ReallyActuallyFrankenstein @ ReallyActuallyFrankenstein @lemmynsfw.com

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Considering that they're making completely unsupported allegations re: Abrego, I have no trust whatsoever that they did more than elementary school research into the crimes they're attributing, and assume that nearly none of them are supported by court convictions.

-Poetry, 2025 Edition

I read that article and had the passing thought that my tax dollars pay for that person, and got a little sad.

Any prosecutions should fail because there is no mens rea (intent) which is a requirement under criminal law (until the judicial branch is fully captured). The purpose right now is to send a signal that they are above the law and chill anyone attempting to stop them.

From their About page, it's always fascinating to read how much dogwhistle coded language they put in there to make sure you know this site isn't run by or for those people:

For far too long, American consumers and business owners who cherish family values

No gays here!

and God-given liberty

This is a Christian country, and if you don't like it, you can geeeeee-it outt.

have been overlooked by mainstream businesses.

More like "Lamestream," amirite, guys?? ...Guys?

Despite their numbers and purchase power,

We conservatives are the majority, not those coincidentally, definitionally minorities!

they have lacked an economic ecosystem that truly aligns with their priorities.

The globalist economy isn't hateful enough to the things we hate, this makes us sad because we really want to feel aligned.

It’s time to embrace this community of customers and merchants by providing platforms, products, and services that enrich the way of life they hold dear.

We needed to very carefully adapt "way of life" from David Duke so people know we mostly almost completely don't 100% mean the white christian way of life. Well, let's just make sure we add extra photos of only white babies on the site so people get the message. Nailed it.

Attention is invisible until you take the time to acknowledge it. People will never treat it as a resource of the same value as these companies, because they don't even recognize it as something being taken away from them (despite that it is actually the most precious resource - our literal lives), and that disparity will always be profitable.

90 percent of Democrats, 56 percent of independents and 11 percent of Republicans now disapproving of the way the president has managed one of his core policy issues.

89% approval with Republicans is all that matters. As long as his approval is high there and they remain obedient pets, he feels zero pressure. Trump regards the others roughly the same as cockroaches.

They have a right wing anti-EU, anti -LGBTQ populist candidate polling in the 20-25% range that - surprise, surprise - wants to withdraw Ukraine support.

Poland as well. It's honestly happening everywhere, and I suspect Russia is funding a lot of it worldwide.

This is a clear authoritarian signal and power grab, but trying to think practically since I'm getting exhausted with my own powerless exasperation with nothing to show for it:

To get an arrest warrant, you typically would need a judge to sign off on it. So either (a) another judge signed the warrant to arrest this judge, or (b) they falsely arrested the judge without a proper warrant.

I think (b) is possible with how slipshod Trump officials are, but more likely they followed the letter if not the spirit of the law, so (a). That suggests that there may be a pocket judge signing spurious warrants for Patel. This also makes more sense, since they likely need cover when assisting ICE, so they'd want someone in that role.

So in a healthy system, first would be Congress forcibly removing Patel. Probably every GOP congressperson's response here will be "I haven't heard about that, now I'll walk away down this hall casual-like because frankly nobody is going to hold me accountable." The other less direct approach would be to identify this judge then there may be a removal process. What other things can be done here short of revolution?

Sure, just a little locker room murder. Boys will be boys.

The 2002 law was designed to modernize the voting process. Under it, the Election Assistance Commission was given a number of mandates: distribute $2.8 billion in federal money for new voting equipment; create voluntary guidelines for voting systems and establish a federal testing and certification program for them; oversee the national voter registration form; and gather data about federal elections.

Just like DOGE, this is Trump attempting to hijack an existing, congressionally-approved group with one or two words in the title relevant to his goal, and completely disfigure it into an executive branch tool.

Trump isn't smart enough to have planned either of these - this has the smarmy self-assured gloat of Stephen Miller all over it. A reminder that voters didn't just vote in the cancer that is Trump, they voted in full metastasis.

This was always the plan - the reason it's happening so fast is that they're ahead of schedule, because of all the preemptive compliance.

Hitler made other parties illegal within a year of being appointed. Opposition in Russia is nominally allowed but effectively impossible because of this kind of harassment. These are the models Trump is following, so expect the DOJ to act fast.

If they cut off democrats' money to campaign, with elections as close as they already are, they may not even have to capture the election process to win the next 1-2 elections, and then we're unsalvageable.

At least we have Everything for local search.

But Trump promised* he wouldn't!

*Not promised, but strongly implied.^†

^†By strongly implied, meaning "at least left open the possibility."^††

^††Except for the times he said the opposite thing.^†††

^†††This was every time.

"I'm up here working on the initiatives for President Trump, who's been in ministry for 40 years and understands it," she insisted.

Tom Emmer is one of the worst. That's been clear for years. He supported interfering with the 2021 certification to give "legal" cover for the coup, and this isn't a surprise either.

He flies under the radar for many because there are so many attention grabbers among the GOP authoritariat, but he's someone, like Miller, ahead of the fascism train actively laying the tracks.

"I came in to negotiate peace between the armed home invader and the homeowner. Yes, the home invader killed a few members of the family, but when I pointed a second gun at the homeowner and demanded the homeowner give up their living room permanently to the invader, and also give me the bathroom, the homeowner wouldn't even compromise. At this point, I don't know what more I can do."

This is entirely the reason for the non-MAGA Republicans to lick boot, this is why they met Trump at those crossroads and sold their souls. They think fascism is a fair price if it means destroying a government that helps people not like them.

I broke this toy just to see if I could, but can you believe this guy hasn't fixed it yet?