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Gap03

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  1. I feel you. Sometimes the only thing that keeps me going is the prospect of making it to the Esso Station phase of this dictatorship ...
  2. I'm confused. If the courts can't make the Trump administration do a damn thing and you don't care about winning an election, what exactly did you have in mind? You think we're going to spur the American people to action with the Abrego story, just based on the facts? I don't know how you'd get to that conclusion looking back at the past 10 years (notwithstanding a handful of rowdy old folks in Iowa). This is where I'm at. The story can't just be about Abrego, though. Too many folks are still convinced that Trump is not "coming for them or theirs." And unfortunately a lot of the middle still views the Dems as being hysterical. That's why I said they need to pick their battles here. There is absolutely a window to convince people that the danger that we've been talking about is really coming. It needs to be personal, though.
  3. I think what he means by "carefully presented" is that they need to pick cases where the circumstances can't be cast as "the Dems just want to give illegal immigrants more rights than you have." If you look at the way the Fox Cinematic Universe is presenting the Abrego situation, it goes something like this: He came into the country "illegally" at some point. He was arrested for being an MS-13 gang member. Trump is deporting him because he is an illegal engaged in terrorism in the U.S. Trump just sent him back to his home country. Why do you want to protect a terrorist from being sent back to their home country where they can deal with him? It's all fucking lies, but the average U.S. citizen has no appetite for nuance, so this version of the story is going to resonate with some, especially for those scared of brown immigrants (which is unfortunately a lot). The risk is that if the Dems latch on to a couple of situations like this that can be twisted in the minds of a good chunk of the country, all of a sudden we have another "Russia Russia Russia" situation where, even as the Trump administration engages in more blatant misconduct, people don't bother to listen. Unfortunately, the Dems only have a few chances to make this stick - otherwise people will just tune out.
  4. Yeah, but I'm not sure that they move the needle electorally. The reality is that there is a sizable chunk of the voting population that is scared to death of brown immigrants, so framing this as an infringement of the rights of brown immigrants (illegal or not) may continue to push them away. I'm not sure how many of them you can win over on this topic, but I think the more reasonable play is to point out what the administration is doing (sending folks with a legal right to be here to a foreign Gulag to rot for the rest of their lives without any right to defend themselves), noting that "eventually they're going to come for you or your neighbors." The idea would be to lay out the Trump game plan in advance and note every step along the way as it happens, so they have credibility when they say "they really are coming for you next." It would be great if we weren't so selfish as a country that this would matter without it being personal, but the reality is it's going to get personal soon enough.
  5. Because of course ... Comments are on point. I mean, if that's where he wants to go, let's fucking go.
  6. Can someone with tech skills create a modified version of this gif with Brett saying "I didn't vote for this!" at the beginning? I would use the fuck out of that ...
  7. Vladek's proposal in #3 makes a ton of sense. An alternative would be to say that any outsourced confinement (like at CECOT) must be reflected in a written agreement that formally requires them the return deportees at the request of the U.S. The Executive (especially this Executive) can't be given the opportunity to disappear folks and then just throw up their hands and say "Oops, but nothing we can do."
  8. Jacketed hollow point (ammo)
  9. Elon wanted to build his 3rd grade shitmobile. Pretty sure Jeff just wanted to unleash his version of the Austin Powers joke on the public ...
  10. MAGA:
  11. Trump Administration at work ... allegedly ...
  12. The Dems should be negotiating a deal with Canada for them to set up a detention facility on Ellesmere Island where they can similarly "deport" enemies of the state, just in case they ever win back the White House. Of course, they can't be expected to bat 1.000, so there may be a few folks questionably deported [**cough, cough, Elon **], but it will just be unfortunate collateral damage in trying to continue to make America great.
  13. And if anyone thinks this is a mischaracterization, he absolutely does say that starting at about 7:15 of the embedded X video. I'm sure Roberts now has some Susan Collins level of concern. Fucking coward.
  14. Is that "facilitating"? Cuz I don't think that's facilitating ... I can't wait to see how John R. cucks himself next.
  15. Gorka's head is a virtual planetoid. Has it's own weather system.
  16. Above the Law taking this opportunity to absolutely roast the law firms that chose to bend the knee to Trump: Some choice bits (https://abovethelaw.com/2025/04/pray-i-dont-alter-it-any-further-what-darth-vader-should-teach-law-firms-about-settling-with-trump/: The White House is the one saying “bend the knee!” Forget Star Wars, this is some Game of Thrones ass shit.
  17. I predict it's going to go a little something like this ... (And I know the courts have the US Marshal Service, but if you think they're going to arrest Noem or anyone else in the regime and throw them in prison, please pass me some of whatever you're smoking.)
  18. It would appear that Nicholas Grossman's tweets were pretty prescient ...
  19. The Trump admin continues to purge the military of anyone that is insufficiently loyal to them: While it's great to know that there are officers that know Trump, Vance and Hegseth are fucking morons, personally I'd prefer that they keep their heads down and retain their positions for as long as they can. It feels like we're going to need them sooner or later.
  20. QFMFT. I fully expect a Thomas dissent, explaining that "while this might have been wrong, I would have been cool with it if they had just done x, y and z [wink, wink]" ....
  21. Call me when they're perp walking Noem or Stephen Miller in leg irons ..
  22. Non-paywalled NPR story: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5358421/supreme-court-abrego-garcia-deportation-decision Bets on how this turns out? 1. "Oops, he somehow got dead." 2. Trump tells the USSC to fuck off. 3. Trump's attorneys say the Admin has done everything in their power, but the bad man in El Salvador told us to fuck off. 4. Trump actually complies and gets dude back. Most likely is #1. Trump doesn't want to look weak (#3, 4), but also doesn't want to create the clear constitutional crisis just yet (#2), so he requests Bukele "find him dead." BTW - gotdamn the USSC is full of a buncha bitches; another unsigned opinion. Well, at least they got to the right decision.
  23. Nope - baseline 10% tariffs across the board are still in place in addition to the 125% China tariffs. The press really fucking sucks these days. NPR does an okay job here: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5358929/trump-tariff-pause-china
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