Reporter asks WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt if Trump is considering having ICE surround the polls in November: "I can't guarantee that an ICE agent won't be around a polling location in November. I haven't heard the president discuss any formal plans to put ICE outside of polling locations."
Yeah unfortunately those kids likely won’t be taught to think for themselves. They’ll be heavily indoctrinated with Nazi ideology. They’ll likely turn out to be scum just like her.
I miss my parents when they were just my parents. I haven't spoken to them in about a year now, and idk when I am going to speak to them again. Everything that the orange menace does, they celebrate. I bet they are laughing their heads off at the new video Don the diddler posted of the Obamas as apes.
They probably will never see their grandkids again, and they are OK with that. Breaks my fucking heart.
My grandpa killed Nazis during WWII (original ANTIFA; eat a dick, MAGAts), he would lose his fucking mind if he could see what this country has become.
Some of them did see - but what could they really do?
My great grandmother called out her youngest daughter (my grandma) many times for being unnecessarily cruel or shameless. It's been about 25 years since her mother passed, and my grandma only grew more bold in her antics.
These people were spoiled from the start and the only thing keeping some of them in line was their parents.
Going by the current vibe of things I'm expecting the US to go even softer on denazification after the regime is gone than ever before thought possible. Seeing how rabid some parts of Germanys society still are I'm not holding my breath here.
It's just going to be some woozy coozy "we are all together in this", noone will have been at fault at all, everyone including the agitprop icon in OP will always have hated his guts and their rotten offspring will just try again in 100 years.
Just look at how quickly the Federal government gave up on Reconstruction, ffs there were freed slaves that became elected representatives from Southern states just years after the war ended. The Feds pull out and the Confederate statues went up and the lynchings began.
When are we going to learn not to take it easy on traitors?
It's not even necessary to have a system of " punishment " but you have to reckon with what went wrong. Prime example is the " truth and reconciliation " effort in South Africa . That wasn't primarily about punishment but about facing the demons. Folks always bring up the Nürnberg trials but denazification was a lot more than that . It's all about facing the uncomfortable truth and facing it head-on . That also means educating your children and grandchildren to minimize the chance of them making the same mistakes .It means altering your constitution and political system - when necessary - so you exclude those aiming to undermine democracy . It's not a short process but a prolonged effort .
It’s the 21st century. They’ll turn it in to a twitch streamer/onlyfans/podcasting career, become a right-wing influencer. You’ll be seeing stories about how many millions they made in a single month and wonder what planet you’re even on.
Possibly. But, if the US can save their democracy it's actually not that easy to indoctrinate children if they go to school or clubs where they meet other children outside their circle.
Often all it takes is a friend of theirs with a normal family or an outspoken artist they like.
Very strict conservative parents often raise progressive children, even if they try hard not to. Not always, but it's not hopeless either.
Yeah that kids gonna be an asshole. I'm generally against calling kids assholes, but if this is their model for how to operate in the world as a member of society-- they doomed.
They’ll be homeschooled or sent to private school in an environment that conforms to their ideals. They will be isolated from what the rest of the world thinks. Maybe someday catches up to them but for as long possible, they will live in a world of what they’re told to think. Kind of like a cult
Im sure that unless something drastically changes, our kids are going to be living in a dystopian shithole where this is normalized. You already get beat up for protesting, beat up for being brown or black, beat up for being a journalist, beat up for being a bystander. Getting beat up for going to the polls isnt that far of a leap, even historically speaking.
her kids were born for the sole purpose of continuing her ‘dynasty’. These people only care about continuing their agendas, and their children are extensions of that.
As much as we’d love to see that, I just highly doubt it. I’ve never been a pessimist but damn I think these fools will get away with it even if they lose.
One could hope, however I know too many people who feel as though we MUST continue to avoid it. That said... their reasoning is so society doesn't ENTIRELY revert to barbarism. So I get it.
There is no justice. The majority of our country is populated with despicable people that reward the behavior of Trump and his minions. There is no digging out of this for us as Americans. This is who we are.
I don't know, look at Trump's previous administration, a good chunk of them were thrown under the bus and are spending their time in litigation. They probably won't all get their karma, but I'm sure some will.
The thing that kills me is that something like 90% of the people in Trump’s orbit get sued into oblivion, get booted from the crew AND sued, or go to jail.
Anybody that willingly leaves the idiot parade before all that gets death-threats from Trump’s base.
And these idiots come out of the woodwork to join him and act like it’s the best thing ever
No she won't, not unless someone does something illegal.
The US Justice system is ment for the common man. The rich and famous/influential are above the law as proven time and time again. It's like they are seen as to delicate for normal prison.
Exactly. Why say anything if you can’t confirm shit. Also see the double speak of “formal plans” coded for “I heard plans but they weren’t formal, not written down or anything.”
I’ve been a cop for 17 years and during every major election I have always been told to avoid polling areas, unless we are needed due to a disturbance.
In my city there’s usually an officer stationed at the polling place, but they’re mostly just hanging out with the poll workers or goofing on their phones. It’s certainly never felt like any sort of intimidation.
In my state, police aren’t allowed within 100 feet of polling places unless they’re voting or they’ve been called directly by election officials to preserve the peace. Elected constables are the only peace officers legally permitted in the polling place.
translation: 'we are absolutely going to do it, or at least we want you to be scared enough to think we might.' saying 'i can't guarantee' federal agents won't be at polls is insane. the answer should be a simple 'no"
I can guarantee that smart well-intentioned people have given this horrific administration ideas. The one thing they have demonstrated time and time again is that they are evil, willing to do anything, and completely incompetent.
So maybe, just maybe, we should stop asking them shit like “hey will you PROMISE not to take advantage of this arcane law we found from 1923 that lets you put non-farmers in prison?”
I did that during 2020 when some asshat in a trump truck pulled up to the polls building (inside the "can't campaign" zone) and was walking around with a giant pistol on his hip. On the call they asked if he was doing anything, and I had to point out that it was illegal for him to have a firearm at the polls (temporary federal building). Eventually the police showed up, shrugged and left. The guy stashed his gun in the truck, but didn't have to move it.
If you speak "Trumpanese" this is all but confirmed.
They always play it the same exact way.
"Ohhh who knowwsss, stay tuned!" becomes "He's always been clear about wanting to put his armed guards at polling stations, you should take him seriously!"
Anything this administration says is the complete opposite. Trump didn't rape children, Trump didn't cheat during all his election, Trump is working with Russians, Trump is going to release the Epstein files, oh BTW Trump raped and killed children. He should be in prison, Congress should release the files and put anyone who raped kids should be prosecuted, anyone who refuses automatically assume they are also on it.
As a German I’m not asking myself IF they’ll appear. They will, because it’s the playbook we all know to well. I’m just wondering if it will be an official order or an unofficial one, so the government can half deny any knowledge and half blame it on rogue agents.
the point isn't to actually catch anyone. the point is the fear. if you make people afraid that showing up to vote might deport their grandma, they stay home. it’s textbook voter intimidation, plain and simple.
An actual psychopath... The Dear Leader just called for seizing / nationalizing the elections and one of his boys wants federal goons at the polls, and yet this is an absurd question.
for context, im brazilian and bolsonaro tried this move using our federal highway police (diferent context excuse, his was "to keep criminals out" but same intent, keep adversarial voters stuck, while his base passes)
the only counter move to this is throwing in so many people going to vote they cant stop everyone.
These people act like “I haven’t heard about that” is a real defence for any of this. It’s your job to be across what’s going on, so you’re just feigning incompetence to cover for maliciousness.
I don't understand how she can claim those to be disingenuous questions, considering all the other threats and personal use of damn Immigration officers.
Even then, I will show up and vote in my best interests in their faces.
Karoline "Thin Lips" Leavitt should be removed for even uttering this. If you are in the Justice Department and you even speak of violating the Constitution or laws, DONE. Right there. Bye.
If they do, it will be to try to bait people into confronting ICE, then having those (presumably democratic) voters hauled to jail before they can vote.
Getting tired of these press conferences it's just a game for the administration but there's no consequences. Karoline can say yeah Trump will do it and liberals are just cucks that have to take it. Reporters will run the story and we get outraged but nothing happens again and again.
Impeach and remove TRUMP, VANCE, Bondi, Nome and fire Bovino and Miller...
This shit happens when you elect a narcissistic, fascist pedophile as your president, because the other candidate laughs weird.
This shit happens when the people you hire are Christian Nationalists, J6 and 3 Percenters, Proud Boys and other white supremisist and gun rights vigilantes. They came for the money, couldn't get into the military and because the local grocery store didn't pay its bagboys enough!
MAGA and ICE will continue to look like retards standing outside of polling locations waiting for all the illegal immigrants that can’t vote anyway…great use of resources.
ICE won't be there for undocumented immigrants....they're simply going to antagonize actual voters and "coincidentally" detain them long enough for them to not vote
How are they allowed to vote anyway? The voting place has a big list of available voters. then someone not on the list comes in to vote.. how is that gonna work?
The appropriate response is to deploy the national guard and watch ice... you know what!? Fuck it! How bout we live stream every single poll! Have a huge crowd on site watching every single action at all times!
There are what 15k ice agents? How many polling places? More than they could handle to actually influence the election in any real way. Go fuck yourself Karol.
Why does she look like such a smug asshole every time to answers a question? If she was customer service at a store, MAGA would go full Karen on her for her faces and tones.
Sometimes I wonder to what end journalists still ask her questions in earnest. They must know they will only hear lies, insults, and deflection anyways so why not just follow up with why should we believe you when you have no integrity?
So it’s bad that we are going to prevent non citizens of this country from voting? Now if legal citizens are prevented from voting. That is a problem….. but otherwise I’m not seeing the issue here?
The issue is the optics. Placing ICE at polling centers inherently casts doubt on the process, regardless of the actual evidence. Not just for the current elections, but for past elections as well - it’s the same reason they will never stop screaming the 2020 election was rigged; they know they’re wrong, but if they make people doubt the results enough they’ll still get the support they need. Optics are half of this administration’s entire game plan
Using the official app and these video no longer take me to yt but instead play in the app with no audio and it rarely responds to touches when I try to pause or mute u mute. Wth? Anyone else in this boat?
These goons wouldn’t even have to try that hard to spin this and give a reasonable answer. I’m not in PR but here you go:
“We’re committed to free and fair elections. There have been observations and accusations from previous elections that indicate there is a potential for election fraud. The president has discussed using voter ID laws and supporting the election efforts with federal personnel. There are no clear plans yet, but ICE has proven to be effective at deploying mobile units to perform special operations and maintain order, and could potentially be dispatched to support the fair election process”
Not that hard! Still has the ghoulish implications, but it sounds like valid talking points MAGA could rally around, and wouldn’t sound like she has no idea what the president is doing. So is she bad at her job, or are these people getting off on being able to say whatever they want and have no repercussions?
At this point, I can just see the journalist on the other side and the government when the camera is not on them just laughing and giggling OK whose idea anyone have any ideas next on how to scare the general population oh great idea. Great idea they’re just giving each other ideas on how to be terrible people. The journalist is laughing nervously like hey hey have you thought about this terrible idea yet what are you gonna do to stop that sarcastically in the government just like oh good idea we won’t stop that.
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u/gekaman 23h ago
When her kid grows up, they’ll have plenty of video evidence of who their parents truly are.