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craigcrawford
3 months ago

Plans to create a vast privately-owned network of concentration camps – what could go wrong?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/07/politics/trump-immigrant-detention-plans/index.html

History shows that once you build them, ostensibly for one targeted group, you use them for other groups too. The mass deportation plans are an opportunity to build the infrastructure of authoritarian repression.

— Ruth Ben-Ghiat

https://x.com/ruthbenghiat/status/1854660963011551721?t=u2RHFJI7uOJESV-00A5jDA&s=19

 

craigcrawford
3 months ago

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán: Trump’ To End US Support Of Ukraine

“The Americans are going to pull out of this war.”

 

Pogo
3 months ago

This is who we are? No. This is who they are. 

Pogo
3 months ago

After election, racist texts nationwide threaten Black people with slavery. WaPo

Black people in several states received racist texts, some that claimed to be affiliated with Donald Trump, ordering them to work as slaves on plantations.

The FBI and authorities in several states are investigating racist text messages sent to Black people nationwide this week saying they would be brought to plantations to work as enslaved people and pick cotton.
 

People in at least a dozen states and D.C. have received the messages according to authorities and local media. The texts have spread alarm in the aftermath of a presidential election marked by President-elect Donald Trump and his campaign’s use of inflammatory language against minorities.
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This is NOT who WE are. It is who THEY are. Believe them. Concentration camps, threats of slavery. Welcome back, Nathan. 

blueINdallas
3 months ago

https://www.newsweek.com/former-trump-aide-jokes-stripping-womens-right-vote-male-only-1977295

“John McEntee, a political adviser who served in the Trump administration and a co-founder of the conservative dating app the Right Stuff, posted a video on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday in which he said: “So I guess they misunderstood. When we said we wanted mail-only voting, we meant male—’M-A-L-E.'”
“Sorry we want MALE only voting. The 19th might have to go,” he added in the video’s caption, referring to the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
McEntee’s video has since gone viral, amassing more than 4 million views, 3,800 likes, 1,800 reposts and 2,100 comments.”
 
This is who THEY are.  That was not a joke, it was a wish.
 

blueINdallas
3 months ago

Sooo, these new “detainment centers,” will they be WWII-style internment camps (wasn’t nobody making s’mores) or Soviet-style gulags where there will be forced labor? 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States

 
“Prison labor is legal under the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.[1]
“Prison labor in the U.S. generates significant economic output.[2] Incarcerated workers provide services valued at $9 billion annually and produce over $2 billion in goods.”
 

My guess is that, long term, these will be work camps for the non-violent without citizenship and, perhaps Dickensian debtor’s prisons. 

They will only be detention centers to hold folks for deportation in the short run.   They aren’t going to build them and not use them. 

We’ve still got two months to undo this mess.  Can President Biden and the current Congress put guardrails on any of it? 

ps – It’s really hard to move to Denmark after the age of about 40, unless you marry a Dane. If you’re a student or a young, skilled professional, go for it. Get outta Dodge while you can.

My passport has expired. Should I renew now, or will US passports be trash after January 20th, anyway?

Will there be any US tourism not coming from Russia or Saudi Arabia?

Need to read books in resistance to Nazi Germany. Any recommendations? PBS should air all of the WWII stuff now, before Orange Adolf pulls the plug.

craigcrawford
3 months ago

Trump’s 93 Campaign Promises
Every promise made on video.
MeidasNews

blueINdallas
3 months ago

Most Americans won’t be traveling at all, if those tRUMPsky tariffs eat up disposable income, if anyone has any of that.   
“If you want to destroy my sweater, pull this thread as I walk away.” -Weezer

blueINdallas
3 months ago

Number 14 is gonna be interesting for some of the Latino men who voted for Adolf.
 
“Birthright citizenship will be ended by executive order. All persons who were born in the US to migrant parents will have their citizenship revoked and will be deported immediately.”

blueINdallas
3 months ago

https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/to-the-contrary/clip/ttc-extra-russian-birth-tourism-trump-properties-qj0wgl
Russian Birth Tourism at Trump Properties
 

“Russian women are giving birth in Florida for the specific purpose of getting their kids US passports, in a procedure often called “birth tourism.” The births are sometimes occurring at properties owned by President Donald Trump.”

So, is he giving a pass to Russians?  To Russians born on tRUMPsky properties, exclusively? 

blueINdallas
3 months ago

Most of my neighbors in Texas were from India. Young couples who started their families in the US. Are all of the children in my neighborhood going to be deported to India?  Who will do the jobs that their parents do?  They are mostly in the tech industry, but they’ve opened grocery stores and restaurants and dance centers and retail stores, too. 

IvyGreen
3 months ago

This transition is not going to be peaceful.

craigcrawford
3 months ago

Worth saving as a benchmark — Biden economy day before election 11/5/24:

Inflation 2.4%

Unemployment 4.1%

IvyGreen
3 months ago

I keep thinking about this still-prescient show, not too far-fetched as it seemed.

Years and Years, HBO
The six-part series follows the Manchester-based Lyons family: housing officer Daniel is married to Ralph, married couple Stephen and Celeste worry about their two children, single mother Rosie is looking for a new partner, and sister Edith is engaged in one humanitarian cause after another. Presiding over them all is their grandmother, the imperious Muriel. All their lives converge on one crucial night in 2019, and the story accelerates into the future, following the lives and loves of the Lyons over the next fifteen years as Britain is rocked by political upheavals, economic instability and technological advances.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_and_Years_(TV_series)

craigcrawford
3 months ago

Overlooked: Trump got 4 million fewer votes than last time.

blueINdallas
3 months ago

https://people.com/same-sex-marriage-ballot-measures-california-colorado-hawaii-8741494
“3 States Just Boosted Same-Sex Marriage Protections in Case Supreme Court Overturns Landmark Ruling”
California, Colorado and Hawaii voted to safeguard marriage equality this week should the Supreme Court ever target the landmark human rights case ‘Obergefell v. Hodges’
 
Should same sex couples get married, again, in a state where the marriage will be protected if Adolf’s personal justices undo everything?   

craigcrawford
3 months ago

My personal Biden economy benchmark before Election Day 2024. Gas $2.75 a gallon and at Safeway I paid:

— $2.69 for a dozen eggs

— $4.99 for a pound of bacon

— $1.99 for a half gallon of milk

craigcrawford
3 months ago

Must vent that I was not real keen on the post-election Kamala/Joe “Mommy and Daddy say everything will be okay” speeches.

The Fascist threat they warned about in the campaign has not gone away.

I would have preferred a bit more defiance and less sappy assurance.

I prefer how Govs Newsom and Pritzker are firing up the resistance.

Jamie
3 months ago

Rachel Maddow has a podcast on the rise of the right wing of the 1930s called ULTRA.  They were driven under their rocks then.  We may not be so fortunate this time.

It’s well worth a lesson.

IvyGreen
3 months ago

They are trying to keep us calm.

Jamie
3 months ago

Interesting interview with Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale) that includes her impression of the Trump election.  The comments from readers are worth reading as well.

Margaret Atwood: “Many Americans were afraid of losing their status and identity power with Kamala”

 

Pogo
3 months ago

Bid, I’m pretty sure an executive order does not override a right granted in the 14th Amendment absent SCROTUS ruling that DOTUS has that power under Article II of the USC or an amendment passed that repeals the 14th. But it’s been 35 years since I took ConLaw, so …

Jamie
3 months ago

Craig,

State of WA is much higher on those costs.  Not sure how it compares with a minimum wage here of $16.28 and Seattle just pushed that up to $20.00 plus there is no state income tax.   Still today at Safeway.

Eggs 5.49

Bacon 8.99

Milk 3.89

Jamie
3 months ago

The popular vote was 20 million less than last time, so either a whole lot of people sat on their rear ends, or a lot of people got removed from rolls and didn’t fight the change.

Jamie
3 months ago

Scary thought – What if Trump expands the Supreme Court to 13 to match the Appellate Courts.  That would allow him to add four more justices now that he has the Senate.  Wipe out the Senate filibuster and he might as well declare a dictatorship.  

blueINdallas
3 months ago

Biden should’ve done that, Jamie. 

Voter rolls were purged, some may have been impacted by hurricanes, and some sat it out because they thought they were going to save Gaza.

Jamie
3 months ago

He still could but not sure if there is time to do a Senate rush approval particularly when the GOP knows who is coming in.

 

blueINdallas
3 months ago

Two, female MAGAts at the grocery store today, one in their 50s and the other about 70.  They were worked up about Mexican rapists and murderers being let go, while an internet squirrel was captured and killed, and how we deserved to lose because our priorities were wrong.  Jesus H! The nasty, made up stories about immigrants. And, y’all live in the middle of freaking nowhere!

ps – Soy milk is $4.99/half gallon, as it has been since I got here, and only the little store has it, not WalMart, which I avoided today because I thought it would be more MAGAty.

blueINdallas
3 months ago

I think the keep calm, democracy is working was more for the rest of the world watch the US implode.   Also, we may all need to seem compliant at some point, to stay safe…and to infiltrate MAGAt ranks.  

Deadly food poisoning, lightning strikes, heart attacks, strokes, planes falling out of the sky…a lot of things could happen to a lot of MAGAts before January 20th.

blueINdallas
3 months ago

While prices of food and rent are too damned high, that’s not the whole story.  That’s the nice story that’s being floated.  MAGAts are not nice people.  They are racists, they are misogynists, and they claim to be Christian, but act otherwise. I’m not going to be nice.  I hate them.  They destroyed democracy.  They can all go rot.  

What happens to the Haitians and others who were given asylum here?

Jamie
3 months ago

 

RebelliousRenee
3 months ago

today’s meme…
 
 

blueINdallas
3 months ago

https://nsjonline.com/article/2021/12/bonhoeffer-on-stupidity/
“Bonhoeffer was a leader in the Confessional Church in Germany and was hanged to death on April 9, 1945 by Hitler’s Nazis just days before the Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated.”
 

“It is a particular form of the impact of historical circumstances on human beings, a psychological concomitant of certain external conditions. Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or of a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity.”

“It would even seem that this is virtually a sociological-psychological law. The power of the one needs the stupidity of the other.”
 
“The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings.”

craigcrawford
3 months ago

‘How does that work?’ GOP lawmaker grilled over plan to quickly snatch up immigrants

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-immigrant-round-up-grilled/

I have no clue how they’re going to round up 15 million people, and they don’t either, but they’re going to try somehow.

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craigcrawford
3 months ago

Suggest everyone take note of their key item grocery prices as of now so that we can track whether they go up or down during Trump’s reign.

Blue Bronc
3 months ago

My grandmother immigrated from Finland, does that make me eligible to be deported to Finland?

Jamie
3 months ago

My father was born in Scotland, so I’ve always considered that my escape hatch because Britain honors that sort of relationship.  They may have changed the eligible years.  I would have to recheck.

 

blueINdallas
3 months ago

I still think Kamala Harris should announce she’s running for 2028, on January 21st.

Blue Bronc
3 months ago

I am supposed to be eligible for a Finnish passport.  Have to look at that again.

Jamie
3 months ago

Not sure if this was the Trump voters before the election or the Harris voters since the election.

 

craigcrawford
3 months ago

Out for a walk in the neighborhood on a very fine day. Yes, that’s my shadow.

craigcrawford
3 months ago

An up and coming Democratic Texas State rep who could be governor some day.

IvyGreen
3 months ago

Sad to not see Bink here. I hope he’s doing what he has to do to take care of himself. We’re all going to have to double-up on that self-care shit.

blueINdallas
3 months ago

If you’ve never listened to Talarico speak, you should go listen to one on YouTube.   He walks the walk that Mike Johnson and others only talk. 

Ivy – Bink said he was “locking himself out of this account” a couple of days ago. He may be back one day, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

IvyGreen
3 months ago

BID, I wasn’t sure what was going on. Sorry to hear that, he has an important voice that I hope we’ll hear again. 

RebelliousRenee
3 months ago

Ivy… Bink has quit this blog at least several times before….   he has always come back.  He comes back with a different name… but we always recognize him.   Kinda like Brokeback Mountain…  he doesn’t seem able to quit us.
 
BTW…. my favorite incantation of him was when he called himself… Lord Bloggingham.

craigcrawford
3 months ago

Kash Patel, who is on the shortlist to serve in Trump’s administration:

“We’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We’re going to come after you.”

https://x.com/AccountableGOP/status/1854962395027796146

blueINdallas
3 months ago

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/08/economy/steve-madden-china-trump-tariffs/index.html

“President-elect Donald Trump has promised steep across-the-board tariffs on imports to the United States, with a particularly significant tax on goods coming from China. One US company, just two days after Trump’s reelection, says it isn’t wasting time getting out of China.”

“Steve Madden, a $3 billion shoe company, announced Thursday that it would rapidly halve its Chinese production to avoid Trump’s tariffs. Those plans have been in place for a long time, in anticipation of a Trump victory, according to Steve Madden’s CEO Edward Rosenfeld.”

“We have been planning for a potential scenario in which we would have to move goods out of China more quickly,” Rosenfeld told Wall Street analysts Thursday. “And so, as of yesterday morning, we are putting that plan into motion. And you should expect to see the percentage of goods that we sourced from China to begin to come down more rapidly going forward.”

“US labor laws, pay scales – and the fact that America simply doesn’t have as many people as other countries who want to make stuff – means that making shoes in the United States just doesn’t make business sense for most big companies.”

“The point of tariffs, in theory, is to incentivize US manufacturing by making imported goods comparatively more expensive to made-in-the-USA stuff. But here’s the catch: Steve Madden isn’t moving its production to the United States. It said it will be sourcing its goods from Cambodia, Vietnam, Mexico, Brazil and some other countries.”
 
 
 

whskyjack
3 months ago

Blue Bronc
3 months ago

As a change of thinking, fiftyish years ago my brother in law worked at a start up company, Mr Coffee.  He was a tool and die apprentice at the time.  One of the marketing tools the company used was to give deep discounts on the coffee maker. So we got one.  Prior to that time we had always made coffee using a percolator. The taste varied as did the jokes.
 
My spouse and I were surprised at how easy it was to make coffee that was consistent in flavor.  The Mr. Coffee was a success for many reasons, and it literally changed how Americans made their coffee.  Since then much of my life I enjoyed drip coffee and in certain situations percolator coffee.
 
So, recently I started making percolator coffee as practice to making it on a boat without  AC power to run a coffee maker.  It is rich in flavor, deep in color, and so wonderfully thick.  Especially compared to drip coffee.  I realized that I missed the old flavor of coffee.  Listening to the blub and pop of the percolator was great.  Years ago I, or rather we, lived on percolator coffee. 
 
I returned and now have the usual percolator coffee maker to make coffee on a fuel stove (think some type of camping stove).  But, I made the next step to an electric percolator.  Although I wanted one that I used back in the sixties and seventies, it made more sense to find a modern one.  I did, as usual the Chinese made a good one. It works. 

IvyGreen
3 months ago

Renee, Lol, I did that too, got lost along the way during the changeover, lost passwords and access before Craig took pity and helped me get back in. Hope we’ll see Bink again by any other name, would be as sweet.
 

blueINdallas
3 months ago

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/08/politics/pentagon-officials-discussing-trump/index.html
“Pentagon officials are holding informal discussions about how the Department of Defense would respond if Donald Trump issues orders to deploy active-duty troops domestically and fire large swaths of apolitical staffers, defense officials told CNN.”
 
Officials are now gaming out various scenarios as they prepare for an overhaul of the Pentagon.“We are all preparing and planning for the worst-case scenario, but the reality is that we don’t know how this is going to play out yet,” one defense official said.
 
“Troops are compelled by law to disobey unlawful orders,” said another defense official. “But the question is what happens then – do we see resignations from senior military leaders? Or would they view that as abandoning their people?”

IvyGreen
3 months ago

Blue Bronc, I’ve about had it with the tasteless Keurig and invested in a French Press and a kettle to boil the water. 

IvyGreen
3 months ago

I don’t see why oaths of allegiance are beholden to liars, crooks and murderers. If a serial killer is at your door, you don’t owe him a truthful answer about who is in the house. 

Katherine Graham Cracker
3 months ago

I think one of the first groups to have a lot of trouble will be the trans community.  A large part of the blog posts etc appealing to the bro community have been anti trans comments.
The issue will be trans women playing competive sport’s particularly volley ball.
 
 
 
 

blueINdallas
3 months ago

Telling my family member about the changes because of who won the election, but they say these stories are just liberal scare tactics.    Obtuse.

Pogo
3 months ago

bId, good on you for keeping up the fight. Remind your family members when their first dearly held idol falls that you warned them. 

Ahhhh, coffee. Drip on a daily basis, French press when I want it especially rich and percolator coffee – I think there’s one in a box in the basement. I love percolator coffee but Mrs. P doesn’t like strong coffee, so it’s not practical to perc it. And Keurig? No thanks – only at work and at conferences.

Have found that Goodwill and Christian Crossings (local thrift shop – have $10-25 drip machines by Cuisinart and other mid range manufacturers – about $100 off after people who can’t seem to grasp that coffee is pretty simple to make – hot water poured through ground roasted coffee beans – and the newest fanciest ones use that formula and it tastes like that whether made in the newest and oldest coffee makers.