Government Protects Public Health: When you Allow It

 Where is Tony Fauci now that the impossible has happened?

Dr. Fauci

AIDS was first reported 44 years ago, and the virus which causes it, HIV, was identified within two years later, a remarkable scientific achievement. 

The virus itself clearly spilled over from monkey to man years before AIDS was identified in  a group of men in Los Angeles, published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Reports, (a publication Trump and his toadies have abolished) and then quickly identified in reports from New York Hospital (Henry Masur) and from San Francisco shortly thereafter published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Tony Fauci, down in Bethesda, Maryland at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), quickly organized a task force to respond to HIV, recruiting Masur down to the NIH along with Cliff Lane and others. 

Robert Gallo

Identifying the causative agent of any infectious disease is the sine qua non of any effort to control or cure it. That was done by Drs. Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo. 

Alexandre Yersin: Discoverer of Plague bacillus

The alacrity with which the medical establishment was able to come to grips with the basics raised hopes the scourge could be halted the way polio once had been, or small pox.

Couldn't scientists do just about anything?

Right from the get go, politics entered the fray: ACT UP, a group advocating for a government effort to thwart AIDS vilified Fauci for not doing enough fast enough. Fauci did something government folks rarely do: He invited the protestors picketing outside his building on the NIH campus into a conference room and offered to show them the ICU where AIDS patients were being cared for and the labs where research was going forward. They became among his most ardent fans.

George F. Will

From the other side, George F. Will dismissed AIDS as nothing to worry about, in an piece in the Washington Post, he posited that it was a "gay disease" which would only ever be a problem in that community, owing to the peculiar practice of anal intercourse, which disrupted the anal mucosa, exposing the tissues below with their blood supply and allowing the virus to enter. But AIDS would never infect the innocent heterosexual population Will averred. (Sound familiar? Oh, measles! We get measles outbreaks all the time. Nothing to worry about!)

That elicited a quick letter to the editor from a local doctor who pretty well destroyed Will's hypothesis, along with his credibility in scientific areas, which was important because Ronald Reagan had bought into that whole trope.

So, for those who think Robert F. Kennedy is the first ignoramus to gain currency in the response to infectious disease and the first clown to try to grab the controls of the airplane when he has no pilot training: he's not.

"As for George Will's rectal mucosa theory of AIDS {op-ed, June 7}: it is appalling to see a columnist's speculations elevated to the realm of fact, especially when there is at least as much evidence against his contention that there is something so special about the actual practices of homosexuality as to ensure that the predominant reservoir of the disease will remain with homosexuals. Mr. Will's column does a disservice in two major (and I'm sure, many minor) ways:

1) The implication is that heterosexuals may heave a collective sigh of relief and pursue their sexual activities with somewhat less trepidation.

2) There is now the likelihood that the heterosexual majority will be less keen to support research for a disease that is confined to a rather unpopular minority.

Reports from Africa suggest that AIDS has already become a heterosexual disease of frightening proportions. Physicians like myself realize we function in an area of impressive ignorance. We can only advise what seems prudent, realizing our advice may change as research provides more answers.

Mr. Will risks moving from a position of renowned conservatism to one of medieval reaction by suggesting, however obliquely, that this plague has been visited upon those who in some way deserve it. There will always be ''innocent'' victims of disease. And I would argue that patients should always be considered ''innocent'' and treated with compassion

What the world needs now is a biologist who can provide the kind of relief Jonas Salk provided from polio. Perhaps his name will be Anthony Fauci, perhaps we have not yet heard his name. But I very much doubt that relief will come from the speculations of George Will.

So, even at that early stage, physicians were looking to Dr. Fauci to be the central figure to bring the HIV era to a close. 

But Dr. Fauci insisted that a successful vaccine against HIV would be so unlikely it was not likely to ever be the solution. 

Within 6 years, the first effective, if cumbersome drug protocols emerged, and ultimately, by the late 1990's HIV was no longer a death sentence which got executed within months, and HIV became a chronic disease.

And still, at every appearance, Dr. Fauci was asked about the prospects for a preventative vaccine and he would always shake his head, dolefully, and say the problem with this virus is that it attacks the very cells, the T cells, which were essential to mounting an immune response to any virus, and it mutates so effectively, catching up to it with a vaccine seemed unlikely--so he despaired of a vaccine ever being successful. 

Then we got  a report (November 2024) in the New England Journal of Medicine about Lenacapavir, which may actually work to prevent HIV, not that it's a vaccine, but, in practice, offers much the same protection a vaccine would.  Of 3265 men in the trial cohort, only 2 got HIV infected during the trial, an astounding result. It has to be injected every 6 months, but it works in men. It was known to work in women, but apparently men are different in some way. Maybe they are more sexually active, and less likely to take precautions. Or maybe Will's notion that anal intercourse is different plays a role. Who knows? But now we've got a prophylactic anti viral which might protect as well as a vaccine.

Dr. Fauci is now 84, and he's kept a low profile since retiring.  He was the object of death threats for his role in guiding the country through COVID, and then he was out in his own backyard in Washington, D.C. and got bitten by a mosquito and got West Nile Virus, of all things, which nearly killed him. Of course, infectious disease experts have died from the diseases they studied, and Fauci admitted he had nightmares of getting AIDS, but he got West Nile virus in Washington, D.C.

Go figure.

At least it wasn't COVID.

But I'd sure like to hear what he thinks about the future of AIDS prevention. Lenacapavir is not a vaccine. It's a drug, a selective poison, but it's worlds better than where we have been, and it might even, some day, help slow or halt the spread of AIDS. 

Where Oh Where Did My Nasty Immigrants Go?

 

"In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America's largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside. 

These, and other such Cities, are the core of Democratic Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base

(1)Cheat in Elections

(2)and grow the Welfare State,

(3) Robbing good paying Jobs and Benefits from Hardworking American citizens.

These Radical Left Democrats are 

(4) Sick of mind

(5) Hate our Country and 

(6) Actually want to destroy our Inner Cities--and they are doing a good job of it! There is something wrong with them. 

(7) That is why they believe in Open Borders,

(8) Transgender for Everybody,

(9) and Men playing in Women's Sports--

(10) and that's why I want ICE, Border Patrol and our Great and Patriotic Law Enforcement Officers, to FOCUS on our crime ridden and deadly Inner Cities, and those places where Sanctuary Cities play such a big role. 

(11) You don't hear about Sanctuary Cities in our Heartland!"

--Who Else? Oi! Donald the Trumpling

So, this Trumpish screed was just so good not even Paul Krugman could resist responding to at least part of it. As Dr. Krugman noted, you don't hear those who live in New York City--or any other--complaining about having to live with the "American carnage" Trump sees in their towns. In fact, in NYC, where 37% of the population is immigrant, murders were 83% lower in 2024 than in 1990, and the murder rate is still falling--which is more than you can say for the state of Mississippi, which has no big cities comparable, where the murder rate is 20/100,000 people, the highest in the nation.

If there is American carnage anywhere, murder rates would place it among the non urbanized, but highly Confederate Red States which elected Trump.

But let's unpack some of these Trumpist claims. Usually he just throws so much at the wall, one never pauses to pick apart the ketchup from the spaghetti but let's just go through it this one time.

(1) Illegal immigrants do not cheat in elections. Democrats do not use them to cheat. There is deminimis election fraud and none of it involves illegal immigrants who have no incentive to want to get swept up in any such thing. The only reason Trump resents inner city election results is cities vote so resoundingly against Trump and all those who sail with him. This is where the biggest No King demonstrations happen. People who live in cities, who are actually pretty good at living with their neighbors and with other people who come from different backgrounds revile Trump and all he stands for, which is hostility to anybody but white bread Leave It to Beaver types.

No Kings Houston

(2) Illegal immigrants do not grow the Welfare State, as they are not eligible for Welfare and do not want to raise their heads above the ground to be identified by applying for welfare. This is all that Ronald Reagan Slipper Gipper non sense about the Black welfare Queen who drove her Cadillac around town living high off her $5 a week welfare checks.

(3) Illegal immigrants do not rob good paying jobs from hard working American citizens--This is that whole "Simpson's" episodes, "They Took Our Jobs" thing.  Illegal immigrants tend to take jobs employers cannot find workers for--scrubbing toilets in hotels, picking crops, roofing, installing drywall, landscaping, washing dishes in the kitchens of restaurants. In fact, Trump had to back off on raids on workplaces because the fat cat owners got to him, complaining he'd shut down their businesses if they could no longer exploit and hold captive illegal immigrants to do the work.

(4) People in big cities are not sick of mind. You want to see some sick of mind people, go out into the rural parts where there isn't much in the way of health care or social services.

(5) People in cities do not hate our country. Viz the demonstrations in big cities this past weekend.

No Kings, Philadelphia

(6) People living in inner cities do not want to destroy the cities--they like their cities. That's why they live there.

No Kings, Los Angeles

(7) Who the "they" is who believe in Open Borders is unclear. One might argue it's Trump and Stephen Miller who believe in open borders, as they destroyed the most comprehensive and severe Immigration bill Congress was all set to pass because Trump wanted to run on immigration.

(8) Transgender everybody? What is he exactly saying? Does he think Illegal Aliens or Democrats who run the inner cities want to turn everyone into Transgenders? Or is he simply playing that card he knows has resonance when it comes to...

(9) Men playing in Women's sports. Oh, here you have it. He knows that even among many Democrats, among Democrats who would support transgenders being allowed to be left alone, there is hostility to allowing men who have gone through a male puberty and then transitioned to womanhood from playing on women's teams, from swimming in college on women's teams.  This is a weak point for Democrats because it requires some delicate distinctions, which never play well in politics. And if Trump is good at anything, it's finding the raw wound.

(10) Our police are patriotic. Which is to say, police, like some soldiers, are Trumplings. They know where their salaries come from and they want to protect the most reactionary forces which promise no changes, no accommodations and to keep them in power.

(11) You don't hear about Sanctuary Cities in our heartland. Except when you look at the No Kings parade in places like.

Bennington, Vermont 

Louisville, Kentucky (Heartland Enough for you?)

Jackson, Wyoming (Pretty Dang Heartland)

Cincinnati, Ohio

Anchorage, Alaska (Even Alaska! Red as it is)

  

Sympathy for the Devil: Slouching Toward the Sadist State

 

Donald Trump invokes the apocalyptic vision of the state of California--Los Angeles, in particular--as being on the verge of chaos and disintegration owing to the invasion/infestation by dark skinned immigrants, who we can shorthand simply as "MS13" from "shithole countries," and were it not for his timely intervention by calling in the Marines and the National Guard, white women would be murdered and raped and mere anarchy would be loosed upon the land.

Americans, who have long harbored a decidedly berserk streak, love visions of apocalyptic battles, won by strong men superheroes, sitting at their video game consoles, in their mothers' basements.

Sadistic Glee 2025

Sadistic Glee 1933

Of course, as Governor Gavin Newsome has noted, the murder rate in the Deep Red states is far worse than in the Blue States which Trump claims have been overwhelmed by murderous mobs of illegal immigrants welcomed into their sanctuary cities:

Murder rate in California: 5.9% (Murder/100,000 people)

Murder rate in Mississippi: 20.7% (voted for Trump by 23 points)

Murder rate in Alabama: 14.9% (voted for Trump by 31 points)

Murder rate in Louisiana: 19.8% (voted for Trump by 19.8 points)

Murder rate in South Carolina: 11.9% (voted for Trump by 18 points).

So, if strongman King Donald is a superhero, protecting American citizenry from the murderous onslaught of brown skinned immigrants--he isn't doing awfully well in his protection racket.

Updated American Sadism

Having grown up in the South, and having spent most of my life living below the Mason/Dixon line, none of this comes as any surprise.

Classic Sadists

Kids I grew up with, right through their teen age years, were often, not to put too fine a point on it, sadists, pure and simple. They might drown kittens or fry them alive in microwaves, beat up smaller kids, throw rocks, at least attempt to rape girls, and they would reassure you with a smile, this was all just fun, and very much okay.

Date Night at Sadist City

And their friends would, likely as not, just shrug, if not participate. 

It was, I imagined at the time, simply the inheritance of the master race who had once treated slaves sadistically, just for fun, but also for profit.

Founder of the Ku Klux Klan

They weren't doing anything their great grandfathers hadn't done, after all, and those figures were now framed photos on the walls of their parents' homes, often as not in the uniform of the Confederate States of America.

Who is the Brave One?

It was a culture of cruelty to keep the Black Man down.

Brave Boys, Having Fun

Or as Randy Newman put it in his imperishable song, "Rednecks," we are "keeping the Niggers down."

And I do use the "N-word" advisedly. By which I mean, "Nigger." There, I said it. Has the nation collapsed? 

Nothing is so infuriatingly woke as the refusal to say the actual offending word in polite company. Are our wives and daughters and sons really so fragile their psyches will be permanently scarred to hear the actual word which is the problem?

Which brings me to Professor Carole Hooven, who was driven from Harvard for the unforgivable offense of using the phrase "pregnant woman" instead of "pregnant person" among other transgressions including saying there are two sexes (as defined by gametes) and her insistence on cleaving to the truth--"Veritas" being Harvard's motto--even if that truth caused the ultrasensitive, hot house flowers, snowflakes to feel so traumatized, they could not leave their dorm rooms.

Oh, the victimhood! And at Harvard, no less!

In Hooven's case, there was never much question about the veracity of what she had said: In homo sapiens, there are two sexes--which may be different from saying there are two "genders"--and that these differences are pretty distinctive. But her sin was that some Harvard students felt unsafe hearing this. The effect of hearing true statements disrupted their safe spaces. And the Harvard faculty ran for the bomb shelters rather than simply squelching this nonsense as soon as it peeped its noggin out of its bomb shelter.  So here is a case I cannot work up much sympathy for the "victims" of the truth.

 I find myself unsympathetic to the snowflake. And on the other, I find myself appalled by the ultimate in lack of sympathy: the sadist.

But how can you sympathize with a woman, Laura Simone Lewis  who says, "It is vital to teach med students gender inclusive language, as they will certainly interact with people that identify outside the gender binary"? And by that she means nobody should ever utter "pregnant women" but only "pregnant people." And who is Laura Simone Lewis to be telling anyone what we should be teaching medical students?

And, I'm sorry, but after decades of speaking the only language I've been able to facilitate, I'm simply not able to re wire to say, "They went to town to get a haircut," when I'm speaking of a single person. Sorry, not going to happen. If that makes you feel attacked, victimized, then take to your room and consider therapy. But my pronouns belong to me, not to you. As Dave Chappell has said, "I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?"

Even Dave has trouble with the anyone/they convention here, but you get his point, with which I totally agree.

Our brave protectors fear for their lives! She does look so dangerous!

So, we emerge from a weekend in which U.S. Marines and National Guard troops were fully mobilized with their grenades and M-16 rifles to deal with mothers with infants in strollers, brave men that they are. 

And where does that leave us?

Oh, She is Just SO Brave!

Immigration

 

Sometime in the early 1990's, a documentary about global warming was aired with Richard (not David) Attenborough narrating. It was the first time I'd ever heard about global warming or climate change, and I remember most of all its prediction that with equatorial climate collapse, the equatorial lands will no longer be able to sustain agriculture, and large human migrations toward the poles would ensue, destabilizing European and American governments and institutions, and before actual climate apocalypse occurred, political apocalypse would happen owing to migration, or as we now call it immigration.

It all struck me as plausible, but unlikely. I have been unable to trace that documentary on the internet, but I haven't tried very hard. 

But the idea of immigration as the catalyst for political collapse has come true. Britain voted to separate itself from Europe, because, as Trump noted, "They want borders." No European nation has handled immigration from the Middle East and Africa well. As our tour guide in Estonia told us: "I feel like we are a tiny thimble size nation and they are a big bucket being poured on us." Sweden has been struggling with it, ditto Germany, Italy, Greece, France and even the Netherlands has a white supremacy party. 

Demagogues, eager to seize control, look for scape goats and there are not easier scapegoats than immigrants. Hitler found the Jews easy targets, as they often seemed a group of "strangers" and an alien group. Trump looks at darker skinned poor people "from shithole nations" who contaminate, infest our white, clean nation.

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Arguing against this is harder than it should be, as the overwhelming majority of us, in the U.S.A. can recall an immigrant story in their  own families. 

But the fact is, Presidents from Eisenhower to Biden have argued immigrants are good for America, not to be feared or vilified but celebrated.  At the end of a recent Jimmy Kimmel monologue, he strings together speeches from each President since Eisenhower, including Ronald Reagan, extolling the virtues of immigrants and immigration. I have been unable to manage to clip this into this post but there is at least some of it in the link above.

No Irish Need Apply

Trump's malignant screeds against immigrants (who are not white) is currently working well, and until and unless the opposition can persuade 51% of America he is wrong, he will likely prevail.

The Right Kind of Immigrant

Even in New Hampshire, when you ask people why they like Trump, they usually start with immigrants, and even if you ask them if they have seen immigrants in their small, white towns, and they usually say no. When you point out the guys who do the roofing, or the lawn services, or the tree trimming are Hispanics, they look a little taken aback and then say, "Oh, right." And if you asked whether they feel threatened by these workers, they always say, "Well, no. Not them."

So who do they fear?

Barbie Doll Secy Homeland Security

Well, the cat eating rapist murderer immigrants they have never seen in New Hampshire. 

Go Figure. 

His Big Beautiful Birthday Parade!

 

It's become difficult to avoid comparing The Don Donald to Adolph Hitler because...well, there's just no one who so closely fits.

It was Hitler who insisted that instead of taking an oath of loyalty to the German state, soldiers of the Wehrmacht took an oath to him, personally. They held up their fingers in a funky hand sign and pledge loyalty to him above all else. Uber Alles!

So when Mr. Trump gave his little talk to the soldiers at Ft. Bragg, which Donnie Dumpling thought was named after him, he enjoyed himself immensely. If the fort had been named for Trump it would have been Fort Braggadicio, but, in fact, it was named after another traitor who sought to destroy the United States, Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general.

Braxton Bragg owned a sugar plantation and 106 slaves in Louisiana before the war.  He was one of the 5% of Confederates who actually owned more than a dozen slaves.  So, he was like our modern day billionaires--a tiny percentage at the top who have the other 95% doing their bidding. At the battle of Missionary ridge, Union soldiers scaling what was thought to be an impregnable mountain, simply swept forward over Bragg's army and routed him and he had to virtually evacuate Tennessee and left the South open to Sherman and his march to the sea. The South had many effective and daring generals--Longstreet, Stonewall Jackson, Forrest--but, for reasons known only to the army and the Trump mob, they named a fort after one of the worst.

The Don mused that the loyal soldiers shown behind him on the stage would never have rallied to hear President Biden, but they loved President Trump and all the neo Waffen SS cheered wildly.  These boys in their snazzy maroon berets were Trump's boys. They loved him personally, not Biden, not the country, not the Constitution: They loved Donnie Dilatory. 

So, there you have it, Mr. Trump has got his own personal army just like Mr. Hitler.

Now, the Trumpster is throwing himself a massive birthday bash on June 14 and he has invited all his soldier fans to attend.  Mr. Trump, who famously dismissed soldiers as saps and suckers and fools for joining the military, now loves the adulation coming his way from the be-all-you-can-be guys at Fort Braxton Bragg.  

And then there is the phenomenon which Mr. Trump leads, and all his sycophants fall all over themselves trying to emulate. When a journalist asks Karoline Leavitt an embarrassing question, Ms. Leavitt responds "that is a stupid question," just like Mr. Trump who spends minutes attacking any journalist who asks embarrassing questions before not answering the question, telling them they are terrible reporters, have no business in the White House, work for a failing fake news network and all like that.

Because there is a long tradition of "civility" in American government--even Nixon fielded questions from journalists, who occasionally prefaced "with all due respect" and Nixon quipped, "That would be refreshing, coming from you,"--the slap in the face, the ad hominin attack on the appearance, intelligence, family history and purloined soul of any opponent has its appeal. It's fresh. It's authentic. It's titillating. It's so very Trumpish.

And it gets to be a fad among his fans--Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Boebert, Jim Jordan all pose as fearless fighters not afraid to "tell it like it is."

He famously said, "The only difference between me and [the others] is I'm more honest and my women are more beautiful." Christopher Hitchens suggested the best man to beat Trump would have been Warren Beatty, who had even more beautiful women, and he did not have to buy them.

As for the Trumpster, he is forever threatening violence--he would not risk his heel spurs himself, but he exhorts the crowd to do it for him. 

And the trumpery of rejecting actual argument or debate means, eventually, the only thing left when anyone in the government or the press disagrees is personal invective, and we've been there. 

In the run up the the last Civil War, Charles Sumner attacked the institution of slavery and the slave masters on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and Senator Preston Brooks, having no words or clever phrases or cerebral matter of his own, responded in the only way he knew how--by beating Sumner into a bloody pulp on the floor of the U.S. Senate with a brass headed cane for a bludgeon. 

Confederate sympathizers were so delighted, they sent Brooks dozens of canes to use on any other Yankee abolitionist who dared try to engage in debate using words only.

Of course, not all Southerners abjured rhetoric and debate. When John Randolph, who likely lost testicular function owing to adolescent mumps, found himself derided by another Congressman for his eunuchoid appearance, he replied: "You pride yourself on an animal masculinity, in which the Negro is your equal and the jackass infinitely your superior." Those White plantation owners made the Trump nursery look like school boys.

Now, of course, Trump sends in his FBI and assorted goons to take down a United States Senator challenging the Barbie Doll Noem at her "press conference."

Of course, Mr. Trump will accuse the Senator of defending rapists, illegals and MS13  and will threaten similar treatment for any other US Senator who dares defy him. The only thing missing is the brass headed cane.

Churchill, who was sufficiently pugnacious to appeal to Trump, who installed a bust of him in the Oval Office, was pugnacious in a way Trump never could be: cleverly.

The closest he got to attacking opponents ad hominin was to address their oratory: Of one unfortunate object of derision he said the man had "the gift of compressing the largest number of words into the smallest amount of thought." That, of course describes Mr. Trump succinctly.

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Trump Declares War on Blue States: Invades California!

 

If there was ever any doubt about what the MAGAT crowd found in Donald Trumpling, it has got be be clear now with a massive $45 million military parade in Washington, for Trump's birthday.

Oh well, what's $45 million? Just the cost of Trump's Tesla coughed up by Qatar. 

 So we'll have tanks on Pennsylvania Avenue, where once the Grand Army of the Republic marched in review to adoring crowds, the soldiers having crushed the armies and banners of slavery, having won what was until that day the most righteous war ever fought--a war fought by free men and freed slaves on behalf of those who could not fight because they were enslaved.

Not until the Third Reich and Hitler had a more odious enemy been vanquished.

But now, what will the American army be celebrating?

Stalin held a big parade in Red Square to rally patriotic fervor before sending out the Red Army to defend against the invading Nazi horde, but ever since then, the goose stepping soldiers in Red Square have simply celebrated might and projected intimidation.

Now, Mr. Trump rallies his Lost Cause hordes, renaming forts in honor of Confederate Generals, who fought to keep people enslaved. These Generals, Braxton Bragg, A.P. Hill, were by any definition, traitors. But now they have MAGA forts named after them, because they are, you know part of our "heritage," like lynching and Wounded Knee and My Lai. 

Personally, some parts of our national heritage, I could do without, or at least would prefer to see examined with eyes wide open rather than wide shut.

It's no secret, those who fought to destroy a free and fair election on January 6, 2021, fought to start another Civil War. These men who Trump calls freedom fighters were fighting for a renewal of the Confederacy and for the "Lost Cause," of white supremacy, and the stars and bars and slaves in the fields singing "Swing Lo Sweet Chariot" before it was all gone with the wind.

As Heather Cox Richardson has noted, the South lost the Civil War on the battlefields, but a hard core of Southern white nationalists has never abandoned the idea of reasserting White control over what are now known as the Red states, from the old Confederacy west to the Mountain states where White Supremacy rules. And they are no longer satisfied with a White supremacist Red state America; they want to bring their creed to every state in America.

And now, a man living in the same house where Lincoln once  lived and worked is sending in the Marines and a federalized national guard to crush democracy and to raise the flag of despotism and racial animus in California.

The MAGA mob has its man now. 

What the rest of us have, remains to be seen.

P.S.

(Clip from Kimmel)

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Round Them Up!

 Getting people on the trains and deporting the multitudes requires some organizational skills.

First you have to set goals: And Stephen Miller has set a goal of 3,000 arrests a day to capture that 11 million estimated illegal alien rapist/murderer/infesting population.

Adolph Eichmann only did 6 million, so Mr. Miller is even more ambitious.

And then you have to set up railroad transportation or airplanes or something, for deportations. And holding facilities, preferably outside the borders of your own state, say Poland, or Austria or El Salvador.

KAPO

And finding them: Mr. Miller has excoriated Homeland Security and ICE agents for not raiding every 7/11 and Home Depot. They are not meeting their QUOTAS!

You know, if you're dealing with an infestation, you have to scrub them out.

And we looked from one to another and could not tell them apart

And while all this is going on, we've got to organize an Einsatzgruppen to sweep up and collect large numbers and deal with them. Und if da ordinary Wehrmacht is not doing a good enough job, ve get the Marines to go in und do it! Einsatzgruppen!

Sieg! Heil!

Somewhere down the line, one can imagine Mr. Miller in the docket at a Nuremberg trial or a Washington, D.C. trial, but no, that is not likely. As was observed at the time: such trials happen only when the victors meet out justice, and where do you see the impending victory and by whom?

Stephen Colbert showed an interview with some random guy in Los Angeles last night. The reporter asked him if he had seen the protests or the arrests and he said he was not close enough to actually see much--he was just walking by, but he got tear gas drifting into his mouth. 

"What was that like?"

"It tasted like," he said, pausing to find a word, "Fascism."

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