What Would Nellis Say?

New Orleans resident Marshan Camese called it as we all see it, while testifying at a redistricting hearing to redraw electoral maps to dilute the black vote in May, 

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“…the beautiful thing is, the children that y’all have made and the people who are younger than y’all don’t support any of this racism that y’all want. The MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy, and I’ll be happy to see millennials and Gen Z bury y’all. There will be no more of your party. The midterms are going to come. Y’all are going to get wiped out.

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Trump is going to get dragged out of the White House, and I’m going to love every second of it, because y’all loved every second of the suffering that he caused to everybody in this country and worldwide…”

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The gentleman from New Orleans was correct. The American people overwhelmed the polls, winning traditional Republican strongholds across the South and Midwest to secure a commanding majority in the House and the Senate, and seated at least 28 governors. Formerly Republican states - Georgia, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, and Texas elected Democratic governors and gained full control of those state legislatures, as well as Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

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The Republicans were defeated because they feared and glorified Donald Trump, the most reviled president in American history, and refused to oppose his most outrageous policies and behaviors. His constant campaigning over the past few months in what should have been safe Red states resulted in losses in almost all of them, and the public’s repudiation of everything MAGA represents.

The world understands that the President is busy gluing tacky gold trinkets to the walls of the Oval Office and constructing monuments to himself, and has no interest in fulfilling the responsibilities of his office. So, his first act, following that monumental electoral trouncing, was to raise his middle finger to the American people by doubling down on his agenda of hate and division and naming little Stevie Miller, a practicing Jew who is the architect of ICE violence and brutality, and author of Trump’s most homophobic, Islamophobic, and racist speeches and policies, as Chief of Staff.

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The president’s top aide is appointed, not elected, but he becomes the second most powerful government official because he oversees White House operations, determines who gets access to the Oval Office, coordinates policy development, and acts as liaison with Cabinet Secretaries and government officials to advance the administration’s legislative agenda. He is the gatekeeper who decides who gets to see the president and what information he receives, and we must assume that Miller will be directing the federal government to fulfill his personal agenda.

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Miller’s professional persona is fabricated on a crude imitation of Hitler’s youngest general, Reinhard Heydrich, who created the ruthless German Intelligence Service (SD) and was tasked by Joseph Goebbels with eliminating all enemies of the Nazi state. He targeted Hitler’s political opponents in bloody purges, and organized attacks on Jews, Roma, and Sinti that culminated in Kristallnacht, a nationwide campaign to destroy Jewish businesses and murder every Jewish man, woman, and child they could find. He conceived and orchestrated the “Final Solution” to the Jewish problem, but was assassinated before the death camps went into full production to inflict the industrialized murder of at least fifteen million human beings in what we refer to as the Holocaust.

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Miller was the mastermind behind the Hispanic family separation program during Trump’s first term, where thousands of children were ripped from their mothers’ arms with no intention or process for reuniting them, and at least 1360 of those children are still awaiting reunion. He is the strategist behind ending birthright citizenship, stricter border enforcement, limits on asylum and refugee admissions, and transforming white nationalism into policy.

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He is responsible for the rapid expansion and billions of dollars in funding for ICE’s unconstitutional raids that have terrorized communities across the country, legitimizing brutality against anyone who isn’t white or speaks with a foreign accent. The administration claims to be hunting “the worst of the worst” when, in reality, a tiny percentage of their victims have a criminal record or have committed any crimes, and the vast majority perform useful and necessary jobs that white Americans refuse to take. 

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He set quotas for his thugs to arrest at least 3000 refugees every day, aiming to expand American concentration camps to hold 150,000 human beings in deplorable conditions, and the program is on track to deport a million prisoners this year to third-world countries without regard for their legal status. 

Gangs of his masked, armored, and heavily armed troops have invaded schools, hospitals, churches, and courthouses, terrorized minority neighborhoods, made sweeps through public parks to assault moms and their children, abducted parents and left their children in unattended cars with the motors still running, lied to judges and the American people, and murdered immigrants and American citizens without facing charges or consequences. 

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Cuck Schumer said, “Stephen Miller is the architect of the most barbaric, inhumane policies of this administration.”

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His promotion will give him the power and authority to expand his tyranny and normalize his cruelty in a personal campaign to bleach America by murdering and deporting every person of color in the nation and silencing his enemies, and he will claim to be working at the direction of the President. Once the demon seizes the reins of power, why should anyone believe that he will relinquish them voluntarily? Joseph Goebbels would be proud.

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If you thought the first eighteen months of Trump’s term were frightening and disgusting, this appointment proves the Dark Forces are just getting started.

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Stand Up! Speak Out! Make a Difference!

 

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