Monsters
And their enablers are accessories to murder
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I was working on another wonkish post about China's trade surplus when the news about Alex Pretti's murder broke. I'll put that post up at some point, but not today.
It has been clear for a long time, to anyone willing to see, that the people running the federal government — Trump, Miller, Noem, Bovino and more — are monsters. It has been equally obvious that ICE and the Border Patrol are now filled with sadistic thugs. Yet many people — almost the entire GOP, everyone serving in the Trump administration, some Democrats, a significant part of the media — were too cowardly to admit the obvious.
At this point, however, there are no more excuses. In a way the cowards and opportunists enabling Trump are more to blame for where we are than Trump and company themselves: monsters are monsters and can't help themselves, but the enablers have a choice. And they have chosen, again and again, to accommodate and facilitate evil.
I wish I could believe that the last few weeks will be the last straw, but I don't. To be honest, I wish I believed in Hell, because if it did exist, the enablers would be going there along with the monsters.
What I do believe in is the courage and decency of millions of ordinary Americans, which have been so dramatically on display in Minneapolis. We can only hope that this courage and decency get us through this nightmare — and we must do all we can to make it happen.
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This equally applies to the fascists' facilitators here on NT. They are willing, conscious accessories to murder.
It has been clear for a long time, to anyone willing to see, that the people running the federal government — Trump, Miller, Noem, Bovino and more — are monsters. It has been equally obvious that ICE and the Border Patrol are now filled with sadistic thugs.
Yet many people — almost the entire GOP, everyone serving in the Trump administration, some Democrats, a significant part of the media — were too cowardly to admit the obvious.
Well Majorie Taylor Greene did accuse government agents of acting like Gazpacho:
Isn't it chilling how far down the spiral we have dropped already? MTG seems almost quaint.
I think on the whole this paragraph is objectively true. The administration figures named are all serial liars. As for the individual agents it is less clear, although I have never seen a single video of an ICE or Border Patrol agent acting compassionately toward anyone, immigrants, protesters, or bystanders. To the contrary many of them that are on video do appear sadistic. But we have to admit that those caught on video are a small part of the total.
What comes around will go around. It probably won’t be long before the hunters become the hunted by far greater numbers.
remember when maga scum in that region starting appearing at protests with their rifles during covid? I wonder how that would play out with maga now? I also wonder how trump's rogue gestapo agencies would react if a couple hundred rifles in the hands of protesters showed up at the next ICE raid?
I’m picturing bump stocks and rooftops.
I'm thinking .308's and 30.06's with full metal jackets, from multiple elevated positions and directions, at 400 yards or less. beginning with leg shots to slow down the gestapo's tactical front line retreats, by tying up their other assisting agents, until the rest of the protesters overrun them, assault and disarm them, and then totally strip them in the subzero weather for the walk back to their hotels ... /s