Illegal ideas
When the journalists, academics, economists, elected officials and community leaders are afraid to point out the obvious, who ya gonna call? Fund managers. They're staring at the numbers every day and numbers don't care about ideology and propaganda.
Insane? Let's see.
The Leader, in the manner of all totalitarians, likes to put people in categories. Chuck Schumer is a Palestinian. Kamala Harris is not really black. Transgendered women are men. All tattoos are gang tattoos unless He says otherwise. The living are dead.
You heard me -- more than six thousand immigrants have been classified as deceased by the Social Security Administration because the insane dictator thinks this will encourage them to leave the country. His thugs could abduct them off the streets, of course, but this method has a veneer of legitimacy. They all came here legally under programs of the despised Biden administration, so of course they have Social Security accounts as well as green cards, but this is supposed to make them "self-deport," like Jews in the early years of the Third Reich. Otherwise it's Gulag Salvador, I guess.
The bling wars began right after 9/11, when no politician dared appear in public without an American flag lapel pin. Then Congressional Republicans began sporting AR-15 pins to show their devotion to mass murder and the Second Amendment. But all have been swept aside in favor of this golden idol, the familiar fat face of...
As long as we're discussing totalitarianism, enjoy this poster from ICE:
DHS is now claiming "error" about those illegal ideas, but I don't know why. The land of free speech was cracking down on thoughtcrime when George Orwell was a boy, deporting Emma Goldman and hundreds of others for the crime of being anarchists. (Let's not even get into the culture wars of the 1950s.) If he follows the news from Iran The Leader must be drooling (more than usual) at the report of two filmmakers convicted of "spreading lies with the intention of disturbing public opinion." They made a movie where a woman removes her headscarf. In the newest move of the tariff pissing contest China says it will lower the number of US films that can be shown there, and The Leader hates everything about Hollywood.
America daily grows more culturally impoverished and isolated. Australian comedian Alice Fraser planned to come here to promote her book but decided it was not worth the risk (especially with two children) after an immigration lawyer warned her of CBP scrutiny. They were bound to find out that Fraser has made jokes like "I wouldn't take an IOU from Trump if he wrote it on the money he owed me." Very nasty, as The Leader would say. Her book is called A Passion for Passion: A Delirious Love Letter to Romance, published May 6, in case you want to pick up a copy. For Mothers Day, perhaps.
She's not going to change her mind after she reads in today's Guardian about a countryman named Jonathan who holds a working visa and travels frequently between the US and Australia. Traveled. His most recent attempt to enter at Houston was a blend of Kafka and Joseph Heller. He was carrying the urn he used to return his sister's ashes to Australia and was questioned by a CDC agent for "carrying human remains." He was told "I was working for people I shouldn't have been working for." He also heard, "Trump is back in town. We're doing things the way we should always have been doing them." After two days with a space blanket and meals that tasted "like dog food" he was taken to the airport by an armed guard and put on a plane to Australia. Too bad he can't afford one of these:
American residency can be yours for a modest $5 million. "I'm the first buyer. Pretty exciting, huh?" The Leader said, unaware that his residency was secured long ago by the Bavarian draft-dodger who arrived here in 1899 and made good in the Yukon. Remember when Justin Trudeau presented you with a picture of Grandpa's first brothel, sir? Is that a smirk?
Apparently the State Department is a hotbed of "anti-Christian bias," so employees throughout the world are being encouraged to snitch on one another, anonymously, of course. Naturally it's based on yet another fatuous executive order (commandment?) protecting Christians from secular persecution. One official called it "very Handmaid's Tale-esque" but I think they meant Project 2025. In fact you can probably be fired for reading Margaret Atwood, a known Canadian.
Speaking of persecuted Christians, I have to thank that woman in Florida who calls herself Moms for Liberty. When she's not quoting Hitler (approvingly) she's raging against blasphemous commercials. This one is running only in the UK and if not for Mom I never would have known about it. Thanks, Mom! Are you familiar with the Streisand Effect?
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