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UNEARTHED: GOP Rep. Roy admits he's hiding how difficult the SAVE Act will make voting for married women "I've tried not to elevate the issue too much. My Chief of Staff... had to go through a bunch of hoops, she's gonna have to go back to the DMV twice"

@NJBeisner YES! When I read your vicious post cheering the government ruining the lives of hard-working honest Christian people, I could tell right away that your bio would say you also claim to be Christian. Nailed it!

“Nobody that I’m aware wants the hard-working day laborer who’s been here for 15 years and is raising a family taken out of the country.” Hi. 🙋🏻‍♀️ I do. I’d wager most Trump supporters do. I want abuela deported. I want kids deported. I want the sick and dying deported. Everyone. If we start making exceptions for some, we’d start making exceptions for all (which is basically what we’ve done for decades). Everybody has a sob story—even the hardened criminals. The law is the law. And I care about Americans who are struggling. We have plenty of our crap to deal with. At the very least, we need to make these people citizens because having a second-class group of permanent non-citizens isn’t good for anybody. But even making them citizens isn’t ideal because then you’re incentivizing bad behavior. So we need to deport everyone—without exception. The “hard-working day laborer raising a family” can be invited to come in the right way, abiding by and respecting our laws.

Shared today by Bev Perry in the Expand Dem Values in the House and Senate Facebook group. I need to say something that's been bothering me for a while, and I'm saying it as a Marine Corps veteran who leans center-right. This isn't partisan. This is observation. We've slow-faded into accepting militarized police as normal, and nobody seems to notice or care. Even as a USMC pilot, I went through six months of infantry training as an officer before flight school. I've worn the gear. The helmet, the tactical vest, the whole kit. And I can tell you from experience, it changes you. There's a psychological shift that happens when you strap that stuff on. You feel different. You carry yourself different. You start seeing the environment differently. In the Marine Corps, that shift was appropriate because it's a combat culture and organization. But these are American streets. American citizens. And we've got law enforcement dressed like they're kicking down doors in Fallujah to serve warrants in suburbia. What happend to high standards and real policing tactics? Think Adam-12...Officers Reed and Malloy. Crisp uniforms. A revolver. A baton. High standards and professionalism. They looked like public servants because they were public servants. They de-escalated. They talked to people. They were part of the community. Now? Tactical gear, beards, ball caps, Oakley sunglasses, sleeve tattoos, and a tactical kit that would make special operators jealous. And we've turned it into a fetish. We celebrate it. We assume that because someone looks hard, they must be a professional. They're not. I loved the Marine Corps. But I'll be honest, I was also blinded by it for a while. Mission first. Unit over everything. And that mentality made sense in that context. But law enforcement doesn't get that critical examination. "Back the Blue" has become a shield against accountability. A blanket assumption that a badge plus gun equals hero. That tactical gear equals competence. It doesn't. Most people who join law enforcement aren't special operators. They're average people who desperately want to belong to something bigger than themselves. I understand that impulse deeply, it's why I joined the Marines. But wanting to belong doesn't make you qualified. Looking the part doesn't mean you can perform under pressure. And wrapping yourself in warrior aesthetics doesn't make you a warrior. Old school law enforcement represented something. Standards. Bearing. Discipline. Professionalism that was demonstrated, not costumed. A revolver and a baton meant you had to rely on your training, your words, your judgment, not overwhelming firepower. What I see now in law enforcement is the costume without the culture. The gear without the training. The authority without the accountability. Are there good people in law enforcement? Of course. I know some personally. But this reflexive "law enforcement can do no wrong" mentality is lazy, dangerous, and intellectually dishonest. A woman is dead. And before we sort ourselves into teams and start assigning blame, maybe we should ask harder questions: Why do we accept a militarized police force as normal? Why do we assume tactical gear equals tactical competence? Why have we let "Back the Blue" become a substitute for actual standards? I wore the uniform. I went through the training. I know what that gear does to your head. It shouldn't be normalized on American streets against American citizens. And we shouldn't pretend everyone wearing it is qualified to carry it. The fact that he called her a “fucking bitch” after he shot her three times should be a huge red flag for all of us.

@mazemoore This is and has been for 20+ years and will remain the Democratic party's position. But you don't know that, because you live on twitter.

2006. Senator Barack Obama on illegal immigration. Listen to him. He was more "far-right" on immigration than most Republican politicians are today. Twenty years later and Democrats are at war with ICE. Imagine Democrats twenty years from now.

@greg_price11 really dude?

They're doing this because they want more people to go out and try to murder ICE agents because their party's survival depends on keeping the millions of illegals in our country.

@DataRepublican weirdo

Nobody rioted after Charlie Kirk died. The Left and the Right are not the same.

@Sadie_NC so... you hold law enforcement oficers paid by your tax dollars to the same standard as mentally ill homeless people? good to know, Sadie

I don't remember any Democrats holding protests for this white woman who was killed, or calling for action to stop it from happening again. I never once heard them yell "say her name." They are hypocrites—disgusting, two-faced POS who protect criminals.

@CarlHigbie This proves more about you, actually.

And just like that… officer is proven innocent.

@lindsayballant Listen to her, not the propagandists misquoting her. She's just saying people get more upset when a white person suffers, and she's not totally cool with that. Is that such a terrible things to think or say?

Its less individualistic to speak like a normal person with normal feelings reacting to someone murdered by the state—and tying that to everyone else who disproportionately gets murdered by the state—instead of some lost-the-plot theory for censoring your own natural emotions.

This isn't "The Left"—this is performative Liberal Feminism, which liberals deployed against the left for years to block substantive populist policy, and we're done with that too

If you’re still defending this after watching that video, just admit you want police to hunt down and kill anyone who is on the left.

4/13 Now this is the part of the video that MAGA claims “proves to officer got hit and hit hard” But take careful note of two things, first, the officer is back from the car, and while the car is still not in motion he takes a step forward and to the left, reengaging the vehicle.

@Bubblebathgirl @AlphaNews you wish

@AlphaNews Democrats will ignore this.

BREAKING: Alpha News has obtained cellphone footage showing perspective of federal agent at center of ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis

@DVanLangenhove @AlphaNews seek help dude

@AlphaNews This really seals the argument. It shows Renee Good and her partner taunting and blocking ICE agents right before she deliberately drove into the agent that had no other choice but to defend himself.

@its_The_Dr wrong why lie guy?

@SaltyGoat17 embarrass yourself more

EXACTLY what happened!!

@wilsonhlthcoach ? just that last one is a little sketch

According to some people, I'm not a good example of a woman because I: Eat meat Drive a truck Support farmers Choose jeans & boots over dresses Like to cook Like to keep my house clean Adore my masculine husband Work hard Back the blue Support our military Voted DJT since 2016

@JamesMelville no

▪️Question the Covid response? “Covidiot” “Anti-vaxxer” ▪️Question the war in Ukraine? “Putin apologist” ▪️Question the Israeli government? “Antisemite” ▪️Question US actions in Venezuela? “Dictator sympathiser” ▪️Question net zero? “Climate change denier” ▪️Question taxpayer funded hotels for illegal migrants? “Far-right” “Racist” The same pattern of trope gaslighting that is designed to shut down debate and smear those who dare to question. Same pattern every single time.

FLASHBACK: Charlie Kirk on January 6th: “All the people that came into Congress today, that broke the law, should be held to the highest level of criminal prosecution.”

@oliveegger @sourpatchlyds They weren't bred to attack adult humans. Creatures of a certain smaller size often set them off otherwise unprovoked.

@sourpatchlyds Pits weren’t bred to attack humans, and that tendency is culled by reputable breeders even way back when the breed first started or they couldn’t have been handled. I agree they aren’t for the average dog owner, but a lot of breeds aren’t either

I don’t want to QT the guy that got bit by the pit bull bc this will not be helpful for him to hear now since he was already bit and I would feel bad if I annoy him but- I need people to understand that dogs biting is not usually out of nowhere, it just seems that way to us since we don’t speak dog language, but “he seemed friendly all night” means that he is a reactive dog and was under threshold and the triggers kept stacking until he was no longer under threshold and then he bit someone. If you love your dogs and you don’t want them biting people, you have to know their body language and you have to stay like 5 steps ahead of them so they don’t go over threshold. Idc if pit bulls are more likely to bite, you should treat every dog this carefully.

@ArthurBoreman I mean, Germany invaded Austria. But there was the century leading up to WWI.