Yeah, it’s a retcon. Originally they said it was a “mistake” but that hey, he’s the sort of guy whose rights are optional so too bad, shit happens, sucks to be you Mr. Collateral Damage!
When people AND COURTS began raising that it doesn’t work that way was when they began claiming justifications and associations.
Under this pressure, it seems it took them all this time to assemble a case that would “prove” they were “right” all along to just summarily gulag him. This is so that they can say “There! You all happy now? We’ve proved that we do this to those who deserve it, you can all STFU about it!”
I’d guess there are some high-fives going on in the Pentagon tonight. They’ve been itching to manipulate a situation like this. “The violent mob assaults on ICE and Federal Law Enforcement” my ass. Is this when they take the first step?
Not from Trump’s viewpoint - he’s been itching for an excuse since his first term to turn the military into his plaything and deploy it against US citizens who don’t kowtow to him and submit like the lesser beings he thinks they are. From his viewpoint this is the excuse he needs to take over the National Guard and use it for his own ends.
I don’t think it will stop with LA. I fully expect Chicago to be facing this soon, and if not Chicago then some other city or cities.
Exactly. He and his fascist goons have been looking for a casus belli to declare war on the civilian population. They don’t have a Reichstag to set ablaze, but they do have protesters obstructing ICE officers. Good enough. Martial law dead ahead!
I have stated multiple times since January the goal is to find a reason to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law in cities and states led by Democrats. It looks like we will see this happen very soon. Possibly by the end of the week.
This is a wet dream for Miller, Hegseth, Noam etc.
Yep, I imagine Miller, Homan and all the other anti-immigration goons in the administration popped yuge boners the moment they saw those protests get out of hand.
Thinking it over as I was posting in another thread, it may be I heard someone say the Guard troops have assault rifles, not live ammo per se, although no doubt that’s the implication. I mean, assault rifles wouldn’t be used for rubber bullets, would they?
Remember, Trump is the President who wanted protesters cleared so he could have a photo op for himself and seriously asked a general why they couldn’t just shoot the protesters in the legs.
I think he’s salivating at the chance to shoot people and get away with it. Or rather, order other people to shoot people without consequence to himself.
(Consequences for others, of course, he either doesn’t care about or can gloat over)
From article: “Cameras inside the home captured the heavily armed ICE agents going through the residence room by room, all while Sec. Noem, donning a bulletproof vest and ballcap, watched from the street.”
"Four months pregnant with her fifth child, the Huntington Park mother said if her husband is deported, the family’s future is bleak.
“I’m not going to be able to pay my rent when I have to pay it,” she explained. “My husband is not here. I don’t know if they’re going to pick him up tomorrow, the day after tomorrow. It’s sad.”
ICE agents, along with Noem, eventually left the home empty-handed, and the children were allowed back inside.
For now, the family is unsure what the coming days will bring, but Medina said if her husband is deported, she and her children will likely follow him back to Mexico."
That’s just what trump and his goons want. Farmers are complaining about the raids and this terrible awful administration is back to making children go to court with no adult there to support them. Glennon Doyle was on Jimmy Kimmel talking about this last night.
These people are absolutely despicable and heartless.