Tim Miller joins Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez on MSNBC’s The Weeknight to discuss the Trump administration’s alarming threats to suspend habeas corpus, the disturbing surge in ICE detentions without due process, and how Trump's immigration policies are eroding constitutional protections.
Tim Miller — you need to get the ads Lindsey Graham is currently running on PBS Masterpiece theatre shows — saying the new tax bill has no tax on Social Security, no tax on tips, etc. All despicable LIES. We need to expose these creeps
Watch - if they are following the 1930s Nazi playbook, they will start stripping a defined group of citizens of their citizenship and then treat them as non citizens because they aren’t citizens.
As Timothy Snyder wrote in Lesson 17 (Listen to Dangerous words) in On Tyranny:
"The most intelligent of the Nazis, the legal theorist Carl Schmitt, explained in clear language the essence of fascist governance. The way to destroy all rules, he explained, was to focus on the idea of an exception".
Timothy Snyder made his brand be “Do Not Obey in Advance”. Then immediately after Trump won the 2024 election, Snyder ran away to Canada. I no longer pay attention to anything that coward has to say, and I cancelled my subscription to his Substack. Andrew Weissmann is actually on a Trump administration hit list, and yet he remains here. Snyder is on no such list, but he now lives and works in Toronto. Snyder is not worth my time anymore.
It’s not like the Koch team hasn’t wanted a Constitutional convention for years, this is just a giant leap towards their goal. This is where that crowd has carefully done everything but bake the pie. They have put pieces in place while many of us thought they actually loved this country. Their goal is to remove the constitution and move toward global domination. Jeez, I wish I drank more.
Huh? Why would the libertarian-leaning, tariff-hating Koch network want to enable Trumpian authoritarianism? You need a better scapegoat for your conspiracy theory.
Stephen..not Tim... Miller is channeling his inner Himmler. The guy is a lost, insecure, deranged ahole who must be stopped. Maximum pressure should be applied by ALL Dems to get him removed.
es , I can summon compassion for the despicable JDV because I know he suffered as a kid and probably has deep psychic wounds . Stephen Miller seem to actually be an evil fascist , like a James Bond villain , which is evil just because he was born that way
Stephen Miller thinks he was hurt as a child because his father bankrupted the family business in California, causing his family to sell their large fancy house in their posh neighborhood and take poor Stephen out of his posh private school in 8th grade. The family had to move to a small rental apartment in a lower middle class neighborhood, and Stephen had to go to Santa Monica High, a public school with a large immigrant student population. Stephen felt dislocated and surrounded by BIPOC “invaders”. He’s never recovered and has hated immigrants ever since. So if Stephen told the tale, he would say his childhood was just as deeply wounded as JD’s was. They’re both sick.
So this explains it . Holy moley . Santa Monica is hardly the same as West Virginia or Idaho , which have v poor funding for schools which a in poor repair physically as well as everything else . guess we should be glad he never actually suffered .
And it gets even weirder. When David Horowitz died last month, his NYT obituary mentioned that he discovered Stephen Miller through an OpEd Miller wrote for his high school newspaper at age 16, deploring the fact that the immigrants he had to go to school with refused to assimilate into US culture, etc etc. David Horowitz met up with young Stephen Miller and became his mentor, sheparding Miller through high school and college and into a DC job working for Jeff Sessions, and ultimately a job as a WH staffer. David Horowitz is the father of Ben Horowitz, the business partner of Marc Andreessen. Which explains quite a lot, no?
And to think none of this might have happened if Miller’s dad hadn’t lost all the family money and made poor Stephen have to go to public school.
"The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."
-US Constitution Art. I §9 ¶2
President Lincoln and subsequently Congress suspended the writ during the Civil War.
Trump loves to analogize immigration to an "invasion." Oddly, he doesn't similarly regard the Jan. 6 episode as a case of "rebellion."
Would a compliant Republican Congress go so far as to enable Trump to suspend habeas corpus? Color me skeptical at least as long as Trump's poll numbers continue to sag.
But talk like Stephen Miller's is probably (?) intended to sow fear and chaos as much as it presages an actual agenda.
Republicans in Congress have proven over and over they're willing to "interpretate" any plain and clear language in order to achieve corrupt results. Redefining "a day" to ACTUALLY mean the rest of the legislative year to prevent bringing a undesirable bill up for a vote tells you everything you need to know about the alternative reality criminals.
We have a problem because 50% of the population including sophisticated people in the Republican Party , in Congress, are willing to look you in the eye and maintain these fantastical denials or outright lies. If Venezuela was sending an Army of infiltrators into American cities to "make war" or "predatory invasion" then we would be bombing Caracas right now. So either its a lie or Trump is the weakest President in American history. None of that logic is ever playing out in MAGA world because they know they are lying.
The Trump administration has been intentionally violating the Constitution and bragging about it, this isn't a crisis it is an insurrection and the Constitution explicitly forbids him and everyone else who is supporting the insurrection from holding any office in the government. The Court needs to enforce the 14th amendment and remove him from office. His removal does not require a 2/3 majority in Congress, this is not high crimes and misdemeanors, it is an insurrection.
the Insurrection clause in the 14th Amendment was rendered obsolete by the Supreme Court. Unless you served in the Army of Northern Virginia in 1861- 1865 or the Confederate Government, that terminology will never be used unless Congress passes a new law defining what "insurrection" is in todays world. The Insurrection clause is a dead letter now. The MAGA Court killed it
The insurrection clause is dormant for now. Like the emoluments clause, it awaits enabling legislation. I hold out hope that Trump's second term, like Watergate, will inspire a lot of reform legislation.
I might add...Conservatives have always put an asterisk beside the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. Like they were not legitimate because the true will of people in the newly re admitted Southern States under Federal control wasn't allowed to be expressed...ie "it was rigged"
First, invoke the Alien Enemies Act by claiming (dishonestly) that the Venezuelan government supports the Tren de Aragua gang.
Second, based on the lie above use the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants without due process and suspend habeas corpus.
Third, when the courts rule against Trump (which Trump and his goons know will happen) Trump will say the courts are run by radical left-wing Marxists who are trying to destroy the country and therefore he can no longer follow their rulings on anything.
America will soon face a full blown constitutional crisis.
Tim, since people on here feel free to criticize your appearance, I will take this opportunity to say you looked great in the navy buttondown - very handsome.
They are sick minded people as they are trying to beat the already beaten down people. Can Trump pause golf this weekend to stop the escalating war between two nuclear powers?
Tim Miller — you need to get the ads Lindsey Graham is currently running on PBS Masterpiece theatre shows — saying the new tax bill has no tax on Social Security, no tax on tips, etc. All despicable LIES. We need to expose these creeps
US tariff consequences in Canada https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-tariffs-threaten-become-achilles-160000524.html
Watch - if they are following the 1930s Nazi playbook, they will start stripping a defined group of citizens of their citizenship and then treat them as non citizens because they aren’t citizens.
This is reminiscent of Nazi Germany’s. Treatment
of the Jews in the 1930s of its citizens .
As Timothy Snyder wrote in Lesson 17 (Listen to Dangerous words) in On Tyranny:
"The most intelligent of the Nazis, the legal theorist Carl Schmitt, explained in clear language the essence of fascist governance. The way to destroy all rules, he explained, was to focus on the idea of an exception".
Here, the 'exception' is the 'invasion'.
Timothy Snyder made his brand be “Do Not Obey in Advance”. Then immediately after Trump won the 2024 election, Snyder ran away to Canada. I no longer pay attention to anything that coward has to say, and I cancelled my subscription to his Substack. Andrew Weissmann is actually on a Trump administration hit list, and yet he remains here. Snyder is on no such list, but he now lives and works in Toronto. Snyder is not worth my time anymore.
I see. Well, my comment is more toward Stephen Miller following a Nazi playbook.
I love you Tim , but it appears you work 7 days a week . Please be careful with yourself .
It’s not like the Koch team hasn’t wanted a Constitutional convention for years, this is just a giant leap towards their goal. This is where that crowd has carefully done everything but bake the pie. They have put pieces in place while many of us thought they actually loved this country. Their goal is to remove the constitution and move toward global domination. Jeez, I wish I drank more.
Huh? Why would the libertarian-leaning, tariff-hating Koch network want to enable Trumpian authoritarianism? You need a better scapegoat for your conspiracy theory.
Stephen..not Tim... Miller is channeling his inner Himmler. The guy is a lost, insecure, deranged ahole who must be stopped. Maximum pressure should be applied by ALL Dems to get him removed.
es , I can summon compassion for the despicable JDV because I know he suffered as a kid and probably has deep psychic wounds . Stephen Miller seem to actually be an evil fascist , like a James Bond villain , which is evil just because he was born that way
Stephen Miller thinks he was hurt as a child because his father bankrupted the family business in California, causing his family to sell their large fancy house in their posh neighborhood and take poor Stephen out of his posh private school in 8th grade. The family had to move to a small rental apartment in a lower middle class neighborhood, and Stephen had to go to Santa Monica High, a public school with a large immigrant student population. Stephen felt dislocated and surrounded by BIPOC “invaders”. He’s never recovered and has hated immigrants ever since. So if Stephen told the tale, he would say his childhood was just as deeply wounded as JD’s was. They’re both sick.
So this explains it . Holy moley . Santa Monica is hardly the same as West Virginia or Idaho , which have v poor funding for schools which a in poor repair physically as well as everything else . guess we should be glad he never actually suffered .
And it gets even weirder. When David Horowitz died last month, his NYT obituary mentioned that he discovered Stephen Miller through an OpEd Miller wrote for his high school newspaper at age 16, deploring the fact that the immigrants he had to go to school with refused to assimilate into US culture, etc etc. David Horowitz met up with young Stephen Miller and became his mentor, sheparding Miller through high school and college and into a DC job working for Jeff Sessions, and ultimately a job as a WH staffer. David Horowitz is the father of Ben Horowitz, the business partner of Marc Andreessen. Which explains quite a lot, no?
And to think none of this might have happened if Miller’s dad hadn’t lost all the family money and made poor Stephen have to go to public school.
Yes, they are both sick. No sympathy for either one of them.
These five are my family
"The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."
-US Constitution Art. I §9 ¶2
President Lincoln and subsequently Congress suspended the writ during the Civil War.
Trump loves to analogize immigration to an "invasion." Oddly, he doesn't similarly regard the Jan. 6 episode as a case of "rebellion."
Would a compliant Republican Congress go so far as to enable Trump to suspend habeas corpus? Color me skeptical at least as long as Trump's poll numbers continue to sag.
But talk like Stephen Miller's is probably (?) intended to sow fear and chaos as much as it presages an actual agenda.
Just be mindful of those poll numbers.
Republicans in Congress have proven over and over they're willing to "interpretate" any plain and clear language in order to achieve corrupt results. Redefining "a day" to ACTUALLY mean the rest of the legislative year to prevent bringing a undesirable bill up for a vote tells you everything you need to know about the alternative reality criminals.
Tim, er, uh, Stephen Miller, LOL!
We have a problem because 50% of the population including sophisticated people in the Republican Party , in Congress, are willing to look you in the eye and maintain these fantastical denials or outright lies. If Venezuela was sending an Army of infiltrators into American cities to "make war" or "predatory invasion" then we would be bombing Caracas right now. So either its a lie or Trump is the weakest President in American history. None of that logic is ever playing out in MAGA world because they know they are lying.
The orange MAGA rancher know he's lying, the Joseph Goebbels collies help, and the sheep only obey.
The Trump administration has been intentionally violating the Constitution and bragging about it, this isn't a crisis it is an insurrection and the Constitution explicitly forbids him and everyone else who is supporting the insurrection from holding any office in the government. The Court needs to enforce the 14th amendment and remove him from office. His removal does not require a 2/3 majority in Congress, this is not high crimes and misdemeanors, it is an insurrection.
the Insurrection clause in the 14th Amendment was rendered obsolete by the Supreme Court. Unless you served in the Army of Northern Virginia in 1861- 1865 or the Confederate Government, that terminology will never be used unless Congress passes a new law defining what "insurrection" is in todays world. The Insurrection clause is a dead letter now. The MAGA Court killed it
The insurrection clause is dormant for now. Like the emoluments clause, it awaits enabling legislation. I hold out hope that Trump's second term, like Watergate, will inspire a lot of reform legislation.
I might add...Conservatives have always put an asterisk beside the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. Like they were not legitimate because the true will of people in the newly re admitted Southern States under Federal control wasn't allowed to be expressed...ie "it was rigged"
Trump has a 3-step plan:
First, invoke the Alien Enemies Act by claiming (dishonestly) that the Venezuelan government supports the Tren de Aragua gang.
Second, based on the lie above use the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants without due process and suspend habeas corpus.
Third, when the courts rule against Trump (which Trump and his goons know will happen) Trump will say the courts are run by radical left-wing Marxists who are trying to destroy the country and therefore he can no longer follow their rulings on anything.
America will soon face a full blown constitutional crisis.
I think we are already there , its just not on Joe Rogan yet so it doesn't count
I think things are going to get much, much worse.
Tim, since people on here feel free to criticize your appearance, I will take this opportunity to say you looked great in the navy buttondown - very handsome.
They are sick minded people as they are trying to beat the already beaten down people. Can Trump pause golf this weekend to stop the escalating war between two nuclear powers?