The New York Times should publish this as its front page tomorrow, with malicious edits and all, and address it below.
This is real
Submitted 11 months ago by negativenull@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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obvs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
That official White House X-account is really something. The utter shamelessness combined with the harrowing inhumanity would make Goebbels blush.
At the same time it is so honest and clear about the Trump administration’s perspective on things it’s refreshing. They don’t hold back, there is no secret agenda, they just put it all out in the open for the Americans and the whole world to see. They really feel invincible.
kingofras@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wouldn’t say there is no secret agenda. It’s clear the administration is not in the loop of what the secret agenda is. Their blatant anti-everything-non-white and overall incompetence and ignorance is enough right now to keep the divide and conquer going.
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Because they know something the rest of us don’t - that they will never have to pander for votes ever again, because there will never be another election on the country.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’m sure that’s what they think.
laserm@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Would be shame if someone used it as evidence in a contempt hearing or impeachment trial.
SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The people will have a trial if the lawyers cannot.
makyo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I just hope they alienate enough people fast enough that we can see an actual effective check to this rogue administration. They’re taking a lot of power pretty fast but also burning a lot of bridges.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I don’t see how this attempt to speed-run a dictatorship is going to work well for them. You’re supposed to turn up the heat slowly, so the frog doesn’t notice that they’re boiling until it’s too late.
huppakee@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m afraid they might burn more than bridges if they are opposed by an actual effective check.
plz1@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wait, so now he’s MS-13, not that other one Trump keeps butchering the name of? I know they provided zero proof of either, but still…
Maggoty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Now they’re trotting out reports they’ve miraculously found of him being a human trafficker.
Typhoonigator@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What, they’re accusing him of being part of their administration?
Wilco@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That is actual contempt of court. Could I tell a federal judge to piss off if he gave me a court order?
T156@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you were powerful enough, sure. The court is only as strong as its ability to enforce a punishment.
The president is exempt from criminal prosecution for things they did as part of their duties, and if no-one is willing to impeach or impose other punishments, they can be as contemptuous as they like. How would the court stop then?
Wilco@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It looks like we are about to find out.
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yes. If you’re an oligarch in an oligarchy.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Are you a billionaire?
Evotech@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You could certainly try
LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How rich and well-connected are you?
Bosht@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The fact an official gov channel is posting this kind of childish shit is abhorrent and embarrassing. If I pulled shit like this at my job I’d be thrown out. Fucking slime.
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
If I pulled shit like this at my job I’d be thrown out.
Well they’re supposed to work for us, so what’s the next step?
SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t know how to express this feeling I have properly so bear with me. I kinda hate the reference of political office as a job. It’s not really a job. It’s a position of societal power. One that should come with, frankly, deadly consequences when people in that position of power start talking like this. This is a branch of the government saying fuck the courts and their decision. There should be blood over that. Equating it to a job just rubs me wrong. Not to shit on you, I have no problem with what you said, I agree with it even. Just expressing general thoughts
knightmare1147@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Civil Servant.”
hector@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
That’s actually how democracy is understood in France ! The office you hold is a privilege and a responsibility : executive power delegated to you by the will of the people, underpinned by the rule of law.
You know your country political idea/marketplace of idea is turning to shit when the majority yearn for a providential man that will fix all their problem with the magic wand of repression and prejudice.
Liberteez@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Comments like this get deleted off reddit and the user flagged by the admins.
Btw I’m new here
Bosht@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bro you aren’t shitting on my post at all and I 100 percent agree.
Infinite@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Yeah, a duty to hundreds of millions of people and the future, that one has to volunteer for and convince a plurality of their fitness for… not just a job that you should be able to neglect, let alone subvert.
dryfter@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I didn’t notice who posted it on X until I read your comment and I just…I’m shocked I am shocked by this because I feel like I’ve been getting numb to the stupidity of the last ~4 months
Bouzou@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not just government – the official White House account. It’s… dystopian…
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nah in Dystopias the megacorps and evil governments tend to be intelligent and refined with armored limousines and some sense of style, even the glutenous autocrat steriotype tends to have a kind of weird refinement or at least be intelligent enough to not be ridiulous in public, or at least in the presence of a large number of guys with guns who can look meaningfully at anyone who might laugh.
What this is, is some weird idiocracy shit only without any of the redeeming characteristics of the people in that film.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 11 months ago
It’s… dystopian…
We’ve already used up our big words in February. Supercynical “I have no words” in March.
Now, the horror getting worse every day has become the new normal coming out of the US, evry day, steady as a slow machine gun.
Had I known how much worse it’s going to get I’d have saved up some words during the first months.
PanArab@lemm.ee 11 months ago
As someone who looks illegal, I’m glad that I left on my own terms. I can’t imagine the horror this man and many like him are going through.
BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You don’t look illegal bro. It’s not illegal to be you.
huppakee@lemm.ee 11 months ago
On one hand you’re 100% right, but you cannot choose how others see you
epicstove@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It’s illegal to be brown in the US it seems sadly.
deathbird@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Biden had pea soup for brains and still the executive branch was more functional than this.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t know about that. The Trump team has been very sucessful this time around.
It’s just that what they consider a sucess is really, really bad for the world.
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I want this to be fake. This looks like some right wing troll post or some shit. If this is actually the white house, how embarrassing…
Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Whitehouse comms is basically just being run by 4chan trolls at this point. Probably where they recruited from.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I went to check it out. It’s 100% real.
CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I can’t recall any scenario where Trump and his cronies aren’t cringey and childish, so it’s business as usual really.
Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
It’s the White Supremacy House.
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is this real? Crazy if so. Or, I guess par for the course…
huppakee@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Go see for yourself, op posted a link to the tweet: xcancel.com/WhiteHouse/…/1913241658579440126
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
The Onion truly is fucked, reality has become more evil derp than they could ever make up
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 11 months ago
MS-13 member according to which judge and jury? What exactly is he charged with? As long as we’re ditching the justice system, we the people might as well make some extrajudicial convictions too.
flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
“MS-13” here just means “brown people.”
ramble81@lemm.ee 11 months ago
So he visited him and then what…. Back into the cell? They didn’t take him right then and there?
crusa187@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I had the same thought, this is so peak lib.
You’re there with the guy, and you have a court ruling saying facilitate his return. Do that, by cuffing him to yourself, and demanding they let you both walk away. El Salvador don’t want heat from abducting a US statesman.
But no, this is just a photo op it seems.
lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
This post is so stupid it’s embarrassing
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Right, you the hero would cuff yourself to Garcia. Then the guards would simply stop you (possibly before you’d even manage to do it), unlock or cut the handcuffs if needed, forbid you from entering the country ever again if not outright prosecute you, and possibly put Garcia under even stricter control and isolation, to, you know, prevent having people try to get him out.
Because realistically considering the consequences is… liberal.
lemmylommy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You are right. Please pm me your name and address and if you are ever deported to a torture camp in a foreign country I will let all senators know that you don’t want them to visit and will only accept help that meets lemmy.ml fever dream standards.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
I do appreciate the idea of the handcuff thing, but they’d just cut it off or pick the lock.
Even if they don’t abduct him, they’d probably be more willing to rough him up.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Simply unworthy of any country. These are truly rogue state posts directly from the official White House account. Malicious. Vile. What a disgrace.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’re throwing Trump supporters a mental gymnastics buoy they can hold onto in this hormone situation that clearly makes Trump look bad. At that point they don’t care whether or is true or not, they just want something to believe in that doesn’t conflict with their current political views.
dephyre@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ever time I think Republicans have hit bottom they find another shovel.
UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
*pickaxe
AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
*fracking drill
Absaroka@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Let’s do some fact checking.
THEY said he was wrongly deported. Repeatedly. And refused to do anything about it.
Our jackass Attorney General shared a link recently that said he had “no criminal background” and there’s been no actual evidence that shows he was in MS-13.
And while I’m not sure of his technical, official status, I would say somebody who was allowed to stay in the United States by a judge because of dangers back home, isn’t consider an illegal alien any more, but a political refugee who has asylum in our country.
You have to wonder if this whole thing is just a petty attempt at retribution by Trump, because this guy was allowed to stay in the country the first time.
Bouzou@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s even worse than that: he’s testing the boundaries.
He’s testing if he can get away with deporting an innocent man. He’s testing if he can ignore the Supreme Court without consequences. He’s testing if the Salvadorian president will stand firm and be his good little concentration camp boy.
If they are successful, it means they can imprison ANYONE they want to.
If they are successful, our Bill of Rights is about to come crashing down.
grue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If they are successful, our Bill of Rights has come crashing down. Past tense!
xpinchx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
His official status wasn’t asylum per se, but his status was he could be exported ANYWHERE BUT EL SALVADOR of the courts deemed fit. Which he was not deported through the courts and they sent him to El fucking Salvador, the one place it would be illegal to send him to.
This whole situation has me so pissed off, this country sucks.
dermanus@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
You have to wonder if this whole thing is just a petty attempt at retribution by Trump, because this guy was allowed to stay in the country the first time.
I think it’s simpler than that. Bringing him back would show they did something wrong, and that’s obviously impossible, because he’s the second coming of Prosperity Gospel Jesus.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Simpler even than that. It would mean someone gets to tell them no.
resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They only say he was wrongly deported (kidnapped) under oath.
AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]forrgott@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They didn’t mean for this to happen.
Like hell. Especially since they’re taking openly about kidnapping citizens and political opponents and sending them to the same fate.
The only incompetence was not having their messaging figured out beforehand.
kibiz0r@midwest.social 11 months ago
He has a legal status similar to refugee, but not technically the same because he didn’t apply for asylum within a year of entering.
So yeah, not an illegal alien. Legal resident.
JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
To get more technical, he had the kind of residency that has a higher standard than being an asylum seeker that prohibits them from being deported to the country they are from.
El Salvador was the ONLY place he was not allowed to be deported to.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, and the engagement metrics are massive. The problem is this is reaching people.
God, anyone, please send some meteors to Twitter data centers. And Facebook while you’re at it…
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
Happy to see that the guy looks physically ok. Hope he returns safely hone soon.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I can photoshop better than that.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I uhh.
I think the “boring” part is over.
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Are all Republicans this childish and petty?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 11 months ago
America is scary
SulaymanF@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Cruelty and punching down. Torturing Christians.
Somehow American Christians majority voted for this.