Since her first days in Congress, Representative Yassamin Ansari has been a consistent and vocal critic of the Fascist-Authoritarian policies and positions of the American Duce Wannabe Donald Trump and his Quisling MAGA Collaborators in all three branches of government.
Today is no exception as the Representative again called out the Felon in Chiefs continued mistreatment of people wrongfully detained in MAGA Administered Detention Centers/American Made Concentration Camps and its role in ABC suspending late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel.
In the first social media video, Representative Ansari again discussed the plight of her constituent Arbella “Yari” Rodriguez Marquez and others who are not receiving the treatments they need to stay alive.
In her presentation, the Congressional District Three Representative said:
“A woman for my district is dying in ICE detention. It has been over a week since I demanded ICE allow my constituent Yari who has cancer to see an oncologist. Let me explain just how cruel this is. Yari, who has been detained in an ICE detention center in Eloy, Arizona for seven months has leukemia and the Trump Administration refuses to let her get the care that she needs. Yari is coughing up blood. She has bruises all over her body. She can barely walk. I have seen this with my own eyes. ICE let us know that it would take them weeks before they would even decide to respond. But Yari doesn’t have that much time. This is happening all over Arizona, and frankly all over the country. I’ve heard of another detainee in Flagstaff, who’s at Eloy, who’s very ill? ICE is ignoring his request for medical care, and it gets worse. On August 31st, a man died in ICE custody yesterday. Another man in Mesa, Arizona died in ICE custody. In their press releases about the tragedies, ICE said that they remain, quote unquote, ‘committed to ensuring that all those in its custody reside and safe, secure, and humane environments, and that at no time during ICE detention is an alien denied emergent care.’ That’s their quote. We know that’s bullshit. I have seen with my own eyes that is bullshit. Yari has been denied medical care. Dozens of other detainees that I spoke to at Eloy in May and in August have said that they can’t drink the water because of the chlorine. They’re given used underwear that give them UTIs. They’re abused and dehumanized daily. People will continue to die in U.S custody in our facilities that taxpayers fund with the current conditions at these facilities. We need to continue demanding that Yari gets access to an oncologist, but more more broadly than that that companies like Core Civic and Geo group that are getting billions of dollars from the U.S government to expand these detention centers are treating people with basic dignity and respect, and it seems like we need to up the definition of what that means for them, so continue to call your representatives and demand this because it’s going to get a lot worse with the additional billions of dollars that ICE has thanks to the Republican budget.”
The people who are in charge of and work in these facilities should realize that Donald Trump will not pardon all of them and when a Democratic President and Congress return, they will be in the judicial docket as the courts preside over the American Nuremberg Trials for the crimes they committed on these innocent people.
Just saying they were following orders will not cut it.
In the second video, Representative Ansari called out the Administrations role in pressuring ABC, who is dependent on the government approving a pending merger deal they are in, to suspend late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who, like Stephen Colbert, has earned the wrath of the Liar in Chief for telling the truth about him via comedy.
In her comments on the Kimmel suspension, Representative Ansari said:
“Holy shit. Jimmy Kimmel just got fired after threats from Trump’s FCC chair. This is insane, and it’s not just about one comedian. It’s a pattern. Colbert has been targeted. Trump’s foul lawsuits against the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and 60 Minutes. He has squeezed CBS and ABC into settlements. He’s even blocked the Associated Press from the White House, and now he’s politicizing the horrific murder of Charlie Kirk to go even further. He’s using tragedy as an excuse to silence critics and scare people into staying quiet. That’s the Authoritarian playbook. You don’t have to love Jimmy Kimmel to see how dangerous this is in a Democracy. Dissent shouldn’t be optional in a Democracy. It’s what keeps leaders accountable. Charlie Kirk’s family deserves peace and healing. What they don’t deserve is to have their grief twisted into a weapon to destroy the First Amendment in the United States. If we don’t push back. If we stay quiet, dissent disappears, and so does Democracy. That’s why we have to speak out. We have to get organized and fight back right now.”
It should be noted that Kirk’s widow appears to have no problem using her husbands death as an excuse to go after the people and groups the Turning Point couple have fought against under their interpretation of God loving patriotism.
Below is the monologue from the Jimmy Kimmel show on September 15 that led to his suspension which included his comments about MAGA perplexed that the killer came from their own and also calling out Trumps insensitivity to immediately pivoting to talking about a $200 million White House Ballroom after someone asked how he was feeling about the death of Mr. Kirk.
You judge if what he said was inappropriate or largely inaccurate.
In my opinion, if Kimmel can get suspended for this, FOX’s Brian Kilmeade should have been kicked out the door of that studio for suggesting that the homeless should be executed.
Unfortunately, his words may have had consequences. There were multiple shootings at a Minnesota homeless camp yesterday.
Make your voices heard. Do not let the American Ideal and Dream die.
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Time to completely turn off the TV – how long will it be before NBC’s corporate owner joins CBS and ABC in enabling authoritarianism?
Fox was a lost cause even before Cheeto’s ascent.
If the Democratic Party exchanges their limp leaders for strong ones this will bite the Repugs hard. If Democrats regain both chambers & the White House the precedent has been set to consign Fox News to the Porta Potty of History where they belong.
NOTE: This is not an attack on the First Amendment, when a news organization abuses First Amendment rights as Fox has been since their inception (Thanks Bill Clinton!), then their broadcast licenses need to be pulled.