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Source of news: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/7/ice-launches-military-style-raids-in-los-angeles-what-we-know

This is Stephen Miller's (White House Deputy Chief) response to Karen Bass (Los Angeles Mayor).

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[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 49 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The "states' rights" crowd is not very supportive of states' right, right now.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

They never were. It was always cover to do awful shit like overturn Roe.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

“States’ rights” has always been a bullshit lie. The confederacy did not honor states rights. The constitution explicitly instituted slavery as an institution an individual state could not abolish.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago

States' rights to abuse its citizens, no states' rights to protect any of them.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 45 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Little punk sure talks big when you can't reach his little pencil neck. If federal law was as supreme as he plays up, him and his entire bunch would be behind bars right now

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Easy to sound like a big man when you're shouting from behind a few hundred marines.

But that's sort of the crux of the issue. Miller has the Miller-tary at his beck and call while Mayor Bass will be lucky if half her LAPD don't turn and open fire on her because they say they smelled weed. The folks with the guns seem absolutely gleeful in stomping their boots on the necks of LA residents.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Unfortunately yeah

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It wouldn't surprise me if Miller was one of those "Skinny guys [that] fight 'til they're burger."

I thought he might have been the source of Elmu's black eye for a while.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Maybe. All I've seen him do though bitch andnmoan and threaten with is mouth

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 6 days ago

I would expect nothing less from a literal nazi.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Stop paying taxes. Let miller figure out how he’s gonna pay the military to keep up this supreme leader bullshit.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

How?

Federal taxes don't pass through California on the way to the feds.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Grima Wormtongue-ass mfer.

[–] Pnut@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago

That's a weird way to spell "heil Trump".

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Small gubermint

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"federal law is supreme." Is some supervillain shit. Even Hitler would have cringed.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Miller is a known white supremacist and hardcore Nazi

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I know. But even then, that is so over the top.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Miller is what caused the "Uncanny Valley" phenomenon in early humans. He's what prowled in the dark that looked human but wasn't. And for long enough to warrant an evolutionary response.

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

He’s still pissed off he got cucked by Elon with his ex-Wife.

[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 9 points 6 days ago

Reminder, the states give the federal government its power. Hence the country's name. To say otherwise is moronic and ultimately leads to civil war to settle these dumbass disagreements. The objective here for Q-tip Pencil-Dick McGee is to persuade the public that it's the other way around to justify the administration's criminal actions.

Does this stance fall under the GOP doctrine of small government or states rights? I’m a little lost.

[–] Pure_Psykosis@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago

LA should join Canada honestly.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I hope he dies by kidney stone

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I hope he dies by public execution but I'm open to methods

So we just hold him in a cage and feed him raw rhubarb greens on live tv until he croaks?

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It'll probably be by pegging and Valhalla will be stumped on how to procede.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I get the dilemma. It's an honorable death fit for a warrior, but no nazis in Valhalla. Unfortunately for him, Hel is in the same position.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

This is ABSOLUTELY Correct!

-State's Rights Republicans!

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I'd like to fight Stephen Miller.

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