When I first saw headlines about this story, I genuinely thought the media was just taking the bait while yet another Trump regime official "played stupid" under questioning, but seeing is believing; as this short Majority Report segment demonstrations, DHS Secretary (and former Governor of South Dakota) absolutely does not know what the Writ of Habeas Corpus is and what, or even whose rights it protects. Facing down questions during a Senate oversight committee hearing, the DHS Secretary responded to the simple question of "what is habeas corpus" with "habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country, and suspend their right to" before being cut off by Senator (D-NH) Maggie Hassan, who provided the correct answer. The entire exchange, as well as Noem's responses to further questioning by Senator (D-NJ) Andy Kim have a bizarro-world quality to them that exposes Noem as a deeply unserious and untrustworthy person who absolutely should not be serving in the US government in any capacity whatsoever; I wouldn't trust this lady to run the Easter Egg Roll.

I would however like to note that the things Noem did say, or at least clearly had absorbed by repetition for propaganda purposes, were just as revealing as the things she didn't know and couldn't recite. Analyzing Noem's answers, it's very clear that she was making a propaganda argument to manufacture consent for suspending habeas corpus, and Donald Trump's presumed power to do so; even going so far as to push back against the clearly better informed and more legally knowledgeable Senators questioning her. Listening to the DHS Secretary, it's pretty easy to sketch a rough outline of Stephen Miller's plan to declare Trump can suspend habeas corpus without Congressional approval, under the presumption that said approval will be given retroactively because Abe Lincoln did so one time during the literal Civil War.

Of course none of the regime's arguments for this fascist bullshit are legally valid or make any sense at all. As we've discussed many times already here in this space, America is absolutely not being invaded, by narco-terrorist gangs or otherwise, and I think "we saw too many Mexican-looking people in our neighborhoods" doesn't represent an equivalent public safety "crisis" to that time Lincoln had to stop Confederate soldiers from pillaging Union territories when the South formally seceded and declared war on the US government. Despite this however, the Trump regime is currently working hard to make that argument and win the court of public opinion on this alarming subject for a reason; Kristi Noem might be an ignorant fool, but someone certainly fed her the talking points the administration wants to use to justify suspending habeas corpus, and that should concern us all

The Majority Report: Trump Team's Stunning Ignorance On Full Display During Noem's 'Habeas Corpus' Flop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aZH2dQcwyQ

So, I just want to do a little bit of follow up work on the story about the Trump admin paying to import 59 white seemingly racist "refugees" while Trump openly promoted a nazi conspiracy theory about the least effective "white genocide" in history, in post-apartheid South Africa.

This short, 10 minute clip from The Majority Report covers a lot of the same factual ground I went over in my post; including a thorough debunking of the numbers behind farm violence the Trump regime (and neo-nazis worldwide) insist is a "white genocide." As it turns out farm violence accounted for 0.2% of all murders during the last year with available figures for South Africa. Furthermore, even the eminent domain/land reclamation argument is horseshit because it's intended to reclaim *unused* land and governments in post-apartheid South Africa have literally never enacted the law to do so; it's no different than US eminent domain law, and so far the government isn't even using it. Finally, Sam Seder points out the absurd racism motivating the decision to rescind protected status from Afghani refugees who often actively aided the United States in a misguided war, while rolling out the red carpet and government funds to attract racist white South Africans who absolutely should not be considered "refugees."

The real reason I'm sharing this clip however is because I think watching it allows you to viscerally *feel* just how much the media is covering up for Trump's nazi bullshit. As you might remember, I was highly critical of corporate media outlets for engaging in acts of translation and "Trump-splaining" that obscured the fact that Der Leader was literally spouting a known nazi conspiracy theory about a nonexistent "white genocide" in South Africa to justify the regime's actions; which are obviously motivated by white nationalist solidarity and a desire to once again invert the language and machinery of what some might call social justice (in this case anti-genocide activism and asylum laws) on its head, to do fascist bullshit. At that time, I was responding to printed accounts of the Trump press conference about the white South Africans arriving, which even at the time I considered poor enough to border on apologia for again, the president spreading a nazi conspiracy theory to justify white nationalist ethnostate bullshit. Well, The Majority Report actually just clipped Trump answering questions directly, and I think it's pretty instructional to hear what the president actually said, and then examine how the media reported it. If you literally only want to hear Trump's repugnant answer, the clip of the president talking starts at 2:10.

When you watch it, you will discover that far from being confused or rambling, Trump's answer is hyper focused and dripping with indignation. He confidently espouses again, a nazi conspiracy theory about nonexistent white genocide in post-apartheid South Africa, and then literally fucking chides the media for not covering his cracker racist conspiracy theory. There was no translation or additional sourcing required here; the president literally trotted out in front of the cameras and acted out a Nick Fuentes podcast segment while spreading outright fascist lies, with little or no pushback from a captured group of media stenographers pretended they were doing journalism. Seeing is believing, and as you watch this I want you to consider for a moment that this is just one Trump tirade, during one press conference, about one (admittedly repugnant) story. If this is how the media reports the president openly embracing a nazi conspiracy theory and chastising the media for not embracing it too, how many other acts of translation and Trump-splaining have they engaged in during his entire time in office? What other unhinged nazi shit is Trump saying that is being reported in the mildest possible terms, by an army of stenographers determined to make Trump make sense to readers even when he's clearly a brainwormed nazi who isn't going to make sense to anyone who isn't also a brainwormed nazi, unless the media essentially lies to make him sound more normal? We've talked a lot about an American establishment collaborating with the fascist Trump regime in far less subtle ways, but this is literally the media helping to normalize nazi conspiracy theories under the guise of "interpreting" a fascist president who requires no interpretation if you just listen to the nazi bullshit that spews out of his mouth.

The Majority Report: Trump's Racist Refugee Policy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fUHfqixkwQ

If you want proof that Democratic Party leaders and their top donors, including AIPAC, don't give one flying fuck whether or not their support for Israel's genocide in Gaza elected Trump or continues to help his fascist agenda, I'd argue that you don't have to look any further than the actions of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, since the Kelpto Kaiser's second inauguration. Fortunately for us, The Majority Report recently put out a twenty minute clip that does just that; from Schumer's capitulation on the GOP's class war continuing resolution, to recent remarks revealing that the Senator would rather empower Trump's fascist assault on student protestors and higher education, than speak out against the fake antisemitism crisis *Democrats* originally helped create to justify repressing college kids opposing a genocide, Sam and Emma cover all the shameful lowlights.

Clueless Chuck Schumer Makes A Fool Of Himself On CNN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9te-K4E8lk

Once again please let me take a moment to remind angry liberals that both Sam Seder and Emma Vigland are Democrats, who vote for Democrats, and tell their audience to vote for Democrats; no matter how much lanyards inside the party want to pretend otherwise, TMR's criticisms of feckless, collaborating Democrat leadership are coming from inside the house, not the "far left."

For those of us living in the really real world where the Democratic Party is clearly not doing enough to fight Trump's fascist agenda however, I'd like to point out that what Schumer is doing throughout this video goes far beyond mere cowardly inaction in the face of a fascist takeover of our society, and veers into open collaboration. As Vigland in particular points out, even while pretending to defend Harvard from the Trump administration's attempts to use a fake antisemitism crisis on college campuses to seize control of the University, Schumer actively makes the regime's case for it by trying to thread the needle between "Harvard has an antisemitism problem and hasn't done enough to combat it" and "Trump's actions aren't justified in response to antisemitism." In doing so, the Senator comes off essentially supporting Trump's argument that Harvard is allowing hate crimes because people protested Israel's ongoing, US-backed genocide in Gaza.

Factually speaking, this is all bullshit. The protests aren't and were never antisemitic; that's just a lie Biden and the Dem Party's establishment insisted on deploying to protect the genocide they were enabling Israel to conduct, and wave away their own base's concerns about murderpigs beating up college students and professors on live TV. Schumer knows that, but he's being paid to pretend otherwise and he's not prepared to break the kayfabe even if it means essentially helping Donald Trump run roughshod over the American constitution and our civil rights. This is consistent messaging from Democratic Party leaders and luminaries, and I'm sorry but given the circumstances it makes them all collaborators with a fascist regime; in addition to being dishonest, bootlicking minions for donor class rich people.