Homegrown Criminals
Whether it's been an intentional strategy of "shock and awe" or just the inevitable result of a bunch of ignorant assholes being empowered at the same time, the opening months of Trump's second administration have been a complete clusterfuck of utter chaos.
Between Trump's obsession with self-destructive tariffs taking the stock market, Musk's DOGE Dipshits stripping the copper wiring out of the halls of government, and an all-star Cabinet of grifters, racists and psychopaths providing a healthy array of minor scandals, it's been hard to follow.
But one story in particular has stood out – the kidnapping of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who was in the United States legally and who was protected by a court order from being sent back there. Although the Trump administration has argued on and off again that he's a violent gang member, the truth is that Abrego Garcia is the son of a police officer whose family has been repeatedly targeted for violence by Salvadoran gangs.
Even the Trump administration had to admit – on multiple occasions – that they had screwed up here and sent an innocent man to El Salvador, an admission that forced even the eager enablers of Trumpism on the Supreme Court to require, sort of, that the administration do what it could to bring an innocent man back from that hellscape. It seemed like the slightest of nudges, a way for SCOTUS to kick the can down the road once more and forestall a confrontation that's been building ever since this same SCOTUS afforded the president king-like powers in the aptly-named case of Trump v. United States.
Rather than comply, the Trump Administration offered a full-throated "fuck off" to the Supreme Court today. As they happily hosted the dictator from El Salvador in the Oval Office today, Trump and the other leaders in his white nationalist gang threw aside the administration's earlier sworn statements that Abrego Garcia had been wrongly deported and insisted, contrary to all evidence, that he was in fact a terrorist and he was in fact correctly sent back to El Salvador.
According to Deputy White House Chief of Staff and Senior Naked Mole Rat Stephen Miller, everything went according to plan. They are not incompetent, he's insisting, they are simply evil.
This represents a sudden turn of defiance to the Supreme Court, which now needs to decide if little things like "the Constitution" or "the rule of law" matter anymore in America. (I'm guessing they'll have to see if Harlan Crowe and Leonard Leo's checks have cleared first?)
And it's not merely an act of defiance; it's an act of escalation. The Salvadoran president's social media team released a conversation between Trump and Bukele that makes it clear that Trump doesn't just want to disappear foreigners who are lawful residents; he wants to be able to send "homegrown criminals" to a foreign gulag with no hope of return.
Who counts as a "homegrown criminal"? Whoever Trump says, of course.
I don't know how to say this without sounding irrational or extreme, but this is pretty much the whole ballgame, folks. If the president of the United States is allowed to do this, then this country will cease to exist as we know it.
In theory, the other institutions of government should put a swift end to this, but neither the Republican Supreme Court nor the Republican Congress want to pick up this fight, because they're all deeply terrified of an old man in clown makeup.
They're not going to act without a considerable push. So start pushing. Start talking to friends and family members who might not realize the president is declaring himself king. Talk to your neighbors and social circles. Talk to your elected officials, especially if they're Republicans, as those are the ones we need to convince here.
Talk and act now, before it's too late. We've got a gang of homegrown criminals in the White House and they need to be stopped.
