A virus needs its host: The Republican Party has provided the platform, the protection, and the power that allowed Trump’s assault on democracy to flourish...
Well, I take little consolation that we have to rely on Republicans to do the right thing. I hope they will but it just seems that the loudest, most obscene are running the show. The rest are cowardly husks! What they fail to see or understand is that they are on the chopping block as well! Fealty to trump is a one-way street with him. Once he's done with you, well then, get ready to be flogged, beaten, brutalized on "X" & "Truth"(??) Social & then when that is done you can take your esteemed place under the bus along with all the other loyal subjects! Cheney & Kinzinger may be maligned all the time but they can hold their heads high because they are NOT under the bus! They are being brutalized in words but they will survive because they are strong whereas the sycophants will rot in republican hell from here to eternity.
I think we have a chance. I think the best bet is shared government. People are pissed.
They aren't our blood brothers yet but we need to thank the 7 Republican cosponsors to the senate bill that would strip Trump of tariff authority. S.1272 — 119th Congress (2025-2026) Cantwell, D, WA is main sponsor.
There are plenty of them under pressure now. E.G. where I live 3 MAGATS represent a Dem majority. All are Cuban Americans. 2 of 3 were once Dems -- switched due to Cuba policy.
Here's an example....Editor’s note: Miami healthcare CEO Michael “Mike” B. Fernandez wrote the following open letter to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and members of the Republican Cuban-American Miami-Dade congressional delegation: U.S. Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart, Carlos Giménez and Maria Elvira Salazar. For decades, I have stood with you in defense of the freedoms we cherish, those we were denied in the country of our birth and found in the grace of this one. I know what it means to flee tyranny.
Pickets at my Congeresswomans office. Pickets at CANF -- the Cuban American National Federation.
Besides that Cubans and all minorities bear the DEI brunt from Musk and his Muskovites. Every government, business, here are bi if not tri lingual. People were hired on that basis.
Plus, we have more Canadian Americans than live in some provinces. Were (past tense) mostly pro business Republicans. 54,000 Floridians work for Canadian businesses. We've lost about 3 mil tourists this year..
Well, she feels our pain, which most R's probably aren't capable of grasping, but what will she actually DO? Will she get together with the other R tariff resisters and try to grow an enough-is-enough movement within the party?
Apt, cogent and brutally honest. TFG is a parasite. It has no loyalty. It eats, eliminates, sleeps and eats again. It needs little intelligence, only the cunning of a bulimic addict desperate for the next feeding. It eats friend and foe alike. It is the contra of the ABC Law of Life, the end result, as Thom says, of a paradigm founded upon lies, enslavement, genocide and slovenly excess. When PTSD and OCD are blended, the lust for the nor-epinephrine high realized via cruelty is paramount. An addiction to an addiction. Only those self-enslaved wish to enslave all others. Fear, paranoia, cowardice and amorality drench the R brand in slime. They are imprisoned on a glue trap they themselves have set out on the floor. They can breathe and wiggle a bit, but quite soon they will perish, starved by their own inability to feed themselves.
As to most of the rest of us, we have also drunk the koolaid of the arrogant fantasy world of religious superiority. As Napoleon once uttered - Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. And so those poor are now and have been eliminated for centuries. If you have ever been to a slaughterhouse and viewed the carnage, you will know the sounds and smells of fear, agony and death. Blood is a potent drug, easily addicting its naive victims. Thom is once again spot on - TFG turns everyone and everything against each other, because it lives for that next chemical cocktail fix. When I imagine TFG as a comic book character, I see The Joker. It is now freaking out its own disciples. They can smell their own blood now. Fear creates a stench that is only surpassed by the smell of rotting flesh. Stop enabling this carnage by hiding behind innocence and ignorance.
All BS. False syllogism. Cats are animals. Dogs are animals. Therefore cats = dogs. No they don't.
Now if you had said that the answer to cancer is purgation, or maybe using a patient's stem cells like interferon, there may not be a literal analogy...but it might make solme sense..
The ethical answer to crime is prosecution and conviction.
Will there ever be enough Republicans "under the bus" to alter public perception? As, or if, some go under, even more will pop up, claiming the spotlight and covering over the memory of the reviled "losers". I'm not optimistic about any form of justice.
It's hard to say it, but this may be the best and most pertinent Hartmann Report I have ever read - and they're all "bests".
If I could have the world's ear for just a moment I'd say read this, understand this, live this. Time is never on our side, now is what matters. We all have a choice in this.
Per Thom:
"None of this destruction would be possible without the Republican Party’s active complicity. They are not passive bystanders; they are eager enablers. Leaders who once called Trump “dangerous” and “unfit” now parrot his lies and excuse his crimes."
Colbert asked Senator Warren last night what the behind the scenes attitude of Republicans was toward the outrageous actions of the Trump Regime. Her response was that "they no longer look me in the eye".
They are not bystanders just watching all the crime-ing. They are fully participating with every piece of legislation they propose. They are refusing to DO THEIR JOB, while getting a paycheck and playing the markets.
NY Attorney General Letitia James was fired-up and ready to go along with the other Democratic AG's. She was at a National Action Network event.
Look these up and don't miss the speech AOC is giving at the rallies. My Democratic Senator looked us all in the eye at a town hall the other day and told us to "get off the couch". It matters! See you in the streets Saturday!
I believe she does not trust the republicans. Perhaps, she feels there is an ulterior motive in this bipartisan tariff bill. I haven't read it. She apparently wants nothing to do with the republicans in congress.
An important component to the steps being taken by this fascist administration is missing from today's Report - Project 2025. Pretty much everything being done by the fascist wanna-be dictator and the corrupted fascist party, formerly known as the Republican Party, is following Project 2025's plan for control. We warned people about Project 2025 but, as is too often the case, people either didn't care, didn't believe it could happen or didn't heed the warnings.
I am not waiting for the r party to "save us". Nor, do I believe the SCOTUS will buck the tide. It is up to us...the people...to continue to stand strong in defiance of this illegitimate administration. We cannot "obey in advance" nor can we look away from reality. There are more of "us' than "them" and our ranks are growing with every assault on our freedoms.
Republican venality and duplicity is mind-boggling. They complain privately about Trump's behavior and corruption, but publicly support unequivocally everything he says and does. They express concerns and reservations about some Trump nominee or policy proposal, then go ahead and vote for everything he wants. They are all on the take, all afraid of being ostracized. There are as many principled Republicans as there are ivory-billed woodpeckers.
Right you are Jeffrey. The only things the the MAGA's care about is money power and position. Outside of huge benefit and income losses for the masses, it seems, nothing can stop them from consolidating power into the hands of the few.
Oy. I haven't laid this out, but we have other remedies short of violence. The main perp is Donald J. Trump and his band of thieves, kidnappers and cons.
El Salvador is a member of OAS and they have habeus.... They have a lot of US property we could attach.with a judgment ....
Here is the wikipedia entry on Bukele. It appears that he is not grounded in anything but power, and in that he and Trump are brothers
Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez was born on 24 July 1981 in San Salvador, El Salvador.[3] His father was Armando Bukele Kattán, a businessman and industrial chemist,[4][5] and his mother is Olga Marina Ortez. Bukele's father died in 2015.[6] Bukele was the couple's first child. He has three younger brothers, Karim, Yusef, and Ibrajim, and has four paternal half sisters and two paternal half brothers.[3][7] Bukele's father converted from Christianity to Islam in the 1980s, became an imam, and founded four mosques in El Salvador.[5] Bukele's mother is Catholic.[6] Bukele's paternal grandparents were Palestinian Christians who emigrated to El Salvador from Jerusalem and Bethlehem in 1921. His maternal grandfather was Greek Orthodox, and his maternal grandmother was Catholic.[4]
Bukele completed his secondary education at the Escuela Panamericana in 1999 at age 18.[5][6] In his high school yearbook, he labeled himself as the "class terrorist" to troll others due to his father's occupation as an Imam.[8] Bukele enrolled at Central American University in San Salvador to study judicial science, aspiring to become a lawyer,[5][6] but dropped out to work for the Nölck advertising agency, one of his father's businesses.[9] Nölck campaigned for the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a left-wing Salvadoran political party.[10]
In 1999, Bukele founded marketing company Obermet, also known as 4am Saatchi & Saatchi El Salvador, and was its president from 1999 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2012.[9][11] The company ran political advertising for the FMLN presidential campaigns of Schafik Hándal in 2004 and Mauricio Funes in 2009.[6][12]: 239 Bukele was president of Yamaha Motors El Salvador, a company that sells and distributes Yamaha products in El Salvador, from 2009 to 2012.[13] During Bukele's business career, he called himself a "businessman with a great future" ("empresario con gran futuro").[10]
Please, can we keep in mind that before the Trump right-wing extremist virus, the original viruses were ignorance, superstition, xenophobia and racism, irrational fear, neuroticism, and bad religion. I have started to wonder if there is any good religion, in fact. But all this became anti-democratic and dangerously insane and infected the Republican Party when American citizens became more vulnerable to the fringe ideas, conspiracy delusions, fanaticism, and fear mongering. Both parties had power, influence, and lots of money and both were overtaken by the pathological competition for economic superiority via a perverse iteration of capitalism. Only a well-informed, aware, and educated public can prevent disaster. We are a long way from those goals. In the meantime, we are dependent upon a very few Republicans, a badly compromised judicial system and Supreme Court, and people who are mad about the price of eggs and housing.
Trump’s refusal to return Kilmar is part of his Roy Cohn strategy of never apologize, never back down, never surrender, also if Kilmar is still alive, which I doubt at this moment, his return to the US would be a big setback for Trump as he is walking evidence and testimony.
This is what defines the Republican party. Money and power. Money is addictive, power is aphrodisiac
What Trump has torn down can not be put back together, the instiututional knowledge, the documents, how the pieces fit, where the connections are, who does what, who communicates to who, all that is now lost.
Everything has to be built anew, and whatever data exists has been corrupted and altered by teens with acne.
I just had an idea. Sen van Holland, should round up a committee of Senators, buy an extra airline ticket for Kilmar. then all fly to El Salvador to meet with Kilmar again, and then forming a circular body guard, escort him out of the prison to the airport and dare that Nayib do anything about it.
And when they arrive at the POE in America, the same thing. Force Trump to be aggressive and even arrest all of the Senators.
Racism, greed and apathy are the disease. He is merely a symptom of it. The society is not broken, it is defective. Both a distinction, and a difference.
There can be no "resistance" without acknowledgement of the truth.
Which illustrates what I have always said. Education is the only authentic and effective cure, and our schools have failed miserably by pretending to provide education. Schools are essential and could provide training, social services, socialization and babysitting. But education cannot be mass-produced, and it only grows in a free and unconstrained environment.
Are you suggesting that instead of a trillion dollar budget for the Department of Offense to murder melanic people across the globe, equal resources should go to the federal education budget? Art thou mad?!!!! Dost thou not realize that such a thing would eliminate the need for a Department of Offense, would likely end armed conflict and accelerate human progress?!!! Clearly you are in dire need of therapy, matey.
Actually, I do not see pumping more money into the current schooling paradigm as it exists as helpful towards a more decent, peaceful, and equal existence. We are where we are because the premises on which traditional schools are founded are erroneous and counterproductive. Education should not be seen as the primary function of schools, and indeed, schools typically inhibit the kind of education you are thinking about. I am not saying that the Department of Education should be blamed for inadequacies or inequality or that schools should not be funded fully and properly by all governments. However, laws which compel attendance necessitate a hierarchy, and guess who is at the tip-top. It is whoever happens to be the governor. The whole enterprise is a bureaucratic and authoritarian cluster, and of course, the students are at the bottom with minority students usually being somewhere down in the basement. The issue is control, power, behavioral conditioning, abstraction, distraction, subtraction, and detraction. There must be accountability, which is faked and fudged and managed via testing and grading schemes that measure memory, attitude, obedience, and selected kinds of intelligence. Government should look for every possible way to advance education of individuals and to get education into schools, without using paternalistic laws and coercion. Students who are subjugated are no better off in reality in affluent neighborhoods where they are given the illusion of superiority. They may get better jobs and make more money. But if that's all we want, we may as well let Trump take over the damn country after all.
Robert, I was in the field of education for more than 3 decades. You are absolutely correct. The governor and I would add the President use the schools to promote their administration's goals. Teach to the test under Bush was a complete disaster. Bureaucratic mess is an understatement. Striving for excellence went away when parents instead of qualified educational experts were replaced to write curricula.and curriculum.
I'm sure your experience and exasperation match or mirror that of thousands of others, including my best friend's (now deceased) daughter's experience. Micromanagement doesn't work in schools any better than anywhere else. However, I have to reiterate that the true root problem is not that "big government" or the Education Department are usurping the rights of teachers, parents, children, or "qualified educational experts". The problem is that we put our faith in "experts" designated so by state officials and official criteria and give them authority to implement policies for thousands or millions of students. Centralizing what is private, personal, and ineffable is foolish and arrogant. Attendance laws mean that there must be someone making and enforcing arbitrary rules to apply everywhere, and teachers, instead of having personal connections and relationships with students, are just instructors, evaluators, and enforcers. Arbitrary authority is antithetical to the most basic concepts of education and is toxic in a learning environment. We expect far too much from schooling. Many children are not cut out for academics or intensive intellectual exercise. They should be encouraged to discover what works for them and the work they can do best without excessive pressure to perform as scholars. Curricula should be designed by teachers specifically for the kids they know personally and without grandiose fantasies. Most crucially however, is that their spirits should not be broken by demands, expectations, artificial standards, and repressive conditions imposed from anonymous authorities pretending to know what is educational. You might call it democratic.
Not exactly true in my experience back in 1960. I was in teacher training in 1960, however, New York City had a top down structure. They were the model for the nation from the 1940's to the 1970's. The Dalton school in Manhattan, I thin,k had a program similar to what you seem to favor. I observed their program. It worked for a private school, however, it could never work for thousands of students across the nation. My experience taught me that expertise counts. Parents taking its place does not. The socratic method along with an individualized program worked. Teachers with advanced degrees and years of experience were assigned to student teachers. That worked. College educational programs were not a joke. Bring back excellence, something tRump is abolishing as we speak.
Not that it matters, but biologically, the headline seems the opposite to me. The Republican Party always had the "poor be damned" virus, and was just waiting for a host like Trump to exploit and disseminate its toxins.
Thanks,Thom. It’s been obvious for years that donvict didn’t “take over” the Repugnican Party, he simply exposed it. Their primary objective for decades has been to undue the New Deal and make the world safe for fascism. Here we are.
Hope that the GOP will turn on Trump sounds almost impossible given their track record. My guess is the only thing that might cause republicans to clean up this mess of their own making is a recession. Or perhaps millions of Social Security checks going out late or in incorrect amounts or not being received at all. Maybe a combination of events negatively affecting the masses would shake up enough members of the GOP to push back against Trump, put him in lame duck status. A massive loss of income and benefits may be the only things that could derail the dictator.
Yes the Republicans sold their souls for tax cuts, for judges and for power. But is it a fleeting grip on power? No, when Trump, after the 2020 election sent in CyberNinjas because he claimed fraud, and they did not find any it seems obvious that is how they could fix future elections.
Then combined with Musk’s Starlink seems to be easy access for changing the integrity of our elections forever.
There are two options (or maybe both combined)- Krasnov is either a deranged king who is operating willy-nilly with the controls of government. Or he is merely a puppet who is controlled by more powerful forces. We see him signing executive order after executive order and I'm certain he doesn't have a clue on what's in them. He can be controlled in two ways. He is very receptive to flattery and can be lead down the garden path by people with sinister and monetary motives. And there are also people (Putin) who have information on the dark side of Krasnov. It is no secret that Krasnov is dancing to Russia's tune. And as for his Republican sycophants, well, they should know that they will be thrown into the trash heap when they are no longer useful. Let's see what happens Saturday.
An interesting point was made on a Hawk.Podcast aired as a YouTube short. He is a lawyer of 27 years, and he noted that there is not one court filed document that claims participation or brings charges against Albrego-Garcia. There's NOTHING about crimes or the gang activity ON PAPER.
Hawk's sure that Bondi et al know damn well they will risk losing their law licenses by lying to the court.
Two other sadistic Republicans have been to the El Salvador prison to gloat---Representatives Jason Smith of MO and Riley Moore of TX.
Well, I take little consolation that we have to rely on Republicans to do the right thing. I hope they will but it just seems that the loudest, most obscene are running the show. The rest are cowardly husks! What they fail to see or understand is that they are on the chopping block as well! Fealty to trump is a one-way street with him. Once he's done with you, well then, get ready to be flogged, beaten, brutalized on "X" & "Truth"(??) Social & then when that is done you can take your esteemed place under the bus along with all the other loyal subjects! Cheney & Kinzinger may be maligned all the time but they can hold their heads high because they are NOT under the bus! They are being brutalized in words but they will survive because they are strong whereas the sycophants will rot in republican hell from here to eternity.
I think we have a chance. I think the best bet is shared government. People are pissed.
They aren't our blood brothers yet but we need to thank the 7 Republican cosponsors to the senate bill that would strip Trump of tariff authority. S.1272 — 119th Congress (2025-2026) Cantwell, D, WA is main sponsor.
Cosponsor Date Cosponsored
Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]* 04/03/2025
Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]* 04/03/2025
Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]* 04/03/2025
Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]* 04/03/2025
Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]* 04/03/2025
Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]* 04/03/2025
Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]* 04/03/2025
Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC] 04/04/2025
Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] 04/04/2025
Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN] 04/04/2025
Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] 04/04/2025
Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] 04/04/2025
Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] 04/04/2025
There are plenty of them under pressure now. E.G. where I live 3 MAGATS represent a Dem majority. All are Cuban Americans. 2 of 3 were once Dems -- switched due to Cuba policy.
Here's an example....Editor’s note: Miami healthcare CEO Michael “Mike” B. Fernandez wrote the following open letter to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and members of the Republican Cuban-American Miami-Dade congressional delegation: U.S. Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart, Carlos Giménez and Maria Elvira Salazar. For decades, I have stood with you in defense of the freedoms we cherish, those we were denied in the country of our birth and found in the grace of this one. I know what it means to flee tyranny.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article304271841.html#storylink=cpy
Pickets at my Congeresswomans office. Pickets at CANF -- the Cuban American National Federation.
Besides that Cubans and all minorities bear the DEI brunt from Musk and his Muskovites. Every government, business, here are bi if not tri lingual. People were hired on that basis.
Plus, we have more Canadian Americans than live in some provinces. Were (past tense) mostly pro business Republicans. 54,000 Floridians work for Canadian businesses. We've lost about 3 mil tourists this year..
We are all afraid -- Murkowski. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69FGNdBemTI
Well, she feels our pain, which most R's probably aren't capable of grasping, but what will she actually DO? Will she get together with the other R tariff resisters and try to grow an enough-is-enough movement within the party?
She co-sponsored the bipartisan tariff bill. She voted to impeach in Trump No 2.
Perhaps she'll come through in ways I'm not imagining.
Apt, cogent and brutally honest. TFG is a parasite. It has no loyalty. It eats, eliminates, sleeps and eats again. It needs little intelligence, only the cunning of a bulimic addict desperate for the next feeding. It eats friend and foe alike. It is the contra of the ABC Law of Life, the end result, as Thom says, of a paradigm founded upon lies, enslavement, genocide and slovenly excess. When PTSD and OCD are blended, the lust for the nor-epinephrine high realized via cruelty is paramount. An addiction to an addiction. Only those self-enslaved wish to enslave all others. Fear, paranoia, cowardice and amorality drench the R brand in slime. They are imprisoned on a glue trap they themselves have set out on the floor. They can breathe and wiggle a bit, but quite soon they will perish, starved by their own inability to feed themselves.
As to most of the rest of us, we have also drunk the koolaid of the arrogant fantasy world of religious superiority. As Napoleon once uttered - Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. And so those poor are now and have been eliminated for centuries. If you have ever been to a slaughterhouse and viewed the carnage, you will know the sounds and smells of fear, agony and death. Blood is a potent drug, easily addicting its naive victims. Thom is once again spot on - TFG turns everyone and everything against each other, because it lives for that next chemical cocktail fix. When I imagine TFG as a comic book character, I see The Joker. It is now freaking out its own disciples. They can smell their own blood now. Fear creates a stench that is only surpassed by the smell of rotting flesh. Stop enabling this carnage by hiding behind innocence and ignorance.
All BS. False syllogism. Cats are animals. Dogs are animals. Therefore cats = dogs. No they don't.
Now if you had said that the answer to cancer is purgation, or maybe using a patient's stem cells like interferon, there may not be a literal analogy...but it might make solme sense..
The ethical answer to crime is prosecution and conviction.
Yes. Of course it is, but when the prosecutors are criminals, what then? This is the situation we are in.
I guess you don't read my comments.
I read your comment. Where did I err?
Read Feathers of Hope.
You need to call an electrician. You obviously have your wires crossed.
Will there ever be enough Republicans "under the bus" to alter public perception? As, or if, some go under, even more will pop up, claiming the spotlight and covering over the memory of the reviled "losers". I'm not optimistic about any form of justice.
It's hard to say it, but this may be the best and most pertinent Hartmann Report I have ever read - and they're all "bests".
If I could have the world's ear for just a moment I'd say read this, understand this, live this. Time is never on our side, now is what matters. We all have a choice in this.
Per Thom:
"None of this destruction would be possible without the Republican Party’s active complicity. They are not passive bystanders; they are eager enablers. Leaders who once called Trump “dangerous” and “unfit” now parrot his lies and excuse his crimes."
Hell's Bells
Colbert asked Senator Warren last night what the behind the scenes attitude of Republicans was toward the outrageous actions of the Trump Regime. Her response was that "they no longer look me in the eye".
They are not bystanders just watching all the crime-ing. They are fully participating with every piece of legislation they propose. They are refusing to DO THEIR JOB, while getting a paycheck and playing the markets.
NY Attorney General Letitia James was fired-up and ready to go along with the other Democratic AG's. She was at a National Action Network event.
Look these up and don't miss the speech AOC is giving at the rallies. My Democratic Senator looked us all in the eye at a town hall the other day and told us to "get off the couch". It matters! See you in the streets Saturday!
Murkowski says they're scared shitless. I note Warren did not cosponsor the bipartisan tariff bill.
You are correct, that is telling. I wonder what her excuse was.
I believe she does not trust the republicans. Perhaps, she feels there is an ulterior motive in this bipartisan tariff bill. I haven't read it. She apparently wants nothing to do with the republicans in congress.
Thanks, the question is what democrats sponsored the bill. Turncoats? Lilly livered cowards? Self aggrandizers?
An important component to the steps being taken by this fascist administration is missing from today's Report - Project 2025. Pretty much everything being done by the fascist wanna-be dictator and the corrupted fascist party, formerly known as the Republican Party, is following Project 2025's plan for control. We warned people about Project 2025 but, as is too often the case, people either didn't care, didn't believe it could happen or didn't heed the warnings.
I am not waiting for the r party to "save us". Nor, do I believe the SCOTUS will buck the tide. It is up to us...the people...to continue to stand strong in defiance of this illegitimate administration. We cannot "obey in advance" nor can we look away from reality. There are more of "us' than "them" and our ranks are growing with every assault on our freedoms.
Republican venality and duplicity is mind-boggling. They complain privately about Trump's behavior and corruption, but publicly support unequivocally everything he says and does. They express concerns and reservations about some Trump nominee or policy proposal, then go ahead and vote for everything he wants. They are all on the take, all afraid of being ostracized. There are as many principled Republicans as there are ivory-billed woodpeckers.
Right you are Jeffrey. The only things the the MAGA's care about is money power and position. Outside of huge benefit and income losses for the masses, it seems, nothing can stop them from consolidating power into the hands of the few.
The Presidential Palace in San Salvador should, without warning, be bombed into dust, preferably when Bukele is home.
Oy. I haven't laid this out, but we have other remedies short of violence. The main perp is Donald J. Trump and his band of thieves, kidnappers and cons.
El Salvador is a member of OAS and they have habeus.... They have a lot of US property we could attach.with a judgment ....
Here is the wikipedia entry on Bukele. It appears that he is not grounded in anything but power, and in that he and Trump are brothers
Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez was born on 24 July 1981 in San Salvador, El Salvador.[3] His father was Armando Bukele Kattán, a businessman and industrial chemist,[4][5] and his mother is Olga Marina Ortez. Bukele's father died in 2015.[6] Bukele was the couple's first child. He has three younger brothers, Karim, Yusef, and Ibrajim, and has four paternal half sisters and two paternal half brothers.[3][7] Bukele's father converted from Christianity to Islam in the 1980s, became an imam, and founded four mosques in El Salvador.[5] Bukele's mother is Catholic.[6] Bukele's paternal grandparents were Palestinian Christians who emigrated to El Salvador from Jerusalem and Bethlehem in 1921. His maternal grandfather was Greek Orthodox, and his maternal grandmother was Catholic.[4]
Bukele completed his secondary education at the Escuela Panamericana in 1999 at age 18.[5][6] In his high school yearbook, he labeled himself as the "class terrorist" to troll others due to his father's occupation as an Imam.[8] Bukele enrolled at Central American University in San Salvador to study judicial science, aspiring to become a lawyer,[5][6] but dropped out to work for the Nölck advertising agency, one of his father's businesses.[9] Nölck campaigned for the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a left-wing Salvadoran political party.[10]
In 1999, Bukele founded marketing company Obermet, also known as 4am Saatchi & Saatchi El Salvador, and was its president from 1999 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2012.[9][11] The company ran political advertising for the FMLN presidential campaigns of Schafik Hándal in 2004 and Mauricio Funes in 2009.[6][12]: 239 Bukele was president of Yamaha Motors El Salvador, a company that sells and distributes Yamaha products in El Salvador, from 2009 to 2012.[13] During Bukele's business career, he called himself a "businessman with a great future" ("empresario con gran futuro").[10]
What’s wrong with violence in this instance?
Please, can we keep in mind that before the Trump right-wing extremist virus, the original viruses were ignorance, superstition, xenophobia and racism, irrational fear, neuroticism, and bad religion. I have started to wonder if there is any good religion, in fact. But all this became anti-democratic and dangerously insane and infected the Republican Party when American citizens became more vulnerable to the fringe ideas, conspiracy delusions, fanaticism, and fear mongering. Both parties had power, influence, and lots of money and both were overtaken by the pathological competition for economic superiority via a perverse iteration of capitalism. Only a well-informed, aware, and educated public can prevent disaster. We are a long way from those goals. In the meantime, we are dependent upon a very few Republicans, a badly compromised judicial system and Supreme Court, and people who are mad about the price of eggs and housing.
Trump’s refusal to return Kilmar is part of his Roy Cohn strategy of never apologize, never back down, never surrender, also if Kilmar is still alive, which I doubt at this moment, his return to the US would be a big setback for Trump as he is walking evidence and testimony.
This is what defines the Republican party. Money and power. Money is addictive, power is aphrodisiac
What Trump has torn down can not be put back together, the instiututional knowledge, the documents, how the pieces fit, where the connections are, who does what, who communicates to who, all that is now lost.
Everything has to be built anew, and whatever data exists has been corrupted and altered by teens with acne.
Senator Chris Van Holland, Maryland, met with him yesterday. He looked alive and well.
I just had an idea. Sen van Holland, should round up a committee of Senators, buy an extra airline ticket for Kilmar. then all fly to El Salvador to meet with Kilmar again, and then forming a circular body guard, escort him out of the prison to the airport and dare that Nayib do anything about it.
And when they arrive at the POE in America, the same thing. Force Trump to be aggressive and even arrest all of the Senators.
I saw that on TV.
Trump is a symptom.
Racism, greed and apathy are the disease. He is merely a symptom of it. The society is not broken, it is defective. Both a distinction, and a difference.
There can be no "resistance" without acknowledgement of the truth.
Truth be told.
Which illustrates what I have always said. Education is the only authentic and effective cure, and our schools have failed miserably by pretending to provide education. Schools are essential and could provide training, social services, socialization and babysitting. But education cannot be mass-produced, and it only grows in a free and unconstrained environment.
Good lord, man!
Are you suggesting that instead of a trillion dollar budget for the Department of Offense to murder melanic people across the globe, equal resources should go to the federal education budget? Art thou mad?!!!! Dost thou not realize that such a thing would eliminate the need for a Department of Offense, would likely end armed conflict and accelerate human progress?!!! Clearly you are in dire need of therapy, matey.
Stop making sense.
Actually, I do not see pumping more money into the current schooling paradigm as it exists as helpful towards a more decent, peaceful, and equal existence. We are where we are because the premises on which traditional schools are founded are erroneous and counterproductive. Education should not be seen as the primary function of schools, and indeed, schools typically inhibit the kind of education you are thinking about. I am not saying that the Department of Education should be blamed for inadequacies or inequality or that schools should not be funded fully and properly by all governments. However, laws which compel attendance necessitate a hierarchy, and guess who is at the tip-top. It is whoever happens to be the governor. The whole enterprise is a bureaucratic and authoritarian cluster, and of course, the students are at the bottom with minority students usually being somewhere down in the basement. The issue is control, power, behavioral conditioning, abstraction, distraction, subtraction, and detraction. There must be accountability, which is faked and fudged and managed via testing and grading schemes that measure memory, attitude, obedience, and selected kinds of intelligence. Government should look for every possible way to advance education of individuals and to get education into schools, without using paternalistic laws and coercion. Students who are subjugated are no better off in reality in affluent neighborhoods where they are given the illusion of superiority. They may get better jobs and make more money. But if that's all we want, we may as well let Trump take over the damn country after all.
Robert, I was in the field of education for more than 3 decades. You are absolutely correct. The governor and I would add the President use the schools to promote their administration's goals. Teach to the test under Bush was a complete disaster. Bureaucratic mess is an understatement. Striving for excellence went away when parents instead of qualified educational experts were replaced to write curricula.and curriculum.
I'm sure your experience and exasperation match or mirror that of thousands of others, including my best friend's (now deceased) daughter's experience. Micromanagement doesn't work in schools any better than anywhere else. However, I have to reiterate that the true root problem is not that "big government" or the Education Department are usurping the rights of teachers, parents, children, or "qualified educational experts". The problem is that we put our faith in "experts" designated so by state officials and official criteria and give them authority to implement policies for thousands or millions of students. Centralizing what is private, personal, and ineffable is foolish and arrogant. Attendance laws mean that there must be someone making and enforcing arbitrary rules to apply everywhere, and teachers, instead of having personal connections and relationships with students, are just instructors, evaluators, and enforcers. Arbitrary authority is antithetical to the most basic concepts of education and is toxic in a learning environment. We expect far too much from schooling. Many children are not cut out for academics or intensive intellectual exercise. They should be encouraged to discover what works for them and the work they can do best without excessive pressure to perform as scholars. Curricula should be designed by teachers specifically for the kids they know personally and without grandiose fantasies. Most crucially however, is that their spirits should not be broken by demands, expectations, artificial standards, and repressive conditions imposed from anonymous authorities pretending to know what is educational. You might call it democratic.
Not exactly true in my experience back in 1960. I was in teacher training in 1960, however, New York City had a top down structure. They were the model for the nation from the 1940's to the 1970's. The Dalton school in Manhattan, I thin,k had a program similar to what you seem to favor. I observed their program. It worked for a private school, however, it could never work for thousands of students across the nation. My experience taught me that expertise counts. Parents taking its place does not. The socratic method along with an individualized program worked. Teachers with advanced degrees and years of experience were assigned to student teachers. That worked. College educational programs were not a joke. Bring back excellence, something tRump is abolishing as we speak.
Not that it matters, but biologically, the headline seems the opposite to me. The Republican Party always had the "poor be damned" virus, and was just waiting for a host like Trump to exploit and disseminate its toxins.
Thanks,Thom. It’s been obvious for years that donvict didn’t “take over” the Repugnican Party, he simply exposed it. Their primary objective for decades has been to undue the New Deal and make the world safe for fascism. Here we are.
Hope that the GOP will turn on Trump sounds almost impossible given their track record. My guess is the only thing that might cause republicans to clean up this mess of their own making is a recession. Or perhaps millions of Social Security checks going out late or in incorrect amounts or not being received at all. Maybe a combination of events negatively affecting the masses would shake up enough members of the GOP to push back against Trump, put him in lame duck status. A massive loss of income and benefits may be the only things that could derail the dictator.
"Combination of events."
Already happening. Starting with national security. I think tariffs, Musk compound the angst of Repiublican donors and constituents.
Yes the Republicans sold their souls for tax cuts, for judges and for power. But is it a fleeting grip on power? No, when Trump, after the 2020 election sent in CyberNinjas because he claimed fraud, and they did not find any it seems obvious that is how they could fix future elections.
Then combined with Musk’s Starlink seems to be easy access for changing the integrity of our elections forever.
So it's time to cut off the head of the snake.
Right. Feathers of Hope. https://jerryweiss.substack.com/
There are two options (or maybe both combined)- Krasnov is either a deranged king who is operating willy-nilly with the controls of government. Or he is merely a puppet who is controlled by more powerful forces. We see him signing executive order after executive order and I'm certain he doesn't have a clue on what's in them. He can be controlled in two ways. He is very receptive to flattery and can be lead down the garden path by people with sinister and monetary motives. And there are also people (Putin) who have information on the dark side of Krasnov. It is no secret that Krasnov is dancing to Russia's tune. And as for his Republican sycophants, well, they should know that they will be thrown into the trash heap when they are no longer useful. Let's see what happens Saturday.
An interesting point was made on a Hawk.Podcast aired as a YouTube short. He is a lawyer of 27 years, and he noted that there is not one court filed document that claims participation or brings charges against Albrego-Garcia. There's NOTHING about crimes or the gang activity ON PAPER.
Hawk's sure that Bondi et al know damn well they will risk losing their law licenses by lying to the court.
Two other sadistic Republicans have been to the El Salvador prison to gloat---Representatives Jason Smith of MO and Riley Moore of TX.
Vile chicken-shit Republicans!
Is there any other kind - of Republicans, that is?
Moore probably is an expert on prisons; his grandpa, Arch, former R governor of West Virginia, spent a lot of time in one.