I remember still having to ask for unleaded gas, and that was in the '90s. Plenty of houses still have lead paint and lead pipes. Sure it was more of a problem in the 70s, but it didn't go away after that.
Maybe it "felt like a kidnapping" because it was a kidnapping.
They had no legal authority to arrest him. They have no legal grounds for deporting him. It was a gross violation of his constitutional rights. And what are you supposed to do about it? What do you do when the Nazis come for you?
Also, more of the typical ACAB bullshit telling him to stop resisting while he's being calm and not resisting. Need to get that out there in case they decide to shoot him. "It's coming right for us!"
We're so fucked. There are no constraints. What are the courts going to do, release the US Marshals upon the people who control them? Good fucking luck.
And I blame every single person who voted for him, voted third party, or didn't vote. We knew what he was going to do. They had a 900+ page playbook ready to go. This is the fault of two-thirds of our voting-eligible population. Yes, they were set up for failure with decades of propaganda and inadequate education, but that does not absolve them from what they have done.
Not to mention that he admitted flat out that he was going to be a "dictator on day one". Well, he was. Thanks, my fellow Americans.
Time for me to buy a couple rifles and a lot of ammo.
Europeans really don't understand how spread out we are over here. And then there's the whole "I could lose my job and housing if I take a day off work" thing that most people have going on.
I remember still having to ask for unleaded gas, and that was in the '90s. Plenty of houses still have lead paint and lead pipes. Sure it was more of a problem in the 70s, but it didn't go away after that.