Like some pantomime of those bizarre fictional bureaucracies seen in Beetlejuice, Loki, or at best, Monsters Inc. Imagine getting stymied, deferred, redirected, misdirected, sloughed off, and dismissed by administrators and clerks who know full-well that your life or death is on the line.
That's the reality for these people getting systematically and entirely legally fucked around, and you're right, they often don't have the resources to fight owing largely to their poor health - being subjected to unnecessary suffering as a means to get them just give up, go away, and die somewhere that no one has to see. Mangione is unequivocally a hero, these people are legitimately, maliciously evil. State and federal legislators either can't or are unwilling to stop them, but so few victims are even able to "air their grievances face-to-face" that the bulk will never see justice for what was done to them.
Sound advice that, I can't stand the stink coming off the boarder, and am won't even consider passing through via connecting flights until shit's cleared up stateside.
That is a bit of an odd sticking point, honestly it makes me wonder if they thought it would be possible to obfuscate investigations and conceal the identities of Police involved.
Absolutely right. Similar scenarios have been playing out for a long time, but the additional, onerous measures were seldom applied to anyone with the resources to fight it in court or put the U.S. government on blast in the media.
The apparent shift has prompted several nations to change their travel advice and triggered a frenzy of questions in online travel forums about whether it is safe to go to the US.
Don't. Wait at least until the next administration. It's not safe, even everyday Americans are warning family, friends and business colleagues to stay away.
Roland Lescure, a French member of parliament who represents French citizens living in North America, said... “The home of the free and the brave is turning into something very different.”
A fascist, totalitarian surveillance state whose law enforcement has been granted absolute power, and who act with impunity, the checks & balances which were supposed to protect the Constitutional rights of citizens reduced to mere window dressing. Opposition Democrat politicians have busied themselves with impotent appeals to reason, press conferences, press releases, social media posts and ineffective protest marches which they hope will shed light on the situation and spur change (it won't).
"Hey, rural conservative voters. Here's what his track record is, and here's what he's *actually * admitted he'll do. The policies will harm you and your families. Voting Republican would be like shooting yourself in the foot."
*rural voters blast off entire foot with 12 ga. shotgun*
I can't be the only one wondering at how no one in a closed-doors meeting was able to both contemplate the status of their own security clearance, or how it might be negatively affected by disclosing sensitive (albeit apparently not classified, secret, or top secret) information in the presence of someone who was not legally entitled to hear/see it? According to the source, there were foreign military officers there as well? How the fuck did not one of them stand up and demand that she get the fuck out of the fucking room?
How is it possible for the Secretary of Defense to be so nose-blind to this level of bullshit, as though he thought that it was acceptable to bring his spouse along as some kind of adult "bring your kid to work day"? This isn't "odd" or "strange", it represents possible degradation and compromise of national security. Wait in the fucking lounge, Jennifer, Jesus Christ.
My thoughts exactly. I can get on board with newly coined terms and expressions, but frankly, there's no need if it's just fascism engaged in sabotage. Just because it's a unique modern scenario doesn't mean that Trump reinvented the wheel.
*bussy