Thank you guys at the Bulwark for continuing to support those that have been taken away with no hearing. I appreciated what Eric Swalwell did on the floor questioning Noem and every senator that has lost a citizen to these illegal roundups should be asking every day why due process isn’t being held up.
It’s not just that the Trumplicants want to win the “public relations fight” at the expense of the freedom of Abrego Garcia. That would be bad enough. But it might be tolerable if they were doing it by advancing arguments supporting their position. But they’re really not. They simply want to reframe the argument. Instead of concentrating on the real issue (no due process), they want to focus on the person involved. And every time someone points out the real issue, they accuse that person of “loving gang members”.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – this is the same tactic that the Bush (43) Administration used in 2002/2003. If you opposed the invasion of Iraq, you “must love dictators”.
And, of course, the Trumplicants used the same diversionary tactic in 2019 by spending so much time wondering who was the author of the whistleblower letter to the Inspector General as if who wrote it mattered more than the truthfulness of what was in it.
The Republican President and his collection of resident clowns are right up there with the most disgusting beings on earth. It's impossible to call them human. Their gleeful mistreatment of those they see as inferior is incredibly cruel. I cannot respect the man, his sycophants and the MAGA types who blindly support him. A pox on all of them!
Once again, thanks Adrian. I didn’t know that a poster was even circulating attempting to link Abrego Garcia with MS-13, even after I watched Kristi Noem lie about it at a press conference with a smile on her face. She would be comical, a real life Cruela DeVille, if she were not doing so much damage.
Art has power. Art communicates - often directly into the heart. These qualities make art dangerous in the hands of a Leni Riefenstahl, or at the behest of Steven Miller. Art is dangerous TO such propagandists, in the hands of the people.
Frank Zappa, paraphrasing Edgard Varèse, used to say, “The present day composer refuses to die.” Present day artists of ALL mediums have power to use in our community efforts.
Adrian focuses his power here on The Bulwark. We each amplify this when we carry his stories forward into our own circles. These works of art shared here today will spread far. Blessings to our artist sisters & brothers!
If the Trump administration can deal with Hamas to free an American hostage in Gaza, it can tell the president of El Salvador (who is on the American taxpayers’ payroll for taking trafficked prisoners from the U.S.) to send back Mr. Garcia.
We all know the malignant BS of Trump fascists who are defying the Supreme Court and lower courts and defaming Mr. Garcia - all to prove the regime’s power over anyone and everyone. May they soon be tossed into the dust bin of history’s worst villains!
Exactly. Not only not small but huge. I'm uneasy with the sanctification of Kilmar. Not knowing very much about him, I fear a propaganda rug pull in the future.
I'm thinking they might have hole card--e.g. evidence that he *was* MS-13 at some point. Which doesn't preclude at all that he fled El Salvador to get way from them; or preclude his being a nice guy, overall.
Understood, amigo. The principle is what counts. In this case the person is a means or embodiment to affirm the principle. For humans that usually comes with risk. I keep thinking if there was any actual proof of criminality, even Bondi & Ka$h would've stumbled over by now (Bondi & Ka$h - rejected name for a bad 70's pop duo)
I have feet of clay myself, won't be on any t-shirts unless the grandkids fingerpaint a stick figure of me.
Whoever decided to put up the image of Kilmar in the manner of the Obama poster is already onto it. Just last week I was seeing posters at rallies reading things like "I Stand with Kilmar." It's the kind of thing we've seen referring to people like Zelinsky. I like the pop duo idea. How about a kinky rap act, "$&B."
How can you say without proof that a person is a criminal and not be sued for defamation?
The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.
When’s the next relevant court activity due??
Good work, Adrian. Keep the conversation going.
Thank you guys at the Bulwark for continuing to support those that have been taken away with no hearing. I appreciated what Eric Swalwell did on the floor questioning Noem and every senator that has lost a citizen to these illegal roundups should be asking every day why due process isn’t being held up.
It’s not just that the Trumplicants want to win the “public relations fight” at the expense of the freedom of Abrego Garcia. That would be bad enough. But it might be tolerable if they were doing it by advancing arguments supporting their position. But they’re really not. They simply want to reframe the argument. Instead of concentrating on the real issue (no due process), they want to focus on the person involved. And every time someone points out the real issue, they accuse that person of “loving gang members”.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – this is the same tactic that the Bush (43) Administration used in 2002/2003. If you opposed the invasion of Iraq, you “must love dictators”.
And, of course, the Trumplicants used the same diversionary tactic in 2019 by spending so much time wondering who was the author of the whistleblower letter to the Inspector General as if who wrote it mattered more than the truthfulness of what was in it.
It’s disgusting.
Pity the fascists who can't even do propaganda right.
I keep waiting for the assministration to blame Kilmar for his son's autism.
Anyone know where you can get a Free Kilmar poster??
The Republican President and his collection of resident clowns are right up there with the most disgusting beings on earth. It's impossible to call them human. Their gleeful mistreatment of those they see as inferior is incredibly cruel. I cannot respect the man, his sycophants and the MAGA types who blindly support him. A pox on all of them!
The behavior by the White House is outrageous. I am so glad you are a member of the Bulwark team. Your articles on immigration are not sugarcoated .
Once again, thanks Adrian. I didn’t know that a poster was even circulating attempting to link Abrego Garcia with MS-13, even after I watched Kristi Noem lie about it at a press conference with a smile on her face. She would be comical, a real life Cruela DeVille, if she were not doing so much damage.
Art has power. Art communicates - often directly into the heart. These qualities make art dangerous in the hands of a Leni Riefenstahl, or at the behest of Steven Miller. Art is dangerous TO such propagandists, in the hands of the people.
Frank Zappa, paraphrasing Edgard Varèse, used to say, “The present day composer refuses to die.” Present day artists of ALL mediums have power to use in our community efforts.
Adrian focuses his power here on The Bulwark. We each amplify this when we carry his stories forward into our own circles. These works of art shared here today will spread far. Blessings to our artist sisters & brothers!
If the Trump administration can deal with Hamas to free an American hostage in Gaza, it can tell the president of El Salvador (who is on the American taxpayers’ payroll for taking trafficked prisoners from the U.S.) to send back Mr. Garcia.
We all know the malignant BS of Trump fascists who are defying the Supreme Court and lower courts and defaming Mr. Garcia - all to prove the regime’s power over anyone and everyone. May they soon be tossed into the dust bin of history’s worst villains!
Julie - This! IANAL - surely this point could be worth mentioning in any of the habeus cases on behalf of our renditioned neighbors?
Maybe Trump is waiting to get his 400-million-$ gold-plated Air Force One so he can have Kilmar flown back on it?
Believing a few hours on that plane should be more than adequate compensation for months spent in squalid Salvadoran jails.
I don't think I know enough about Kilmar to say he should stand for anything but the denial of due process.
TomD - given that's a principle enshrined in our Constitution, that's no small item in itself
Exactly. Not only not small but huge. I'm uneasy with the sanctification of Kilmar. Not knowing very much about him, I fear a propaganda rug pull in the future.
Surely Trump’s people have dumped every negative thing they have by now.
I'm thinking they might have hole card--e.g. evidence that he *was* MS-13 at some point. Which doesn't preclude at all that he fled El Salvador to get way from them; or preclude his being a nice guy, overall.
Wouldn’t they have released such evidence by now?
I'm thinking politics, not justice. A FOX "bombshell revelation" for closer to the mid-terms.
Understood, amigo. The principle is what counts. In this case the person is a means or embodiment to affirm the principle. For humans that usually comes with risk. I keep thinking if there was any actual proof of criminality, even Bondi & Ka$h would've stumbled over by now (Bondi & Ka$h - rejected name for a bad 70's pop duo)
I have feet of clay myself, won't be on any t-shirts unless the grandkids fingerpaint a stick figure of me.
Whoever decided to put up the image of Kilmar in the manner of the Obama poster is already onto it. Just last week I was seeing posters at rallies reading things like "I Stand with Kilmar." It's the kind of thing we've seen referring to people like Zelinsky. I like the pop duo idea. How about a kinky rap act, "$&B."
I’ll slip a note under the door of the Meme Department with the words “Bondi and Discipline”
Check back in an hour 🤣