This business – cheered by many supporters of President Trump – of snatching “immigrants” off the street and shoving them into government vans, ostensibly to be deported, is not about deporting these “immigrants.”
The “immigrants” are of course illegals – a distinction the people who refer to them as “immigrants” do not want made, because they don’t want citizens to express any resistance to the country being deliberately flooded with “immigrants” meant to displace citizens. They manipulate people’s emotions, in other words. Turn their decent instincts into a weapon to be used against them.
The legitimate frustration citizens feel about this has been expertly manipulated by Trump; he got re-elected largely on his promise to get control of the open border and to get the people who are not here legally out of the country. Sounded good, right?
But what’s happening on the street is not about that. If Trump wanted to get the “immigrants” – the illegals – out of the country, the easiest way to do that would be to issue an executive order (Trump issues these freely) that makes it illegal for any individual not a citizen or in the country lawfully to receive any government benefits paid for by American citizens via their taxes. He could use the power of the federal government to get state governments to abide by this, just the same as the feds do with DUI standards and speed limit laws.
There would be no need to grab people, one by one or in small groups, off the street and throw them into the back of government vans.
Turn off the spigot of “free” stuff and the freeloaders who are the problem would either self-deport or get jobs and play by the same rules that citizens are expected to – at which point there’s no more problem. Most American citizens do not care whether a guy who hails from Mexico is in the crew putting shingles on the roof of their house; they are pissed that they’re paying taxes to support “benefits” for people who are not paying taxes, don’t pay for car insurance and don’t pay for the “free” medical care and “free” education” provided by the local government school. Not because they think it’s right to be forced to pay for these things but because they are forced to pay for them while the “immigrants” are benefitting from them without paying for them.
No one likes being a sucker, in plain language.
So – what is this business (snatching “immigrants” off the street and throwing them into the back of a van) really all about?
It is about normalizing this business of snatching people off the street and throwing them into government vans. Note the missing word. This is not about “immigrants.” That is the window dressing. Just as the Patriot Act and Homeland Security are not about those things, either. What Trump is doing is getting Americans used to seeing people dragooned off the street by government thugs. Just as the Patriot Act and Homeland Security got Americans used to being treated as presumptive “terrorists” by the government. Americans – most of them, certainly all of them not old enough to remember what America was like before The Chimp used “terrorism” to turn America into a Homeland – now consider it normal to see blue-uniformed goons at the airport and to meekly submit to being patted down and interrogated as if they’d done something criminal to warrant this. 
The stage is being set for government goons grabbing citizens – the soon-to-be-declared enemies of the state – off the street and chucked into vans, never to be seen again. Trump speaks of the “enemy within” and citizens ought to take that seriously because that’s exactly who he’s talkin’ about, Willis. As in you and I and anyone else who utters an unwelcome comment about the government – or perhaps the government of the state of Israel that effectively controls the government of the United States. Trump and his minions have clearly intimated their feelings about people – citizens – who dare to mention this and related facts.
Right now, the Red Hats are cheering what Trump is doing – because they do not understand he is going to be doing it to them, eventually. Just wait until the next Good Excuse. Then we’ll see whether they still cheer.
Of course, by then, it will be too late.
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I think we have enough Mexicans and south Americans in this country. The main issue here is not that they are taking benefits without paying taxes. It is that we are being invaded and replaced. This was a white Christian country up until the 70’s. Then on the premise that diversity is our strength we are flooded with immigrants. Most of these immigrants don’t care about our history or the bill of rights. They usually vote liberal and are just fine with more taxes and laws. It’s hard enough getting along with white people, and now we have to contend with so much diversity we have to walk and avoid stepping on politically correct eggshells. Why is diversity our greatest strength?
I put a can of cat food out overnight by the backdoor & got really mad at all the damage the varmints did which were attracted by the bait. I sicced the dogs on them all to try & get them to all go away.
The next night, I put another can of cat food out.
Do I need more dogs? Do I need to train the dogs better?
I know, I need to assign ID’s to all the chickens! That’ll fix everything!
See also: “The catch is, people have to think about these things.”
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/10/george-f-smith/critical-thinking-is-the-only-path-to-freedom/
Morning Helot.
If you posted this in the morning paper few would make the connection to illegal immigration.
“We are being invaded and replaced. This was a white Christian country up until the 70’s.” That’s what abortion/birth control will do for you. Same thing is happening in Europe.
The ‘can of cat food” is mainly the wage difference and work opportunities available in the U.S. It is the same reason the Irish and Italians immigrated.
That being said, this “invasion” would not have happened if someone didn’t want the cheap labor. I wonder if Trump’s wineries, hotels, construction have been raided: hotel, farm work, chicken factories, New York construction (why no ICE to New York?). Koch bros, Gates, Buffet and many others support and benefit from the invasion.
What benefits aside from the “free” education for the children do you think are drawing the illegals?
https://cis.org/Report/Mapping-Impact-Immigration-Public-Schools
Eric,
Here is a great substack article on the guy behind the X changes you wrote about before. Sinister.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-176180268
Sinister, for sure. “He went hunting for teenagers.”
“Create a space for kindness.
The reality was more sinister.”
“He called it “a psychological trick.” That’s not marketing language. That’s a confession.”
[Monsters. Everywhere.]
“the app already felt predatory. Parents couldn’t articulate why, but they sensed something wrong. Teenagers couldn’t explain it, but they felt manipulated. The app was designed to exploit fear of social rejection, monetize adolescent insecurity, and extract behavioral data under the guise of “positivity.””
[Like in a science fiction horror story:]
“The behavioral architect doesn’t like being questioned about his architecture.”
“Bier was hired to solve a revenue problem by making X psychologically inescapable.
He’s applying everything he learned from teenagers to everyone.”
[Got Damn! This sheet IS sinister:] “Social credit scoring by another name. Geography as a trust indicator. Behavioral patterns as authenticity markers.
Here’s what nobody’s saying clearly enough: Bier didn’t spend the last decade building apps to help people. He spent it building the most sophisticated behavioral data harvesting operation in history.”
“You think you’re participating. You’re being managed.
You think you’re being heard. You’re being suppressed.
You think you understand the system. It’s deliberately incomprehensible.
You think you’re making free choices. You’re responding to engineered triggers.”
… “The only question is whether you’ll keep participating.”
Wow. Thanks for the link & the heads-up.
I just wish others can catch the drift.
Thanks for this, Dennis!
X is worse than just Xcrement…
I disagree.
Illegal aliens are here, well, illegally. Why is it not legit to arrest them for violating US law? Assuming that they receive due process with a hearing in which the gov must prove the arrestee’s lack of citizenship, valid visa, green card or other legal status, why is it not legit to deport them?
I think I’m fine with all reasonable and humane efforts to repel illegal aliens, including deportation, elimination of “benefits,” and I might even be ok with confiscation of all property acquired while in the US without legal status. An all of the above method would be most effective and would send the international message not to come illegally. The globalists are trying to replace American culture with 3rd worlders that have no desire to assimilate. I’d like to preserve American and western culture if possible.
If somebody invites himself into my home, why is it unjust to forcibly remove him if necessary.
I’m with you, but I object to their tactics.
Yes, these people are here illegally, however, most of them are here to work, not to freeload. I think Eric is wrong on that assertion. They are working, sending money back home, knowing that their days here are limited. I’ve seen this a lot, having lived in very poor areas with lots of illegals, having been quite poor myself.
I understand the violent apprehensions of the murderers and rapists and the like, but that same level of violence is being used against people driving Ubers, or working in laundries or factories or farms. They’re not a threat. Most of them will go peacefully.
This is absolutely a show of might, meant to instill fear, in addition to arrests for being here illegally.
Hey OppositeLock,
I’m not sure Eric was saying most of these people are here to freeload, but that was the primary grievance. What you’re saying is what I’ve experienced as well. Most of the freeloaders I’ve known have been white and born here. It’s a lot easier to get “public assistance” when you’re “legal”.
It’s a poignant fact that if you’ve come here and never “paid into” (had your paycheck robbed to support) the welfare systems, but somehow take from them, you’re a thief. Whether or not you have government-issued documentation supporting your supposed right to be here is a much lesser problem in my book. I don’t put a great deal of value in a government-validated existence, and spend as little time as possible pursuing their permissions and blessings, so I don’t blame others for doing something similar.
Right. I don’t think they’re ANYTHING that cops legitimately need to do that can’t be done in a blue shirt, shiny badge, goofy hat, and while calling people “Sir” and “Ma’am.”
And armed with a .38 revolver.
I am all for ICE arresting people who genuinely have outstanding deportation orders issued by an immigration court. But they do NOT need to be dressed in combat gear, camp, wearing masks, and carrying “assault weapons” that are illegal for YOU to have.
They do not need to be covered in tats and screaming “GIT ONNA FUCKIN’ GROUND RIGHT NOW, MOTHERFUCKER!” at people while making arrests at gunpoint, and they do not need to address people as “Bro” or “Motherfucker.”
This “cop-as-thug” shit needs to end…
Very well said, X.
I agree with you regarding the thuggish language, but this open and violet rebellion by migrants and their leftist accomplices constitutes invasion and insurrection. The ICE guys are being photographed and doxed so as to threaten their families, viciously assaulted, tasered, fired upon – often in a coordinated tactical way – by leftist mobs funded by the likes of Soros and other nefarious sources. Local police are being ordered by governors and mayors to stand down, even when present and observing. Half measures such as revolvers and goofy uniforms will be perceived as weakness and only make matters worse.
I’m no big fan of ICE. I would like to see some push back on the doxing thats being done to them. How about this? We find and publish (far and wide) the addresses of all properties of every politician and their families, all of them. We could begin with those agitating for all the freeloaders they invited here without our consent.
HA! I like your direction, but I think your aim is off.
“without our consent.”
…When, was it ever?
Are you riding two horses going opposite ways? [Opposite Lock?]
Do you have any say in the ‘freeloading’ going on?
As if, there is, a, ‘we’?
People should know who cops are and where they live. They are public employees and supposed to be public “servants.” There is not supposed to be such a thing as “secret police” in this country.
There is a sheriff’s deputy who lives three doors away from me. I know he is a cop because he has a marked car in front of his house every day.
I understand that cops need to use force sometimes and it isn’t always pretty, but that force needs to be highly controlled and judiciously exercised. No cop needs to wear any “tactical” gear other then what the Chicago cops had in 1968 when they broke up the hippie riots at the DNC — blue shirts, hickory sticks, and .38s.
(And even then Jewish Senator Abe Ribicoff called them “Nazis”…)
Indeed, and that force should be an absolute last resort and 100% second guessed and reviewed by impartial citizens. And SWAT should consist of the cop calling on citizen militiamen/posse when serious problems are encountered calling for organized response. Its not hard, and it works.
Any cop who can’t live with that shouldn’t be a cop.
Tattoos are about 50:50 now, and whether or not people have them means more or less nothing. Everyone has them, for certain values of everyone. I have them. They don’t somehow turn a person into an aggressive jackass. Not having them does not make anyone a good person.
Historically, tats used to be an indicator that the wearer was somewhat “off.” Sailors, Marines, bikers and savages like the Maori had tats as a signal that they were violent and willing to casually kill you at a moment’s notice… but if you were LUCKY they might only beat the fuck out of you.
It’s utterly absurd and farcical to see scrawny 120 lb. liberal kids at the coffeehouse with their big, black-framed glasses wearing facial hair and full sleeve tats. Equally absurd to see women with them.
I saw some chubby woman a couple of weeks ago with an open shark mouth and teeth tattooed around her knee. My instinctive reaction was “What utterly stupid, lowbrow, tacky white trash you must be. I’ll bet you spent your welfare check in the trailer park on that… “
Guilty as charged. I am a little “off.” Not dangerous, though.
Who cares if it’s tacky, as long as she likes it? It’s her knee, and tacky is in the eye of the beholder.
Mine are exquisitely done, speak to who I am on a very deep level, and make me smile when I see them in the mirror. If other people like them too, great. If not, IDGAF—I got them for me, not for them.
If you like your own tats and they make you happy, I respect that. However, speaking generically, I see tats as a silly trend among younger people who seem to get them just because everybody else gets them. It’s the ultimate herd mentality. The bizarre thing is that they are trying to be different, but in reality they are just being the same as everyone else. To be truly subversive today is to have NO tats, LOL.
Many of the tats I see on people are lacking in artistic and aesthetic merit. Like anything else, moderation is a virtue. I am not 100% opposed to tats, but if you are going to have them, my own view is that ink just for ink’s sake doesn’t often look good. Parsimony is a virtue. I suppose if a dude had been in the Marines, I would not object to a globe and anchor tattooed to his bicep.
On women, I completely object.
Like anything else, I believe that other people have a right to object to tats in hiring and social interaction. What pleases the wearer might not please everyone else, and the wearer has to accept that.
if I had a swastika tattooed to my forehead, it would not be unreasonable to assume that people would judge me (negatively) for it… including 99% of other tat-wearers.
Amen, X –
Maybe it’s an age/generations thing. My generation (GenX) did not get “tats” – unless you were (as you say) a trailer-trash skank (for the women) or a biker, sailor or criminal (if you were a guy). Not one of the girls in my high school had “tats” – and I didn’t know any guys who had one, either. I think they are trashy looking, especially on women. I get, though, that this s just my opinion. That said, they have become cliches in that everyone – just about – who is under 30 today seems to have them.
I’d say the dividing line is about 40.
It started to change when I was in high school/college (circa 2000), then really accelerated about the time I was in grad school & hit the “real job” market (circa 2010).
At this point no one really cares, even in corporate, unless they’re on your hands, face, or maybe neck. For the same reason employers stopped testing for marijuana: if that’s the line they want to draw, they won’t have a workforce.
Just in time for digital IDs; Central Bank Digital Currency, and AI “data centers” all over the country…. What could go wrong? Everyone’s already got their official tracking devices in their pockets! Beginning in a few months in the UK, no digital ID…no worky….. It’s happening…..
A part of me thinks Trump has a nugget of honesty in him. Some people think he’s dumb as a bag of hammers, some people think he’s a 5D chess genius. He’s neither but he’s both. Underestimating him as dull is just as much of a mistake as assuming he’s some MENSA savant.
Which brings me to the point that I wonder sometimes if he learned from his first term that real truth and depth of corruption and now wants to do something about it. Maybe it’s just personal retribution, trying to protect his family. Maybe he’s genuine in desire for a better world.
Since we’ve been screaming from the roof tops for decades on the mistake of socialism and we ramped up our yelling about PATRIOT. And what happened? It got worse.
So maybe the solution is to take the system to ’11’ and show how bad it could get. Wipe the nose of Bubba Merican right in the pile of shit. This is your future if you don’t wake the hell up soon.
I’m open to arguments either way whether that’s Trump’s plan or not. He’s not stupid, he got through Wharton business school and navigated one of the most corrupt politicasl systems there is, real estate in New York City, with some success. So underestimating him is probably a mistake. On the other hand, maybe he really is just that mentally idled.
But at this point only the most deluded (or paid shill) MAGA can’t sense the lies and imminent danger. If he’s a paid Israel actor (which is likely, yes) you also can’t say he has not brought attention to the “special relationship” that is making even middle America question blindly supporting them.
@Ernie (October 28, 2025 At 10:46 am) put his finger on the problem that has to be solved first. The kritarchy. Everything substantial that Trump has attempted has been blocked by national injunctions. Whatever idea you can come up with, until you address the out-of-control just-us system, nothing’s going to work, apart from maybe an attitudinal shift from people deciding to self-deport rather than be put in a van.
Excellent Eric,
They will be coming for anyone guilty of wrongthink if this is allowed to be normalized. To paraphrase Bonhoffer – when they came for this, that, and the other groups I didn’t object; when they came for me there was no one left to protest.
You nailed it with this one Eric. ‘Turn off the spigot of free stuff and the freeloaders would either self deport or get jobs and play by the same rules that we citizens are expected to.’ Funny how the easiest, best solutions, the ones that are guaranteed to work, are never tried. Then as the problem becomes insufferable, TPTB feel they’re justified in taking off the velvet glove and deploying the iron fist.
Part of me, I’m ashamed to say, likes seeing people thrown into the back of government vans, then eventually deported for minor offenses. I mean, if I drove with no license, no insurance, got in fender benders, got tickets for it, didn’t show up for court multiple times, then got caught by the Government goons, I’d be treated the same way if not worse.
Psft!~ No, you would Not. You would be given a simple fine.
Also, this is super creepy: “Part of me, I’m ashamed to say, likes seeing people thrown into the back of government vans,”
Keyword: ‘likes’.
The bad guys flooded the country with invaders and trespassers, against the express will of most Americans.
Treasonous state and local officials have meanwhile taken every opportunity to lend aid and comfort to these illegal aliens, while adding cops and rules to persecute citizens.
Many of here aliens are agents of ascendant foreign powers like China or vicious little states like Israel, who would love to have resource rich and sparsely populated America as a colony or acquisition.
The country is decades into a cold civil war, but voters were slowly beating communists /Marxists/leftists back, so they started blatantly seizing power, stealing elections, and flooding the country with easily manipulated votes. They have burned cities and started a program of assassination.
They have also installed a whole bunch of kritarchy in the form of judges and lawyers whose main loyalty is to their own wealth and power.
So now the country is teetering on the edge of a hot civil war.
If you were suddenly POTUS, how would you deal with this? There are no easy, nice answers. We’ve already lost the golden place we called ‘Merica, and will need to rebuild it when this is over.
The only thing I would do differently would be to immediately go after the employers to these aliens, and put a bounty on them. Let private bounty hunters round the aliens up for a few thousand apiece, then rather than just ship them home at taxpayer expense, try them and sentence them to indenture and make them work off the debt they owe to the people of this country. After they’ve accumulated enough for a cheap ticket home, release the indenture and send them.
We absolutely need to be very wary of big, well funded internal standing armies (and this especially includes local, state, and federal cops), and be ready to immediately shut them down. But for now, I say let them work.
“But for now, I say let them work.”
Agree. That’s the tragic reality. At its essence this war is racial. We White Folk are being attacked on all cultural, economic, and political fronts and we are too damn naive, smug, insouciant. or willingly ignorant to see it. At this point I am far more concerned about securing our existence and a future for White children than I am about about optics and whether we are playing by the rules when our enemies clearly do not.
Yes, the white replacement has been happening for decades. It’s especially bad when I rarely see a white female (of any age) with a white boyfriend/husband anymore.
Yo, yo, yo, wassup bro?? Yo got your “snow?”
Hmm, so you want to side with The Power Elite & go after companies & fine them & ruin them rather than go after the regulators which turned a blind eye?
Fancy that. Do you consider yourself a libertarian or freedomista in any way shape or form?
Or, do you like to wear Jackboots?
…Inquiring minds, want to know.
Yeesh, I think it’s clear, you prefer the Jackboot, now & forevermore. ‘Cause, there ain’t no, temporary.
“We absolutely need to be very wary of big, well funded internal standing armies (and this especially includes local, state, and federal cops), and be ready to immediately shut them down. But for now, I say let them work.”
Well, the jackboots are kind of kinky so maybe I’m into them.
If I find a bunch of thieves in my home ransacking it, raping my daughters and stealing my gold, am I a jackboot for putting a stop to it with whatever level of force and aggression turns out to be necessary? Have I initiated the force?
How about if they’ve invaded my neighborhood and a hundred of us like minded neighbors get together to stop it, by using whatever level of force and aggression is necessary? Are we the aggressors? Are we jackboots?
There is such a thing as a just war, even though most of them are not.
Now excuse me, I have to go watch my harem put on their jackboots for some good nasty fun.
Ha. Anyway, for your example to run more true-to-life: your harem went out & invited some strangers to come into your house, gave them food, offered them money to clean your house. You just happened to walk in & catch them in the act of stealing & what-not.
Is the blame entirely upon the strangers?
Oh, no, the harem would have to be punished harshly, with spankings and such.
The strangers would simply be ejected by whatever means were necessary. And held accountable for any losses they caused.
Perhaps another issue to pay attention to is a Supreme Court Case is Case V Montana just litigated this month. As libertarians we are all concerned about how the 4th Amendment has been whittled away and this case creates a new definition of allowing AGW’s to enter your home without a warrant called *Reasonable Exigency*. If upheld, it will allow a new novel standard for police to enter your home either from *we got a call* pretext or even lower threshold of *we just want to assure everyone is OK*. So, your ex-wife, or anyone who doesn’t like you can say they are concerned about you and you have *guns* the AGW can enter your home without first obtaining a search warrant. Red-flag law without the messy process of passing legislation. In the State of Montana of all places. (I hate to think that it will be conservate states like Montana or Idaho that will sell out to tyranny, not just CA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otZHRx9l68s
As for Illegal aliens, the Marxist-Democrats use to be really concerned about wages in Third World countries and were even paying more for coffee at their local Starbucks for the *Living Wage* they were gaslighted was going to help Third Worlders. Well, the libtards concern and altruism are fleeting when it comes to illegal aliens. Libtards want the low wage slaves to bake their cakes at bargain prices. The illegals work for less than the legal minimum wage, often get taken advantage of by unscrupulous labor brokers, get no retirement social security, no workman’s compensation if they get hurt on the job, no healthcare so if they are injured, they are on their own (we pay at the emergency room visit). They live 15 to a 2-bedroom apartment. I have some liberals I train with, and they all were whining that food and housing costs are going up because Trump is rounding them all up. Yep, and your DEI hires aren’t cutting it either.
Thank you for understanding this issue, Eric. Exploiting people’s anger and animosity is done so easily. I’ve even heard people saying habeus corpus should be suspended to hasten the deportation of the Illegal Alien Invaders of Death, because after all, Lincoln did so, and Lincoln was a *wonderful* President.
It’s all just getting worse and worse. Stop the ride. I didn’t buy this ticket.
Many of the Rs are a special kind of stupid when it comes to Lincoln. Ds as well. Doesn’t matter if you bought the ticket or not. It’s like Carlin said, When you’re born into this world you are given a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America you’re given a front row seat.
Ultimately all we can do is pick up a notebook and chronicle the freak show, divorce ourselves from the ugly reality, and secede from the chaos.
It’s definitely a bad look to be snatching people off of the street and throwing them in vans. And I’m absolutely anti-illegal alien.
I believe they are doing it this way because they know they can’t get them all, so they are sending a visual message to the rest of them. “Go home voluntarily, or this might happen to you.”
As a non-voter, I foresee these visuals resulting in an uptick in Democrat votes. Democrats will take power and continue the optics, but it won’t be illegals they are snatching.
The same thought you expressed popped into my mind too: Sending the optic of body-snatching and hinting that this very thing could happen to you, Mr. Illegal Immigrant. Hell, it frightens me too, for the very valid reasons stated by Eric. Certainly, people who are “Drunk on Trump”, and are ignorant of history, especially East Germany history, are gleeful.
The problem with using government power is that when your team is using it, you view it as good. But woe when the other team gets in, and exercises that same power.
Here’s something that is “unsustainable”, to use the term from the liberal/ globalist elite: Despite the government being “Shutdown”, U.S. debt recently reached $38 TRILLION. Politicians and special interests such as Big Pharma & the military-industrial complex continues to get wealthy while ordinary citizens struggle with higher prices on practically everything. Liberals love to say the MASSIVE debt is because of “Tax cuts for the rich!”, whole completely ignoring the MASSIVE amount of money the federal government has given to foreign countries, the money wasted on endless wars, and even taxpayer money given to government favored industries such as Lockheed Martin, EV manufacturers, and “Green energy” companies. Just look at Solyndra under the Obama regime.
The goofy thing is everyone looks at the big numbers going to the MIC because they are big numbers. Solyndra was, what, half a billion dollars? Chump change. There are over 40 million people on SNAP (Food Stamps) alone. If they were getting just $13 each, that’s a half billion every month. Officially, SNAP is around $180 a month.
That’s the stuff DOGE was focusing on. Not the big ticket items, but the small stuff that in aggregate was crippling, and that no one was keeping track of. Especially not the people in charge of managing it.
This is why charity must be private. The attitude of the multiple tens of millions of entitled recipients is,” the feral gov’mint has lots of money and I need some”. In fact it has none, but nobody dares turn off the spigot. And the armies of very well paid bureaucrats are not doing their job scrutinizing the claims of the entitled, after all its no their money they’re giving away.
‘It is about normalizing this business of snatching people off the street and throwing them into government vans.’ — eric
In Argentina, twenty years afterward, I got an earful from taxi drivers in Buenos Aires about how this works:
‘The Dirty War (Spanish: guerra sucia) is the name used for the period of state terrorism in Argentina from 1974 to 1983. Security forces and death squads of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance hunted down political dissidents and those believed to be associated with socialism, left-wing Peronism, or the Montoneros movement. Between 22,000 and 30,000 people were killed or disappeared.’ — Wikipedia
A military dictatorship ruled Argentina during the Dirty War. Here in 2025 America, the outward forms of democracy are still observed. Clowngress created a Deportation-Industrial Complex in the One Big Butt-Ugly Bill:
‘Congress gave ICE $75 billion over four years, approximately $18.7 billion each year. Added to the $10 billion Congress already appropriated ICE for fiscal year 2025 in March, ICE now has $28.7 billion at its disposal this year. That is nearly triple ICE’s entire budget for FY24.
‘The $170 billion price tag for all immigration enforcement is more than the annual expenditures on police by state and local governments in all 50 states and the District of Columbia combined.’
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/big-budget-act-creates-deportation-industrial-complex
Remember how pandemic spending — covid stimmies, business loans, suspension of student loan payments — warped the whole economy? Pumping $75 billion into ICE will do for the police state what stimmy checks did for the used car market. America will never be the same.
Couple this massive funding with a swaggering president who rules by decree with hundreds of executive orders. Like Argentina’s former junta, the Trump regime is grossly extraconstitutional. Even Nixon’s failed War on Drugs did not extend to blasting boats on the high seas, executing dozens at the whim of the Orange Emperor.
Get it straight: the US is under de facto martial law, right here, right now. Read the Orange Emperor’s ranting, semi-literate outbursts, and you will realize that we in quite grave danger, likely to be resolved in a orgy of stylized ultraviolence amid widespread social unrest.
Smash the state.
Thanks for the example of Argentina. I see too many of the commenters above making excuses for the Orange Gremlin and his actions in the name of stopping “Leftists” as well as illegal immigrants. I will have zero sympathy for them when Newscum or whoever decides to turn the tables on them, which is inevitable no matter what they think can be a “permanent Republican majority”. It’s a uniparty in which each “side” plays a role.
What I like about this site is that Eric calls out what is really going on instead of some Winning! partisan BS.
There is also not much, if anything, being done on the employment side with respect to enforcement of immigration laws.
It already is illegal to hire anyone without proper documentation; e.g., work visas, and has been for decades.
I’ll believe we’re serious about controlling immigration and doing it right once I see C-level executives and rich housewives doing the perp walk.
But we don’t see that, do we? So it’s more than just dealing with illegal immigration—it’s getting us used to people being “disappeared” á la the Soviet Union.
It’s more subtle than that. I doubt the US goes the vans in the street for dissenters. Other than maybe a few high profile cases, but they have to be really careful with that. The Dimocraps overplayed their hand with Peter Navarro, and it is still biting them.
The real oppression will come through the IRS. Don’t for a second think there’s any other reason they are focusing on your $601 Venmo but can’t seem to track millions in waste, fraud and abuse.
Spot on, Eric.
It’s not people coming here it’s the socialist programs that attract the undesirables. Until those programs end we’re going to have an endless stream of the non-productive arrive on our shores.
The second point is even more chilling. Even if Trump is the Second Coming of Christ, he won’t be Prez forever. Just wait until the likes of Chelsea Clinton takes the Oval Office. When that happens the Red Hats better be wearing Depends.
Even if President Trump has no plans to haul Citizens off of the streets, future administrations might not be so constrained. Make no mistakes I want the illegal aliens gone but as Eric pointed out; give them nothing and go after those businesses that employ them is the more palatable choice in the long term. If States refuse to follow the law? Remove federal funding to those states.
Either way it’s going to be a sh*t show and I suspect it’s only going to get sh*tier.