Best case scenario is Trump fuelling and stealing all that money
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.
99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.
When cops are caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.
When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."
When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.
Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don't, they aren't cops for long.
The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.
All this is a path to a police state.
In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.
Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.
That's the solution.
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He kinda is. He's made deals with the companies that will get rich from the semi-legal human trafficking profits that this creates.
“Sir what would you say to extremist groups like the Proud Boys?”
“Proud Boys, stand back and stand by”
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They stood by.
Coming soon to election centres near you.
Ice is Taco's secret police.
Gestapo, Stazi, Spanish Inquisition. Some good reading on history.
I know I love making fun of you yanks, but, y'all stay safe out there.
Uhhhh......we can't
For now. If you're a white male/female with at least 2 generations of American citizenship. You'll be ok.
I'm thinking the next big leap? Gov looks at all social media for what political side you're on. Then you'll get thrown in camps. This is maybe year 4 of Trump or whatever comes after him in a rigged election. Maybe an "emergency" skip the elections this time thing.
Palantir is actively collecting a database of dissenting social media accounts
We are not safe and you are naive as fuck if you think we are.
cis hetero *neurotypical white man/woman. I only fit the white category. The LGBT will be next to be rounded up into camps. Not sure if I should flee the country or just accept my fate.
I'm thinking the next big leap? Gov looks at all social media for what political side you're on. Then you'll get thrown in camps. This is maybe year 4 of Trump or whatever comes after him in a rigged election. Maybe an "emergency" skip the elections this time thing.
No, the next big leap is transgender people being rounded up. Trans people have been saying this, myself (an Australian) included, since before the election. He's already made it difficult to impossible to leave the country if you're trans. Not only are trans people being denied passports in their chosen gender, but those people are being denied them in their gender assigned at birth too. They're ignoring court orders over it as well.
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So ICE now formally is the US SS. The presidents personal army, police force, secret police, border guard and prison management in one.
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ICE has only existed since 2003.
Shut up, Meg 🤦♂️
It absolutely is, and the ramifications of the bill won't be fully understood until it's largely too late.
It will have to be challenged in the courts and hopefully held up until a new Congress is seated in '27 and a new President in '29.
until a new Congress is seated in '27
So, you think Trump isn't going to have democratic candidates arrested and/or disqualified from running? It's one of the standard next steps for authoritarian leaders.
People said the same thing about W. Bush and the opposing side said the same thing about Obama. I'm cautiously optimistic.
Neither of them ignored court orders the way Trump has done. Neither of them tried to launch an insurrection when they lost an election the way Trump did on Jan 6th. Neither of them called up governors and tried to pressure them to "find a few votes" the way Trump did in Georgia.
a new President in '29
We all hope.
Sure, there will be a new President. Vance will take the job in name with Trump as VP, but will sit back.
Trump is old as shit and loves McDonalds. It's a medical miracle that he hasn't died of a heart attack in his sleep already. He's not going to be here much longer regardless.
Why Vance and not Don Jr? Despots normally hand power down to their kids.
Not successfully. North Korea is a huge exception. Everywhere else, those kids don't last long.
Yeah usually it either shifts into a democracy, oligarchy, junta, or a new completely random dictator. It's not exactly easy to predict but there is enough of a pattern to say there's a good chance none of Trump's spawn will be in charge.
They may not last long, but it's rare when the dictator is still in power at the end of his life, has kids and doesn't try to hand off power to them.
Chiang Kai-shek -> Chiang Ching-kuo
François "Papa Doc" Duvalier -> Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier
Hafez al-Assad -> Bashar al-Assad
There aren't a whole lot of dictators who died while still having power, but Franco didn't, Mao didn't, and Stalin didn't.
Don Jr would be in over is head within five minutes.
Most dictators don't die while still in power, but that's mostly because most of them seize power when they're relatively young. Often they're generals in the army and aged 40 or something. That means they need to live 40ish years before dying and handing off power. In many cases they use their time in office to eliminate all opposition so that if they do live long enough to hand over power, it doesn't matter if their sons are relatively weak.
Trump's a unique case because he gained power in his 70s, so that's not a lot of time to shape the country so that his failson can take over.
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Dont engage the gestapo. That is the only way they can fight, through confrontation. Bullets, fists, crowd control.
Get a propane torch, you know for some light plumbing.
Always have an angle grinder, these things can cut steel, but are also useful for shaving down rusted iron bars and aluminum. Keep these separated for safety reasons.
Also, if you need something very bright and very hot, magnesium strips can be ignited by the above mentioned torch. Don't do this near that dust you made.
Seriously don't. That kind of reaction, depending on the amount, will melt through solid steel.
Also, never mix grape juice with yeast and sugar. If you put it in a warm place, it will make a light poison appear in the bottle.
ICE is now upgraded to:
Imperial Command Enforcers
Sure would be nice if people like you didn't meme the rise of fascism in America
Sure would be nice if Americans didn't elect fascists to control the world's most powerful military. But here we are.
Dumb comment.
Fortunately most of this money will be stolen by federal contractors, but yeah, the gICEtappo is going to balloon in size.
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