[Lady Bliss]

QuickTidal, on 15 April 2025 - 01:10 PM, said:

Let's be clear.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is dead. There is no world in which they chance that guy being able to come home and telling his story...the minute it was clear that he was innocent of any reason to be deported, the Trump admin contacted El Salvador's dictator and had him killed inside. I bet this happened days ago.


Trump and Bukele have a deal in place to disappear citizens. That prison is not a prison, it's a death/extermination campo.


American citizens are being sent there without due process. And Miller just got on the news and says any vocal anti-American's will be treated similarly...


Fascism is here for you lot. Like properly here. He IS IGNORING A 9-0 SCOTUS ruling....

Where are all your 2nd Amendment people who don't want the govt to overreach? Like....what...

We’re scared.

[QuickTidal]

Lady Bliss, on 15 April 2025 - 01:28 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 15 April 2025 - 01:10 PM, said:

Let's be clear.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is dead. There is no world in which they chance that guy being able to come home and telling his story...the minute it was clear that he was innocent of any reason to be deported, the Trump admin contacted El Salvador's dictator and had him killed inside. I bet this happened days ago.


Trump and Bukele have a deal in place to disappear citizens. That prison is not a prison, it's a death/extermination campo.


American citizens are being sent there without due process. And Miller just got on the news and says any vocal anti-American's will be treated similarly...


Fascism is here for you lot. Like properly here. He IS IGNORING A 9-0 SCOTUS ruling....

Where are all your 2nd Amendment people who don't want the govt to overreach? Like....what...

We’re scared.

100%. I would be as well. Hell, I'm in a different country and I'm scared of what this means for us if we elect the wrong person who might get ideas.

I get the fear, I'm just baffled how fast this all fell apart. Your whole country's supposedly sacrosanct rules, laws, and constitution are just rags now and it's only been like 3 months.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 15 April 2025 - 01:38 PM

[amphibian]

This is 50+ years in the makings. The "deregulation" and Contra stuff Reagan did, the breaking up of worker unions, Newt Gingrich rising to power and trashing legislative norms, Bush v Gore in the Supreme Court, growing judicial unwieldiness despite less people committing crimes, emboldened police, McConnell's run to destroy Democratic political powers, and Trump's first reign plus the shift rightward of all the health and wellness scammers.

[Lady Bliss]

amphibian, on 15 April 2025 - 02:04 PM, said:

This is 50+ years in the makings. The "deregulation" and Contra stuff Reagan did, the breaking up of worker unions, Newt Gingrich rising to power and trashing legislative norms, Bush v Gore in the Supreme Court, growing judicial unwieldiness despite less people committing crimes, emboldened police, McConnell's run to destroy Democratic political powers, and Trump's first reign plus the shift rightward of all the health and wellness scammers.

And other countries don’t want us. I’m “too old” and “too poor” to qualify. These changes could honestly kill me with my health problems.

[QuickTidal]

It also sounds like about 75% of the 850+ people sent to CECOT are innocent of any illegal activity, and I would expect whatever order Trump and Bukele made to off Garcia, was expanded to all of them. That one guy who is a hairdresser? He's very likely dead as well.


The US is literally outsourcing its final solution and Conservatives are cheering it on...like my gods.

[Abyss]

Maark Abbott, on 11 April 2025 - 07:53 AM, said:

Come on Seven Cities. You really just gonna sit there and let MEZLA do this to you

7C would be down to mass sacrifices and war in the dirty streets by now.

[amphibian]

The retributive power to punish is something this crowd is extremely interested in expanding and preserving against any perceived diminishment, even if it's flat out wrong, misused, unconstitutional, and shoddily implemented.

It's very police-centered in a way that is not "to protect and serve". It's also a shakedown tactic.

[Lady Bliss]

QuickTidal, on 15 April 2025 - 02:16 PM, said:

It also sounds like about 75% of the 850+ people sent to CECOT are innocent of any illegal activity, and I would expect whatever order Trump and Bukele made to off Garcia, was expanded to all of them. That one guy who is a hairdresser? He's very likely dead as well.


The US is literally outsourcing its final solution and Conservatives are cheering it on...like my gods.

Now why do you think they are dead? Not that I don’t believe you but I haven’t seen any articles to that regard.

[QuickTidal]

Lady Bliss, on 15 April 2025 - 02:25 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 15 April 2025 - 02:16 PM, said:

It also sounds like about 75% of the 850+ people sent to CECOT are innocent of any illegal activity, and I would expect whatever order Trump and Bukele made to off Garcia, was expanded to all of them. That one guy who is a hairdresser? He's very likely dead as well.


The US is literally outsourcing its final solution and Conservatives are cheering it on...like my gods.

Now why do you think they are dead? Not that I don’t believe you but I haven’t seen any articles to that regard.

Because this Administration cannot under any circumstances allow someone who was sent there (without due process, kidnapped by ICE and whisked onto a plane) to come home and tell any stories...remember this is a place no one has ever been released from EVER, it has 8 pavilions, with many cell blocks meant to hold 60-70ppl that appear to overflow with 100-120ppl per (two toilets), steel beds in high rows like shelving, no mattresses, or any other anything. They are crammed together like chickens at a USA chicken farm. Satellite images appear to show a slaughter area outside (massive merlot-coloured stain on the concrete). No one who has actually been inside (other than the few press ops showing us the photos we've already seen) has ever been out to tell any tales. It is, for all intents and purposes, a place people are sent to to die, be it by the fighting with other inmates (the temperature of those overstuffed cells would be enough to breakdown any social order that exists) or by the prison itself...This is a country where the current leader is essentially a dictator.


If Garcia was allowed to come home and speak to anyone, he would ignite the powder keg that is the current USA...whatever is holding you all back from revolting? Someone would light that fuse and all hell would break loose. They can't and likely won't allow that. The only other option is like that guy who was imprisoned in North Korea and the US demanded him home and when he got here, he was a vegetable and died 6 days later due to trauma that occurred in that NK prison.


He's dead. I would be very surprised if he is alive, and I would be even more surprised if he was brought home and allowed to speak.


There's a reason that SCOTUS would not actually enforce it's 9-0 ruling, and kicked it down to the lower courts again to "define effectuate his return"...because they KNOW that you are in a constitutional crisis, and no one wants to be responsible for lighting that wick. They probably hope that the citizens will do it, so they can enact martial law...cancel elections ect.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 15 April 2025 - 02:56 PM

[amphibian]

I think he's alive at current juncture. And the odd thing about him coming back is that I don't think it would light any metaphorical powder kegs of significance.

The administration's perceived problem with unwinding the shipping overseas of a person is that El Salvador/Bukele is going to charge more money for this guy and future people because the deal changed.

[QuickTidal]

amphibian, on 15 April 2025 - 04:43 PM, said:

I think he's alive at current juncture. And the odd thing about him coming back is that I don't think it would light any metaphorical powder kegs of significance.

The administration's perceived problem with unwinding the shipping overseas of a person is that El Salvador/Bukele is going to charge more money for this guy and future people because the deal changed.

I mean I obviously hope you're right and I'm wrong...but this administration seems to want this violence to start and they keep trying to push all the buttons that will allow the insurrection Act to be invoked and martial law to reign. And I can't fathom them bringing him home. Trump claims he's alive, but without proof of life, that's just more BS to me.

I'd be worried about his political enemies too, people like Hillary, Obama, Biden are all going to be on his shitlist and once the mask is all the way off as a dictatorship, he's going be looking for vengeance.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

QT I think you're giving Americans (other than Trump) too much credit (as usual!).

Incarcerating innocent people as supposed "collateral damage" in the battle against gang violence and going from that to mass incarceration to terrorize the population into submission is a large part of Bukele's "success story". I was unaware of this until I read this article:

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A particularly gruesome display of gang violence [...] led Bukele to declare a "state of exception," empowering police to arrest anyone suspected of gang affiliation without telling them why, informing them of their rights, or allowing them access to a lawyer. El Salvador is now the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world. It has also gone from being one of the world's most dangerous places to having the same homicide rate as Canada. [...]

[...] By Bukele's own admission, some of the 100,000 Salvadorans who have ended up in prison are innocent; his government writes them off as "collateral damage" or a "margin of error." Meanwhile, hundreds have died in custody, per Amnesty International, some as a result of "beatings, torture, and lack of proper medical care."

[...] Soon, police came for the families of gang members, for people whose tattoos looked similar to those of gang members, for people with any tattoos. An officer in San Salvador told me he stood by as his colleague arrested the boyfriend of a woman the colleague was interested in.

[...] Union leaders and journalists who criticized Bukele have also been imprisoned.

The constitution sets limits not just for the state of exception, but also for presidential terms. Bukele ignored those too. He ran for reelection last year in a country where consecutive presidential terms are not allowed.

El Salvador's Exceptional Prison State - The Atlantic

[QuickTidal]

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He had two options...back down off the tariffs and look like an asshole....or drive a stake through the American Economy. Guess which one he's choosing?

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

QuickTidal, on 16 April 2025 - 06:00 PM, said:

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He had two options...back down off the tariffs and look like an asshole....or drive a stake through the American Economy. Guess which one he's choosing?

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[...] White House statement that some Chinese goods face 245% tariffs generated confusion in Beijing.

Was it another escalation? No. Trump's new tariffs on China still stand at 145%.

But the White House quickly tried to clear things up, saying the 245% figure that they put into the April 15 document - outlining the context for a new executive order from President Donald Trump - represents all previous and new tariffs on some Chinese goods dating to the Biden and first Trump administrations.

[...] Electric vehicles and syringes are two products that already faced 100% tariffs from the Biden administration - before Trump started putting new tariffs on Chinese goods this year - and which now are on the receiving end of the 245% tariffs, the Trump White House said.

https://www.usatoday...ar/83114710007/

Like a chaotic bobblehead smashing keys incoherently... what a great environment to invest in (CAOS!... and gold).

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

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CNN's Data Guru Reveals How Many Trump Supporters Regret Their Vote

[...] "I mean this is the big question, right? I hear all these stories, all these articles, all the Trump voters, saying they regret what they did back in 2024. I'm here to tell you, very few of them regret what they did back in 2024."

[...] "We're talking just 2%. That's not even a wide spot on the road. And then there's this additional 1% who say they would rather not vote." [...]

The poll, conducted this month, also found near-identical levels of loyalty among Harris voters, suggesting there hasn't been a serious swing in public opinion in either direction.

"The bottom line is for all this talk of Trump voters regretting their vote in the numbers, it really just doesn't show up,"

https://www.thedaily...ret-their-vote/

... not yet, at least:

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Most Americans haven't felt it yet because importers stocked up on goods in the first quarter, knowing the tariffs were coming. But if the tariffs stay in place for a few months or longer, Americans will see shocking price hikes for cars, clothes, appliances, handbags, and many other everyday things. Those

price hikes will hit right around the back-to-school shopping season in late summer.

There's no way around the hit to corporate earnings, which in turn will depress corporate spending and hiring.

https://finance.yaho...-194710429.html

... some MAGA politicians seem a bit like Wile E. Coyote racing off the cliff (a fractal image of "humanity" these days? so many chaotic cliffs forming cliffs... all the way down, and more)---supported by the ethereal ignorance of their voters for now, but if prices do rise as much as anticipated, and stay elevated, their approval---beyond the hardcore base---will probably plummet.

Then again, maybe I'm giving Americans too much credit for once (yet again)...

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 17 April 2025 - 10:07 AM

[QuickTidal]

El Salvador denies senator visit with mistakenly deported man: Van Hollen

Good on Van Hollen for doing this...but the reason he can't see him, or even get on the phone with him for proof of life is what I said before, either he's dead, or the Trump Administration is paying to keep him there and away from cameras.

Your reminder that Auschwitz was not in Germany either, it was in Poland.


This is going to get so much worse unless something breaks...

[QuickTidal]

Oh and then there is this:

Trump's "Counterterrorism Czar" now saying that anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Garcia is "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and could be looking at being federally charged.

Apparently supporting the first and fifth amendment is a crime?

I got nothing...

[Lady Bliss]

We are all afraid to talk here now.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

QuickTidal, on 17 April 2025 - 11:53 AM, said:

El Salvador denies senator visit with mistakenly deported man: Van Hollen

Good on Van Hollen for doing this...but the reason he can't see him, or even get on the phone with him for proof of life is what I said before, either he's dead, or the Trump Administration is paying to keep him there and away from cameras.

Your reminder that Auschwitz was not in Germany either, it was in Poland.


This is going to get so much worse unless something breaks...

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Timothy Snyder
@TimothyDSnyder

1/4. On the White House's theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

https://x.com/Timoth...951015567364247

Guess you've probably seen the satellite photos which suggest possible mass slaughter.

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It's entirely possible that the patch is mud or dust rather than blood, and the pile could be construction material. It could also be a food preparation area.

https://x.com/Shayan...518862660120603

Or... it could be blood.

[QuickTidal]

Yeah, there's another image nearby where trucks that have been parked at the prison are also parked at and it's a massive field that looks like ashes and detritus. A burn field?