Baffled European

Category: Racism

  • Eliminating waste and fraud

    The immigration policy will cost $170billion according to the budget proposals. That’s a lot of money. It’s 15 times the amount that ICE gets at the moment. Where is it all going?

    There are the new detention facilities. DeSantis was given a tour of the new concentration camp they are building in the Everglades, checking the shower facilities, etc. It will be finished soon and should be able to incarcerate thousands of perfectly innocent people that the regime doesn’t like. A big chunk of the budget will go to building a network of similar prisons all over the country.

    Then there’s personnel. ICE is going to experience a massive expansion, with tens of thousands of new recruits, with all of the command structures and adjuncts that come with it. It will attract a certain sort of person from the start, but the regime is already screening all applicants for government jobs for loyalty and zeal. In any case, the esprit de corps of ICE will self-select to produce a group of fanatical racists, united by their delusion.

    Finally, this is a lot of government money that is being splurged by a mob of criminals, so a significant amount will go to those with good connections. They will receive generous contracts and will deliver sub-standard performance, assuming they do anything at all. There won’t be any comebacks.

    I think that just about covers it. What’s the point of all this again?

  • Pogrom gets green light

    The Supreme Court has done its thing again. If you happen to be a house, or a big pile of money, you’ve got no problem. They will protect you. If you are a mere human, it’s all got worse.

    They have given the government permission to persecute absolutely anybody it wants. They did consider the rights of the individual in this, and have decided that if a person can afford a lawyer, the government should back off, for the time being, and find somebody else who can’t afford a lawyer. That’s cheaper and faster if you’ve got a quota to fill.

    Even if the government was benign and benevolent, this ruling is just plain evil, but they are doing it with the full knowledge of what the government is going to do.

    You can’t even excuse the fact that this judgement was delivered on a Friday, and that the justices are clearly a set of bored and lazy workers who are putting in a shoddy shift before going home for their holidays. They backed this up with directly attacking the gays, while also hindering the lower courts from blocking all the illegal stuff the government is doing. Up until now, the lower courts had been doing a good job. That will stop.

    It comes on a day where Senator Taberville raved about “inner city rats” who are “try[ing] to overwhelm us… we have got to fight back.”

    And now they can.

  • Changing of the guard

    Much excitement in New York, where Zohran Mamdani has won the Democrat mayoral nomination. The celebrations have been so great, it’s almost as if he had won the presidency.

    He isn’t eligible to run for the presidency, of course, having been born in Kampala, Uganda. Despite being a US citizen and a member the New York State Assembly, his birthplace presents a huge problem for maga.

    Stephen Miller is in no doubt about this being “the clearest warning yet of what happens to a society when it fails to control immigration.” It proves “how unchecked immigration fundamentally changes the NYC electorate.” Well, yes. It’s New York, a city that famously consists almost entirely of immigrants, and always has. That’s almost the point of the city.

    Laura Loomer reckons there should be a law to prevent him from holding office. She thinks he should be charged with terrorism. She’s not alone. Other racists in the “Republicans for National Renewal” are calling for him to be deported. They are fantasising about the president revoking Mamdani’s citizenship and remigrating him as soon as possible. For the good of New York.

    Why are they so worried about “replacement”? I suppose they look at the Native Americans and see what a disaster immigrants were back then. Although I doubt it: they hate Native Americans almost as much as they hate “immigrants”. Who is left not to hate? Nothing they say makes any sense.

  • Too good to be true

    It was only a month ago that a group of Afrikaner refugees fled the white genocide in South Africa for the safety of the USA. Maybe it’s a little too soon to find out how they are getting on, but the early signs are that some of them might be feeling regret at their choice.

    The far right never tire of telling us about the red carpet treatment rolled out to asylum seekers. Four-star hotels, houses, cars, phones – these people are showered with generous gifts and all at tax-payers’ expense, while ordinary hard-working folk etc etc etc. It turns out those stories aren’t true.

    They’ll probably sort themselves out in the fullness of time, but with no job, no transportation or communication, poor accommodation, it’s not the best start. No health insurance either. At least they had that while they were being oppressed back home.

    They can’t just go back home either. Not that simple now they’ve applied for asylum elsewhere. In any case, most people in South Africa are unimpressed by their actions. Even the Afrikaner groups reject the “white genocide” claims.

    This was all a stunt by the racists in the White House. Something they could use to attack the South African government. Well they’ve done that, and they’ve done their trademark press conference ambush on Ramaphosa. These Afrikaners have found out that they are expendable and that they shouldn’t trust a conman.

  • Angling for civil war

    Friday’s protests were peaceful, according to the LAPD. For the most part, they were. The LAPD recognise a punch-up when they see one and they are not afraid to run away. On the other hand, it’s their city and they don’t want it to turn into a war zone. They are keen to deescalate. The crowds have gone. All that remains are clouds of tear gas released by panicking ICE agents.

    Thousands of miles away in DC, a collection of alpha machos are outbidding each other for the most manly response. The president has ordered thousands of National Guard to California to do something about the currently peaceful situation. Hegseth has put the marines on high alert, ready to respond. It’s illegal for the US army to operate on US soil, so what, who cares. Miller is raving about invaders.

    What happens the next time? Will the army be sent in? Will they refuse to obey orders? Will they actually shoot at civilians? It’s only the start of June, there are three months of hot summer coming. We will doubtless get the answers to these questions.

    Disturbances in New York as well. Similar story, but smaller scale. ICE agents are armed yobbos wandering the streets, hassling people at random and everybody hates them. It’s not random though is it really? It’s racism again.

    This deportation policy – let alone the implementation – cannot possibly do any good. Yet they are obsessed with it.

  • Following orders

    ICE really are the bad guys. It’s depressing reading about all of their shenanigans, although that’s nothing compared to the people who have been caught up in all of this.

    Their prime weapon is fear. Fear and surprise. Pretty much everything they do requires deception of some sort. A common tactic is to wait outside courtrooms, usually masked, and wait for asylum seekers to leave their hearing. If asylum is not granted, ICE jumps in, arrests the person and deports them. This tactic has drawn so much criticism, ICE have started refusing access to public court buildings, so nobody can see what they are up to.

    They have extended this to disguising themselves as utility workers in order to gain access to people’s homes. Then deportation etc. Even if this is not successful, it means that every knock at the door causes fear. That’s the point.

    This is escalating. They raided a restaurant, looking for “illegals”. Big guns, paramilitary gear, flash-bang grenades to clear the restaurant. Maybe they’ve been getting pushback from the public and they aren’t taking any chances. This works until the other side tools up as well.

    Local cops and the FBI are being pulled into this as the regime seeks to deport 3000 people per day. This should hit a target of a million per year.

    And then what? Does the USA suddenly become blissfully happy? If not, why not? What is the point of doing all this?

  • Where will this lead?

    As well as a “word of the year”, Germany also has an “unword of the year”. The latter is a word or expression that undermines human dignity and democracy, or discriminates against groups, usually with some form of euphemism. Think “collateral damage”, which means “killing civilians”.

    The Unwort des Jahres 2023 was “Remigration”. This is a neutral-sounding replacement for “Ausländer raus” for the AfD and other identitarian groups. The idea behind it is to ruin the lives of millions and create a state of fear for many more, all to satisfy the paranoid hatred of racists. Nobody benefits from this insanity, but what else can you expect from blindly following baseless superstition?

    The German government of the 1930s spent a lot of time working on remigration in order to get rid of the undesirables in their population. After scratching their heads over the logistics for a number of years, they decided that murdering everybody and burning the evidence was the most cost-effective option.

    The State Department in the USA has found the resources to set up a new Office of Remigration. At a stroke, the US government places itself on the same level as the most extreme and radical neo-nazis in Europe. They have the same imaginary problem as 1930s Germany: millions of undesirables that the regime detests for no good reason. It’s only natural for them to form a group of ignorant racists to find some modern 21st century answers.

    I’m not optimistic.

  • Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar

    I have a problem with the Supreme Court of the USA. This is unlikely to bother the justices there, but I’m going to complain anyway.

    The issue this time is lifting the protections that 300000 Venezuelans had against deportation. The Supreme Court has decided that they shouldn’t receive the protection of the law as a group, but rather fight each case on an individual basis. This is the same solution that they found with the purge of trans soldiers from the military.

    Laws control and limit human behaviour. They allow society to function by discouraging a range of destructive impulses. At the same time, they protect us and promote acceptable behaviour. Most of all, the law should be viewed as a system created by humans in order to serve humans.

    There is a breed of judge which regards the law as a clever logic puzzle. It is an enclosed, (fairly) consistent system, which can produce very unexpected results, if you set your mind to it.

    This approach enslaves humans to the law. So what if hundreds of thousands of people have their lives ruined? So what if it leaves them at the mercy of an over-powerful and vengeful executive? It fits in with their interpretation of the law, fine.

    Germany doesn’t get everything right, but emphasising human dignity in the first line of the constitution sets a good example. It tells judges exactly where their priorities lie. The US judges are failing at their job.

  • Racists are just idiots

    It’s time to take a stand against racism. The president signed an orange order back in February to address a brewing humanitarian crisis. This is the atrocious way that some whites have lost out in South Africa.

    It breaks the heart. To see these fine specimens, descendants of the great Aryan race, reduced to their present state of online influencers and lifestyle coaches. To make amends for this historical slight, the USA is chartering a jet to fly 49 across the Atlantic, where they can go back to the good old days of blacks being second-class citizens.

    The South African government treats this as the silly political point-scoring that it is. But freedom of choice and all that – they can go if they want to. Probably it will be a relief that they no longer have to deal with a bunch of pampered whiners.

    OK, I have a couple of questions.

    First, why is this necessary in the first place? These people are obviously racially superior. Their pure Nordic stock is clear to all who see them. So why are they doing so badly? Why doesn’t their race simply raise them above the subhumans around them?

    Second, since the US government is explicitly recognising the evils of racial discrimination, why don’t they stop being immensely racist in all their other policies?

    Can’t complain too much. They can make themselves look stupid and squander money. Go ahead.

  • The first 100 days

    100 days of the new administration. Time to look at the successes.

    Fox News comes up with some irrelevant nonsense. Renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”. Ending the ban on plastic straws.

    Villain-in-chief gave a speech to maga fanatics, boasting about his crusade against woke ideology. A bunch of lies about his own achievements, topped off with more lies about Biden.

    A journalist interviewed the president and challenged him about the fake photos the regime cooked up of Abrego Garcia. The response: “I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed… Just say yes!”

    It is pointless to try to refute the torrent of lies and misinformation from this administration. They are immune to facts, evidence and reason. As far as they are concerned, what they say is the truth, and that’s that. They have the full power of the state to back them up and they are not afraid to use this power.

    In 100 days, these criminals have ruined all their international alliances. They have destroyed large sections of the US state. Science is rejected. The rule of law counts for nothing. Rampant discrimination is official policy. Freedom of speech no longer exists. Insane economics have crashed the stock market and are wrecking the economy.

    Resistance to all of this has been patchy and wanting.

    100 days. They’ve got a lot of time left to make it all worse.