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Mark Hubert's avatar

As the Nazis took over,

The people only thought

These morons can't be real.

Clif Brown's avatar

But once in power, the German people called Hitler the leader, the phrase "the Fuehrer is always right" became common and Germans trooped to the Nazi flag with 5 million dying for it keeping Hitler safe until he killed himself as Berlin was destroyed around him. This is to say they gave their all. Though some of the German people, even a significant number, may initially have called the Nazis morons, they went along with the program with fanaticism like we see with Israelis and Zionism now.

Mark Hubert's avatar

Yeah. Once the moron’s thugs start killing and terrorizing it’s amazing how quickly people discover they’ve always been a supporter. Particularly when they are killing the Jews, and the Queers and the Commies

Clif Brown's avatar

Good point. We should all ask ourselves, "what would I absolutely refuse to do even if everyone else was doing it?"

Bob Fett's avatar

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Laura's avatar

Abolish DHS. I've said it before and I'll say it again – the destruction of our civil liberties and patriotic inheritance as Americans is coming from this post-9/11 department of horror. They had to set up extralegal jurisdictions and invent new thought crimes in order to make We The People the enemy of the state.

Anthony Allen's avatar

Somebody at DHS watched that episode of The West Wing and told Mark: "hey! you know what would be cool?"

At any rate, as Luis Gustavo Núñez Caceres, Geraldo Lunas Campos, Víctor Manuel Díaz, Parady La, Renee Nicole Good, Luis Beltrán Yáñez–Cruz, Heber Sánchez Domínguez, Alex Pretti could confirm, were they alive, ICE has ALREADY declared war.

Chris D's avatar

“Those who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless.”

~ Óscar Romero

Ken Klippenstein's avatar

My mom is from El Salvador!

Chris D's avatar

Oh wow. That quote has been my Substack “bio” since I’ve been on here. His journey in life has a lot of parallels to mine (hopefully mine doesn’t end how his did 😬)

Ken Kovar's avatar

The arrows and the olive branch’s will be switched in the next administration 😎

David S's avatar

Hey, get it right...it's a...PALM LEAF, just as McMullin says. You know, as in the ten commandments, when Martin Luther King nailed 'em up on the walls of his Oklahoma schoolhouse, that thing about not covering thy neighbor's fig leaf or whatever.

Only the best people.

Catherine Martinez's avatar

The war for these yokels is at home after all. They are still trying to secure their legitimacy. They never will. In the two grinding years we have left of the Trump misadministration I am concerned with how much force they are willing to use here at home, especially since the Dems, another fake political party, have clearly decided to let him stay in office.

M.K. Bess's avatar

They have no problem going after Americans and calling it war, unlike with Iranians, because Americans lack Shaheds.

Connie Phillips's avatar

Disgusting ‼️🤬

Han's avatar

Just subbed to say keep doing what you're doing Ken you are an important source of news for us all

ziguelito's avatar

NSPM-7 didn't even provoke a strongly worded letter.

X K's avatar
Sep 9Edited

We're the victims, there's always a threat, that's why we have to do this. Straight out of the hasbara playbook. Gee, think there's a coincidence?

Haven't these guys been seen howling at the moon when there's an eclipse?

Amrita B's avatar

Any donation options besides GoFundMe? I'd contribute a bit more, but I don't usually use GoFundMe and founding upgrade definitely is too steep for me.

Ken Klippenstein's avatar

No but I could set one up - which alternatives do you recommend?

Amrita B's avatar

A P.O. Box snail mail address would be helpful, it that isn't too expensive to maintain. Or, perhaps an option to take a monthly charge out of a checking account -- and that doesn't go through GoFundMe?

Alice's avatar

Scatter the pieces back to the departments from whence they came.

Ken K show us the risk/benefit analysis. The number of lawsuits by division, section, unit or whatever; the cost to human victims including staff; and the names, political parties, and reports of the oversight committees. Is the department including Inspector General Cuffari a threat a democratic society cannot bear? Too big, too uncontrolled, too stuffed with public funds unequally divided between perpetrators' pay and lucky-enough-to-win-lawsuit payouts?

Isn't this the DOGE modus and the DJ modus generally? Make the problem, draw attention, offer a succession of unsuccessful solutions for profit never ending.

This isn't news, this is chronic. ICE is only the tip of the berg. Search on 'GovExec Cuffari'. Some appallingly effective 2024 audio here,

https://www.pogo.org/investigates/podcasts/bad-watchdog Search on 'DHS Lawsuits'.

The People's Overseers

https://homeland.house.gov/about/

https://homeland.house.gov/subcommittees/

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/about/committee-members/

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/

One comment worthy report, https://homeland.house.gov/2026/07/20/the-road-to-victory-how-congress-helped-secure-the-world-cup/

Misc.

https://www.uscis.gov/laws-and-policy/other-resources/uscis-class-action-settlement-notices-and-agreements?ddt_mon=&ddt_yr=&query=&items_per_page=100

https://democracyforward.org/work/legal/religious-groups-sue-trump-administration-over-ice-enforcement-in-houses-of-worship/

https://www.lwv.org/legal-center/league-women-voters-v-department-homeland-security

https://lambdalegal.org/case/immigration-equality-v-dhs/

Clif Brown's avatar

This is bizarre when Israel is doing all it can to determine the political direction of the US in its favor. What is homeland security doing about Israel's undeniable power in the US? Larry Ellison buying US media to filter for Israel?! Worry about Iran in the US is laughably absurd when Israel told the President to start the war with Iran followed by him doing so after multiple pow-wow's with Netanyahu, a war criminal, in the White House.

Liberty and justice for all being the antithesis of ethnic superiority/ethnic cleansing, what could be more un-American and threatening to national security than unlimited support for Israel, the foundation of which is ethnic superiority?

How can the words "homeland security" escape the lips of Mullin when the open hypocrisy of ignoring THE #1 threat, Israel, while blathering about antifa and the imaginary "radical left" goes on? The entire department is a ruse to declare war internally on anyone the administration doesn't like, the name is worthless. Netanyahu once said he was glad 9/11 happened and he also said at a different time that "the Americans are easily managed". You and me, dear fellow Americans, are being managed.

Let me put two words in capital letters: HYPOCRISY and TREASON. Joe Biden proudly declared himself a Zionist and said without a second of hesitation, "we (the US!!!) stand with Israel. LJ4A stands with ethnic cleansing!!! We have open advocates for Israel in Congress, we have open advocates for Israel in governorships, one of those, Josh Shapiro, is considered eligible to run for president as is supporter of Israel Rahm Emanual. In my district IL-9, Daniel Biss, advocate of Israel with family members in the IDF will be our next representative in Congress. President Trump is surrounded by open advocates for Israel like Kushner, Witkoff and Miller. All of this is ignored by "homeland security". Heck, homeland security would likely come after me for this comment about the blatant influence of a foreign country.

Israel has 1/40th the population of the US, yet has so much power in our government, military and intelligence agencies as to dwarf the power of WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES! And AIPAC, not required to register as a foreign agent has bottomless funds to warp our corrupt campaign funding system to woo the American voter while never mentioning the subject of Israel.

America has been turned upside down to fully support its antithesis - Israel. Even Mamdani now supports Israel's man, Hakeem Jeffries, to be Speaker in the next Congress.

All Americans have the blood of 73,000 Gazans on our hands, more being killed by Israel with US weapons each week. I want my country back and have been on the street two years now demonstrating against any support of any kind for Israel. PLEASE, reader, do SOMETHING to break the grip of Zionism on the US. Recall the Pledge of Allegiance, in particular the last five words. Use AI to find out where your people in DC (and in your state) stand regarding Israel. Use Copilot, do not use ChatGPT which I have proven censors for Israel. Go to Track AIPAC to see how much money has been given to your federal and state politicians. Then vote in November.

Krisgronquist's avatar

Thank you for your apt commentary and passion. But,"Then vote in November". For who? Both major party candidates receive AIPAC funds and/or are silent or lukewarm in opposition to the Zionist carnage in Gaza. The only parties that adamantly oppose funding for the Israeli apartheid state and call out genocide are the Greens, the Party for Socialism & Liberation, and (several) other Left or far Left third parties. So, yes, OK, go vote in November, and vote your values, vote your conscience for the parties that have true courage, in this terrible political witch hunt climate, to speak out LOUDLY, as we all should.

Clif Brown's avatar

You are right about the lack of choice if one is limited to the two major parties. Trump got in with only 27% of the eligible electorate voting form him. Almost 50% sat out the vote. I voted for Jill Stein and she got about 1% illustrating that there are alternatives but people won't vote for them under the self-fulfilling concept that nobody will vote for them.

If people on the other side of the planet were presented with Stein and Trump side by side not knowing a thing about US politics, Stein would be the overwhelming choice. We the people participate in the scheme the two parties have set up for us with lobbies reinforcing it.

I had people accusing me of voting for Trump by voting for Stein. This reinforces the two party system. I didn't want Harris to be president so I would not vote for her. The two parties have set up their scheme but voters go along with it.

Edward Truncale's avatar

It is so good to see them focused on the things that matter. It will be good to know this when the next big attack comes to America.