Timothy Snyder talks of borders too:
> Borders are, by definition, violent. Borders are not merely crossed. Borders must be survived and endured. Borders are not only walls and razor wire. Borders are guards and police, surveillance cameras and drones, batons and bullets. For those tens of millions of people, borders don’t stop where one country ends and the next begins; they stalk and haunt across endless miles and years. Borders are both crime scenes and crimes, with nationalism the motive.
https://tomdispatch.com/immigration-and-the-invasion-story/
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Immigration and the Invasion Story

After a year of gutting the United States government, deploying armed jackboots to American cities, and bombing at least seven countries, the Trump administration kicked off 2026 by invading Venezuela and kidnapping its president, Nicolás Maduro, and

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Beitrag zur Schadenfreude

Mann gönnt sich ja sonst nichts … Schon seit Jahren ist mein Eindruck beim Konsum von Bild und Ton des US-Präsidenten in elektrischen Medien (bei aller Diät), dass er jeden Moment tot umfallen könnte. Vielleicht nagt es auch schon in ihm selbst? Ich weiss, wovon ich schreibe, nachdem ich vor gut einem halben Jahr einen Herzinfarkt überlebt habe. Zu gönnen ist es ihm. Doch was dann?

Wer intellektuell nur mit den einfachsten Basiselementen materialistischer politischer Analyse vertraut ist, eine Fähigkeit die in der hiesigen Medienöffentlichkeit weitgehend ausstirbt, weiss: es kann immer noch schlimmer kommen.

Das illustriert dieser Beitrag von Clarence Lusane/TomDispatch/overton: Genauso gefährlich: Vance und die Wahl 2028 – Donald Trump könnte natürlich trotz der US-Verfassung der republikanische Präsidentschaftskandidat für 2028 sein. Obwohl in der 22. Verfassungsänderung klar festgelegt ist, dass ‘niemand mehr als zweimal zum Präsidenten gewählt werden darf’, könnte es durchaus eine Mehrheitsentscheidung des Obersten Gerichtshofs sein, die darüber entscheidet, ob dies für Trump gilt.”

Wer sich schon mal mit der Figur J.D. Vance beschäftigt hat, weiss, was den USA und der Welt blüht.

Meine Schadenfreude wird daraus gespeist, dass diese gemeingefährlichen Säcke sich gegenseitig hassen, wie die (tödliche!) Pest. Es macht keinen Spass, unter diesen Umständen Macht auszuüben, so sehr mann auch versucht das zu kompensieren. Es macht krank und bringt einen irgendwann um. Das ist in Washington so wie in Berlin, von wo der Spiegel in seiner Paywall die aktuellen Intrigen innerhalb der CDU zusammenfasst (der “Andenpakt”, den Merkel so virtuos in Schach gehalten und kaltgestellt hat, lebt).

Subjektiv ist es so, dass das, was da beschrieben wird, den Betroffenen zu gönnen ist. Sie haben es nicht anders verdient. Es trifft die Richtigen.

Desillusionierend ist, das es nicht durch politisches Handeln irgendeiner Opposition bewirkt wird, sondern ein logischer Prozess innerer Zersetzung der politisch organisierten Menschenfeindlichkeit ist.

“Unser” Problem ist: es führt bei den Betroffenen nicht zu irgendeiner Einsicht, sondern zu weiterer Radikalisierung. Sie glauben, sie müssten nur umso doller weitermachen, um Erfolg und Befriedigung zu finden. Das heisst: die Gefahr wächst.

Zuspitzung zur WM

Sofern er bis dahin überlebt, wird Trump versuchen, die Fussball-WM (der Herren) im Sommer als Krönungsmesse seiner selbst zu inszenieren, um das Blatt zu den Midterm-Elections Anfang November zu seinen eigenen Gunsten zu wenden. Das wird weit spannender als die sportlichen Leistungen in den überhitzten bzw. teuer klimatisierten Stadien. Wer davon was sehen will, muss tagsüber schlafen und nachts gucken.

Denkbar ist, dass die zahlenden und steuernden Hintersassen des orangehaarigen Avatars zu der Einschätzung kommen, dass das aussichtslos, und deswegen ein Personalwechsel an der Spitze erforderlich ist. Das ist die eigentliche Lebensgefahr für den alten menschenhassenden weissen Mann.

Wie wird sich Gianni Infantino in seiner Wohnung in Trumps Enddarm verhalten? Wird er ihn vor einem Sturz von der Ehrentribüne eigenhändig schützen? Oder wird er von Peter Thiel und J.D. Vance dazu bestochen, das Gegenteil zu tun? Alles eine Frage des Preises.

Die Spannung steigt.

Beitrag zur Schadenfreude – Beueler-Extradienst

"The same week that U.N. officials spoke of an “apocalypse” in Jamaica, American billionaire Bill Gates expressed a certain unease about officials and scientists concerned with climate change who, he thought, were being hysterical. He urged them to chill the hell out. It was an arrogant and manipulative oracle, uttered with all the privilege of the world’s 19th richest man. A symbol of monopoly capitalism, his individual net worth rivals the annual gross domestic product of the Dominican Republic. And when he responded to #HurricaneMelissa, he did so (not surprisingly, I suppose) in the narrow sectional interests of the world’s wealthiest class in Silicon Valley.
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Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, And a Civilization Under Threat

In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called “Godzilla”) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of buildings about like splintering javelins, demolished municipal buildings and hospitals, snapped telephone poles

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Trump and Bovino using the story _Charlotte's Web_ by an anti-fascist as the name for a fascist attacks in North Carolina is not a uniquely MAGA or Republican thing.. Trump and dorks are revealing fascist rapey tendencies in USA culture.. The need to follow Chomsky's suggestions for USA "denazification" seem more obvious all the time.

> It is also worth thinking about the name given to the bin Laden operation: #OperationGeronimo...

https://tomdispatch.com/noam-chomsky-the-imperial-mentality-and-9-11/
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> The gun-and-ammo industry boasted $16 billion in revenue for 2015. Gun stores — from brick-and-mortar shops to online retailers – had $3.1 billion in revenue that same year. The industry as a whole claimed responsibility for nearly $50 billion in “economic activity” in 2015 alone. That represents a fair number of jobs, but here is the number that really goes boom: $229 billion. That’s the annual cost of fatal and non-fatal gun violence in this country,..
https://tomdispatch.com/frida-berrigan-guns-for-tots/
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“Pow, Pow, Yous Are Dead!”

It was a beautiful evening and the kids -- Madeline, two; Seamus, almost four; and Rosena, nine -- were running across a well-tended town green. Seamus pointed his rainbow flag with the feather

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> ... mayhem committed by toddlers (or perhaps they should be thought of as American lone wolf cubs). Toddler shootings range from the two year old who killed his mother in a Walmart in Idaho with the gun she was packing in her purse as 2014 ended to the three year old who discovered a gun in a purse in an Albuquerque motel room in February and wounded his father and pregnant mother with a single shot...
https://tomdispatch.com/engelhardt-armed-violence-in-the-homeland/
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> Even as the suspect – and any information about their motivations or political leanings – remained at large and unknown, incendiary rhetoric from major political commentators spread rapidly online, blaming leftist violence for Kirk’s death. Many called for swift retribution in the form of an aggressive crackdown against their political enemies. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-shooting-death-trump-reaction
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Far-right commentators echo Trump in calling for ‘vengeance and retribution’ for Charlie Kirk’s death

Even as the suspect and motive remain unknown, incendiary rhetoric from major political commentators spread rapidly online and Trump blamed the left

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> His wife might never have found him if it weren’t for a photo someone sent her from an article about more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants dispatched to CECOT in El Salvador at the same time. His face wasn’t visible, but she recognized him from two scars on his shaved head and some of his personal (but not gang-related) tattoos. She was well aware of CECOT’s reputation as a brutal mega-prison, a site of organized physical and psychological torture.
https://tomdispatch.com/everything-old-is-new-again/
#RebeccaGordon at #TomDispatch #AbregoGarcia #KilmarAbregoGarcia and #ICEThugs

The work of Ignacio Martin-Baro and Ignacio Ellacuria keeps coming to mind... the social psychology of terror in 80s El Slavador....

> People aren’t going to their jobs. People aren’t going to school. Children are staying home. Parents are keeping their kids in safety. They aren’t riding the buses. They aren’t going to the parks. They aren’t going to restaurants.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-rights-cruelty-to-immigrants-is-psychopathic

#NathanRobinson #ICEThugs #ICEBudget #uspol
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The Right’s Cruelty to Immigrants Is Psychopathic

They’ve gone deranged with hatred and fear of migrants. Now, billions of dollars are being invested to build brutal new prison camps. How can we get our humanity back?

> ..begin.. by giving less attention to Trump’s executive orders —.. defined by a law professor as “just press releases with nicer stationery” — and more attention to the effects of his policies that get enacted. And while his ruminations may bear noting, they could appear, not in headlines, but.. page 11 (or its.. equivalent), which is where the #BostonGlobe relegated its report of the local 100,000-strong #HandsOff! protest.
https://tomdispatch.com/seven-and-a-half-propositions-for-journalism-in-the-age-of-trump/
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Seven-and-a-Half Propositions for Journalism in the Age of Trump

It’s not a good time to be an American journalist. Or a consumer of American journalism. Or, for that matter, even a skimmer of the headlines crawling across American phones. Donald Trump is suing media

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