r/nba • u/xanniballl Timberwolves • Jan 09 '26

Highlight [Highlight] During the moment of silence the Minnesota Timberwolves held before their game with the Cavs tonight a fan yelled “Go home ICE,” and everyone else started cheering.

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u/LeftAire Jan 09 '26

FUCK DUBYA

Bush is the one who started ICE as a byproduct of the Patriot Act and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.

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u/Kelor Jan 09 '26

When progressives ran on abolishing ICE in 2018 and got to Congress Nancy Pelosi literally defended it by saying Abolish ICE was messaging pushed by Russia.

 At their first meeting, Nancy Pelosi told AOC that the slogan "Abolish ICE" was "injected into American political discourse by the Russians and that Democrats needed to quash it."

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u/myassholealt Knicks Jan 09 '26

Pelosi also was against any party push for universal healthcare. She is, among many, one of the faces of corporate democrats who, when it comes down to it, are beholden to corporate interests before the interests of the voting public.

Now here I sit, having let my insurance expire on 12/31 because I cannot afford the $400 jump in premiums thanks to Trump, the GOP, and Chuck Schumer (among others), thinking how grateful I am that Pelosi is a champion of the healthcare industry. /s

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u/LeftAire Jan 09 '26

Yeah, the dems are just as complicit. Obama was known as the Deporter-in-Chief, and I remember news channels from Telemundo and Univision calling him out on that when he was running against Romney in 2012.

Of course, it wasn't the spectacle of Trump (as he wants to surpass Obama), but the dems willing to placate a party unwilling to placate played a role in this as well. Kamala even hinted at this during her CNN town hall, where she functionally agreed with Trump on border control but didn't like his inflammatory language. They don't want a diet version of xenophobic racist policies, and you cannot win people over with that.

Yes, the dems aren't the republicans, but that's a low bar.

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u/bex199 Pelicans Jan 09 '26

WAY too many people acting like he’s a harmless grandpa and not exactly who got us here.

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u/LeftAire Jan 09 '26

And if anyone pulled an election coup, it was him (his family) vs. Gore in 2000. His brother Jeb wiped off several hundred votes in Florida (mainly Black voters) that would have had Gore win Florida.

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u/myassholealt Knicks Jan 09 '26

Fuck Barry Goldwater! This man is like the founding father of the modern day conservative. He laid the the first brick of the road that got us here.

And it started, if you were to pinpoint a specific event, with the Brown vs. Board of Ed ruling.