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.”

people tend to become dependent upon AI chatbots when their personal lives are lacking. In other words, the neediest people are developing the deepest parasocial relationship with AI

Preying on the vulnerable is a feature, not a bug.

Brilliant work is done in bursts. Grinding it out day after day is factory line work. While that work is noble, the way it’s conducted doesn’t apply across the board. Task-oriented jobs should trust workers to complete tasks, not punch a time clock.

It’s about control. Tech bro billionaires are the only geniuses on earth, and we all need to fall in line. Nevermind that they are literal fascists who are actively destroying the world.

It sounds like an exaggeration, but efforts to combat climate change have grinded to a halt; WW3 is becoming more likely on multiple fronts; and, the most immediate problem not being addressed, the cost of living crisis is drowning virtually everyone. The only response from the right is to squeeze regular people more and pass tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. There is no opposition.

Big George’s championship win in his 40s was no fluke. It was a masterpiece of strategy. He completely changed his fighting style to favor defense and deliberately held back his power. He unleashed his power late in the fight and ultimately won.

Disney wants as many customers as possible and doesn’t care about temporary optics based on hard right politics. Don’t mistake them for the good guys. Megacorps that buy up everything in sight and use their ridiculous piles of money to exert influence over politics are the core of the problem.

Guess why copyright laws in the US kept adding decades and decades to copyright protection from the death of the creator. HINT: Megacorp money controlling laws may have been involved.

If anyone still thinks Trump wants to help Ukraine, they haven’t been paying attention. Europe has to rearm and protect itself.

Ukraine needs to prepare to operate without US intelligence. It’s getting pulled again soon. They also need to prepare for Starlink going dark. The US has been taken over by traitors. Temporary measures are for PR. Long term, they work for Putin.

Just wait until intelligence cuts lead to failures that cause the next 9/11. The disinfo machine will be the next Reichstag Fire.

The Trump/Elon/Putin Administration claims that the planes were already in the air when the judiciary struck down this mass deportation, and therefore the ruling didn’t apply to this specific case and by inference could apply to future cases.

That somewhat indicates that they’ll respect the rule of law in mass deportations. If not, this could create a pipeline of Venezuelan citizens in America being labeled as gang members and sent to a Supermax prison in El Salvador with zero due process. The planes leave US airspace before the case can be heard. And citizens of which country are next? Speedrunning fascism.

This is a deeper problem than race. Being willing to erase the record of a Medal of Honor recipient so haphazardly in an attempt to be racist shows how little the DoD is paying attention to details versus letting Dark MAGA/DOGE take over the country and potentially alter history in the process.

Throughout the Trump rolling disaster, there has always been some adult in the room will tell him no. That was true during his first term. It’s no longer true.

There’s a belief that there’s an adult in the room in the US military that will say no if he orders something crazy. Not sure if that’s true at all this time around.

Europe needs to see that unity is the way to go. A united Europe is needed to stand against the mad kings in Russia and the US.

It just occurred to me that Trump might be Ellen Pao-ing Musk. He knows the tariffs and mass layoffs and deportations are going to crash the economy. He needs a fall guy when it happens.

Do all your unpopular, disastrous policies with an unpopular person standing in front of you, then blame everything on that person and send them packing.

And potential buyer.