ICE is a paramilitary organization sent to blue states for the purpose of terrorizing Americans as punishment for voting against Trump. Understand that. Texas has 3 million illegals, Minnesota 130,000 at most. When you start from that understanding, the rest falls into place.
Let me say this as clearly as possible, because people keep getting it wrong.
Republican lawmakers didn’t stick with Trump because they were hypnotized...terrified...or somehow helpless.
They stuck with him because he’s one of them.
Trump didn’t corrupt a moral party. He exposed a corrupt one.
If Trump were merely embarrassing...reckless...or rude... they would have dumped him years ago. Politicians abandon liabilities fast. What they don’t abandon...are mutual liabilities.
Trump normalized behavior that many of them were already guilty of: ethical shortcuts...financial murkiness... abuse of power...contempt for oversight... lying as policy.
He didn’t invent the rot...he gave it cover.
And here’s the part people don’t like to hear:
For a lot of Republicans in Congress, Trump isn’t the risk.
Accountability is.
Trump absorbs attention like a sponge. While everyone is watching his circus...others operate quietly in the shadows. He’s not a distraction...he’s a shield. A very useful one.
Once they crossed certain lines together...election lies, January 6th...obstruction...weaponization of government ...there was no clean exit.
Loyalty became self-preservation. Defection meant subpoenas...investigations...and career death.
That’s why the so-called “good Republicans” vanished.
They weren’t persuaded. They were purged. Retired. Primaried. Marginalized. What you’re seeing now isn’t universal agreement...it’s selection pressure.
Only those comfortable with ethical decay remain.
This is how systems rot. Not with villains twirling mustaches...but with people who decide, one compromise at a time, that survival matters more than principle.
Trump didn’t take over the GOP.
The GOP recognized itself in Trump.
And that’s why expecting them to “come to their senses” is a fantasy.
You can’t ask people to enforce standards that would incriminate them.
The alliance holds...because it has to.
That’s not psychology.
That’s incentive structure.
And until people stop confusing fear...with complicity... they’ll keep being shocked by behavior that was always predictable.
Two things we gotta remember:
1) @FoxNews paid $787 million for lying. Their "reporting" is based on continous blatant lies.
2) @SpeakerJohnson isn't the "Speaker" of the House. He's the "Speaker" of Donald Trump. And - added bonus - he's going to hell for lying according to his Bible.
This video easily and plainly explains and debunks the @GOP@HouseGOP@SenateGOP LIE about illegal immigrant healthcare.
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I know way too many American no longer care about this, but I’ll never stop reminding them of this: Donald Trump is EVERYTHING you teach your children NOT to be. He’s cruel, ignorant, & lawless, he’s a bully, a coward, a cheat, an extreme narcissist, & a pathological liar. You’d never work with him, you’d never work for him, you’d never want any woman you cared about involved with him. He’s a horrible human being. Shame on us for electing him again.