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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D.'s avatar

I love the piece. I like it when you mention the less-known Nazi's. I've never even attempted to explore Miller's psychopathology. But he always reminded me of Adolph Eichmann. He's a dead ringer for Adolph Eichmann who, as you know, kept the trains to the death camps going, even after Himmler told him to stop. Arendt wrote about Eichmann in "The Banality of Evil," both in the NY Times edition and her book. My question has always been is she right? Do you have to have a personality disorder like psychopathy to be evil? She described Eichmann as a loser and a clown who couldn't get any kind of job and had to join the Nazi party. She reviewed his speech patterns in a deposition. Looking at those patterns, what I see is cognitive slippage (Eichmann) and a strange disconnection from the language of human experience. It could be that Eichmann was schizotypal. And I agree Miller is filled with bile. The explanation that he had a face like that in LA (where beauty is currency) is too facile. I'll read some of his writing if I can find it and try to analyze him seriously to do more satire about him. That kind of malice must have been created by something earlier and/or in his DNA than just the way he looks and probably how he was treated at Santa Monica High.

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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D.'s avatar

I happen to know why but you'd need to read my pieces about his unforgettable love, Rosalita (Medium.com). He's still feeling what he can't express. So, Stephen dresses in the unforgettable mango and fuchsia Mexican cha cha dresses and shawls she left behind. When Stephen started showing up at her job at Pollo Loco, she had to say, "Adios, Esteban." Now Stephen quotes Rilke in Spanish and sings classic rendition hymns over the Potomac. #BrokenByLove #SAMOHigh #Rosalita #Rilke #Stephen Miller #Satire #LoveLossAndWhatHeWore.

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Sharon Heidē Ward's avatar

Okay… I’ve listened several times and looked at the transcript, but I can’t figure out what Rick says just after six minutes. It must be in French. I don’t speak French. Yet. At least not beyond Frere Jacque and que sera sera. A little assistance please.

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Denece Evans's avatar

And perhaps like Heydrick, he will be gone from this earth sooner than later.

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Blue Moon Pie's avatar

Steven Miller would have been targeted by the Nazis and the Cossacks carrying out Russian pograms. He’s the architect of what is looking like an American pogram. Yes, he’s a Jewish Nazi. Vile, revolting sicko. In the future, we need to hold him accountable for his crimes.

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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D.'s avatar

He's in pain: unforgettable love from his Santa Monica High love, Rosalita (Medium.com). He's still feeling what he can't express that deep wound. So, Stephen dresses in the unforgettable mango and fuchsia Mexican cha cha dresses and shawls she left behind. When Stephen started showing up at her job at Pollo Loco, she had to say, "Adios, Esteban." Now Stephen quotes Rilke in Spanish and sings classic rendition hymns over the Potomac. #BrokenByLove #SAMOHigh #Rosalita #Rilke #Stephen Miller #Satire #LoveLossAndWhatHeWore.

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Laura Havranek's avatar

Thank you Rick for speaking the truth about Stephen Miller, a true scourge on society. And for speaking up about the suspension of Terry Moran which means ABC caved again. But I have had a bit of fun treating my grandkids to a “free” movie showing of Kung Fu Panda 4. Snacks cost me but as I look at this today, wouldn’t it be great if the evil in this world could be easily defeated by a Kung Fu smackdown. Lovely to imagine Miller and his team sniveling and nursing their wounds

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Sarah Pirnie's avatar

All predictable. Although I am surprised t. has enough military "available" or "left over" to send to Los Angeles this weekend. After all he needs them all for his "big, beautiful parade on June 14th. Amazing that someone who ducked serving with bone spurs...GOOD GRIEF....and calls them all suckers and losers has any interest in honoring them. Oh wait. This is for his birthday, not the Army's.

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Anonomyte's avatar

Stephen Miller must be extra upset that he was cuckolded by the muskrat.

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milbank's avatar

Steve, I will reiterate what I said a few weeks ago in the comments section. I believe Trump is going to have Martial Law declared in order to take over the government legally. The declaration is not going to allow the 2026 midterm elections to take place as well. The possibility of the Democrats taking not just the House but the Senate assuring an impeachment conviction is too great for him to allow any more elections.

I think this is the beginning of the move. Los Angeles could be Trump's mini-Reichstag Fire. I don't think this is his big excuse though. If he can get this to spread to other Democratic cities, the cumulative reactions may give him the excuse he needs.

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Bob McKeown's avatar

Except that there's probably a greater chance of blowback on Trump. Olbermann says that there were 30 more arrests during the Lakers' last championship in LA. A viral clip is flying around of a female Aussie reporter who was shot with a rubber bullet and hospitalized (you can see an LA cop in the line aiming specifically at her). They knocked a kid down several times in the street and tried to trample him with horses (police horses are trained not to trample people, so they didn't). All the violence against persons has come from the cops and the property destruction and looting are from the usual suspects, black bloc anarchists and criminals of opportunity which the political leaders have been universal in condemning.

Plus, the area of the protests, what Zappa would call the ugly part of town where they keep the government buildings, is miniscule and not residential; the rest of LA, an enormous city and metro area, is going about its business. The mischief happens at night, not during the daytime protests which are peaceful. The NG wasn't called out by the governor so the Posse Comitatus Act prohibits them from being used in a law enforcement capacity and so far they've done exactly nothing because they have nothing to do. Same for the Marines.

Trump wants this to be like the BLM protests so bad but the dynamic is entirely different. The anger there was against the cops because a cop killed George Floyd and racial tensions between urban cops and black people had been simmering for decades. The anger here is against a bunch of Proud Boys dressed like anarchists and federally sent in by Trump to roust peaceful businesses as a provocation. A couple of burning cars isn't generating the headlines that TrumpCo wants and they know it. They're losing the PR war on this.

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milbank's avatar

What Trump understands is, in terms of public support, it's not reality that matters, it's perception.

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Bob McKeown's avatar

Public support is objective, not subjective. That's why you can quantify it in polls. Trump is certainly _hoping_ that the majority of America will buy into his framing of an "invasion" with protesters as an "insurrection," but it's too absurd and it's not going to fly with the majority, the way BLM could be framed as anti-police radicals.

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milbank's avatar

If the polls were correct, Hillary Clinton would have not just won the popular vote but won the electoral college as well. Trump has never needed nor had he ever had a majority of Americans behind for him to succeed. If the public judged Trump or his actions objectively, he'd never have become president no less get reelected.

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Bob McKeown's avatar

Hillary's polls, like Kamala's, started to collapse the weekend before the election but that's not the point. To say that polls are objective is not to say that they are concrete; they are snapshots in time. What we objected to after the elections was not particular polls per se but how they were interpreted, how they were weighted with other polls, what statistical models they used.

Trump is not going to succeed here. There are too many people he needs to jail, too many averse rulings he needs to defy, too many politicians he needs to silence. And he doesn't have a credible narrative he can run as these protests spread to other cities, as they will. There is no "enemy" plausible or threatening enough to balance against the abrogation of rights. We're not Russia or a developing country; we have a long tradition of self government.

The analogy to Germany in the 30s is overdrawn on many levels.

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milbank's avatar

Then we have nothing to worry about.

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milbank's avatar

As I said, this is just one small part. One "fire." He is hoping and agitating to have this happen in many blue cities where he will also pull out the guard and the marines.

You missed my point. It's the cumulative effect of these marches in many large cities that will give him his "Reichstag Fire" scenario to take over the government via martial law. It's already spread to San Francisco. The 14th of June will jack up the agitation helping him immensely towards his ultimate goal. That it will be happening during a parade honoring the 250th anniversary of our country and the military will give him the cover he needs and enough public sympathy to act on his goal.

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Bob McKeown's avatar

I didn't miss your point nor was my intent to object to it. Of course Trump, egged on by the execrable toad Miller, is aiming for a Reichstag fire moment. I'm saying that it's going to backfire. They're gaming this out on a BLM template but it's not analogous. There's broad support for policing in inner cities. There is not broad support for ICE hanging out in Home Depot parking lots and collaring every brown person who comes out the door, or arresting a 9-month pregnant woman, or camping out in schools and raiding high school graduation ceremonies. Yeah, Deep MAGA loves this shit and it plays well in wingnut spaces. But it absolutely repels the majority regardless of anyone's position on illegal immigration.

He can try this. He's in the process of trying it. But he's not going to get broad approval even from most of his base. It's textbook disturbing the peace.

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Sharon's avatar

My husband and I have talked many times about when and how the first American will be killed by this administration. When I started hearing about LA, I told him the time is now. We sincerely believe this administration is itching to kill Americans who are standing up for what is right. We sit and watch and desperately want to do something. We do protest, write and call but the situation we are in now seems to be war against those of us who wish to save our democracy. We are all in this together. We must never give up or give in until these evil bastards are gone. Completely gone.

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Observersus's avatar

On the topic of CBS and other businesses that depend on their reputations, why don’t they shelve their corporate projects that require compliance with Trump’s admin?

Can’t complete your merger without Trump’s permission? - shelve it until there is a regime change, then actively work for that regime change. Money comes and goes.

Bending the knee, especially sacrificing journalistic integrity, will leave a stain that never rinses out. e.g. IBM, Mercedes Benz

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Tim_TEC's avatar

If Stephen Miller had lived in 1930s Germany he'd definitely had been a Kapo. Those were Nazi death camp collaborators who turned on their fellow Jews and helped push them into the gas chambers.

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Chella's avatar

There are all kinds of pics of him next to “family Annihilator” Grant Amato.. could be twins

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Anne Dorsey's avatar

I love you, Rick, truly I do. You speak for me with the power, acid wit, and verbal brilliance I wish I could muster. Re Miller, I call him Roy Cohn's incarnation. He even looks like Roy. Sometimes physical appearance actually does reveal the inner person. I'm sure you know this, but it bears repeating, Roy said of Agent Orange, when deserted by him b/c Roy had HIV/AIDS, 'He (AO) pisses ice water'. AO had an empathectomy sometime in his early life ... or maybe in the womb? I call his 2.0 Admin Grift, Graft and Gratuitous Cruelty. I hope this country can marshal the outraged sense of justice and societal cojones to stand firm, hit the streets, make the calls, do the work, holler and never EVER back down – and stay non-violent (so important!). Bunch of old ladies like me shouting 'SHAME SHAME SHAME!' cowed an ICE line. Stuff like that works. And yes – GO GAVIN!

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Bob McKeown's avatar

Hell hath no fury like old ladies scorned ;)

Old ladies rule the Universe.

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Anne Dorsey's avatar

😍💕🙏

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Nonnax5's avatar

Everything you’ve said about SM is true and so much more. He is an evil, empty, soulless NAZI.

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