📢 Grandparents, We Must Sound the Alarm: Our Tax Dollars Are Funding a Police State
Dear Beloved Grandparents,
It’s time we speak plainly.
As we sit around our kitchen tables, our children and grandchildren are being forced to grow up in a country that is sliding closer and closer to authoritarian rule — and we are being made to fund it.
⚠️ The Senate’s version of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Reconciliation Bill” includes massive ICE funding — funneling billions of our tax dollars into:
Masked federal agents in unmarked vans
Coordinated, abusive raids in communities across the country
The kidnapping of long-time residents — including legal immigrants — under vague suspicions
A growing federal police force operating with no transparency or civil rights oversight
This is not border security. This is state-sponsored terror, paid for by working Americans like you and me.
And it gets worse.
During a recent visit with El Salvador’s president, Trump boasted about plans to deport “homegrown” people — a chilling phrase that should strike fear in any true patriot. It implies citizens — born and raised here — could be targeted for political reasons, ethnicity, activism, or simple dissent.
Let us be clear: this is the language of fascism.
We’ve read about this in history books. Hitler’s party didn’t start with death camps. It started by vilifying immigrants, imprisoning critics, and passing laws that funded paramilitary forces while silencing opposition — all under the guise of “order.”
That is the road we are now on.
🛑 But we can still turn around — if we act now.
✅ Call your U.S. Senators and Representatives. Demand they vote no on this ICE expansion buried in Trump’s reconciliation bill.
✅ Support independent media — they are uncovering what corporate outlets are ignoring. Share, subscribe, and spread the truth.
✅ Educate your family and neighbors — especially young voters and those raised on right-wing news.
✅ Remind your communities: We’ve seen this before. We must never be silent again.
📣 Grandparents — we are the protectors of memory and the guardians of democracy.
Let us honor that duty now.
🇺🇸 Peaceful resistance. Public truth. People before power.
Just a suggestion to go along with your decision to put lie on the face of Trump, post the salaries of these Fox hosts so that the people watching Fox will eventually be reminded of just how much these hosts make a year. To those people who live in the middle of the country and make $30,000 while working two or three part time jobs, it’s time to expose and remind them to the hypocrisy and unfairness of the system they’re supporting.
It’s a mixed picture. Overall media figures at a certain level make a lot.
However low net worth MAGA followers seem to have no issues with wealth disparity. That is because the mantra that “rich people are rich because they deserve it” is deeply embedded.
Talk of an unfair playing field that gives structural advantages to rich people are dismissed as “woke”
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📢 Grandparents, We Must Sound the Alarm: Our Tax Dollars Are Funding a Police State
Dear Beloved Grandparents,
It’s time we speak plainly.
As we sit around our kitchen tables, our children and grandchildren are being forced to grow up in a country that is sliding closer and closer to authoritarian rule — and we are being made to fund it.
⚠️ The Senate’s version of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Reconciliation Bill” includes massive ICE funding — funneling billions of our tax dollars into:
Masked federal agents in unmarked vans
Coordinated, abusive raids in communities across the country
The kidnapping of long-time residents — including legal immigrants — under vague suspicions
A growing federal police force operating with no transparency or civil rights oversight
This is not border security. This is state-sponsored terror, paid for by working Americans like you and me.
And it gets worse.
During a recent visit with El Salvador’s president, Trump boasted about plans to deport “homegrown” people — a chilling phrase that should strike fear in any true patriot. It implies citizens — born and raised here — could be targeted for political reasons, ethnicity, activism, or simple dissent.
Let us be clear: this is the language of fascism.
We’ve read about this in history books. Hitler’s party didn’t start with death camps. It started by vilifying immigrants, imprisoning critics, and passing laws that funded paramilitary forces while silencing opposition — all under the guise of “order.”
That is the road we are now on.
🛑 But we can still turn around — if we act now.
✅ Call your U.S. Senators and Representatives. Demand they vote no on this ICE expansion buried in Trump’s reconciliation bill.
✅ Support independent media — they are uncovering what corporate outlets are ignoring. Share, subscribe, and spread the truth.
✅ Educate your family and neighbors — especially young voters and those raised on right-wing news.
✅ Remind your communities: We’ve seen this before. We must never be silent again.
📣 Grandparents — we are the protectors of memory and the guardians of democracy.
Let us honor that duty now.
🇺🇸 Peaceful resistance. Public truth. People before power.
In Solidarity,
Clarissa Sr, an American Grandma
#GrandparentsForDemocracy #IndependentMediaMatters #DefundICE #StopThePoliceState #GoodTrouble #ProtectOurFuture
Just a suggestion to go along with your decision to put lie on the face of Trump, post the salaries of these Fox hosts so that the people watching Fox will eventually be reminded of just how much these hosts make a year. To those people who live in the middle of the country and make $30,000 while working two or three part time jobs, it’s time to expose and remind them to the hypocrisy and unfairness of the system they’re supporting.
It’s a mixed picture. Overall media figures at a certain level make a lot.
However low net worth MAGA followers seem to have no issues with wealth disparity. That is because the mantra that “rich people are rich because they deserve it” is deeply embedded.
Talk of an unfair playing field that gives structural advantages to rich people are dismissed as “woke”
https://www.thestreet.com/lifestyle/highest-paid-news-anchors-15062420#:~:text=Sean%20Hannity%2C%20a%20stalwart%20at%20Fox%20News,an%20estimated%20net%20worth%20of%20$250%20million.&text=He%20earns%20a%20salary%20of%20$20%20million,at%20an%20estimated%20$70%20million%20in%202024.
More stuff you will not see on FOX
https://www.citizen.org/news/enforcement-actions-against-over-100-corporations-stopped-by-trump/