Trump supporters, ICE is coming for you, too
A dear friend used to complain, “I can’t seem to get out of my own way.” It happens to smart people. We overthink everything (or at least most things). While conservatives appeal to people’s lizard brains, say, by blowing up shit or emptying a magazine into 12-packs of beer, the left wonders why those people won’t listen to our five- and ten-point plans.
It’s why I liked John Russell the first time I ran across him and his mullet online. That was before he spoke to the 2024 Democratic Convention where he called Donald Trump’s brand of populism divide-and-conquer by a different name.
Russell popped into my in-box this morning with more of the tell-it-like-it-is that too many of us don’t:
Trump supporters, ICE will come for you, too. Maybe you’re last on the list, but you’re on it. Hear me out.
What if ICE isn’t about crime? What if ICE is a tool for the 1%, being used to get one half of working people to hate the other half, while billionaires (and Epstein people) protect themselves and take total control?
The super-rich and their politicians built ICE, funded ICE, and sent it into communities where it killed people who have the same problems you do.
Then they watch you fight your neighbors about it. And I’m sure they laugh, because you let them into power based on a story they just made up.
If the super-rich were honest about what they want, I don’t think anybody would let them run the country. They want you to work forever, rent everything, and be too desperate to step off the hamster wheel and change anything.
That is by design, and it’s working well: 6 in 10 people in the richest country ever are paycheck to paycheck.
And that prints money for the rich because while everyone is trying to survive, they BOUGHT the stock market. 93% of stock market wealth belongs to the top ten percent. That means you go to work, and they make the BIG money.
But if you focused on that, the rich probably wouldn’t stay in power. So they made up a story for you to believe. They said the problem is: immigrants, trans people, woke, DEI, CRT — anyone but the rich and their greed.
Then they said, “ We’re gonna make ICE and go fight those monsters that we told you about. These liberal pussies are gonna cry about it. And you’re gonna love it.”
But no one is buttering your bread, man. The people ICE is killing and terrorizing are locked out of power, just like you, just like me.
And as it gets harder for you or your kids to “live the American Dream”, you’ll do one of two things. Either shut up and wave the flag as it gets really ugly, or you might hit the streets…
Where you will learn that this standing army, that plays by its own rules, that answers to the president (who answers to billionaires), was actually for you too. The story they made up was bullshit. And you bought it.
Don’t find out the hard way that you’re on the list, too. If any part of you didn’t like what you saw in Minneapolis, really ask yourself if the rich people controlling ICE give a shit about your life. I promise you they don’t.
Note to self: Don’t overthink things.