Never felt so ashamed for my country as I when I read the last piece of your newsletter about the Oklahoma woman and her three daughters, left standing in the rain with all their devices and, according to thereporting, their life savings confiscated by ICE agents. My god.
It's wonderful that the American Labor Unions are supporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia! We have to do MORE to ALSO support Labor Unions. They are the ones that gave us the 8 hour day, overtime pay and other benefits!
Trump's Anti-Terrorism Czar Sebastian Gorka, News Max 16 April: “We have people that love America, like the president, like his cabinet, like the directors of his agencies, who want to protect Americans. And then there’s the other side that is on the side of the cartel members, on the side of the illegal aliens, on the side of the terrorists,” ... “And you have to ask yourself: Are they technically aiding and abetting them? Because aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists is a crime in federal statute.”
One does not need multiple college degrees to see where this is heading. This is the fallacious logic that is used to justify replacing the rule of law with the rule of one man.
"What makes you so much more worthier of your peace? What makes you so much more worthier of protecting your children? What makes you so much more worthy of your citizenship? What makes you more worthy of safety?"
This is the foundational belief of MAGA. That they are more worthy of safety than the rest of us. This is why a few parents who are worried that their white children will be "traumatized" by the reality of racial apartheid in this country get to pass laws that gaslight and traumatize black children by perpetuating lies about their history. This is why a few parents took the right to erase LGBTQ families from classrooms, regardless of the trauma that it inflicts on students who are LGBTQ and/or who have parents in same sex marriage. They believe that they ARE worthier than the rest of us.
Wilhoit's law holds:
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.".
Unfortunately for Marisa & her children, when they moved into a house previously occupied by someone who was part of the outgroup, they became part of the outgroup themselves, at least in comparison to the federal authorities who raided them. They were, therefore, bound by the law, but not protected by it.
More and more "conservatives" will have this experience over time. Because the ingroup is getting smaller and smaller and smaller, which means that the outgroup can only increase in size.
Dems that wonder if Kilmer is the “right” case, are, (like the GOP), missing the point, which is about due process. It’s also about having principles that don’t change on a case by case basis. Bipartisan blindness.
"But labor leaders are riding a wave of opposition to Trump’s second administration, especially his economic and immigration policies." Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...
The involvement of “Labour” (excuse the Canadian-spelling) is significant here! The future of “the required labour force” in the USA, resides in the future of immigration itself. You literally NEED immigrants; it is in the Demographic Facts, which do not lie. The USA has had a Gross Fertility Rate of *below Replacement-Rate* , that is below 2.2 babies per average-woman’s reproductive-years… for over 40 years now. Without Immigration, every cohort of working-age adults (those roughly age 16 to 64) will be smaller than the preceding one. As absolute recipe for economic-contraction, not economic growth!
When I hear the GOP lather-on about “Re-shoring American manufacturing, creating American jobs!” , I constantly think —“They are bringing manufacturing *back*… Back to what labour force, in fact?”
No one talks about this. They think that the pressure of South &CentralAmerican migrants will be endless… but it won’t. The Fertility-Rate in Chile was already as low as 1.8-per-woman in 2019 (so said our tour-guide, a mother of one.) The same is true, if newer, in all the south-of-RioGrande countries. The present-day teens, and 12-13 y.o., usually being only-children, will stay home to take care of their parents.
Meanwhile, Trump et al., are discouraging and not improving “Legal Immigration” as well. Indeed, Europeans, Canadians, Japanese, Australians, etc., do not want to even visit the USA or study there.
At some point, the “Boomers” of the USA will (a lot of them) becoming “Frail Elderly”, like my present 93-y.o. mother in Canada, who thank Heaven has a cohort of largely SouthAsian, Jamaican, and Nigerian care-givers, in her Long-Term Care,all legal immigrants or second-Gen., into Canada. Her only nearby “child”, is 65-y.o. Me, who has lost ++hearing, and my 72-y.o. Old husband, who is losing his eyesight. We care about her, and do many things, but cannot care for wandering, demented her.
Finally (-finally!), a News Editorial, in April 26th “The Economist”: it says the obvious: The global “developed world” will NEED immigrants in the last 1/2 of the 21st-century. The only source of these needed immigrants, will be Emigrants from SubSaharan Africa! The sequential head-explosions, of the “White Nationalists” of the USA, as this inevitability plays out… it’s something I look forward too. I’m as Briton/White origin, as they come; but colourist-racism has never made any sense to me.
Things are in motion. The May Day demo here in Atlanta was a fascinating example. The crowd count outside the Statehouse was a few hundred (?) and the energy was lit. But here's the real deal: unlike most other May Day events I've seen, the rag-tag Communist/Socialist/Labor veterans were joined by a shit-ton of middle-aged and older, middle-class people with their hand-drawn signs and favorite outrages. Apostate Republicans (I know for certain at least ONE of those was there) happily chanting in support of baristas to unionize. It was a happy, angry zoo. And there were zero arrests.
The significant thing here is that, beyond all the "solidarity" (God, I still hate that Commie-speak), there is a gathering of Center-Right and Center-Left. It's snowballing. It's leaderless. And, soon enough, it will blot out the political sun with its raw scale. The message it has for the "officials" of both the Dems and the GOP is: don't worry your pretty little heads, we got this. Seismic is a weak word to use to describe what's happening. The combination of alternative media and scrappy non-partisan guerilla operations have successfully pushed into the faces of all the "silent majorities" the horror and idiocy spewing forth from Trumpworld. People are personalizing what the loss of Due Process means for them and their families. That's a far cry from the rousing slogans of this group or that which people mostly ignored. The FAFO realities are landing daily on everybody, we're 3 weeks from empty Walmarts closing down and massive waves of layoffs everywhere. The stock and bond markets have been playing Whack-A-Mole with trump, leading to one backdown after another. Capital flight from Treasuries will jack interest rates and catastrophically cut off debt finance needed for everything from real estate to plant and equipment investment, leading to more shortages.
This whole thing is going to go sideways, it's all unbounded and completely uncertain. Hold on.
The OK city story was a horrendous example of the way multiple federal agencies are rampaging across the country with zero accountability to anybody. Just a pass the buck non-response. And the right’s response to all of this, which zig-zags between “crickets” and, “tough shit- go back where you came from” is truly astounding. I can only imagine that the main view of the MAGA pilled is that if you’re not MAHA (make America hate again), then you’re getting what you deserve. The understanding that this administration will never run out of people to victimize just will not ever dawn on them. There is no “light shines on marble head” moment on the horizon for them, and there won’t be until it happens to them for some ‘thought crime’ that will be the subject of an executive order in the not to distant future. As much as it remains an alleged ‘illegal’ immigrant issue now, it will soon expand to other enemies of the regime. If you don’t believe this, you soon will.
Wow! I read a lot of news and heard nothing of the horrific raid on the Oklahoma family's home. Why isn't this front page across the nation? The mother's words should be repeated and reposted for everyone to see. If even one ICE agent or other person raiding and abducting hears her words, they cannot NOT be moved unless they are heartless MAGAs or absolutely desperate for an income. Unimaginable!!
Thanks for the links. I've seen the story referenced a few times but not the source. Yes, I agree. The way Trump is sending out unidentified goons to grab people off the street there could well be imitators leveraging these kinds of actions to their own benefit. And no doubt, the FBI will do nothing, even if it IS a crime by criminals who are not actually federal employees. Lawlessness doesn't necessarily belong to Trump alone.
Never felt so ashamed for my country as I when I read the last piece of your newsletter about the Oklahoma woman and her three daughters, left standing in the rain with all their devices and, according to thereporting, their life savings confiscated by ICE agents. My god.
Have the Oklahoma family ever gotten their belongings back? They were left in the rain with nothing!
The story seems to have just been dropped by the media with no conclusion!
It's wonderful that the American Labor Unions are supporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia! We have to do MORE to ALSO support Labor Unions. They are the ones that gave us the 8 hour day, overtime pay and other benefits!
Trump's Anti-Terrorism Czar Sebastian Gorka, News Max 16 April: “We have people that love America, like the president, like his cabinet, like the directors of his agencies, who want to protect Americans. And then there’s the other side that is on the side of the cartel members, on the side of the illegal aliens, on the side of the terrorists,” ... “And you have to ask yourself: Are they technically aiding and abetting them? Because aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists is a crime in federal statute.”
One does not need multiple college degrees to see where this is heading. This is the fallacious logic that is used to justify replacing the rule of law with the rule of one man.
"What makes you so much more worthier of your peace? What makes you so much more worthier of protecting your children? What makes you so much more worthy of your citizenship? What makes you more worthy of safety?"
This is the foundational belief of MAGA. That they are more worthy of safety than the rest of us. This is why a few parents who are worried that their white children will be "traumatized" by the reality of racial apartheid in this country get to pass laws that gaslight and traumatize black children by perpetuating lies about their history. This is why a few parents took the right to erase LGBTQ families from classrooms, regardless of the trauma that it inflicts on students who are LGBTQ and/or who have parents in same sex marriage. They believe that they ARE worthier than the rest of us.
Wilhoit's law holds:
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.".
Unfortunately for Marisa & her children, when they moved into a house previously occupied by someone who was part of the outgroup, they became part of the outgroup themselves, at least in comparison to the federal authorities who raided them. They were, therefore, bound by the law, but not protected by it.
More and more "conservatives" will have this experience over time. Because the ingroup is getting smaller and smaller and smaller, which means that the outgroup can only increase in size.
With scapegoats deported and international trade effectively scuttled, Trump voters should be asking where their utopia is.
Dems that wonder if Kilmer is the “right” case, are, (like the GOP), missing the point, which is about due process. It’s also about having principles that don’t change on a case by case basis. Bipartisan blindness.
Thank you again for covering this. The Oklahoma story is horrifying. I had not heard it before.
Powerful words from the mother in Oklahoma. Strong shades of that early abolitionist slogan: “Am I not a man and a brother?”
Love to see this coverage of the protest from someone who actually attended. Keep up the great work, Adrian!
"But labor leaders are riding a wave of opposition to Trump’s second administration, especially his economic and immigration policies." Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...
The involvement of “Labour” (excuse the Canadian-spelling) is significant here! The future of “the required labour force” in the USA, resides in the future of immigration itself. You literally NEED immigrants; it is in the Demographic Facts, which do not lie. The USA has had a Gross Fertility Rate of *below Replacement-Rate* , that is below 2.2 babies per average-woman’s reproductive-years… for over 40 years now. Without Immigration, every cohort of working-age adults (those roughly age 16 to 64) will be smaller than the preceding one. As absolute recipe for economic-contraction, not economic growth!
When I hear the GOP lather-on about “Re-shoring American manufacturing, creating American jobs!” , I constantly think —“They are bringing manufacturing *back*… Back to what labour force, in fact?”
No one talks about this. They think that the pressure of South &CentralAmerican migrants will be endless… but it won’t. The Fertility-Rate in Chile was already as low as 1.8-per-woman in 2019 (so said our tour-guide, a mother of one.) The same is true, if newer, in all the south-of-RioGrande countries. The present-day teens, and 12-13 y.o., usually being only-children, will stay home to take care of their parents.
Meanwhile, Trump et al., are discouraging and not improving “Legal Immigration” as well. Indeed, Europeans, Canadians, Japanese, Australians, etc., do not want to even visit the USA or study there.
At some point, the “Boomers” of the USA will (a lot of them) becoming “Frail Elderly”, like my present 93-y.o. mother in Canada, who thank Heaven has a cohort of largely SouthAsian, Jamaican, and Nigerian care-givers, in her Long-Term Care,all legal immigrants or second-Gen., into Canada. Her only nearby “child”, is 65-y.o. Me, who has lost ++hearing, and my 72-y.o. Old husband, who is losing his eyesight. We care about her, and do many things, but cannot care for wandering, demented her.
Finally (-finally!), a News Editorial, in April 26th “The Economist”: it says the obvious: The global “developed world” will NEED immigrants in the last 1/2 of the 21st-century. The only source of these needed immigrants, will be Emigrants from SubSaharan Africa! The sequential head-explosions, of the “White Nationalists” of the USA, as this inevitability plays out… it’s something I look forward too. I’m as Briton/White origin, as they come; but colourist-racism has never made any sense to me.
Things are in motion. The May Day demo here in Atlanta was a fascinating example. The crowd count outside the Statehouse was a few hundred (?) and the energy was lit. But here's the real deal: unlike most other May Day events I've seen, the rag-tag Communist/Socialist/Labor veterans were joined by a shit-ton of middle-aged and older, middle-class people with their hand-drawn signs and favorite outrages. Apostate Republicans (I know for certain at least ONE of those was there) happily chanting in support of baristas to unionize. It was a happy, angry zoo. And there were zero arrests.
The significant thing here is that, beyond all the "solidarity" (God, I still hate that Commie-speak), there is a gathering of Center-Right and Center-Left. It's snowballing. It's leaderless. And, soon enough, it will blot out the political sun with its raw scale. The message it has for the "officials" of both the Dems and the GOP is: don't worry your pretty little heads, we got this. Seismic is a weak word to use to describe what's happening. The combination of alternative media and scrappy non-partisan guerilla operations have successfully pushed into the faces of all the "silent majorities" the horror and idiocy spewing forth from Trumpworld. People are personalizing what the loss of Due Process means for them and their families. That's a far cry from the rousing slogans of this group or that which people mostly ignored. The FAFO realities are landing daily on everybody, we're 3 weeks from empty Walmarts closing down and massive waves of layoffs everywhere. The stock and bond markets have been playing Whack-A-Mole with trump, leading to one backdown after another. Capital flight from Treasuries will jack interest rates and catastrophically cut off debt finance needed for everything from real estate to plant and equipment investment, leading to more shortages.
This whole thing is going to go sideways, it's all unbounded and completely uncertain. Hold on.
The OK city story was a horrendous example of the way multiple federal agencies are rampaging across the country with zero accountability to anybody. Just a pass the buck non-response. And the right’s response to all of this, which zig-zags between “crickets” and, “tough shit- go back where you came from” is truly astounding. I can only imagine that the main view of the MAGA pilled is that if you’re not MAHA (make America hate again), then you’re getting what you deserve. The understanding that this administration will never run out of people to victimize just will not ever dawn on them. There is no “light shines on marble head” moment on the horizon for them, and there won’t be until it happens to them for some ‘thought crime’ that will be the subject of an executive order in the not to distant future. As much as it remains an alleged ‘illegal’ immigrant issue now, it will soon expand to other enemies of the regime. If you don’t believe this, you soon will.
Wow! I read a lot of news and heard nothing of the horrific raid on the Oklahoma family's home. Why isn't this front page across the nation? The mother's words should be repeated and reposted for everyone to see. If even one ICE agent or other person raiding and abducting hears her words, they cannot NOT be moved unless they are heartless MAGAs or absolutely desperate for an income. Unimaginable!!
Rachel covered it a few nights ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUMJqz53YW0 Also google it - there's a slew of TV news about it. Even Fox carried it. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=oklahoma+family+detained+by+ice Since then, all the agencies seem to be denying any involvement. Who's to say they were who they said they were?
Thanks for the links. I've seen the story referenced a few times but not the source. Yes, I agree. The way Trump is sending out unidentified goons to grab people off the street there could well be imitators leveraging these kinds of actions to their own benefit. And no doubt, the FBI will do nothing, even if it IS a crime by criminals who are not actually federal employees. Lawlessness doesn't necessarily belong to Trump alone.
Another good column, Adrian.