Sometimes, It's Just Simple -- Tom Sullivan

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https://digbysblog.net/2026/02/10/sometimes-its-just-simple/

Trump supporters, ICE is coming for you, too

A dear friend used to complain, "I can't seem to get out of my own way." It happens to smart people. We overthink everything (or at least most things). While conservatives appeal to people's lizard brains, say, by blowing up shit or emptying a magazine into 12-packs of beer, the left wonders why those people won't listen to our five- and ten-point plans.

It's why I liked John Russell the first time I ran across him and his mullet online. That was before he spoke to the 2024 Democratic Convention where he called Donald Trump's brand of populism divide-and-conquer by a different name.

Russell popped into my in-box this morning with more of the tell-it-like-it-is that too many of us don't:

Trump supporters, ICE will come for you, too. Maybe you're last on the list, but you're on it. Hear me out.

What if ICE isn't about crime? What if ICE is a tool for the 1%, being used to get one half of working people to hate the other half, while billionaires (and Epstein people) protect themselves and take total control?

The super-rich and their politicians built ICE, funded ICE, and sent it into communities where it killed people who have the same problems you do.

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Note to self: Don’t overthink things.