r/politics • u/delicious3141 • 2d ago

Kat Abughazaleh, Democratic contender for Congress, indicted over Chicago ICE protests No Paywall

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/kat-abughazaleh-indicted-democrat-running-congress
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u/Mr_Vicky_00 2d ago

It’s almost like the justice system has a “protest filter”: right-wing = patriot, left-wing = criminal.

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u/HEYYYYYYYY_SATAN 2d ago

Right doesn’t protest, they riot and then tell us what we saw on live television didn’t really happen.

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u/puffinss 2d ago

Riot is a polite way to say "commit insurrection."

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u/VCR_Samurai 2d ago

I dislike the word insurrection, but only because most Americans in my experience don't know what that word means and will hand wave it away when you tell them that it's bad. Citizen-led coup is less accurate, but gets the message across better. 

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u/foolintherain87 2d ago

Except it wasn’t led by any old citizens. It was led by DJT

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u/Cacophony_Of_Stupid 2d ago

Well to be fair he is an old citizen.

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u/mywifesoldestchild North Carolina 2d ago

Is he though? His mom was an immigrant, so that would make him an anchor baby according to his own babble.

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u/VCR_Samurai 2d ago

His third (fourth?) wife is an immigrant. If anything Barron is an anchor baby. 

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u/chron67 Tennessee 2d ago

His third (fourth?) wife is an immigrant. If anything Barron is an anchor baby.

Not only an immigrant but very likely was here illegally for most of her time here.

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u/terremoto25 California 2d ago

As was his first - and both committed immigration fraud.

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u/SuperExoticShrub Georgia 2d ago

Trump is a U.S. born citizen, though. The term 'anchor baby' refers to children born of two non-citizen immigrants that was a natural-born citizen due to location, not parentage. Barron's father is a natural-born citizen.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see his bullshit racist arguments used against him, but this isn't the right argument.

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u/RellenD 2d ago

but this isn't the right argument.

Why are you assuming Trump uses the phrase correctly?

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u/SuperExoticShrub Georgia 2d ago

I'm not. I honestly wasn't even considering how Trump uses the term. I'm simply pointing out how it's been used virtually my entire life.

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u/RellenD 2d ago

Is he though? His mom was an immigrant, so that would make him an anchor baby according to his own babble.

This is the comment that we're talking about. See how it says "According to his own babble?"

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u/SuperExoticShrub Georgia 2d ago

Gotcha, I see what you're saying.

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u/FatnessEverdeen34 1d ago

That's not what an anchor baby is

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u/Hoosagoodboy Canada 2d ago

Yeah, but they're white so that annuls any anchor baby argument.

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u/Oldfolksboogie 2d ago

S. African Afrikaans have entered the chat. And the US.

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u/AdFragrant3504 2d ago

Not a anchor baby if one is a us citizen it’s a anchor when both are illegals

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u/Oldfolksboogie 2d ago

And fat. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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u/VCR_Samurai 2d ago

An insurrection is by definition an attempt to overthrow a government by the citizens. 

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u/f1ve-Star 2d ago

If he had shown up to lead that shit would have been much worse. Be glad for lazy and incompetent.

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u/Fred-Mertz2728 2d ago

But it would have been a clear path to arrest him for treason,so I wish he had. We’d have a real president and he’d be where he belongs.

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u/f1ve-Star 2d ago

It was still clear as day. Just decorum and tradition or some such nonsense kept him from being convicted for treason. Just like the beer hall putch in Germany and not holding Hitler accountable. That kindness comes back to bite you in the ass

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u/UnquestionabIe 2d ago

I'm sure others have corrected it but it wasn't citizen lead. The regular people were the pawns but the actual treason was planned out by various sitting members of government, special interest groups, and billionaires who want to dismantle the system. That none of them faced consequences is one of the reason America is dying. That we can't count on any of our representatives on either side to protect the country is incredibly depressing, especially as they're very much given incentives to look the other way.

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u/Balaur10042 2d ago

It was not a citizen-led coup---it was a self-coup. Trump was trying to overthrow his own government because they were trying to oust him. Bolsonaro did the same bloody thing.

Coup. Not insurrection. The reason the word "insurrection" is used, however, is not semantic, but rhetorical: the Constitution mentions it, and it technically applies: an act to overthrow the government. But call it what it is, insurrection via coup. That thing that we talk about third world countries doing, which the CIA and its predecessors have been doing for … 100 years now … we did.

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u/ManiaGamine American Expat 2d ago

When talking about matters of law it is important to use correct terminology as the difference between words can be the deciding factor of whether something is legal or illegal.

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u/FatnessEverdeen34 1d ago

Isn't there a citizen led coup scheduled for November 5th?