“Blood Is Still On The Ground”: Trump Can’t Quit His Failing Campaign Of Terror And Murder
By Asawin Suebsaeng|Zeteo Photos: YouTube Screenshots|Wikimedia Commons On Tuesday evening, Zeteo politics editor Andrew Perez messaged me seven words: “His blood is still on the ground.” Andrew lives in Maine, so he went to Biddeford, where ICE killed a young Colombian man. His name was Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. Before him, there was Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, in Houston, Texas. And now we have a third fatality in just over a week: a 28-year-old man in St. Augustine, Florida, who was apparently killed by a tractor-trailer as he ran from ICE agents. This is only counting one week of bodies – the ones we know about. And it’s the result of President Trump, his White House policy architect Stephen Miller, and the rest of the administration dedicating the past several weeks to dialing their mass-deportation machine back up to their preferred volume of sadism. After the fierce backlash to the Trump-Vance administration’s siege of Minnesota, the Republican Party hatched a plan to curb at least some anti-immigrant brutality until “after the midterms.” But they couldn’t even muster that. They just couldn’t help themselves. On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced a supposed “pause” of the kinds of ICE traffic stops that got Guerrero and Araujo killed for – it appears – no good reason at all. Administration officials kept whispering to Zeteo that we shouldn’t read too much into the pause – it was always meant as a very temporary period of review of (so-called) best practices in the wake of the deaths. The administration couldn’t even keep up that charade for a single day. By Wednesday morning, President Trump had ordered DHS to reverse course on its pause on traffic stops – proving that he wasn’t going to allow a couple dead bodies to guilt him into even a sliver of due diligence. Of course he wasn’t. Since last year, Trump and his party have been committing one of the more unspeakably evil acts I’ve ever seen perpetrated on U.S. soil. He simply cannot stop killing people. And he’s doing it as part of an absurdly lawless, hyper-militarized campaign of aggression, fronted by his armed and masked secret police, against the American people. It’s a war not just on migrants, or foreign nationals, or anyone the Trump White House wishes to nonsensically smear as a “terrorist.” It’s Team Trump’s war on the American people and their neighbors – plain and simple. And were the Democratic Party a capable opposition party, it’d be working much harder to stand in Trump’s way. As bleak as this all truly is, make no mistake: Trump is losing this war, like the perennial loser he is. For this president, killing is often the only metric by which to measure victory. You see that in Iran, where Trump is constantly humiliated and beaten in spite of all the pointless death he’s inflicted. And you see that in his own country, where the more the bodies pile up, the harder he insists on losing more. You saw that in Minnesota early this year, where his attempt to turn the place into a killing field only further cratered his poll numbers – including on immigration, once a winning issue. As of this week, Trump’s poll numbers remain near his record, abysmal lows. Even this White House, run by the planet’s most annoying neo-Confederate knuckle-draggers, knows how unpopular their clampdowns and killing sprees are, to the point that they’re actively trying to hide how they conduct them. MS NOW host Chris Hayes summed it up perfectly this week: “Donald Trump and Stephen Miller lost the country. They lost the country. Everybody [can] see their deportation pogroms were a debacle.” The blood is on the ground. The pain and suffering is widespread. Because of this, it’s easy to feel like Trump is winning his war on America. He’s not. The polling data, and the sustained mass protest movement against him, underscore just how much he’s operating from a position not of strength but of violent bullying. To pampered losers like Trump and Miller, their inability to see the difference is why so many people will needlessly suffer between now and their eventual fall from power.
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By Asawin Suebsaeng|Zeteo
Photos: YouTube Screenshots|Wikimedia Commons
On Tuesday evening, Zeteo politics editor Andrew Perez messaged me seven words: “His blood is still on the ground.”
Andrew lives in Maine, so he went to Biddeford, where ICE killed a young Colombian man.
His name was Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. Before him, there was Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, in Houston, Texas. And now we have a third fatality in just over a week: a 28-year-old man in St. Augustine, Florida, who was apparently killed by a tractor-trailer as he ran from ICE agents.
This is only counting one week of bodies – the ones we know about. And it’s the result of President Trump, his White House policy architect Stephen Miller, and the rest of the administration dedicating the past several weeks to dialing their mass-deportation machine back up to their preferred volume of sadism. After the fierce backlash to the Trump-Vance administration’s siege of Minnesota, the Republican Party hatched a plan to curb at least some anti-immigrant brutality until “after the midterms.” But they couldn’t even muster that. They just couldn’t help themselves.
On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced a supposed “pause” of the kinds of ICE traffic stops that got Guerrero and Araujo killed for – it appears – no good reason at all. Administration officials kept whispering to Zeteo that we shouldn’t read too much into the pause – it was always meant as a very temporary period of review of (so-called) best practices in the wake of the deaths. The administration couldn’t even keep up that charade for a single day.
By Wednesday morning, President Trump had ordered DHS to reverse course on its pause on traffic stops – proving that he wasn’t going to allow a couple dead bodies to guilt him into even a sliver of due diligence.
Of course he wasn’t. Since last year, Trump and his party have been committing one of the more unspeakably evil acts I’ve ever seen perpetrated on U.S. soil. He simply cannot stop killing people. And he’s doing it as part of an absurdly lawless, hyper-militarized campaign of aggression, fronted by his armed and masked secret police, against the American people. It’s a war not just on migrants, or foreign nationals, or anyone the Trump White House wishes to nonsensically smear as a “terrorist.” It’s Team Trump’s war on the American people and their neighbors – plain and simple. And were the Democratic Party a capable opposition party, it’d be working much harder to stand in Trump’s way.
As bleak as this all truly is, make no mistake: Trump is losing this war, like the perennial loser he is.
For this president, killing is often the only metric by which to measure victory. You see that in Iran, where Trump is constantly humiliated and beaten in spite of all the pointless death he’s inflicted. And you see that in his own country, where the more the bodies pile up, the harder he insists on losing more.
You saw that in Minnesota early this year, where his attempt to turn the place into a killing field only further cratered his poll numbers – including on immigration, once a winning issue. As of this week, Trump’s poll numbers remain near his record, abysmal lows. Even this White House, run by the planet’s most annoying neo-Confederate knuckle-draggers, knows how unpopular their clampdowns and killing sprees are, to the point that they’re actively trying to hide how they conduct them.
MS NOW host Chris Hayes summed it up perfectly this week: “Donald Trump and Stephen Miller lost the country. They lost the country. Everybody [can] see their deportation pogroms were a debacle.”
The blood is on the ground. The pain and suffering is widespread. Because of this, it’s easy to feel like Trump is winning his war on America.
He’s not. The polling data, and the sustained mass protest movement against him, underscore just how much he’s operating from a position not of strength but of violent bullying.
To pampered losers like Trump and Miller, their inability to see the difference is why so many people will needlessly suffer between now and their eventual fall from power.
