Ice

To be honest, I have been exhausted even thinking about writing this post. The impetus for it has literally kept me awake for the last 2-3 nights. I even had an anxiety attack contemplating the reason behind why I had to write about it. 

Yeah - you all know the bill / budget that passed both sides of Congress last week - by the skins of their teeth - cuts a lot of services and adds almost $4,000,000,000,000 (that's trillion) to the deficit. All of it problematic, of course. 

But an original plan in an earlier version of that bill was something like $4 billion for ICE, yet the amount expanded to $175 Billion. 

Let that sink in. 

That's right - almost 44x more. 

We are a country of ~330 million folks. That equates to ~$530,300 per resident. 

Yes, I'm stating it that way. If it were truly about just undocumented people in the country, the cost per person would skyrocket. 

This is not what this is about. 

This about keeping citizens in line. This is about controlling the population. This is about Germany 1936-1945. For what else would they need that kind of funding?  No seriously, I'll wait for responses in the comments. 

Yes, it's Blobby the Alarmist again. Welcome back to my world. 

ICE. A government "law enforcement" agency. 

Unnamed. Masked. No warrants. No charges. No due process. No accountability. Little to no information given on 'prisoners' or locations / destinations. Answering to seemingly no one. Expanding at incredible speed.  

If that isn't the SS, I don't know what the fuck is. 

They have clearly detained and taken legitimate citizens already. No recourse. None. How is this acceptable to anyone other than BLOTUS, Stephen Miller, and Kristi Noam? 

To be even clearer - out of BLOTUS' mouth:  says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador. 

"The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You've got to build about five more places,"  BLOTUS said to El Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele, an apparent reference to prison space that would be needed in El Salvador to house U.S. citizens. 

I honestly don't know how one could be much clearer on plans and intent. And now with the additional funding? 

You are a homegrown. So is your family. I'd say prove me wrong, but they're not looking for proof or facts. Good luck with that. 

You have to believe he's learned not to make the same mistake as Germany and keep detailed records of people who are imprisoned and / or eventually executed. They have literally taken away all the barriers to all of this. 

This literally keeps me up at night. All night. For nights in a row. 

There is and will be no one to help us. There will be no one to liberate any camps. No one is big enough who will care. China? Russia?  Please.  We. Are. Fucked. 

.....and btw.....the Medicaid cuts are scheduled to hit after mid-terms. This way, GOPers up for reelection won't be on the hook for this disaster, and if they are replaced with dems, those dems will take the fall for something they had nothing to do with. 

GOP might be evil, but they're smart about it. 

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