The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’ […] ‘That’s not the way the world really works anymore,’ he continued. ‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do’.[2]
Ron Suskind quoting an un-named Shrub official in 2004.
I guess we’ve haven’t yet reached the “I’m your Mother/Father, and you’ll do what I tell you to do.”
And like anything CF-DJT does, they are not very good at it. Fortunately. It is all (bad) showmanship.
Where are the raids on hotels, clubs in Florida, farms in the South and the Central Valley of California? Nowhere to be seen.
And where is E-Verify for every single job? And increasing the budget of the Department of Labor to enforce it?
No, instead we get theatrics and shooting by a semi secret police force. MIller’s Brown Shirts. He should remember history and what happened to Ernst Rohm.
Well, look at us. Flying at top speed toward such important records as being both the dumbest and the most vicious country on Earth. And we’ve done it simply by handing over all our power to a malevolent dementia patient.
“In times past, a politician might offer thoughts and prayers, encourage those reacting to wait for the full results of the investigation and generally try to lower the temperature. A leader might take the opportunity provided by a fresh day to soothe the broken heart of a nation and appeal to the better angels among us.
JD Vance went in a different direction.”
They quote his press conference. Which I don’t need to repeat.
“As a Catholic, Vance knows better than to peddle this brand of gaslighting and agitation. Vance knows that, by virtue of her humanity, Good was endowed with inherent dignity, made in the image and likeness of God. Vance knows that only God can take life. Vance knows that protesting, fleeing or even interfering in an ICE investigation (which there is no evidence that Good did) does not carry a death sentence. Vance knows that lying and killing are sins.
Vance knows. He doesn’t care. Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power.
The vice president’s comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel. Our only recourse is to pray for his conversion of heart.”
That link on their page takes you to all of their videos. I went through 3 pages. None of them are this purported video. But that’s proof it was an act of “domestic terrorism”. Because she said “go this way”? Or maybe “what’s happening over there?”
Justice Keganaugh, via the shadow docket (emphasis mine):
"The Government sometimes makes brief investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture, or car washes that often do not require paperwork and are therefore attractive to illegal immigrants; and who do not speak much if any English. If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go. If the individual is illegally in the United States, the officers may arrest the individual and initiate the process for removal.
From today’s MM (emphasis mine):
U.S. Citizen Released After 25 Days in ICE Detention
It took 25 days for a 22-year-old Maryland woman to be released from ICE detention while her lawyers kept providing evidence that she is U.S.-born citizen.
