Holly Brewer, the Burke Professor of American History at the University of Maryland and the brief's main author, told ABC News that historical writings from key figures, including Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and others as well as the records from the states as they ratified the Constitution explicitly show they were against "another runaway monarchy" after suffering under Great Britain's King George III.
And now, Putin is our defacto president. Disgusting.
President Trump’s second administration has inspired a resurgence of interest in the idea of the “dual state,” a framework for authoritarianism created by German Jewish lawyer Ernst Fraenkel to explain how life for many people in Nazi Germany appeared normal even as authoritarianism took hold. Fraenkel theorized that society had been bifurcated into a normative state, in which the rule of law appears intact, and a prerogative state, in which the state ignores the law to take on its enemies or further its aims. In the 1930s, most Germans could go about their lives assuming the general laws would apply, but the targets of the state, such as the Jews, saw their rights stripped away. At bottom, however, the dual state is only a useful mirage. It lulls people into complacency because their lives continue apace, but at any moment, they can be sucked into the prerogative state where they are at the mercy of the state.
I have to be careful not to slap my forehead when reading headlines like this because it would be so hard that my head would fly off, and blood would shower the room Tarantino-style.
I’d much rather fight someone armed with a pizza cutter than nothing at all because, what kind of a stupid ass brings a pizza cutter to a fight? That’s a crappy fighter right there.
Remember that it’s never about immigration enforcement. There is plenty of money and manpower to care for these people properly and to perform lawful and professional immigration control operations in cities where it is a problem. Even now, the Trump administration has only managed to deport about as many immigrants as Biden, and that was without mass unrest.
Instead, violent and undertrained ICE goon squads are sent wherever the administration thinks it can get away with it, and money is funneled to contractors enabled to spend as little money as possible on incarceration with de facto torture as a feature. The goal here is two-fold:
To enact a white nationalist expulsion and extermination of whoever they deem to be sufficiently brown enough for their myopic and hateful ideology, and anyone else that dares to stand against them.
To foment unrest in Blue cities for fruitful opportunities to provoke violence and hamper elections. (For instance, at the fucking Super Bowl.)
Just like the early Nazi concentration camps, these “ICE detention centers” are hastily planned, quickly built, sparsely accommodated, and intended to house enemies of the state in “protective custody”. The only difference is that the “enemies of the state” here are the enemies of American white nationalists, and the “protective custody” is for hold them for deportation. If they die in custody, there is no real accountability because that’s the end goal.
These are Concentration Camps. If this pattern continues unchecked, there will be an American holocaust.
Trump is an evil man, but at least by this point, he is basically a gibbering and insane senile narcissist from a broken and fucked up family with a psychologically abusive father.
It is my belief however that Stephen Miller, with no discernible tragic backstory or mental impairment, knows exactly what he is doing and he loves it.
Telegram for iOS lets you create “secret chats” but as far as I know other platforms have eliminated that functionality at the request of governments. And I would assume Apple technically controls the keys on device.
Mmm, ritz crackers, a sliced apple and a bowl of peanut butter. 🧑🍳💋