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#theamericanfascist

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Don’t leave and try to re-enter the USA. Just don’t do it. Example elventy million:
““There were so many people in this room. A heavy percentage of them were from South America. I met a girl from Berlin. There were a bunch of people from Canada. There were two Brits.””

#TheAmericanFascist #canpoli #cdnpoli #Australia #UK #iCE
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

The Guardian · Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorialBy Daisy Dumas
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@ErikJonker you know, I was kind of ready for one of the two branches to fail at checking Trump’s goose-stepping the country down the road to fascism. I didn’t expect them both to pretty much completely fail simultaneously.

Apparently US democracy was sitting on a house of cards called “norms” all this time, and #theAmericanFascist has been pulling out one card at a time time since he first rode down that gold escalator.

#TheAmericanFascist uttered this morning.

“I’m proud to be the President for the workers, not the outsourcers; the President who stands up for Main Street, not Wall Street; who protects the middle class, not the political class; and who defends America, not trade cheaters all over the globe.”

The left wing social democratic forces of the world (including the #Liberals and #NDP in Canada) have been so neutered and brow beaten into incrementalism and neo-Liberal corporate capture, that a right wing, billionaire-wannabe, near-Nazi fascist, and politicians who want to be like him (Pierre Poillievre) have stolen the rallying cries of working men and women (but mostly men).

These were the warnings working people and socialist forces screamed when Free Trade and privatization was born by Reagan and Mulroney, Thatcher and Chirac. The de-unionization of western economies, the decimation of public infrastructure for private “partnerships”…

Now here we are, it all got so bad that the regular person, struggling to put inflated food on the table, or put their children through inflated college, are so fed up that they submit to the regressive, racist, anti-human, bloviations of populist tyrants.

A pox on you, “Liberals” and “Democrats” of the world.

You chose corporations while you placated people with false promises and false hopes.

You enabled the worst of the human condition through complacency and greed.

Your limp, unconvincing defence of Liberalism and Democratic values destroyed both.

What will you do to win back the podium to speak for working people? Perhaps you don’t deserve to.

It is quite a discordant echo, 1917 to 2025.

World War I 1914-1917: The British Empire (including Canada) and France defend in a horrible war of attrition against German Imperial forces.

April 6, 1917: Congress declares war on Germany after Americans are outraged when an intercepted communiqué between Germany and Mexico suggests Germany help Mexico retake American states lost decades earlier and Germany sinks American shipping.

April 9-12: Canada fights its first massive battle as a unified fighting force, 97,000 strong, at Vimy Ridge, and wins at supreme cost, 10,000 casualties.

…….

April 6 2025: After two months of increasingly authoritarian actions, wild tariff policy and threats to destroy or absorb the economies or nations of Panama, Greenland or Canada, President Trump’s advisors make it clear the world will face tariffs not seen in decades, the markets plunge in anticipation, world leaders scramble, and non citizens in the USA are targeted for detention and deportation.

April 9 2025 - The United States launches a trade war. Ending the era of multilateralism, trade and cooperation that Woodrow Wilson started when he brought the USA into World War I and FDR continued in World War II.

The USA Giveth and Taketh Away.

this is speaking to me tonight..... in solidarity with good Americans. 🤘 ✊ 🔥 #resist

"some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.... some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.... some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses"

"____ u I won't do what u tell me.... ____ u i won't do what u tell me.... ___ u I won't do what u tell me."

#TheAmericanFascist
music.apple.com/ca/album/killi

Killing In The Name by Rage Against the Machine on Apple Music
Apple Music - Web PlayerKilling In The Name by Rage Against the Machine on Apple MusicSong · 1992 · Duration 5:13

currently waiting for this Apple to drop...

“Trump believes that Apple can make iPhones in the United States, the White House said today, as the administration pushes Apple to move device production to U.S. shores in response to Trump’s tariffs.”

Hey Tim? You Listening? lol
#Apple #TheAmericanFascist #TradeWar #TrumpTariffs
cnbc.com/2025/04/08/trump-tari

CNBC · Trump's reciprocal tariffs plan kicks in, China to see net total tariffs of 104%: Live updatesBy Dan Mangan

We're now in a world trade war and the USA is the bad guy.

So here’s the proposal:

Through a UN resolution, the rules-based world launches a coordinated, economic strike against the USA with all countries simultaneously putting 100% tariffs on the USA while lifting all tariffs between participating countries, until the USA backs off and returns to the WTO process.

Nonsense?

Possible?

I don't know how any of this works frankly. But I don’t think anyone does.

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Omg. This story about the British 28yr old comic book artist and backpacker, staying at workaways and living her best life only to be detained at ICE jail when she tried to go to Canada. Guys SHE DREW PICTURES OF HER CELLMATES. 😢 this is a movie script.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

and the unexpected, complicit, villain?

The Canada Border Services Agents!! 😡 😤

Why the hell are we turning these obvious tourists back into the hands of ICE!?

As a Canadian I am embarrassed and infuriated. A directive must be put out to Canadian border guards to show leniency!!
@davidakin @akurjata @pennydaflos

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The story about the Canadian woman who ended up in an ICE prison is detailed here. Sounds like having a US Visa is a liability now tourist, or work… and if you have any kind of trouble with it or do anything that might be perceived as troublesome, expect trouble at the border.

The best advice for people in this article: if you need to renew your visa, do it at an airport on Canadian soil so you can’t be sent to a US prison.

“She was told they'd have to send her back to Canada. But as Mooney sat searching for flights home on her phone she says that a man appeared and told her to come with him.
She knew something was way off when they pulled the shoelaces from her sneakers.
"Later I found out that's so you don't hang yourself in jail," said Mooney.”

cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col

CBCLocked in a so-called 'ice box' this Canadian detained in the U.S. decided to fight for others stuck in limbo | CBC NewsA B.C. woman detained for 11 days by U.S. immigration is speaking out after her tale went viral on social media. Jasmine Mooney was detained and held in immigration detention centres after attempting to apply for a visa and enter the U.S. from Mexico. Her lawyer says she's an example of shifts in how the U.S. is handling travellers

I know people who grew up on the US Border in Vancouver in the 60s and 70s. The border was a ditch they could walk or ride across as kids and go to the corner store. Those days ended years ago, but they are almost unthinkable now.

The warnings from Canada on travel to the US are frankly deeply shocking.

“The federal government updated its travel advisory on Friday, warning Canadians of possible detention should one be denied entry to the United States.
“Comply and be forthcoming in all interactions with border authorities,” reads the advisory. “If you are denied entry, you could be detained while awaiting deportation.”
The government also warned that travellers should expect to be heavily questioned and may have their electronic devices searched.

“Individual border agents often have significant discretion in making those determinations,” the advisory reads. “U.S. authorities strictly enforce entry requirements. Expect scrutiny at ports of entry, including of electronic devices.””

#TheAmericanFascist #USA #Canada #canpoli #uspoli
ctvnews.ca/canada/article/feds

Cars line up to enter the U.S. from Canada at the Peace Arch border crossing Monday, Nov. 8, 2021, in Blaine, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
CTVNews · Canadians should ‘expect scrutiny’ at U.S. border crossings, feds warnThe Canadian government is warning those headed to the United States to expect to be scrutinized by border authorities, telling travellers to be forthcoming during any interaction with customs agents.

All three of the other catastrophic sell offs of the Dow Jones were due to factors brought on by much broader and deeper economic forces over longer periods of time.

This week's collapse is an intentional act. A self inflicted bludgeoning of the American economy.

Why the __ are Americans not rioting in the streets tonight and demanding this President and his administration resign?

#usa #TheAmericanFascist #tradewar #trumptariffs
bird.makeup/users/mattmfm/stat

bird.makeupMatt McDermottIt appears this is the fourth worst back to back day for the DJIA in American history with a two day combined -8.65% loss, only trailing the 1929 crash, 1987 Black Monday, and the 2008 financial crisis.

I have decided that ridiculing these people is not just an unhelpful response, it enables them to continue and not face serious consequences.

These people might be dumb, but they are not stupid. They are doing it on purpose. They are fascist, authoritarian, ideologues hell bent on destroying our social and democratic institutions.

Be angry!

#usa #trump #TheAmericanFascist mastodon.social/@daringfirebal

MastodonDaring Fireball (@daringfireball@mastodon.social)The Truth Is, These Are Not Very Bright Guys https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/04/glasser-trump-ego