#a la donald trump

[gazpacho-deluxe]

i don’t think death threats and shit are justified ever and people ought not send them, especially over motorsport, but it does irk me how some norris fans are straw-manning this into ‘we just think it’s toxic to hate on ANY drivers for existing and doing nothing wrong’ as if people who don’t like him have no developed reasoning and they’re taking a stand against hate broadly when i dislike norris for valid reasons based on his past behavior, not just for shits and giggles

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

U.S. blockade of Cuba causes electricity system to collapse due to lack of stable fuel supply

On Sunday, Oct. 20, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel pointed directly at the blockade policy of the United States government as the fundamental cause of the national collapse of the National Electric Power System (SEN) over the past few days. It is not complicated and it is not rhetoric that Cuba’s lack of a stable supply of fuel is because of the threats of fines that the US government through its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has levied on banks, shipping companies and any other enterprise attempting to trade with Cuba.

[dicapiito]

A starter guide for how US politics work

🗳️ More below 🗳️:

Legislative Branch:

House of Representatives is GOP controlled. Want bills passed? There needs to be 218 in favor of said bill and since the House Speaker is Mike Johnson; he and the GOP are up Trump’s asshole

Senate is Democratically controlled. However, for bills to pass there needs to be a 60 Senate Majority and the Senate is 51-49.

Executive Branch is self explanatory. That said, no the President can’t do whatever they want when it comes to bills because this isn’t a monarchy but a democracy

The Judicial Branch:

SCOTUS. A 6-3 Conservative majority with three seats that will be replaced. Vote so Roe V Wade can be restored and protected. Also want the court expanded and 18 year term limits? Vote Kamala Harris and vote Blue down ballot.

Also all those pesky ass judges that keep helping out their fellow pervs and assholes in the states? Vote Blue and make sure to check out your local elections.

And once again a reminder about third party candidates:

And let’s stop the cycle as to why things don’t get done

[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

Not to make everything political but…is Donald Trump the guy you want opening the 2028 Olympics and Paralympics?

Let’s not have a repeat of Berlin ‘36 please

[serethespider]

if you live in the usa and want to stop trump from taking office there's a candidate we can all rally behind that isn't wholeheartedly supporting genocide and is running on a platform of actual leftism and liberation!! IF THE LEFT CAN UNITE TO BACK BIDEN (and people on here scolding and berating people for not voting for him certainly believe we can and should) THEN WE CAN UNITE TO BACK SOMEONE ELSE. VOTE CLAUDIA DE LA CRUZ

[viejospellejos]

El mejor doblaje:

[relaxedstyles]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Claire Wang at The Guardian:

Those who failed to produce papers were arrested. More than 400 people were detained and forced on a train back to Mexico, a place many had never been.

It’s a scene many fear will come to pass in president-elect Donald Trump’s second term, especially after he doubled down on a campaign promise to “launch the largest deportation operation” in US history, and confirmed he would use the military to execute hardline immigration policies. But this particular episode happened in 1931, as part of an earlier era of mass deportations that scholars say is reminiscent of what is unfolding today. The La Placita sweep became the first public immigration raid in Los Angeles, and one of the largest in a wave of “repatriation drives” that rolled across the country during the Great Depression. Mexican farm workers, indiscriminately deemed “illegal aliens”, became scapegoats for job shortages and shrinking public benefits. President Herbert Hoover’s provocative slogan, “American jobs for real Americans”, kicked off a spate of local legislation banning employment of anyone of Mexican descent. Police descended on workplaces, parks, hospitals and social clubs, arresting and dumping people across the border in trains and buses.

Nearly 2 million Mexican Americans, more than half US citizens, were deported without due process. Families were torn apart, and many children never again saw their deported parents. Hoover’s Mexican repatriation program is, among mass deportation efforts in the past, most similar to Trump’s stated plans, said Kevin R Johnson, a professor of public interest law and Chicana/o studies at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. [...] Since his first presidential run, Trump has invoked President Dwight D Eisenhower’s mass deportation program as a blueprint for his own agenda. During the second world war, the US and Mexican government enacted the Bracero program that allowed Mexican farm hands to temporarily work in the US. But many growers continued to hire undocumented immigrants because it was cheaper. In 1954, the Eisenhower administration cracked down on undocumented labor by launching “Operation Wetback”, a yearlong series of raids named after a racial epithet for people who illegally crossed the Rio Grande. [...] The politics of deportation have always contained an important “racial dimension”, said Mae Ngai, a historian whose book Impossible Subjects explores how illegal migration became the central issue in US immigration policy.

Trump has deployed racist tropes against various ethnic groups, including Mexicans as drug-dealing “rapists” and Haitians as pet eaters, while lamenting a lack of transplants from “nice”, white-majority countries like Denmark and Switzerland. Last month, sources close to the president told NBC News that he could prioritize deporting undocumented Chinese nationals. “He’s been very clear about going after people of color, people from ‘shithole countries,’” she said, referring to a 2018 remark from Trump about crisis-stricken nations like El Salvador and Haiti. Trump could plausibly deport a million people using military-style raids of the Eisenhower-era, Ngai said, but it is unlikely that he can expel 11 million undocumented immigrants. (According to an estimate by the American Immigration Council, deporting 1 million people a year would cost more than $960bn over a decade.) Still, Ngai said, his rhetoric alone could foment fear and panic in immigrant communities. But Eisenhower’s immigration approach also differed from Trump’s in notable ways, Ngai said. Though the administration did launch flashy raids, it also allowed farm owners to rehire some deportees through the Bracero program, essentially creating a pathway for authorized entry into the US. So far, Ngai said, Trump has hammered down on deportations without providing an option for legal immigration or naturalization. “He doesn’t know the whole story of ‘Operation Wetback’,” she said. Deportations also appear to have harmed the local economy.

Donald Trump’s mass deportation proposal hasn’t been the first time the US conducted mass deportations of Mexican-Americans, as it happened during the Herbert Hoover and Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidencies. The deportations were ruinous to economies and were a human rights disaster, and Trump’s plan repeats that but turbocharges it.

[guavagyal]

anyway, I'm voting for Claudia de la Cruz. I'm tired of this white madness.

[andrewthedeadly]

actually so tired of hearing “i dont know any of the candidates” “they all suck” “ill just do a straight ticket” “im not voting bc i dont have enough info” FIND IT!! and im so serious.. this is my first time voting n this is basically all ive heard with little to no info on how to actually find resources and information about voting. mind you this is the presidental election so i can only image how state and local elections will go… so i made this canva infographic with multiple sites that can show you your ballots, upcoming elections and information on candidates. share to all those “i dont vote” “im not informed enough” people. albeit late but remember LOCAL ELECTIONS MATTER !! also voting for upcoming bills etc!

[bootleg-nessie]

People will really cry about the “lesser of two evils” and then insist that we need to stick to the system that only ever produces two evil choices

If your house is up in flames do you go to the room that’s least on fire? No, you leave the damn house

Edit: I’m advocating for getting rid of the two party system, not leaving the country

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

With two months left, Biden escalates NATO war on Russia

By Gary Wilson

In a menacing shift of U.S. policy with less than two months left in office, President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S. long-range missiles for strikes deep within Russian territory, potentially engaging in a direct NATO war on Russia.

[walks-the-ages]

plain text: Harris, Trump, Sherman, Stein, De La Cruz, West, Kennedy, Other, None.

please reblog for further range :)

But! Just note:

genocide-apologism/denial tags or comments, including anything along the lines of "But x would be worse..." gets you an immediate block.

If you claim that third party is useless you will be blocked.

If you demonize people who do not vote you will be blocked.

Make your own polls if you want to spout that crap.

[whitesinhistory]

I'm still in disbelief. 10 to 15 million people didn’t cast a vote for president—not even for a third party. Some said they were tired or too principled, but even a protest vote for the Green Party—the “lesser of evils”—could have sent a strong message. Supporting the Green Party would have bolstered a platform that aligns with Democrats on LGBTQIA+ issues, the working class, and abortion rights, while also pushing for Medicare for All, DEI initiatives, workers' rights, and protections for children.

Trump the rapist is president of the United States of America.

[dicapiito]

A special fuck you to third party voters. Y’all helped Trump win and frankly go fuck yourselves. May you all be just as shunned as MAGA because y’all damn fucking deserve it

But but but..” PaLeSTInE” 😬🙄

Get fucked for what you did to Black People. Thanks a fucking million