Trump's personal police force

 The Big Beautiful Bill gave ICE funding greater than other countries' armies.

It is shocking that we are in this place where Donald Trump may be getting a win this week but the country is clearly losing and the American people are clearly losing.

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[T]he cumulative impact of all of this is.… I describe it as an agenda of sabotage, plunder, and betrayal. We are going to be poorer, weaker, less healthy, less safe, and less free because of Donald Trump and the Republicans and this time that they’ve been in power.

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We’re waking up today to the Republicans just passed essentially something to create this partisan political police force that reports to the president that is unprecedented and completely out of character for any democracy—and it wasn’t really a major part of the conversation and debate over the last couple of months.

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What is Donald Trump going to do for the next 16 months? He needs to create daily spectacles. He’s reveling in the sadism of his administration. And you just get the sense that a large part of his understanding of what he’s going to do in the role as president that he plays on television is going to be to beat the crap out of immigrants—in public. And now he has unprecedented tools to do it.

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And, eventually, it won't be limited to immigrants.

What is Trump actually going to do over the next 16 months? Because again, he needs, as Anne Applebaum called it, to recreate the spectacle of power every day. He’s not getting trade wins. Global leaders don’t like him and don’t want to bend the knee to him. He’s been rejected again and again.

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I don’t know where this is all going to go politically because he’s already so low that I don’t know how much lower he can go, frankly, in his polling. I do think that quickly there will be a sense in the public—and this is something we have to initiate—that this was an enormous mistake, that Republicans made an error, that they are screwing over the country. It’s because in their information universe, Donald Trump is popular. He’s successful. He’s young and thin and has hair and is virile—and all these things that we don’t see.

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One of the reasons that people have to realize that they don’t seem to be concerned about his poll numbers right now is that in their polling universe, in their political universe, he’s actually popular in these fake made-up polls. I think this is really important because I think that they are anticipating there are going to be elections. They just have confidence through their money and through Trump’s innate strength and power that they’re going to be able to survive our attacks on them. And I think we’re going to find out, for example, in New Jersey and in Virginia just within a few months whether they can. I don’t think they will.

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I do think that the “No Kings” protest, the Tesla takedowns, which were wildly successful.… There are now millions and millions of people who are getting up every day with the idea that they’re going to do something, and I don’t think that’s going to change. And frankly, that community could grow. Just in my own Hopium community, it’s amazing to see people talk about how I go to protests and I call my members of Congress every day and I hang out with my group and we send postcards into races. A lot of people have become more muscular in their civic engagement over the last few months.

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Don’t let up now. This is not the time to get out of the fight.

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Trump's army.   Trump Troops.

How much did that little show cost taxpayers?

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