Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Disappearing

 The Supreme Court. The highest court in the land. The check to all the other balances. The court that was bought and paid for by the convicted felon currently living his  gold-plated lifestyle in the People's House. 

That's the court that said Abrego Garcia should be returned to America from El Salvador, the country he was mistakenly deported because of an "administrative error" more than a month ago. 

Given the opportunity to act in the mildest form of good faith, the MAGAts have continued to pour gasoline on the fire they started. They have accused Mister Garcia of being a member of a transnational gang, and we all know how horrible anything trans can be for these tiny-minded individual. Especially the transfer of a man who has never been convicte much less charge with a crime. He has lived in the United States for thirteen years after crossing the border illegally back in 2012. Since then he has lived with his wife and children, making pupusas then getting a job as a sheet metal worker and joining a union.

Abrego Garcia was arrested in 2019 in the parking lot of a Home Depot store for "loitering." A common practice for many individuals looking for day work. At the time, Garcia was dressed in a Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie, which authorities suggested was "indicative of the Hispanic gang culture." He rode out that legal process in 2019, only to be arrested in 2025 in an IKEA parking lot where he was whisked away to El Salvador and subsequently labeled an international terrorist. 

Shortly after meeting with El Salvador's president and superfan of mass incarceration Nayib Bukele, the man who never met a court he couldn't ignore held up a photo that he claimed showed gang tattoos on the hand of Abrego Garcia. "Claimed" because the picture has been widely dismissed as a poor attempt at leaning Photoshop and yet another way to defame someone with thirty-four fewer felony convictions than he has.

In other news, the twice-impeached "president" suggested that he and his pal Nayib would be looking into deporting and jailing U.S. citizens in El Salvador. 

The country is on fire, ladies and gentlemen. That's not just smoke. 

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