What happened to Kilmar Abrego Garcia is right out of the first scene of Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985), where a man whose name is unfortunately one letter away from the target of a manhunt is kidnapped from his home & tortured to death by the state on account of a typographical error
Me too! I was at a government-funded 6 week French immersion program at a CEGEP in the outskirts of Quebec City and they locked the doors at 10pm so we had to get up as soon as the credits rolled & run like hell from the cinema in a neighboring strip mall to get back in time. Weirdly, it was shown in English with French subtitles instead of dubbed, like most English language movies. Also showing at the same place was Fright Night, re-titled " Vampire, vous avez dit Vampire?" 😂 Helped leaven what would have been an otherwise crushing experience
Part of what confuses me about political commentary is the desire for there to be a single coherent narrative, rather than a coalition of interests that have nothing in common other than “anger” at some defined “other” which has been manufactured. I also see so much individualism, as if the individual Donald Trump is actually thinking about all the things which are happening under this presidency.
A few coalition components:
* Evangelical Christianity hates “liberals” for a wide variety of reasons, and see in Trump someone willing to grant them more power (and even more support for Jews to all move to Israel to bring about the End Times faster - Armageddon, second coming of Christ, etc)
* The New Conservatives want to dismantle policies and institutions which the “old” Conservatives (Well, a few decades in the 1900’s and early 2000’s.)
Oren Cass - Understanding Trump Tariffs Through the Lens of “The New Conservatives” | The Daily Show
* The Manosphere sees themselves in the words of Trump and his treatment of women, as well as less hyper-competative and aggressive males. They want to restore to a time when “real men” were white and everyone else was property. There is a massive insecurity here that isn’t adequately being understood and addressed in mainstream politics.
* Etc – we can go down a list of grievances, but you get the idea.
Then we have Donald Trump, an aging narcissist that wants to ensure he will always be remembered (fame or infamy doesn’t seem to matter).
If we get out of thinking in terms of individualism, stop thinking everything is about a person and look at the massive coalition, then what is happening starts to make perfect sense. It is then also to see when a coalition is being built elsewhere that doesn’t have the identical members.
What happened to Kilmar Abrego Garcia is right out of the first scene of Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985), where a man whose name is unfortunately one letter away from the target of a manhunt is kidnapped from his home & tortured to death by the state on account of a typographical error
It is interesting how quickly a Wikipedia page has formed and is being managed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_Garcia
I remember exactly where I was when I saw this, about 20 years ago, and you nailed it! so memorable and dystopian...
Me too! I was at a government-funded 6 week French immersion program at a CEGEP in the outskirts of Quebec City and they locked the doors at 10pm so we had to get up as soon as the credits rolled & run like hell from the cinema in a neighboring strip mall to get back in time. Weirdly, it was shown in English with French subtitles instead of dubbed, like most English language movies. Also showing at the same place was Fright Night, re-titled " Vampire, vous avez dit Vampire?" 😂 Helped leaven what would have been an otherwise crushing experience
WAWATF
We are well and truly fucked
or MAGA - make apartheid great again
Cool photo!
Part of what confuses me about political commentary is the desire for there to be a single coherent narrative, rather than a coalition of interests that have nothing in common other than “anger” at some defined “other” which has been manufactured. I also see so much individualism, as if the individual Donald Trump is actually thinking about all the things which are happening under this presidency.
A few coalition components:
* Evangelical Christianity hates “liberals” for a wide variety of reasons, and see in Trump someone willing to grant them more power (and even more support for Jews to all move to Israel to bring about the End Times faster - Armageddon, second coming of Christ, etc)
* The New Conservatives want to dismantle policies and institutions which the “old” Conservatives (Well, a few decades in the 1900’s and early 2000’s.)
Oren Cass - Understanding Trump Tariffs Through the Lens of “The New Conservatives” | The Daily Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgEQeLR-M0g
Why Trump's tariff chaos actually makes sense (big picture)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ts5wJ6OfzA
* The Manosphere sees themselves in the words of Trump and his treatment of women, as well as less hyper-competative and aggressive males. They want to restore to a time when “real men” were white and everyone else was property. There is a massive insecurity here that isn’t adequately being understood and addressed in mainstream politics.
* Etc – we can go down a list of grievances, but you get the idea.
Then we have Donald Trump, an aging narcissist that wants to ensure he will always be remembered (fame or infamy doesn’t seem to matter).
If we get out of thinking in terms of individualism, stop thinking everything is about a person and look at the massive coalition, then what is happening starts to make perfect sense. It is then also to see when a coalition is being built elsewhere that doesn’t have the identical members.