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February 7, 2025
When you get nostalgic for Trump’s first terminology, you know that things are bad.
Another week with Trump 2.0, another Rittany with horrifying policies and apparently illegal activities. There are so many options at this indecent east feast.
I will continue to translate Elon Musk’s doge (in my eyes of my mind, as Slorc, the Orwell Name’s state law and order restoration council, which has been in control of Burma for decades and has been in control of Burma with the junta) , I was able to write about how it is rampaging through the federal government. It has shattered the institutions and omitted in the funding flow even after the federal spending freeze appears to have been lifted, and carefully constructed community infrastructure relying on a stable flow of federal cash Destroying the structure. Transporting elderly people to dialysis appointments In Training disabled people for work At a local business.
Even the administration pretending to give older Americans good and terrible things wasn’t too concerned about whether the services they rely on were funded. However, this gang government cannot even bother to let the crocodile tears come into contact with it. As Melania Trump’s jacket logo said back to Trump 1.0, after the story of immigrant children staying in cages along the border broke, “I really don’t care. you?“I think it’s the same as my husband. Grotesque responsewhen asked if an American Airlines plane would visit the scene of an accident that had recently dropped on the Potomac River after a fatal collision with an Army helicopter, “Water? Do you want to go for a swim?”
I would describe Donald Trump’s approach to diplomacy as a combination of elements of the fantasy of the Third Reich of a permanently dominant country that hosts an ambitiously prone world, along with a protective racket. It’s done. It’s a mafia vision that threatens to destroy the economy and drive away the population, unless the foreign government delivers goods (oil, uranium, lithium, etc.) to Trump and his acolite. And it’s a smash and grab operation that functions on the premise that an entire country or territory, like the Gaza Strip, exists simply to provide wealth to American corporate raiders.
I was able to focus on the brewing method battle over everything from birthright citizenship to the protection of federal workers and trans military members.
How, as the Musk-Trump administration did this week with both the FBI and the FBI, it is generally possible to fire thousands of highly trained law enforcement and security guards, or offer to buy them. You can write about whether it’s a bad idea. CIA. After all, you never know that you might need all this expertise. And as happened when the Soviet Union collapsed and skilled government employees were doing lots of jobs and existed without a stable salary, people with such marketable skills, Lending organizations, cartels, arms, and networks of drug and people smugglers and terrorists are willing to cough cash for their knowledge. That’s a scenario that never ends well.
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I can write about the stupidity of destroying governments, as long as the vast strip of population becomes similar to a passive end preparation. And recent safety net expansions have been shredded or at least targeted at warp speed.
But that’s not the ultimate focus of this week’s column. Instead, I would like to highlight the relentless efforts to group immigrants, trans Americans, DEI workers, Palestinians and their advocates, climate scientists, public health workers and more. Sadism is very simply, visibly hidden. It’s also breathtaking. If I had been painting recently, I would be Edvald Munch scream.
Let’s start with government officials demonized by Elon Musk, the richest and apparently the most powerful man in the world.Criminal“As people were ridiculed and browbeated, and ultimately covered from their work and benefits packages. There may be no indication of this administration’s light empty villa for those trying to do something decent than the way Musk and Trump have left USAID and its humanitarian workers out of the past two weeks. Not there. pursuing people who have spent their careers distributing life-saving drugs and building infrastructure in the most economically disadvantaged countries on the planet; I’ll groan As for eradicating their work, it must be sufficient to qualify for the Nazi abused exaggeration film for the lowest circle in Dante’s hell. Musk and his tech brothers have gone through the government spending file and simply “delete” any spending they don’t like, regardless of the fact that the money is already legally allocated and likes that doj. You also need a way to do this. There is absolutely no constitutional power to plunder federal funds. We do not have access to sensitive information and personal data about millions of Americans.
It’s really awful, but it’s hardly alone. Consider the vicious policies and enforcement strategies that have been unleashed since January 20th. Last week, Trump pledged to send 30,000 immigrants convicted of the crime to Guantanamo Bay. When I implemented that concept by Holly Cooper, a top immigration lawyer involved in numerous class actions against Trump 1.0, she scoped it and dismissed it as nothing more than an astounding theatre. She explained that it would take years to build a camp on such a scale. There are no commercial flights to and from Guantanamo. There is no staff infrastructure needed to police 30,000 inmates, and no infrastructure for these 30,000 inmates. She said she said it was to provide constitutionally mandatory levels of care, food, housing and more. “I think it’ll take at least two or three years, but that assumes you’ll use a tent,” Cooper said.
A few days later, The first military transport aircraft carrying 10 migrants We left El Paso and headed for Guantanamo Bay. Secretary of Defense and Trump’s Loyalist Pete Hegus has promised to strengthen preparations for the city of tents.and soon the DOD planner said the entire facility could be up and running within a few weeks.
Building prison camps for 30,000 people, fast, primitive conditions, violent, chaotic, and cruel. But of course, that’s the point. It’s about sending a message to immigrants that they don’t count as individuals. Their community, their proximity to loved ones, their ability to contact lawyers, their work, their lives and their homes are not important. It is to dare to come to America, which is running away from poverty and violence, and send a message that you have misfortune to catch them. You will be treated as a suspected al-Qaeda terrorist attack. Your rights are easily trampled down like hundreds of them The suspect was held for 20 yearsThe terrorist attacks were undiscovered without a trial in Guantanamo after September 11, 2001.
It is the same impulse that led the administration to negotiate a deal with its current favorite authoritarians. Naive Buquel of El Salvadorit is not only from El Salvador, Any The country will be housed alongside convicted gang members of the country’s infamous Super Max prison. Even more surprising, Trump was willing to imprison a US citizen convicted of a violent crime, saying that he was willing to jail.With a heartbeat“Deporting American criminals to El Salvador.
As if that wasn’t enough, Red State GOP lawmakers are competing to match Trump’s Scenery Theatre. For example, in Missouri and Mississippi, GOP lawmakers Empowering bounty hunters It will reward those who pursue undocumented immigration and give tips on where to find $1,000 immigrants. It’s law right away from the anti-abortion playbook. In Texas, the moon in front The Supreme Court overturns national rights to abortion, and legislators pass the Abortion Bounty Act, which awards $10,000 to civilians who have successfully sue civilians to sue patients who violate abortion ban near the state. did. In the US A long history of suppressing rights In this exact way. The Fugitive Slave Act appears to be updated for Trump’s America.
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When you become the nostalgic for Trump 1.0, you know that things are really, really bad. In that iteration, Trump repeatedly tested the Democrat guardrail. This time, he and Musk are engaged in a blitz for weeks to defeat what is considered a “deep state.” As a result, what we are witnessing is a complete assault on the constitutional order, supported by the still-conference, granted the magical Supreme Court and its authority. Trump vs. United States Presidential immunity ruling.
I saw signs reading “fascism is no longer “what if” at an anti-Trump rally outside the California Capitol in Sacramento this Wednesday. That’s happening now. The central part of the fascist project was to create easy marks, easy marks that denounce the “other”, the easy targets that target the brutal jab of the iron fist. That’s true today, just as it was in the 1930s. It’s the darkest path that Trump and Musk are now threatening to defeat America.
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