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So that got me to thinking and I wrote this –

  1. In five years from now, what will your gay or lesbian child have endured for that time?
  2. In five years, will Trump and Republicans have sold off all our federal lands, national forests, national secrets and ended NATO leaving Putin to tear up Europe?
  3. In five years from now, when democracy is gone and freedom doesn’t exist unless you can afford to buy it, because you voted for Trump and Republicans down ballot – will you be proud to be an American who voted to do exactly that by voting for them and their Project 2025 to be enacted establishing a dictatorship?
  4. In ten years, will you vote and will your vote be counted or will you and your family be in a GOP-run, for-profit detention camp or tent city in the middle of nowhere for something you said because Trump is a narcissist who wants to be a dictator and you thought, what’s the worst that could happen if I vote for him anyway?
  5. In ten years from now, will America look like it did in 1950 at the hands of Trump and his fascist Republicans or will it look like Argentina does now with its staggering 254.2% in January and massive poverty while a few get the best of everything and the nation flounders?
  6. In a year from now after you voted for Republicans and maybe Donald Trump, will you be happily taking the lives of your own neighbors and destroying them as you are now with harassment for not voting for Trump in 2020 (whether he wins in 2024 or not?)
  7. In a year from now after voting for Republican Senators, Congressmen and State Legislators, will you like the things they do that have made our government chaotic and ineffective by dismantling every bit of funding for public services and public education, roads and infrastructure, agencies that serve the public good and taking away rights away from the women and girls in your family?
  8. In the last eight years, have you noticed that Republican-run states are economically the worst in our nation and when you vote for them, it extends that across our entire country’s economy and your economic well-being?
  9. In the last eight years including while Trump was president and while fascist Republicans serving him were running our Congress, did you like it when they threatened and tried to shut down our government by not passing a budget to pay for things already legislated to be done – as in, intending to not pay our bills as a nation despite it raising our borrowing costs and increasing our national debt?
  10. When Trump who you voted for twice, ran our Congress from the background after fairly losing an election, does it please you to see him using our government to serve himself rather than our country and you, while using our taxpayer resources and our elected representatives to do it?
  11. When Trump incites a civil war in America as he promises when he loses in 2024, will you be happy if Russia sends troops to end it and Trump invites them?
  12. In the three years from now after being given Ukraine by Trump as Putin slaughters more people and sends his armies into other European countries, will you be sending your family members to stop him while wishing you hadn’t voted for Trump and believed his lies?

These are not absurd possibilities with no chance of happening. You can entertain yourself all day with wild funny little videos to ignore the news and the choices and what they mean because you “don’t like politics.”

But, when you go in that voting booth and make a choice or don’t go at all – you and your family will live with the results. Have you really thought about what having Trump dismantle democracy and Republican Christian Nationalists removing women’s rights and freedoms will mean to you? Have you really?

Sure hate to bother you about politics, but it is the way things get done that all of us have to live with afterwards. When you ignore politics, when you pretend it doesn’t matter and when you decide to not find out the truth about which facts are accurate and which are not that are being used by some fraud promising to make America great again as if it is not already, as Trump does – you bear just as much of the brunt of the stupid, selfish, arrogant, petty, vindictive, hateful, ignorant, abusive, oppressive, narcissistic, fascist, dictatorship crap he and his cronies do as anybody.

Let’s talk about Republican Detention Centers Trump Plans for Immigrants, Liberals, LGBTQ, Protesters, Non-Trump Republicans and Democrats

While looking up the horrific conditions that Trump and his Nazi style fascist friends in our White House did to the separated children of immigrants, I happened upon a couple things that you can read or not – and honestly, it won’t matter if you care or not because the vermin Trump talked about being rid of included just about 90% of our country, as well as immigrants recently in his various “campaign” statements videos, rallies and “town halls” on the Republican-run Fox propaganda network.

Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights Rollbacks
This is a fairly comprehensive timeline style list of the civil and human rights that our Constitution had guaranteed, our federal laws and policies had guaranteed and our state laws had guaranteed that Trump dismantled during his term in office – as well as, you will see reading the list – have been done in states with Republican administrations also. Here are four examples found on the timeline – you should go read the whole thing some time to know what rights, freedoms and protections for them are already lost.

On December 12, Justice Department lawyers acknowledged that the expulsion of 66 unaccompanied migrant children (without a court hearing or asylum interview) by U.S. border officials represented a contravention of a November district court ruling.

On December 16, the Department of Justice finalized a rule that strips the Executive Office for Immigration review of its ability to make a reasoned decision on a fully developed record and blocks people in immigration proceedings from mounting an effective appeal.

From 2020

On January 12, the Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule that allows social service providers that receive government funding to discriminate based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

On January 18, which was MLK Day, Trump’s 1776 Commission issued a report calling for “patriotic education,” comparing progressivism to fascism and communism, and justifying the nation’s founding on the basis of slavery.

From 2021 (all of these examples were after Trump had lost the election)

And, just for the record – When Trump says things like this, it does include you and your family –

NOVEMBER 13, 2023 Instead of, say, commemorating American soldiers in his Veterans Day speech, the leading Republican candidate in the 2024 presidential race spent nearly two hours attacking his political foes as verminous beasts who pose more of a danger to the US than its foreign adversaries. “If you have a capable, competent, smart, tough leader, Russia, China, North Korea, they’re not going to want to play with us,” Donald Trump said during his Saturday address in New Hampshire. “Our threat is from within,” he continued, vowing to “root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections.”

Detention Camps, “Vermin” Rivals, and a Government Purge: Trump Wants to Go Full Authoritarian

The children I met with at Clint were visibly dirty, mucous or mud-stained, and nearly all wearing the same clothes they wore when they crossed the border. They told us they were not given regular access to soap or toothbrushes and were given access to showers only once or twice in a period of weeks, if at all. When they were given access to showers, they told us, they were limited to a mere three minutes.

Our in-depth interviews with children revealed that the US Border Patrol is holding many children, including some who are much too young to take care of themselves, in jail-like border facilities for weeks at a time without contact with family members, or regular access to showers, clean clothes, toothbrushes, or proper beds. Many were sick. Many, including children as young as 2 or 3, were separated from adult caretakers without any provisions for their care besides that provided by unrelated older children also being held in detention. These conditions are consistent with those Human Rights Watch documented in our February 2018 report, “In the Freezer.”[5] In contrast with the conditions as of February 2018, the harms of CBP detention for children are now compounding over weeks instead of days.

Written Testimony: “Kids in Cages: Inhumane Treatment at the Border”, July 11, 2019 8:00AM EDT

HEARING

                              BEFORE THE

            SUBCOMMITTEE ON CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES

                                 OF THE

                         COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT

                               AND REFORM

Excerpt –

America is watching scenes of sick children packed into 

holding cells, pregnant women sleeping on cold floors, and 

mothers trying to warm newborn babies with aluminum blankets.

    The policy of separating thousands of migrant children from 

their parents is designed to make conditions at the border so 

miserable that the refugees will simply stop coming. Last May, 

then Attorney General Sessions stated, “If you don’t want your 

child to be separated, then don’t bring them across the border 

illegally.”;

    But these policies are failing to deter asylum-seeking 

families because the underlying causes of their migration are 

so grave and overwhelming. In fact, the Trump deterrence policy 

seems to be having no deterrent effect at all.

    According to Customs and Border Protection’s own data, 

family migration spiked in the month after the administration 

announced the family separation policy, and there have been 

sharp increases ever since, unlike anything we’ve seen before 

in our lifetimes.

(>>>)

Last week, the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector 

General warned of a “ticking time bomb” at Border Patrol 

detention facilities. The IG cited children crammed into cages 

with no access to showers or hot meals and “serious 

overcrowding and prolonged detention” for adults, some in 

standing room only conditions with no room to lie or even sit 

down.

    At the Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas, The New York 

Times reported: “Outbreaks of scabies, shingles, and 

chickenpox were spreading among the hundreds of children in 

cramped cells,” agents said. The stench of the children’s dirty 

clothing was so strong it spread to the agents’ own clothing. 

People in town would scrunch their noses when they left work. 

The children cried constantly. One girl seemed likely enough to 

try to kill herself that the agents made her sleep on a cot in 

front of them so they could watch her as they were processing 

new arrivals.

    There is no excuse for our government being so unprepared 

and indifferent to refugee flows that have been steadily 

mounting for months. These conditions violate American law and 

international human rights standards. We would not accept these 

conditions for refugees anywhere else in the world.

Text: KIDS IN CAGES: INHUMANE TREATMENT AT THE BORDER, [House Hearing, 116 Congress], 2019

US Customs and Border Protection

The authorities released this image of illegal migrants inside a large cage – reporters said they saw unaccompanied children in similar conditions (as posted on BBC, Trump migrant separation policy: Children ‘in cages’ in Texas)

One more – and you should know – Trump, Fascist Republicans, MAGA, Heritage Foundation Christian Nationalists decided the rest of us are vermin too – but there’s profits to be made at our expense and at the expense of our lives and our family’s lives – as they did to immigrant children and families –

Older children have been kept in larger facilities that hold hundreds at a time. Here, they usually sleep four or five to a room, eat in a cafeteria, and receive some classroom instruction and recreation time. The most notorious of these is “Casa Padre,” a former Walmart in Brownsville, Texas run by Southwest Key Programs, an Austin-based nonprofit that has more than $450 million in HHS contracts this year.[29] (The organization has gone on record opposing family separation.[30])

This is the facility where Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) made headlines after being denied entry, on video, in early June, and which later hosted a visit of U.S. reporters.[31] (Legislators and press have complained of access to these facilities; ORR contends that it must restrict access to children and their identities because at least some portion of them may have been trafficked, and their traffickers may be seeking to “reacquire” them.) Still more notorious, as photos depict children lined up outdoors between rows of air-conditioned tents, is a “tent city” built to house 360 boys in Tornillo, Texas, outside El Paso, which was scheduled to close in July.[32]

Defense and security contractors, some of them with ties to Trump administration officials, are also obtaining HHS contracts to shelter the expanding population of separated and unaccompanied children. General Dynamics, manufacturer of the Abrams tank and Stryker combat vehicles, is advertising positions for data entry, policy analysis, and tracking placements within ORR’s system for minors.[33]

Private prison management companies Geo Group and Core Civic, which run the Karnes and Dilley family detention centers discussed below, each donated US$250,000 to President Trump’s inaugural fund. Bethany Christian Services, which provides foster care to migrant children, has received over US$400,000 in grants from the family foundation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. BCFS, the company that operated the Tornillo tent city, has “long retained Ray Sullivan, a lobbyist and onetime chief of staff to Rick Perry, the former Texas governor who is now Mr. Trump’s energy secretary,” according to The New York Times.[34]

WOLA – Advocacy for Human Rights in the Americas, August 2018

They’ll be making money off us when our lives are suspended to be put in detention camps, arrested for speaking against Trump, or having helped a woman to leave her state to get a D&C medical procedure after having a miscarriage or because her periods are impossibly run amuck.

So, in five years from now – what will you have lived through as a result of voting for Trump and voting for Republicans who’ve become Fascists and Christian Nationalists in their ideology? What will it be like if you keep sending them money, volunteering to be part of their digital army to troll liberals and Democrats and election officials and librarians and school boards and Target for having products with rainbows on them? Will you like it when your bank and Target are closed because Trump started a civil war that includes violence that precludes even stores being open to accommodate your shopping there?

Goddamn think this shit through already!