Something truly, seriously bad is happening

[gotsnowgotslush]

John le Carré on Trump: ‘Something seriously bad is happening’

7 September 2017

"Something truly, seriously bad is happening and from my point of view we have to be awake to that."

These stages that Trump is going through in the United States and the stirring of racial hatred … a kind of burning of the books as he attacks, as he declares real news as fake news, the law becomes fake news, everything becomes fake news.

“I think of all things that were happening across Europe in the 1930s, in Spain, in Japan, obviously in Germany. To me, these are absolutely comparable signs of the rise of fascism and it’s contagious, it’s infectious. Fascism is up and running in Poland and Hungary. There’s an encouragement about.”

Even today, Le Carré said, Ang Sang Suu Kyi is speaking of “fake news” in Burma. “These are infectious forms of demagogic behaviour and they are toxic.”



https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...mp-something-truly-seriously-bad-is-happening

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

From oral cavity of the Angry Orange Garbage Pile in Chief-

Everything’s coming across the border: the illegals, the cars, the whole thing,” Trump said at an event hosted by Texas Patriots PAC. “It’s like a big mess. Blah. It’s like vomit.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-border-immigrants_us_57bf48c2e4b04193420e3c8f

AOGP In Chief asked-

"So, now we have the person ― 20 years been an upstanding person, the family is great, everyone is great,” Trump said. “Do we throw them out or do we work with them ?"

The answer-

In a joint statement released Monday night, Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders, as well as Rep. Peter Welch, criticized the stepped-up enforcement called for by President Donald Trump. They called his policies “divisive and xenophobic” and said the focus was misplaced.

Instead of focusing on removing those people who pose a threat to public safety or national security, the Trump Administration is targeting all undocumented persons, including the people that help keep our dairy farms and rural economy afloat,” the joint statement said.

The three Vermont farmworker advocates were arrested last week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Burlington on charges of being in the country illegally.

https://vtdigger.org/2017/03/21/ver...arrests-undocumented-immigrants/#.WbXQKOopAv4

Communications from 2016 show that DMV investigators “continued to collude” with ICE, even sharing applications with federal authorities, he said.

“That is not what you all envisioned when you passed the driver’s privilege card law,” Diaz said. “It was to protect people in this situation not allow them to be sent to ICE.”

DMV Commissioner Robert Ide acknowledged that the department has not completely implemented the terms of the Human Rights Commission settlement.


Man with steady job, good marriage, six children, a farm, and support in his community. Jailed, because he was once picked up by I.C.E.

Immigrants cannot re-enter the USA, after deportation. They risk a second deportation.

https://vtdigger.org/2017/04/12/dmv-contact-ice-ongoing-commissioner-says/#.WbXQxuopAv4


For the past five years, he has worked as a custodian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he belongs to a labor union. He pays taxes and runs a carpet-cleaning business on the side. He is married, with two children, and his wife is pregnant with a third. Prior to his current incarceration, he wrote, he had never been arrested for any crime.

Jailed. After I.C.E. said he would not be jailed.

Essentially, what this Administration has done is undo the whole concept of prosecutorial discretion.” This has “empowered the worst rogue ice agents, who can act as they want.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-deportation-at-mit-and-new-risks-for-the-undocumented

No criminal acts, no arrests, but taken by I.C.E

Others fear ICE is arresting immigrants in retaliation for asserting their rights, such as two dairy worker advocates in Vermont, who have since been released on bond, and a community activist in New York, who is detained.

“I honestly believe that ICE wants to send a message that this is what happens when you speak out,” said Boston immigration lawyer Matt Cameron, who represents the Vermont activists.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...a1fb24d4671_story.html?utm_term=.5513d3dbb679


CE Accused of Using Children To Arrest Undocumented Parents

August 5, 227


http://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-ice-accused-using-kids-as-lure-20170804-story.html

Who is the dog in the manger ?


September 8, 2017

DACA

DREAMers betrayed. They broke no laws. They followed all of the rules, surrendered all personal information.


The biggest question now is whether or not lawmakers will try to attach immigration reform to another piece of major legislation this fall, or try to pass a bill on its own. Ryan and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the Senate majority whip, have said Republicans will not agree to a standalone bill.

But the packed legislative calendar this fall could work in the Democrats’ favor. If there isn’t enough support among Republicans in Congress for a DACA replacement bill, Democrats will have several chances to attach the measure to legislation that must be approved in the coming months.

The option that has received the most attention so far is the spending package needed to keep the government funded past the first week of December.


http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/congress-tried-protect-dreamers-will-time-different/

 

[SweetCupcake]

Ugh. I had a headache and insomnia and now this made them worse. These things range from the unfortunate to scary to tragic.

 

[Boxlicker101]

John le Carré on Trump: ‘Something seriously bad is happening’

7 September 2017

"Something truly, seriously bad is happening and from my point of view we have to be awake to that."

These stages that Trump is going through in the United States and the stirring of racial hatred … a kind of burning of the books as he attacks, as he declares real news as fake news, the law becomes fake news, everything becomes fake news.

“I think of all things that were happening across Europe in the 1930s, in Spain, in Japan, obviously in Germany. To me, these are absolutely comparable signs of the rise of fascism and it’s contagious, it’s infectious. Fascism is up and running in Poland and Hungary. There’s an encouragement about.”

Even today, Le Carré said, Ang Sang Suu Kyi is speaking of “fake news” in Burma. “These are infectious forms of demagogic behaviour and they are toxic.”



https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...mp-something-truly-seriously-bad-is-happening

Is he aware that Japan is not in Europe? Or does he just write sloppily?

 

[Carnal_Flower]

This nonsense about "immigrants" is pure facism. THAT IS HOW IT STARTED WITH HITLER.

Bannon was bloviating his fat face about it on 60 Minutes. He is a nasty, sleazy Nazi. He needs to have his mouth washed out with soap.

This insane blather about the illegal aliens letting all these bad, bad things into the country is straight out of Facism 101.

Joining Antifa tomorrow.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump my be enforcing a law to make people demand that the Legislature change the law. But maybe he's just a dick?

It's just too bad he doesn't enforce the laws and treaties against torture and indite Cheney et al for crimes against humanity. He could indite Obama too for extrajudicial assassinations and unprovoked war on civilians, but that would leave him open to the same charge.

 

[DeYaKen]

Is he aware that Japan is not in Europe? Or does he just write sloppily?

This was an interview, not an essay. He didn't write it a reporter did. The reporter may have quoted him verbatim but very few people speak in grammatically correct English. Your President is a prime example of that.

 

[Iceprincess12]

Michael Jackson bad?

 

[Boxlicker101]

This was an interview, not an essay. He didn't write it a reporter did. The reporter may have quoted him verbatim but very few people speak in grammatically correct English. Your President is a prime example of that.

What does grammar have to do with it? It sounds as if he is describing Japan as being in Europe, which is nonsense.

 

[Hypoxia]

What does grammar have to do with it? It sounds as if he is describing Japan as being in Europe, which is nonsense.

As a European state, yeah. As a First World / Western state, no, it's not nonsensical. Merely sloppy.

So Mr le Carré was verbalizing to a reporter. His old brain visualized the 'civilized' world which includes Japan, but framed it in speech as Europe, which *IS* most of the civilized world as seen by Mr le Carré.

It's like virginity: Big issue over a little tissue.

 

[KimGordon67]

What does grammar have to do with it? It sounds as if he is describing Japan as being in Europe, which is nonsense.

This was pretty clearly explained above - if he was being interviewed and transcribed verbatim, he probably meant Europe, and then started listing individual countries, not necessarily those just inside Europe, but it reads oddly when there's no vocal inflections. Either that, or it was just a slip - you've never made a slip when talking?
How is this even relevant to the point being made?

 

[Hypoxia]

How is this even relevant to the point being made?

One marker of pseudoscience is extreme criticism of hypotheses and data without conducting any original research, merely attacking others on the slightest of flubs. That works in politics too.

Obama was thinking of John Kerry and his links to Heinz 57 Flavors and he misspoke about USA's 57 states -- and that became a major flap. Yawn. We aren't all pre-edited, even someone as usually eloquent as Obama. (I don't always like what he says but he says it coherently.)

Mr le Carré was sloppy with a phrasing; that invalidates all he said. That's the implied relevance. Tromp's vague meanderings and 3rd-grade locutions are beyond such criticism, of course. He's a plain talker, a man of the people, not like that faggy Brit le Carré.

Michael Jackson bad?

Too late.

 

[KimGordon67]

Mr le Carré was sloppy with a phrasing; that invalidates all he said. That's the implied relevance. Tromp's vague meanderings and 3rd-grade locutions are beyond such criticism, of course. He's a plain talker, a man of the people, not like that faggy Brit le Carré

Yeah, this is a pretty common tactic of various people on here - latching onto one tiny little point, arguing that until one gets sick of the lack of logic, and then claiming a refusal to continue arguing that tiny point as a 'win'.

 

[phrodeau]

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President

The consensus view of two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists that Trump is dangerously mentally ill and that he presents a clear and present danger to the nation and our own mental health.

In THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP, twenty-seven psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health experts argue that, in Mr. Trump’s case, their moral and civic “duty to warn” America supersedes professional neutrality. They then explore Trump’s symptoms and potentially relevant diagnoses to find a complex, if also dangerously mad, man.

Philip Zimbardo and Rosemary Sword, for instance, explain Trump’s impulsivity in terms of “unbridled and extreme present hedonism.” Craig Malkin writes on pathological narcissism and politics as a lethal mix. Gail Sheehy, on a lack of trust that exceeds paranoia. Lance Dodes, on sociopathy. Robert Jay Lifton, on the “malignant normality” that can set in everyday life if psychiatrists do not speak up.

His madness is catching, too. From the trauma people have experienced under the Trump administration to the cult-like characteristics of his followers, he has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond.

 

[Hypoxia]

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President

I readily acknowledge the hard fact that DJT is a first-class asshole, but that doesn't make him certifiable. I readily accept that he's headed into Alzheimer-land, but he ain't there yet. I do not readily accept diagnosis-from-a-distance by a crew of shrinks, no matter how distinguished.

The book will preach to the choir. Its readers will already be sure POTUS is nutz. Alt.right media will seize upon it as a Globalist cabal attack on the God-Emperor, especially if a number of the authors are Jewish or Indian.

The book won't much bother Tromp or his base but may hopefully provoke many entertaining memes and subversive cartoons. I look forward to those.

 

[DrDelirium]

As a European state, yeah. As a First World / Western state, no, it's not nonsensical. Merely sloppy.

So Mr le Carré was verbalizing to a reporter. His old brain visualized the 'civilized' world which includes Japan, but framed it in speech as Europe, which *IS* most of the civilized world as seen by Mr le Carré.

It's like virginity: Big issue over a little tissue.

While a historian or archeologist in 1930 might have talked about 'Japanese Civilization,' in the political jargon of the West Japan was most definitely not considered part of the 'civilized world,' but rather a threat to it. Japan was attempting to become a 'first world' state, but was being rebuffed in every possible way. Note that propaganda vs Germany in WWII was largely focused on ideology, but propaganda vs Japan was focused on race.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Not funny

Where did they get the hare-brained idea, that it would be funny ?

Creston, Iowa

Creston is a city of more than 7,800 about 70 miles south of Des Moines.


Union County Attorney Tim Kenyon said Thursday that no one has been criminally charged in connection with the photo, which, on its own, is not a crime. Local law enforcement has not received any reports of threats, violence or other crimes associated with the photo, Kenyon said

Drake University Law Professor Mark Kende, an expert in constitutional law, has said that discipline by the school district could be an unconstitutional overreach, infringing on the students' free speech rights, if they were pictured off school grounds and were not targeting specific people.

It's unclear where the photo was taken, but school officials have said it was not on school property.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...s-son-recognizes-his-poor-judgment/646939001/


Trey Cheers, a 2017 graduate of Creston Community High School, told the World-Herald the photo was sent to him by a friend, who received it from the student who took it. He posted it on Twitter, writing, “... Makes me embarrassed to be from this town.”

http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article171616107.html


Different

6-foot-3 African-American young man, a popular basketball and football star in a predominantly white town.

But suddenly he was confronted with five of his teammates posing in a racist photo, emulating a violent strain of white supremacists who routinely lynched blacks.

"...68 remaining teammates are using the photo, he said, "as a way to bring us together as a family more. I know now that these guys have my back no matter what. That’s helped me a lot."


"Five years ago, I reported on a family that left Creston because they had experienced widespread racism. It became a talking point when the mother of the family wrote a letter to the editor, published in the Creston News Advertiser, declaring as much."

-Kyle Munson
September 11, 2017

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...cross-burning-kkk-confederate-flag/644784001/


Lawyers are involved after five Creston High School students on the football team were disciplined this week when a photo surfaced showing them wearing white (KKK) hoods and standing beside a burning cross.

(With a gun, a Confederate flag.)

Friday, an attorney for the Creston Community School District, Kristy M. Latta, issued a statement.

Iowa City approved a "welcoming city" resolution in January. It says that police there will not work to detect the "presence of undocumented persons" or devote public resources to the enforcement of federal immigration law.


Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Justice Department would withhold law enforcement grants from cities that do not provide federal immigration authorities access to their jails or alert them when someone facing deportation is released from custody.

"We cannot continue giving taxpayer money to cities that actively undermine the safety and efficacy of federal law enforcement efforts," Sessions said Wednesday during a news conference in Miami, where he touted the cooperation of officials in Miami-Dade County.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...s-ask-where-iowas-welcoming-cities/534376001/


Miami Dade police give ICE information

When Hurricane Harvey devastated Texas late last month, some unauthorized immigrants told aid workers and news reporters they stayed away from public shelters because they were scared federal authorities would inquire about their legal status and detain them. Their concerns were exacerbated when uniformed U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents assisted in the recovery — even though the federal government said repeatedly the agents weren’t acting in any deportation capacity.

To avoid a similar situation in South Florida, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio urged the Department of Homeland Security to explain in advance its role during Hurricane Irma. The agency said Wednesday it “will not conduct non-criminal immigration enforcement operations in the affected area,” though Homeland Security personnel will be deployed to help federal, state and local authorities in the storm’s aftermath.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article171667187.html

Florida Sheriff’s Office Threatens To Check People At Hurricane Shelters For Warrants

“If you have a warrant, turn yourself in to the jail — it’s a secure shelter,” the office tweeted


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/polk-county-sheriff_us_59b1868ce4b0354e4410420e


Miami-Dade officials decided in 2013 to hold individuals based on ICE “detainer” requests only if the federal government reimbursed the cost and if the person had been convicted of a felony or had a pending felony charge. They argued this would allow them to avoid violating an individual’s constitutional rights and would save the county money. Other jurisdictions in the U.S. followed suit after a number of rulings across the country warned that they could be held liable if their cooperation with the federal government led to the wrongful detention of individuals.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/miami-dade-sanctuary-trump_us_58b9d325e4b05cf0f4008a46

Miami-Dade County Commission made a Faustian bargain: The county said it would start holding undocumented people in jail for the feds, all to shed its label as a "sanctuary" community and avoid President Donald Trump's scorn.

According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, deportations in the U.S. jumped 38 percent through the first four months of 2017. Deportations of people with no criminal records jumped 153 percent.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/m...d-still-let-cops-report-people-to-ice-9502188

 

[Hypoxia]

While a historian or archeologist in 1930 might have talked about 'Japanese Civilization,' in the political jargon of the West Japan was most definitely not considered part of the 'civilized world,' but rather a threat to it. Japan was attempting to become a 'first world' state, but was being rebuffed in every possible way. Note that propaganda vs Germany in WWII was largely focused on ideology, but propaganda vs Japan was focused on race.

I think Mr le Carré was speaking long after WWII -- like, this past week. Japan's position in the world community has rather changed a bit in the last seven decades. Instead of 'civilized' I could have said First World. I'll assume Mr le Carré considers modern Japan to be economically aligned with Europe rather than other blocs.

 

[DrDelirium]

I think Mr le Carré was speaking long after WWII -- like, this past week. Japan's position in the world community has rather changed a bit in the last seven decades. Instead of 'civilized' I could have said First World. I'll assume Mr le Carré considers modern Japan to be economically aligned with Europe rather than other blocs.

He was clearly speaking about Japan in the 1930s, not today.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

WTF ?

September 12, 2017

Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration To Block Refugees With Resettlement Agency Assurances

The order is a victory for the Trump administration, which argued against the expanded refugee protections

Hawaii opposed the request, but the court granted the stay in a one-sentence order on Tuesday afternoon


The justices are due to hear arguments over the legality and constitutionality of Trump's executive order on Oct. 10, in the second week of the court's new term.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidn...ock-refugees?utm_term=.cx9maZ0EPO#.qpMrQ4NOVL

Supreme Court blocks new refugees under Trump travel ban

The Supreme Court gave a short-term win to the Trump administration Tuesday, bolstering part of a travel ban that will allow the administration to block new refugees arriving from six majority-Muslim nations.

In a brief order and with no dissents, the justices reversed rulings by a federal judge in Hawaii and the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

Administration lawyers argued these people did not qualify for an exemption because they had "no contact" or previous relationship with anyone in this country, which was the criteria set under a previous Supreme Court decision.

On Monday, government lawyers filed an emergency appeal with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who agreed to a temporary freeze.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/was...-new-refugees-under-1505255496-htmlstory.html


The justices on Tuesday agreed to an administration request to block a lower court ruling that would have eased the refugee ban and allowed up to 24,000 refugees to enter the country before the end of October.

The order was not the court's last word on the travel policy that President Donald Trump first rolled out in January. The justices are scheduled to hear arguments on Oct. 10 on the legality of the bans on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries and refugees anywhere in the world.

It's unclear, though, what will be left for the court to decide. The 90-day travel ban lapses in late September and the 120-day refugee ban will expire a month later.

Grandparents and cousins of people already in the U.S. can't be excluded from the country under the travel ban, as the Trump administration had wanted. The administration did not ask the Supreme Court to block that part of the ruling.

http://www.refinery29.com/2017/09/171940/supreme-court-trump-administration-refugee-ban

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

"Emma Lazarus turns over in her grave"

September 11, 2017

Reacting to the government's new request to stay that part of the ruling,David Cole, national legal director of the ACLU, commented on Twitter: "Emma Lazarus turns over in her grave," referring to the poet whose iconic work "The New Colossus" appears on the Statue of Liberty.


The government did not seek a stay on the part of the ruling that exempted extended family members such as grandparents from the ban.

"The broader question of whether the travel ban discriminates against Muslims in violation of the U.S. Constitution, as lower courts previously ruled, will be considered by the Supreme Court in October," Reuters reports.


https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...otus-gives-narrowed-muslim-ban-temporary-stay

 

[Hypoxia]

IIRC the EO ban covers folks from certain Muslim-majority states whose nationals have never attacked the US but does not exclude Muslim states whose people HAVE committed acts of terrorism here. The ban not only discriminates re: religion but is pointedly useless.

The key: Trump.Org does business in non-ban states but not in ban states. The ban thus serves to continue POTUS violating the Constitution's foreign emolument clause. Follow the money.

 

[DeYaKen]

IIRC the EO ban covers folks from certain Muslim-majority states whose nationals have never attacked the US but does not exclude Muslim states whose people HAVE committed acts of terrorism here. The ban not only discriminates re: religion but is pointedly useless.

The key: Trump.Org does business in non-ban states but not in ban states. The ban thus serves to continue POTUS violating the Constitution's foreign emolument clause. Follow the money.

Precisely. Any state that wants its nationals to have access to the United States simply has to buy arms from them.

 

[sr71plt]

Precisely. Any state that wants its nationals to have access to the United States simply has to buy arms from them.

Or, these days, put "Trump" on a downtown hotel in the capital city.

 

[Calista85]

The liberals are now in love with the word Nazi. Seeing its just four letters I guess they can handle it.

But people should ask themselves who in this country is banning books? Banning movies? Removing statues? Re-writing and trying to wipe out history to upcoming generations?

Who is telling is what words we can say? How we can think? Who its okay to hate?

Who is screaming the word racism every ten seconds but meanwhile constantly say "white people this and white people that?

Who is trying to convince the young generation of white amercians that they should be guilty of their skin, should hate themselves and that they owe every non white in the country something?

I'll give you a hint. Its not the conservatives or the average right wing republican. Its also not even the alt right 'nazis'

The real hate is from the far left. They're the ones censoring everything and saying anyone that don't agree with them is full of hate. Bully pots calling the kettle black

Wait, can I still use that expression or is it racist?