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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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BREAKING (wind) on Fox!!! Obama JUDGE!!!

Within minutes of a federal judge ruling that a man given asylum in the US, based on a reasonable fear of death if forced back to El Salvador, and sent to a notorious El Salvador prison without due process of law, must be returned to the US by April 7, FOX was on the case. The man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is a legal resident married to an American, with a disabled five year-old child. He was illegally deported to the country he was given asylum from, El Salvador, and must be returned to the US, ruled the judge. I made it through sixty seconds of the BREAKING Fox story. Here’s what I learned.

“An Obama-appointed judge” made this decision, obviously (a judge appointed by a Kenyan, Muslim, DEI pick who was never the legitimate president and was one of the unrepentant Central Park Five who should have all been executed.)

The Trump administration admitted in court that Garcia was deported after an “administrative error but insists he is a member of MS13”    Try wrapping your head around that sentence.

The first talking head the Fox anchor turns to for more “facts” is an indignant female Nazi who begins:  “He is not some Maryland father, as the Mainstream [Jew] Media would have you believe.  He’s a member of MS13 who was involved in human trafficking.”

Josef Goebbels himself, at his most operatic, couldn’t have spun it all better in just over a minute. The man currently in an El Salvador concentration camp, a work prison at 300% prisoner capacity, was not ruled reasonably fearful of his life if forced to return to El Salvador (as he was, hence, his status here, hence the ‘administrative error’) and deserves to rot there indefinitely because he’s out of US jurisdiction, we have no way to get him back, and he’s a… terrorist and human trafficker, whether the victim of an administrative error or whatever else hysterical left-wing lunatics want to claim about his so-called illegal deportation and so-called denial of so-called due process. If the Fuhrer does it, and you think it’s illegal, and you don’t immediately shut your big, stinking mouth, we have a nice, crowded, foul-smelling cattle car for you.

Fox and its Nazi propaganda-spouting ilk is the primary news source for much of America, and every one of this country’s frequently betrayed low information voters, also known as The Base (al Q’aeda, in Arabic).

A short, but factual, version of the story is here.

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?