‘Grind the country to a halt’: Democratic Senator urges national strike if Trump meddles in midterms.
From The Guardian
“The Democratic senator from Arizona ,Ruben Gallego has proposed that, should Donald Trump try to sabotage the midterm elections, Americans should respond with a general strike that would “grind the country to a halt”.
“If we have to destroy the stock market to save democracy, we need to accept that and, more importantly, the richest and the most powerful people in the world and in this country need to understand that that is a real possibility. There is no economic stability without democratic stability. If you take away our democratic stability, we will take away the economic stability.”
From The Peaceful Solution:
All praise to the Senator for proposing a meaningful method to oppose the fascist takeover of the country. We need people of his stature to lead this effort.
It is past time to escalate the resistance, and this proposal would certainly do that. But for many people, if you don’t work, you don’t get paid. And for how long could most people keep it up? And with AI coming for a lot of people’s jobs, this would be the perfect opportunity for businesses to fire a lot of people.
Here’s another proposal that will work as well, without the collateral damage:
The Peaceful Solution-Part 1
How much do you want to stop His Royal Heinous and the fascist takeover of the country?
Enough that you’re willing to make a small sacrifice? Like altering your spending habits for a month or two or three? That could be all it would take to get the attention of the oligarchs (formerly known as The Robber Barons in the first Gilded Age, also The Fat Cats, The Greedy Bastards).
A brief demonstration of We, the People’s, power of the purse could persuade them to quit supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.
We quit spending, except on essentials, businesses lose money, stock market goes down, Greedy Bastards pay attention to our demands.
Greedy Bastards own most of the politicians of both major parties. GBs start losing money, tell politicians to change course and do what We, the People want.
We are running out of peaceful options. The legislature and Supreme Court are controlled by HRH. He controls the executive branch, including the Military, Justice Department, FBI, ICE, the IRS. He controls all levers of power.
We, the people, still have the power of the purse. No one can control our spending, or lack of spending. When all else fails we can go on a spending strike until the business community stops supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.
Economic warfare is the only thing the oligarchs, the business community will understand and act on. Call it a Surreptitious General Strike (Quiet Quitting). Go to work, do as little as possible. Stop spending money except on essentials. Quit feeding the corporate beast that supports the HRH.
Stop participating. Nearly 70% of the U.S. economy is driven by consumer spending. All of us. Hobble the economy and the stock market. Mahatma Gandhi drove the British from India by peaceful civil disobedience and economic disruption. We can stop the fascist takeover in the same way.
We can keep rehashing past and present atrocities until our access to the internet is taken away by the regime, or we can DO something!
How do I find out if sheriff's candidates running in my district are supportive of these local cooperation operations that undermine democracy and throw innocent citizens into federal custody without due process? We have sheriff elections coming up next month.
Depends on where you live, because our Sheriff coordinates with ICE but his office avoids talking about it. The only way I found out was by being involved in local immigrant rights organizations that have been involved with county level policy, they have been tracking it.
In this California county, our Sheriff last year coordinated with ICE more than 150 times. He has never once brought it up in his newsletters or speeches.
Christopher’s suggestion is a good one. But you should also know that participation is not the sheriff’s decision. The decision is made by the local governing or municipal board. There are two levels of cooperation.
The first is notification to the feds that someone taken into custody has a federal charge or may be an immigrant.
That is routine. DHS then has to respond to the local LEA IF they want to issue a detainer.
The second is willingness to hold someone for 48 hours prior to any judicial proceeding (or after a proceeding that exonerates them on the local charge) if the feds issue a detainer (they do not always do so.) The first part takes a bit of time, but not much else. The second part is expensive and involves a lot of paperwork for which the feds often do not reimburse. Not all communities have facilities that can accommodate federal detainees for more than a day or two and that is an important consideration. It is an issue of resources, both time and space.
In areas with established ICE cooperation, there is nothing to stop local kkkops from arresting any person of color on any trumped up charge that is false, and getting ICE to remove them even though they are a US citizen, with no repercussions to the ones falsely accusing people of color. It gives “sundown” towns the ability to purge themselves of people of color and create a white supremacist utopia with no repercussions for the illegal acts needed to commit the ethnic cleansing they desire. First Nations people can be swept up and removed along with other people of color, and probably white dissenters too. The rule of law is dying a quiet death at the hands of law enforcement officers.
This has been going on so long BECAUSE America is such a racist country. Stop electing people who aren't willing to prosecute law enforcement officers and their chiefs for the wrongs done in their departments. 250 years should have been enough time to get rid of the KKK faction but I guess not, so something drastic must be done. Have a central vetting agency and stop allowing towns to run their own candidates for the roles. They may not like it but the entire country has shown they can't be trusted. If racists cops weren't an issues they we wouldn't have had 1000's of movies on the subject!!!
It's so disgusting but unfortunately not unexpected that some local police forces are helping little dick in his deportation program. The police for generations have been the overseers replacing the KKK types who were doing what they probably call the re-whiting of America. This is not new. Michael Fannon referenced this issue. He said when he was a police officer that there were some officers who were still living in those days. As an English person we saw the movies of the bigoted cops. They don't make movies about something if it isn't a symptom of American law enforcement. I think those officers should face the same charges as the ICEstapo when the dems take over or else this behaviour will never change. It's been allowed to grow for over 250 years and it has to stop! If firing those officers does that then it's a start. Maybe those who aren't complicit but really want to work in law enforcement should be given whistleblower status to out them. At this point to carry on the way your going is just going to be band-aiding the issue until the lawlessness in the country just gets worse and worse while waiting another flareup like little dick will instigate once again.
There's no option in your poll for places that are supposedly sanctuary cities but the local cops are still supporting ICE...like we are seeing here in Minnesota.
I moved from a non-cooperating state to a cooperating one. The non-cooperating state had previously cooperated with Homeland Security (federal detainers can be used by other law enforcement agencies like ATF or FBI.) But they stopped when the feds started to delay payment for the services and facility costs of holding people on detainers. It’s not free, especially when the feds do not pick up
their detainers within 48 hours (the length of time someone could be held without a local charge.) The state and
counties were running budget deficits to hold federal detainees. This was a border state and there were lots of them. So they cancelled their agreements because of money, not because of any ideological preference. It was just that they could not afford it.
When I moved far away from the border this did not seem like much of an issue. Then this year local news reported that because of overcrowding the county was having to pay other jurisdictions to take people. But the local jail could not move the people on detainers and there was nothing they could do to get the feds to come pick up their detainers. The cost of holding detainers was only briefly mentioned, but it couldn’t be avoided entirely.
Detainers require local resources and take jail cells that could be used for holding local criminal offenders instead. When the state legislature met they had to allocate state funds to local law enforcement agencies that were not getting reimbursed by the feds. Again, detaining people is expensive, especially when the feds do not bother to pick up their detainees as was recently the case in Minnesota.
All of this is explained in the link in the article to the American Immigration Council. People are at risk of federal detention locally if they are fingerprinted or is there is already a federal order of removal. So if you get pulled over for a tail light and don’t have a warrant or order for removal already, then the local police are not going to detain you. They have no cause (since tail light infractions are low level misdemeanors and you get a ticket not arrested) and a routine database check isn’t going to find anything. If you do have a warrant or order of removal then police have discretion about making an arrest. (I was in this situation once and no arrest happened, just an order to appear in court. But it doesn’t always go that way.)
A lot of federal cooperation depends on the federal side upholding their side and unfortunately, they do not always do so. Giving local police ICE authority is one way to get around the problems that happen when the feds do not do their job. If the feds are not going to complete detainer paperwork and pick up their detainees, having a local officer do it means that a local officer can check the databases for orders of removal and do the paperwork and have the detainee moved out of their jail, so that space can be used by someone who really should be there. The agreements do not allow local police to go hunting for random people.
Sanctuary cities are just places that refuse to detain people if the only issue is a removal orders without getting. While remaining in the US with a removal orders without is reason for ICE detention and removal, it is not a crime under local jurisdictions. So why put people in jail when they have not broken local laws? If local police find that someone has an arrest warrant, then that is a different issue regardless of status. So it is untrue that sanctuary cities never arrest any immigrant. They do arrest those with warrants or who broke local laws. The only two things they do not do is 1) request that ICE check their database for removal orders and 2) hold people for extra time. It is this second bit that annoys ICE because then they have a short
~ Thank you for this very informative article, It's greatly appreciated and that your organization is doing all that it can, to keep everyone updated and informed ~
‘Grind the country to a halt’: Democratic Senator urges national strike if Trump meddles in midterms.
From The Guardian
“The Democratic senator from Arizona ,Ruben Gallego has proposed that, should Donald Trump try to sabotage the midterm elections, Americans should respond with a general strike that would “grind the country to a halt”.
“If we have to destroy the stock market to save democracy, we need to accept that and, more importantly, the richest and the most powerful people in the world and in this country need to understand that that is a real possibility. There is no economic stability without democratic stability. If you take away our democratic stability, we will take away the economic stability.”
From The Peaceful Solution:
All praise to the Senator for proposing a meaningful method to oppose the fascist takeover of the country. We need people of his stature to lead this effort.
It is past time to escalate the resistance, and this proposal would certainly do that. But for many people, if you don’t work, you don’t get paid. And for how long could most people keep it up? And with AI coming for a lot of people’s jobs, this would be the perfect opportunity for businesses to fire a lot of people.
Here’s another proposal that will work as well, without the collateral damage:
The Peaceful Solution-Part 1
How much do you want to stop His Royal Heinous and the fascist takeover of the country?
Enough that you’re willing to make a small sacrifice? Like altering your spending habits for a month or two or three? That could be all it would take to get the attention of the oligarchs (formerly known as The Robber Barons in the first Gilded Age, also The Fat Cats, The Greedy Bastards).
A brief demonstration of We, the People’s, power of the purse could persuade them to quit supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.
We quit spending, except on essentials, businesses lose money, stock market goes down, Greedy Bastards pay attention to our demands.
Greedy Bastards own most of the politicians of both major parties. GBs start losing money, tell politicians to change course and do what We, the People want.
We are running out of peaceful options. The legislature and Supreme Court are controlled by HRH. He controls the executive branch, including the Military, Justice Department, FBI, ICE, the IRS. He controls all levers of power.
We, the people, still have the power of the purse. No one can control our spending, or lack of spending. When all else fails we can go on a spending strike until the business community stops supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.
Economic warfare is the only thing the oligarchs, the business community will understand and act on. Call it a Surreptitious General Strike (Quiet Quitting). Go to work, do as little as possible. Stop spending money except on essentials. Quit feeding the corporate beast that supports the HRH.
Stop participating. Nearly 70% of the U.S. economy is driven by consumer spending. All of us. Hobble the economy and the stock market. Mahatma Gandhi drove the British from India by peaceful civil disobedience and economic disruption. We can stop the fascist takeover in the same way.
We can keep rehashing past and present atrocities until our access to the internet is taken away by the regime, or we can DO something!
Now is the time for this Peaceful Solution.
So helpful. Thanks!
How do I find out if sheriff's candidates running in my district are supportive of these local cooperation operations that undermine democracy and throw innocent citizens into federal custody without due process? We have sheriff elections coming up next month.
Depends on where you live, because our Sheriff coordinates with ICE but his office avoids talking about it. The only way I found out was by being involved in local immigrant rights organizations that have been involved with county level policy, they have been tracking it.
In this California county, our Sheriff last year coordinated with ICE more than 150 times. He has never once brought it up in his newsletters or speeches.
Christopher’s suggestion is a good one. But you should also know that participation is not the sheriff’s decision. The decision is made by the local governing or municipal board. There are two levels of cooperation.
The first is notification to the feds that someone taken into custody has a federal charge or may be an immigrant.
That is routine. DHS then has to respond to the local LEA IF they want to issue a detainer.
The second is willingness to hold someone for 48 hours prior to any judicial proceeding (or after a proceeding that exonerates them on the local charge) if the feds issue a detainer (they do not always do so.) The first part takes a bit of time, but not much else. The second part is expensive and involves a lot of paperwork for which the feds often do not reimburse. Not all communities have facilities that can accommodate federal detainees for more than a day or two and that is an important consideration. It is an issue of resources, both time and space.
I sent this to my Town Supervisor and County supervisor to get answers.
Thank you for this excellent, eye-opening article!
In areas with established ICE cooperation, there is nothing to stop local kkkops from arresting any person of color on any trumped up charge that is false, and getting ICE to remove them even though they are a US citizen, with no repercussions to the ones falsely accusing people of color. It gives “sundown” towns the ability to purge themselves of people of color and create a white supremacist utopia with no repercussions for the illegal acts needed to commit the ethnic cleansing they desire. First Nations people can be swept up and removed along with other people of color, and probably white dissenters too. The rule of law is dying a quiet death at the hands of law enforcement officers.
This has been going on so long BECAUSE America is such a racist country. Stop electing people who aren't willing to prosecute law enforcement officers and their chiefs for the wrongs done in their departments. 250 years should have been enough time to get rid of the KKK faction but I guess not, so something drastic must be done. Have a central vetting agency and stop allowing towns to run their own candidates for the roles. They may not like it but the entire country has shown they can't be trusted. If racists cops weren't an issues they we wouldn't have had 1000's of movies on the subject!!!
🏙️ Here’s a list of sanctuary states / counties / cities from USDOJ.
https://www.justice.gov/ag/us-sanctuary-jurisdiction-list-following-executive-order-14287-protecting-american-communities?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
It's so disgusting but unfortunately not unexpected that some local police forces are helping little dick in his deportation program. The police for generations have been the overseers replacing the KKK types who were doing what they probably call the re-whiting of America. This is not new. Michael Fannon referenced this issue. He said when he was a police officer that there were some officers who were still living in those days. As an English person we saw the movies of the bigoted cops. They don't make movies about something if it isn't a symptom of American law enforcement. I think those officers should face the same charges as the ICEstapo when the dems take over or else this behaviour will never change. It's been allowed to grow for over 250 years and it has to stop! If firing those officers does that then it's a start. Maybe those who aren't complicit but really want to work in law enforcement should be given whistleblower status to out them. At this point to carry on the way your going is just going to be band-aiding the issue until the lawlessness in the country just gets worse and worse while waiting another flareup like little dick will instigate once again.
Little Dick. Well named!
Yeah (‘-’) I borrowed it from Stormy Daniels as she mentioned it during the “Hush Money” trial.
She knew.
If he didn't have SO Much money he'd probably never get a date. Not because of the size of his dick but the size of his intellect.
He still has an intellect? Sorry, I couldn't resist.
No need to apologise. Maybe it is the size of his dick that makes him want to play the big strong enforcer role lol.
In a turn of history, democratic, anti-racists forces have now become the avid “states rights” folks. Thanks for this post!
The West Coast obviously remains free of most Trump/ICE policies! 🎉Onward!!
Here are of their own numbers showing the lie.
https://musingsofanobody.substack.com/p/figures-dont-lie-so-lets-figure-out
There's no option in your poll for places that are supposedly sanctuary cities but the local cops are still supporting ICE...like we are seeing here in Minnesota.
I moved from a non-cooperating state to a cooperating one. The non-cooperating state had previously cooperated with Homeland Security (federal detainers can be used by other law enforcement agencies like ATF or FBI.) But they stopped when the feds started to delay payment for the services and facility costs of holding people on detainers. It’s not free, especially when the feds do not pick up
their detainers within 48 hours (the length of time someone could be held without a local charge.) The state and
counties were running budget deficits to hold federal detainees. This was a border state and there were lots of them. So they cancelled their agreements because of money, not because of any ideological preference. It was just that they could not afford it.
When I moved far away from the border this did not seem like much of an issue. Then this year local news reported that because of overcrowding the county was having to pay other jurisdictions to take people. But the local jail could not move the people on detainers and there was nothing they could do to get the feds to come pick up their detainers. The cost of holding detainers was only briefly mentioned, but it couldn’t be avoided entirely.
Detainers require local resources and take jail cells that could be used for holding local criminal offenders instead. When the state legislature met they had to allocate state funds to local law enforcement agencies that were not getting reimbursed by the feds. Again, detaining people is expensive, especially when the feds do not bother to pick up their detainees as was recently the case in Minnesota.
All of this is explained in the link in the article to the American Immigration Council. People are at risk of federal detention locally if they are fingerprinted or is there is already a federal order of removal. So if you get pulled over for a tail light and don’t have a warrant or order for removal already, then the local police are not going to detain you. They have no cause (since tail light infractions are low level misdemeanors and you get a ticket not arrested) and a routine database check isn’t going to find anything. If you do have a warrant or order of removal then police have discretion about making an arrest. (I was in this situation once and no arrest happened, just an order to appear in court. But it doesn’t always go that way.)
A lot of federal cooperation depends on the federal side upholding their side and unfortunately, they do not always do so. Giving local police ICE authority is one way to get around the problems that happen when the feds do not do their job. If the feds are not going to complete detainer paperwork and pick up their detainees, having a local officer do it means that a local officer can check the databases for orders of removal and do the paperwork and have the detainee moved out of their jail, so that space can be used by someone who really should be there. The agreements do not allow local police to go hunting for random people.
Sanctuary cities are just places that refuse to detain people if the only issue is a removal orders without getting. While remaining in the US with a removal orders without is reason for ICE detention and removal, it is not a crime under local jurisdictions. So why put people in jail when they have not broken local laws? If local police find that someone has an arrest warrant, then that is a different issue regardless of status. So it is untrue that sanctuary cities never arrest any immigrant. They do arrest those with warrants or who broke local laws. The only two things they do not do is 1) request that ICE check their database for removal orders and 2) hold people for extra time. It is this second bit that annoys ICE because then they have a short
deadline to pick someone up.
~ Thank you for this very informative article, It's greatly appreciated and that your organization is doing all that it can, to keep everyone updated and informed ~