CSotD: Things We Must Never Dare Say
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It has come to this.
There are differences. The Third Reich was specifically rounding up Jews, while the Trump administration continues to say it is only arresting foreign criminals.
But the Nazis were also rounding up Roma and LGBTQ people, and the Trump administration is also rounding up people who look like immigrants. The Nazis never said they were mistaken in who else they sent to concentration camps, while our government refuses to admit they are arresting far more innocent people than actual criminals.
Tom Homan doesn’t hide ICE’s policy of racial profiling, telling Fox News:
ICE officers and Border Patrol don’t need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them. They just need totality of the circumstances, right? They just go through the observation, get our typical facts — based on the location, the occupation, their physical appearance, their actions.
The “briefly detain them” part is kinda squishy, since people mistaken for undocumented immigrants have still spent days or longer without being allowed to phone relatives or to have legal representation. Or, in most cases, showers and decent accommodations.
But when a reporter asked Homeland Security Czarina Kristi Noem about racial profiling, she exploded:
That has been another false narrative that has been put out there in the media that I absolutely want to throw back at you and say that is absolutely false. And don’t you dare ever say that again. We have judges out there and other individuals saying people have been targeted that way, and it’s not true.
“Don’t you dare ever say that again” could be the administration’s new motto, since White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has become known for regularly scolding reporters for asking disloyal questions, and the administration has barred the Wall Street Journal from covering Trump’s trip to Scotland.
Otto Frank knew the Nazis would be coming for his family. By contrast, people with brown skin don’t have that clear a warning. They may not be going into hiding at this point, but they’re beginning to live in fear, and justifiably so.
We’ve done it before, and we’re doing it again, though this is the first time we’ve joked and laughed and given our cruelty a funny name to fetishize it as a virtue.
But don’t you dare ask about it.
Juxtaposition of the Day
Koterba and Rogers create parodies of what PBS might look like under Trump, but it’s possible that the Trump Reich may not stop with defunding public broadcasting. Project 2025 calls for the elimination of public broadcasting, and there are ways for the FCC to shut down NPR stations by rejecting their status as educational.
Rogers posits a repurposed PBS that would inject propaganda into the public forum, but while that seems a joke, school children are already viewing programming produced by Prager.
Why not lower the target age? Head Start may be wiped out, there are still ways to reach into the cradle and bring children up with right thinking, and knowing what they must never dare say.
Varvel helps promote the administration’s plan to prosecute former leaders for disloyal thinking, and his vision of Tulsi Gabbard writing a report and Donald Trump sitting down to read it may be ridiculous, but the notion of rewriting history and conducting show trials is hardly funny.
And BTW, Dear Leader has dropped an extra-large tariff on Brazil to protest their prosecution of former president Bolsonaro for his attempt to overturn the election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
We’re not charging anyone here with that sort of thing.
Varvel plays both sides of the net, given that he now shows Forrest Gump reading the Enquirer while disparaging the Wall Street Journal’s standards.
And, BTW, Mrs. Gump’s foolish bromide about chocolates ignores the fact that candymakers clearly mark them so you can tell what is inside. Similarly, if you pay attention, you’ll know what’s going on.
Anyway, releasing contradictory cartoons on the same day reminds me of what the Pointed Man told Oblio, that a point in every direction is the same as having no point at all.
Juxtaposition of the Day #2
This pair provides a fun and interesting contrast to Varvel’s refusal to take a stance. Goodwyn is firmly behind Dear Leader’s theory that the interference of Russia in our elections was a “hoax” dreamt up by Obama, “hoax” being the word Trump uses for anything that doesn’t fit his preferred reality.
Jones answers the accusation, instead, by pointing out all the other “hoaxes” that have upset Dear Leader, and suggesting that, golly gee, they must all have been concocted by Obama, and if you don’t see the resemblance between Tulsi Gabbard and Natasha Fatale, you’ve likely never watched Rocky and Bullwinkle or followed Gabbard’s haphazard career.
Meanwhile, Trump’s proposal to reopen that can of worms brings up the frequent question of how much he believes in the things he says, since he barely slid through the first examination thanks to the editing of Mueller’s report by a complicit attorney general whose loyalty was to the party, not to the man he served.
Back out in the real world, Trump’s challenge remains to somehow get free of the Epstein Scandal, an effort Kal compares to the famous vaudeville flypaper routine.
The problem isn’t getting any simpler, as it turns out Bondi was well aware of what critics have said, which is that the Epstein files are far larger than a folder on her desk, and, in this memo to Patel, she also confirms that she had “Epstein’s list of contacts.”
That’s not a client list, since Epstein almost certainly had plenty of contacts he’d want to be able to reach but would not take to his island for nefarious activities.
But she’s also got a list of victims, and, while they shouldn’t be publicized, they could sure be asked to testify.
However, among all this horror, Hudson lets us end with a laugh, at Dear Leader’s irrepressible ego and the titling of the report as “the Pedo Philes,” which I’m planning to steal.
In the mean time, keep your head down, stay white and remember Kristi Kosplay’s advice:
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