Monday, January 26, 2026

ICE and America’s Flailing Autocrat

Easily discredited propaganda is undermining Trump's assault on the Constitution

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He came to office with immigration as his strongest issue. Americans wanted violent criminals deported and border control enforced.

Instead, Trump has turned ICE into a menacing paramilitary that detains five-year-olds, hauls elderly men from their homes, snatches mothers from day care centres and executes non-violent protesters.

The US public is turning sharply against these methods.

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"In so doing, he is stirring the public out of an apathy that is essential to any power grab. Someone once remarked that Trump's incompetence outruns his malevolence. That observation's salience is on full display."

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"The legitimate fear is that Trump will rig the US midterm elections this November to stop a widely forecast Republican defeat.

But he is robbing himself of the means to get away with it. The meta-tool available to him is public gullibility.

Enough people must be willing to believe that ballot boxes are being stuffed, or illegal immigrants are being bussed to the polling booths, for any shenanigans to work.

The hollow people working for him are wrecking that tool with easily discredited propaganda."

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Of course, none of Trump's LIES are easily discredited to his Cult... fortunately, they aren't anywhere near a majority, and swing voters plus patriotic Lincoln Project Republicans aren't so easily fooled.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-26 08:27 PM

... Easily discredited propaganda ...

Yeah, that seems to be what is currently being discovered about the Trump Admin.

A question of, "~believe what we tell you to believe~ vs. ~believe your own eyes in the videos you see.~


Pres Trump seems to have gotten away with that approach regarding J6 (~peaceful demonstrators~).

But, now it seems to be more of a ~Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me~ type of issue.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-26 08:51 PM

PEDO DONNIE will kill as many Americans as it takes to avoid releasing the Epstein files. He is an enemy of the people. Plan accordingly.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-26 08:58 PM

Alex Pretti's killing was recorded on body-camera videos, DHS says

www.yahoo.com

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-26 10:03 PM

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