MAGA folks never care about cruelty until it affects them, then they cry for mercy and compassion. To them the damaging human consequences are either justice, religious imperative, or necessary cost - until they are the ones paying. Now they reap the fruits of their indifference or often full-on support of the suffering of others. I still feel bad for the innocent, like children or those who have opposed this malevolent chaos from the beginning.
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Now let your mind wander to how the scenario will play out when they pull over your teenage son or daughter.
Conservatives are literally unable to feel empathy
Don't forget lucky that the officers didn't start giving conflicting commands. Yelling "freeze" and "put your hands up" then shooting and later claiming "oh I thought he was reaching for a weapon, I feared for my life."
That reminds me of that murder of the homeless guy by those cops video that was circulating years ago.
You mean he got lucky and didn't receive conflicting orders like "keep your hands up and lay on the ground. " Your only option is to face plant, but the fast movement of doing that will scare the officers too.
I wouldn't recognize and ice vehicle, and I'd assume I'm about to be carjacked or worse.
There's going to be a lot of that. I live in the Southwest, and the number of Trump-voting Latinos is shockingly high. There are a lot of conservative Latinos who straight up consider themselves to be white. Gonna be a real shock for them when it finally sinks in what the rest of their party thinks about that.
Latino voter implies that they are citizens. So when they hear something like "stricter immigration laws" they think it doesn't apply to them because they have the documentation that says they are citizens. But none of that matters when ICE pulls you over at gunpoint for looking illegal.
They believed they were the exceptions. Because they got theirs. It's all those other illegals that are bad.
It's more like, "I went through it the hard, legitimate way. It took me years. And then these people just hop the fence and get me in trouble for it?"
There's a good NYT - The Interview podcast about it. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/magazine/ruben-gallego-interview.html
When we come home from the beach we go through an immigration checkpoint. My friend always says, "OK everyone. Try to look white."
Bingo. They are going to be so Pikachu face when they realize, whoops, we are not in the club!
Don't underestimate the lengths these people will go to deny reality. Unless they're personally affected they won't care and even then they have short memories. All conservatives are like this.
Latinos are the new "black".
Getting pulled over for DWB (Driving While Black) is a new concept for them.
Welcome to the club.
I dunno... I grew up in southern Arizona, and getting pulled over for Driving While Brown has kind of always been a thing. Latinos have always been harassed by cops, going all the way back to the Zoot Suit Riots and Marijuana prohibition and long before. This country has never been nice to Latinos. Though it does seem to be getting much worse.
Pity they released him so fast. Idiots like this are part of the reason the whole world is now suffering the turd presidency, so no amount of schadenfraude will be enough when it comes to them.
Machado said he was uncuffed and immediately released after the officers saw his identification. The two men with him were taken into custody. Machado said he does not know why.
The two men with him were taken into custody. Machado said he does not know why.
Hey, reporter. Hey journalist. You just gonna leave it at that? Not an ounce of curiosity about the the two taken into custody? Did you follow up with ICE on their status? What did Machado know about them? Are they citizens? Here legally? Illegally? If so, why was Machado (who voted for trump because he's against illegal immigration) driving them to work? Is he picking up day workers, is he a hypocrite? Did you think that might be an interesting angle for the story? You're a reporter, or... maybe not. I guess you got your feel-good FAFO story about Machado, so you're done, that's all you cared about doing.
"Second" thoughts you say? I would love to hear of his thoughts in the First place.

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