If reactionaries and Trumpists did not have bad faith, they would not have any faith at all.
Trump is an innate liar and it is basically a reflex for him. For him and his circle, lying is also a power flex of the own the libz variety.
Trump 2.0 is going to be 2-4 years, maybe more if things go really badly, of constant bad faith stunts that are designed to throw red meat at their base of aggrieved white guys without college educations, 4 channers, and others fueled by the right-wing dank meme/podcasting empire who are all in on thinking the Democrats are the "Mom telling you what to do" party. The motivations of under-40 Republicans is purely Epartier Le Bourgeois with liberals as the bougies.*
You see this in the Garcia case where it would be the easiest thing in the world to admit error, bring him back, and then find a country that will take him. Instead, they double and triple down from error to MS-13 gang member to MS-13 gang leader. Every time the issue comes up, it is an opportunity to troll. They did this with a Press Conference where they invited Red-Brown alliance podcaster and known Russian Asset Tim Pool to ask an incredibly bad faith question.
MAGA is very racist and xenophobic but my impression is that one of their real animating hatreds, possibly their most animating hatred, is an absolute hatred of middle-class to upper-middle class college educated liberals especially if they are white and doubly especially if they are women. We are seen as class and race traitors and MAGAts current wars seem directed at taking down and conquering everything bougie-boho/In this House liberals hold dear.
*Aided and abetted by guys who realize Trump is a no bueno but have irrational freak outs over Oberlin and Mount Holyoke students and anxious day dreams and nightmares about how one day their little girl is going to come home with a shaved head and septum piercing and say "Sorry Daddy, but the Revolution says you need to be placed against the wall. My non-binary Latinx lover Louisa is going to do it right now."
"The flashy online announcement called it “the most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the World,” a chance to have “an intimate private dinner” with President Trump at his members-only golf club in Virginia, followed by a tour of the White House.
A seat would be reserved for each of the top 220 investors in $TRUMP, a cryptocurrency that Mr. Trump launched on the eve of his inauguration.
In an astonishing escalation of the Trump family’s efforts to profit from crypto, a website promoting $TRUMP, the president’s so-called memecoin, announced on Wednesday that the coin’s largest buyers would be invited to meet him. The effort was, in effect, an offer of access to the White House in exchange for an investment in one of Mr. Trump’s crypto ventures."
Give me poutine or give me death. Actually if you gave me poutine it would clog my arteries and give me death.
For funsies some highlights of the complaints against George III:
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
The White House uses known and unrepentant Russian asset Tim Pool to own and troll the libz regarding El Salvador: https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3lngbixovl22x
Trump is gonna attempt to turn the State Department into a deep state personality cult to him: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/22/us/trump-administration-news
I don't know why they think saying the Pentagon is against us is a winning argument: https://www.mediaite.com/news/they-are-lying-karoline-leavitt-says-the-entire-pentagon-is-working-against-pete-hegseth-in-shocking-fox-news-hit/
Meanwhile, Noem had her purse, passport, security badge, and 3K stolen on Sunday night: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/kristi-noem-purse-stolen.html
This is probably shrill and considered gauche by the very serious people but I expect at some point RFK Jr is going to actually substantially mess with the childhood vaccine schedule as well as do other things that impede public health especially with regard to MRNA vaccines. He has already pulled us from working on the 2025 flu vaccines which will make them less effective worldwide.
I have a thought game about what is going to be the breaking straw for blue state politicians to get them to actually start wondering if ignoring the Supremacy Clause is their best option. RFK Jr messing with the Childhood Vaccine Schedule might get them to set up the Blue State compact FDA
The Supreme Court has stopped deportations to El Salvador for now in a very out of character ruling issued at 1:00 a.m. EST
This is the 250th Anniversary of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Once again, the Old North Church hangs its lanterns: https://www.instagram.com/p/DInYck_OPPD/
1. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither...
2. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
3. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
4. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
5. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
6. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
7. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
Chris is right. This is more than an immigration issue. It is a basic due process issue. Also the polling indicates that Trump's oppressive heavy-handedness on this has reversed polling from being in his favor.
The polling on immigration was always more nuanced than believed
1. There is no evidence besides the Trump administration and Bukele and online right-wingers saying so that he is a gang member. And pardon me but the "evidence" used so far to transport people to Bukele's gulag is risible and worthy of nothing but heaps of contempt. It is going to take a lot to get me to give credence to Trump, Musk, Bondi, Miller, and their enablers in the lying and propaganda-filled right-wing press.
2. There is a specific legal order that he cannot be sent back to El Salvador.
3. He married an American woman, has three special needs kids, and raises them well on a small amount as far as I can tell.
4. There is such a thing as compassion and mercy in justice.
"The government asserts that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist and a member of MS-13. Perhaps, but perhaps not. Regardless, he is still entitled to due process. If the government is confident of its position, it should be assured that position will prevail in proceedings to
terminate the withholding of removal order. See 8 C.F.R. § 208.24(f) (requiring that the government prove “by a preponderance of evidence” that the alien is no longer entitled to a withholding of removal). Moreover, the government has conceded that Abrego Garcia was wrongly or “mistakenly” deported. Why then should it not make what was wrong, right?"
Now is not the time for being in a mushy middle, it only aides and abets Trump and his goons.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025”
A 30-year Green Card holder from the Are They Really White Lands of Ireland detained at SFO for a 20 year old conviction which has been expunged.
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If reactionaries and Trumpists did not have bad faith, they would not have any faith at all.
Trump is an innate liar and it is basically a reflex for him. For him and his circle, lying is also a power flex of the own the libz variety.
Trump 2.0 is going to be 2-4 years, maybe more if things go really badly, of constant bad faith stunts that are designed to throw red meat at their base of aggrieved white guys without college educations, 4 channers, and others fueled by the right-wing dank meme/podcasting empire who are all in on thinking the Democrats are the "Mom telling you what to do" party. The motivations of under-40 Republicans is purely Epartier Le Bourgeois with liberals as the bougies.*
You see this in the Garcia case where it would be the easiest thing in the world to admit error, bring him back, and then find a country that will take him. Instead, they double and triple down from error to MS-13 gang member to MS-13 gang leader. Every time the issue comes up, it is an opportunity to troll. They did this with a Press Conference where they invited Red-Brown alliance podcaster and known Russian Asset Tim Pool to ask an incredibly bad faith question.
MAGA is very racist and xenophobic but my impression is that one of their real animating hatreds, possibly their most animating hatred, is an absolute hatred of middle-class to upper-middle class college educated liberals especially if they are white and doubly especially if they are women. We are seen as class and race traitors and MAGAts current wars seem directed at taking down and conquering everything bougie-boho/In this House liberals hold dear.
*Aided and abetted by guys who realize Trump is a no bueno but have irrational freak outs over Oberlin and Mount Holyoke students and anxious day dreams and nightmares about how one day their little girl is going to come home with a shaved head and septum piercing and say "Sorry Daddy, but the Revolution says you need to be placed against the wall. My non-binary Latinx lover Louisa is going to do it right now."
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/technology/trump-private-dinner-crypto-memecoin.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B08.EfYE.XMrkN8WRv3ss&smid=url-share
Let's have blatant corruption for crypto!!
"The flashy online announcement called it “the most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the World,” a chance to have “an intimate private dinner” with President Trump at his members-only golf club in Virginia, followed by a tour of the White House.
A seat would be reserved for each of the top 220 investors in $TRUMP, a cryptocurrency that Mr. Trump launched on the eve of his inauguration.
In an astonishing escalation of the Trump family’s efforts to profit from crypto, a website promoting $TRUMP, the president’s so-called memecoin, announced on Wednesday that the coin’s largest buyers would be invited to meet him. The effort was, in effect, an offer of access to the White House in exchange for an investment in one of Mr. Trump’s crypto ventures."
On “Back When Patriots Opposed Kings”
Give me poutine or give me death. Actually if you gave me poutine it would clog my arteries and give me death.
For funsies some highlights of the complaints against George III:
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us,
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025”
The question answers itself
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The White House uses known and unrepentant Russian asset Tim Pool to own and troll the libz regarding El Salvador: https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3lngbixovl22x
On “Back When Patriots Opposed Kings”
Fun fact, most of the offenses applied to King George III in the Declaration of Independence also apply to Trump and Co. Try it sometime
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025”
Trump is gonna attempt to turn the State Department into a deep state personality cult to him: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/22/us/trump-administration-news
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It does in Jaybird's magical mystical realm where very right-wing meme has the power of ten trillion hydrogen bombs
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Except when it keeps getting in the public record
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I don't know why they think saying the Pentagon is against us is a winning argument: https://www.mediaite.com/news/they-are-lying-karoline-leavitt-says-the-entire-pentagon-is-working-against-pete-hegseth-in-shocking-fox-news-hit/
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Meanwhile, Noem had her purse, passport, security badge, and 3K stolen on Sunday night: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/kristi-noem-purse-stolen.html
"
This is probably shrill and considered gauche by the very serious people but I expect at some point RFK Jr is going to actually substantially mess with the childhood vaccine schedule as well as do other things that impede public health especially with regard to MRNA vaccines. He has already pulled us from working on the 2025 flu vaccines which will make them less effective worldwide.
I have a thought game about what is going to be the breaking straw for blue state politicians to get them to actually start wondering if ignoring the Supremacy Clause is their best option. RFK Jr messing with the Childhood Vaccine Schedule might get them to set up the Blue State compact FDA
"
Hegseth might be on the way out: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371312/trump-white-house-pete-hegseth-defense-department
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/trump-state-department-overhaul.html
Trump's plan to drastically overhaul the State Department which includes:
1. Severely limiting our presence in Canada because Canada are being meanies;
2. Ending our presence in Sub-Saharan Africa because of Apartheid Boy;
3. Ending the Foreign Service exam and creating a Trumpist personality cult entrance system
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025”
The Supreme Court has stopped deportations to El Salvador for now in a very out of character ruling issued at 1:00 a.m. EST
This is the 250th Anniversary of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Once again, the Old North Church hangs its lanterns: https://www.instagram.com/p/DInYck_OPPD/
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Do you know who you are dealing with in terms of monomania?
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No, they didn't.
If anything, they took one issue where Trump had a slight advantage and lit on fire like they always do.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-immigration-polls-2060973
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1. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither...
2. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
3. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
4. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
5. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
6. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
7. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
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The sweeping humanism of the Trump admin: https://www.thewrap.com/white-house-trolls-kilmar-abrego-garcia-deportation-el-salvador/
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And I should give this addle-paddled conspiracy sh+t deference and respect because?
We are not exactly talking about a crew known for their veracity and trustworthiness.
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Chris is right. This is more than an immigration issue. It is a basic due process issue. Also the polling indicates that Trump's oppressive heavy-handedness on this has reversed polling from being in his favor.
The polling on immigration was always more nuanced than believed
"
1. There is no evidence besides the Trump administration and Bukele and online right-wingers saying so that he is a gang member. And pardon me but the "evidence" used so far to transport people to Bukele's gulag is risible and worthy of nothing but heaps of contempt. It is going to take a lot to get me to give credence to Trump, Musk, Bondi, Miller, and their enablers in the lying and propaganda-filled right-wing press.
2. There is a specific legal order that he cannot be sent back to El Salvador.
3. He married an American woman, has three special needs kids, and raises them well on a small amount as far as I can tell.
4. There is such a thing as compassion and mercy in justice.
"The government asserts that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist and a member of MS-13. Perhaps, but perhaps not. Regardless, he is still entitled to due process. If the government is confident of its position, it should be assured that position will prevail in proceedings to
terminate the withholding of removal order. See 8 C.F.R. § 208.24(f) (requiring that the government prove “by a preponderance of evidence” that the alien is no longer entitled to a withholding of removal). Moreover, the government has conceded that Abrego Garcia was wrongly or “mistakenly” deported. Why then should it not make what was wrong, right?"
Now is not the time for being in a mushy middle, it only aides and abets Trump and his goons.
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He doesn't belong in El Salvador
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1. Van Hollen managed to meet with Garcia in a hotel. Bukele and/ Trump are frightened.
2. David Brooks used his column to call for an uprising/Aux Armes, Citoyens
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