Screenshot of alert from Citizen app with the title “Secret Service, ICE Raid Home, TV Crew May Be Filming for Dr. Phil”
And it’s not just that it’s awful. Fascism is awful everywhere.
It’s that it’s just so goddamn tacky.
Dr. Phil should stay in Texas with the other racists.
Just remember, this guy could win an election the next time.
This is filming is the beginning of that show they mentioned a few months ago where people win citizenship. We are fucked.
Win… Citizenship?
Trump treats citizenship as a commodity. He’s literally selling it to rich white south Africans.
I decided in 2021 that if the election went to shit, I was moving to New Zealand. I even took a phone interview with a possible employer in Aukland. However, between 2021 and now, I ended up in a relationship with a refugee. She can’t move with me or she loses her protected status.
After the election happened, I spent a lot of time thinking carefully about what I would do. Ultimately, the risks (like getting tied to a shitty job with a bad boss and not being able to switch because they were sponsoring my green card or whatever, plus being sad and lonely without a support network) outweighed the benefit (not being attached to the USA’s shittier states). I remain stateside.
Here’s hoping for you, me, and everybody else to stay safe out here.
Plan your exit
Or do the world a favor after living in comfort at their expense for decades, grow a pair, and fight.
I see this sentiment posted a lot on here, and while I don’t disagree with the position, I’m not sure I understand what exactly is meant. When you say Americans should “grow a pair and fight”, what are you envisioning? Should I drive to my state capital and shoot the governor in the head?
Organized resistance overcoming more powerful enemies. You know, that thing the US always claims they’re known for. Although I suppose an honest look at the past would reveal that America has always been slow (putting it lightly) to organize on the right side of history.
I’m not suggesting violence, necessarily, but I think America’s protests have been relatively toothless and misguided compared to their ancestors. During the first guilded age people protested outside John D. Rockefeller’s house for months._ Can you imagine people protesting outside of Musk’s, Bezos’s, Zuck’s, or Gate’s houses?
The Montgomery Bus boycott lasted an entire year. Headed by people that had no other means of transportation. Can you imagine people depriving themselves of an essential service, like, say, the internet, for an entire year?
I just don’t know that people are prepared to do what, historically speaking, it takes to get better living conditions. Not violence, but the patience and persistence it take to truly change society.
I’m even here writing this long comment instead of doing something in real life.
A vest full of semtex
