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Apparently a significant number of American citizens are getting them, immigrants with secure statuses, as well as non-citizens… who don’t live in the US. Doge has automated the process of sending out the letters, and it is, as per their usual, a fucking mess riddled with mistakes. Problem is, only the US citizens know that they got the emails by mistake. Well, they’re presuming that they got the emails by mistake.
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If there are no other personalising details on the letter: not even a fucking name, then it may as well be a skydrop.
A tickertape parade where all the confetti is a “GTFO of our country” notice, but only in some parts of town.
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I thought this was a nice summation of the inevitable impact of the current tariff fiasco:
Why the USA is still heading for a DEEP recession:
Trump’s 90 day tariff stay causes uncertainty—what happens next? So no sane business is going to make investment plans going forward. Or hire people. They may run existing ops at full tilt to stockpile raw materials or pile up exports ahead of the deadline, but all new plans are on hold for 3 months.
That ALONE is a recession. Business confidence has evaporated. The US administration is non-serious about business, so business will give up.
Footnote: the reason Trump is non-serious about business is because Trump doesn’t understand how real businesses work. He thinks like a mobster, or a real estate salesman: all customer interactions are a prisoner’s dilemma with no iteration (how many times a month do you buy an office block from the same salesman?!?) so of course “always defect” is a winning game-theoretical strategy.
But in the real world, most businesses are built on repeat trade. And Trump has never experienced this.
This gets at one of the things that really irks me whenever people talk about Trump being “a great businessman,” because a) no he isn’t, he’s a constant failure, but also b) he’s even not really a businessman. His whole business empire is based on inherited money, real estate and endorsement deals - all of which bear no resemblance to the kind of business that anyone else does. He barely has an understanding of that, and he clearly has no understanding of normal business. So no, he’s never been “good for business” because he has no fucking clue how business works, much less what would be good for it. The whole tariff situation makes it really, really obvious, as he tries (ineptly) to apply the approach of a real estate deal to trading partnerships where it. Does. Not. Work. At. All. And Trump is just too stupid to realize it, so he just doubles down on a losing strategy.
You know about “goodwill” in business? The intangible but vital resource of your business partners’ confidence that you’ll pay your bills on time and deliver what they’re paying for, among other things? Trump has BANKRUPTED nearly a century of goodwill accumulated by the US government. He essentially declared moral bankruptcy: you can no longer trust us to do business with you tomorrow the way we did last week.
He’s really taken his total lack of goodwill in his personal life and dealings and gone global with it as he taints the whole country.
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Not that I’d ever go on a cruise but this still can’t be good.
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Not exactly. The media coverage was already there, like they were in on the prank. So it’s more damage control than Streisand effect.
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… And Justice For All has been in heavy rotation on the streaming services.
Watching it always gets a giant wtf when the judge refuses to do anything about the man put in prison for a burned out taillight and the tragedy gets worse and worse, it’s just a movie? Right?
Nope, it’s real life.
And from another source…
The Trump administration insisted Sunday that it has no legal obligation to arrange for the return of a Maryland man illegally deported from the United States, arguing that a Supreme Court ruling last week only requires officials to admit him into the country if he makes it back from a high-security prison in El Salvador.
Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge that they don’t interpret the Supreme Court’s Thursday ruling — that the administration “facilitate” Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release — as obligating the administration to do anything more than adjust his immigration status to admit him if El Salvador’s government chooses to release him.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/13/abrego-garcia-el-salvador-trump-administration-00288502
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We’re rapidly fulfilling Niemöllen’s prophecy, aren’t we.
Make no mistake: as Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson recently warned, if the administration can take noncitizens off the streets, render them to prison in another country, and then claim it is helpless to correct the error either because the person is out of reach of U.S. jurisdiction, it could do the same thing to citizens.
Trump has said he would “love” to do exactly that, and would even be “honored” to, and Bukele has been offering to hold U.S. citizens. Dasha Burns and Myah Ward of Politico reported Friday that former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince is pitching a plan to expand renditions to El Salvador to at least 100,000 criminal offenders from U.S. prisons and to avoid legal challenges by making part of CECOT American territory, then leasing it back to El Salvador to run.
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ETA
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Little to say, or nothing to say?
I’d guess the latter from Cheeto Narcissisto.
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There’s a Nuremberg in Pennsylvania.
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I am impressed by how he uses short, simple sentences, like the ones I used to use when I first started studying English. On the other hand, he writes incredibly sinuous, twisted sentences, with random words in the best Dadaist tradition.
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