CONTEXT: THE MONSTER TELLS US WHAT HE THINKS OF US
djt called American military personnel who died in war "losers" and "suckers." When asked to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France, reportedly said, "Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers." He referred to marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as "suckers" for getting killed. And he said that Senator John McCain was "not a war hero" because he'd been captured during the Vietnam War, adding that he likes "people who weren't captured." He said that he didn't want to be seen with wounded veterans because "it doesn't look good for me."
djt said "I don't want to shake hands with those dirty people, those disgusting people," referring to his supporters.
Yesterday, djt said to El Salvadore's dictator Bukele, that "the home-growns are next, the home-growns. You gotta build about five more places", referring to US criminals he wants to illegally deport to death camps in El Salvador and the need of El Salvadore to build 5 more death camps to house them.
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The Constitutional Crisis Is Here
Between the path of outright defiance of the Supreme Court and following its order to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the Trump administration has chosen a third way: pretending it is complying while refusing to do so.
During an on-camera Oval Office meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, whom the Trump administration has paid to imprison immigrants deported from the United States it claims without evidence are gang members, President Donald Trump deferred to Attorney General Pam Bondi, who said the decision was Bukele’s.
“That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him. That’s not up to us,” Bondi told reporters. “That’s not up to us. If they want to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.” Bukele, for his part, called Abrego Garcia a “terrorist,” saying to a reporter who asked if he would return him, “I hope you’re not suggesting that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States.” He added, “The question is preposterous.” (emphasis added)The insulting, cynical contempt that djt and his MAGA thug attorney general Bondi show for the rule of law cannot be clearer. The ghastly arrogance of the corrupt dictator-thug Bukele saying he refuses to smuggle a terrorist into the United States, shows an equal level of insulting, cynical contempt. He smuggles no one by letting them get on an airplane the US government knowingly provides to bring a non-terrorist back to the US under US court orders. This is how djt, Bondi, MAGA elites generally and Bukele all see the American people and their democracy:
The Trump administration is pretending to comply with the Supreme Court’s order to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) while refusing to actually do so, Adam Serwer writes.
During an on-camera Oval Office meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele today, President Donald Trump said the decision to return Abrego Garcia was Bukele’s. Bukele, for his part, called Abrego Garcia a “terrorist,” saying to a reporter who asked whether he would return him, “I hope you’re not suggesting that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States.”
“This rhetorical game the administration is playing, where it pretends it lacks the power to ask for Abrego Garcia to be returned while Bukele pretends he doesn’t have the power to return him, is an expression of obvious contempt for the Supreme Court—and for the rule of law,” Serwer continues. “The administration is maintaining that it has the power to send armed agents of the state to grab someone off the street and then, without a shred of due process, deport them to a gulag in a foreign country and leave them there forever. The crucial point here is that the administration’s logic means that it could do the same to American citizens.”
Trump is already contemplating this possibility. Aside from numerous public statements to that effect, Trump told Bukele, in an exchange posted on Bukele’s X feed, “Homegrowns are next. The homegrowns. You gotta build about five more places.” Loud laughter filled the Oval Office.
“If the Trump administration can defy court orders with impunity, and Congress is unwilling to act, there is no reason for it to respect the constitutional rights of American citizens either,” Serwer continues. “The Roberts Court will now have to decide whether to side with the Constitution or with a lawless president asserting the power to disappear people at will. This is not a power that any person, much less an American president, is meant to have.”
How djt and MAGA elites respect us
Well, that's not exactly true. I don't want to exaggerate. Bondi, being the civilized, gentle lady that she is, her expression of affection for all of us and our democracy and rights is more refined and genteel:
How Bondi respects us
Meanwhile as MAGA virtue signals its "respect" for us and our system of government and society, most Americans are standing by and do nothing as their morally rotted, authoritarian and kleptocratic MAGA votes and sympathies threaten us and destroy our democracy, civil liberties and rule of law. The American experiment in self-governance, which admittedly never was close to perfect, is ending with a whimper. But I never expected so many of the American people to (1) ever become so stunningly deceived by demagoguery, lies, slanders, crackpottery and mind manipulation, or (2) complacent about tossing away their precious democracy and powers to self-govern.
It's no wonder that the overwhelming normal state of affairs for the human condition is living under thug-thief leaders like djt and Bukele with morally rotted, goon enablers like Bondi. Welp, the normal state of affairs what enough of the American people asked for. A plurality of voters (~49.8%) asked for it. Now that's probably what most of them and nearly all the rest of us are gonna get.
Q: Over the top (or worse) commentary by me, or reasonably justified and supported by facts and sound reasoning?