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What would you do when the Neo-Nazi Brownshirt Thugs come for you? [1]
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Date: 2025-04-11
Whatever it is, you’re doing it right now.
We talk a lot about Nazis and Neo-Nazis, racists, bigots and fascists — but this time it’s not just hyperbole, it’s not just rhetoric, it’s not just an exaggeration.
These fracking people running our government right now — are literally as bad as the Nazis.
After years of lies and demonization of people of a few specific ethnicities they have strategically desensitized us to virtual atrocities perpetrated against them. Now you can do anything to MS-13, Tren de Argua Gang Members, since they’re sub-human murderers who terrorize apartment buildings, “eat the cats and the dogs” and tote backpacks full of fentanyl. Once that was accomplished the new plan they have implemented is a regime where masked black-suited thugs can go up to people on the street who haven't committed any crime of any kind— without a warrant or a badge — and drag them off to prison, then ship them to another foreign country and place them in a dark violent gulag where 261 people have died due to torture and neglect in the last 2 years with no access to a court or a judge and supposedly no method of escape or retrieval.
That’s who we’ve become. That’s White Power Nazi shit.
Sure, the Supreme Court has — in just one case — ordered that this unjustly arrested and deported person be returned, but the regime’s reaction to that order is largely one big yawn.
We know from 60 Minutes that he’s far from alone, they document that 179 (75%)of the people that were sent to El Salvador — against a direct court order to turn the planes around — were not guilty or convicted of any crime in the U.S. Is anyone trying to free all these people? Is anyone trying to get them back to their families?
Have we responded to this fucking human rights crime with any urgency at all?
This is happening right now. Using our tax dollars. In our name.
What are we doing about it? Are we pounding the table? Are we raising our voices? Are we even using harsh language?
Look at how sedate this discussion of the issue is with Lawrence O’Donnell and Andrew Weissman. It’s like they’re talking about the weather.
This is insane. We’ve been inculcated to accept this bullshit. It’s been normalized. Frog in the pot — that is us.
But if you think about it, of course, this is perfectly American. We invented this shit. We implemented genocide when we did it with the Native Americans. We implemented eugenics with forced racial sterilization programs of Eastern Europeans. We implemented the Chinese Exclusion Act and Operation Wetback. We changed indentured servitude which was temporary and open to all races into permanent and racial slavery for life. We taught the Nazis how to be racist because it was America that created the very idea of “Whiteness.”
It’s not like the English, Irish, French, Russian, Polish, Spanish and Germans were all getting along before they migrated here. They weren’t — they left Europe in the first place because they themselves were being persecuted — not until they got together and implemented systemic racism and violence against their “enemies”, the indigenous natives and then the forcefully imported and enslaved Africans.
There’s always been racism and ethnic strife, but It was only after they came to America that they all suddenly became “White” and we started dealing with this whole new bowl of bigoted shit.
This is the New Confederacy, the South has risen again.
The problem is that these are migrants. Recent migrants that is. They weren’t born here, or their parents weren’t born here. They aren’t citizens. They don’t count. They don’t matter. Who cares?
It’s not like Trump has also threatened Universities, [except that he has], or businesses [yep, that too] or law firms [uh huh] the Smithsonian [yes], members f Congess [yeah!] or private American citizens [ditto.]
Sure, you — whoever you are — are “safe.” This isn’t a threat to you personally.
And you shouldn’t give a shit until then, right?
That’s who the MAGAs want us to be. Selfish myopic pricks. They don’t want anyone to be “Woke” — which is really just having basic human empathy and understanding. They don’t want anyone to be aware (“Awake”) to the suffering of anyone else. Who the fuck does that?
Y’know, unless that suffering person is a White man. Then clearly, it can’t be allowed. We can’t let poor little Carter Page suffer from being quietly and secretly surveilled by the FBI through the FISA court after he was recruited as an asset by Russian Intelligence twice. I mean, that’s a God Damn outrage. We can’t let that happen.
And poor Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn shouldn’t be jailed for being unregistered foreign agents. Hell, that entire part of the DOJ has been shut down completely now— so no one will have to suffer the indignity of being accused of loyalty to some other nation while working for our government.
Yeah, serves them right.
And it’s no longer a crime for foreign governments to interfere with our elections because who really cares about that sort of thing anyway? Pfft.
We don’t care. Especially if it’s from countries that are full of “white people” like Hungary or Russia. We need their influence to help set us straight.
This is White Supremacy.
This is how it functions, how it infuses itself into every element of society and culture. Assuming that every white man is powerful and innocent as the driven snow and every Black and Brown person is a lazy perverse violent would-be rapist, druggie, murderer, trafficker, marxist, terrorist is simply the norm.
We accept this as part of our daily existence, usually without question. It’s just understood that cops are doing their job when they. spend 80% of their time stopping, searching, harassing and intimidating black and brown people — but then they find guns and drugs on the white guys more often.
This chart from the Times analysis shows how often black people were searched at traffic stops compared with whites. As you can see, the Connecticut State Police searched blacks 2.6 times as often as whites; the Rhode Island State Police searched blacks 2.5 times as often; the Illinois State Police searched twice as often; and the North Carolina State Police searched 1.5 times as often. In Chicago, blacks were searched more than five times as often as whites. But all that extra scrutiny doesn't seem to be turning up any more illegal stuff. In Connecticut, Illinois and North Carolina, police found contraband less often when they searched black people than white people. In Chicago, for example, blacks were 30 percent less likely to be found with any illegal goods. State police officers from Rhode Island were the exception; they were more likely to search black drivers, but they also more likely to find contraband.
They are literally finding more drugs and guns on white people — but still stopping, searching, arresting, assaulting and killing black and brown people more than twice as often. That can’t be an accident. That can’t be a coincidence. That can’t be a circumstantial happenstance. That’s how our system is designed to work.
And it gets worse once we get to court. Black and White people use and sell drugs at basically the same rate — but Black and Brown people are sent to prison 5 times more often for it.
Nationwide, blacks comprise 62 percent of drug offenders admitted to state prison. In seven states, blacks constitute between 80 and 90 percent of all people sent to prison on drug charges.
Nationwide, black men are sent to state prison on drug charges at 13 times the rate of white men.
Two out of five blacks sent to prison are convicted of drug offenses, compared to one in four whites.
Black men are incarcerated at 9.6 times the rate of white men. In eleven states, they are incarcerated at rates that are 12 to 26 times greater than that of white men.
In eleven states, they are incarcerated at rates that are 12 to 26 times greater than that of white men. Nationwide, one in every 20 black men over the age of 18 is in prison. In five states, between one in 13 and one in 14 black men is in prison.
One in every 20 black men over the age of 18 in the United States is in state or federal prison, compared to one in 180 white men.
black men over the age of 18 in the United States is in state or federal prison, compared to one in 180 white men. More people are sent to prison in the United States for nonviolent drug offenses than for crimes of violence.
So we just have to look at the prison population to know who is more likely to be a criminal and since most of them are Black and Brown — we don't have to do any more thinking about it do we? We don’t have to question how or why that happened. We don’t have to acknowledge that judges, prosecutors and juries react to a white defendant by giving him the benefit of every doubt, and that they figure when they see a black defendant that even if they didn’t do this crime, they’re probably a thug who did something else.
When we see a migrant in court, it’s even worse. We trust the system to sort it all out fairly and without bias.
The MAGAs are just terrified of “Migrant Crime” in “Sanctuary Democrat Cities” — but it’s really cities and rural areas and Red States that have higher rates of crime, and higher rates of gun deaths.
And when we see a Black or Brown guy in a nice car, in a nice suit, or in a nice job they must be a lazy bastard who couldn’t possibly have earned it by being experienced, educated and skilled.
Naw.
It’s gotta be “DEI.” or they must have gotten an H1-B Visa. Their lazy ass must have somehow taken that job from a White Man.
And if they get snatched up and sent to a foreign gulag because they have tattoos — they probably deserved it.
Don’t they?
This is why the Trump DOJ thinks they can get away with this shit.
x x YouTube Video During the hearing, Judge Xinis demanded that the DOJ offer information on the whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to a prison in El Salvador earlier this year. Lawyer Drew Ensign, representing the government for the DOJ, told the judge that he doesn't have that information and his clients haven't given him the information. Speaking about the matter on MSNBC, legal analyst Lisa Rubin said that what President Donald Trump's administration "is saying, incredibly, incredibly, in a court filing is that such due regard for the administrative power means that she can't put them on any timeline, that judicial review basically doesn't supersede their constitutional authority, subject to the president's ability to control foreign affairs. I expect the judge will have harsh words for them." "She does already!" exclaimed MSNBC host Chris Jansing, who then referred to notes being taken in real time in court by MSNBC reporters. "So, again, this is not exact because they're typing along as quickly as they can," Jansing prefaced. "But she [the judge] affirmed last night, in short order, the court amended its prior order and made clear what the government must do to comply. And she said three areas are first: Current physical location. What steps, if any, have been taken to facilitate the defendant's immediate return? And what state steps will you take and when to return him home?" Jansing thought that it was "clear." James Sample, law professor at Hofstra University, agreed, calling the judge's "so minimal." "We're asking so little. She is asking so little of the government," he said. Reading more details from court, Jansing relayed that the judge asked again where Garcia was. The DOJ said that they were still "reviewing" the Supreme Court's ruling. "What do you mean?" the judge asked, according to producers in court. "Where is he?" "It's incredible," said Sample. "The Supreme Court decision, released yesterday, was four, pages long. Four pages long. This is, I mean, insane."
Yup. Insane.
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