DB reports that defense secy. Pete Hegseth deleted an important sentence from the English translation of a Panama Canal statement in Spanish: Hegseth’s Panama Canal Statement Leaves Out a Major Detail From Spanish Version -- A joint statement released Tuesday by the Pentagon following talks between U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino omitted appeared to omit a significant detail. Mulino and Hegseth released a joint statement following their talks, the Spanish version of which included the line: “Secretary Hegseth recognized the leadership and inalienable sovereignty of Panama over the Panama Canal and its adjacent areas.” That detail was nowhere to be seen in the English-language version released by the Pentagon, the Associated Press first reported.
From here on out, we can expect nothing but obliteration (denial, distortion, downplay, blame shift, etc.) of all inconvenient facts, true truths and sound reasoning from not only the DoD, but the entire MAGA federal government.
And, MAGA does not recognize the leadership and inalienable sovereignty of Panama over the Panama Canal and its adjacent areas. That’s interesting. I bet Mulino is wondering . . . . . is it Defcon 1 time for the Panamanian military? Who knows. MAGA is a very nasty black box.
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MJ reports that at least one AI Poobah and MAGA extremist always intended AI to be used for facial recognition to target and purge liberals and immigrants: The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI --- Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration. --- An immigrant to the United States himself, Hoan Ton-That grew up in Melbourne and Canberra and claimed to be descended from Vietnamese royalty. At 19, he dropped out of college and, in 2007, moved to San Francisco to pursue a tech career. He later fell in with Silicon Valley neoreactionaries who embraced a far-right, technocratic vision of society. Now Ton-That and his partners wanted to use facial recognition to keep people out of the country. Certain people. Their technology would put that ideology into action. .... A diehard Donald Trump supporter, Ton-That envisioned using facial recognition to compare images of migrants crossing the border to mugshots to see if the arrivals had been previously arrested in the United States.
Remember my 4/1/25 post about NRx, neoreactionary authoritarianism, for the young 'uns? No? Here's the link. Good old Ton-That is one of those NRx freaks. Interestingly he is, or claims to be, a Vietnamese immigrant to Australia who immigrated to the US to help set up a system to spot immigrants and get them booted out of the country. As Spock would say, fascinating. Let's boot out Ton-That!
Hey! I've been there and ton that! Nyuk, nyuk!
Peanut 1: This is what Republicans voted for. Your Republican neighbor, your Republican pastor, your Republican uncle, etc...they're all either dumbfucks or fascists, there is nothing in between.
Peanut 2: Hey give them some credit. Some of them are dumbfucks and fascists that fall perfectly between.
Peanut 3: Evil people have an inherent competitive advantage because ignoring laws, rules, and ethics multiplies your opportunities to make more money by a ton-that. Especially when government regulation of such behavior gets as soft as the US has gotten over the past 50 years (thanks boomers). Now, predictably evil people have more wealth than entire countries and are using their wealth to buy governments and further tip everything in favor of further increasing their power and wealth.
I sense some disgruntlement in the peanut gallery.
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TNR reports about MAGA thugs gleefully deporting bona fide US citizens for committing crimes: Press Secretary Says Trump Wasn’t Joking About Deporting U.S. Citizens --- Donald Trump had suggested sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador --- During a press briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked to explain Trump’s disturbingly enthusiastic response to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s wildly illegal proposition for the U.S. government to relocate individuals incarcerated in the federal prison system, including American citizens, to the Central American country. .... “These would be heinous, violent criminals who have broken our nation’s laws repeatedly. These are violent, repeat offenders in American streets,” Leavitt said.
Well, OK, only deport heinous, violent, repeat offender criminals! Hm, I wonder if this blog constitutes a place of heinous, violent, repeat offender crime in MAGA’s opinion. Nah, probably not. I hope.
What could give one pause, is djt’s disturbingly enthusiastic response to boxing ’em up and shipping ’em out. That’s a bit creepy coming from a hyper-vindictive, thin-skinned, dictator-wannabe who is the US president.
