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"I am Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary," Padilla said to Noem, which prompted several men to physically push him out of the room. It was unclear who the men were as several were dressed in plainclothes."
Sounds like assault to me...
And kidnapping, kidnapping in my state can be when you force someone to “a different location beyond their will”
Video shows they were pushing him before that statement.
They also put him face down on the ground and handcuffed his hands behind his back.
Damn, that's pretty dangerous, right?
He was detained!! They handcuffed him!
What is this forcibly removed nonsense. They handcuffed a senator who wanted to know what DHS is doing in HIS state!
"There's no recording allowed in here."
The entire world should be a witness to the insanity of what's going on. Record everything, even when they say it's not allowed.
It's a GOOD THING Democrats did NOT make the Law Political! OTHERWISE Republicans might Weaponize the law AGAINST Democrats!
I do wonder if peoples minds have changed on stacking the courts and getting rid of the filibuster... I know a lot have changed their minds on the 2nd.
Haven't the dems recently started some kind of initiative for an amendment to prevent court packing?
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., denounced the incident on the Senate floor. "I just saw something that sickened my stomach. The manhandling of a United States Senator, we need immediate answers to what the hell went on," he said.
Good to know old Chucky is still around. Haven't heard a peep from him in a while.
You know the answer to what was happening Chuck. It’s an authoritarian regime. The question is, what are you going to do about it?!
Nothing, because you’re trash. Fucking step down already.
Don't worry, I'm sure he and a few other democrats will be along shortly to censure Padilla like they did Al Green.
Chuck doesn't do anything useful. In fact he's one of 47's enablers. New York (greetings from) is having a tremendously hard time removing him, and bootlicker Gillibrand.
Best of luck to you New Yorkers on that, those two are poison.
Frumpy face, folded arms, glasses halfway down the nose, and talking like someone got their burger order wrong is the usual expected response.
Hey! Be NICE! It takes a LONG TIME to Fundraise enough Money to WRITE a LETTER!
"Manhandling"?! That's not man-handling, that's assault. The Senator was assaulted. Chuck Schumer is such a spineless lick-spittle, even when it concerns the physical assault of those in his own Party.
Presumably he's been enacting his master plan now that Trump's approval rating is below 40 percent. Surely that wasn't all bullshit.
In Poland the senators and congressmen have constitutional right to intervene in the administration. They can basically show up to any public office and say "I'm from the senate, what the fuck are you up to?". They not always get access to the "backstage" but arresting them for it would be unimaginable. They also have immunity so detaining them would be illegal. How weak the US system is in comparison is mind boggling. Entire opposition could be put in jail tomorrow and nothing would be done about it.
Fucking general strike, now!
Most Americans are too chicken shit to give up a few days of work. I mean, look at how these 9 to 5vers bitch and complain when people protest and it inconveniences them. They've swallowed the propaganda so hard that they applaud the police for arresting and abusing protestors. I have very little faith in my countrymen.
I support a general strike but I'm a doctor that works primarily in an underserved community filled with many immigrants (illegal and otherwise). I would support other people striking, but I feel like I couldn't possibly stop working because my role is a lifeline for workers.
There are other ways of striking than reducing service. For example you could stop all insurance paperwork and offer your services for free for the duration of the strike. Or anything else that makes management mad and the bosses/shareholders lose money.
That reminds me of the striking Japenese bus drivers: https://japantoday.com/category/national/okayama-buses-strike-by-continuing-to-run-and-refusing-to-take-anyone%E2%80%99s-money
Thanks for sharing this. I'd heard of this before, but being reminded of it bolstered my spirits a little.
So I work for a small community hospital. I have zero input on billing. My hospital is so small and broke that we end up being subsidized by the city/state most years because so many of our patients are uninsured and can't pay for our services. I can't make the hospital operate for free because I have zero influence on billing.
I do volunteer at free clinics part time.
This is why safety nets are important. In US you can lose your job, not get unemployment and lose access to doctor.
And this is why the right has been systematically dismantling all safety nets for decades.
This is the end game...
Many people can't miss a few days work without significant financial implications. Billionaires and corporations have us so underwater that we have no choice but to make a big stink where we can and voice our concern, with the occasional weekend march.
I'll dare note that in the beginning of the previous century financial implications of such a strike for a worker were not just that, and it involved also possibly serious physical damage (without easily available surgery and care) and detention.
I would really like to find it in myself to do something like that, it takes a certain state of mind and a certain feeling in the air, because how do you start when nobody is yet doing it.
I'd say part of the difference is that, at this point, the billionaires have left us with just enough to lose. I'm sure the risk of physical violence was still daunting, but when you have nothing left to lose then the prospect of physical harm somehow seems preferable to continuing with the status quo. That seems like an easy thing to say, but I've been there before.
Ah, yes, of course. That's also the distinction of Russia's situation from more classical kinds of fascism. Bad things happen, but the regime doesn't put them under your nose. Intimidation happens, but there are no public executions Nazi-style. Propaganda happens, but it's boring and one would think ineffective, except it still sticks, similar to advertising, - they've learned some lessons. Nazis were more interesting and imposing, but less efficient. This is state of the art.
Same with today's monopolies, oligopolies, rotten electoral systems, censorship.
Everything has been optimized to the last cent. Not the good old days, when the bad guys were generous with impressions.
Reminds me of Boussenard's sentiment on new uniforms in his children's book on the Boer war - no more nice glares and colors, just khaki everywhere - a symbol of efficiency, because camouflage now is treated seriously enough.
Like Intel's tick-tock. Worker movements and fascisms 100 years ago were the "tick", and now is the "tock" - boring, depressing, deadly efficient.
Very well put; this is exactly what I'm talking about.
Apparently 70-80% of Americans live from paycheck to paycheck.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/living-paycheck-to-paycheck-statistics-2024/
It's not that they're chicken shit. They aren't even against Trump's policies.
That, too. Even a good portion of Dems support this stupid fucks actions and "policy." And the word policy is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Are you serious? Most Americans are scared of losing their jobs and being unable to provide for their families, including caregivers for elderly parents. Many are only a few missed payments away from having their vehicles repossessed or being evicted and becoming homeless. Some have ongoing health conditions that require insurance.
If you have nothing to lose or you have a safety net and can stop going to work, great, good job. Most people aren't in your position.
Many service members are in the same position and depend on Uncle Sam to pay their bills (and, ya know, to stay out of jail for derelicion of duty or insubordination)...hence why it might be a tad difficult to "remember their oath" and stand up against vaguely illegalish orders, which might morally preserve their soul, but crushes their ability to live. Only bringing this up because of comments in other posts related to the NG and USMC in LA, but I see a close parallel of maliciously manufactured helplessness to self-advocate.
It's an intentionally designed system, so that everyone falling out of line by themselves would hurt only themselves. It's the point of governments and militaries than everyone can be replaced.
It was always so.
Strikes are supposed to be "suicidal".
The problem is that western cultures after 60s manufactured expectation that there's no such thing among necessary ones in life. That you live for feeling nice, comfort, good things, peaceful politics. That risking your life to make a statement won't be required from you. That was initially counterpropaganda to communism, I think.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Huh. The But Muh Freezed Peach "free speech absolutists" on the right are saying what on this? I bet they are saying sweet fuckall.
Turns out they just need to be on the winning team. Their entire existence is so frail that the only way to cope is to hate a group of anyone.
Cant suggest what should be done without cowards trying to cover it up.