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  1. This is not an error. If you (unfortunately) have to dwell around the online far right you’ll track that there’s a popular meme alleging that the true number of illegal immigrants is being concealed. Vance is appealing to that and claims elsewhere that Biden let in 20 million. Its part of a justification for indiscriminate mass deportations. Unlike Trump Vance is very careful with his communications.
  2. Vance creates a completely fictitious number (there are not more than 20 million illegal immigrants here) and uses the phrase “hiding behind due process.”
  3. Cross posting. https://unherd.com/2025/04/jd-vance-my-message-to-europe/ I am usually not one to try and project American anxieties and pathologies into foreign policy, but it needs to be said what lies at the heart of Vance’s foreign policy ideas: pure ideological racism. And we can see a nearly fully formed Vance doctrine, which Trump is outsourcing to him because Trump finds foreign policy boring and hard. Vance does not view European countries as allies who help defend and support the United States based on shared values, interests, and prosperity. He sees Europe as potentially a CIVILIZATIONAL ally, defined as “Christendom” and white people. This is what is behind his monomaniacal hectoring about immigration and his blatant support for anti-system European parties that are traditionally (and still are) hostile to the United States as it actually exists. This is the exportation of identity politics on a grand scale, something they long have accused democrats of doing. This is not any sort of transactional realism.
  4. I am usually not one to try and project American anxieties and pathologies into foreign policy, but it needs to be said what lies at the heart of Vance’s foreign policy ideas: pure ideological racism. And we can see a nearly fully formed Vance doctrine, which Trump is outsourcing to him because Trump finds foreign policy boring and hard. Vance does not view European countries as allies who help defend and support the United States based on shared values, interests, and prosperity. He sees Europe as potentially a CIVILIZATIONAL ally, defined as “Christendom” and white people. This is what is behind his monomaniacal hectoring about immigration and his blatant support for anti-system European parties that are traditionally (and still are) hostile to the United States as it actually exists. This is the exportation of identity politics on a grand scale, something they long have accused democrats of doing. This is not any sort of transactional realism.
  5. This dude is literally a few decisions away from being the next David Koresh or Heaven’s Gate guy. Trying to create a legion of future space colonists on a compound to survive the apocalypse is some dark shit.
  6. lol at Musk and Anastasis sharing a brain.
  7. Reading the big WSJ piece about Elon Musk’s babymamas and LOLing that Musk and Anastasis basically share a brain. https://archive.is/H7U2a
  8. Try to imagine the meltdown if the Social Security Administration used an institutional account to engage in this on behalf of Biden.
  9. That’s too many words. “They call him JD, JD. They say he changed his name to JD. I call him Jackoff Dipshit.”
  10. I lived in Uzbekistan during the waning days of the brutal and bizarre Karimov dictatorship. I was there when he tossed his once-favored daughter Gulnora (pop-star name: Googoosha) into jail for maybe being a witch. We used to talk about how fortunate we were not to be in Turkmenistan where it was really weird. Googoosha video apropos of nothing.
  11. Also, prisoners sent to the Gulag had a sentence and had been found guilty of something. Nearly all of the political prisoners were convicted by troikas or other non-standard means on fake charges, and it was understood that a ten year sentence was basically death. But, the Soviets maintained the forms of convictions and sentencing and laws. No one is pretending to do that with CECOT.
  12. The Nazis put their most abhorrent facilities outside of Germany, in the occupied General Government.
  13. Well, there were a lot of…..difficult to reconcile statements by administration officials today and so I imagine this one is a bit tough to write.
  14. Israel has for some time now failed to present a theory of how they plan to win. They don’t have one and at this point they have gone well past the vigorous kinetic response October 7 warranted. That and the continued dirtbag stuff in the West Bank reveal that Netanyahu is just reveling in having an eternal war he can fight.
  15. The part about Roberts is key. They want to “nod” to the rule of law, but they really don’t want to put POTUS in the spot of either complying with the order or outright defying it. So they gave him the room to pretend the court order doesn’t say what it says. And yes, democracy is over. The Constitution is over. There’s no grownups in quiet rooms making sure the worst doesn’t happen, there’s no judge stepping in to stop him, there’s no military planning to refuse an order. What you see is what there is. An angry, incoherent elderly man sitting next to a Central American strongman, threatening to send Americans to rot in a foreign prison where the law cannot help you. The entire force and power of the United States is dedicated to giving you this.
  16. He will tell him to keep holding him.
  17. They will do it because Bukele is getting an Oval meeting. He’ll do whatever is asked of him.
  18. It is absolutely unacceptable for the government to claim that an agreement it signed to get people off the streets of America and sent to another country is a state secret and/or classified. There are some agreements that have classified annexes releasable to the counter-party, usually these would be in the military or intelligence sharing realm. Completely horrendous to allege that the whole agreement can’t be shown to a federal judge. There are also plenty of judges who have classified access and can review in camera. Its far past time for HFAC Dems to demand the government produce this for them as well.
  19. The agreement the admin has touted with El Salvador is for them to accept third country nationals. Which, crucially, this person is not. He’s a citizen of El Salvador. All countries have a basic requirement to accept their own citizens, no agreement required. And he’s not a citizen of here, which further complicates the extent we could advocate. I am not aware of any binding agreement anywhere in the world between two counties that would compel the surrender of a citizen to a foreign nation aside from extradition agreements which don’t apply here. An order to get him back is reasonable, and in this case they likely could just by asking. But one can imagine a scenario where something like this happened by actual accident and even an admin acting in good faith wouldn’t be able to comply.
  20. The regime is fine with this, a more isolated and poorer America is more pliant.
  21. I also want to say that while traditionally the president has wide constitutional powers to conduct foreign affairs, the president has traditionally completely refrained from using those powers to override rule of law at home and outsource immigration detention to dictators. So I am happily persuaded here that a judge should be given a lot more oversight in return and should be able to do things like order the embassy to deliver a demarche demanding this guy be released every day until he is.
  22. As I mentioned on another thread, there is indeed a very limited range of action for the US to demand another nation hand over another one of its own citizens even if the deportation was done in error. Asking nice is about it (and in this case “asking nice” would have a strong chance of working). The horror here is how casually the deportation was done and how viciously the administration wants to argue that it was correct to do so and that it doesn’t even have to demonstrate that it asked nicely.
  23. Not sure how you put data on it. If you let out a criminal, that’s something very valuable for him. Its not really worth anything to me, I don’t gain anything much but do take on the risk that me or someone I care about will be around when he becomes one of the 22 percent of murderers who go on to commit another violent crime, or maybe its my stuff that gets stolen if he’s one of the fifty-one percent that “only” commit non-violent crime. If he stays in jail, I assume none of that risk and the cost to me is my taxes. And needless to say it costs me a lot of taxes if these people are outside and criming, I’m just paying more cops and DAs and fewer prison guards. I don’t look at is as punitive. Its more of a “you are now out of the game of society” because you demonstrated you refuse to play by the rules. Which is why I think prisons need to be far more humane, its not about extracting revenge.
  24. Those numbers are significantly worse than I expected them to be: one percent recommit murder, 22 percent recommit violent crime, and 51 percent get arrested for criming again. The numbers are even worse for people incarcerated for violent crime. Needless to say even the one percent that do another murder are killing at a rate exponentially higher than the rest of the population (something like .001 percent of American adults commit a murder). All in all, this website confirms my firm belief that murderers are in general anti-social, have poor impulse control, and that there is little benefit to allowing them to roam free. I’m not sure what number I would find acceptable but if 51 percent of murderers we let out get arrested again within five years I am very comfortable saying that we let too many murderers out of prison. There is also where we distribute the risk and benefits. If we let a murderer (or really any violent criminal) out of jail, that person stands to gain a lot, perhaps a few people close to him benefit. The rest of us gain at best nothing but stand to lose quite a bit. On the flip side, the rest of us don’t suffer much harm at all aside from taxes if we keep a violent criminal locked away and in fact stand to gain quite a bit. I am not particularly interested in something where the benefits primarily accrue to convicted criminals and the risks and negatives all fall on non-criminals. I feel the same way about white-collar crime and fraudsters, I think people who do that are inherently untrustworthy and predatory and should not get a second chance to fraud people again. For what its worth, I do think jails in America are completely inhumane and that drives a lot of the discussion. I strongly support safe, clean, even enriching places to stash criminals away from everyone else where we don’t have to think about them.
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