Laken Riley Act: "Republicans were surprised by how many Democrats folded like cheap f***ng suits". The Bulwark

[awesomerwb1]

Kind reminder to please call your Senators to vote No on this horrible bill. This bill does away with due process and supercharges extreme AGs like Paxton and others to supersede federal immigration laws. If this bill passes, anyone will be able to call a hotline to maliciously accuse someone of stealing/shoplifting etc to have them detained indefinitely.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-fear-is-the-point

When it comes to Trump world, the projection of fear is not a bug: It is a feature of their revitalized deportation machine. Just this past week, according to an NBC News report, the Trump transition team warned of “showcase” workplace raids, possibly in the Washington, D.C. area, which has activist and immigrant communities on high alert in neighboring Maryland and Virginia. Tom Homan, Trump’s incoming border czar, separately told NBC he plans to bring a “fresh” idea to the table—a hotline for Americans to report undocumented immigrants they suspect of having committing crimes, which is of course ripe for abuse. And in that same report, Homan casually remarked that people without criminal records will get caught in the deportation dragnet, too.

Though such policies may seem far fetched and extreme, it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that Trump’s team actually deploys them. Others are trying to, as well. An incoming Missouri senator, Republican David Gregory, already introduced a bill that would give residents of the state $1,000 a pop to turn in undocumented immigrants as part of a bounty program.

A Democrat who has been in constant contact with aides on the Hill said that Republicans who had been pushing the Laken Riley Act largely as a political messaging exercise did not anticipate that it would become law. “Republicans were surprised by how many Democrats folded like cheap fucking suits,” the Democrat added.

[Irish_Dem]

1. We weren't surprised, we were shocked.

[Initech]

2. That whole thing was a loyalty test cooked up by Fox.

Absolutely insane so many on our side fell for it.

[Blue_Tires]

16. "DON'T YOU CARE ABOUT THE MEMORY OF LAKEN RILEY?!?"

Not a lot of Dems wanted to hear that question thrown at them nonstop by the cable news

[Initech]

18. Dems should stage a total media blackout the next few months.

No feeding the Murdoch machine period.

[Renew Deal]

3. As we've seen with Luigi, the government is an unreliable payer of bounties.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

4. The question is why are congressional Democrats supporting the Laken Riley Act? nt

[Blue_Tires]

8. Everyone is scared of making Donnie angry

He's only a couple of pharmaceutical-fueled tantrums away from ordering the purges and pogroms... Remember, he promised on day one to start "military tribunals" and "firing squads" for his" political enemies" and his worthless lackeys are already making lists of anyone not sufficiently "loyal" to the regime...

[Frank D. Lincoln]

12. It seems to me that Trump is going to be much worse than even Putin.

I'm appalled at what the American electorate did on November 5, 2024.

[Bookreadingliberal53]

13. This is why I'm staying pretty much at home after Jan 20 nt

[Frank D. Lincoln]

14. It's going to become really easy to get picked up by law enforcement and never heard from again.

The loss of the rule of law and of our civil rights and civil liberties will be something that all U.S. citizens (including Trump voters) will deeply regret.

The worst part is that America will never get back to where it was. There's no coming back from this.

[Blue_Tires]

15. That's what I was trying to warn people about

My best friend is a casual Dem voter and he can't understand what "the big deal is"...

He keeps on telling me we just have to weather another 4 years, then Donnie will be out and Dems will just un-fuck the disaster like we did in 2020... I'm failing to make him understand why it's not that simple.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

17. He'll begin to understand after January 20.

People like him and also people who are apolitical are going to be in for a rude awakening.

[Blue_Tires]

19. He's not a bad guy

He's not even apolitical -- He's what I call "casually political"... 50 percent of everything he knows comes from me and the other 50 percent comes from YouTube, TikTok, Facebook memes and general conversations he overhears from his blue collar Trumper-heavy workplace so every time I see him it's a "deprogramming" exercise...

[Frank D. Lincoln]

5. Democrats are voting like Republicans to the surprise of Republicans.

What is going on?

[awesomerwb1]

9. That's a great way to put it.

[Lemons UK]

6. Fetterman! SWOON!

[mr715]

7. Stroke

and sad.

[lame54]

10. A thousand dollars a pop?...

Has anybody seen the movie Skin Game?

Big business opportunity

[Johonny]

11. Shouldnt it be called the Karen Act?