Cubans & Venezuelans Find Out

Sad, but unsurprising.

Cubans and Venezuelans were Trump’s most loyal supporters - they believed that the tough talk about their respective governments meant that, having managed to get here, they would be safe.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Get an ICE hearing date, show up, get deported.

Choose to skip it? Get deported.

This is awful, but nothing compared to the reality the pro-Palestinian voters in this country are facing. The ones who stayed home because Kamala Harris would not promise to snap her fingers and bring equality to the people of Gaza, instead have to watch the slaughter escalate.

Seventeen hours is an eternity when you’re starving, and the U.S. midterm election is seventeen month away. Even if the voters deal a crushing blow to the Republican party, the harm to Gaza will be in the rear view mirror, and the diminished stature of the United States makes it much less likely we would be able to do anything about it, even if we could must the political will to try.

All of the nasty climate outcomes predicted for 2100 began to arrive in force in 2022, and with that arrival, the value of human life began to recede.

Assuming we actually manage to have a midterm in 2026, one would hope we’d make wiser choices. I am not at all confident this will happen. Masked gangs of kidnapper picking off anyone who looks like an immigrant can easily morph into poll observers.

I am OK with these outcomes.

The only thing I will not abide are people sniveling about “but nobody told us”. Those who attempt this dodge are just the ones too ignorant to work out cause and effect.