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I will take a HARD PASS
It is truly amazing to consider how much time has been spent the last few weeks taking about Joe Biden’s mental health when we should be talking about how to deal with this shit.
They’re all complicit - media, voters, courts, big business, big money, foreign countries, the legislature, red states, religious leaders, on and on it goes. Even then, it turns out that a lot of what we took for American stability is actually really fragile, easily broken.
My sincere apologies. I have this constant dream where, in Trumplandia, when all immigrants are deported, I’ m roaming the country looking for a Tex/Mex restaurant but there are none to be found. So I decide to move to Mexico but when I get to the border, ICE won’t let me out. They say on orders from President Donald Trump, Jr. And then I have to decide, to wake up or continue my journey. Maybe I’ll get lucky in New Jersey.
Now there’s a nauseating thought. Cokehead for president. He could bring his harem with him to the WH and the the MAGAts would hail him as the new savior.
I’m with you here. After the first bungled sortie, the dance has slowed down a lot. The many courts who’ve ruled against these actions and demanded acountability have clearly slowed the process almost to a halt. The Miller regime is having to rethink it’s various approaches as varies options are cut off. Sad that they force hundreds of men to suffer while this all plays out, but the resistance in the courts and in the public square has meant that fewer will be subject to this sort of extrajudicial nonsense.
THIS x 1000!
I’ve had it with the Biden bashing shit. The only reason most folks do it is to justify their bad choice for president.
For Memorial Day, about remembering. Keith Douglass was a British tank commander in North Africa, where he wrote this, and then in France, where he was killed shortly after D-Day. “Vergissmeinnicht” is “Forget me not.”
Vergissmeinicht
Three weeks gone and the combatants gone
returning over the nightmare ground
we found the place again, and found
the soldier sprawling in the sun.
The frowning barrel of his gun
overshadowing. As we came on
that day, he hit my tank with one
like the entry of a demon.
Look. Here in the gunpit spoil
the dishonoured picture of his girl
who has put: Steffi. Vergissmeinnicht.
in a copybook gothic script.
We see him almost with content,
abased, and seeming to have paid
and mocked at by his own equipment
that’s hard and good when he’s decayed.
But she would weep to see today
how on his skin the swart flies move;
the dust upon the paper eye
and the burst stomach like a cave.
For here the lover and killer are mingled
who had one body and one heart.
And death who had the soldier singled
has done the lover mortal hurt.
This.
Plus they know the drill and how to avoid ICE scrutiny. Newly arrived migrants or those who have legal status aren’t hiding, so it’s easier to pick them up.
The kidnapping of people with legal status to a torture prison is pure Trumpian logic: All migrants are “illegal and deportable”, with the legal ones having scammed the system. Trump is starting with easiest legal migrants to deport, those whose status can be unilaterally revoked by the President, but he will move on to additional categories. We’re already seeing that by his regimes efforts to revoke student or work visas for migrants who have no more than a speeding ticket or an arrest (but no prosecution or conviction). But they will eventually move to people with permanent residence and even naturalized citizens.
Cato is a rightwing rag, but opposing a rightwing authoritarian government is consistent with their libertarian beliefs. Strange times makes strange bedfellows.
That’s a huge drop from his previous claim - also debunked repeatedly - of 21 million during Biden’s administration alone.
Oh, come on. That one’s too easy. Ask me a harder one.
In Canada 
we commemorate Remembrance Day, November 11. We honour our war dead from all wars and our veterans who returned. At 11 am, ‘the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month’ (the anniversary of the signing of the armistice for WWI in 1918) we observe a minute of silence. We wear a poppy. (The Brits’ commemorations are similar). John McCrae was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Canadian Army, a doctor, born in Guelph Ontario in 1872.
Many of us of a certain age can still recite ‘In Flanders Fields’, word for word, from memory from have attended school assemblies on Remembrance Day. Remembering our American allies today.