On Tuesday, Johnson was asked by reporter Pablo Manriquez for his thoughts on the upcoming Super Bowl halftime show.
“I didn’t even know who Bad Bunny was, OK,” Johnson said, “but it sounds like a terrible decision in my view.”
Asked to elaborate further, Johnson suggested that Bad Bunny didn’t appeal to a “broader audience” and that he wasn’t a role model to “impressionable children.”
“Well, it sounds like he’s not someone who appeals to a broader audience,” Johnson continued. “And I think — you know, there’s so many eyes on the Super Bowl, a lot of young impressionable children, and I think, in my view, you would have Lee Greenwood — or role models — doing that, not somebody like this.”
He actually thinks that Lee Greenwood, a one hit wonder, appeals to a broad audience especially the young people. I mean, Willie Nelson, yes. Dolly Parton, for sure. Lee Greenwood????
They’re so upset about this that they’re talking about putting together a Turning Point alternative to the halftime show featuring …. Creed. I’m not kidding.
Bad Bunny has been the most-streamed artist in the world for multiple years. I can guarantee that anyone younger than 35 knows exactly who he is and most of them couldn’t pick Lee Greenwood out of a line-up. Probably not Creed either.
Someone please explain to me why everyone insists on saying that these throwbacks are the Real Americans and the rest of us are out of step with the culture and need to be reined in. It’s laughable.
Greg Sargent has a good piece today discussing whether Democrats are properly framing this crisis. He says Stephen Miller is deepening the polarization with these theatrical raids and violence and defiance of law and order for a reason: Americans will be forced to take a stand and most of them will embrace authoritarian rule. I agree that’s what he believes. Whether he’s right about that remains to be seen. Greg asks:
Do Democratic leaders broadly have their own theory about this moment? It’s unclear. But here’s what we can divine right now: Governors J.B. Pritzker of Illinois and Gavin Newsom of California do have one. They grasp Miller’s theory of the case, and they are responding in kind, with their own war for attention, on the intuition that voters will side with the rule of law over authoritarian dictatorship—if they are presented with this as a clear choice.
He goes on to describe in detail what Trump and Miller are doing to make this happen and surmises that:
Miller appears to want Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act. Recently, Miller was asked directly if he’s discussed the idea with Trump, and he evaded the question. It’s likely that Miller, a master manipulator lurking furtively behind the despot’s throne, frequently uses the word “insurrection” about Trump’s opponents to lodge it deep in Trump’s brainstem and make invocation of the Act more likely. As The Bulwark’s Andrew Egger notes, Miller’s goal is to supplant the rule of law with the “rule of Trump,” a personalist form of rule that answers to Trump the man and no one else.
But there’s another aim as well:
He relentlessly depicts Democrats as allied with a vast, inchoate class of violent criminals and insurrectionists operating in every shadow of American life. Miller seizes on every attention-grabbing moment he can to amplify the point, even if—and this part is crucial—it looks likely at first to reflect negatively on Trump.
Consider what happened after ICE raided an apartment building in Chicago last week. As Garrett Graff chronicles, media coverage was brutal: It depicted jackbooted federal agents busting down doors and dragging children, some naked, out into the dark streets.
Yet MAGA was undaunted. State-sponsored propaganda video depicted the affair as akin to an action movie featuring the thrilling spectacle of defeated-looking migrants in handcuffs. Miller went on Fox News to hail the operation as an enormous triumph.
He describes Pritzker’s muscular response to all this, “depicting it as a lawless action targeting U.S. citizens in order to provoke a response and justify more thuggery later. Pritzker called it “Trump’s invasion,” deliberately using a term Miller uses for immigrants.”
Miller eagerly took the bait
.@StephenM says the ICE raid targeting Tren de Aragua terrorists in Chicago "was one of the most successful law enforcement operations the we've seen in this country."
"These ICE officers—these heroes—saved God knows how many lives by getting these TdA SCUM out of our country." pic.twitter.com/wRNHfUDgvT
To be clear, the public is squarely with Pritzker: A new CBS survey finds that 58 percent of Americans oppose Trump’s National Guard deployments. And G. Elliott Morris’s recent poll finds opposition to National Guards assisting ICE at 51 percent to 37 percent.
But in Miller’s worldview, polls like that only register shallowly held convictions at best. In this understanding of politics—and you should read Brian Beutler and Lee Drutman on this—what really matters is the political attention economy, and how conflict plays within it. Supercharging searing civil tensions over jarring high-profile events drives attention, jolts low-propensity voters out of their information ruts, and compels them to really take sides.
Pritzker and Newsom are now plainly motivated by an understanding like this one. Pritzker has plunged very deeply into the public argument over Trump’s troops in Chicago. In urgent moral language, he has told his state’s residents that Trump represents a dangerous threat to their way of life. Newsom has done the same. After Trump tried to dispatch California’s National Guard into Portland, Newsom warned: “America is on the brink of martial law.”
In short, Pritzker and Newsom see it as a defining challenge of this moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily, and using it to subjugate and dominate Blue America as if it’s akin to an enemy nation within. And they are shaping their approach accordingly.
On the other hand, Miller thinks there’s a potentially sadistic-leaning silent majority that can be brought into authoritarianism by “flooding the public information spaces, persuading low-info, low-attention voters that his autocratic encroachments constitute a proportional response to the civic unrest he keeps propagandizing about.” In other words he’s counting on the public just accepting his framing of the “crisis” and going along with this disproportionate response.
It’s really an extension of Trump’s innate ability to persuade a large portion of the public that up is down and black is white. Miller certainly does not have that skill and Trump seems somewhat impotent in the last month or so, kind of phoning it is. (I think he’s really focused on winning that Nobel Peace prize — lol.) So Miller is using tried and true Nazi-style propaganda techniques by creating “content” to spread around on social media and other right wing outlets. I’m not sure how much that’s penetrating to that low-info crowd though. The polls aren’t showing it anyway. It seems more that they are feeding their own beast which isn’t good but it isn’t particularly persuasive to anyone else.
However, the Pritzker, Newsom approach is having the effect of at least energizing the other side, which is vitally important. Whether any low-info voters are hearing that stuff either is unknown but at least it’s out there as a counter weight.
I think more and more Democrats are seeing the necessity to stop rhetorically pussy-footing around with this. I hope so anyway.
As you can see, Trump called for Gov. J.B. Pritzker to be jailed this morning for failing to protect the ICE agents who are running roughshod over Chicago. Since he said this on the day they are arraigning James Comey on phony charges, I wouldn’t just laugh this off. After Pam Bondi’s execrable performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday and Stephen Miller’s ongoing hysteria. it’s clear that they are going completely off the rails and anything is possible.
The behavior of the DHS agents in Portland and Chicago is grotesque. They are mostly “creating content” for the onanistic pleasure of Miller and the MAGA horde but in the process people are being terrorized, traumatized, hurt and killed. Here’s what’s actually happened in Chicago courtesy of JV Last at The Bulwark:
There is no crisis in Chicago that requires the National Guard. To the extent that there is civil instability in Chicago it has been caused by Trump’s surge of federal agents into the city and their lawless assault on the citizens of Chicago.
Specificity is required:
September 12: ICE agents shoot and kill Chicago resident Silverio Villegas González in Franklin Park. ICE claimed that González was shot after he “seriously injured” an ICE agent. But bodycam footage shows the same agent immediately after the encounter describing his injuries as “nothing major.”
September 30: Some 300 federal agents raid an apartment building in the dead of night. Some rappel from a Black Hawk helicopter positioned over the building. They ransack apartments and detain not only children but several U.S. citizens, including one Rodrick Johnson, who spoke with Block Club Chicago:
Rodrick Johnson, who lives in the building and is a U.S. citizen, said he heard “people dropping on the roof” before FBI agents kicked in his door. He was stuffed inside a van with his neighbors for what felt like several hours until agents told them the building was clear, he said.
“They didn’t tell me why I was being detained,” Johnson said. “They left people’s doors open, firearms, money, whatever, right there in the open.”
October 4: CPB agents shoot an unarmed woman, Marimar Martinez. They claim that she provoked them by ramming their vehicle with her car. Martinez’s lawyer tells the Chicago Sun-Times that there is bodycam footage that shows an agent turning left into Martinez’s vehicle, after which an agent says, “Do something, bitch.” The agent then gets out of the vehicle and shoots Martinez.
October 7: A masked federal agent is caught on camera aiming a weapon at a resident who is reportedly doing nothing more than documenting his activity. This act is reported by Chicago Tribune reporter Laura N. Rodríguez Presa:
There have also been arrests of local officials and candidates for office who were protesting, including Illinois’ ninth congressional district Kat Abughazaleh, who went viral with a video of an Ice agent slamming her to the ground, Daniel Biss, the Evanston mayor, and a city alderman who were aggressively arrested while trying to advocate in a hospital setting. . . .
Reverend David Black of the First Presbyterian church of Chicago, said that he was pelted with about seven or eight “pepper exploding pellets” that hit his head, face, torso, arms and legs, while in a position of prayer. . . .
Local journalists have been detained or attacked by federal agents as well. Over the weekend, Steve Held, Unraveled Press co-founder and reporter, was detained by agents while covering a protest outside of the facility. A Chicago-Sun Times reporter was also tear-gassed and pelted with “rubber projectiles”, according to the outlet.
On Sunday morning, CBS Chicago News reporter Asal Rezaei, was attacked by an Ice agent who shot a pepper ball into her car from about 50ft away and was exposed to chemicals on her face. She said in a social media post that after the incident, she was “puking for two hours”.
In addition to protesters and journalists, legal observers, often delineated in the Chicago-land area by their bright neon green hats that read “legal observer” were also attacked in recent weeks by Ice agents.
Don’t take the word of journalists for it. Here is sworn testimony from a local police chief Thomas Mills in Gov. Pritzker’s lawsuit against the Trump administration:
According to the sworn statement of the Broadview police chief who witnessed this conduct daily, the “use of chemical agents by federal agents at the ICE facility in Broadview has often been arbitrary and indiscriminate. At times it is used when the crowd is as small as ten people. The deployment of chemical agents is dangerous to the health of both demonstrators and first responders on the scene. In addition, when ICE agents deploy chemical agents, it causes the crowd of protesters to disperse, sometimes running into the road, which is dangerous both for them and for motorists. Broadview police officers have had to attempt to position themselves in a way that directs the crowd to disperse in a safe manner. Over the course of my career in law enforcement, the way in which federal agents have indiscriminately used chemical agents in Broadview is unlike anything I have seen before.”
According to a sworn statement by the Broadview Police Chief, the next morning, Saturday, September 27, Bovino and several CBP agents came to the Broadview Police station. They told the Broadview Police that the DHS agents would bring a “shitshow” to Broadview that weekend, including that they would be increasing deployment of chemical arms, such as tear gas and pepper spray.
He points out that this is not complicated. The president has ordered federal troops to use extralegal violence against citizens of Chicago and when the people exercised their first amendment right to protest he called up the national guard from a MAGA Confederate state (my words, not his) to invade the state of Illinois. In other words:
He is setting not just the federal government against one of the states, but pitting armed soldiers from one state against the citizens of another.
Please read the rest of his analysis if you can. He correctly lays out all the reasons why this is a very, very dangerous moment and why, should we have the good fortune to survive and defeat Trumpism, legal reforms must be put in place to prevent this from ever happening again.
Greg Sargent and others including Govs. JB Pritzker of Illinois and Gavin Newsom of California recognize that the fight to prevent the U.S. from slipping into dictatorship is not a policy battle. It is a battle for attention in an attention economy.
The president’s pet psychopath, Stephen Miller, is tossing around the word insurrection and its variants almost daily. He means to drill the idea down deep into Donald Trump’s pea brain. Miller means to poke and prod lefties with inflammatory actions by ICE until a predictable, violent, national attention-getting response gives him and his puppet the excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and impose martial law.
Pritzker and Newsom “grasp Miller’s theory of the case, and they are responding in kind, with their own war for attention, on the intuition that voters will side with the rule of law over authoritarian dictatorship—if they are presented with this as a clear choice.”
To further his goal, Sargent writes, Miller “relentlessly depicts Democrats as allied with a vast, inchoate class of violent criminals and insurrectionists operating in every shadow of American life. ” A 21st-century Red scare, only with “radical leftists” hiding in every woodpile.
So far, Miller’s scheme is floundering. The ICE queen’s helicopter-fueled raid of a Chicago apartment building was supposed to generate a propaganda video that would drive Miller’s invasion narrative. Instead, media coverage “depicted jackbooted federal agents busting down doors and dragging children, some naked, out into the dark streets.” Miller declared victory while Pritzker declared it Trump’s invasion.
The rub here is that both these men want this fight. To be clear, the public is squarely with Pritzker: A new CBS survey finds that 58 percent of Americans oppose Trump’s National Guard deployments. And G. Elliott Morris’s recent poll finds opposition to National Guards assisting ICE at 51 percent to 37 percent.
But in Miller’s worldview, polls like that only register shallowly held convictions at best. In this understanding of politics—and you should read Brian Beutler and Lee Drutman on this—what really matters is the political attention economy, and how conflict plays within it. Supercharging searing civil tensions over jarring high-profile events drives attention, jolts low-propensity voters out of their information ruts, and compels them to really take sides.
Pritzker and Newsom are now plainly motivated by an understanding like this one. Pritzker has plunged very deeply into the public argument over Trump’s troops in Chicago. In urgent moral language, he has told his state’s residents that Trump represents a dangerous threat to their way of life. Newsom has done the same. After Trump tried to dispatch California’s National Guard into Portland, Newsom warned: “America is on the brink of martial law.”
In short, Pritzker and Newsom see it as a defining challenge of this moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily, and using it to subjugate and dominate Blue America as if it’s akin to an enemy nation within. And they are shaping their approach accordingly.
Sadly, the overwhelming majority of Democrats in Congress are not just bringing a knife to a gun fight. They are fighting the last century’s political war with obsolete political weapons. There are exceptions besides Pritzker and Newsom. Sen. Chris Murphy gets it better than most. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does as well, as Lawrence O’Donnell reported Tuesday night. Mockery, as I’ve argued as well, works against small men like Miller and Trump’s clown-car cops. “Laugh at them,” AOC urges. “Make them feel small.”
It is another tool that most Democrats ignore. Laughter is empowering. It is contagious. Autocrats like Trump and his hangers on absolutely hate it. Most of all it is attention-getting in this war. It’s the attention, stupid!
Policy is a yawn in this political moment, no matter how important Democratic legislators believe health care will win them seats in 2026.
Sargent again:
Miller plainly believes there’s a latent majority out in the country that can be sleepwalked into authoritarianism. If Democrats sit this debate out, Miller has calculated, Trump’s deceptions can flood public information spaces, persuading low-info, low-attention voters that his autocratic encroachments constitute a proportional response to the civic unrest he keeps propagandizing about.
Low-attention voters (and nonvoters) are the battleground. It’s why most of the signs I’m displaying for thousands of rush hour commuters four or five days a week are not about health care or Gaza or deportations, topics not front of mind for commuters. Trump’s and Miller’s ICEmenschens are attacking your precious freedoms. Take that thought home with you.
The New York City Bar Association issued a statement on Monday accusing Donald Trump of murder. His ordering of recent military strikes on four vessels in international waters in the Caribbean for allegedly carrying drugs to the U.S. amounts to “illegal summary executions – murders.”
Although the President has, without proof, characterized the victims as “terrorists” and drug traffickers, that claim, even if true, provides no justification for these unlawful executions. Even if, as recently reported, the President has communicated to Congress that he has “determined” that the United States is in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels, absent congressional authorization of these military actions, they remain unlawful.
Asked by Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) in yesterday’s Senate oversight hearing to provide the legal justification for the attacks on Venezuelan vessels, Attorney General Pam Bondi refused.
“I’m not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have given or issued at the direction of the president on this matter,” Bondi told Coons.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in statements alleged that the boats carried illegal drugs bound for the U.S. The New York Times last week reported that in a confidential notice to Congress, Trump branded Venezuelan drug cartels terrorist organizations. Without proper congressional authorization, he then declared the U.S. is engaged in “armed conflict” against them as “unlawful combatants,” employing language associated with the law of armed conflict.
The association notes there is ample statutory authority under U.S. law to stop and detain alleged drug traffickers, but says the use of force in such a manner is not compatible with the U.S. Constitution.
“Article I, section 8 of the United States Constitution explicitly reserves to Congress the power to declare war, which over time has meant that Congress must authorize the use of military force,” the statement goes on. “The President serves as Commander-in-Chief, which authorizes him to command the use of force when authorized by Congress and in cases of actual self-defense. Because there has been no such authorization to use force against Venezuela or against ships operating in the area (or any plausible threats justifying self-defense), the President’s military actions against the Venezuelan vessels and their crews cannot be justified as an exercise of the President’s power to use force authorized by Congress.”
Without a War Powers Resolution from Congress, the attorney group states, each act by Trump “appears to be an unlawful summary execution prohibited by both U.S. and international law.”
The attacks “appear to violate our nation’s obligations under both the United Nations and OAS Charters,” the attorneys assert:
Attacking and intentionally killing the crews of private vessels because they are allegedly trafficking narcotics is an arbitrary deprivation of life and a clear violation of this universally accepted foundation of international law.
The president’s actions “are unlawful and must not be repeated,” the statement concludes. Congress must act to bring U.S. “into compliance with the Constitution and international law, reduce the risk of hostilities with neighboring countries and assure that similar abuses of Presidential power do not expand to American shores.”
Law & Crime notes a Bluesky post by Jameel Jaffer, the director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. The statement is “a big deal.”
It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association–one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country–is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder–of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas…
The New York City Bar Association has spoken out, bless them. Trump 2.0 , however, is an administration led by a convicted felon and already veering into dictatorship. Trump is bent on invoking the Insurrection Act to declare martial law. He has engaged in multiple violations of the Constitution.
“The White House is flouting a constitutional principle that every American kid learns at school: that Congress, not the president, has the power of the purse,” opines CNN’s Stephen Collinson.
Trump makes a mockery of the separation of powers and the authorities of the Legislative Branch. His attorney general yesterday heaped scorn on and launched prepared personal attacks on senators not of the president’s party. Oversight? This president will have none of it.
Trump has directed his Department of Justice to file frivolous prosecutions of his enemies, defied court orders, and filed meritless punitive personal lawsuits against perceived enemies. His administration has ignored a unanimous Supreme Court decision from last year prohibiting the use of government leverage to curb speech his administration dislikes. He makes a mockery of the Judicial Branch.
Trump’s recent actions violate Amendments 1, 4, 5, 10, and 14 with nary a whimper from the Republican-controlled Congress.
We owe the New York City Bar Association our thanks for speaking out. For all the good it will do.
I think it’s great for Noem to see Portland herself. I want Fox News to run video of her visiting to show Portland is NOT “burning to the ground” every day.
How do the people working for ICE and CBP see Portland? What do they write home on Telegram about their work? My friend Cliff Schecter intercepted one of their messages about beingtrapped in “War Ravaged” Portland
Dearest Ophelia,
I write to you from the gangrenous environs of “war-ravaged” Portland. I thought I had seen it all during my early days of service—Bosnia, Rwanda, Eric Trump’s gum line.
But, I am a trifle discomfited by the many challenges we face on this Monday, 29th of September, anno Domini nosti Jesus Christi, 2025.
There are the shortages of gluten-free curry at Elephant’s Delicatessen the likes of which no-tarot reading could’ve predicted. So I must exist solely on a diet of artisanal nut cheeses, plant-based collagen and vegan honey.
Jack has disappeared again, no doubt training with the ghost regimen known as Antifa.
Check out the piece, it’s funny and then subscribe to BlueAmp, I’ve been staying up to date on what is happening then suggesting methods, strategies and tactics to fight back behind the scenes, but it’s important to keep getting our stories and messages out there publicly and Cliff is doing a great job with posts and videos.
Last week I learned how the right wing has been flooding social media, YouTube and Google AI search with disinformation. One way to combat that is for us to share our work and our experts in as many places as possible. Yes, liking, sharing and commenting matters!
Lately I’ve been sharing fun images from Portland like The Anti-Fascist Frog.
How we fight in #Portland.Ridicule is working! #ICE & #CBP backed up! The frog finally jumped out of the slow heating pot!Thank you #AntiFascistFrog on TikTokwww.tiktok.com/@theantifasc… @thefarce.org @emptywheel.bsky.social @gottalaff.bsky.social @jim-stewartson.bsky.social
[T] image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes thatunfolded in South America nearly a decade apart.
The image of the police officers comes from a photo of “South American riot police” that was uploaded to the Getty Images archive in 2008. A clear visual clue that the photograph was not taken in Portland was that the first officer’s shield is marked “Policia”, the Spanish or Portuguese word for police.
The description on the Getty website does not specify the country it was taken in, but another, similar image uploaded a few days later by the same photographer says that it was taken in Ecuador. The initials of an Ecuadorian police unit from that time are visible on a third photograph in the set.
The image of the fiery demonstration that the officers seem to float above in the composite shared by the Oregon Republican party turned out to be another image from the free archive site Pexels. It was taken by a Brazilian photographer in 2017.
The Oregon Republican Party explained that they’re bad “memers.”
If this was just a one-off, it wouldn’t be worth mentioning. But the visual propaganda that’s coming out of the DHS and the White House is beyond belief. Look at this:
That’s them talking about deportation raids like they’re hunting animals.
“The United States has the same right to protect itself from death by nullification, secession, or rebellion that a man has to protect himself from death by assassination.” – Teddy Roosevelt pic.twitter.com/FCYN3gU2Wb
WTF are they talking about? “Nullification, secession, or rebellion?” In America right now? Well, I suppose they are right in one sense. They are nullifying the laws, seceding from the constitution and staging a rebellion against the rule of law. But that’s not what they’re talking about.
This propaganda is flooding social media all day, every day. It’s all over Fox News and the other right wing cable nets. It’s poisoning our society and I don’t think we are fully comprehending just how toxic this is and how much it’s affecting the public. The whole point is to bombard us with this crap relentlessly until it’s totally normal to have these masked, cos-playing, robo-cop, thugs roaming the streets and, even worse, to feel completely impotent to do anything about it.
Furloughed federal workers aren’t guaranteed compensation for their forced time off during the government shutdown, according to a draft White House memo described to Axios by three sources.
If the White House acts on that legal analysis, it would dramatically escalate President Trump‘s pressure on Senate Democrats to end the week-old shutdown by denying back pay to as many as 750,000 federal workers after the shutdown.
Trump wants the Democrats to back a continuing resolution to fund the government with no strings about healthcare subsidies attached.
“This would not have happened if Democrats voted for the clean CR,” a senior administration official said.
How can they do this? Well:
At issue is the ”Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019″ that Trump signed during the last government shutdown, which lasted a record 35 days.
Called GEFTA, the law has been widely interpreted as ensuring that furloughed workers automatically would be compensated after future shutdowns.
But the new White House memo from the Office of Management and Budget argues that GEFTA has been misconstrued or, in the words of one source, is “deficient” because it was amended nine days later, on Jan. 25, 2019.
“Does this law cover all these furloughed employees automatically? The conventional wisdom is: Yes, it does. Our view is: No, it doesn’t,” a senior White House official said.
The new OMB analysis is a major departure from the administration’s own guidance issued by the Council of Economic Advisers this month and the Office of Personnel Management last month. Both said furloughed workers should get automatic back pay after the shutdown.
“OMB is in charge,” a senior White House official said.
Yeah, we know.
The White House’s stance revolves around the law’s amended version, which added a phrase saying furloughed workers shall be compensated “subject to the enactment of appropriations Acts ending the lapse.” That’s a technical phrase for shutdown.
To the White House, that means money for those workers needs to be specifically appropriated by Congress. The joint resolution containing that amendment to the law specified that the U.S. government would pay “obligations incurred” during that 2019 shutdown.
“If it [GEFTA] was self-executing” in future shutdowns, “why did Congress do that? It’s precedent,” the White House official said, calling any other interpretation “ridiculous.”
[…]
The White House analysis of the law reflects the administration’s multipronged effort to make the shutdown unbearable for Democrats.
The furlough of hundreds of thousands of workers each day follows the administration’s widespread, DOGE-led cuts to the federal workforce earlier this year…
That’s what Trump was talking about this morning when he said:
Q: Is it the White House's position that furloughed workers should get backpay?
Bondi: "Karoline Leavitt is one of the most trustworthy human being I know. And Sen. Schiff, if you worked for me, you would've been fired." pic.twitter.com/Kl3EI480y1
Schmitt: "Let's just call it out. We need a cleansing here. Let's just be truthful about what's happening. This left-wing political violence is not a both sides thing. It's not." pic.twitter.com/S4vGfLQogP
Trump: "The Democrats have no leader. They remind me of Somalia. I met the president of Somalia. I told him, 'you have somebody from Somalia who's telling us how to run our country. Would you like to take her back?' He said, 'No I don't want her!'" pic.twitter.com/1cVOLxqOzR
I could go on but why bother? Our national leadership is sophomoric, stupid, crude and mean. They don’t even bother to pretend to be dignified adults anymore. Our world is run by shitposters.
A Rutgers University professor is temporarily relocating to Europe as he grapples with threats that intensified after a student group affiliated with the organization founded by murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk accused him of being “a prominent leader of the antifa movement on campus”.
Rutgers’ Turning Point USA chapter also says the presence of Mark Bray – whose work has closely examined antifascist movements – threatens them and is calling for his firing from the New Jersey university, prompting the academic to say those demands are little more than “manufactured outrage”.
“I am not now, nor have I ever been, part of any kind of antifascist or anti-racist organization – I just haven’t. I’m a professor,” Bray said on Monday about the circumstances. Noting that antifa is a decentralized movement, he added: “I’m a professor of the history of the left.”
A Change.org petition calling for the termination of Bray’s employment at Rutgers came Thursday, several weeks after Kirk – the founder of Turning Point USA – was shot to death by a sniper on 10 September.
Turning Point USA has chapters at various college campuses. And the treasurer for the chapter at Rutgers, student Megyn Doyle, told Fox News Digital that the petition was made necessary by the fact that Bray “puts conservative students at risk for antifa to come in”.
“You have a teacher that so often promotes political violence, especially in his book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, which talks about militant fascism, which is on term with political violence,” Doyle said.
Bray countered that he is an antifascist “insofar as I don’t like fascism”. But he denied that he is a threat to conservative students
