Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally - The Washington Post
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Please click below and research what JD Vance’s playbook is: to topple our government.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23373795/curtis-yarvin-neoreaction-redpill-moldbug
Please read the Timothy Snyder article below also.
The Trump-Vance Political Theory
Timothy Snyder has just published an important new book On Freedom. Attached is a short essay introducing thinking about Freedom: ‘Fantasy-Impotence-Fascism’. TFantasy-Impotence-Fascism
The Trump-Vance Political Theory Timothy Snyder September 22, 2024 A lady in Springfield, Ohio lost her cat and found it, and Trump and Vance have made this the centerpiece of their campaign. This might seem mysterious or just stupid. But Trump and Vance are intelligent and talented politicians, and their actions make sense within their political theory. Though alien to most Americans, the worldview is important to understand, because it forecasts how America would be ruled should these men come to power. It has three elements: fantasy, impotence, and fascism.
1. Fantasy. There is no true and false. There is no such thing as lying. There are just “stories,” as Vance says. So in one world (let’s call it the real world, for old-time’s sake), a cat disappeared for a moment, as cats will, and then reappeared, as cats will, in the basement. In another world, the Trump-Vance fantasy world, that cat was eaten by Haitians, as part of a general trend of pet consumption, one which justifies their deportation and our outrage etc. What does a story like this bring to the Trump-Vance campaign? It clearly brings something: let’s remember 2016, the last time Trump ran from outside the White House. Halloween-season fantasies of a similar kind, generally originating in Russia, saved his campaign. But how does this work? To answer, we need to consider the other two parts of the political theory. 2. Impotence. Central to the Trump-Vance campaign is a politics of impotence. The government cannot actually do anything for the average citizen. (In the background, of course, a smaller, dysfunctional government creates a void filled by the oligarchs, which is the practical implication of this theory). In elaborating the cats-and-dogs fantasy about his home state, Vance is revealing to us his theory of federal power. Here it is: the power of the the federal government is to be used to find a cat which is not in fact lost. That’s it. Nothing more. That is what the average citizen can expect from a Trump-Vance regime. Project 2025 expels the civil servants who know what to do, nothing works anymore except for oligarchs and pals of the president, and the rest of us get Schrödinger’s Cat. A person holding a position of authority and responsibility in the federal government has no other role than to talk about things that are not true and pass on responsibility for the untruth to the media, as Vance does. Remember: Vance is a United States Senator representing Ohio. If there were some actual problem in Ohio he could propose to address it with legislation. But he cannot and will not do so, not only because there is no actual problem, but because he must personify impotent government. 3. Fascism. In the Trump-Vance political theory, government acts not in the normal way, by laws, but as an instrument of the fury of the people. There is no legal basis, or indeed any basis at all, to call for the Haitian population of Springfield, Ohio to be deported. The people in question are here legally, as Trump and Vance know, and did nothing, as Trump and Vance also know. In fascism, the government becomes the will of the people, or rather the race, as embodied in a single person. A fantasy of evil done by others is deliberately invoked to create a sense of us and them. Government exercises power by taking revenge on groups, for example by deporting them (the first large-scale action of Hitler’s SS, by the way, was deporting immigrants). Such a mass deportation would be complicated and bloody, would require collaboration from citizens, and would set Americans against one another. We see a foretaste of this in Springfield, Ohio, with all the bomb threats. Us-and-them then becomes the normal form of politics, with us becoming complicit in ever more terrible actions, which incidentally make traditional government harder and our expectations of government lower. The government becomes impotent in the sense of protecting or supporting citizens, with politics now transferred to the battles on the streets. And then the people in power think up the the next fantasy. And the government becomes more impotent, leaving space for the oligarchs and generating more reasons for Americans to fight one another. That’s the political theory. Fantasy-Impotence-Fascism. And it can become, as we are seeing, political practice.
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Behind the Curtain: Biden oligarchy will decide fate (msn.com)
The fact of oligarchies, both Democratic and Republican, is the root cause of America's problems today. The world's problems today. It always has been so in one form or another.
The moneyed begetting the moneyed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-tells-rally-goers-not-to-die-in-searing-vegas-heat-i-don-t-care-about-you-i-just-want-your-vote/ar-BB1nUM89?ocid=socialshare&pc=HCTS&cvid=ed73e47cbf9b4cd0bef30c84fbd5e774&ei=21
'Ahwoogooba': Trump's rally 'brain glitch' has internet declaring 'he's toast' (msn.com)
But it was one moment wherein Trump remarked in jest that he only cared about his fans’ votes, not his supporters as people.
“I don't want anybody going on me. We need every voter,” he said. “I don't care about you. I just want your vote.”
As his supporters laughed, Trump then went on to say that reporters attending the rally would take his words out of context and tell viewers that the ex-president had said a “horrible” thing onstage.
The rich get richer by keeping the American Immigration System Broken. Follow the money.
Who profits by hiring undocumented workers in the US?
These U.S. industries can't work without illegal immigrants - CBS News
Mexico Trade & Investment Summary
U.S. goods and services trade with Mexico totaled an estimated $855.1 billion in 2022. Exports were $362.0 billion; imports were $493.1 billion. The U.S. goods and services trade deficit with Mexico was $131.1 billion in 2022.
Any of today's Republican politicians spewing about the shutting down of the US/Mexican border are full of beans.
By the way, do you know how much money (remittances) Mexican undocumented home to their country each year?
Supreme Court allows Texas to begin enforcing controversial immigration law | CNN Politics
With no training in immigration law, deportation law, or Spanish? No access to ICE data bases?
Texas will not be able to handle or fund the number of civil rights cases and criminal cases to come.
Please check out this piece I wrote back on November 2014
Chris Hedges "The Genocide in Gaza" (youtube.com)
Chris Hedges ~ The Greatest Evil is War - YouTube
0:18 The Genocide in Gaza
42:10 Letter to the Children of Gaza
52:27 Audience Q&A
Best-selling author, foreign correspondent, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges addressed the Middle East crisis with a talk titled "The Genocide in Gaza" on December 6, 2023 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in North Troy NY.
www.mediasanctuary.org
Chris Hedges, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times, spent seven years covering the conflict between Israel and Palestine. He is the author of numerous books including the New York Times bestsellers War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, which he co-authored with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto. He has also taught students in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system for a decade, the subject of his book Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison.
This talk was co-sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace, Albany Chapter; Muslim Solidarity Committee and Project SALAM; Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace; Palestinian Rights Committee-Upper Hudson Peace Action; RPI Muslim Student Association; UAlbany Muslim Student Association; Women Against War.
The presentation was made possible by volunteer labor and thousands of small donations from patrons of The Sanctuary for Independent Media.
The Sanctuary for Independent Media is a telecommunications production facility dedicated to community media arts, located in an historic former church at 3361 6th Avenue in North Troy, NY. The Sanctuary hosts screening, production and performance facilities, training in media production and a meeting space for artists, activists and independent media makers of all kinds.
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What Will The Texas National Guard Do With The Undocumented They Arrest?
Texas National Guard begins arresting migrants along US-Mexico border (msn.com)
Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Chris Olivarez posted videos and images on social media Wednesday night showing migrants being handcuffed and hauled off.
"Troopers are arresting illegal immigrants for criminal trespass at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass," he said. "Troopers are enforcing criminal trespass on single adult men & women. The State of Texas will maintain a proactive posture in curbing illegal border crossings between the ports of entry."
Who profits by keeping the people who put food on our tables undocumented?