A conservative plan for Donald Trump’s potential transition into the presidency calls for dozens of prisoners to be executed, according to HuffPost. An 887-page plan by Project 2025, led by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation, says that if elected, Trump should make a concerted effort to execute the remaining 40 prisoners on death row. The section’s author, attorney Gene Hamilton, advised that Trump “do everything possible to obtain finality” on the current list of people until Congress forces them to stop. Hamilton is the vice president of America Legal First, a group of former Trump lawyers bent on attacking “woke” companies, headed by Stephen Miller. Trump’s approach to the death penalty stands in stark contrast to that of President Joe Biden, who has openly opposed the death penalty, but done little to move forward legislation to reform or abolish the practice since entering office.
For those of you not in the know Project 2025 is Republicans plan to turn the USA into an authoritarian state.
There’s a series of detective novels I’ve been reading for years. Bernie Gunther is a WW1 veteran who joined the Berlin police force in the 1920s, and left when his Jewish boss was fired by the Nazis. Author is Philip Kerr.
In one of the novels, Bernie runs into an old cop pal and they have a drink. The cop tells Bernie that there were about 30 executions in all of Germany the year before the Nazis took over, and there have already been over 200 this year. The cop wonders how far it’s going to go?
That sounds interesting as fuck, is that Berlin Noir?
Yes. Each book is a stand alone, but they do go in ‘historical’ order.
Slightly off topic. Max Allan Collins Nate Heller books are ‘hard boiled historicals.’ The latest "Too Many Bullets’ covers the Bobby Kennedy assassination.
Thank you! You just gave me a whole new series to dive into. Super excited.
enjoy
Are they in English?
Yes, Philip Kerr the author is English.
Looking for that now.
I want to take a break for doom news podcasts
Enjoy
The death of Bobby Kennedy was the end of hope for most boomers.
It went 1967; Summer of Sam on the east Coast, summer of love on the west
1968; Bobby Kennedy murdered
1969; Woodstock - essentially a cultural stag party.
70s was getting married, weed, cocaine, Eric Clapton
80s made babies, "didn’t sell out, they bought in ", Reagan, more cocaine, believe it or not, more Eric Clapton
Then, always pushing the boundary, the 90s gave us Eric Clapton songing a song about his baby falling out a window and dying while Clapton was high as fuck on cocaine.
Super pretty song, prob one of the best songs ever performed. Fucking Eric Fucking Clapton.
imho Kent State was what destroyed the youth movement. Most of the Boomers thought that they could change things without getting their hands dirty; that peace and love were enough. When they saw that they could be killed most gave up and fell in line.
Kissinger described the youth movement of the time, against the war in Vietnam, etc in a really disgusting way that sobered me up about the power dynamics on the hill (back when I was still in high school). He would say “America is currently suffering from an _‘excess of democracy’ _”. Power, popular or not, does not and will not relinquish control voluntarily. The state has two functions. It’s the only apparatus capable of extinguishing abuses of power completely, granted the capability thru the monopolization and use of force/violence. Government has only 2 jobs really. Defend the nation, environment, society so there’s a level playing field for everything production and economics and deliver the fucking mail (ensure safe communication).
Thusly the first task of anyone who steals enough power is to corrupt the state. Attacks against the donor class will be met lethally by the police reduced from a respectable service to the donors personal class traitor mercenary security force. Police can testify against you in court, but never in your defense, how fucked is that?
I’m waiting for our trigger happy cosplaytriotPD to repeat that on the protestors demanding divestment from apartheid states.
4 dead in Ohio. I’m not going to advocate furthering the loss of life, either on campus (or anywhere else) from FashFactoryPD, or the Bloodthirsty Zionist genocide of Gaza but a new anthem to rally behind could go a loooong way. CSN+Y fucking nailed it in their moment.
That’s the exact opposite of what I wrote.
After Kent State the student movement pretty much fell apart. There were other college shootings at the time, and a lot of people decided that they weren’t ready to lay their lives on the line.
I know plenty of parents who teach their kids to avoid the cops and none who are teaching them to organize a revolution.
I might have to check that series out. Thank you.
It actually reminds me a bit of Babylon Berlin, a German noir show which was based off the Gereon Rath series by Volker Kutscher.
Seen it. I usually hate TV shows with subtitles, but this one kept me going.
I need to watch it again, I think I’d understand it better the second time.
‘Shogun’ has entered the chat…
i kid. Enjoy what you want.