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Are we now in full blown fascist totalitarianism?

President of the United States puts all Americans on notice. Once we disappear you, that is it.
article said:
Trump said Monday that he was willing to broaden the strategy to include naturalized Americans, characterizing it as part of a crackdown on crime.

“If it’s a homegrown criminal, I have no problem,” Trump said. “We’re studying the laws right now, Pam [Bondi, the attorney general] is studying. If we can do that, that’s good. And I’m talking about violent people. I’m talking about really bad people … every bit as bad as the ones coming in.”
 
Trump to Bukele on his gulags: "You need to build 5 more of them. We have a lot of bad people we want to send."

Also, Trump and Bukele conspired together on live TV to defy a SCOTUS order to keep the man wrongly sent to the gulag in the gulag.
 
Trump to Bukele on his gulags: "You need to build 5 more of them. We have a lot of bad people we want to send."

Also, Trump and Bukele conspired together on live TV to defy a SCOTUS order to keep the man wrongly sent to the gulag in the gulag.
Of course they did. Trump already implies he would defy the order, a few days after saying he wold obey an order from SCOTUS, so I figured he got his El Salvadorian buddy to make like it was his idea instead of Trump's.
 
All of this bowing to Trump from SCOTUS, just for Trump to defy them. It's so pathetic.
 
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What I find most discouraging is that polls show that his support among the public remains steady, so the public either support his heavy handed brutality or think it is not important. Our neighbors are not nice people.
 
What gave it away? The rabid gun culture? Our perpetual flirtation with fascism? All the genocides and concentration camps?
 

 
CBP used the known email addresses of the alien to send notifications. If a non-personal email—such as an American citizen contact—was provided by the alien, notices may have been sent to unintended recipients. CBP is monitoring communications and will address any issues on a case-by-case basis.
Yeah, because the ONLY problem here is that some of the emails went to US citizens. Literally nothing else about this is in any way problematic at all.

It's completely normal for people who entered a country lawfully with a valid visa to be told en masse to leave, having done nothing wrong or in contravention of their visa conditions.

It's also completely normal to make thinly veiled threats to those people.

Nothing to see here. Please disperse.
 
The Trump administration is also planning to classify more than 6,000 living immigrants as dead in order to cancel their Social Security numbers and incentivize them to leave the U.S., the Associated Press reported.

It would be brave to the point of foolhardiness to assume that this reclassification will forever remain a mere paperwork exercise.
 
What I find most discouraging is that polls show that his support among the public remains steady, so the public either support his heavy handed brutality or think it is not important. Our neighbors are not nice people.
The right-wing voter is slipping into it. You can see it here. You can see the moderate/conservatives that have stayed within their bounds and those that have slipped way over to tyranny.
 
El Salvador won't allow Maryland Senator to see prisoner... who again didn't actually commit a single crime.
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Ulloa rebuffed Van Hollen’s appeal to release Abrego García as well as his request to meet with him or speak to him by phone, Van Hollen said. He said Ulloa echoed Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who said during a meeting with Trump at the White House on Monday that El Salvador could not “smuggle” Abrego García back into the United States.

“I said I’m not asking him to smuggle Mr. Abrego García into the United States,” Van Hollen said. “I’m simply asking him to open the door of CECOT” — the maximum-security megaprison where Abrego García is being held — “and let this innocent man walk out.”
Maybe if he brought some poms poms like Noem, they'd let him in.
 
What gave it away? The rabid gun culture? Our perpetual flirtation with fascism? All the genocides and concentration camps?
Your bastardisation of the English language? Sticking with imperial measurements?
Imperial measurements are better for rock lyrics. I mean, can you imagine Robert Plant singing, "I'm gonna give you every centimeter of my love..."?

In fact, I'm hard pressed to think of any metric system terms used in rock lyrics.

"I would walk five hundred kilometres,
And I would walk five hundred more..."

Nope, just doesn't work. 😋
 
Excellent court opinion today by Reagan appointed appellate court judge from the administration appealing the order to facilitate Abrego Garcia's release and return from El Salvador. Worth reading the whole 7 pages. Some highlights:

It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done.

This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear.

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The basic differences between the branches mandate a serious effort at mutual respect. The respect that courts must accord the Executive must be reciprocated by the Executive’s respect for the courts. Too often today this has not been the case, as calls for impeachment of judges for decisions the Executive disfavors and exhortations to disregard court orders sadly illustrate.

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Now the branches come too close to grinding irrevocably against one another in a conflict that promises to diminish both. This is a losing proposition all around. The Judiciary will lose much from the constant intimations of its illegitimacy, to which by dent of custom and detachment we can only sparingly reply. The Executive will lose much from a public perception of its lawlessness and all of its attendant contagions. The Executive may succeed for a time in weakening the courts, but over time history will script the tragic gap between what was and all that might have been, and law in time will sign its epitaph.

It is, as we have noted, all too possible to see in this case an incipient crisis, but it may present an opportunity as well. We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos. This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the best that is within us while there is still time.



 
I don't think so. We are a republic of highly autonomous states.

It would be difficult for a Mussolini or a Hitler or Trump to take total power.

Trump is crazy and consumed with personal power, no doubt about that.

The framers of COTUS set up the balance of power to limit a Trump. For the balance of power to work congress has to reign in Trump.

As we know Republicans in congress tend to be scarred puppies when it comes to Trump, they fear hiscidnatiin and loss of voter support.

For the balance of power to work the majority of people in congress and SCOTUS have to beable to bot country over self interest.
 
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