• @T00l_shed
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    522 days ago

    Good thing the white house is a reliable and trustworthy source! No one there would ever lie.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      382 days ago

      Exactly. As the article says:

      In a post on X Thursday night, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “The Trump Administration arrested 538 illegal immigrant criminals including a suspected terrorist, four members of the Tren de Aragua gang, and several illegals convicted of sex crimes against minors.” Tren de Aragua is a violent gang that started in Venezuela and has now started to spread into the U.S. It became something of a flashpoint during the presidential campaign.

      Leavitt gave no further details about the arrests.

      They tried to raid an elementary school in Chicago and the school told them to fuck off, so I’m thinking they aren’t going after dangerous criminals unless there’s some sort of nefarious criminal element amongst the Barbie and Hot Wheels crows.

      • @RagingRobot
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        192 days ago

        These people’s existence is considered a crime by the right so when they say criminals it doesn’t really mean anything anymore

      • SeaJ
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        162 days ago

        Tren de Aragua became a flashpoint based on a lie. No apartment buildings were taken over by them. There was only like one dude actually in the gang.

        • @KnightontheSun
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          32 days ago

          Is that the one that Channel 5 did the report on?

      • Snot Flickerman
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        It’s becoming increasingly clear that they know exactly how much what they’re doing is going to hurt and terrorize people, and that they’re “flooding the zone with shit” to keep people off balance and terrified.

        I said it the other day and I am going to say it again. Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine matters here. This is the last of the tools of the Iraq War come home to the US. This is Trump’s “Shock and Awe” campaign directed at American citizens. He is trying to shock us into confusion and submission, and when I say “he” I rather mean the architects of Project 2025.

        A short film about the book featuring author Naomi Klein.

        Shock wears off, and if you know what’s happening, you can help prevent shock.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          32 days ago

          This is off-topic, but I recently found out that Naomi Klein has a book called Doppelganger all about how she is constantly mistaken for Naomi Wolf and what a fuckhead Naomi Wolf is. I need to get a copy.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 days ago

      total bullshit. as usual.

      there’s no fucking way this asshole and this administration misses a photo op… and what better than ‘hundreds’ and ‘hundreds more’ brown people chained together being led onto planes.

      • @T00l_shed
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        22 days ago

        I know what you’re saying, but to them, the only thing better than hundreds and hundreds of brown people chained together being led onto planes is hundreds of thousands of brown people chained together being pushed into a ditch