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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/critical-read-about-the-bbb-federalism-and-the-future-of-american-democracy

Mike Jollet, American citizen, musician and writer... I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset. I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states. I’ve been attacked on Fox News, berated by the VP and others and like many of you, I’ve gotten death threats. So please believe me when I say this. Things have changed. ICE is going to be the vehicle for fascism in this country. The extra-judicial practices (no warrants, no ID), the masks (anonymity leads to horrors again and again throughout history), the dehumanization of immigrants and Democrats (dehumanization precedes arrests, torture, murder, again and again). No we are not going to be Nazi Germany because nothing in history matches Nazi Germany. But fascism has arrived in America. Here is how it is going to happen: ICE will be the vehicle, the gestapo empowered by the President, to enforce his will, first among vulnerable undocumented people, then among legal immigrants, then among political rivals, then among citizens who speak out against the Trump grift. This is not a hypothetical. It’s happening. That Big Dumb Racist bill gives $170 billion dollars for an organization which has no respect for the constitution, no oversight, nothing but marching orders from a couple racist, power-hungry madmen. $170 billion to build hidden prisons with no oversight. To put this in perspective, this is 62% larger than the entire federal prison system. $170 billion to drag people out of their places of work, parks, homes. $170 billion to hire racist little man babies who hide their faces as they assault children, old people, pregnant women. How do you think this goes? How has this ever gone in history? We are entering a dark period. Our only hope is to draw the line now. To stick up for our friends and neighbors, our co-workers and loved ones, who are undocumented and being hunted. If morality or empathy for them is not enough to motivate you, fine. Then let this be your motivation: if you don’t draw this line, you are next. Do you think Trump will grow a conscience? Do you think Stephen Miller will have any trouble going from, “these people are criminals” (them) to “these people are helping criminals?” (You, by being against Trump). To “we must arrest the traitors opposing our efforts to arrest criminals?” (You or anyone you care about who publicly opposes Trump.) Do you think republican congressman are going to care? To lift onefinger to protect you? To do anything which gets in the way of Trump’s agenda? A person who has no problem letting children with cancer die in order to put a few dollars in the pockets of rich men will have no problem with letting Democrats and activists rot in jail for trying to stop it. This has happened again and again throughout the world. And now it’s happening here. I wish I had concrete plans. I don’t. Not now. All I know is the first step for change is identifying the gravity of the truth. And the truth is fascism has arrived in America. And we must stop it in its tracks or it will swallow all of us.

Siggurdsson was arrested for questioning and immediately suspended as the allegations were to do with children That's an employment safeguarding issue so they had to suspend him (fuck knows why an allegation of adult sexual assault isn't? 🤷‍♂️) Later no charges were brought, insufficient evidence. Mendy suspended after he was charged. Found not guilty on all counts at trial. Johnson was immediately suspended by Sunderland following his arrest, and missed two games before being returned to the team while on bail.He played in 28 games throughout the following 11 months, until he was first dropped from the team on 11 February 2016, and then later sacked by Sunderland, after pleading guilty at trial to two of the four counts put against him.His endorsement by Adidas was also terminated as a result, and EA Sports removed his likeness from the FIFA 16 video game. After the conviction, Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce faced scrutiny for continuing to select Johnson during his bail, particularly following allegations that the club had seen documents in May 2015 suggesting that Johnson acknowledged his guilt. Allardyce, who had joined the club only in October 2015, claimed that he was not aware of such documents and had always been informed that Johnson was to plead not guilty; a Sunderland press release made the same statement. In court, Johnson claimed that he had confessed to Sunderland chief executive Margaret Byrne on 4 May 2015. Byrne, a former lawyer, was due to appear as a witness for his defence but did not take the stand. Sunderland's supporter association desired to question her over her knowledge of the case. Byrne resigned on 8 March 2016, regretting her "serious mistake", but claimed that she had not made the club aware of Johnson's admission, nor was she aware that he was to plead guilty.

Errr... Was there a single individual who appeared yesterday who was under 60? Did Ozzy actually sing? ....

We sign Harvey Elliot for the job description as outlined above ^

@Dougle are you fully signed up with the TT Discord channel for next week's descent into madness?

Also suggests there's a gooner near the top of the CPS in the London area...his contract runs out and only then he's charged? Fuck off man 😏

You think the Wideopen Nostradamus has such powers? 😳

Should be noted that after that useless sack of fuckin shit Mitchell fucked off last week Newcastle United's transfer window has properly taken off this week Form an orderly queue to offer your acknowledgements that myself and my good friend @thebrokendoll called this virtually as soon as fuckin twat turned up and are indeed excellent judges of character and can see a cunt coming a mile off

Yes, I moved back to the county of my birth

I sat in a cafe there this morning and there was a table full of barely alive 80 somethings being patronised into being publicly racist by an enormous jowly loud mouthed Essex cunt who was maybe in his early 70s .. probably been a Tory since he was eating rusks but is now undoubtedly the local Reform UK LTD organiser. He said he'd been at uni in Edinburgh and he could understand the locals there but not those further west which is because he loudly divulged that he lived n fucking Morningside which is like living in fucking Belgravia 😑 They were all complaining about being overrun with foreigners, I was there all morning, drove into cosmopolitan Bournemouth this afternoon and it was only then I saw someone who wasn't whiter than a fuckin polar bear .. there is no doubt that some areas of the UK are experiencing huge problems due to immigration. Dorset isn't one of them and never fuckin will be... I remember your visit to rural Dorset, still a fairly magical place as can be seen in the pic and although not tourist free it's not anywhere near like Devon & Cornwall . I advised you to visit the next valley to the Piddle to observe this magnificent edifice:

Am now absolutely certain you voted Tory in 1979 I don't blame you tbh. My folks were born in the mid 30s and after (according to them) Wilson & Callaghan having every major union leader in and out of Downing Street most nights beamed live to the nation on news at 10 and the winter of discontent 78-79 am fairly certain that they did too. As am fairly sure they never did again. Basically it has to be pointed out that 70s Labour begat 80s Tories and the invention of Modern Britain

Yes Dave, you get spotters badge this lunchtime time

Well you'd think so... but am in the heart of the godly King Alfred's Saxon Wessex here, not THE LAND OF THE HEATHEN DANES!!!! 😡

Fellow 1970s kids! 😀 and the 1970s middle aged ie @Toonpack obvs .. Difficult to avoid the 21st century creeping in here this lunchtime but it's still very quaint...

Did you vote Tory at any point up to, including and after the 1979 general election?

I preferred Gina Bellman in that but yeah singing detective was fucking glorious nonsense will hot as fuck women...

Pleased you posted that as the official video has apparently been pulled... Brucey's lawyers have been in touch?

Funny you should mention that..I've got to go to the hospital a week tomorrow to see the allergy department...it's all related to my Eosinophilic asthma...basically am now suffering from chronic Urticaria (basically hives) where my body is producing huge amounts of excess histimine and it breaks out on my skin all over my body most days and most of the time. I can feel it on my face as I type this. At some point every day its fucking unbearable. So together with my monthly (self) injection for the asthma I'm going to be doing one for the hives too. Next Weds is my instruction session with the frankly very hot indeed allergy nurse Ciara The good doctor @Renton will no doubt be keen to put a figure on the cost of this course of indefinite treatment, to be added to the £12k p.a. that he told me my asthma treatment was costing the country.... LONG LIVE THE NHS

Yeah am certainly not against Elanga. We're going to pay through the nose for the fucker but I think it's going to get done....

It's not either or to me tbh, I think we're looking at both these sorts of players. l'm surprised at you mate, thought you'd be creaming yourself at the thought of a no. 10 type attacking player and a RW. I'd be a bit surprised if it's Elliott but he's the sort of player we need to break down the 11 men behind the ball merchants of the league. Not sure if he'd come here though, he doesn't get in the fully fit first XI which is precisely where he is at Liverpool. Same as paying big money for another striker. We need these players for squad depth but identifying those who would definitely come is fuckin tricky.. as for Elanga am wondering how much influence Isak has had on this...is this a stab at keeping him happy?..

Loving that TBD 👏 This is for me better than the accepted wisdom ie that I feel love is the greatest dance track of all time...

Only one Hercules properly counts here like