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  1. So there I was, showing my cool knife off. And the guy just jumped on it, heart first.
  2. While I agree with most of this, I found the specific call-out of the Jesuits as the primary source of DJT’s manifest personal failings compelling and conspiratorial.
  3. Yes, being in the United States as anything other than a citizen means you can be removed. Having a legal permanent residence status gives you protections that a visa holder doesn’t have. A visa holder? You are indeed here at the discretion of the U.S. government. Which makes sense, because being sent home is not a punishment, it’s an administrative action. There is no entitlement for a non-citizen to remain in the United States and for non-immigrants there is the opposite of an entitlement. Getting sent to prison is a punishment. The federal government has broad discretion as to what aliens can be admitted and remain. The outrage over Garcia is: 1. The government didn’t adhere to its own ruling not to remove him. 2. The government is paying to have him jailed by a foreign government with no sentence and no appeal. I agree with @immamac, lets not conflate a visitor who couldn’t avoid getting arrested and got sent home (to get an F1 visa you have to attest that you have a home you intend to return to) with someone who got extrajudicially disappeared into a foreign penal colony with no legal avenue to appeal.
  4. Jews were about one percent of Germany’s population. There was broad agreement that sending Jews abroad was fine and the Nazi government had plenty of propaganda about how the camps were nice and temporary holding facilities until Jews could be sent to a permanent home in Madagascar or elsewhere. Death camps were placed in the occupied General Government of Poland and overseen by mostly German officers and recruited Trawniki men from Western Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltics. (Poles generally did not work as camp guards or for the Nazis, Polish outright collaboration was rare). Poles especially did not want to collaborate with occupiers on their home soil. I say all this not to draw a direct comparison. But it is relevant. This government wants to conduct its worst abuses outside of the view and oversight of Americans.
  5. CECOT is going to go away sometime, somehow, and whatever comes out of it is going to be truly terrifying.
  6. With a torrent of objective falsehoods, Little Marco announces that the office at State that helped other countries fight against Russian and Chinese propaganda is closed. This is a hack job by Darren Beattie, a no-shit white supremacist who has been installed to oversee that bureau.
  7. He is not even close to that badass and no one should ever let him think he is.
  8. I am betting that is complete bullshit based on everything from the scare quotes around tragedy to the non sequitur about Illinois. I’m pretty confident that every school district employee involved in any way has been told to STFU and stay off of the internet.
  9. I honestly think he’ll end up pleading to murder in exchange for getting out in like thirty years. I’m probably OK with that.
  10. I think its going to end up being very simple. This kid took a knife to a track meet, ended up in an argument, and stabbed another kid to death.
  11. Having some hands on experience in the field, I’m a bit more of an immigration hawk. I think it’s undebatable that we’ve been allowing some extremely questionable asylum claims to be processed for a long time frame with some undeniable negative outcomes. It’s also true that removing someone who has entered the U.S.irregularly to their home country is not a judicial punishment, it’s an administrative action and requires a much lower threshold. I don’t think the government needs to show “beyond a reasonable doubt” to remove an alien and the law agrees. I also happen to think that we have long needed more robust resources to decide and dispose of these claims and cases to close the questionable asylum claim route. That said this case is outrageous because first, the government acted contrary to its own administrative decision whether it was “correct” or not. Second, sending someone to an extraterritorial penal colony IS extrajudicial punishment and should not be allowed at all. It’s a reprehensible human rights violation. If we ever do return to a more normal politics, this is all going to blow up and make vigorous immigration enforcement politically impossible. That is in some sense the goal as there are multiple factions who benefit from a never-solved “migration crisis.”
  12. 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.
  13. Vance creates a completely fictitious number (there are not more than 20 million illegal immigrants here) and uses the phrase “hiding behind due process.”
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. lol at Musk and Anastasis sharing a brain.
  18. Reading the big WSJ piece about Elon Musk’s babymamas and LOLing that Musk and Anastasis basically share a brain. https://archive.is/H7U2a
  19. Try to imagine the meltdown if the Social Security Administration used an institutional account to engage in this on behalf of Biden.
  20. That’s too many words. “They call him JD, JD. They say he changed his name to JD. I call him Jackoff Dipshit.”
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. The Nazis put their most abhorrent facilities outside of Germany, in the occupied General Government.
  24. 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.
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