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Michelle Belmont's avatar

Stephen Miller is one of the most deeply evil people in the current American zeitgeist. Him(Miller) and Tom Homan are both extremely dangerous and people wouldn't pay attention to the ruthlessly cruel stuff they have been saying for years. Watch them like a hawk!

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Judith Hofeditz's avatar

He is a disgusting and scary excuse for a human being; I think he’s a sociopath. I don’t say these things lightly but based on reading about him since he emerged in T 1.0 and watching his interviews. He has no social skills and is one of those MAGA folks who wake up every morning looking for targets for their hatred. What a life! If he wasn’t such a damaging person I might feel sorry for him. He has too much power to deserve any sympathy, a truly dangerous person.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

Miller was a scheming little weasel the first time around, but with his boss actively trying to demolish the lawful separation of powers and turn the Executive branch into a dictatorship... he is now one of the most dangerous people alive on this Earth. If Trump succeeds in consolidating and securing his power, Miller will surely be one of the architects of the atrocities to follow. This is a man who could sign an order to commit mass murder and go to bed with a smile on his face.

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Tony D's avatar

This is so horrific. I don’t know what to say anymore the government controlling education is so dystopian.

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Ivy's avatar

Amusing that they claim children are being indoctrinated by woke culture, but SCOTUS is on the cusp of allowing federal and state dollars to go directly to religious private schools that structured and explicitly state they will feed students a slop of made up bullshit.

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Yasha's avatar

The constant "communism" accusation is so bizarre. This is just straight up Mccarthyism 2.0. Only nobody outside of MAGA is actually talking about communism...

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Alethia St. Joan's avatar

Dude looks like such a weenie.

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Anne's avatar

Much, much worse than just a weenie. He has no affect. There is simply nobody behind the eyes.

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Rachel's avatar

Donald Trump is clearly the worst person in the country right now. I don't think that's a controversial statement in this audience. Stephen Miller has a pretty solid claim to number two. The competition is tough - Elon Musk, J.D. Vance, Russel Vought, Clarence Thomas - but it's hard to argue against his pure awfulness.

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Rainbow Passage's avatar

Except it is not Trumpian, this is text book right wing GOP and neoliberal rhetoric. If we continue this myth, millions will die because we keep letting there remain a false distinction between the establishment political class and Trump.

Its bad enough we have so many blindly following the DNC, without also touting theit talking points that claim Trump/MAGA to be an outlier, instead of the culmination of a plan nearly 250 years in the making.

This nation was not built for us (working class, non-western european, non-xian, non-cishetero), and every single moment we allow that myth to persist we only further ensure the inevitable conclusion of the American experiment.

Touting DNC rhetoric is EXACTLY what the GOP hopes all of their enemies-our community-continue doing. Thus as long as we see ally where only vapid rhetoric neoliberal/neocons exist, we continue to play into the joint duopolist's strategy's framework that guarantees further erosion of human rights.

They want us all in CECOT and the bulk of the DNC agrees entirely. Can we please stop promoting this charade? Fight the facts all you want, but the GOP = MAGA = also the DNC, the only difference between the parties is the amount of coverup the Media Industrial Complex is willing to commit to whitewash the 250+ years of brutal oppression of human rights.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

This? This right here?

This is why Trump got a second chance to murder us.

Because the two major parties in this country are 𝘯𝘰𝘵 just as bad.

Democrats are, by and large, worshipers of the status quo... and yes, that's a bad thing; we have 𝘴𝘰 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 things we need to work on in this country, and stodgy old fossils like Schumer and Pelosi have been getting in the way of that necessary progress for far too long.

But the Democrats 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯'𝘵 "lets make being trans illegal" bad.

And the Republicans 𝘢𝘳𝘦 "let's make being trans illegal" bad.

The Democrats did 𝘯𝘰𝘵 rendition undocumented immigrants and refugees to foreign concentration camps.

The Republicans 𝘢𝘳𝘦 renditioning undocumented immigrants and refugees to foreign concentration camps.

There fucking well 𝘪𝘴 a difference. And if more people had paid attention to that difference, and voted accordingly, we'd still be moving forwards- however annoyingly slowly- instead of tearing off in reverse with the gas pedal mashed into the upholstery. Biden was, for all his faults (and there were many), the best ally our community ever had in a President... and Trump wants to put us in the fucking ground. There is no equivalence. These two things are 𝘯𝘰𝘵 the same. Get that through your head before midterms, please.

Y'know.

If we still have elections by then.

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Rainbow Passage's avatar

Also Biden deported far more people than Trump in his first term. Seriously the distinction is meaningful only to those ignorant of the global experience under our hegemony.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

Biden did the wrong thing by deporting so many people. Understand that I am not trying to excuse the Democrats for the things they have done, or are still doing, that are wrong.

What I 𝘢𝘮 saying is that the Republicans are vastly, obviously, 𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 worse. By every single reasonable measure.

Okay, so Biden deported more people... but look at 𝘩𝘰𝘸. People weren't being snatched off the streets, or dragged out through busted car windows, by masked agents who refuse to show any identification or warrant. They weren't being frog-marched onto planes by the hundreds, in shackles, and flown away in the dead of night in defiance of court orders forbidding their deportation. There was at least some semblance of due process being conducted, however inadequate. There was some effort being made to prioritize actual criminals for deportation, and to determine whether they were even here unlawfully, rather than just bagging anyone who looks vaguely brown and hauling them away. All of that has changed now. It was bad before- but Trump has made it all worse. He's thrown out the rules altogether.

We need and deserve better choices, but these are the options we have to work with: stable dysfunction under Democrats, or 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘮 under Republicans. The former, we can work to improve. The latter, we can only resist- but we can't resist it by pissing votes away to spoiler candidates, and we can't resist it by not voting at all. Right now, where we are at 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺, that means voting for Democrats- not because they're a good option, but because they're the only other option on the board.

So, primary the fuck out of the shitty Democrats, but paint that damn electoral ballot solid blue, and keep doing it until the Republican party either dies or at least reverses course on Trump and MAGA. We can worry about what to replace the Democratic Party with when the other one isn't actively trying to kill us anymore. This is about 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 right now.

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Rainbow Passage's avatar

But objectively untrue, just because you fail to see the game thats been in play does not mean it is not there. Why is it okay to: deport anyone; militarize borders and 3rd world country located bases; coup multiple nations; crush dissent against the genocide, ethnic cleansing, and illegal occupation of historical Palestine; refuse to prevent further erosion of rights; stick to banning Pro-BDS from fed contracts; run on a platform of consistently shifting the overton window right; and demonizing all opposition that refuses to vote for the very people that are ignoring the latter's plight, or worse yet, minimizing it outright? Decorum of the evil is still evil. Stop shaming folks who dont vote, aim your hystetia instead at the leaders who have alienated more than half our nation to the point they no longer vote. I wish i was still so naive, how blissful it was when i thought one better than the other.

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RADial's avatar

Those are critical distinctions, but who in this conversation asserted a false equivalence between Democrats and Republicans? Is anyone in the trans community suggesting they are the same? 86% of us voted for Harris.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

Are you 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 asking that two posts down from someone who literally typed out "𝘎𝘖𝘗 = 𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘈 = 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘕𝘊"?

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RADial's avatar

FWIW, I agree with you wholeheartedly that the Democratic and Republican parties are not "just as bad."

RE: the quote; "...but the GOP = MAGA = also the DNC, the only difference between the parties is..." (illustrates a difference).

I have no patience for the "they're the same" argument and spent energy debunking that in the past. Impact-wise, policy-wise, of course they differ - enough to hold your nose and vote as we did election after election.

Both parties are collaborating in a system of legalized bribery. Money rules; both parties in the Legislature are enabling insurrection, and the collusion is happening right before our eyes.

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Rainbow Passage's avatar

Yeah totally better that Biden helped cover up the execution of journalists, I guess putting them in prison without due process is far more evil...

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RADial's avatar

The elites willingly handed over the U.S. government. Democrats enabled this because they share a common enemy in their quest to amass money and power: the progressive left. This pattern stems back to the fascist regime of Mussolini.

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Rainbow Passage's avatar

Close, however the biggest myth in US politics is that the Progressives exist to move the DNC left. Nay, instead they exist to capture any leftists who succeed in electoralism and to neuter the activist movement that got them in.

The Progressive movement was started by Teddy freaking-Roosevelt to prevent a socialist awakening in the US.

The second or third biggest myth? That FDR came up with the new deal, no, he relented and thus allowed its planning and had he not, we American working poor, much like the Soviets and other uprisings would've boiled into revolution; instead they offered the New Deal as the absolute most they were willing to give the working WHITE CHRISTIAN poor and created the-again another myth-middle class. Petite bourgeois would do far better uniting with the rest of the working class, lest they too want to fall victim to the machine that divides all to maintain its power.

The only way forward is together, communing again in nature to connect and collaborate and find consensus as a movement.

I do not wish to die to save this nation, but our org is in desperare short supply of the coleaders needed to prevent the cataclysmic moments from catching millions under its boots. And yeah its tragicallyy fault, growing up in the American Cult of the Commerce Class and the weak over their will Ruling Class, i learned to be an excellent soldier in breaking people from themselves.

But please hear me out, if I - Amy Check can overcome myself and reestablish the connection biologically imbued in all life of this universe and within myself, f--king anyone can. As recently as a year ago i smoked 2 packs a day equivalent of nic juice, drank/partied to excess, was full of willfulness and ego often refusing to see the love and joy to life those dearest to us brought, hated life, and felt that life was nowhere near worth living. However now I connect outside in nature regularly, I will leave my phone in the home for an entire day at times and live always striving to be in the moment, I bathe, teethbrush, practice dialectical skills regularly, and write a TON, and life? Its always worth living, they simply broke us of the connection to our internal familial parts so the belief in deities and capital would replace the belief in myself and people.

We have to resist far more than i feel in my soul 97% of this world is ready to, and we absolutely must neuter the distinction between American working class and non-Western/white working class worldwide.

We have a dedicated trio still in leadership, now horizontal, i myself chair in title but not to be confused as to outrank any non-listed coleaders, we must build this through democratic consensus, not majority rules. But we must do so mindful of not just ourselves but of all others who cross our paths physically, virtually, and especially spiritually.

These organizations, like ours, across the nation MUST close ranks, the sooner the better, i did not make this nonprofit my mission to make income-anyone daring income of 501c3 based missions is as much an opp as they are a tool of the Non-profit Industrial complex.

I have learned more in the past year about myself, my place alongside nature, and what it will take to accomplish the wildest dreams people have had about what could be possible if nothing was off limits. Please, I am very aware this appears as a break from reality but i assure those who feel it to be: the understanding of what is possible within the power of the human mind? Science has yet to begin to scratch the surface.

Please those who hear me, seek mindfulness (not in your immediate personal crises, but once its moments have passed, learn to process it), relearn your connections to yourselves and mother nature with in you. And when you've reestablished that connection to your internal family, come and connect with me through all, we've much to discuss, and list of to-dos longer than the universe is vast. We can do this but only collaboratively, mindfully, non-electorally, and in community with all mother nature's peoples, regardless their socially constructed species.

Im traveling back to Pittsburgh for a few weeks, we need to make contact with pilots, veterans, community leaders, and etc., Rainbow Passage does not follow the 14 word standard that the SBA RECOMMENDS for non-profit missions, instead ours is complex to enable every facet of the mission to be fulfilled to its absolute conclusion, victoriously and as peaceful as our opps allow it to remain.

And those who see me as threat? You have no idea what we are capable of together, I invite you as well to come connect collaborate.

Those who still feel too hurt to work with those of different stripes and persuasions, please work on learning dialectical skills and leave the verbal communication of any of the collective missions, to those of us capable of being THAT guy. We cannot keep dividing the working class into separate communities, if we continue to engage thoughtlessly and without mindful observation of others in our spheres, we will only be cutting our nose off to spite our face-on a globally deterimental scale.

PS please forgive typos and rashness ive 9 more hours of drivinh back from Texas.

PSS Rainbow Passage would love to also come connect in meatspace via rough camping in nature, if you need assistance with the backpacking and hiking, please do not self exclude, if we cannot carry you ourselves, we will use all our skills to build whatever we can to enable ALL to commune together mindfully in nature. And please start masking again for those who suffer immunological risks in close quarters to others. I, Amy, remain unmasked only to be approachable by the apolitical and/or right wing types with whom the bulk of my personal mission endures. As I was of them, I know how to teach the horrible truths they have been in the dark towards for far too long, because even those who know them to be victims of mass-brainwashing, treat them like absolute trash when they only require selfless love from those who are of the adequate metal to lend it.

EDIT: Almost forgot, by the way, if you can learn to see the DNC as the conservatives and the GOP as the radical party (they lack superdelegates to overturn the vote for populist radicals like the DNC has) it should change your understanding of the electoral game enough to understand the value in cloaking good faith socially and economically left principles and policies in the language and cover that the patriotic Americans are used to receiving from their leaders. I created a guide for doing as much, several months ago, I'll get it up on our stack when i get home finally.

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Reba Young's avatar

Hompphobic lonely bastard. Pity him and we can put our energy into resisting.

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Anne's avatar

He is, without a doubt, in the closet. He is acting out his frustrations with his own sexuality.

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Jendi's avatar

On behalf of the gays, we don't want him :)

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tecolote42's avatar

Good Christ Almighty. Miller is a rolling horror show.

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Veronica Erin's avatar

Well Steve Miller was the original indoctrinator. Oh “Fly like and Eagle to the Sea “ , I don’t think so Steve! Oh trans people can’t change their pronouns but we’re supposed to call him Maurice, a space cowboy, fucking pompatus of love??? I don’t think so Steve…….

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Anne's avatar
May 6Edited

Puppetutes is the actual word in the song, from an older song, and made up. I don't really get the rest of your comparison to Fly like an Eagle, either.

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Veronica Erin's avatar

He’s asking us to call him different names. Have you met a trans person?

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Veronica Erin's avatar

You’re real pleasant at a party I imagine. I just looked up the lyrics on multiple sites spelled differently on all of them. So who fucking cares, it’s a joke. This is why we’re losing as a community because they release a new bill and we’re like well technically you should have used the plural form and they’re like fuck off and pass it anyway.

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Anne's avatar

Anger much? I still have no clue why you would reference Fly Like an Eagle in that manner. I don't thing that he was referring to transgender people changing their names. And yes, I know many, many transgender and non-binary, and lesbian and gay people. I might even be one.

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Richard C Nelson jr's avatar

I'm wondering if many comments are trolls this time? I can only see 2 of 18 at the time I'm posting this.

Miller, like his mentors Stone and Bannon are visceral racists. Which aligns with Dumpster and Co. That the sick, cult medias justify and enable all the psycho - sociopaths of this cruel admin has been aggravating.

When will there be enough strife that anything like a real pushback happens? These years of terrorism against trans lives is top of mind aggravation. The whole experience is a hell scape of visceral stupidity.

I hate hell depth stupidity. It's bringing that wasteland of humanity to our planet. That Miller, Stone and Bannon continue is an abomination, a gargantuan pile of spew and feces stinking up the earth.

✊🏻🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✨❤️‍🩹💓🎵🎶🏳️‍⚧️📻💖

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Anne's avatar

I am glad that I do not have children in school now. I stopped saying the Pledge of Allegiance in the 6th Grade, recognizing that it was indoctrination. I can imagine what crap this little Goebbels -wannabe will come up with. I can see pictures of our "Dear Leader" on the wall, as a start.

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Shirley Gauthier she/her's avatar

Springfield, Oregon....My mail in ballot is ready to send off. It includes voting for school board members. If only every voter knew the how much value their vote has when it comes to school boards, library boards and other boards.

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DisneyLover's avatar

Patriots like VP Pence standing up for the Constitution on 1/6/21. I don’t think Miller understands what patriotism is. It isn’t flying a million American flags. Civic Values at this Texas School site shows that the White House & GOP are not practicing the their civic values.

https://citizenbee.org/civic-values-and-skills/

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