Democratic members of Congress who were part of a scuffle with law enforcement officers at an ICE facility in New Jersey may face arrests, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Axios Saturday.
Why it matters: It would be a major escalation in the Trump administration’s arrests of politicians and other public servants, including the mayor of Newark and a judge in Milwaukee.
- DHS is accusing the House Democrats of assaulting law enforcement. The lawmakers say they were the ones who were assaulted.
- The lawmakers involved in the incident: Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), Rob Menendez (D-N.J.) and LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.).
Spineless Democracts “Relax everyone. It is totally normal in a healthy democracy when the Executive branch, in this cause President Trump is threatening to arrest Legislators.”
Are these spineless democrats in the room with us now?
Are they whispering this into your ear?
While, in front of your eyes, in this article, actual democrats in the real world are showing the fuck up and getting arrested?
Source.
I mean, this is lemmy. So yes.
…actually arresting Legislators
Yes! The take home message of this article is that Democrats are spineless and wouldn’t risk themselves to stand up against fascism. You put it so succinctly that I felt the need to highlight your comment.
We need to air as much ire against Democrats as possible and consider sitting out the next election if they don’t start doing something to try to stop these illegal detentions by that other party that doesn’t really need to be our focus right now.
Yea sit out the election and really let the republicans win! That’ll show them!
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There is a definetely a faction of Democracts who are willing to fight back. It seems that facton is the minority while the majority sit on their ass.
Hardly. The majority fight the faction that fights their republican buddies.
Denocracts
I don’t know why someone downvoted you. Your comment couldn’t have been dripping with more sarcasm if you tried.
It’s hard to go sarcastically with a comment so blatantly stupid when so many people appear to believe it already.
It is the blue MAGA and neoliberals. There are plenty of them in Lemmy. Any thing that will say their policies no longer work and it what led us to Donald Trump, and they be like: “Don’t touch my precioussss! I am filthy richesss!”
At least they not as loud as they were and chanting “vote blue, no matter who” since Chuck Schumer gave the Republicans the pass on the previous budget bill.
Are you saying the blue MAGA downvoted my comment because they didn’t understand it was sarcastic or because you didn’t understand it was sarcastic?
I was half asleep and missed your second paragraph. Lol.
It is the stupidity of participation that equals what they call it “blue maga” because someone else declared it. “Don’t touch my precious” is something cast upon you… it’s your curse and you now wear it… only because someone views being liberal a terrible effort that deserves a name. You don’t value civil rights… apparently you are blue maga… you are a label not a human.
The “blue MAGA” usually refers to tone-deaf centrist Democrats who maybe socially progressive, but economically on the right. They refuse to acknowledge the ramifications of jobs outsourcing, without offering alternative jobs to replace the outsourced one, and then call the working class – who by the way used to vote Democrat-- as “stupid, imbecile and red neck Hillbillies”. Blue MAGA are also NIMBYs who tend to object to building more affordable housing because it will bring down the property value in their area.
In other words, blue MAGA believe in social justice, but think economic justice is a step too far. The working class who try to voice their genuine economic concerns, are scoffed aside as idiots and condescended by elitist blue MAGA. And then they wonder why the working class turned to right. The blue MAGA (let’s just call them neoliberals because that’s what they are actually called in the rest of the world), are just as complicit in the rise of fascism. The neoliberals don’t want their precious stocks and corporate lobby money touched and would rather see Trump and Republicans remain in office, than actually return to keeping in touch with the working class.
And the “MAGA” IN ALL CAPS part comes from where?
From the way they act like a cult around their preferred political party, similar to the non-blue variety, and attacks anyone that criticises the Democrats regardless of the validity of the criticism. They’re a vocal minority, but part of the DNC support base, nonetheless.
So a minority that doesn’t claim to “make America great again” and is really only called out for not being progressive enough… democrats?
They are a blue make America great again group cause why? Did they storm the capital, wear hats and promote what? Is it cult like because they disagree with you? You haven’t described a cult, more like a difference of opinion that could include anyone old enough and not hippy enough. Not the same as red hatted maga crowd.
This sounds like a stupid label not anything descriptive…
The downvotes are more likely to be from people who share the sentiment of the original comment.
Well… that’s not really what I got out of this, and I don’t see how your suggestions would help… But if it’s what you think is best I’ll do it. You’ve never steered me wrong before.
Paddle onward, brother!