@IveyJanette Go to hell #DrPhil , who's not a real Doctor

In the thread above, I've made the argument that the entire Trump regime's invasion of LA, from the original Gestapo raids on Friday, all the way through to this very moment, is a carefully orchestrated authoritarian political project stapled to an engineered bit of fascist theater. To my eye, this conclusion seems pretty obvious, particularly given how quickly after protests broke out the entire Trump regime, including noted nazis Stephen Miller and Tom Homan, produced clearly-coordinated sound bites about a "violent insurrection" in LA that literally was not happening. Proving it beyond a shadow of a doubt however, is an evolving process that's going to take time and evidence; so I'm going to intersperse that evidence throughout this thread as we go along.

First up, did you know the regime brought noted anti-migrant, pro-Trump fascist propagandist Dr. Phil to LA for an exclusive "before and after" raid interview with border Czar Tom Homan?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/dr-phil-ice-los-angeles-raids

Talkshow host Dr Phil joined Ice agents for Los Angeles immigration raids

"Phil, whose full name is Phil McGraw, was with Ice before and after its agents conducted a series of raids on multiple locations across LA on Friday. Immigration advocates said at least 45 people were arrested, and the action was condemned by California’s governor and LA’s mayor.

It was the second time McGraw, a former practising psychologist who hosted a TV talkshow for two decades, has been embedded with Ice this year. In January, he joined the US border czar, Tom Homan, in a choreographed immigration raid in Chicago, in a stunt that was criticized at the time."

First of all The Guardian, I think describing Phil McGraw as a "talk show host" and "television personality" in this year of our discontent 2025, is a bold move; Dr. Phil is now a fascist propagandist trading on his personal relationships inside the Trump administration to push an aging conservative audience further into the Klepto Kaiser's cult of personality. He isn't on my TV anymore; he's on a fake TV network for fascists and bigot Boomers and he's actively working with the Trump regime to produce anti-migrant, pro-ICE propaganda because his career prospects at this point are virtually nonexistent otherwise.

Which is of course why I'm sharing this article at all. We already know that the regime brought in Dr. Phil to create highly-choreographed propaganda to support fascist ICE raids after he was embedded with Gestapo agents led by Tom Homan himself back in January; it's not like this is a hobby for McGraw or anything, it's his job now. What then does it say that Homan once against tapped McGraw to provide the theatrical component to fascist ICE raids, using new tactics officials knew would result in outrage and resistance, while clearly preparing to justify the deployment of US military forces to LA against then entirely peaceful protests?

It says the regime was putting on a show; and if there's one thing we know about Trump and putting on a show, it's that Downmarket Mussolini likes to go big, or go home.

One of TV personality Dr. Phil’s maxims is that you should avoid debt at all costs. At the same time, his son Jay McGraw has been involved in the payday lending industry. @ProPublica collaborated with Anchorage Daily News on a story about his role in CreditServe Inc., a consulting firm that worked with a company owned by a Native American tribe in Alaska that offered small dollar loans, with interest rates as high as 700%. CreditServe provides the infrastructure to market, underwrite and collect on loans while “the Tribe is merely a front” and shares in only a small percentage of the revenue, according to a suit filed by five borrowers. They claim that McGraw has collected hundreds of millions of dollars of consumer payments.

https://www.propublica.org/article/minto-money-dr-phil-son-payday-lending-alaska

@ProPublica Oh look, "Doctor" Phil's son is just as big a scumbag as he is

"Fascists love spectacles—especially shows of force. Dr. Phil helping raise the visibility of the mass deportations of Brown people is exactly what Trump wants. But what Trump truly wants is the spectacle of U.S. troops silencing Americans who dare defy him."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #spectacle #cruelty #DrPhil
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https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/dr-phil-turns-immigration-raids-into

@costasamaras.bsky.social
Anyone who received mental health advice from #DrPhil must be questioning that advice right about now.

…As…[the #Arlington] saga unfolded Tues, Trump’s interview w/ #DrPhil aired. The friendly conversation #Trump filmed last week turned into another venue for him to air #inflammatory claims about his opponents w/o evidence. “I think to a certain extent it’s #Biden’s fault & #Harris’s fault,” he said of the attempted assassination…, adding, “They weren’t too interested in my health & safety.” There is NO #evidence that Biden or Harris were personally involved in decisions about Trump’s security.