Just another week on the runaway Trump train, where Trump invents or creates problems where none existed before just to give himself the opportunity to "prove" his art-of-the-deal "cred," only to belatedly discover that his targets are merely amused by his foolish behavior, and he ends-up spending most of his time trying to find out where those brakes are that Joe Biden no doubt hid from him somewhere.
So there is German Chancellor Friedrich Merz presented Donald Trump with a "commemorative" plaque "honoring" his grandfather. I'm certain Merz was aware of the "irony" of this, assuming Trump was too dumb to notice. Grandfather Trump was a coward who ran to the U.S. to evade military service, and when the danger was over, returned to Germany. But when German authorities discovered his prior actions, they gave him the choice of prison or deportation, and of course he chose the latter, and the rest is "history."
"Bone-spur" Trump, who as noted in The Atlantic back in 2020 called soldiers who died in war "suckers" and "losers," and "repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades," is wasting taxpayer money on a Soviet-style military parade this weekend, which everyone knows is less about "celebrating" the American military than to boost this coward's own "tough guy" ego.
Of course any protesters who show up must "hate America" and thus will be subject to "very heavy force," because Trump can't handle the fact that many people actually hate him and what he is doing to this country; Trump represents the least positive characteristics of what allegedly made America "great" in the eyes of the world.
Then we hear that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is returning to the U.S. to face charges of "trafficking." This "Trumped-up" charge by a Tennessee grand jury that is the first time we actually heard of it is the only reason why Trump allowed this happened. If it had found the charges baseless or without sufficient cause we would not have heard about this at all and Abrego Garcia would not be returning to the U.S.. And it doesn't matter if he is found "guilty" or not: he is still going to be deported again to El Salvador.
Tennessee federal prosecutor Ben Schrader announced his resignation, telling ABC News he believed the indictment was politically motivated. The case of gay makeup artist Andry Hernandez Romero would seem to have more significant hurdles for creative lying, but the media has shown little interest in challenging the "evidence" that he is a "terrorist," since he doesn't have a wife holding press conferences. The "evidence" certainly didn't matter to San Diego immigration judge Paula Dixon (who is black) who sided with the Trump administration to leave an innocent person in Bukele's concentration prison.
I have to admit that it is pretty frustrating living between a rock and a hard place in this country. This individual comes to the Seattle Center Armory every day it seems...
Except of course if you are Hispanic (or look like one). I have sent numerous complaints to King County Metro about driver behavior that to me confirms a culture of prejudice and discrimination against Hispanics in the area, especially if you are male. Seattle hasn't seen any ICE raids like Kent has, but then again Seattle isn't exactly a welcoming place by any standard for Hispanics, although to be honest the last 30 years has seen dramatic changes demographically and culturally, but unlike other cities, Hispanics have played no part in it.
That doesn't mean, of course that people here are not exposed to the same rhetoric, and it hasn't changed since 2016 when Trump proclaimed "They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists"; Trump wouldn't dare characterize blacks openly in that way, although admittedly he probably "thinks" that. How people react to that kind of rhetoric, or accept it's "truthfulness" is mostly kept "secret," and is only revealed in subtle, "red flag" ways (such as the potential of "theft").
One thing that is "revealing" about what people "see"--and I suspect it is a common belief--that Hispanics are "specialists" in illegal drugs; three of the four murders of Hispanics I mention in my May 29 post were motivated by the belief that either the victims or the communities they lived had money and/or drugs. Numerous complete strangers have approached me and inquired if I had any "cream"--meaning "meth"--to sell. Why would they believe that I do? Because I appear "Mexican" to them and they have been told that all "Mexicans" are "drug dealers, criminals and rapists."
I have had to live with that; most people don't. I mentioned an incident in Renton when I had just gotten off the bus from a job at the airport to go check out Frey's Electronics when it was still open, and was walking down the sidewalk when I found myself surrounded by Renton police, after I noticed I was being followed by a white female officer driving in and out of parking lots behind me. There had been a bank robbery; I didn't match the description of the suspect at all, which was confirmed when the witness was driven over and simply shook her head. The only "logical" explanation for this was that since I looked "Hispanic" I was a "natural" criminal. No "evidence" required.
So who is being called a "violent gang leader" without evidence or invoking "state secrets" to conceal the fact that it is a lie, or being called a “foreign terrorist” who has committed “monstrous crimes against humanity" or claiming that "this illegal alien monster is going to be held accountable for his terrible crimes against women and children"--all to be "gleaned" from a simple charge of transporting migrants to job sites? Not that "brother."
But with the "Big Lie" strategy in play in the Trump administration, the demented Miller hopes that saying it animatedly and often enough about Abrego Garcia will make it "true" to people who are too mentally lazy to care if it is true or not:
While it is suggested here that there might be other "troubles" animating Miller's mind, the "hope" is that this more sinister application of racism against a group that he and Trump feel a particular animus against will be "irrelevant" to people who accept that most migrants must be "guilty" of something if they are in this country "illegally," and false claims don't particularly bother them personally. What the targeted group thinks of being characterized in this way is of course also "irrelevant" to people who don't believe that they have the same "human" characteristics as themselves, and thus they don't feel the need to deal with them on a human level.
What else? We are learning that Grant Hardin, a rapist/murderer former police chief in Arkansas simply walked out of a “maximum security” prison wearing a “makeshift” law enforcement outfit. He was caught two weeks later in a wooded area just 1.5 miles away. The Republican governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, sent a “shout out” to Trump and Kristi Noem for their “assistance” in sending a few federal marshals and border agents to "help."
You read that right: these incompetents took two weeks to find a man who was being called a homicidal maniac who had made it just a few stone throws from the prison he was simply allowed to walk out of because he was a white man wearing something that “looked” like a police outfit. If federal marshals were involved in the “capture,” we may wonder what they have been doing the past fourth months, besides being accosted by ICE agents in a federal building, per this from NBC News:
A U.S. marshal was mistakenly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Arizona, officials said Friday.
The deputy marshal was briefly detained in the lobby of a federal building in Tucson because he “fit the general description of a subject being sought by ICE,” according to a statement from a U.S. Marshals Service spokesperson shared with NBC News on Friday. It is not clear when the incident took place.
“The Deputy US Marshal’s identity was quickly confirmed by other law enforcement officers, and he exited the building without incident,” said U.S. Marshals Service spokesperson Colleen Grayman.
The U.S. Marshals Service did not provide additional details or identify the deputy marshal who was detained.
Do they take us to be that stupid? Anyone who looks Hispanic is automatically subject to "suspicion" in this country (of course they all look "the same" to ICE agents). The story states the "incident" occurred in a "federal building," not a courthouse or a jail. This story should warn people that ICE agents have now gone completely rogue, desperate to meet their "quota."
Which of course is why we are told that immigration agents were in the city of Paramount in California in full force, since it regards the city that is 82 percent Hispanic "easy pickings." But we are told by the Los Angeles Times that residents did not take this at all well: "As the protest ratcheted up in Paramount on Saturday, chants of “Fuera ICE” — ICE, get out — could be heard as flash-bang grenades deployed by federal agents lighted up the scene. The agents appeared to include members of Border Patrol, the U.S. Marshals Service and Homeland Security Investigations."
"Unexpected" protests moved on into Los Angeles, including mass blockages of freeways...
...and National Guard troops are already being deployed without state government approval in the city. It must be frightening to Trump, who we are told here 3 has been going on a "furious late night tantrum." This is a man infected by power madness; this isn't about a few abusive police officers anymore. This is a political protest against him personally and his thugs. No calming down the racist rhetoric, just the need to inflict fear and impose "order" through violence.
No doubt that Trump and the rest of the country is "shocked" that Hispanics are no longer simply allowing themselves to be "talked about": they are acting in their own defense. But of course there is a difference between being "passive" victims of ICE thuggery and actually standing up for your human rights in the public eye. People still support mass deportation, even of working people who have committed no crimes; they just don't like being made to "look bad" through a vicarious connection with the thugs carrying it out.
CNN is reporting 5 that new polling suggests that a majority of people now approve of Trump's "handling" of the situation in Los Angeles, which is all for "show" and it is clearly working for him. No interest in the fact that the raids in Los Angeles targeted working families and not criminals--all people see are "criminals," not human beings. Typical.
Some commentator on MSNBC had previously said it was a "bad look" for people to be waving the Mexican flag; oh, that's "rich": most Hispanics in this country are U.S. citizens, but most are not certain what their place is in it--they are scapegoated for all the problems in this country and treated as if they don't "belong." So they are just supposed to shut-up and be more "invisible" to you? They know who they are; you don't want to.
Of course it all fits right in with Trump's "disdain for Mexicans," and its open season on any aspect, as reported in this article from Billboard magazine 4 concerning the Trump administration's largely otherwise inexplicable cancellations of temporary visas for even major musicians to tour the U.S. from Mexico.
Gov. Gavin Newsom can see that people have had enough of being kicked around like dogs, and with Trump being confronted by those people he regards as little more than "dogs" that have decided to bite him and Miller back, and it is plain that it is a coward who sent in 4,000 National Guardsmen and 700 Marines into Los Angeles. Newsom is seen in this video daring Trump and his henchpersons to come after him...
...why may seem a little over-the-top, but an acceptable response to the way Trump seems incapable of handling a challenge to his authoritarian impulses anyway other than that of a spoiled child who needs to have his way. There is no doubt it would give him a wet dream to see scenes like this...
...which followed Nixon's escalation of the Vietnam War by invading Cambodia (of course he claimed to have a "plan" to end the war during the 1968 presidential campaign), the result of which was only to topple the existing government there and bring to power the genocidal Khmer Rouge. All of the unarmed students at Kent State University who were killed (at least one wasn't even a protester) were a football field-distance or more away from National Guard troops who claimed to fire indiscriminately out of "self-defense."
Heck, we haven't seen this kind of political activism challenging the supreme power since when, the 1960s and early 70s? While Gov. Newsom is daring "tough guy" Nazi Tom Homan to arrest him, and LA police chief Jim McDonnell should remember that if the police are seen to be protecting Trump and his thugs against the people, then they should not be surprised that the people view them as the enemy as well. We are told by the AP that "The majority of arrests since the protests began have been for failing to disperse," meaning peaceful protest, not for "violent" activity.
On a Reddit page concerning if ICE agents who commit acts abuse can be arrested by police, it wasn't exactly "clear" if this could be done since they seem to commit acts of abuse frequently without concern that their behavior is subject to accountability, although one individual who claimed to a sheriff's deputy seemed to suggest that ICE agents were nothing more than punks who think they are above any law:
Yes, 100%. I am a Sheriff's Deputy, sworn to uphold the constitution. I have refused to cooperate with ICE trying to detain a citizen many times and they have done dick about it because most of them don't even know how the law actually works. ICE are not the FBI, though most of their agents that I come into contact with love to pretend they are. ICE are the trailer trash of law enforcement.
Trump and right-wing media are calling what is happening in Los Angeles a "riot," which of course they not only refused to call January 6 anything but a "peaceful" demonstration, but rather than calling for any local law enforcement or National Guard support, Trump just sat in front of a television getting "giddy" with glee. And then what did he do? Pardon them all, including those who attacked Capitol police?
The irony--or rather hypocrisy--of this is that a judge allowed the raids on businesses because of "evidence" of "fictitious" work permits; yet I don't see ICE making those same raids on tech businesses that employ any of those 700,000 Indians in the country illegally, many on fictitious visas. I recall a few years ago that some of the Indian-run convenience stores in Kent were "short" people for a time; I was told that workers were laying low because of rumors that immigration agents might be checking on their "papers," although it never advanced beyond the "rumor" stage.
By the way, do people notice how these convenience stores seem to change personnel every few months? Apparently businesses like convenience stores are only "temporary" work stations for newly arrived immigrants (legal or not), until they can be replaced by the next group of immigrants (legal or not).
But it isn't just anyone who looks Hispanic who needs to "worry" about what is happening today that effects tomorrow. Not everyone in Florida, for example, is following the "party line" in that fascist-run state, This local weatherman isn't afraid to call out the insanity of Trump, RFK Jr. and DOGE's federal staffing cuts that threaten people's lives by reducing the gathering of information warning of potential danger or causing it to be less reliable, like simple weather reports more than a few days in the future:
It is as if Trump wants people who "don't matter" to die, just as "Dr. Oz" recently suggested about who should be "entitled" to Medicaid. The new "director" of FEMA, David Richardson, "joked" that he didn't know when hurricane season was; when asked to respond to this, Leavitt (as with all instances of dysfunction in the Trump administration) only criticized the "audacity" of the reporter to have even asked the question.
When confronted by Josh Hawley in a Senate hearing why his state wasn't receiving assistance from FEMA for tornado damage and why his requests were being "slow-walked" by FEMA administrators, the hypocritical Kristi Noem suddenly exclaimed that of course she would insure that FEMA assistance would immediately be approved for red state Missouri.
Can things get any worse? Not for this "What, me worry" president. the U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the children in DOGE to have fun with sensitive Social Security data. You think these self-styled "smart guys" would even know what they are looking at? Or is this going to be treated as just another "been there, done that" moment in the Trump administration? The future? What is the future to some old guy who's only concern is how the history books will see him. Maybe this way?
So why wouldn't you trust this smirking punk to watch over your kids?
According to ProPublica, Thomas Fugate, a 22-year-old college graduate whose principle "qualifications" is that he brought attention to himself as a Trump campaign worker and calls himself a "Trumplican," is now the head of "the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships. Known as CP3, the office has led nationwide efforts to prevent hate-fueled attacks, school shootings and other forms of targeted violence." Of course he isn't actually in "charge" of any of that; he is only there to insure "cooperation" between state and local law enforcement with immigration agents to conduct their own terrorist operations like workplace raids and detain 2-year-old U.S. citizen children.
What else? Just more of the same old same old: The China trade "deal" is falling back on its face; instead of a "big announcement," Iran tells Trump to take a hike with his "deal"; desperate Trump sends out letters begging the EU to "play nice" with him and offer anything on trade so he doesn't continue to look like the fool he clearly is; another long conversation with Putin apparently telling Trump to be "nice" to him and go back to bed; and with nothing better to do, imposes tariff increases on steel that will create no jobs (more likely lose jobs) and lead to higher prices and parts shortages.
Meanwhile, USA Today reports here 1 that El Salvadoran dictator Nayib Bukele actually has a “transactional” relationship with MS-13 leaders: “MS-13 demanded an end to extraditions, shortened sentences, and control of territory. In return, the gang agreed to ‘reduce the number of public murders ... creating the impression that the government was reducing the murder rate,’ the indictment says. ‘In fact, MS-13 leaders continued to authorize murders where the victims’ bodies were buried or otherwise hidden.’”
It was noted in a related story concerning the “hidden” that homicide statistics in El Salvador now also exclude killings by police and "vigilantes" in order to make improvements in "public safety" appear more “dramatic” than they actually are.
What else? As we see in this video discussion when Leavitt doesn’t have a pre-written statement to shout at “fake news” reporters, she tries to mollify them by admitting with self-amusement that she doesn’t have any idea of what to say about even simple questions, like the administration’s reaction to the election of a liberal in South Korea’s presidential election:
Meanwhile, Trump administration witnesses can’t answer simple questions or say what exactly their "purpose" is: the unfit and unqualified Linda McMahon's responses to questions sounds if she is trash-talking to a wrestling opponent, befitting someone who has to consult index cards to answer questions, knowing her only "purpose" is to oversee the illegal destruction of the Congressionally-created Education Department.
And just as the Trump administration is discovering to its “horror” that there may not be as many “violent criminal” illegals (or "illegals" period) in the country than they have been demonizing for public consumption, OMB director Russ Vought cannot justify massive cuts in Medicaid merely by claiming that only “illegals” will be losing coverage, since he has no idea of how many are actually on Medicaid. Since those who apply for Medicaid have to prove they are “legally” eligible to get it, he is only making things up as he goes in an attempt to con the public about Republican lies about what they are doing won't hurt working people:
And of course we are learning that Senate Republicans are doing their usual lying to voters about not touching public assistance programs, now claiming they will make deep cuts in Medicare (along with Medicaid) to pay for those tax cuts for the rich, but someone else will have to "find" the "fraud" and "waste" that allegedly will cover the loss. We are also learning that Senate Republicans intend on eliminating untaxed tip and overtime pay because they don't "create jobs"; oh, and they think tax cuts for the rich "create" jobs?
Why do voters continue to be foolish enough to believe anything that Republicans tell them during election cycles that doesn't have to do with "the others"?
Remember when many people were calling Elon Musk the “co-president” for a while? We now know that wasn’t true; Musk was just given a "make-work" job to shut him up and keep him "happy." In fact, it is Stephen Miller who is really the acting “president,” with Trump’s often confused bumbling and lack of grasp for detail is merely him trying to “remember” what Miller and others with their own evil agendas are telling him to say.
While Trump may agree with such policies on a superficial level, he leaves the “details” to others, which is why he always seems “surprised” when people like RFK Jr., Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth reveal themselves to be incompetent and ridiculous, and anti-science NIH head Jay Bhattacharya (his "specialty" being economics) justifies cuts in funding for HIV vaccine trials because he thinks (like RFK Jr,) it is "politicized" and that "alternative" treatments--mainly "lifestyle changes" that don't cost any money--are in line with Trump "priorities."
Updated information on health-related issues is also not a "priority" with the Trump administration, meaning people will be left in the dark about the spread of infectious diseases in their communities. Remember the "Human Genome Project"? That was "news" a few decades ago, but few remember it now. But its website genome.gov had been updating stories on related research every month--until now. Since Trump took office we are presented with this message:
Due to reduction in workforce efforts, the information on this website may not be up to date, transactions submitted via the website may not be processed, and the agency may not be able to respond to inquiries. Note: Securing and protecting this website will continue.
The last posted update was on December 9, 2024; we an assume that this "fate" is also "infecting" other government information sites.
But it is people like Karoline Leavitt and Miller who have filled the "information" void with lies, lies, and more lies:
We are being told that ABC News reporter Terry Moran was fired for tweeting that Miller is a hatemonger. You remember him, don't you? He was the interviewer who Trump complained wasn't "nice" to him for pointing out that the MS13 lettering on Abrego Garcia's hand was not real but photoshopped? Spineless ABC News executives must have been itching for a reason to fire Moran for not being "nice" to Trump.
The conservative Wall Street Journal on the other hand, wasn't afraid of exposing what is really happening, that ICE is taking its marching orders from Miller and acting with no accountability to any law or common sense:
But we already knew that, didn't we? This guy is a Nazi and white supremacist and what more evidence do we need? He doesn't care if deporting 10 million workers destroys the economy; he just "hates" and he loves doing it the cruel way, and why deny it if it is the truth? He is what he is and stop lying about it or being afraid of the truth about him.
This is all just too much. Let's take a moment to escape, because I don’t want to leave people with the impression I am consumed with what passes for “political discussion” these days, when it really has more to do with how the country responds to “change,” and who is or isn’t on the “outs.”
Admittedly, I don’t like much the world we live in today and sometimes I wish I could just lock myself in a room and never leave it. Unfortunately, I still need to work two more years in order receive my “full” Social Security benefit (if it still exists by then), so I have to venture outside five times a week involuntarily. If I have to go outside I would prefer to just sit on this bench at Myrtle Edwards Park (that isn’t really a “park” but just a strip of land running along a section of Elliot Bay) taking in the peaceful waters.
And then I can go home and watch an “old” movie. I generally prefer to make up my own mind of something is "good" or not; for example, I liked the original I Dream of Jeannie theme song much more than the familiar subsequent seasons' version, which is just as well since I think the first season was the best season anyways for that show. And so while I generally take the word of an esteemed film critic like Roger Ebert if a film is good, that doesn’t mean if he gives a film a "thumbs down" I necessarily accept it as my own view, particularly if I don’t agree with his reasoning.
For example, I decided to visit the Silver Platters store, which sells mostly used video and music discs, to browse for potential OOP titles I might want to add to my collection. I have to say I was disappointed in the selection of Blu-ray titles they had; I picked out Fiddler on the Roof which I supposed I needed for my collection because it is supposed to be a “classic” and it was under $10 used, and the Stephen Spielberg film Always, since I am a fan of Audrey Hepburn and this was her final film appearance.
Ebert gave Always a “thumbs down,” but I disagreed with his reasons. He called the film, which was a remake of the 1943 Spencer Tracy film A Guy Named Joe, too “old fashioned” for contemporary audiences, and should have been “updated” more. This wasn’t an issue at all for me, and although I thought the original was superior through most of its runtime (Irene Dunne also starred in Love Affair, the original and better version of An Affair to Remember) the final scenes in the remake packed more of an emotional "wallop." In the original the ghost of Pete assists Dorinda in carrying out the mission, and just heads back to base free of complication.
But in the remake the plane loses power and crash lands in a lake. When the chance comes to take her with him in death when she seems willing to accept it, Pete does the “right thing” and offers his hand to take her back to the living…
…and he accepts his own fate, freeing her heart of him and disappearing into the afterlife.
I suppose that in this narcissistic and nihilistic society we live in today, films like this simply do not “work.” Maybe they still work for me because like with the songs I grew-up listening to, films like this are an escape to a world as I wish it to be, not how it really is; I stopped living in a world illusion way back from earliest memories when I just wanted to "get away" all the time, and that kind of thing has a way defining how you approach the “real world.”
It could be of course that what the "real world" is what you choose it to be, such as the people responsible for this view of the world:
I suppose that being a male I'm supposed to know WTF that is, but I don't. Not that I can't "learn" what people mean by that. I recall when I was in school one of my journalism professors suggested I cover the appearance a visiting speaker, who apparently no one from the school paper intended to do. When I showed up at the auditorium where this was being held, only front three rows had any people in them, and a reporter from the city newspaper and myself were the only males in attendance.
The speaker was Catherine MacKinnon, and what she had to say I assumed that the female students in attendance were probably from the women's studies department and knew what she had to say. When the reporter from the local newspaper identified himself to ask a question, I could see by her "surprised" reaction she wasn't expecting her talk to be reported at all; myself, I just sat in the back taking notes. When it was over I checked in the school newsroom, and per my training I typed in a matter-of-fact report on what was said.
Of course what I had written was basically variations on the same theme, which was basically victim-feminist MacKinnon's view that all heterosexual sex was "rape." The reporter of the local paper basically wrote a similarly "fair" treatment, but I grew-up with my own version of "reality" and I wasn't going to be beat on again, so I wrote a letter-to-the-editor to the local newspaper about my opinion of what I had been forced to absorb, and since I had "broken the ice" in offering a critical view, the local reporter felt free to compose an op-ed with the same view.
The problem, me thinks, is that there is no real difference between this kind of thinking and that of Trump and his minions; they are just two extreme views of "reality" that have "truth" inside a bubble that must be protected at all costs from those who would "pop" it.
But that is all in the "past," and I have no "legacy" or anything to protect. I’ve lived my life for better (or mostly, worse) and now it is time for those later generations to deal with the future, and I confess that if the music and films being made today are any indication, they are a selfish, self-serving generation with absolutely no concern about such things as “cause and effect”; every day in the current administration we see actions that have no concern for consequences, and "normal" people do not seem to care; one day is no "different" than the next for them (unless, of course you are the next victim of an ICE storm trooper).
Back in the day we saw public service commercials like the crying Native American…
…but now people are bored and don't understand what the "fuss" was about. Trump goes "drill, baby, drill" and that's "great" until the next Deep Water Horizon accident happens, because people just assumed that laws on the books were being enforced. But under Trump, not only are they not being enforced, they are being discarded and the people in charge of overseeing environmental protection have been either fired or are actively acting against it.
Do people care? Some might, but what can they do if the federal government is targeting even the EPA for extinction? The Supreme Court seems to have no problem with the gutting of any executive branch agency that Trump doesn’t like. Voters should have known Trump was going to do this, since the rhetoric was the same during his first administration; today he not only has no “guardrails,” neither does those who are running the show for him.
But that's for the current generations who unlike mine in the pre-cable and cell phone times, people received the same facts, only interpreting them differently; today fact and fiction is on the same "level." But that's for those "younger" people to figure out; the only thing that I actually “fear” at this late stage in my life is that if I lose my mind with dementia and start babbling out loud to myself, I might mention a name that it would appear that I am talking to that I was acquainted with many years ago. Like in Citizen Kane when Bernstein told the reporter about a woman at the train station he saw once and never again, it is a surprising thing about what sticks in the memory (for Kane, it was the snow sled from his lost childhood), and not a day passed that Bernstein didn’t think of that person. Myself, I just have to try harder to forget.
Anyways, there is this article that originally appeared in The Hill 1 about U.S citizen children being swept-up in Trump and Miller’s mass deportation sideshow, now being used to avoid discussion of the insanity and danger of every other Trump policy. The story was matter-of-fact, but in the comments section the MAGA faithful were in full force with hate, lies and hypocrisy. There was a general failure to understand that U.S.-born children are not “criminals,” that they should not be “punished” for something they are not responsible for, and there were various justifications for not allowing U.S. citizen children alternatives to deportations, and worse—denying that they have citizenship status at all.
It was all quite inhuman. These people think their “reasoning” is “common sense,” but in fact it totally lacks compassion and empathy for human beings, which I noted in my parting shot before the comment section closed:
Many people claimed to be more “human” than they actually are...
…and when confronted with the truth of intent…
…the true motive of this person is revealed:
History informs the present, but not to MAGA types, who don’t actually understand “cause and effect” and only “understand” the paranoia and racist scapegoating they are fed by people like Miller that is no different then as it is now:
What really galls me about these people is that they claim this isn’t about “racism,” but “the law.” This country’s immigration policies have always been in some form or another about “racism,” starting with European “races” deemed to be “poisoning the blood” of the Anglo-Saxon culture. One person informed me being anti-Latino isn’t about “racism”; oh, OK so when you look at these people…
…you see “white” like yourself? I see indigenous people who are a "race." They are not like the people who stole weapons from a military base in "liberal" Washington for some purpose we are just supposed to "guess" at. Maybe for another El Paso-type mass shooting?
But why does Miller need their "help" when he's got these law-unto-themselves storm troopers to carry out his "Final Solution" plans? Note that they don't expect any harm from these "violent terrorist criminals" they are waiting to arrest from their immigration hearings that they thought was doing the "legal" thing:
Another person wondered why I talked about racist immigration policies? She didn’t bring in “racism” into the discussion, so why was I? Because the goddam Trump administration makes no bones about where they are coming from; it is all about "racism" against white people. That is the "justification" for every anti-DEI and civil rights cases being dropped.
History lesson time again: In 1973 Donald Trump’s father Fred Trump was named in a lawsuit brought by the Nixon Justice Department for discrimination against Black and Puerto Rican applicants for rental housing in properties he owned. In investigatory and court documents his son is not named as a defendant. However the Trump Management Corporation is frequently referred to as the primary instigator of the discriminatory policy, and Donald Trump just happened to be its president.
What we find in the documents is a Trump attorney denying knowledge of any wrong-doing…
…employees claiming they were not given “guidance” on how to handle prospective renters based on their “appearance.” The question of “phony checks” and “leases” kept on hand to show black or Puerto Rican renters that apartments were no longer available is something that is repeatedly referred to and denied:
Another thing that frequently is seen in the documents is former rental agents are difficult to find for interviews, or when they are found, seem to be afraid to “talk” to investigators:
Of course there is the testimony of those who do not understand why they were denied supposedly available apartments…
…and the excuses given:
But then comes the first suggestion that something more is at play…
…before the “bombshell” evidence explodes:
With Trump, our first instincts (in this case that he is a racist) always turn out to be right.
Of course unlike what Trump likes to claim, the “fake news” media almost never comes right out and speaks the obvious. After the El Paso mass shooting in 2019, major newspapers were giving Trump a “pass” after his years of racist, hate-inducing rhetoric 3 :
Obviously Trump was protecting himself from the accusation that it was he himself and other hatemongers who incited this act just as he incited the January 6 insurrection—and he hasn’t allowed self-examination get in the way; if anything, his rhetoric (supplied by Miller) has become even more violent.
So far no repeats of El Paso, but give Trump time; it is only four months into his current regime. Of course if it does happen, he will find a way to blame Joe Biden, deny anything he says is “racist,” and pretend he is “human” like the rest of us. But he is not; he has a new "portrait" in the White House, but his "old" one is more revealing of the evil within and the power of fear Trump wants you to feel when you look at this:
Of course Ronald Reagan wanted to hurt people too, although he wasn't as outspoken about it as Trump is. Reagan derided the claim that the government was here to "help," but today the "government" of Trump seems to want to hurt as many people as possible, and that makes some people feel "great"; does that make the country "great"? I think not.
It isn't just Trump of course, and most of his supporters share his lack of things like human decency, compassion and empathy, and some (Miller) more than others. It is one thing to gaslight people about anecdotes of "special victims"; it is quite another to spend every waking moment trying to find ways of inflicting pain in the most cruel way possible. As they say, there has got to be a better way; knowing so is the easy part. The "hard" part is actually doing what is needed to stop this monster.
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