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Emergency Powers under the Führerprinzip

The Hitlerian behavior just doesn’t stop with these dangerous, angry morons.   Trump’s enraged little Jewish Josef Goebbels, Stephen Miller, during the El Salvador dictator’s staged visit yesterday, announced in the Oval Office that “the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 … in our favor” and that “the Supreme Court said that the district court order was unlawful and its main components were reversed 9–0 unanimously.” 

In non-MAGA world, the Supreme Court actually ruled 9-0 that the unlawfully kidnapped, rendered and indefinitely detained Abrego Garcia, must be brought back to the US to be heard, as due process requires under our constitution. Miller flat out lied, claiming the exact opposite of what the 9-0 Supreme Court ruled in their shadow docket decision. Tens of millions of credulous low-information Americans will hear Miller’s lie and believe him, because, if a man who the president trusts that much said it, it must be true. People are saying it’s true, in ways nobody has ever seen before. Unless you’ve ever read a history of the Third Reich.

It is amazing to me, and horrifying, that Trump manages to hit every single one of Hitler’s notes in this incoherent, atonal aria he is constantly improvising.  When Hitler was trying out mass murder for the German people, it was Germans in mental wards he executed.  These people, incurably insane, severely disabled, physically or mentally, were, according to the Führer, “useless eaters” who only consumed food healthy German warriors needed, and took shits.  These useless eaters were living “lives unworthy of life” (Lebensunwertes Leben).  They were unproductive, a drag on Germany’s greatness and it was a mercy to euthanize them, according to the greatest living German genius and the embodiment of the soul of Germany, at that time, Adolf Hitler.  

Today, as reported by Heather Cox Richardson, it turns out Trump has plans for this same kind of person, born without a multimillion dollar inheritance — the unproductive ones. There is nothing this demented, psychopathic motherfucker is doing or saying, or having his loyal sychophants say, that is not straight out of Herr Hitler’s foul mouth. Here’s a nice bit of improv from the once and future American Leader, as Charles Koch’s network was maneuvering the justice-evading serial felon back into power, backed by the might of a billionaire funded army of true believers in American oligarchic fascism:

[Trump] continued [talking to Musk on X in 2024 about foreign leaders kicking people out of their countries to migrate in caravans to the US]: “The fact is, it’s brilliant for them because they’re taking all of their bad people, really bad people and—I hate to say this—the reason the numbers are much bigger than you would think is they’re also taking their nonproductive people. Now these aren’t people that will kill you…but these are people that are nonproductive. They are just not productive, I mean, for whatever reason. They’re not workers or they don’t want to work, or whatever, and these countries are getting rid of nonproductive people in the caravans…and they’re also getting rid of their murderers and their drug dealers and the people that are really brutal people….”

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It will not stop with an innocent immigrant living legally and productively (he’s a working member of an American labor union) in Maryland who is jammed into a car by masked ICE agents and illegally disappeared into a foreign dictator’s notorious mega-prison for “terrorists.”  As I mentioned yesterday, call someone a “terrorist” and you are halfway to convincing millions that the guy deserves whatever he gets.  Torture is too good for Abrego Garcia, say a million ignorant voices, ten million.   If a person commits a crime, they are arrested and prosecuted, and if found guilty by a jury, sentenced to some kind of punishment.  If an insane dotard can declare that an innocent person, charged with no crime and rendered due to “administrative error” to an infamous prison, for indefinite detention, and refuse to comply with a 9-0 Supreme Court decision stating that the rendered man must be returned to the US for a hearing, then we have our American Hitler.  As stupid, vain and psychopathic as the original.  And obeyed by his ambitious, loyal, ass-licking cultists, to the end. 

You say he wants to be a dictator like it’s a bad thing…

The last time a US president endorsed crossing over to the “dark side” to torture terrorism suspects, during Dick Cheney’s time in office, we sent these poor devils (most of them not even charged with any crime) to secret dark sites to be tortured. Calling someone a terrorist is like calling them a pedophile, when someone is accused of either of those things many people recoil at the accusation and don’t really care about proof or what is done to them. To be fair, Obama also ordered the execution, by drone, of an American citizen who’d fled to Yemen, and, several days later, the “accidental” killing of his teenaged son. Neither American was charged with any crime, though they were tried in the agitated court of public opinion and Obama’s spokesmen were despicably coy at press conferences when asked about the extrajudicial killings.

Now we have an administration as close to Hitler’s as possible, modeled on the Führer’s government by American fascist thought leaders on the cusp of realizing lifelong dreams of unlimited power. Personal loyalty to the Leader is seemingly the only qualification for a cabinet position, or any government job, actually. The military has been purged of all generals and other leaders who will not take this oath to a man, rather than to the rule of law; an unqualified, but fiercely loyal, seeming idiot put in charge of the Department of Defense. Inspectors general have been illegally removed across government agencies so there is no oversight of waste, corruption or abuse. Unqualified wealthy donors with glaring conflicts of interest and stunning lack of expertise have been confirmed for cabinet positions on straight party line votes by a supine, razor thin MAGA majority in Congress. Here’s one better, the unvetted racist madman ultra mega-megadonor/government contractor who heads a phantom agency charged with cutting enough money from government to fund generous new tax breaks for the super-wealthy. An actual Nazi.

Now America’s strongman is defying the Supreme Court whose 6-3 radical right judicial fraternity majority he appointed half of. In a 9-0 shadow docket opinion they gave the district judge, whose ruling they affirmed — the man illegally rendered to El Salvador must be returned to the US — a warning about showing respect and deference to the president who appointed a third of them. With this warning about the district court judge’s need to show “deference” in hand, Trump’s DOJ is telling the lower court judge, whose ruling was affirmed 9-0, to go fuck herself.

Here is a succinct account of why Abrego Garcia is in a supermax El Salvador prison for terrorists and the consequences, for the rest of us, of a Hitler wannabe telling a federal judge, acting in accordance with a ruling of the Federalist Society Six (joined by the constitution obeying minority), to fuck off.

When Dick Cheney had terrorism suspects grabbed at airports, off the street, he did so secretly. He sent them to secret torture sites in Poland, Egypt, Asia, places we will never know about. The “genius” of Trump is that he commits his crimes in public, brazenly, secure in his knowledge that millions of angry, screwed Americans love that he does all his violence publicly, without the need to pander to public opinion. It helps that Trump is a psychopath, because he feels neither empathy nor regret. He does not hesitate to throw even his most loyal sycophants into the meat grinder, if it is ever to his advantage. It is always to his advantage to cause pain to someone, it is the only way he can feel whole.

Our hope at the moment resides in us, all of us. Trump’s larger plan is to keep turning up the heat, economically, culturally, politically, and by illegally deporting innocent people to indefinite imprisonment in foreign dictatorships, without a whiff of due process of law, then telling the courts to fuck off, until there is a massive protest he can turn violent as a pretext for invoking the 1807 Insurrection Act. His April 20th [1] wet dream is martial law that will allow his fully loyal military to turn their guns on disloyal American citizens, particularly colored, gay, progressive, justice-minded ones. That’s the dream of every fascist, rule by terror and death to all terrorists, and pedophiles, as well as opposition leaders, dissenters, protesters, intellectuals, readers of banned books, providers of abortions to raped girls, etc. Their right to treat others as they see fit, kidnap, torture, send to a gulag, or privatized concentration camp, to defenestrate, poison or strangle them, is essential to their power and control, the only things that make a “strongman” feel safe.

Trump’s role model, Vladimir Putin, had the man who oversaw the archive of Soviet War Crimes during World War Two arrested on charges that he was a pedophile who had raped his own daughter. The man was imprisoned, the trial delayed, the Soviet War Crimes archive shut down, the records presumably destroyed (the better to rewrite history on the eve of an invasion of Ukraine with war crimes as a major strategic plan). In the end, even in Putin’s Russia, the man charged with pedophilia was found innocent of the charges. In the end, Putin got what he needed, the purge of archives documenting the same crimes his army was committing in Ukraine. Making MAGA great again!

[1] Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889. His 50th birthday in 1939 was celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany, featuring grand parades and lavish festivities. Trump plans the same celebration, complete with military parades, for his 79th birthday in two months. Remember, he’s a young 79, two and a half, to be precise.

American privatized concentration camps for migrants (and others), coming right up

Allison McCann, Alexandra Berzon, and Hamed Aleaziz of the New York Times reported today that the administration also intends to spend as much as $45 billion over the next two years on new detention facilities for immigrants. In the last fiscal year, the total amount of federal money allocated to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement was about $3.4 billion. The new facilities will be in private hands and will operate with lower standards and less oversight than current detention facilities.

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Nazis will be Nazis, after all.

As predicted, harsh consequences for candid DOJ lawyer under Bondi’s like, totally unweaponized DOJ

From no less than today’s NY Times:

Career lawyers representing the government have a long tradition of arguing for the goals of Republican or Democratic administrations, regardless of their personal views. What is different now, they say, is that they increasingly feel trapped between President Trump’s partisan political appointees, who insist on a maximalist approach, and judges who demand comprehensible answers to basic questions.

The most vivid example of this squeeze came on Saturday when one of the department’s senior immigration lawyers, Erez Reuveni, was suspended indefinitely after speaking candidly about the administration’s mistaken deportation of a Maryland man to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador. . .

. . . “Good clients listen to their lawyers,” the judge, Paula Xinis, said.

Instead, the client punished its lawyer. In a letter on Saturday, Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, said Mr. Reuveni had failed to follow orders and instead committed “conduct prejudicial to your client.”

A second senior immigration lawyer involved in the Abrego Garcia case, August Flentje, was also placed on administrative leave for his failure “to supervise a subordinate,” according to two officials familiar with the move.

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In a surprise move, the DOJ is recruiting replacements for DOJ attorneys fired for disloyalty to the president and his agenda  from the graduates of “Libertarian” law schools (Antonin Scalia Law School, anyone?) who believe, along with the Federalist Society, the far-right judicial fraternity they join as law students, in the right of the strong (super-wealthy) to do whatever they need to do to the weak (the other 99.5%).  A good psychopath will do that.

We are in the hands of psychopaths (and cowards)

Make no mistake, MAGA is the brand of powerful American psychopaths.  The far-right, anti-fact, pro-corporate movement now called MAGA has long been engineered and funded by Charles Koch, whose father, beloved of Hitler, was a famous conspiracy theorist and psychopath.  The ideology of the MAGA “movement”, presumably headed by Donald Trump, whose racist father was also a psychopath, is based on painful revenge against “takers”,  everyone not born wealthy “booted and spurred” to rightfully ride the backs of their inferiors.

They’ve learned the lesson that Hitler first demonstrated in a modern mass media culture: if you keep true information from the public, and bombard terrified citizens with aggravating lies, the lies will come to be accepted, by most, as the truth. Once you’ve created a mass audience faithful to baseless lies, you’re halfway to ramping up the death camps. The lies are of a specific kind: incendiary reasons to fear and hate marginalized groups. Once you have created unreasoning hatred against, say, homosexuals, a gay hairdresser you illegally deport to a notorious torture prison in El Salvador deserves every rape and indignity he must endure, and forever is not long enough for a foreign government’s fully illumined dark-site to torture a sick individual like him.

Why the obsession, on the far right, with torture and the death penalty? Nothing moves the masses, and the political needle, like terror. These psychopaths (and sometimes, belatedly, their duped followers) know that total fear is the most effective tool any autocrat can wield. Horrific true stories of torture, terrifying random detention and death, the ability of the state to manhandle and murder anyone without due process or legal accountability, what could be better for an insane person hell-bent, literally, on controlling the world?

Why would a president who nonchalantly oversaw as many as 500,000 unnecessary American deaths during Covid-19, because of his damaging politically-motivated interference with scientists and pandemic experts, have any hesitation to let a few dozen, or a few hundred, or a hundred thousand, or a million, poor American children die of preventable disease?   Or starvation?   Or a million or two, or ten million, in Africa, Asia, South America?   The answer is that psychopaths have neither empathy nor the capacity to feel regret.   The worst of them, a very small percentage, are cunning serial killers.  Most of them are just CEOs, surgeons, nightmare bosses, bullies, masterminds of MAGA’s revenge tour.

Some object to a psychiatric diagnosis like “psychopath” to describe someone like Charles Koch or Donald Trump, or most of Trump’s loyal inner circle “ring kissers”.   I object to psychiatric diagnoses myself.  Homosexuality was a a legitimate psychiatric diagnosis as recently as the 1970s.   I am no fan of psychiatry and have no reason to trust the American Psychiatric Association, particularly after they publicly enforced their rule against a non-member and took part in a coordinated campaign to discredit a best-selling book that detailed Trump’s insane behavior, its roots and implications for his destructive presidency.  

A group of psychiatrists and other experts made a thorough and convincing case, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump [1], acting on their professional duty to warn of the dangers of having someone with severe emotional disabilities as the American president. They made an excellent case. The APA then got busy shutting down the book, and silencing the case for questioning Trump as unstable, vengeful, dangerous, citing a rule it made after unfair criticism of far-right lunatic Barry Goldwater from a group of psychiatrists prior to Goldwater’s 1964 presidential run. Fuck the APA and their “diagnostic manual”. It contains no definition of psychopath anyway.

Here’s what we know about psychopaths:  they are manipulative, selfish, concerned with exercising power over others.  They are adept liars, very charming and persuasive when needed.  They have no hesitation to commit bold acts (of every conceivable kind) because they lack empathy and have no capacity to feel regret.  They must take revenge whenever they feel slighted. Most psychopaths are very intelligent, some are not.  Our Number One psychopath is not a smart psychopath, but it hardly matters.   He has the genius army of the best of Charles Koch’s legal and intellectual network watching his back, guiding his revenge tour.

Trump had an argument with government scientists who predicted the path of a killer storm.  He changed their map with a Sharpie, to prove he was right.  Now he has defunded that agency, along with FEMA and any other government agency he feels was mean to him, contradicted him, made him feel like an enraged two year-old.  Adults who react like enraged two-year olds, if they have the power to, will kill you if you make them feel like an enraged two year-old.  That’s what psychopaths do, they are driven to take vengeance on anyone who  makes them feel like the monsters they are.  All in their life depends on the people around them recognizing and admiring their superiority.  Anything else is grounds for the most terrifying revenge imaginable. 

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The Rule of Law, MAGA style

It is a terrible thing to be a lawyer for a crazed, antisocial serial criminal with no impulse control who is also a compulsive liar.  In a court of law, where rules, facts introduced as evidence and actual laws applied to those facts decide the merits of the case, it is difficult to legally defend someone who keeps changing their lying arguments and continually implicates themselves and their accomplices with careless, incriminating public statements.  If the criminal defendant is a braggart who cannot stop publicly taking credit for things that are flagrantly illegal, your nightmare as a lawyer gets worse still.

Here in the USA, the Constitution is the source of all law binding the federal government, and through the application of the Fourteenth Amendment, every state government as well.   No government entity in the United States may deprive a person of life, liberty or property without a notice of its intent to do so and a hearing at which the accused may be heard.   This is called due process, the requirement of legal notice and an opportunity to be heard before any punishment is imposed. 

The process you are due, as someone in the United States legally (or illegally, for that matter) is — you must be charged with a crime and then given the opportunity to be heard by a judge before you can be imprisoned, fined, have your property seized, be deported, etc. 

The president had his myrmidons round up a few hundred seemingly random Hispanics, shave their heads, put them into orange jumpsuits and chains.  They then staged a photo op, marching these supposedly dangerous criminals onto a plane to be flown to a notorious penal colony-style prison  in El Salvador.   They staged a photo op on the other end, of these men deported without due process, or any process at all, actually, being marched off to the overcrowded supermax “terrorist” prison in El Salvador.

The family of one of these men, Abrego Garcia, a legal resident married to an American citizen, raising an autistic five-old child as well as two kids from his wife’s previous relationship, made an emergency motion in federal court to have him returned to the United States.  According to the testimony, Garcia has been, as most poor immigrants are, a model citizen, with protected status here because of credible threats of violence and death by gangs in El Salvador.

You may be familiar with the self-contradicting piece of doggerel  offered by the Trump administration in federal court to justify its actions, what I call the Nazi line about this case.  Call it the MAGA line if you like, but read a few histories of Mr. Hitler’s Germany and you will see no difference in technique.   Garcia was deported due to “administrative error” the administration admits, yet, Trump’s DOJ and all of his spokesmen and surrogates insist Garcia is also a member of the violent MS-13 gang.

Important thing to remember, MAGA arguments, like Nazi arguments, do not need to make any sense in the conventional sense of the word sense.  Picture the poor bastard lawyer who’s got to make this ridiculous clerical error/ but still terrorist, argument. He’s got to argue this in front of a judge not disposed to ignore the plain text of the US Constitution in order to approve clearly illegal actions by a flagrantly lawless government of lackeys serving a vengeful and ignorant madman.

Check out what he is forced to say, this poor bastard Trump DOJ lawyer. When I read this out loud to Seedj she said, “he’s not going to be in that job very long .”  I have to give this man props for his candor.

Surprisingly, the Justice Department lawyer representing the government in this case said that even he wasn’t provided evidence.

“I am also frustrated that I have no answer for you on a lot of these questions,” said Erez Reuveni, an assistant director in the Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation. “The government made a choice here to produce no evidence.”

At one point, Xinis asked to see a 2019 immigration warrant for Abrego Garcia, to which Reuveni replied, “I do not have that order. It is not in the record.”

Reuveni said he has also asked his government clients why they couldn’t return Abrego Garcia to the U.S.

“When this case landed on my desk, I asked my clients that very question. I have not received to date an answer that I find satisfactory,” Reuveni said, and even asked Xinis before her ruling whether he could have 24 hours to persuade administration officials to return Abrego Garcia to the U.S. without a further court ruling.

“I would ask the court to give us, the defendants, one more chance to do this,” Reuveni said. “That’s my recommendation to my client, but so far that hasn’t happened.” 

Ultimately, the judge ruled against the Trump administration, which is not likely to go over well considering that the U.S. has a $6 million deal with El Salvador to accept prisoners, brokered by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. But at the very least, there’s hope that Abrego Garcia, a married father of a child with autism, can receive justice and return home.

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Nazi immigrant  explains why inferior immigrants have an unfair  bias toward democracy

It’s hard to overstate how stupid this painfully awkward “genius” Nazi psychopath (apartheid South Africa’s military service evading Elon Musk) actually is. I hate to kick an unstable, abusive, bullying, anti-worker, “anti-woke,” antisocial warrior while he’s crying, but why not? I may be suffering from PDS, Psychopath Derangement Syndrome, but, if I’m not mistaken, these two shorts showcase this one’s particular, eh, genius, as well as his charming speech impediment:

Below, if you have the stomach for it, is a nice, weepy illustration of how brittle the myth is that obscene wealth makes someone a “winner”, unlike the tens of millions Americans who work multiple jobs every day to afford health care for their families. Winner or whiner, you be the judge, jury and executioner. What a despicable idiot punk… not surprising that his Nazi grandfather, Joshua Haldeman [1], relocated the family from Canada to South Africa a few generations ago, after grandpaw’s idol lost World War Two. Presumably 1950s Canada wasn’t bigoted enough for his refined taste in racial and eugenic matters.

[1] (from Wikipedia link above) During that time [1943-1948], Haldeman formally made statements discouraging the publicizing of the prevalent antisemitism in [his] party.[18] However, he also gave a speech defending a decision by a party newspaper to publish the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an antisemitic fabrication claiming an International Jewish conspiracy to rule the world. In his speech, Haldeman said “that the plan as outlined in these protocols has been rapidly unfolding in the period of observation of this generation.”[1] He would later claim apartheid South Africa was leading “White Christian Civilization” against the “International Conspiracy” of Jewish bankers and the “hordes of Coloured people” he claimed they controlled.[1] . . .

. . . Weeks after the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960, Haldeman self-published The International Conspiracy to Establish a World Dictatorship and the Menace to South Africa, a 42-page response to the massacre. The United Nations passed Resolution 134, the body’s first official condemnation of apartheid and the beginning of decades of diplomatic isolation. Later Haldeman self-published a second book alleging international conspiracies: The International Conspiracy in Health targeted fluoridation, vaccinations, and health insurance.[1][22]

If only we were not living in a post-truth culture

Truth, critical thinking and adherence to the facts matter more now than at any time in our history.  Senator Sheldon Whitehouse lays out an irrefutable case for Trump’s cynical weaponization of the government against the People.  The case is irrefutable, except by calling Whitehouse a hysterical, sick, dangerous, partisan lunatic, and somehow discrediting, among the lowest information Americans out there, the truthful and factually detailed report he delivers to the Senate, and to the People, in this latest installment of The Scheme.

Speaking truth to powerful idiocy

Marks [former top vaccine regulator, Dr. Peter Marks, who submitted his resignation today after being given the choice to resign or be fired] said that although he was willing to work with Kennedy on his plan to review vaccine safety, “it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

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And truthfully, what psychopath could possibly desire less than that?

Move Fast and Break Everything

Project 2025, the Koch network’s radical reactionary plan to let the richest .01% off the leash of government regulation, confiscatory taxes, majoritarian tyranny and accountability for crimes, while subjugating everyone else, is being carried out on the smash and grab fast track in every one of its fine points. 

The authors of  the radical blueprint for autocracy that Trump lied about knowing the details of (at the same time claiming to disagree with some of the manifesto he said he knew nothing about), was written by many members of Trump 1.0, who are now back in powerful roles in the insane two-year old’s second administration.  It is a detailed action plan for rooting out disloyalty to the Unitary Executive and implementing a fully fascist, corporately-controlled US, fueled by revenge and intimidation of all dissent.   Full steam ahead!

The only problem for Project American Hitler and the Richest White Men of North America, and it may be a problem that saves this tottering experiment in democracy and respect for basic human dignity, is that much of what they are doing is plainly illegal and unconstitutional.   As well as cruel, thoughtless, rash, misogynistic, homophobic, racist, economically imbecilic, driven by a psychopath’s unquenchable need to prevail, destroy the opponent and have every bit of revenge he’s entitled to.    

For example, only Congress can create a government agency, so an outfit like “DOGE”, strictly speaking, and in spite of numerous sworn lies as to who is running Musk’s little “agency”, and the mass media all referring to it as a Department, as though legally created and not pulled directly out of Charles Koch’s crusty 90 year-old sphincter, is illegal under our laws, traditions and the Constitution which vests the power to create a monstrosity like the “Department of Government Efficiency” solely in Congress. Congress is also the only branch of government that can allocate and spend tax money, whether in the interest of “efficiency”, lack of accountability, covering up crimes or any other purpose.

An unelected, insane, unqualified, oligarch political donor unilaterally ending the sixty year foreign aid program to keep starving children alive, protect millions of children in danger of death from malaria, fund NGOs that care for war orphans abroad, defunding the Veteran’s Affairs suicide hotline (for fuck’s sake!), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, closing Social Security offices, illegally mass firing key staff throughout the federal government via email, the illegal round-up and televised deportation of persons subject to the jurisdiction of the US and its Constitution, the mafia don like shake downs of all perceived rivals, bullying, baseless lawsuits against cowed, spineless mass media corporations, compliant universities, a prominent non-MAGA law firm — all fucking illegal.

Who enforces the law?  On the federal level a loyal MAGA lie endorsing diehard who was too corrupt and radioactive for Trump to hire back in 2017.  After all, as Florida AG under the Viktor Orban-like Ron “Go-go boots” DeSanctimonious, she had recently taken a $25,000 campaign contribution from Trumpie to drop Florida’s investigation into his fraudulent, now shuttered, Trump University.  Now she’s 100% team Trump, the criminal president’s personal lawyer in a way even the pathetic, historically corrupt Bill Barr refused to be, including endorsing the fiction that the 2020 election was rigged and illegally stolen from the rightful winner, Mr. T.   Pam Bondi is eager and ready to do anything Aileen Cannon would do if she were the AG.  Cannon, of course, is poised to occupy Alito’s or Thomas’s incredibly foul smelling seat among the Immortal Nine, The Federalist Society Six.  Extremists, if they occupy even a one vote majority, can have the final say on virtually everything.  And that is their plan, to seize democracy by a one vote majority and shut the whole goddamned experiment down.

Fortunately the courts are holding so far. They have called bullshit over and over on weak, stupid and lying arguments made by MAGA officials defending illegal actions in court. We may be headed for an Andrew Jackson moment, I sure hope not, but it’s not unlikely when you depend on angry, vengeance seeking psychopaths to do what’s right for others. Jackson was a pugnacious psychopath with a famously foul temper who told the chief justice “you’ve made your ruling, now where’s your army to enforce it, bitch?” I asked a friend who knows American history in uncanny detail what happened after Jackson made that challenge.

“The Trail of Tears,” he said, referring to a mass killing death march under the Indian Removal Act, a death march the Supreme Court had tried to stop as unconstitutional. Fuck me, I thought, no wonder Old Hickory is Old Orange’s favorite president. Made millions capturing and selling slaves, told the Supreme Court to suck his hickory stick, regretted not personally hanging his disloyal Vice President and fellow psychopath John C. Calhoun. No wonder Trump put the guy’s portrait in the Oval Office. Jackson is a president after the Orange Polyp’s own heart, an American Putin, (minus the kompromat on the current American “president” — notice how Trump always claims to know nothing about the actions of his own executive branch).

The mass pain that this president of subnormal intelligence and supernatural stubbornness is inflicting directly on millions of his supporters, as well as on America’s allies (on behalf of a war criminal dictator involved in the, LOL! “Rusher Hoax” that helped place him in office two out of three tries) will not help him in the court of public opinion when the idiotic ideas he’s implementing really start hitting the fan, like the proverbial poop these dumb ideas are. 

Trump’s best hope to become the American Hitler is mass public violence (and he has the proven violent goon squad standing back and standing by, awaiting his next command) and the strong, powerful right arm of devout Christian Pete “I didn’t rape that lying bitch, I was drunk, my lawyers fucking paid her, shut up, for Christ’s sake, I have a hangover!” Hegseth and his generals ordering US troops to open fire on dissenting Americans under an invocation of Mike “Q-Anon” Flynn’s favorite American law, The Insurrection Act. 

I’m betting on democracy, no matter what the oddsmakers and bookies in Las Vegas are saying.  Call me Anne Frank, but I’m betting that Americans are better, and much smarter,  than Trump and his movement think we are.