Well, this is new and different! A GOP Governor is raging mad about something done by ICS/DHS, and he is saying so in public. That’s kinda rare these days. Any number of them are more than happy to support Trump and do his bidding (see: Texas gerrymandering). This one isn’t. From Raw Story:
Even conservatives are reacting with anger over the last week that left children nearly naked and zip-tied on the streets. Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) said that he’s all for enforcing immigration laws, but seeing the raid was infuriating. His comments followed MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff, who said he’s seeing a lot of “cognitive dissonance” from the White House regarding the reality of cities like Chicago and Portland. He pointed to a report speaking to people who live in cities who dispute Trump’s claim that they’re a “war zone,” “lawless,” and “on fire.”
The people of the cities are just fine. They have crime under control. They most certainly DO NOT want federal troops in their city, yet Trump persists in doing so. Remember LA and the protests that Trump was being a dick about? Well, more so than usual. Federal troops do not have the training for working with the local PD. So they ended up picking up trash and weeding the gardens and whatnot.
Let us not forget the boredom. We heard about that, too. They are NOT needed and do NOT want to be there in any city. But Trump persists anyhow with overblown reasons that are lies. He lies as much as Ghislaine Maxwell does, and that’s saying something. It’s all the time. Add in the dementia and oof. Ridiculous.
“The raid on that apartment building in Chicago, where they brought in the helicopters and they were rappelling down, and they were breaking in and putting kids in, in, in these zip ties, completely and totally outrageous,” said Kasich. “It makes a situation really, really bad. It’s an outrageous situation. Really, really bad. It’s outrageous. Okay? That’s something that should be explained to people in the administration. I never given up communicating with people who have authority and power to a point where I can call on them to help me. But that raid in Chicago was just, I’m just still, my blood is boiling over that raid. And nobody supports that. Nobody.” Soboroff explained that the cruelty is the purpose of such raids.
Gee, I wonder why. Cruelty is the purpose. Cruelty is the point. What the holy hell?!! There’s a problem with this. People are fighting back against this cruelty. All this does is make people more mad, not less. It’s a bunch of hooey that we don’t need. We call bullshit a million times.
What do you (and they) think the No Kings protests are about? They’re against what Trump is doing. They’re against authoritarianism. They are against the dictatorship Trump is trying to build. They (and we) want our country and our democracy back! Remember, they’re tomorrow. Find one and go to it. Please. Now, back to our regularly scheduled program.
“Let me ask you a question or our audience a question?” Soboroff pivoted. “Why would they be out there with documentary video crews taking high definition video of that raid on the apartment building Gov. Kasich is talking about? … If they didn’t know exactly what they were doing and doing, exactly what they wanted to do. They are documenting all of these things and putting them out for the world to see, because that is the point.” He said he hoped there could be some level of dialogue, but it didn’t seem as if the federal government was open to it from his vantage point.
Oh, no, they aren’t. The propaganda videos show that. The terror showed that. Farmers are going bankrupt because they have no workers, and Trump’s tariffs have hit them with exports. The raids like the above are hitting families. They are unable to do things because of these raids. Their kids can’t go to school because they could go and come home to an empty house with the locks broken. What the hell has happened to our country that things like this are happening every day? Oh. Wait. We already know the answer. Trump happened.
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