve us out. If we don't have food in the stores, many people will look the other way when that food is produced through slave labor by the people he's rounding up in Home Depot parking lots, farms, etc and hauling off to concentration/labor camps.

So, before they achieve their goal of destroying the economy (because that's going to take time), we have a window of opportunity right now to shut the country down. Interrupt THEIR timeline.

The corporations are in on it. That's why they haven't freaked out about the tariffs publicly. But if we can hit them where it hurts right now, there's a chance they will start publicly and privately withdrawing their support for what the regime is doing.

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RRMother's avatar

I think you're right, unfortunately. He wants us all poor, uneducated, sick and thus willing to do whatever it takes to protect and care for our kids and families. This is so disturbing and so dystopian, I still can't believe we're here.

In addition to a strike, we must also push our elected Dems to investigate the election. He cheated, with help from Elon and others and is an illegitimate president. Get him out of office!!!

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Rebecca Lovewell's avatar

Agreed. Are you familiar with the work that the Election Truth Alliance is doing?

Also, I'm about to write an article about how we can think about ways to get ready in our local communities, from the angle of food security and the like. I've been hearing some rumblings of a farm workers strike. Not sure if that's going to happen, but I hope so, and if they do, we can help support them by boycotting any brand names that are hiring scabs. Plus, if we can find ways to source our food locally, we won't need to rely on slave labor for our sustenance. It's better for the environment, too, and moving into the future, having more locally based food sources is one way we can avoid exploitation of immigrants. We've been needing to change that system for more than a century.

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Alan Smith's avatar

“Processing center” sounds very factory-ish…you see the powerful don’t see us as fellow human beings. These are not people to them. They are a product that needs to be processed first its next phase in the supply chain. It’s weird when you think about the language being used to describe other human beings.

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