Trump Stages Another Boffo Reality TV Episode In LA Park
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Once a reality TV star, always a reality TV star
The apprentice is not the only one, even the best, the prism with which to see Donald Trump’s approach to politics, but it is essential.
Trump always organizes a program in which he will always be, if not the hero, then at least the strong protagonist, and he needs bad guys. Many, many bad guys to defeat. But not only all the bad guys. He needs bad guys whose defeat affects the deepest and darkest parts of the American psyche. Thus, the bad guys he chooses often end up being people of color, women and foreigners, and what can be missing in real wickedness, he compensates in casting like Terangs and sexually deviant or otherwise disaster in a comical way.
The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass – A black woman – corresponds to the bill for Trump, and it seems that she will have a recurring role in Trump’s Voyou gallery.
Yesterday, in a news waterfall made for the news, strongly armed federal immigration agents swept the MacArthur park in Los Angeles in a dramatic but mainly ineffective set which seemed more designed to upset the inhabitants than to serve any legitimate objective of application of the law. At the right time, Bass rushed into the park and then denounced the maneuver at a press conference. “What I saw in the park today looked like a besieged city, under the armed occupation,” deplored Bass.
Calling him a blow makes him no less threatening or alarming, but it suggests needing to be aware of being caught in the drama created by Trump and playing with the guy he threw. It is easier for the rest of us than for local elected democrats or other reluctant people taken in one of Trump’s reality TV episodes, especially those who are helpless and vulnerable.
The president of the Los Angeles municipal council, Marquece Harris-Dawson, understood the game, noting with irony: “If you want to film in Los Angeles, you should ask for a film’s license like everyone else.”
By preserving your self -awareness, it is useful to remember your audience. Trump plays alone with a well -used script that has the raw contours of a piece of pro struggle. Gregory Bovino, a “raid” of the park, was a customs and border protection manager who played the hardwood with a swollen chest.
“It is better to get used to us now, because it will be normal very soon,” Bovino told a journalist from Fox News. “We will go anywhere, at any time in Los Angeles.”
And then there is the right propaganda machine. He engulfs the content generated by Trump and the offer, as here when a host questions the spokesperson for the Ministry of Internal Security Tricia McLaughlin on the reason why Bass was not arrested:
Of course, the Trump administration has already arrested the representative Lamonica Mciver (D-NJ) when she tried to surveillance in a detention center in New Jersey. Like bass, McIver is a black woman.
It will only get worse from here
Garrett Graff, on the One, Big Beautiful Bill and his crazy level of funding for the application of immigration: “As a person who has covered federal police in the past two decades and who has spent the past few years writing both on the state of democracy today and by reducing history books on the fall of fascism in Europe in the 1930s, it is difficult to consider as a new legislation, All, of the way we are losers. And adding superpowers to the newly masked secret police in America. »»
Abrego Garcia Case Slogs on
My report by the court on the American district judge Paula Xinis strives to pin the Trump administration on what he intends to do next to Kilmar Abrego Garcia. She ordered the Trump administration to produce a witness to her choice for an audience on Thursday.
Significant development
El Salvador has told a United Nations body that prisoners sent to CECOT by the Trump administration remain the “jurisdiction and legal responsibility” of the United States. The prisoners’ lawyers filed a United Nations document, which pointed out the position of El Salvador, in the original case of the Act on Extraterrestrial enemies at DC.
The judge targeted by Trump loses the first round on immunity
Wisconsin’s state judge Hannah Dugan lost her request to reject the criminal charges against her for allegedly interfered with an operation to apply immigration in her courthouse. It can appeal the magistrate’s decision to a district judge.
Good reading
Jason Zengerle: the ruthless ambition of Stephen Miller
Imymi
Michael Feinberg, the main agent of the FBI targeted by the Trump administration for his personal friendship with Peter Strzok, recounts his decision to resign after learning from his supervisor that his career would be intentionally blocked.
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