@2centsofsanity@RandPaul@WhiteCoatWaste Yeah because @randpaul has figured out what nobody else in Washington has: he can make way more money from random nobodies on X than by bending over for Pharma lobbyists. /s
@JoelKatz Is this pressure or persuasion? Was Michelle Obama's multi-year campaign to curtailed food industry advertising of sugary foods to children "pressure" or "persuasion"? Both were speaking against protected (but disgusting) speech.
@JoelKatz@MrRIPPLEAquiEs@kathyj615 This sounds a lot like sudden stimulation of serotonin 2A receptors in the visual cortex. This is the mechanism of hallucinogens like LSD, DMT, psilocybin etc but can occur naturally or through non-drug-induced means. Given your value to humanity, beware directed-energy weapons.
@DefiyantlyFree Worse, the only crime stats attributed to illegals are those whom have been previously processed and fingerprinted by DHS: https://t.co/PY970CFiiG
@CynicalPublius The discussions about this are exactly like the blue vs gold dress from 2015. Both sides dug in to their perspective, yet their exists a dualism in truth.
And then there are protests. We have forgotten what they are.
Let me say something almost no one will tell you. And I am sure I will be lambasted for saying this as I have never heard it said to me explicitly:
There are really no such things as peaceful protests. A protest works because of a show of power which can be converted to a riot, uprising, lynching, or even a revolution.
Every group chanting in the streets is one toggle switch off of being a mob.
No one knows who has a gun. Police are often outnumbered and reliant on their training, camradare and weapons.
So my avuncular advice to those of you who have never yet gone to Kent State or Soweto Township or Peekskill New York: don’t be naive.
I am not saying don’t protest. Quite the opposite.
I’m saying study what protests are. Why they work. Realize that Gandhi was explicitly pro-violence and actively hated passivists with a passion that burned. I’m not insane. Look it up.
Don’t get played out there. This is a revolution I never wanted to happen and of which I would want no part given the choice. Charlie Kirk fell to it. As did this 37 year old. As nearly did Donald Trump.
It will kill more of us. Those stoking it from America First militants and Groypers to the Ultra Woke are profiting from it. But we will all get sucked in to varying degrees. Myself included.
So I am not going to be naive and say “Stay Safe out There!” to my fellow Americans.
I’m going to say I love you and know what you are getting yourself into: a low grade revolution grinding for nearly a decade now. May the best parts of your hopes for our country be worth the risks you are taking, and may you be conscious of them and manage them wisely to make our nation better.
And if you don’t understand the above, may you have the good fortune to be able to stay home until you better understand the forces around you that would sacrifice your life to make a point without a second thought.
Either way: Good luck.
🇺🇸 ICE DETAINS RELATIVE OF WHITE HOUSE PRESS SEC KAROLINE LEAVITT
The mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, Bruna Caroline Ferreira, was detained by ICE in Revere, Massachusetts, and is now held in Louisiana awaiting deportation.
Officials say she overstayed her visa by 25 years and had a past arrest for battery. It’s unclear how that case ended.
Her family says she was brought to the U.S. as a child, lived here under DACA, and has tried to build a stable life.
DHS under Trump and Kristi Noem says all undocumented individuals are fair game for deportation.
Leavitt’s nephew hasn’t lived with or spoken to his mother in years.
Leavitt had no comment, but the message is loud and clear: everyone’s fair game, no matter who you’re related to.
Source: NBC News