Dems are not gonna abolish ICE, they love their purpose as much as Republicans.
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2026
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We need more than that. We need potential 2028 candidates to announce that a future Democratic president should just refuse to fund ICE. If Trump can shut down entire departments by fiat, so can a future Democratic president. If SCOTUS commits the most transparent act of judicial partiality in history and wish to somehow rule that a Democratic president can't do the exact same thing they okayed for Trump? Well tell them to pound sand.
We can't afford another feckless Republican Lite Democrat President placeholder to give us a breather between fascists. We don't need to lie and cheat and steal like MAGAs, we just need a Warrior President who will PLAY HARD BALL, and simply enforce all the laws of this nation, and prosecute MAGAs for their CRIMES, not their politics.
For instance, the Biden FBI had video of Pakled Tom Homan taking a bag with $50K in cash from an undercover FBI agent, in exchange for giving them special favors when Trump was reelected. The MAGA DoJ tossed the case, and said it never happened.
Homan was on Meet The Press this past Sunday, and he denied EVERYTHING, claiming it never happened, there was no cash, etc. I was shocked they even asked him about it, and his denial was comically weak. It's doubtful he'll be allowed on any of these shows in the future, and his effectiveness as a thug is diminishing fast. I predict he'll be one of the first of the Apes to be cut loose.
So IF the Dems can gain control again, we don't have to go after them for their politics, just their crimes and cover-ups. For instance, this Homan cover-up had to go all the way up the ladder, and every single person who was in on the cover up should be charged and prosecuted, which almost certainly includes Bondi, Patel, and the White House. It has nothing to do with their politics, just the cover up of a well-documented CRIME. Throw those charges on the pile.
Play HARD BALL, and charge them with EVERY violation of the law, no matter how small. No deals, no immunity, no mercy, no forgiveness. They get full, maximum sentences, in the worst prisons in America, with no protections. The leaders, and the worst offenders, should be incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay. They are vicious criminals, and should be treated as such.
If Trump's regime is to be removed from office then it's got to happen in the next few months at the latest. It has only been two weeks into 2026 so far and already he has kidnapped the president of another nation, his gestapo have shot multiple innocent people and now he is about to start WW3 over Greenland.
By November it will be far too late to stop him.
The fascists don't care about consistency or fairness. By definiton they're opposed to that.
They will without a doubt block anyone else from doing exactly what they are doing.
Killing multiple regime members on the court or expanding the court are the only two options if we want a supreme court that's capable of upholding the law.
This is good, because even if has no chance of passing today, they can reuse most or all of the bill text if they can consider abolishing crimes during a left wing Congress and administration we need to do everything possible to bring about in the future.
Let’s just fast forward to everyone forgetting this ever happened because there’s no follow-through unless it hurts people.
Why is murders in scare quotes?
It's not in scare quotes. It's one word from a longer quotation.
“We do not need the murders, we do not need this paramilitary organization’s members on our streets, terrorizing U.S. citizens, terrorizing moms, terrorizing our children,” he said.
Legal liability.
Newspapers are responsible for what they publish, as libel laws apply. Spread misinformation to millions of people and you're in deep shit - same reason why Drumpf is going after the BBC right now. Mind you libel only applies if the person or entity committing it is of a standing people would be inclined to believe - a random passersby shouting it thus isn't libel, but a major publicarion stating it, would be considered as libel.
Murder specifically has a legal definition, and to be legally called a murderer, one has to be convicted of murder. Not just charged, not just sent in front of a judge, but actually convicted. Even if the evidence presented to the public prior to a trial makes it obvious beyond a doubt, legally you can't be called a murderer until you're convicted, therefore the act itself can't be called murder by the media either.