How Donald Trump and his wannabe oligarchs plan to turn the Department of Homeland Security into an Immigration Gestapo -- and risk another 9/11 in the process.
Thank you, Tristan, for taking the time to dig into the Project 2025 manifesto, a document reprehensible enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with Mein Kampf.
On another note, here's a legal question for you: is it now fine, as it seems to be from all the evidence, to cry, "Fire!" in a crowded theater? I'm asking, of course, in relation to Trump and Vance's dangerous verbiage about Springfield, which has already resulted in bomb threats being made and schools having to be evacuated. Doesn't the DoJ bear some responsibility in ensuring public safety?
Great question, I wish Tristan Snell would answer in depth. My reading is that nothing can be done against Trump without risking a civil war, but it is a stupid argument. Oh yes, it is stupid, and here is why: magat election certifiers in Georgia are already announcing they might not "certify" vote counts if Trump loses, but there is no clear message or reassurance from anyone that it would not be tolerated, so if they do something illegal we lose our freedoms because of a civil war, or we lose our freedoms because of a fear of civil war. So what, we are doomed already? WTF???!!!!!!! What if the left starts a war?
Yes Homi Hormasji, it should be against the law to act recklessly and lie about disinformation that would cause a 911-call or force land a commercial plane flight or other bomb threats. Our Democracy is built on the honor system. The freedom and responsibility we enjoy is because of our honor system ensures public safety. The insubordinate SCOTUS should protect us from Trump/Vance.
Trump is MASA: Make Americans Slaves Again. DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose. We cannot afford to fail. The world is counting on us to show the way.
This ability to appoint “acting” heads, which can be in place for years without confirmation, combined with the plan to strip out layers of functioning bureaucracy and replace with political “yessir” appointees is most chilling. It will not only render our government hopelessly dysfunctional but also put it entirely at the whim of the president. And imagine if that president is Donald Trump, who is far more destructive than he is whimsical.
I’m Hard Left and I actually support some Project 2025’s immigration proposals. They get a hearing? Why? They’re ILLEGALS. None of them have ANY right to be in this country. Boot them! You have to boot 11 million people? Good!
I’ll tell you what though. Dreamers get to stay. They can stay but their parents cannot. Mom and Dad have to leave? Well they can take you with them! Or go move in with any citizen immigrants. I don’t know the language! I’ve never been in that country!
Oh boo hoo. Your parents spent their whole lives there and they speak the language just fine. You’ll do all right. Minors pick up foreign languages easily. And your parents never spoke it at home? Oh BS. All immigrants speak the native language at home.
As far as the asylum seekers. Ukraine is in a war, but most of those people are just draft dodgers. The whole center and west of the country is peaceful. You can go live there.
Venezuelans? You all need to go home. You were fleeing crime and poverty? Oh poor babies! Neither crime nor poverty are good reasons to get asylum. In fact they are invalid reasons and your asylum must be rejected.
TPS is crap. Haitians need TPS? Why? Violent crime and poverty! But Haiti always has those things. You need to go home.
Cubans? Fleeing poverty. Go home.
Nicaraguans? You’re not fleeing anything. You’re just rightwing pricks like the rest!
All TPS does is fill the country up with rightwing fascists fleeing Left countries. Since we hate all Left countries, all the rightwing fascists fleeing them get to come here. It’s an instrument of horrific foreign policy and if they ever become citizens, they will vote Republican. Go home!
Afghanistan? Go home. War’s over. No asylum. Now if you have a genuine fear of persecution by the Taliban? You get asylum and can even become a citizen.
95% of asylum claims are fake! It’s just a scam by people who would have been illegals to get in. They want asylum for crime and poverty. Waaaa! You don’t get asylum for that stuff.
90% of them fail to show up for their hearing. And if Biden catches them, he won’t even kick them out. They get to miss all the hearings they want! Scofflaws! Kick em out!
Border Patrol officers need more discretion to winnow out more of the fakefugees right at the border before they catch and release them for the hearing they never go to. Almost ALL these people are basically illegals trying to sneak in as fakefugees. They’re scammers. They’re assholes. Kick em out.
If you have a valid fear of persecution you can stay. That’s probably 140,000 of the refugee population.
Notice the Afghans didn’t just go next door? They came here instead. You know why? They want to come here SO THEY CAN GET RICH! They could go next door but they won’t get rich so they don’t.
Some of these refugees or TPS groups are awful. Somalis have been a disaster. Send em back if you can.
But I can’t get behind pulling all these green card legals who are not fakefugees or TPS scammers. They waited in line forever, got their green card, let ‘em stay!
I cannot get behind denaturalization of citizens. That’s horrific.
Birthright citizenship is a massive anchor baby scam and it needs to go. The people who wrote the law spoke of children of diplomats, etc. They never envisioned this vast flood of illegal alien scammers and VISA traveler scammers abusing the Hell out of this law.
I think a successful argument could be made that these scammers don’t get anchor babies because this is contrary to the spirit of the amendment.
We have whole planeloads of South Korean scammers 9 months pregnant coming here on tourist VISAs and WHOOPS they accidentally get pregnant and get an anchor baby.
Many 9 months pregnant Mexican women come here on day passes or temporary VISAs, get a hotel room, and WHOOPS accidentally get pregnant and get an anchor baby. A lot of people are abusing birthright citizenship. They’re scammers. They’re shitty dishonest people, fraudsters. Strip their right!
Thank you for this layman's breakdown, Tristan. Something else I believe everyone should take the time to watch is the absolutely horrifying interview Scott Dworkin had just over a month ago with Andra Watkins, who was raised in the Christian nationalist cult. Some of the things she explains are things I would not have even thought of and are terrifying.
Thank you, Tristan, for taking the time to dig into the Project 2025 manifesto, a document reprehensible enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with Mein Kampf.
On another note, here's a legal question for you: is it now fine, as it seems to be from all the evidence, to cry, "Fire!" in a crowded theater? I'm asking, of course, in relation to Trump and Vance's dangerous verbiage about Springfield, which has already resulted in bomb threats being made and schools having to be evacuated. Doesn't the DoJ bear some responsibility in ensuring public safety?
Great question, I wish Tristan Snell would answer in depth. My reading is that nothing can be done against Trump without risking a civil war, but it is a stupid argument. Oh yes, it is stupid, and here is why: magat election certifiers in Georgia are already announcing they might not "certify" vote counts if Trump loses, but there is no clear message or reassurance from anyone that it would not be tolerated, so if they do something illegal we lose our freedoms because of a civil war, or we lose our freedoms because of a fear of civil war. So what, we are doomed already? WTF???!!!!!!! What if the left starts a war?
Yes Homi Hormasji, it should be against the law to act recklessly and lie about disinformation that would cause a 911-call or force land a commercial plane flight or other bomb threats. Our Democracy is built on the honor system. The freedom and responsibility we enjoy is because of our honor system ensures public safety. The insubordinate SCOTUS should protect us from Trump/Vance.
Trump is MASA: Make Americans Slaves Again. DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose. We cannot afford to fail. The world is counting on us to show the way.
This is horrid shit!
A fascist government and a ruthless dear leader without empathy, combined with the powers of modern surveillance systems.
What could possibly go wrong?
This ability to appoint “acting” heads, which can be in place for years without confirmation, combined with the plan to strip out layers of functioning bureaucracy and replace with political “yessir” appointees is most chilling. It will not only render our government hopelessly dysfunctional but also put it entirely at the whim of the president. And imagine if that president is Donald Trump, who is far more destructive than he is whimsical.
Another cock accidentally dlid into Tristan’s mouth. Damn this Project 2025. It’s too powerful.
I’m Hard Left and I actually support some Project 2025’s immigration proposals. They get a hearing? Why? They’re ILLEGALS. None of them have ANY right to be in this country. Boot them! You have to boot 11 million people? Good!
I’ll tell you what though. Dreamers get to stay. They can stay but their parents cannot. Mom and Dad have to leave? Well they can take you with them! Or go move in with any citizen immigrants. I don’t know the language! I’ve never been in that country!
Oh boo hoo. Your parents spent their whole lives there and they speak the language just fine. You’ll do all right. Minors pick up foreign languages easily. And your parents never spoke it at home? Oh BS. All immigrants speak the native language at home.
As far as the asylum seekers. Ukraine is in a war, but most of those people are just draft dodgers. The whole center and west of the country is peaceful. You can go live there.
Venezuelans? You all need to go home. You were fleeing crime and poverty? Oh poor babies! Neither crime nor poverty are good reasons to get asylum. In fact they are invalid reasons and your asylum must be rejected.
TPS is crap. Haitians need TPS? Why? Violent crime and poverty! But Haiti always has those things. You need to go home.
Cubans? Fleeing poverty. Go home.
Nicaraguans? You’re not fleeing anything. You’re just rightwing pricks like the rest!
All TPS does is fill the country up with rightwing fascists fleeing Left countries. Since we hate all Left countries, all the rightwing fascists fleeing them get to come here. It’s an instrument of horrific foreign policy and if they ever become citizens, they will vote Republican. Go home!
Afghanistan? Go home. War’s over. No asylum. Now if you have a genuine fear of persecution by the Taliban? You get asylum and can even become a citizen.
95% of asylum claims are fake! It’s just a scam by people who would have been illegals to get in. They want asylum for crime and poverty. Waaaa! You don’t get asylum for that stuff.
90% of them fail to show up for their hearing. And if Biden catches them, he won’t even kick them out. They get to miss all the hearings they want! Scofflaws! Kick em out!
Border Patrol officers need more discretion to winnow out more of the fakefugees right at the border before they catch and release them for the hearing they never go to. Almost ALL these people are basically illegals trying to sneak in as fakefugees. They’re scammers. They’re assholes. Kick em out.
If you have a valid fear of persecution you can stay. That’s probably 140,000 of the refugee population.
Notice the Afghans didn’t just go next door? They came here instead. You know why? They want to come here SO THEY CAN GET RICH! They could go next door but they won’t get rich so they don’t.
Some of these refugees or TPS groups are awful. Somalis have been a disaster. Send em back if you can.
But I can’t get behind pulling all these green card legals who are not fakefugees or TPS scammers. They waited in line forever, got their green card, let ‘em stay!
I cannot get behind denaturalization of citizens. That’s horrific.
Birthright citizenship is a massive anchor baby scam and it needs to go. The people who wrote the law spoke of children of diplomats, etc. They never envisioned this vast flood of illegal alien scammers and VISA traveler scammers abusing the Hell out of this law.
I think a successful argument could be made that these scammers don’t get anchor babies because this is contrary to the spirit of the amendment.
We have whole planeloads of South Korean scammers 9 months pregnant coming here on tourist VISAs and WHOOPS they accidentally get pregnant and get an anchor baby.
Many 9 months pregnant Mexican women come here on day passes or temporary VISAs, get a hotel room, and WHOOPS accidentally get pregnant and get an anchor baby. A lot of people are abusing birthright citizenship. They’re scammers. They’re shitty dishonest people, fraudsters. Strip their right!
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Thank you for this layman's breakdown, Tristan. Something else I believe everyone should take the time to watch is the absolutely horrifying interview Scott Dworkin had just over a month ago with Andra Watkins, who was raised in the Christian nationalist cult. Some of the things she explains are things I would not have even thought of and are terrifying.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/p/project-2025-investigator-exposes?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=27ow3a