There’s no honor amongst either thieves or amongst Trumpites. All relationships in those realms are transactional. At least that’s the message that we get at first blush from the story that broke Wednesday afternoon that none other than Kim Kardashian has decided to mobilize her 350 million plus followers on social media against her once colleague and ally, Donald Trump. Donald will be peeved when he hears this.
Kim Kardashian leapt into the escalating public debate over what she called President Donald Trump’s “inhumane” immigration policies in a social media post blasting the MAGA administration and demanding an end to ICE raids that the reality star said are tearing families apart.
Kardashian, a lifelong resident of Los Angeles County, took to Instagram on Tuesday to slam the Trump White House’s intensified immigration crackdown, which has sparked days of protests in Los Angeles and other cities nationwide, according to MSNBC.
“When we’re told that ICE exists to keep our country safe and remove violent criminals — great,” Kardashian wrote to her 356 million Instagram followers. “But when we witness innocent, hardworking people being ripped from their families in inhumane ways, we have to speak up. We have to do what’s right.”
Kardashian continued by saying that she has seen firsthand “how deeply immigrants are woven into the fabric of this city.”
“They are our neighbors, friends, classmates, co-workers and family,” she said.
She added, “We can’t turn a blind eye when fear and injustice keep people from living their lives freely and safely.”
“There HAS to be a BETTER way,” she wrote.
The sharp rebuke from the billionaire reality star, who announced in May she had obtained her law degree, “may have come as a surprise to some,” given her past efforts with Trump surrounding criminal justice reform, MSNBC reported.
“During the president’s first term, Kardashian lobbied him to commute the sentence of Alice Johnson, a grandmother who was serving life without the possibility of parole for a nonviolent drug offense,” according to MSNBC. “In 2018, Trump commuted Johnson’s sentence and, in 2020, granted her a full pardon. Johnson currently serves as Trump’s ‘pardon czar.’”
But Kardashian made clear her stance on the Trump administration’s stepped-up immigration raids.
“No matter where you fall politically, it’s clear that our communities thrive because of the contributions of immigrants,” she wrote.
That’s true insofar as the broad brushstrokes of the issue are concerned. The real problem is that so many people who are completely undeserving are having their homes raided, are being taken off the streets, are being detained or assaulted for no reason, because Trump has set insane quotas for ICE and ICE is only too happy to move fast and break things. And people. It’s well known that Trump is insanely jealous of Barack Obama. Obama broke records for deporting illegal immigrants and now Trump is hell bent on outdoing Obama.
With nazis…cruelty is the goal…hypocrisy is the shield that allows them to run and hide from truly owning the deadly consequences of their actions.
Men become beasts to avoid the pain of being a man. Samuel Johnson