BREAKING: #JFKTerminal4 Trending on Twitter. Protesters Take To NYC Airport To Demand Detainees Be Let In & Put Drumpf On Notice.

Submitted by Mark from Queens on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 4:42pm

Got a cryptic text from a friend asking if I knew anybody who "could shut JFK down," and thought, that was weird. But then another responded to an invitation I sent out about a show I'm playing in Times Sq tonight that she was instead off to JFK for the protest. Huh, what's going on, I thought?

That ugly scumbag Drumpf; that clueless, thin-skinned, vindictive, incurious, slovenly, moron; that unfit for office, slimy, pathological liar. Does he know nothing about history? I venture to say he's a fairly standard dumb xenophobic RW extremist who knows nothing of the world, literature, the arts, philosophy, government, culture, because, and I'd bet on it, when he does travel probably stays sequestered among the financial elites and "businessmen" who similarly, many times, are the same, possessing incurious and narcissistic traits, with abnormally developed brains for business and making money/selling people shit but not very much else.

We. Are. A Nation. Of Immigrants. And Revolutionaries. Never Forget.

That's what another president said. And this prick hasn't the faintest clue about the gravity of those words spoken by FDR during the Great Depression. Not allowing refugees in, after we drop countless bombs and bring untold misery and death to so many people, while claiming to be bringing them freedom and democracy? How about all the fleeing Jews we never let in during the Nazi reign of terror?

And, what's the deal with all these reckless "executive orders" being signed and flouted, as if he's a fucking king decreeing from atop his ivory tower"? I'm starting to think the revolution may be coming sooner than I thought...

It's in times like these, however, that the best of humanity also rises.

Off to the Interwebs and the Tweeters to find out...

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Submitted by Mark from Queens on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 4:55pm
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but thought it was worthy of being shared here.

Although I believe a more benign fascism with a pretty face has been in place for a while here, Sinclair Lewis's words, given Drumpf's penchant for reckless fear-mongering and Pence's Christian fundamentalist extremism, haunt more than ever right now:

When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

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Submitted by GusBecause on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 5:39pm

Thank you thank you! As a grandchild of "the huddled masses" I cant thank you enough. God bless you.

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Submitted by sojourns on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 5:45pm
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Submitted by Bollox Ref on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 6:09pm
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by U.S. Immigration (some of the most officious and charmless people on the planet) as a green card holder (from the U.K.), I can only imagine the hell these poor people are going through.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

Submitted by PriceRip on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 6:32pm
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[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiOUF1aBf0w]

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Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 9:11pm
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@PriceRip Isn't it awesome how CNN now gives a shit about the plight of immigrants? Wonderful! But of course, they always have. Remember how rigorously they questioned Hillary on her ideas about deportation, and Honduras; remember how they held Obama's feet to the fire as he deported record numbers.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by PriceRip on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 9:35pm
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@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal
          I am thinking I should start binge watching those oh so very fine examples of journalistic integrity.

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Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 2:12pm
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@PriceRip Watch out, there might be some unforeseen side effects, kind of like in the South Park Adderall episode

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by LaFeminista on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 6:34pm

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Submitted by OLinda on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 7:43pm
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Submitted by on the cusp on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 8:01pm

@OLinda I am so impressed. Good for all the protesters and may they remain safe.

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Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 9:06pm
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@OLinda Oh for goodness sakes. Katrina vanden Heuvel is tweeting about it? /facepalm Great. They've taken over the left. We're now the thing they use to needle Trump. Once they've managed to get rid of him they'll shut us back down again.

Never thought I'd end up being a useful idiot for these slimeballs. I can see what my choice is going to be for the next 4-8 years or until they impeach Trump and leave us with Pence or possibly Ryan: to stand aside while people are taking action on issues that matter to me, or let the corrupt establishment bastards attach their goddamned puppet strings to me.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by PriceRip on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 9:48pm
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@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal
          Appropriation, that's the word you seek.

          The Neoliberal crowd does not really care about this issue so they are only appropriating it as a tool in their primary objective of restoring their self delusional perception of being relevant. And, if we participate, we look like we support them, and smiles all around we are one big happy family.

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Submitted by annominous on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 8:29pm

redacted

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Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 8:00pm
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@annominous how is anyone going to get to JFK to join the protest?

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The ruling classes need an extra party to make the rest of us feel as if we participate in democracy. That's what the Democrats are for. They make the US more durable than the Soviet Union was.

Submitted by annominous on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 8:24pm

redacted

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Submitted by annominous on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 8:27pm

redacted

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Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 9:02pm
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@annominous What does this mean?

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"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
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Submitted by on the cusp on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 9:10pm

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal I think annominous has left the building.

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Submitted by PriceRip on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 9:56pm
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@on the cusp
          and all recent annominous comments have been "Redacted". I am not sure what triggered the shelling of the comments, but it happened.

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Submitted by Crider on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 7:59pm
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on Facebook right now and it says, "Cadman Plaza Brooklyn - Emergency Hearing" which makes me wonder if a judge is finally going to hear an argument for an injunction against Herr Trumpf's illegal immigrant edict.

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Submitted by Crider on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 8:12pm
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@Crider @Crider @Crider Apparently an injunction was granted.

link: https://www.facebook.com/OccupyWallSt/videos/vb.184749301592842/14006195...

It was the suit brought by the ACLU.

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Submitted by Alex Ocana on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 9:08pm
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hands off my family.jpg
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From the Light House.

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 9:09pm
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Who knows, maybe some good will be allowed to come of it, and it won't just be the standard political machinations with a new twist.

I'm gonna take my cynical self out of here. Blessed be.

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-- Fiver

Submitted by Alex Ocana on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 9:29pm
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https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/darweesh-v-trump-petitioners-motionf...

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Submitted by divineorder on Sat, 01/28/2017 - 10:16pm
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in. More alcoholism, more pregnancies, more howling at the moon for the hell of it. That is the legacy of my gene line. Beware!!!!

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

Submitted by mimi on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 3:15am
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Judge halts deportations as refugee ban causes worldwide furor

Judge Ann Donnelly of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn granted a request from the American Civil Liberties Union to stop the deportations after determining that the risk of injury to those detained by being returned to their home countries necessitated the decision.

Minutes after the judge’s ruling in New York, another came in Virginia when U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema issued a temporary restraining order to block for seven days the removal of any green-card holders being detained at Dulles International Airport. Brinkema’s action also ordered that lawyers have access to those held there because of the ban

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yes, but then look at this (insert favorite Trump fan's wording here) stomping his feet in the ground:

Yet Trump, who centered his campaign in part on his vow to crack down on illegal immigrants and impose what became known as his “Muslim ban,’’ was unbowed. As White House officials insisted that the measure strengthens national security, the president stood squarely behind it.

“It’s not a Muslim ban, but we were totally prepared,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “You see it at the airports, you see it all over. It’s working out very nicely, and we’re going to have a very, very strict ban, and we’re going to have extreme vetting, which we should have had in this country for many years.”

In New York, Donnelly seemed to have little patience for the government’s arguments...

...only in America ...

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Submitted by gulfgal98 on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 6:51am
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some American born citizens are becoming radicalized? Duh!

Perhaps if we just get out of the Middle East and let in those people whose countries have been blown up by us and our allies (here's looking at you, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt,Israel, etc.), then perhaps we will not have killed so many of their citizens and created this massive refugee crisis.

The biggest purveyors of terrorism are the United States and its allies in the Middle East.

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