I’m waiting for this to happen to a white parson who has an Hispanic name, like Rafael “Ted” Cruz.

If a journalist can do a human interest piece on a white parson sent to El Salvador or at least sent into the ICE black hole where the rule of law doesn’t exist, maybe that would drive the point home to “libertarians” and “small government conservatives.” Maybe it’s time to see past petty racism and see what’s at stake in the long term.

What exactly do LGBT issues have to do with trade policy? Why is this on the table? Is there supposed to be some big gay conspiracy to devalue currency or something? It’s all so idiotic.

I sometimes think about what would have happened if Biden stood up to the DNC bosses in 2016 and ran in the primary. He probably couldn’t do much against the Clinton machine, but maybe just enough to make it more competitive. Divide the corporate Dem vote just enough…

Imagine working for Pete Hesgeth. I’m sure he has some kind of handler that keeps him from getting too drunk at the office, but he’s still a woefully unqualified moron.

You spend your life trying to keep your country safe. You turn down the cushy jobs with giant paychecks that your old colleagues took. And now, you have to watch this dumbass fratboy and his idiot, traitor bosses destroy the national security of your country in a matter of months with plans to do much, much worse.

The good thing is that there’s a steady hand on the wheel exercising unprecedented levels of power. He clearly has a plan to do things, undo them, redo them, undo them again, etc. according to a clearly defined plan.

Imagine if the guy claiming dictatorial powers was just winging it from one moment to the next. What a nightmare scenario that would be.

Let’s dispel with this illusion that Meta doesn’t know exactly what it’s doing. Hate speech, compromising US National security for access to Chinese markets, dumbing down political discourse and literally everything else, manipulating hundreds of millions of people to make them insecure and more vulnerable to advertising.

Meta is as evil as evil gets. All confirmed by insider whistleblowers. They paid to play, so they’ll get away with it. Just know what you’re supporting when you participate in their ecosystem.

They used to say not to fight newspapers, because they bought ink by the barrel. Clearly outdated now. But owning the corrupt Supreme Court isn’t the same as owning the entire judiciary, federal and state.

The Trump administration attacking law firms works when they capitulate. When they fight back, those fights can get very messy and very expensive.

Forget Gaza. The West Bank won’t exist in 4 years. It’ll all be Trump hotels and resorts.

The best part is that when they manage to fuck up on an industrial scale and crash their insider trading money printer, the taxpayers end up bailing them out.

The whole world suffers, and they use the people’s money to buy the dip and profit even more when the fixed game comes back online shortly.

These cases make the headlines, but they must be casually searching electronics and getting all kinds of private data, photos, videos, etc. They unlock your phone and download everything for their amusement and to violate your rights later. The fact that they’ll fuck with a lawyer to get his client’s info says volumes about the restraint being shown.

It might still feel like everything is normal in the US, but realize that you’re living in a fascist state in its infancy. The rule of law no longer applies.

China is very much aware that this is its moment. Position itself as an alternative to Trump’s chaos that isn’t afraid of him and offers a different path.

Militarily, China is outmatched by a wide margin, but combine economic strategy with diplomacy in the face of a superior rival’s extreme, unforced mistakes, and China is seeing a path to win the 21st century without having to fight.

IIRC, RFK’s stances on health issues were mostly based on a conspiracy theory that the institutions he now leads were deliberately burying studies and mass amounts of data. If that were true, he’d obviously be crowing about it at every opportunity.

Instead, he found out that his conspiracy theories are bullshit, and that he’s now beholden to Trump and MAGA fascism. He’s going to accidentally say something against the narrative from time-to-time. I’m sure Trump or Elon or whoever is in charge will make him do something humiliating to atone for it.

Don’t get me wrong, though. I’m not defending RFK, Jr. it’s extremely sad that the apple fell so very far from the tree.

It’s a good time to get out of the US anyway, before you end up in an El Salvadoran gulag. At least until they build the same gulags in the US. Those might even be worse.

Part of me wants it all to burn to the fucking ground. Maybe something better comes out of the ashes.

Bullock continues: “[Bukele] brags about the ways that they use cruel and inhumane treatment in CECOT and our organization has documented amply systematic practices of torture generally in the prison system. So the United States, in doing this, is generating a point of inflection for the international human rights system. The outcome of this is basically the creation of this transnational penal colony where a president, a head of state, can make a deal with President Bukele and disappear undesirables indefinitely.”

Right now “undesirables” are technically limited to Venezuelan immigrants who may or may not have tattoos. Does anyone actually think that definition isn’t going to be expanded? All non-white immigrants, trans people, gay people, those who speak out against these Nazis?

Eventually, they’ll just start building prisons in the US off of the El Salvadoran model. They’ve already adopted the same practices for imprisonment without cause and without any right to a defense once an accusation is made.

I’m wondering if Trump’s corporate backers are tired of winning yet. Who knows what other wins are coming from the mad king in the future. I’m sure they’ll get tired eventually.

1. Order tariffs
2. Make everything more expensive for everyone everywhere
3. Piss off the entire world and invite countermeasures
4. ???
5. MAGA

Looks like the Starlink election cheat bug got patched.

I’m curious what India thinks of Usha Vance. On paper, she’s an Indian-American Second Lady. In reality, she sits back while her husband says he’s okay with all kinds of anti-Indian racist shit.

I can’t believe I missed the opportunity to text JD Vance pictures of sexy couches and love seats.

On the other hand, a single email or text to Hegseth might have exposed the entire American DoD if he was drunk enough. “Oops. Need to reset my password for important Secretary stuff. Here’s all my credentials.”