Friday, June 20, 2025

And People Going To Baseball Games

It’s the people ICE is rounding up that are the concern. Immigrants at court hearings and keeping appointments for their legal status? Students whose opinions Trump doesn’t like, snatched off the streets? By masked men who may not be federal agents? Who can tell? That’s the public image of ICE. Because LA didn’t catch fire? Because LAPD went a bit nuts (inexcusable), but the NG and the Marines just stood around a building? Or is it because ICE went to Dodgers stadium 🏟️ and tried to persuade us those masked men were not their masked men?

The people paying enough attention to answer polls know there is a quota, and what “quota” means to cops (right down to speed traps). That really isn’t helping with acceptance of what Trump/Miller want.

As Trump knows:
Notice how Trump is evading responsibility for taking away migrant farm workers. Good luck with that. You think people are going to blame farmers’ employment practices for this?* Neither do I.


*Stonewall, Texas is where I’ve been buying peaches for decades (I can ‘em). I take it kinda personally if they start rotting in the orchards. Stonewall is a wide spot in the road in an agricultural community. Peaches are a major crop.  Ripples out to the community around it, and customers like me, and food companies who use peaches in the products they sell. Shit hitting the fan, IOW. And multiply that across Texas alone. Gonna be a shitstorm.

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