It perplexes me as well. Miller’s own maternal uncle and cousin have disowned what he has said and made it clear they reject his ideas, and that he’s forgotten his own family history.
Miller and his wife are both psychopaths. I read an article that said her classmates confirmed she is exactly like him. I feel sorry for their children.
I agree with your assessment about Stephen and Katie Miller being psychopaths, and share your concern about their daughter and any other children they may have. I really got mad when I saw Katie Miller had put up a map of Greenland with the stars and stripes over it.
Greenland isn’t ours for the taking. If Trump and Kegseth invade Greenland or Denmark, they should be impeached and convicted.
Now here's an instance where family separation might be appropriate. I mean Josef & Magda Goebbels did kill their own children before they committed suicide. They did that because the could not imagine a world without National Socialism!!! Wii that be the fate of the Miller family when this dreaded episode in our story ends. Or will the bad guys win this time?
I am aware he has been disowned by his family, which makes it more perplexing. It is the same with Clarence Thomas, openly hostile to civil rights and voting rights.
He made a statement that "they have made me life miserable for 43 years, now I am going to make their life miserable for 43 years" who is the they?, his fellow blacks? How did they make his life miserable?
I'm sorry to report that I know many like Thomas, who btw was in my Inn of Court.
We had a Black judge ar SSA who turned down every Black claimant, including a guy who had both hands amputated. His son was number 3 at DOJ under Reagan/Bush. He was evwentually removed but not for bias or for his decisions.
It is heart breaking. I honestly can't get inside of their minds. I can't understand how someone who has suffered can align themselves with the oppressor.
I read the book Five Chimneys when I was 14, it was a survivors tale of Auschwitz Birkenau, in it she talked of sonderkommando's, the Jewish prisoners that ran the crematoriums and hauled bodies, also the capo's,
I can understand that to a degree, we all want to live another day, but people like Miller and Thomas are not under threat of living, they must think they are white males, or like the house negro Stephen in Django Unchained, enjoy drinking brandy by the fireside with the massah, while helping the massah, control the field slaves.
I would think that some of the reasons he has sold himself is his belief that tying himself to the conservatives of the Court, made them feel accepted by those he secretly fears, and possibly protected and included in a club that Thomas will never really be a member of. He might realize this, but excuses it with the fact that it allows him to feel important, listened to, and probably rich.
Possible, another is identification with the oppressor, a big motivator is survival,promotion, aggrandization. I call them Quislings,
"Quislings" refers to collaborators with an enemy occupying force, a term derived from Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian fascist who led a Nazi puppet government during WWII; his name became synonymous with "traitor," especially for those who betray their country by aiding invaders, as seen in Winston Churchill's famous wartime speeches. The term is used broadly for traitors but specifically for those who head collaborationist regimes, often forming puppet governments under occupiers, notes the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and EBSCO.
The house slave, portrayed as Stephen in Django Unchained
Since when are all Jews the good guys? At this moment the Jewish Israeli government is slaughtering innocent Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank. Corruption and greed can infect anyone which is why we must stand in solidarity to protect all innocent people.
In response to you Dianne and David below. There are two issues here
First Gaza all of the grief that has fallen on Gaza and the people, is the responsiblity of HAMAS. HAMAS has had a goal of annihilating (genociding) the Jews, the launched thousands of rockets and missiles at the Jews after first going into Israel, murder and raping women, children, old folk, and celebrating it on their cell phone videos,
Then the cowards ran back to Gaza using hostages and their own people as human shields, and for this the Tik Tok idiots blame the Jews.
Second: The behavior of the Jews towards the Arabs in the west bank is criminal, they are harrassing, beating and killing them to drive them off their land so they can build kibbutz, and condos.
What has happened in Israel is the same thing that has happened here. The fascistic, nationalistic, extreme right has grabbed the reins of power.
Bibi is Israel's Trump, the Likkud and it's allies are Israels MAGA.
To Israel, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Iran, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, i have a hefty middle finger and a big fuck you, criminals all. Most of the people are pretty decent, but it is the rotten apples and the leadership that make them obnoxious and irredeemable.
Funny thing here: The broken clock syndrome, when it comes to Iran, Trump has assumed the right posture, but if he starts bombing and killing civilians, then the Iran's will turn on us, and he would be giving a gift to the mullahs.
Dianne,glad you brough this up. Commenting to my son last week,for those who are watching the plight of the Palestinians,the total destruction of Gaza,the refusal to provide food and shelter to the Palestinians and the Settler movements into Palestinian territory,I wonder why there is any question of the Antisemitic movement growing. I simply do not get it.
I invite your attention to my response to Diane above. And I do agree with you. I shudder watching those little children standing in freezing cold water, living and sleeping on cold west blankets.
This is not Tikun Olam. Sadly Netanyahu and those that support him are making Israel and International pariah, there is no excuse, none.
No, it is not all about race. That is just for starts. The Gestapo are thought police whose job is to institute and enforce fascism as a replacement for all alternate notions of governance. Hitler used Jews because they were widely viewed negatively as economic and non-Christian exploiters. But like Trumpler today, the objective was and is to gradually create a federal militia to enforce the rise of fascist dictatorship. As I have pointed out before, US immigrant prisons, many still under construction, have no financial justification if deportation is the government's end goal. Once emptied, they will serve as concentration camps to house political opponents, aka "domestic terrorists." I suspect that appointing Jews to the administration was merely to confuse efforts to label Trump as a Nazi - same reason for supporting Netanyahu.
Did I imply that it was all about race. I didn't mean to, itis just part of a bigger plan, to cleanse America of what the white,. Christian nationalists, consider vermin, poisoning the blood of the country.
You are correct though ICE, CBP, HSI are the foundation of the Geheim Stats Polizei and the Schutzstaffel.
No doubt that the "detention camps" being built are destined to be concentration camps, to hold for the final solution, those of us who want cave in and surrender to Il Duce, Der Fuhrer.
I wouldn't go so far as to say appointing Jews had the purpose of throwing off the sent. That implies that the architects of this tyrannical scheme, are forward thinking and strategic. They are not.
They are like there master. Trump and his staff, do not consult the law to see what they can do, they just do what they want to do, to see if there is any pushback, and they do so much that the rest of us can't keep up with the push back.
Rather the people that have joined the team, share their values and goals and are eager to facilitate their achievement.
William,good post. Can I remind everyone who reads this that Trump has no guts,no morals,no empathy. I know you all have heard the story about the many draft notices Trump received during the Vietnam War. Apparently when he received the 2nd one,he went to father,crying,saying if I get drafted and have to go to Vietnam I'm going to hurt or killed.His father after many requests contacted Larry Braunstein a podiatrist ,in Queens,New York who after being paid by Fred,Trump's father gave a diagnosis of heel spurs which the Selective Service said was enough to make him 4F.Trump avoided the draft a total of 5 times.
NOw he's the tough guy,Venezuela,Greenland,Cuba,Columbia are all his targets
I think we should be perfectly clear about who Trump is " If anyone on this substack had the opportunity to say to the " Nazi" " I' m going kick your ass,and push your face in" he would poop his pants. He doesn't have a father to go cry to,maybe Stephen Miller would protect him,although I doubt it.
Thanks for your thoughts Tom. Can't imagine that Trump has the brains to design a complex system to get to a fascist dictatorship. Guess Miller, Voight, Vance, and some billionaires are the power behind the throne?
An alternative might be that Ivana said Trump read Mein Kampf. Maybe the only book he ever read. Psychopaths are attracted to one another because most people want nothing to do with them. The entire cabinet are psychopaths - incompetent, but loyal toadies. the only honorable people in this government are the ones resigning out of a sense of honor.
BTW, even Elon Musk is no billionaire genius. He is just ruthless and lucky. He made his money off the Federal Government via loans and EV incentives. The problem is that we Americans take our democracy and rights for granted, just like the late parents of my German friends did. Then one day, they wake up to the Gestapo knocking on the door.
You wrapped it up with a bow in two short paragraphs, Dr. Tom.
Real problem is that normies living busy lives cannot and sometimes will not study a bit or listen to the professionals concerning the subject of literal psychos and sickos.
I get it---they are thinking we are all human. That's empathy for ya! Might have been one of those too before the brain scans, studies, and work of professionals helped me see the big picture and the history in a different light.
People like him are usually institutionalized. I knewe a guy who was institutionalized but was permitted a furlough for the high holy days. He brought a ham sandwich to the temple and tried to disrupt services, and was immediately retrieved.
We (us Jews) always had a problem with self hatred. One entire sect that opposes the state of Israel lives in Israel.
Neturei Karta ("Guardians of the City") is a small, radical Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jewish anti-Zionist group, founded in Jerusalem in 1938, known for its extreme opposition to the existence of the State of Israel, viewing it as a violation of Jewish law, and sometimes aligning with Palestinian causes. They believe a Jewish state can only be established by the Messiah, not through human effort, leading them to actively protest against Zionism and Israel, often appearing alongside Palestinian protestors.
Dan Burros was the :third-ranking member of the American Nazi Party, later a KKK Grand Dragon. He was a vocal antisemite who edited neo-Nazi publications. Was genetically Jewish. His Jewish background was exposed by The New York Times, leading to his suicide in 1965.
Some have Stockholm Syndrome or the equivalent. Used by the Nazis in the death camps.
When I heard disability cases, once in a while we'd get som traumatized claimants, typically crime victims, who had a "racist" diagnosis. There is no SS Listing of Impairment for it but the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and many experts argue that for a behavior to be considered a mental illness, it must deviate from normative behavior. Because racism has been pervasive and deeply ingrained in American society for centuries, it is considered a societal norm that needs to be actively unlearned and addressed through policy and education, not medical treatment for the perpetrator.
Systemic mental illnesses are in Listing 12.06. Social Security Administration (SSA) listing 12.06 in the "Blue Book" (official medical guide) covers Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders for adults. This listing outlines the specific criteria that must be met for an individual to potentially qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits based on the severity of their condition.
To meet the requirements of listing 12.06, you must provide medical documentation that satisfies the criteria in both Paragraph A and Paragraph B, or the criteria in both Paragraph A and Paragraph C.
Paragraph A (Medical Documentation of Signs and Symptoms)
Paragraph A requires medically documented findings of at least one of the following: persistent generalized anxiety with associated symptoms, persistent irrational fear leading to avoidance, recurrent severe panic attacks occurring at least weekly, recurrent distressing obsessions or compulsions, or recurrent distressing recollections of trauma. Note that trauma- and stressor-related disorders are primarily evaluated under listing 12.15.
Paragraph B (Functional Limitation)
Paragraph B requires that your condition results in an extreme limitation of one, or a marked limitation of two, specific areas of mental functioning. These areas include the ability to understand, remember, or apply information; interact with others; concentrate, persist, or maintain pace; and adapt or manage oneself.
Paragraph C (Serious and Persistent Disorder)
Alternatively, Paragraph C can be met if you have a medically documented history of a serious and persistent disorder (at least two years) with evidence of ongoing treatment that lessens symptoms and a minimal capacity to adapt to changes.
For more detailed information, consult the SSA's official guide on the 12.00 Mental Disorders listings.
Stephen Millers wife, Katie Rose Waldman Miller, is another psychotically deranged Jew.
Ist it contagious.
A coalition of over 10 Jewish groups, including HIAS (a global Jewish nonprofit that aids refugees), argues that policies targeting specific groups (e.g., international students who are pro-Palestinian activists) undermine the rule of law and due process, which ultimately makes the Jewish community less safe.
Historical Echoes of Restriction: Critics draw parallels between Trump's "public charge" rule and the restrictive immigration laws of the 1930s and 1940s, which prevented hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis from entering the United States, even when immigration quotas were not filled.
I don't get it, with thousands of years of discrimination and persecution,pogroms and a holocaust, how any Jew could be a racist, support financially or otherwise, a racist is quite beyond my ability to comprehend, and I ain't buying the two Jews and three opinions rationalization.
By the same token, I have problems with blacks, like Thomas, Ye, Donalds, Scott, Walker et al being aliigned with out and out racists, Mark Robinson the black NAZI, is an extreme example, Queer Republicans, Hispanic Republicans oxymorons all.
And then there are those Muslims who voted for Trump at the urging of their Imam's, fools, talk of sour grapes, their brethern won't be living in those beach condo's Trump and Kushner plan to build on the Gaza beach front.
The world is insane. I was thinking it would be safe to migrate to Belize or Costa Rica, but now I find that he has plans to incorporate those into the Technate of America
And if you believe that the law won't let him run for president again, think again
Pam Bondi just released another finding that whatever Trump does is legal
A Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) concluded that President Trump had constitutional authority to send U.S. military forces into Venezuela to help arrest President Nicolás Maduro without congressional authorization,
, William Barr declared several actions legal or within executive power, notably Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey (arguing it wasn't obstruction) and the travel ban (calling it constitutional), asserting broad presidential authority, including in national security and law enforcement, consistent with his views on limiting congressional checks on executive power, though he also committed to upholding the Mueller investigation's integrity.
Pam Bondi is Trump's agent and tool, and the office of legal counsel will issue any ruling that Trump wants, and none that will go against Trump.. I expect a ruling that the two term limit doesn't apply because they aren't consecutive, he is virtually a different president #47, than #45
I don't think anywhere will be a safe haven in the medium term. If you look at the "three spheres of influence," it's clear that there's nowhere to go.
There is a stair-stepping effect to American bigotry that started with the slaves but they were easy target and the mythology regarding their animal-like nature, their inherent inability to learn, etc, etc were easy to define and enforce. As for the people of the 500 Nations, appearance once again helped to reinforce their difference from the “civilised” English. Poor whites could always remember that although they might be poor at least they weren’t ______ (fill in the blank). By doing so they strove to be the same as the upper classes.
Shat followed was waves of immigration, ethnically divided. I’mNot sure of the order but the Irish were initially
Excluded… Until the Germans arrived because at least they were real Americans. Followed by Polish and Slavs. As each new wave arrived the previous one was folded in, awaiting for the next wave to arrive so they might be “promoted”. And everybody got to marginalise the Chinese and Japanese. Easy to identify, foreign appearance, foreign culture. Evevtually America ran out of easy targets, and I include the Jews.. inclusion into the mainstream requires someone inferior. In the case of Miller and Thomas it is their own group. They believe that by hating their roots they can become True Americans.
And now we have the Hispanics murders, rapists and madmen all. It’s the last folding -in can be identified. Always the rubric, the identification that they’ Americans and the externalised are not.
Yep, all you say is correct, and then some. Genetically I am mostly Irish, that is because of autosomal DNA, which is unreliable after 4 generations.
The Irish weren't even considered white, and in NY were the objects of hatred and murdered (Gangs of NY is pretty damn accurate). <Many came here in the 18th Century as indentured servants, there is even a book The Irish Slaves,vy Rhetta Akamatsu
It is argued that there is a difference between a slave and indentured servant, and there is. A slave is a capital investment, property, and is taken care of better than a rental (an indentured servant), if you mistreat and work to death an indentured servant, you lose nothing, but save yourself the expense of having to provide them with a mule, a musket, seed corn at the end of the indenture
In other words because they weren't property and a capital investment, they were treated worse than slaves.
My hobby is genetic genealogy, and in researching the archives of familysearch.org. a microfiche of an estate probate in Perry Co,, AL of Richard Farrar, a distant cousin, and in it a tax record in which listed under clock was a white male age 21-50
And what do you have today, some of the most virulent and intolerant racists have names like Hannity and O'Reilly
The Irish were not considered white, but when they lost their brogue, they became white and just as racist and narrow minded as he Anglo Saxon
Of themI have this to say. When the Romans invaded England they did not embark on a campaign of ethnic cleansing, when the Anglo Saxons did, they did embark on a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
When the Northmen, (Vikings and Normans) invaded, they did not embark on a campaign of ethnic cleansing, only the Anglo Saxons engaged in such activity, and they followed suit in the conquest of America, with the Puritans in New England, the Virginians, and the pioneers pushing south and westward.,and damn isn't as infectious as a virus, soon all ethnicitys were in on the act
As a Jew I can tell you that orthodox and conservative Jews are just as racist as confederates. Just look at Israel and that two thirds of their population wants to exterminate the Palestinians.
I know but their "racism" is restricted to "Palestinians". I insert quotes, because I am using the vernacular, but Arab is not a race and neither is Jew. The proper termis ethicism, but that's a word people are familiar with.
Also, and I am being literal, there is no such thing as Palestine, yet, as it has not been recognized as a state. It is simply a territory originally called Syria Palaestina by the Romans which includes the new state of Israel.
The real problem is the human condition, our character, our propensity and biologically need to "other", tribalism. Of which you also are guilty, you too belong to a tribe, just not the Jewish tribe, or the American tribe, maybe the Marxist tribe.
Some form of racism is found in every ethnic group on Earth. I wonder if it’s buried in our genes, somehow. It allows us to identify those who are safe—our tribe—who we are part of. However, taken to its extreme it makes for bigotry, suspicion of those not in our “tribe”, and downright hatred especially, if associated with an emotion like hurt or pain.
Humans can and do belong to more than one tribe at the same time.
There is the Chicago Cubs tribe, the Manchester Guardians Tribe, the Dallas Cowboys Tribe, the Seattle Storm tribe, then there is the Jewish tribe, the Christian Tribe, which is hundreds of clans, the Muslim tribe, the white tribe, the black tribe, the brown tribe, the Hispanic tribe, the Arab tribe, the Anglo Saxon tribe, the Irish tribe, and there are skiing tribes, boxing tribes, sky diving tribes, the list is endless and people belong to more than one tribe at a time.
It is fundamental to tribe membership, that there is loyalty and defense of the tribe at all costs, regardless, if you oppose orattack the tribe, you are the enemy.
I have said this repeatedly: someone needs to tell Miller that as a Jewish person he is not considered to be white.
Early on, I read a profile of Miller trying to discern just who he was, and why he is the way he is. The conclusion -- no real answer. Miller was always just a mean kid, the kind who would throw garbage on the floors of his school and say that that's what janitors are for. He was a gleeful “rabble rouser” enjoying every outraged reaction, at every turn. It seems he bought into the necessity of an elite class which he desired to join, knowing all too well that a Jewish person could never be a part of. And unless one is orthodox in following religious practices – which Miller never has been – American Jews must be categorized as liberal or democratic in his eyes.
Jewish MAGAts have a surprise in store,. The right wing is a storehouse or catalog of anti Jewish tropes, and the evangelicals especially, there support of Israel is related to their belief in the end times. Revelations talks of 244,000 that will be saved at the end times, and the modern apostles of the apocalypse inteprret that as 240,000 Jews that convert to Christianity.
These people had an orgasm when Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem as that is supposedly a prerequisite for the apocalypse, Evangelicals are Zionist, not because they are Judeophiles, just the opposite,.
But there is no help on the left either, certain factions on the left, had the veil of antisemitism revealed as they jumped in bed, uncritically, with HAMAS, claiming that being doing so was not antisemitism., scratch them and they bleed antisemitic.
I guess some would declare me antisemitic, I am a supporter of Israel as a free, liberal democratic society,not in the Likkud, Netanyahu, Ben Gvir and settler form though.
And my criticism and rejection of those people and factions, makes me in some eyes antisemitic, counter balance that against my disdain for Islam, which is well founded, as I am more than familiar with Islam.
I also feel that way about fundamentalistic Christianity and Catholicism,but that is another subject.
Trump whined this week that enforcement of civil rights laws was “unfair to whites.” It is not at all unfair, justice naturally demands it. I am so sick of bigots and misogynists like Trump and the late Charlie Kirk blaming other people for their own shortcomings and grievances. What is horrible is seeing our government agencies and offices, abd SCOTUS retreating to the pre-Civil Rights era and assuming white Christian men are the only ones who deserve consideration.
Trump and MAGA are determined to destroy civil rights, and especially voting rights. We who oppose him won’t shut up about it.
I go back to Nixon's southern strategy. I was in the Army of the occupation of the South after Vietnam, recalled for the 1968 riots. Involved in civil rights, busing, violernce, white flight, etc. To this day, I still hear about affirmative action. It was supposed to be a remedy only after a party was adjudicated as racist. All this stuff is blurred now, but even then, Nixon was able to use people like William Coleman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thaddeus_Coleman_Jr.
They used civil rights to attack the FDR coalition.
I always wondered why, out of nowhere, the Bush administration decided to use the term "homeland", and I thought at the time it sounded too much like "fatherland" for my taste. We often think of Hitler as the embodiment of right-wing extremism, but it turns out he got many of his ugliest ideas from American racist ideology.
A good reminder that the TRump Regime has adopted the speech along with Nazi ideology.
Veterans beware. Hegseth has given Musk's artificial intelligence "product" GROK access to the records of the Pentagon. GROK too had an affinity for Hitler after Elon fiddled with it, because he thought it was too "woke".
The drug addled Musk has set aside any pretense about white supremacy not being the objective. His posts and re-posts prove it every day.
Hearing a 17 year old American boy cry after ICE took him from his job at Target, terrorized him, and dumped him off at a WalMart broke my heart. Vile, rotten, ICE psychos and sadists, just like the people they work for!
Say her name, Renee Nicole Good. See you in the streets.
We need to start calling what is happening what it truly is: ethnic cleansing. We are given all the signals from our supreme leader that what he wants is a lily-white America. At his core, Dictator Donny is a racist and a bigot. As a masterful con man, he wants everyone to believe it is only about the criminals, even when most Americans have witnessed something quite different. All anyone needs to do is reflect on what has taken place with a heavy-handed immigration policy and then ponder what happens when this massive law enforcement department moves on to controlling all American citizens. Dictator Donny craves complete control, and if given that level of autonomy, he will ruin the country for everyone except major corporations and the morbidly wealthy.
Perry,that is why,it is extemely important that the people in Minneapolis fight back.They mst recognize that by doing nothing,it gives the " Gestapo" the green light to continue to kill and harass Minneapolis residents.
Thank you for illuminating the root of "homeland."
I want to commend the 12 prosecutors who stood up and walked off their jobs in protest of DOJ's effort to make Renee Nicole Good's murder disappear. At first, DOJ and MN Bureau of Apprehension agreed to investigate the killing of Renee Nicole Good in routine fashion. Then, DOJ abruptly announced they would not cooperate but conduct their own investigation. I cannot stop thinking about the news that broke out yesterday--the criminal department of the DOJ will not investigate Jonathan Ross, the agent who murdered Good but instead investigate Renee Good and her widows's political activities when they were reportedly not activists. Investigate the victims?? This is totally outrageous!! They are giving Ross a pass for what we all saw--him brutally shooting Good after she kindly tried to dissuade the situation. This cannot be allowed to stand!
Sophia, we are beyond the stage of crying out in rage. I am sorry Thom. When you write an article of such gravity and horror, and suggest that a solution starts with calling the Congressional Helpdesk, we know that our country has descended into the Authoritarian Abyss. All is lost. There will be no 250th anniversary of Democracy. It will be the 1st anniversary of the Authoritarian Coup
Sophia,I hope thre is a way to track him down. Do the people in Minneapolis understand this is a war. Fight like its a war.If there are casualties,inflict pain on ICE. There are many hunters there who can fight back. This is a " nazi" takeover,doing nothing is not an option.
Ummm Thom that was true 23 years ago when 170 Democrats joined Republicans in forming the Department of Homeland Security. It should have never happened. ICE and CBP have been brutalizing immigrants without any accountability or oversight since their inception under Republicans and Democrats alike. We tried to abolish ICE eight years ago but you and the Democrats found that to be too radical, and even now "progressives" like Ro Khanna are pushing for oversight and reform of ICE which is impossible. Obama used ICE to enact Christmas Eve raids on the homes of mothers and children from Central and South America resulting in their expedited deportation. I'm not certain how this is some sort of revelation but it's more evidence of how malignant our political system and its pundits have become. https://barryjkaufmando.substack.com/p/youre-next-the-blowback-for-the-spiritual
This has been in my mind…that since 9/11 we chose “safety” over freedom every time. We need to roll back the entire apparatus of the state at all levels to 1999 at minimum . We are capable of so much more. I challenge everyone to look back and defend the funding of the faux wars started by Cheney -bush, of DHS and all its demon spawn. The Patriot Act was the precursor to Project 2025 and both surely made Putin be able to envision the end of enemy usa.
Agree with everything you say apart from the Putin part. And Democrats have their own faux wars and regime change fantasies. Unfortunately I don't think we can dial back to 1999 with the degree of corruption within our political parties but it would be a good start in regards to immigration and diplomacy.
Here's an interview with Norman Rockwell's granddaughter. The family is furious that his work, which became very "woke" as he got older, is being grossly distorted by DHS. When they complained, more was used.
Perhaps no one associated with ICE has the humor and creativity to make original messages that go beyond fear, tribalism and force. If they had those human skills maybe they wouldn't be able to work in this environment.
I don't know it as a fact, but a lot of them are from the minority communities.
I worked with people, represented some, who were quite open about it.
I'm old so I remember when many white judges objected to affirmative action and to "diversity." We lost many ABA judicial division members (mostly from south of the Mason Dixon line, but some from the north) when we started having diversity standards. I was an officer, later chair, later represented them in the ABA House of Delegates, of a group that included many strident state judges. Had to keep the eye on the ball. Find common ground.
Some of the judges I used to deal with daily became MAGATs. That includes some Native Americans, Hispanics, Blacks, etc. Thgey had an attitude adjustment in 2017 when Trump emasculated our position in an executive order. Most of those MAGAts have since flipped. But not all of them.
Daniel,one thing I don't understand,Why have more minorities,Blacks,Indians,Asians not out in the rallies? Back in the 60's we rallied for civil rights for the rights of black people to vote,to have equal standing ,which should neve been in doubt. Sunday@ the rally for Rene Good in Cobb Cty,Georgia,there were about 600 who showed up and I think I counted 2 black people and none from the other ethnicities I mentioned.
I think it is a fact that the January 6 thugs have been recruited and paid big bucks to attack American civilians by trump. It is the logical outcome of the Supreme Court giving him absolute immunity as president of the USA not to mention they voted against impeachment (they or the GOP).:Whoever the powerful enablers were and are. He has free rein now as we can observe, to conduct carnage in residential neighborhoods for example.
Migration: It is what populations of humans (not to mention all life forms for as long as life has existed on earth).
And, human Immigration is what we call migration in modern times. And when the government calls those who immigrate/migrate around the world vermin and lie about their character and intentions, we call it propaganda. It’s powerful speech and is intended to incite violence. Just a point of view among many.
Wealthy [9,400,000,000 dollars] Bill Ackman has gifted the KKKiller-cop [Ross the self-proclaimed, but actually fake botanist] 10 grand for murdering Ms Good.
Now Ross claims mysterious injuries. . . . Yeah. Right. His real injury is in his mind. He thinks he was right to shoot a fellow American 3 times in the face for no reason.
Back to Ack: This means that YOU, I, and ALL Americans have a $10,000 Ackman-Bounty on our heads.
Any one of these KKKillers can ice you, anytime, anywhere, and then be hidden like a pedo priest by your gov't at your expense.
Speaking of pedos, The Kiddie Rapist flipped off and twice screamed "F*ck you !!!" at an auto worker.
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman donated $10,000 to a GoFundMe supporting ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. This donation is a major news story.
So, if Bill offers a handsome reward for murder, that, to me, is a bounty.
Sir,thanks for bringing to my attention. So right it is a bounty. Wondere what a few calls to Perching Square telling him he is a total piece of shit. He also made massive contributions to Cuomo,because he hates Mamdani. If ever there was a time to go after some of these pigs,it is now.
As far as I am concerned these groups of federal officials are nothing more than the "Brown Shirts" of Ernst Röhm! Once they all start sporting spiffy new uniforms that all match like Himmler's SS the transformation will be complete & we can look forward to large scale round-ups not these piece-meal snatch & grab operations. They will come in with tanks & fully equipped military personnel that have sworn their allegiance to trump. And we will have our own Tienemen Square in Lafayette Park in DC!
It's hard to wrap my head around why Trump, Miller, Vance would emulate the Nazi's. Masked ICE agents arresting and detaining individuals without due process is certainly Gestapo like. Building an extensive system of detention centers, buying 7 planes for deportations ... why, ethnic cleansing? Make America white again? Where are they going? What's the 'final solution'? Are their actions to satisfy their base and to form a lasting coalition to hold onto power long term? A totalitarian state with Trump as Der Fuhrer? Seems fantastically impossible, or is it?
Trump has been a white supremacist all of his adult life. He now has an Administration that agrees with him 100%. White men are desperately afraid of being in a minority in this country, probably because they have treated minorities so poorly themselves. They also seem fearful of the competition of women, who are not a minority but whom they held by lack of education and physical limits for an eon. Some fathers and husbands were kind to females whether wife or daughter, but some were not and the female had no regress from the latter.
I felt this coming as soon as the Bush ( Cheney) administration establish the DHHS which I have always referred to as the ": Heimat Sicherheits Buro" Some one who knows how put in the umlaut for me.
Remember when Bush was the worst president we ever had ? How about Warren Harding?? I think that's what a learned in school*
Remember when Dick Cheney was evil?
Speaking of * Learning in School see Tom Paxton song title.
HELP!!!! How do we form effective resistance?????) How do we get elect3d officials some COURAGE ( Cowardly Lion's all)
Never forget it is not the Orange T.
But MAGAs and the Project 2025 ( straight line Nixon --> Reagan--> the "Shrubs" as Molly Ivins called them. and our glorious Racist / Settler Colonist Gun toting communities
Thank you for letting me rant (. does Steve Miller identify as a Jew or just CLAIM historically to be.... ( Sound like identification with the oppressor symptom)
Yep it is all about race, but what puzzles me is why is a Jew the chief racist (Steven Miller) that one I can't wrap my head around.
It perplexes me as well. Miller’s own maternal uncle and cousin have disowned what he has said and made it clear they reject his ideas, and that he’s forgotten his own family history.
Hitler rejected his too.
Miller and his wife are both psychopaths. I read an article that said her classmates confirmed she is exactly like him. I feel sorry for their children.
I agree with your assessment about Stephen and Katie Miller being psychopaths, and share your concern about their daughter and any other children they may have. I really got mad when I saw Katie Miller had put up a map of Greenland with the stars and stripes over it.
Greenland isn’t ours for the taking. If Trump and Kegseth invade Greenland or Denmark, they should be impeached and convicted.
Now here's an instance where family separation might be appropriate. I mean Josef & Magda Goebbels did kill their own children before they committed suicide. They did that because the could not imagine a world without National Socialism!!! Wii that be the fate of the Miller family when this dreaded episode in our story ends. Or will the bad guys win this time?
I am aware he has been disowned by his family, which makes it more perplexing. It is the same with Clarence Thomas, openly hostile to civil rights and voting rights.
He made a statement that "they have made me life miserable for 43 years, now I am going to make their life miserable for 43 years" who is the they?, his fellow blacks? How did they make his life miserable?
I'm sorry to report that I know many like Thomas, who btw was in my Inn of Court.
We had a Black judge ar SSA who turned down every Black claimant, including a guy who had both hands amputated. His son was number 3 at DOJ under Reagan/Bush. He was evwentually removed but not for bias or for his decisions.
It is heart breaking. I honestly can't get inside of their minds. I can't understand how someone who has suffered can align themselves with the oppressor.
I read the book Five Chimneys when I was 14, it was a survivors tale of Auschwitz Birkenau, in it she talked of sonderkommando's, the Jewish prisoners that ran the crematoriums and hauled bodies, also the capo's,
I can understand that to a degree, we all want to live another day, but people like Miller and Thomas are not under threat of living, they must think they are white males, or like the house negro Stephen in Django Unchained, enjoy drinking brandy by the fireside with the massah, while helping the massah, control the field slaves.
I would think that some of the reasons he has sold himself is his belief that tying himself to the conservatives of the Court, made them feel accepted by those he secretly fears, and possibly protected and included in a club that Thomas will never really be a member of. He might realize this, but excuses it with the fact that it allows him to feel important, listened to, and probably rich.
Munchausen by proxy is how the oppressed can align with their oppressors.
Possible, another is identification with the oppressor, a big motivator is survival,promotion, aggrandization. I call them Quislings,
"Quislings" refers to collaborators with an enemy occupying force, a term derived from Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian fascist who led a Nazi puppet government during WWII; his name became synonymous with "traitor," especially for those who betray their country by aiding invaders, as seen in Winston Churchill's famous wartime speeches. The term is used broadly for traitors but specifically for those who head collaborationist regimes, often forming puppet governments under occupiers, notes the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and EBSCO.
The house slave, portrayed as Stephen in Django Unchained
It is something I don’t understand.
Since when are all Jews the good guys? At this moment the Jewish Israeli government is slaughtering innocent Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank. Corruption and greed can infect anyone which is why we must stand in solidarity to protect all innocent people.
In response to you Dianne and David below. There are two issues here
First Gaza all of the grief that has fallen on Gaza and the people, is the responsiblity of HAMAS. HAMAS has had a goal of annihilating (genociding) the Jews, the launched thousands of rockets and missiles at the Jews after first going into Israel, murder and raping women, children, old folk, and celebrating it on their cell phone videos,
Then the cowards ran back to Gaza using hostages and their own people as human shields, and for this the Tik Tok idiots blame the Jews.
Second: The behavior of the Jews towards the Arabs in the west bank is criminal, they are harrassing, beating and killing them to drive them off their land so they can build kibbutz, and condos.
What has happened in Israel is the same thing that has happened here. The fascistic, nationalistic, extreme right has grabbed the reins of power.
Bibi is Israel's Trump, the Likkud and it's allies are Israels MAGA.
To Israel, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Iran, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, i have a hefty middle finger and a big fuck you, criminals all. Most of the people are pretty decent, but it is the rotten apples and the leadership that make them obnoxious and irredeemable.
Funny thing here: The broken clock syndrome, when it comes to Iran, Trump has assumed the right posture, but if he starts bombing and killing civilians, then the Iran's will turn on us, and he would be giving a gift to the mullahs.
Dianne,glad you brough this up. Commenting to my son last week,for those who are watching the plight of the Palestinians,the total destruction of Gaza,the refusal to provide food and shelter to the Palestinians and the Settler movements into Palestinian territory,I wonder why there is any question of the Antisemitic movement growing. I simply do not get it.
I invite your attention to my response to Diane above. And I do agree with you. I shudder watching those little children standing in freezing cold water, living and sleeping on cold west blankets.
This is not Tikun Olam. Sadly Netanyahu and those that support him are making Israel and International pariah, there is no excuse, none.
I don’t agree with the current government’s policies, but not everyone is responsible for them.
No, it is not all about race. That is just for starts. The Gestapo are thought police whose job is to institute and enforce fascism as a replacement for all alternate notions of governance. Hitler used Jews because they were widely viewed negatively as economic and non-Christian exploiters. But like Trumpler today, the objective was and is to gradually create a federal militia to enforce the rise of fascist dictatorship. As I have pointed out before, US immigrant prisons, many still under construction, have no financial justification if deportation is the government's end goal. Once emptied, they will serve as concentration camps to house political opponents, aka "domestic terrorists." I suspect that appointing Jews to the administration was merely to confuse efforts to label Trump as a Nazi - same reason for supporting Netanyahu.
Did I imply that it was all about race. I didn't mean to, itis just part of a bigger plan, to cleanse America of what the white,. Christian nationalists, consider vermin, poisoning the blood of the country.
You are correct though ICE, CBP, HSI are the foundation of the Geheim Stats Polizei and the Schutzstaffel.
No doubt that the "detention camps" being built are destined to be concentration camps, to hold for the final solution, those of us who want cave in and surrender to Il Duce, Der Fuhrer.
I wouldn't go so far as to say appointing Jews had the purpose of throwing off the sent. That implies that the architects of this tyrannical scheme, are forward thinking and strategic. They are not.
They are like there master. Trump and his staff, do not consult the law to see what they can do, they just do what they want to do, to see if there is any pushback, and they do so much that the rest of us can't keep up with the push back.
Rather the people that have joined the team, share their values and goals and are eager to facilitate their achievement.
William,good post. Can I remind everyone who reads this that Trump has no guts,no morals,no empathy. I know you all have heard the story about the many draft notices Trump received during the Vietnam War. Apparently when he received the 2nd one,he went to father,crying,saying if I get drafted and have to go to Vietnam I'm going to hurt or killed.His father after many requests contacted Larry Braunstein a podiatrist ,in Queens,New York who after being paid by Fred,Trump's father gave a diagnosis of heel spurs which the Selective Service said was enough to make him 4F.Trump avoided the draft a total of 5 times.
NOw he's the tough guy,Venezuela,Greenland,Cuba,Columbia are all his targets
I think we should be perfectly clear about who Trump is " If anyone on this substack had the opportunity to say to the " Nazi" " I' m going kick your ass,and push your face in" he would poop his pants. He doesn't have a father to go cry to,maybe Stephen Miller would protect him,although I doubt it.
Thanks for your thoughts Tom. Can't imagine that Trump has the brains to design a complex system to get to a fascist dictatorship. Guess Miller, Voight, Vance, and some billionaires are the power behind the throne?
An alternative might be that Ivana said Trump read Mein Kampf. Maybe the only book he ever read. Psychopaths are attracted to one another because most people want nothing to do with them. The entire cabinet are psychopaths - incompetent, but loyal toadies. the only honorable people in this government are the ones resigning out of a sense of honor.
BTW, even Elon Musk is no billionaire genius. He is just ruthless and lucky. He made his money off the Federal Government via loans and EV incentives. The problem is that we Americans take our democracy and rights for granted, just like the late parents of my German friends did. Then one day, they wake up to the Gestapo knocking on the door.
You wrapped it up with a bow in two short paragraphs, Dr. Tom.
Real problem is that normies living busy lives cannot and sometimes will not study a bit or listen to the professionals concerning the subject of literal psychos and sickos.
I get it---they are thinking we are all human. That's empathy for ya! Might have been one of those too before the brain scans, studies, and work of professionals helped me see the big picture and the history in a different light.
People like him are usually institutionalized. I knewe a guy who was institutionalized but was permitted a furlough for the high holy days. He brought a ham sandwich to the temple and tried to disrupt services, and was immediately retrieved.
We (us Jews) always had a problem with self hatred. One entire sect that opposes the state of Israel lives in Israel.
Neturei Karta ("Guardians of the City") is a small, radical Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jewish anti-Zionist group, founded in Jerusalem in 1938, known for its extreme opposition to the existence of the State of Israel, viewing it as a violation of Jewish law, and sometimes aligning with Palestinian causes. They believe a Jewish state can only be established by the Messiah, not through human effort, leading them to actively protest against Zionism and Israel, often appearing alongside Palestinian protestors.
Dan Burros was the :third-ranking member of the American Nazi Party, later a KKK Grand Dragon. He was a vocal antisemite who edited neo-Nazi publications. Was genetically Jewish. His Jewish background was exposed by The New York Times, leading to his suicide in 1965.
Some have Stockholm Syndrome or the equivalent. Used by the Nazis in the death camps.
When I heard disability cases, once in a while we'd get som traumatized claimants, typically crime victims, who had a "racist" diagnosis. There is no SS Listing of Impairment for it but the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and many experts argue that for a behavior to be considered a mental illness, it must deviate from normative behavior. Because racism has been pervasive and deeply ingrained in American society for centuries, it is considered a societal norm that needs to be actively unlearned and addressed through policy and education, not medical treatment for the perpetrator.
Systemic mental illnesses are in Listing 12.06. Social Security Administration (SSA) listing 12.06 in the "Blue Book" (official medical guide) covers Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders for adults. This listing outlines the specific criteria that must be met for an individual to potentially qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits based on the severity of their condition.
To meet the requirements of listing 12.06, you must provide medical documentation that satisfies the criteria in both Paragraph A and Paragraph B, or the criteria in both Paragraph A and Paragraph C.
Paragraph A (Medical Documentation of Signs and Symptoms)
Paragraph A requires medically documented findings of at least one of the following: persistent generalized anxiety with associated symptoms, persistent irrational fear leading to avoidance, recurrent severe panic attacks occurring at least weekly, recurrent distressing obsessions or compulsions, or recurrent distressing recollections of trauma. Note that trauma- and stressor-related disorders are primarily evaluated under listing 12.15.
Paragraph B (Functional Limitation)
Paragraph B requires that your condition results in an extreme limitation of one, or a marked limitation of two, specific areas of mental functioning. These areas include the ability to understand, remember, or apply information; interact with others; concentrate, persist, or maintain pace; and adapt or manage oneself.
Paragraph C (Serious and Persistent Disorder)
Alternatively, Paragraph C can be met if you have a medically documented history of a serious and persistent disorder (at least two years) with evidence of ongoing treatment that lessens symptoms and a minimal capacity to adapt to changes.
For more detailed information, consult the SSA's official guide on the 12.00 Mental Disorders listings.
Stephen Millers wife, Katie Rose Waldman Miller, is another psychotically deranged Jew.
Ist it contagious.
A coalition of over 10 Jewish groups, including HIAS (a global Jewish nonprofit that aids refugees), argues that policies targeting specific groups (e.g., international students who are pro-Palestinian activists) undermine the rule of law and due process, which ultimately makes the Jewish community less safe.
Historical Echoes of Restriction: Critics draw parallels between Trump's "public charge" rule and the restrictive immigration laws of the 1930s and 1940s, which prevented hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis from entering the United States, even when immigration quotas were not filled.
Tell me about it.
When my brother was president of the congrgation in my home town, he was sued by a group that inv=cluded my uncle over the use of the santiuary.
Exactly!
I don't get it, with thousands of years of discrimination and persecution,pogroms and a holocaust, how any Jew could be a racist, support financially or otherwise, a racist is quite beyond my ability to comprehend, and I ain't buying the two Jews and three opinions rationalization.
By the same token, I have problems with blacks, like Thomas, Ye, Donalds, Scott, Walker et al being aliigned with out and out racists, Mark Robinson the black NAZI, is an extreme example, Queer Republicans, Hispanic Republicans oxymorons all.
And then there are those Muslims who voted for Trump at the urging of their Imam's, fools, talk of sour grapes, their brethern won't be living in those beach condo's Trump and Kushner plan to build on the Gaza beach front.
The world is insane. I was thinking it would be safe to migrate to Belize or Costa Rica, but now I find that he has plans to incorporate those into the Technate of America
And if you believe that the law won't let him run for president again, think again
Pam Bondi just released another finding that whatever Trump does is legal
A Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) concluded that President Trump had constitutional authority to send U.S. military forces into Venezuela to help arrest President Nicolás Maduro without congressional authorization,
, William Barr declared several actions legal or within executive power, notably Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey (arguing it wasn't obstruction) and the travel ban (calling it constitutional), asserting broad presidential authority, including in national security and law enforcement, consistent with his views on limiting congressional checks on executive power, though he also committed to upholding the Mueller investigation's integrity.
Pam Bondi is Trump's agent and tool, and the office of legal counsel will issue any ruling that Trump wants, and none that will go against Trump.. I expect a ruling that the two term limit doesn't apply because they aren't consecutive, he is virtually a different president #47, than #45
I don't think anywhere will be a safe haven in the medium term. If you look at the "three spheres of influence," it's clear that there's nowhere to go.
I fear you are correct.
There is a stair-stepping effect to American bigotry that started with the slaves but they were easy target and the mythology regarding their animal-like nature, their inherent inability to learn, etc, etc were easy to define and enforce. As for the people of the 500 Nations, appearance once again helped to reinforce their difference from the “civilised” English. Poor whites could always remember that although they might be poor at least they weren’t ______ (fill in the blank). By doing so they strove to be the same as the upper classes.
Shat followed was waves of immigration, ethnically divided. I’mNot sure of the order but the Irish were initially
Excluded… Until the Germans arrived because at least they were real Americans. Followed by Polish and Slavs. As each new wave arrived the previous one was folded in, awaiting for the next wave to arrive so they might be “promoted”. And everybody got to marginalise the Chinese and Japanese. Easy to identify, foreign appearance, foreign culture. Evevtually America ran out of easy targets, and I include the Jews.. inclusion into the mainstream requires someone inferior. In the case of Miller and Thomas it is their own group. They believe that by hating their roots they can become True Americans.
And now we have the Hispanics murders, rapists and madmen all. It’s the last folding -in can be identified. Always the rubric, the identification that they’ Americans and the externalised are not.
Yep, all you say is correct, and then some. Genetically I am mostly Irish, that is because of autosomal DNA, which is unreliable after 4 generations.
The Irish weren't even considered white, and in NY were the objects of hatred and murdered (Gangs of NY is pretty damn accurate). <Many came here in the 18th Century as indentured servants, there is even a book The Irish Slaves,vy Rhetta Akamatsu
It is argued that there is a difference between a slave and indentured servant, and there is. A slave is a capital investment, property, and is taken care of better than a rental (an indentured servant), if you mistreat and work to death an indentured servant, you lose nothing, but save yourself the expense of having to provide them with a mule, a musket, seed corn at the end of the indenture
In other words because they weren't property and a capital investment, they were treated worse than slaves.
My hobby is genetic genealogy, and in researching the archives of familysearch.org. a microfiche of an estate probate in Perry Co,, AL of Richard Farrar, a distant cousin, and in it a tax record in which listed under clock was a white male age 21-50
And what do you have today, some of the most virulent and intolerant racists have names like Hannity and O'Reilly
The Irish were not considered white, but when they lost their brogue, they became white and just as racist and narrow minded as he Anglo Saxon
Of themI have this to say. When the Romans invaded England they did not embark on a campaign of ethnic cleansing, when the Anglo Saxons did, they did embark on a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
When the Northmen, (Vikings and Normans) invaded, they did not embark on a campaign of ethnic cleansing, only the Anglo Saxons engaged in such activity, and they followed suit in the conquest of America, with the Puritans in New England, the Virginians, and the pioneers pushing south and westward.,and damn isn't as infectious as a virus, soon all ethnicitys were in on the act
And thus we arrive at today.
As a Jew I can tell you that orthodox and conservative Jews are just as racist as confederates. Just look at Israel and that two thirds of their population wants to exterminate the Palestinians.
I know but their "racism" is restricted to "Palestinians". I insert quotes, because I am using the vernacular, but Arab is not a race and neither is Jew. The proper termis ethicism, but that's a word people are familiar with.
Also, and I am being literal, there is no such thing as Palestine, yet, as it has not been recognized as a state. It is simply a territory originally called Syria Palaestina by the Romans which includes the new state of Israel.
The real problem is the human condition, our character, our propensity and biologically need to "other", tribalism. Of which you also are guilty, you too belong to a tribe, just not the Jewish tribe, or the American tribe, maybe the Marxist tribe.
That is just unbelievable.
Some form of racism is found in every ethnic group on Earth. I wonder if it’s buried in our genes, somehow. It allows us to identify those who are safe—our tribe—who we are part of. However, taken to its extreme it makes for bigotry, suspicion of those not in our “tribe”, and downright hatred especially, if associated with an emotion like hurt or pain.
Humans can and do belong to more than one tribe at the same time.
There is the Chicago Cubs tribe, the Manchester Guardians Tribe, the Dallas Cowboys Tribe, the Seattle Storm tribe, then there is the Jewish tribe, the Christian Tribe, which is hundreds of clans, the Muslim tribe, the white tribe, the black tribe, the brown tribe, the Hispanic tribe, the Arab tribe, the Anglo Saxon tribe, the Irish tribe, and there are skiing tribes, boxing tribes, sky diving tribes, the list is endless and people belong to more than one tribe at a time.
It is fundamental to tribe membership, that there is loyalty and defense of the tribe at all costs, regardless, if you oppose orattack the tribe, you are the enemy.
He's a psychopath, and he's found his tribe (led by chief psychopath Donald Trump).
Sharing this very good YouTube post from Hysteria on Miller, "The Obnoxious Toilet Rat."
A year old now, but still a very witty, snarky at times, but very well researched piece.
https://youtu.be/5UR5_2SFilg?si=yg68pK809_wbUDGN
Thanks, Charisma of a toilet rat. LOL
I have said this repeatedly: someone needs to tell Miller that as a Jewish person he is not considered to be white.
Early on, I read a profile of Miller trying to discern just who he was, and why he is the way he is. The conclusion -- no real answer. Miller was always just a mean kid, the kind who would throw garbage on the floors of his school and say that that's what janitors are for. He was a gleeful “rabble rouser” enjoying every outraged reaction, at every turn. It seems he bought into the necessity of an elite class which he desired to join, knowing all too well that a Jewish person could never be a part of. And unless one is orthodox in following religious practices – which Miller never has been – American Jews must be categorized as liberal or democratic in his eyes.
Now where would that get him?
Jewish MAGAts have a surprise in store,. The right wing is a storehouse or catalog of anti Jewish tropes, and the evangelicals especially, there support of Israel is related to their belief in the end times. Revelations talks of 244,000 that will be saved at the end times, and the modern apostles of the apocalypse inteprret that as 240,000 Jews that convert to Christianity.
These people had an orgasm when Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem as that is supposedly a prerequisite for the apocalypse, Evangelicals are Zionist, not because they are Judeophiles, just the opposite,.
But there is no help on the left either, certain factions on the left, had the veil of antisemitism revealed as they jumped in bed, uncritically, with HAMAS, claiming that being doing so was not antisemitism., scratch them and they bleed antisemitic.
I guess some would declare me antisemitic, I am a supporter of Israel as a free, liberal democratic society,not in the Likkud, Netanyahu, Ben Gvir and settler form though.
And my criticism and rejection of those people and factions, makes me in some eyes antisemitic, counter balance that against my disdain for Islam, which is well founded, as I am more than familiar with Islam.
I also feel that way about fundamentalistic Christianity and Catholicism,but that is another subject.
Trump whined this week that enforcement of civil rights laws was “unfair to whites.” It is not at all unfair, justice naturally demands it. I am so sick of bigots and misogynists like Trump and the late Charlie Kirk blaming other people for their own shortcomings and grievances. What is horrible is seeing our government agencies and offices, abd SCOTUS retreating to the pre-Civil Rights era and assuming white Christian men are the only ones who deserve consideration.
Trump and MAGA are determined to destroy civil rights, and especially voting rights. We who oppose him won’t shut up about it.
I go back to Nixon's southern strategy. I was in the Army of the occupation of the South after Vietnam, recalled for the 1968 riots. Involved in civil rights, busing, violernce, white flight, etc. To this day, I still hear about affirmative action. It was supposed to be a remedy only after a party was adjudicated as racist. All this stuff is blurred now, but even then, Nixon was able to use people like William Coleman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thaddeus_Coleman_Jr.
They used civil rights to attack the FDR coalition.
I always wondered why, out of nowhere, the Bush administration decided to use the term "homeland", and I thought at the time it sounded too much like "fatherland" for my taste. We often think of Hitler as the embodiment of right-wing extremism, but it turns out he got many of his ugliest ideas from American racist ideology.
Jeffrey,kind of shoots the hell out of the purported " American Exceptionalism"
Think Lucky Lindy.
When I heard him say "homeland," it gave me chills. I knew where things were going.
With respect, this ship sailed a long time ago. It was racial enforcement from the get-go.
A good reminder that the TRump Regime has adopted the speech along with Nazi ideology.
Veterans beware. Hegseth has given Musk's artificial intelligence "product" GROK access to the records of the Pentagon. GROK too had an affinity for Hitler after Elon fiddled with it, because he thought it was too "woke".
The drug addled Musk has set aside any pretense about white supremacy not being the objective. His posts and re-posts prove it every day.
Hearing a 17 year old American boy cry after ICE took him from his job at Target, terrorized him, and dumped him off at a WalMart broke my heart. Vile, rotten, ICE psychos and sadists, just like the people they work for!
Say her name, Renee Nicole Good. See you in the streets.
We need to start calling what is happening what it truly is: ethnic cleansing. We are given all the signals from our supreme leader that what he wants is a lily-white America. At his core, Dictator Donny is a racist and a bigot. As a masterful con man, he wants everyone to believe it is only about the criminals, even when most Americans have witnessed something quite different. All anyone needs to do is reflect on what has taken place with a heavy-handed immigration policy and then ponder what happens when this massive law enforcement department moves on to controlling all American citizens. Dictator Donny craves complete control, and if given that level of autonomy, he will ruin the country for everyone except major corporations and the morbidly wealthy.
Perry,that is why,it is extemely important that the people in Minneapolis fight back.They mst recognize that by doing nothing,it gives the " Gestapo" the green light to continue to kill and harass Minneapolis residents.
"... what he wants is a lily-white America." You left out Christian to go with the lily-white.
It will be ethnic, then journalists (just happened), his political opponents, citizens opposed to the regime...
Thank you for illuminating the root of "homeland."
I want to commend the 12 prosecutors who stood up and walked off their jobs in protest of DOJ's effort to make Renee Nicole Good's murder disappear. At first, DOJ and MN Bureau of Apprehension agreed to investigate the killing of Renee Nicole Good in routine fashion. Then, DOJ abruptly announced they would not cooperate but conduct their own investigation. I cannot stop thinking about the news that broke out yesterday--the criminal department of the DOJ will not investigate Jonathan Ross, the agent who murdered Good but instead investigate Renee Good and her widows's political activities when they were reportedly not activists. Investigate the victims?? This is totally outrageous!! They are giving Ross a pass for what we all saw--him brutally shooting Good after she kindly tried to dissuade the situation. This cannot be allowed to stand!
Sophia, we are beyond the stage of crying out in rage. I am sorry Thom. When you write an article of such gravity and horror, and suggest that a solution starts with calling the Congressional Helpdesk, we know that our country has descended into the Authoritarian Abyss. All is lost. There will be no 250th anniversary of Democracy. It will be the 1st anniversary of the Authoritarian Coup
Sophia,I hope thre is a way to track him down. Do the people in Minneapolis understand this is a war. Fight like its a war.If there are casualties,inflict pain on ICE. There are many hunters there who can fight back. This is a " nazi" takeover,doing nothing is not an option.
Ummm Thom that was true 23 years ago when 170 Democrats joined Republicans in forming the Department of Homeland Security. It should have never happened. ICE and CBP have been brutalizing immigrants without any accountability or oversight since their inception under Republicans and Democrats alike. We tried to abolish ICE eight years ago but you and the Democrats found that to be too radical, and even now "progressives" like Ro Khanna are pushing for oversight and reform of ICE which is impossible. Obama used ICE to enact Christmas Eve raids on the homes of mothers and children from Central and South America resulting in their expedited deportation. I'm not certain how this is some sort of revelation but it's more evidence of how malignant our political system and its pundits have become. https://barryjkaufmando.substack.com/p/youre-next-the-blowback-for-the-spiritual
This has been in my mind…that since 9/11 we chose “safety” over freedom every time. We need to roll back the entire apparatus of the state at all levels to 1999 at minimum . We are capable of so much more. I challenge everyone to look back and defend the funding of the faux wars started by Cheney -bush, of DHS and all its demon spawn. The Patriot Act was the precursor to Project 2025 and both surely made Putin be able to envision the end of enemy usa.
Agree with everything you say apart from the Putin part. And Democrats have their own faux wars and regime change fantasies. Unfortunately I don't think we can dial back to 1999 with the degree of corruption within our political parties but it would be a good start in regards to immigration and diplomacy.
Here's an interview with Norman Rockwell's granddaughter. The family is furious that his work, which became very "woke" as he got older, is being grossly distorted by DHS. When they complained, more was used.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKKwUcbOECM
Perhaps no one associated with ICE has the humor and creativity to make original messages that go beyond fear, tribalism and force. If they had those human skills maybe they wouldn't be able to work in this environment.
I don't know it as a fact, but a lot of them are from the minority communities.
I worked with people, represented some, who were quite open about it.
I'm old so I remember when many white judges objected to affirmative action and to "diversity." We lost many ABA judicial division members (mostly from south of the Mason Dixon line, but some from the north) when we started having diversity standards. I was an officer, later chair, later represented them in the ABA House of Delegates, of a group that included many strident state judges. Had to keep the eye on the ball. Find common ground.
Some of the judges I used to deal with daily became MAGATs. That includes some Native Americans, Hispanics, Blacks, etc. Thgey had an attitude adjustment in 2017 when Trump emasculated our position in an executive order. Most of those MAGAts have since flipped. But not all of them.
Daniel,one thing I don't understand,Why have more minorities,Blacks,Indians,Asians not out in the rallies? Back in the 60's we rallied for civil rights for the rights of black people to vote,to have equal standing ,which should neve been in doubt. Sunday@ the rally for Rene Good in Cobb Cty,Georgia,there were about 600 who showed up and I think I counted 2 black people and none from the other ethnicities I mentioned.
We had a phenomenon here in Florida when Blacks didn't show up to vote for Black candidates.
I think it is a fact that the January 6 thugs have been recruited and paid big bucks to attack American civilians by trump. It is the logical outcome of the Supreme Court giving him absolute immunity as president of the USA not to mention they voted against impeachment (they or the GOP).:Whoever the powerful enablers were and are. He has free rein now as we can observe, to conduct carnage in residential neighborhoods for example.
Migration: It is what populations of humans (not to mention all life forms for as long as life has existed on earth).
And, human Immigration is what we call migration in modern times. And when the government calls those who immigrate/migrate around the world vermin and lie about their character and intentions, we call it propaganda. It’s powerful speech and is intended to incite violence. Just a point of view among many.
Wealthy [9,400,000,000 dollars] Bill Ackman has gifted the KKKiller-cop [Ross the self-proclaimed, but actually fake botanist] 10 grand for murdering Ms Good.
Now Ross claims mysterious injuries. . . . Yeah. Right. His real injury is in his mind. He thinks he was right to shoot a fellow American 3 times in the face for no reason.
Back to Ack: This means that YOU, I, and ALL Americans have a $10,000 Ackman-Bounty on our heads.
Any one of these KKKillers can ice you, anytime, anywhere, and then be hidden like a pedo priest by your gov't at your expense.
Speaking of pedos, The Kiddie Rapist flipped off and twice screamed "F*ck you !!!" at an auto worker.
Nice. Whatta gd disgrace. Vote.
Sir,can you elaborate on the Bill Ackman bounty,have not heard about it.
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman donated $10,000 to a GoFundMe supporting ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. This donation is a major news story.
So, if Bill offers a handsome reward for murder, that, to me, is a bounty.
Sir,thanks for bringing to my attention. So right it is a bounty. Wondere what a few calls to Perching Square telling him he is a total piece of shit. He also made massive contributions to Cuomo,because he hates Mamdani. If ever there was a time to go after some of these pigs,it is now.
I am not sure what "go after some of these pigs" even means.
Certainly, violence is Not the way.
The real solution is for Ms Good's family to receive an additional $20,000.
When I protested this past Sunday my sign said:
"Even the Nazis didn't wear masks. Why do you?"
As far as I am concerned these groups of federal officials are nothing more than the "Brown Shirts" of Ernst Röhm! Once they all start sporting spiffy new uniforms that all match like Himmler's SS the transformation will be complete & we can look forward to large scale round-ups not these piece-meal snatch & grab operations. They will come in with tanks & fully equipped military personnel that have sworn their allegiance to trump. And we will have our own Tienemen Square in Lafayette Park in DC!
It's hard to wrap my head around why Trump, Miller, Vance would emulate the Nazi's. Masked ICE agents arresting and detaining individuals without due process is certainly Gestapo like. Building an extensive system of detention centers, buying 7 planes for deportations ... why, ethnic cleansing? Make America white again? Where are they going? What's the 'final solution'? Are their actions to satisfy their base and to form a lasting coalition to hold onto power long term? A totalitarian state with Trump as Der Fuhrer? Seems fantastically impossible, or is it?
Trump has been a white supremacist all of his adult life. He now has an Administration that agrees with him 100%. White men are desperately afraid of being in a minority in this country, probably because they have treated minorities so poorly themselves. They also seem fearful of the competition of women, who are not a minority but whom they held by lack of education and physical limits for an eon. Some fathers and husbands were kind to females whether wife or daughter, but some were not and the female had no regress from the latter.
Thank You! Called. Shared
can I finally comment?
I felt this coming as soon as the Bush ( Cheney) administration establish the DHHS which I have always referred to as the ": Heimat Sicherheits Buro" Some one who knows how put in the umlaut for me.
Remember when Bush was the worst president we ever had ? How about Warren Harding?? I think that's what a learned in school*
Remember when Dick Cheney was evil?
Speaking of * Learning in School see Tom Paxton song title.
HELP!!!! How do we form effective resistance?????) How do we get elect3d officials some COURAGE ( Cowardly Lion's all)
Never forget it is not the Orange T.
But MAGAs and the Project 2025 ( straight line Nixon --> Reagan--> the "Shrubs" as Molly Ivins called them. and our glorious Racist / Settler Colonist Gun toting communities
Thank you for letting me rant (. does Steve Miller identify as a Jew or just CLAIM historically to be.... ( Sound like identification with the oppressor symptom)