Pushes to police, incarcerate, or drive out unhoused and disabled people have been a constant in American life—and hardly just a Republican thing, with high-profile Democratic politicians like California Gov. Gavin Newsom or New York Mayor Eric Adams prominently endorsing encampment sweeps and forced institutionalization.

Incredible how just a little bit of due process scrutiny makes fascist bullshit fall apart completely

Judge: Defense attorney, can’t you find some way to compromise with this prosecutor I just acknowledged is being an unreasonable fascist prick but will in no way sanction? It would make my life a lot easier.

Judge: Hey defense attorney, the government wants to keep this person in prison but hasn’t allocated anyone to securely transport him, could you help them out and do it for them?

Judge: “The time and resources of the court are stretched beyond belief,”

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that the system that gave us four or five decades of mass incarceration before this is so completely useless when it comes to disincentivizing fascism, but it is just completely absurd watching how the authority figures here just keep letting the unreasonable people throw temper tantrums and get whatever they want and keep asking the reasonable people to clean up bigger and bigger messes on behalf of the unreasonable people

ya’ll can have your theocratic dictatorship

Nope, give them that and they’ll use it as base of operations for perpetually harassing the rest of us because their politics don’t work unless they’re always on the attack, we have to actually deal with Republicans and neutralize their ability to harm us

Because they don’t try this shit with people who look like they can hit back, most of those have real arrest warrants on them so they can leave that for local and state cops to deal with and just focus on ambushing students and day laborers and people with small children