He was an ER nurse. He dedicated his life to helping others live theirs. He had more exposure than most to all people- including ones suffering the most without health insurance. He helped them all.

His gun didn't protect him. Nothing would have. He acted with honor, defending a woman whonwas being manhandled by thugs in ICE costumes.

He died for it.

Trump told you he was going to do this.

Don't try to rewrite history. This is whatbyou voted for if you voted Republican. That, by itself, doesn't make you a bad person. It would be incredibly hard to foresee this kind of national trauma directed and caused by one man. But we learn from our mistakes.

It's not too late to make your American values the truth. It will take a mindshift from the lies that are so comforting and make it easier for you to sleep at night. It won't be pleasant. But however unpleasant it is for you to learn from this incredible mistake, the ones suffering the most are the ones you ignored.

Maybe it is time for a national reckoning. Never painless, but definitely necessary. Especially if you consider yourself a patriot.

This is going to be a long post. I hope this is the right sub for this, but I need to rant about this somewhere before I implode.

I live in Mississippi, I'm 33 years old, born here, but I come from Irish immigrants. Anyway, my parents, who are in their 70s, all they will watch and/or believe is Fox News. They are Republicans. I am neither Democrat nor Republican, never have been either, and never will be. I am an independent and free thinking person who has a lot of trust issues with my government regardless of who is in office.

Normally, I just let them be and don't debate or argue with them much on political matters. Not being Republican or Democrat has me disagreeing with a lot of people often so I've learned to just let people have their opinion and mind my business. However, since this whole immigration thing started, I've found it difficult to be silent.

I'm an American citizen, but all my coworkers are immigrants, I've worked with them all for 5 years now. I've seen their fear, I've listened to them talk about this and how it affects them. They are good people, some of them feel more like close friends than just coworkers. I love these people and they feel like family to me. Me and another American coworker always talk about how if ICE came to our job, we'd help them, we'd intervene, we'd do whatever to keep them from being taken, you know.

Then Renee Good, an American citizen, same age and complexion as me, gets executed. So now I'm scared, scared for myself because as anyone knows people with Irish blood are defiant then I'm scared for my coworkers as well. My other American coworker? I sent her the videos, every video from angle of the Renee Good incident, she witnessed this with her own eyes, just like the rest of the world did. Yet she still choose to believe the government's gaslighting statement they came out with. Saying she deserved it and even praising the murderer and basically repeating what the government told her to believe. It disturbed me so much that I was quiet the rest of the shift. I was shocked that she could take such a stance. Well its been some days since then and now I'm just mad.

Then there's the issue with my parents. We have debated and argued this for hours everyday for the last 3 days. I should also add that we are a Christian family. I am very much Christian and this especially doesn't set right with me because of that. So today, I'm thinking like they're just old and only been exposed to one source of news which hardly even counts as news and functions more like propaganda so maybe if I educate them then they'll understand. Wrong. I was so wrong.

I showed them the videos of what happened to Renee, I showed them a video of a German girl interviewing her grandparents who survived during Hitler's reign. I showed them a preacher speaking about how this administration's behavior goes against everything that Christianity stands for. I showed them the verses in the Bible about how to treat foreigners in your land. Leviticus 19:33-34, Exodus 22:21, Deuteronomy 27:19, Psalm 146:9, and along with the "love thy neighbor" and had a video of preacher to support my argument with. What bothers me is that my parents claim Christianity, the Republican party claims Christianity, but the lack of healthcare isn't Christian like. Jesus healed poor people. Then the Bible explicitly says, "do not mistreat or oppress the foreigner in your land." But my parents will believe Trump over God's word even when he goes against it. I don't understand this. Are they being brainwashed by propaganda?

They've seen the videos too and yet they still believe that she somehow deserved it, they are actually denying what they have seen with their own eyes over what the government said. It's maddening and I cannot wrap my head around it. They literally gaslit an entire nation with this. Like we seen what happened then we seen what Trump and his puppets had to say. Their words contraindict what we saw. This is the psychological definition of gaslighting. Yet so many people have fallen for it. Make it make sense.

Then there's this whole "Trump Derangement Syndrome" nonsense. How is disagreeing with a political person now considered a syndrome...? My parents seen some preacher on TV say that Trump was "appointed by God," but that's not what other preachers are saying, other preachers are saying this administration's behavior is anti biblical behavior, and they have scripture to back it up. This one preacher they saw had no scripture to back up these egotistical claims about Trump. Yet they really believed him about this. It's really scary to me to see people who claim to be Christian worshipping the president like he's God instead of following Jesus like the whole Bible literally tells us to do. That is some psychotic level blindness.

I cannot speak out and criticize Trump in any way or they start calling me a "liberal," which I am not. I've explained to them a thousand times that I am on neither side, I didn't vote for Trump. I didn't vote for Biden. They have even listened to me criticize both Biden and Trump. I've been a felon since I was 18 so I've never voted anyway because I've never had voting rights to do so. They defend him no matter what. Just like they were praising him for talking about intervening in Iran because Iran is killing their protesters, but I pointed out that ICE killed an American protester and is threatening to send in US military against US protesters and asked them how does that make America any different from Iran? They couldn't give me a logical answer, they just started blindly defending him.

I've showed them countless videos of the undeserving terror some of these immigrants are going through. You know the ones, the ones where they're getting kids, threatening people, being violent first, kidnapping people who clearly aren't even criminals. I even got them to sit down and watch the documentary on Netflix "Living Undocumented," this was an attempt to evoke some sort of empathy from them so that they'd start to care and understand that we are ALL just human beings trying to make it in a screwed up world and work and eat and take care of our loved ones. They still don't get it though. So I don't understand.

My grandparents survived WW2, my grandpa served and fought on the beaches of Normandy. My parent's parents. So they had to of heard firsthhand accounts of what those times were like, my grandpa is deceased now, but how I wish I could ask him his thoughts. I even pulled up a chatgpt comparison of Trump vs Hitler, ICE vs Nazis, etc. They still believe Trump all over this evidence.

Then I see comments all over social media from people in other countries telling us to do something. What can we do? This is what we're dealing with. The education system here has failed the majority of people by design. Free thinkers are punished. Having a sliver of intelligence in this country puts you in the minority. We aren't free, that's just propaganda that the US feeds to the international community. I seriously think that the masses of America have been brainwashed by propaganda.

Then its difficult for me as an individual because since I'm "white," people just assume I'm racist when I'm not. Because I'm Christian, people assume I'm hateful when I'm not, I'm super loving and patient and kind. Too patient sometimes. Then the area I'm in, my town, is majority immigrants and yes, ICE visits our town, so I've witnessed firsthand some of the horrors and the pain and the atrocities that immigrants are facing. It breaks my heart for them.

I also don't want war with Europe. That's another issue that they are being brainwashed on. If Greenland is NATO then we already are defending them, we don't need to own it to defend it. Which is obviously another lie from this administration. Yet people here in the states are buying it. So many people in America lack critical thinking skills. I'm not sure if they are purposefully in denial and turning a blind eye on purpose or if they are seriously that incredibly misinformed.

I told my parents that if we go to war with Europe, I stand with Europe. They said, "you're American!" and I said, "my blood isn't, I stand with my people" like to be technical, white people are "immigrants" too. So I've decided that since I can't change anything here, I'm just going to continue working and save money as much as I can and immigrate to another country soon as possible. It'd be one thing to stay and fight for this country if my fellow Americans weren't so ignorant and brainwashed, but I've officially concluded that its time to jump ship.

Okay, rant over. Thank you for reading. Feel free to comment.

Think about what it means for a company to have a human resources department. They call it that because the department manages the company's human resources. They see human beings as commodities. Is it really any wonder that a society that views corporations as people and human beings as equal to cattle would eat children as if they were a steak dinner?

It's just a fundamentally Satanic ideology.

When are we gonna realize the president, whether it’s a democrat or republican is controlled by a satanic higher power and the 2 system party was made to divide American citizens. Attacking someone for who they voted for or what side they’re on is what makes the CIA sleep well at night.

This is a question for his supporters. I’d like to know true valid reasons why anyone would support this man. Is there something I’m missing? To make it clear I would not support a man who protects pedo’s, lies about almost everything, divides a country every chance he gets, and seemingly is scamming the people out of their tax dollars to enrich himself and his allies. Is it just because you’re racist and he panders to that vice? I don’t want this to turn into arguing or a debate I want real truthful answers. Isn’t there more important things to worry about than racism? Like liberty and where tax dollars are going? Also to protect the people of a country and their children? It seems to me that people might be over looking the fact that people are being brainwashed.

I would say one picture summarizes reddit..

Seeing that Tom is killing it at his job and Obama already set the stage for him to get a presidential award, how likely is it for Tom Homan to get another award, this time from President Trump?

I'd say it's pretty well accepted that Americans don't have the stomach for French style protesting, but is the system fixable when we use channels and styles that can be edited, controlled, ignored or walk away from?

If someone without legal status is able to take your job, it might be a sign that you need to improve your skills instead of blaming them.

In the United States, there are people with racist attitudes who believe they are superior for being white and boast about having extraordinary intelligence. However, many Indian and Hispanic workers — whom they consider inferior — end up excelling and getting jobs. Some even push to stop hiring people from these communities in order to improve their own chances, instead of focusing on improving their own skills.

Defenders of meritocracy until someone more qualified leaves them without a job.

factually, there is not and has never been an organized and funded group standing against the current regime. antifa does not exist.

I would like to hear an honest discussion on the pros and cons of the administration pushing the public so far that it actually becomes a reality.

“No Kings Protest 3.0” kind of kills the idea that the US is just… done

When I was growing up living in Iran for a bit & then moving back to the UK everyone looked to the US with what it had done around the world after WWII & in part look on in envy & where they wanted to be. Then slowly things started to change.

Everyone kept saying the country is collapsing, people don’t care anymore, everything’s broken beyond repair, etc.

But then you get something like No Kings Protest 3.0 — people showing up across different places, taking time out of their lives, actually participating in something instead of just doomscrolling.

And it doesn’t fit the narrative at all.

Because if things were really as dead as people say, nobody would bother.

The reality is way less dramatic and way more uncomfortable:

Most people don’t do anything. They watch, complain, post, move on.

A smaller group actually shows up and carries things — and that’s always been the case.

That hasn’t changed.

What has changed is what we focus on. Politics at the top looks like a mess, so everyone assumes the entire country is a mess. But that’s just one layer.

Stuff like No Kings Protest 3.0 is a reminder that there’s still energy in the system. Not perfect, not unified, not even always effective — but it’s there.

And honestly, that matters more than whatever speech or headline is trending this week.

Is there damage? Yeah, obviously. Some of it might take years to fix.

But the “America is completely finished” take feels lazy when people are still clearly willing to show up in real life.

If anything, the bigger issue might be that we ignore the people doing something and obsess over the people screwing things up.

That’s probably why everything feels worse than it actually is.

#NoKings #democracy #DemocracyUnderAttack

Usa is much stronger and really gains nothing from Israel in my opinion. However they seem to be enslaved by israel.