Steven: I would like your permission to include this Substack message in a book that I am composing of prominant Substack writers. As usual Steven, your message is truthful and freightening - but reality in 2025 America. Trump is a megalamaniac - along the lines of Hitler. His MAGA and Trumpers remind me of WWII and the brainwashed Nazis. Today, Germany has whiped out any remembrance of that era and is one of the strongest European nations - both in democratic reforms and financial progress. There is hope for the US - but first we must rid our nation of the disease which inhabits our nation and sleeps in the White House. Warm wishes, Elizabeth Graham
No question. Trump is sending these people to these concentration camps to not just torture, and enslave, but to die. Anyone associated with these camps should be arrested and prosecuted for not just kidnapping, but murder and attempted murder.
I have young adult daughters, one of whom reads a lot of history. She is so upset at everything happening, but I've been able to reassure her that we will right the ship and the country will sail on. Today, after realizing the depth of Trump & Miller's depravity and cruelty, I don't think I can do that anymore. If protests will change anything, I'm there, but will they?
I believe that protests can make a difference, but it needs to be on a more massive scale and sustained so that the collective opposition is unavoidable.
From Politico: "Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday suggested Medicaid participants who don’t yet meet the work requirements passed in Republicans’ megabill could supplement labor shortages in the agriculture industry. And the administration has taken some incremental actions intended to address concerns over the shortage of foreign-born workers, including creating an Office of Immigration Policy within the Department of Labor."
You just KNEW that this was coming. That our government may FORCE American citizens into what might amount to indentured servitude just to get their medical benefits because immigrants won't be available to do the work. And who's going to pay to forcibly move American citizens to farming communities? What if they won't go? We saw this in Europe under the Nazis, and it's not far-fetcheed to believe we will have what amounts to slave labor in this country.
We shouldn’t be surprised one bit. Look at all the states gradually whittling away pieces of their child labor laws. Others taking an axe to them.
KY bozo legislator (who has landscaping business) eventually passed one of those bills:
— 2024 WDRB — Kentucky House passes bill that allows teens to work all night and during school hours for 16-17 y/o. Repealed state restrictions on child labor ages 14-18 & removed the ability of the workplace standards commission to make regulations protecting children at work.
Rep. Phil Pratt, R-Georgetown, the owner of a landscaping business, said it's an "economic imperative" to remove "barriers" to teens working because of national "labor crisis. Work has value, and teenagers who want to work or need to work ... “
— In FL, a 13 y/o can work the summer before they turn 14. FL — DeSantis:
“Yes, we had people that left because of those rules, but you’ve also been able to hire other people. And what’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now? I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up.” https://www2.myfloridalicense.com/child-labor/faqs/#hours
— Arkansas 2023, NPR — “The Youth Hiring Act of 2023, signed into law by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders last March, repeals a century-old law requiring employers of children under 16 to verify a child’s age as well as parental consent.” Old law was enacted in 1914.
It’s Deja Vu all over again. SS grabbing people off the streets, sending them to concentration camps, forced labor of some. Inhumane conditions. Instead of gas chambers we have alligators, deadly snakes, flooding, extreme heat. Hitler would be so proud. Me, I’m sick to my stomach. What in the hell has our country become?
Unfortunately we became complacent and allowed all this to happen, thinking "oh, no, this isn't for real". Until it became too late and is now very real. But we still have the power to reverse course and stand up and take back our country. Collectively, in mass quantities, our voices can overturn this travesty.
Thank you, Steven and Mark. I was raised Jewish in a Southern Baptist town in NC by two parents who were victims of the Holocaust. They never said they were survivors because they were not held in concentration camps. They each came to America in the 30’s from their countries of Poland (dad) and Germany (mom) seeking freedom. They were extremely grateful to give back to the country that saved them from tyranny and despair.
In the 1980’s, when the Wall came down, my mother learned the fate of her parents. You see, the Nazis came for my grandparents and removed them from their home in Berlin and placed them in a work camp. A year later, they were transported to a gas camp called Chelmno which was deep in the forest in Poland. In January of 1942, my grandparents were gassed with 9 others in a van.
My mother and her siblings planted 1000 trees in Israel in honor of their parents.
These atrocities in the US are just starting here and WE THE PEOPLE must light the match to stop it. Please be relentless in protesting, making phone calls, and writing to your Congress people! This is the ONLY way to inform the clueless that their lives are in danger.
Thank you for sharing this, Marlene. Our knowledge proceeds this moment. Now we need to prove that we will not let such horrors of the past repeat themselves.
We are being played for fools, the only country in the world where heathcare is not a human right. You are scammed day-in and day-out by insurance companies and big pharma. Insurance premiums paid monthly only for you to see Claim Denied. Drug costs that are 2-3 times the cost for the same drug in the next country. It is carnage on the American stage. You accept all that. ?????? https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/claim-denied?r=3m1bs
Steven, TY for this today. I remind others we must remember history, the good, the bad, the ugly, else will be repeated & the reactionn is blank. I worry we have far too many in America today who do not know history, are immune or just don't care to see what is happening in America. Today I'm expanding my 'share' list and hope something will click.
I call my congress critters daily to give voice to these atrocities. Our local democrat party is holding a protest on July 11 at our county courthouse. We may be small, but we won't be silent. I saw where several of our area small counties holding protests as well. We can't ever let this be seen as normal!
Yes, there's no doubt that the majority of us are decent people. But how much depravity at the highest levels of our government, how much of its cruelty, will it take to rouse us from our stupor?
The budget for ICE, enshrined into law by the criminal Republican sycophants in Congress, is now larger than the entire defense budgets of several other nations. The police state has now been funded. Are we going to sit back and allow slavery as corporate policy?
Thank you, Steven and Mark, for focusing on Timothy Snyder's prescient article.
Rise up, friends! We need to take to the streets in numbers too large for them to subjugate. We have to excise this vile cancer from our body politic if we are to survive.
Take courage: if we are united, the fascists will not be able to stop us.
Concentration camps in Nazi Germany weeded out people who could not work due to age or disability upon entry to the camp. They were killed on the spot. This cruel regime is following the Nazi playbook to the letter.
I agree most Americans are decent, but the decent are nowhere near this administration. Trump seems insulated from the realization that his signature issue has him in the tubes. He doesn't really BENEFIT himself from Alligator Auschwitz unless he actually thinks its popular. Not sure if it is refusal to believe or just having it being kept from him. It is REALLY scary not knowing if the president of the country is still an active psychopath or just ga ga and persuadable. No clue which is worse.
Thing is, he's always been a conman, a liar, out for only himself. But has he been so gratuitously cruel? His refusal to pay subs and suppliers has been more a matter of greed than cruelty. The current escalating crap feels like Miller is running things.
1.We cannot do anything without a list of FARMERS and BUSINESSES hiring Concentration camp victims.
2.We cannot do anything with protests as long as the Supreme Court rubber-stamps this cruelty.
3.Decent Americans are not in the majority. 80% of Republicans agree with Trump. Trump would be elected again today with the numbers who approve overall of his performance.
4.Speaking out about the depravity does put you on the right side of history, but it until 100% of Congress "speaks out" and changes the Trump Agenda we are speaking into the wind.
There are several corporations that say they do not use prison labor or profit from it. We can contact companies, ask them if they profit from prison labor & demand that they publicly state they do / will not.
Steven: I would like your permission to include this Substack message in a book that I am composing of prominant Substack writers. As usual Steven, your message is truthful and freightening - but reality in 2025 America. Trump is a megalamaniac - along the lines of Hitler. His MAGA and Trumpers remind me of WWII and the brainwashed Nazis. Today, Germany has whiped out any remembrance of that era and is one of the strongest European nations - both in democratic reforms and financial progress. There is hope for the US - but first we must rid our nation of the disease which inhabits our nation and sleeps in the White House. Warm wishes, Elizabeth Graham
Thank you, Elizabeth. You are welcome.
No question. Trump is sending these people to these concentration camps to not just torture, and enslave, but to die. Anyone associated with these camps should be arrested and prosecuted for not just kidnapping, but murder and attempted murder.
I have young adult daughters, one of whom reads a lot of history. She is so upset at everything happening, but I've been able to reassure her that we will right the ship and the country will sail on. Today, after realizing the depth of Trump & Miller's depravity and cruelty, I don't think I can do that anymore. If protests will change anything, I'm there, but will they?
I believe that protests can make a difference, but it needs to be on a more massive scale and sustained so that the collective opposition is unavoidable.
I’m calling it the Trump Concentration Camp. His name MUST be attached to it.
From Politico: "Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday suggested Medicaid participants who don’t yet meet the work requirements passed in Republicans’ megabill could supplement labor shortages in the agriculture industry. And the administration has taken some incremental actions intended to address concerns over the shortage of foreign-born workers, including creating an Office of Immigration Policy within the Department of Labor."
You just KNEW that this was coming. That our government may FORCE American citizens into what might amount to indentured servitude just to get their medical benefits because immigrants won't be available to do the work. And who's going to pay to forcibly move American citizens to farming communities? What if they won't go? We saw this in Europe under the Nazis, and it's not far-fetcheed to believe we will have what amounts to slave labor in this country.
We shouldn’t be surprised one bit. Look at all the states gradually whittling away pieces of their child labor laws. Others taking an axe to them.
KY bozo legislator (who has landscaping business) eventually passed one of those bills:
— 2024 WDRB — Kentucky House passes bill that allows teens to work all night and during school hours for 16-17 y/o. Repealed state restrictions on child labor ages 14-18 & removed the ability of the workplace standards commission to make regulations protecting children at work.
Rep. Phil Pratt, R-Georgetown, the owner of a landscaping business, said it's an "economic imperative" to remove "barriers" to teens working because of national "labor crisis. Work has value, and teenagers who want to work or need to work ... “
— In FL, a 13 y/o can work the summer before they turn 14. FL — DeSantis:
“Yes, we had people that left because of those rules, but you’ve also been able to hire other people. And what’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now? I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up.” https://www2.myfloridalicense.com/child-labor/faqs/#hours
— Arkansas 2023, NPR — “The Youth Hiring Act of 2023, signed into law by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders last March, repeals a century-old law requiring employers of children under 16 to verify a child’s age as well as parental consent.” Old law was enacted in 1914.
It’s Deja Vu all over again. SS grabbing people off the streets, sending them to concentration camps, forced labor of some. Inhumane conditions. Instead of gas chambers we have alligators, deadly snakes, flooding, extreme heat. Hitler would be so proud. Me, I’m sick to my stomach. What in the hell has our country become?
DeSantis would be fine with Airboat tours for the tourists….
Agree Judy, I’m surprised he hasn’t already.
Unfortunately we became complacent and allowed all this to happen, thinking "oh, no, this isn't for real". Until it became too late and is now very real. But we still have the power to reverse course and stand up and take back our country. Collectively, in mass quantities, our voices can overturn this travesty.
Thank you, Steven and Mark. I was raised Jewish in a Southern Baptist town in NC by two parents who were victims of the Holocaust. They never said they were survivors because they were not held in concentration camps. They each came to America in the 30’s from their countries of Poland (dad) and Germany (mom) seeking freedom. They were extremely grateful to give back to the country that saved them from tyranny and despair.
In the 1980’s, when the Wall came down, my mother learned the fate of her parents. You see, the Nazis came for my grandparents and removed them from their home in Berlin and placed them in a work camp. A year later, they were transported to a gas camp called Chelmno which was deep in the forest in Poland. In January of 1942, my grandparents were gassed with 9 others in a van.
My mother and her siblings planted 1000 trees in Israel in honor of their parents.
These atrocities in the US are just starting here and WE THE PEOPLE must light the match to stop it. Please be relentless in protesting, making phone calls, and writing to your Congress people! This is the ONLY way to inform the clueless that their lives are in danger.
Thank you for sharing this, Marlene. Our knowledge proceeds this moment. Now we need to prove that we will not let such horrors of the past repeat themselves.
Yes, we must be relentless.
We are being played for fools, the only country in the world where heathcare is not a human right. You are scammed day-in and day-out by insurance companies and big pharma. Insurance premiums paid monthly only for you to see Claim Denied. Drug costs that are 2-3 times the cost for the same drug in the next country. It is carnage on the American stage. You accept all that. ?????? https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/claim-denied?r=3m1bs
Steven, TY for this today. I remind others we must remember history, the good, the bad, the ugly, else will be repeated & the reactionn is blank. I worry we have far too many in America today who do not know history, are immune or just don't care to see what is happening in America. Today I'm expanding my 'share' list and hope something will click.
Thank you, Mary.
I call my congress critters daily to give voice to these atrocities. Our local democrat party is holding a protest on July 11 at our county courthouse. We may be small, but we won't be silent. I saw where several of our area small counties holding protests as well. We can't ever let this be seen as normal!
The best nickname I’ve heard for the concentration camp in the Everglades is Alligator Auschwitz.
Yes, there's no doubt that the majority of us are decent people. But how much depravity at the highest levels of our government, how much of its cruelty, will it take to rouse us from our stupor?
The budget for ICE, enshrined into law by the criminal Republican sycophants in Congress, is now larger than the entire defense budgets of several other nations. The police state has now been funded. Are we going to sit back and allow slavery as corporate policy?
Thank you, Steven and Mark, for focusing on Timothy Snyder's prescient article.
Rise up, friends! We need to take to the streets in numbers too large for them to subjugate. We have to excise this vile cancer from our body politic if we are to survive.
Take courage: if we are united, the fascists will not be able to stop us.
Concentration camps in Nazi Germany weeded out people who could not work due to age or disability upon entry to the camp. They were killed on the spot. This cruel regime is following the Nazi playbook to the letter.
I agree most Americans are decent, but the decent are nowhere near this administration. Trump seems insulated from the realization that his signature issue has him in the tubes. He doesn't really BENEFIT himself from Alligator Auschwitz unless he actually thinks its popular. Not sure if it is refusal to believe or just having it being kept from him. It is REALLY scary not knowing if the president of the country is still an active psychopath or just ga ga and persuadable. No clue which is worse.
Thing is, he's always been a conman, a liar, out for only himself. But has he been so gratuitously cruel? His refusal to pay subs and suppliers has been more a matter of greed than cruelty. The current escalating crap feels like Miller is running things.
1.We cannot do anything without a list of FARMERS and BUSINESSES hiring Concentration camp victims.
2.We cannot do anything with protests as long as the Supreme Court rubber-stamps this cruelty.
3.Decent Americans are not in the majority. 80% of Republicans agree with Trump. Trump would be elected again today with the numbers who approve overall of his performance.
4.Speaking out about the depravity does put you on the right side of history, but it until 100% of Congress "speaks out" and changes the Trump Agenda we are speaking into the wind.
We hear about China, but prison labor is a big in the US. It is in the food industry and others. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/02/03/food-prison-labor-walmart-target
There are several corporations that say they do not use prison labor or profit from it. We can contact companies, ask them if they profit from prison labor & demand that they publicly state they do / will not.
This will definitely lead to revolution