ICE plans to set up a vast system of concentration camps. This will end badly.

 What the heck is ICE going to do with all that money authorized in the BBB. (Big Beautiful Bill). From this analysis, it will be to put as many brown people, moms and their children included, as they can into a vast system of concentration camps with no way out, a classic catch 22...because they failed to fund more immigration judges to hear their cases. Instead: https://www.brennancenter.org/.../big-budget-act-creates...

This is only going to end badly as ICE tries to de facto trash due process protections. The pictures and reports of moms and babies locked up will shock the world, not to mention result in an outcry of Americans themselves, that polls already show they do not like the methods of mass deportations ICE has undertaken already. It will appear to the world also that almost all targeted are brown skinned with no criminal record, just documentation violations, and that this is a thinly disguised gentler form of racial ethnic cleansing that is nonetheless cruel and totally un-American.

Are all non-MAGAs now Aunt Tifas?

To crack down on anyone who would oppose Trump, the Trump regime is searching for another bogeyman to justify anti-first-amendment actions. The new bogeyman du jour is antifa. The irony and problem with this new Antifa scare is that the name actually means anti-Fascist, and Trump et al are very sensitive about being called fascists. That could be turned around by the opposition to constantly remind voters that Trump acts and talks like a fascist. The number of white haired Oct. 18 participants who claimed they were Aunt Tifa was humorous, but that had a serious purpose to point out how absurd the Antifa fear mongering was, and by implication, calling Trump a fascist, they were against.  Maybe all protesters of the Trump regime are also Aunt Tifas. Trump’s first-ever Antifa indictment signals DOJ is opening a much bigger case against left-wing groups

This anti antifa strategy is taking place after Trump failed to get a large portion of the US to agree that nearly all (a few exceptions) of migrants from south of the border were murderers and rapists, and criminals. This attempt resulted in the majority of public opinion being unhappy with Trump's execution of mass deportation. It was due to ICE's cruel treatment of migrants who were not criminals. and in fact, who mostly turned out to be otherwise upstanding neighbors and service providers. The regime must feel some need to set up another enemy to fear, to accomplish another goal: suppress dissent. They are now elevating antifa, a non-organization, and their like-minded "fellow travellers" as their newest object to be so scared about, their followers will swallow the pitch and go along with violations of the Constitution, as loyal MAGA supporters..

Aspiring dictators have often become successful by setting up bogeymen to justify otherwise unpopular anti-free speech crackdowns and to convince their subjects to give up their own civil rights to be safe or keep their race pure.. Examples, Jews in Nazi Germany, fueled Hitler's rise; fear of Syrian refugees in Hungary, boosted Viktor Orban to fascist leader status; Muslim terrorists in Russia helped Putin consolidate power..

In the past, in the US, some found ghosts of commies behind every movie production and government desk, but this one may go the way of the Red Scare of McCarthy, too. The fear of the non-MAGA is that Trump, like McCarthy, will try to use this anti antifa fear campaign to clamp down on anyone who fits their version of Antifa, either to explain their actions to their base or to launch a campaign to suppress even white, mature dissenters.

After October 18, Trump and Trump spokespeople have failed to paint the seven million NO KINGS participants as terrorists like Antifa, Hamas supporters, etc. The reason: the seven million on Oct. 18 were mostly white and mature, visually not Antifa black terrorists. The Trumpists have not given up on Antifa as their new bogeyman so now they have to act like Ghostbusters, and found two, aha, who met their profile. Trying to prove they are card-carrying Antifas will be hard since antifa is not an organization, but a loose assembly of some like-minded individuals without leadership.

For a description of what is a fascist, go to: MUFTIC FORUM BLOG: Explaining libs to my MAGA friends

What's the fallout of NO KINGS Day October 18, 2025?. More than you might think.

What's the fallout of NO KINGS Day, October 18, 2025? More than you might think. 

One of many outcomes of the Oct. 18 No King's protest exposed how big a lie Trumpist spokespersons told on October 17 about who would be protesting and how violent these anti-facists, Hamas terrorists, American haters, and paid by Soros participants were. The peacefulness, the humor, the demeanor, and the demographic makeup of seven million participants exposed the absurdity of such pre-game blathering from the Trumpist podium.

What was fully accomplished by NO KIngs Oct. 18 is yet to be measured, but it showed fearlessness in the over-the-top deceptive name-calling, implied threats of military occupation, and ICE agents loyal to Trump clad and armed for war, positioned in blue cities. Instead of suppressing turnout, the would-be suppressers got laughed at by dancing frogs, pigs, and chickens, and seven million ordinary citizens who found their strength and safety in numbers.

This NO KINGS is also a pro- democracy, anti-dictatorship movement with political staying and growing power. It provides lists and contact information of activists and leaders willing to get off their couches and take their eyes off their social media phones to get out the vote in November 2026.

It is a movement that also can include those searching for an affordable life who resent the feathering of the nests of the already rich and powerful, while their lives of ordinary Americans get worse. Timing is everything. On the eve of notices of health insurance prices going in the mail, and those doing the shopping know that grocery prices are rising, voters will know who to blame.

The joining of the two issues: affordability and pro-democracy, is a powerful force that is yet to be fully utilized by the voices of dissent to Trumpism. They are related: two sides of the same coin..

Without the ability to raise voices, joining peacefully together to "address grievances", those grievances will go unaddressed by those who control the power levers of government when they have destroyed any checks to their power grab. They will no longer fear a popular uprising. The urgency of now to stop this creeping dictatorship of the MAGA is fierce and growing before it becomes a tyranny.

MUFTIC FORUM BLOG: Are all non-MAGAs now Aunt Tifas?

Racists and white Christian nationalists are laying the groundwork for a future of conflict

 

Racists and white Christian nationalists are laying the groundwork for a future of conflict.  Racist speech is still considered to be politically incorrect in most quarters. To be a racist, advocates still need to use code words and jargon that some would call dog whistles,  but more and more others are right out in front with the words. In a private chat lately, some members and leaders in the Young Republicans were caught using vile, racist language.  The result was some tongue wagging, some GOP members called for their firing, but it was just another story from which the media is moving on. ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat - POLITICO

For those who are still concerned about sounding like they are racists with some bad fallout, the challenge is difficult: How can they be racist without sounding like one? There are some terms used that are basic euphemisms. Closely connected to the concept of Christian nationalism is the more racist part of its companion: white Christian nationalism.  The racist element is kissing kin.  Is Trump or members of his regime racist? If there was ever a question whether Trump is a white nationalist himself, or just a demagogue who sees a political advantage in such appeal to the racists among us, a recent proposal from Trump should add to suspicions he is both.. We should not be surprised, given his first-term pronouncements, that he would particularly welcome Norwegians as immigrants, as he promotes immigration policy to favor refugees who are white . Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People - The New York Times

Some terms like migrants adulterating our blood, regeneration, and replacement theories, are often popping up on the radical right and radical reactionaries. These terms are among those used by white nationalists.

What is driving this? My theory is a fear among those who are white nationalists that by 2045, twenty years from now, those who are white will become the minority, per some think tanks and government data.. Among Hispanics, immigration would account for only one third of the growth of this group, so no matter how theTrump administration plans to slow down this by deporting everyone brown they can, criminals or not, they will still not be able to stop the trend, just slow it down. The disturbing result of this is that if combined with suppression and the end of civil rights protections, this is not going to be a country free of internal conflicts. We will never be like Hungary, which has a population of 94% of the same ethnic group and is led by a dictator who rose to power opposing Syrian refugees. Either we learn to get along together, or it is going to be a sad future for the USA and my grandchildren.

The US will become 'minority white' in 2045, Census projects | Brookings  " Among the minority populations, the greatest growth is projected for multiracial populations, Asians and Hispanics with 2018–2060 growth rates of 176, 93, and 86 percent, respectively. The projected growth rate for blacks is 34 percent.* The demographic source of growth varies across groups. For example, immigration contributes to one-third of Hispanic growth over this time span, with the rest attributable to natural increase (the excess of births over deaths). Among Asians, immigration contributes to three quarters of the projected growth"

MUFTIC FORUM BLOG: What is MAGA? Whatever you call it, it is not conservative, but something else.

From Google AI: 

• Latin America and Central America: Reports from the American Immigration Council show that a large portion of ICE detainees are from Mexico or Central American countries.
  • One 2025 report indicated that in 2024, Mexican nationals made up about 43% of the detainee population, and individuals from the Northern Triangle region (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) made up about 46%.
  • Latino individuals with no criminal history are also arrested at disproportionate rates, with a Cato Institute analysis finding that nearly one in five ICE arrests between January and July 2025 were of a Latino with no criminal background.

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