The federal government is working to secure a charter flight to return a man who was removed from the U.S. back to America so he can have proper due process proceedings, the Justice Department said in court documents filed Wednesday.
Last week, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy ordered the man, only known by the initials O.C.G., to be returned to the United States after he found that necessary due process steps in his removal proceedings were “ignored” by the Trump administration.
O.C.G.'s attorneys argued that he has no criminal history and sought asylum in the United States after multiple violent attacks against him in his native country of Guatemala.
TACO 🌮
The cracks are finally starting to break open. He’s losing power.
Fuck man, there’s still so much damage done and some much to come but, God and liberty willing, we’ll make it through this without becoming monsters ourselvs
77 million Americans voted for the monster. This is far from over even with him gone.
We fought a whole-ass war in the 1860s because half of people are fucking assholes. They didn’t suddenly stop being assholes afterwards.
And in particular, the union went easy on them specifically because they didn’t want lasting hard feelings.
So basically trying to please the shitbags never really stopped, it just had a brief couple years of being put on pause.
This is the kind of thinking that led to complacency after the 2020 election.
Trump is not the cause of America’s rot; he’s a symptom. Even if he’s gone, there’s a vast web of right-wing media, wealth, fascists, bigots, racists, and voters who are still willing to blow it all up to give the rich more money.
Somehow, we have to deal with the anti-intellectual oppositionally-defiant idiocy that is rampaging through 40% of our population before we can start making true progress again.
I also want to point out that this administration is a symptom not only of the rot within the population, but the growing power of the executive branch.
It’s been a concern since the Great Depression and WWII and over the decades it has been becoming more and more possible that an administration like this could happen.
Now it’s being tested and I hope we’re able to fix it.
Sadly, it won’t be fixed until (unless?) a Democrat is elected President again, because Republicans seem quite willing to cede their own power to their own President, as long as he promises to hurt the right people with it.
I lurk in the conservative reddit to see what they say about stuff, and the other side of the aisle also realizes this problem. They’re well aware that any time the presidency flips colors the incumbent can just undo every EO from the previous administration.
Seems that one thing both sides agree on is that Congress needs to get back to legislating. Now how we do that, I’m not sure, easier said than done.
Change the filibuster to be number of majority seats, plus 2, or 60, whichever is less. Or something along those lines. The 60 vote threshold creates disincentive for crossing the aisle because it gives the statistical extremists the most power. Meanwhile, requiring some opposition support but not an outrageous amount removes a ton of barriers which produce legislative gridlock.
Were already putting people in camps and funding + supplying a genocide.
You’re still paying federal taxes?
I’m starting to think that we’re bringing knives to a Kaiju fight. Even if we somehow scrape through the next four years and recover the republic (spoiler alert, we’ve already lost the republic, it’s just a question of Trump being bold enough to go far as even as decided to do and look more like), the people who got him this far, wrote project 2025, and financed and boosted his campaign will still be there, learning from the mistakes they made this time and eager to try again. That was the mistake we made last time, thinking that when we beat Trump on '20, he and his movement and wealthy/powerful supporters would simply vanish in a puff of smoke. Now we know better.
What we’ll also still have is a weak-kneed, noodle-spined, and sponge-for-brains democratic party that’s eager to virtue signal left talking points but fights actual left policies and politicians harder than it fights the republicans. Even now, as we’re trying to recover the republic, the DNC is working full tilt to fight anyone trying to make them into an actual opposition party with actual opposition policies. Never forget that the democrats joined the republicans to censure Al Green, the one man who actually did any kind of protest with a backbone at Trump’s not-a-state-of-the-union. We’re not going to be able to keep the republic from these monsters with gatekeepers who are too busy with honoring intra-party seniority, rites, and traditions and shooting anyone who actually tries to make any meaningful action to fight the monsters. Being the only alternative can’t be good enough anymore, we need more people to do whatever they think is right (get into politics yourself, harass your elected officials, start a new party, I don’t give a shit as long as the answer isn’t do nothing) to force the democrats to get their shit together or else relegate them to the dustbin of history.
God and liberty are dead. Join your local groups organizing against this.
His mistake was threatening the rich people’s money.
That’s like dictator 101
No, it’s good that he’s following the law. Unlike those criminals that are trying to manipulate him like Stephen Miller.