The Skinny: A Fascist State Under Trump Emerges
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Purging the State to Install Fascism
Perceiving enemies without and within, the Trump regime spent the first week of April ramping up its criminal mass deportation efforts and laying the ideological groundwork for a foreign concentration camp system to dispose of the Klepto Kaiser’s enemies. While the corporate media barely seems to have noticed, The Skinny was there to keep you informed as all this white nationalist authoritarian bullshit went down. As always you can follow the links below to check out these stories on my Fediverse blog, or simply read them in their entirety on page two by using the navigation buttons at the bottom of this article.
April 1st – 9th, 2025
White Nationalist Repression is the Point
“Folks, this wasn’t a mistake; when you purposely ignore all the legal processes designed to prevent “mistakes” like this, we call that criminal negligence. The Trump regime wanted planes full of nonwhite migrants to display like war trophies on prime time TV, and Garcia fit the bill. They didn’t care about the law; his skin tone and status as an asylum seeker made him an acceptable target. The cruelty was the point, which is why they don’t want to return Garcia even after admitting their “mistake.”
Trump Forces Emhoff’s Firm to Surrender Too
“Setting aside the fact that forcing the law firm run in part by Kamala Harris’s husband to grovel and capitulate without a fight is a huge propaganda win for Der Führer, Trump’s increasing control of Big Law is a much bigger story than folks outside of the legal world may realize. I think most people grasp that like virtually all of the stories about white shoe DC law firms agreeing to work for Trump, even if they don’t realize that’s what they’ve done yet, the story of Wilkie’s preemptive surrender is primarily about cowardice, greed, and collaboration. These firms have the ability to fight back against fascism, but it’s going to cost them some money; so instead they’ve agreed to work for free to further the political causes of our would-be fascist dictator, Donald Trump.”
Yes Trump’s Racism Inspired the El Paso Shooter
“Keep in mind that as you read this, the Trump regime is arguing that Venezuelan migrants are “an invasion” that justifies invoking war powers to ship them to a prison in El Salvador without due process. Of course this maggot fascist believed Trump was serious about migrants “invading” America and destroying the country because Trump himself is serious every time he says it! And the fact that Crusius was suffering from documented mental illness isn’t a valid excuse either because when you tell folks they’re being invaded by brown people who’re going to rape and murder them, you don’t get to pretend its a surprise when vulnerable people high on white nationalist conspiracy theories take that seriously.”
Trump’s Tariffs Are A Mafia Shakedown
“I realize Dayen’s theory may be hard to accept; after all, what kind of egomaniac fascist dipshit seriously thinks he can strongarm the entire planet? On its face, it seems absurd; until you realize that Trump clearly thinks he’s the God Emperor of the most “indispensable” nation in the world, and he’s surrounded himself with a bunch of American exceptionalist nazis who ardently believe “Western Civilization” as exemplified by the United States has a right to dominate the planet.”
Fascist GOP Wants to Remove Judges Who Oppose Trump
“At this point we’re mostly talking about words and committees, but I think it’s important to understand that while many in corporate media and the political class are counting on public pressure to force the Republican Party to reign in Trump’s most authoritarian instincts and intentions, GOP leaders are wrangling support to make Trump’s dictator dreams a reality, regardless of what the courts say. While bootlickers like Mike Johnson and Jim Jordan are the face of these efforts, Elon Musk’s wealth and control of GOP primaries have created a core of support within elected Republicans operating in lockstep with the White House to implode judicial authority over the regime; and that core is growing.”
A Dictator In Search of a Gulag System
“I know I’m not the only person working in this space that’s getting sick of hanging on Der Führer’s ever word, musing, and threat, but as we’ve discussed many times, part of the way this regime operates is by transforming Trump’s ravings into presumed consent to act on its worst fascist impulses and plans, in a system of “enforced unreality.” When the president says, multiple times, he wants to send US citizens to a gulag in El Salvador, he’s being dead serious about the regime’s intentions; whether that’s legal or anyone in a position to stop him will do so, is another matter entirely – but this guy isn’t just talking to hear himself talk, no matter how hard that may be to believe for people who know how profoundly ignorant and unstable Trump actually is.”
These Are White Nationalist Immigration Policies
“When you combine the figures provided in this article alone, we’re talking about the rapid expulsion of almost two million people who are objectively not the bloodthirsty “illegal” predators the regime claims these policies are designed to stop; newsflash, hardcore narco-terrorists don’t register with the US government via phone app when they arrive in America. They are however nonwhite people Stephen Miller can parade in front of an extremely racist American public in a sort of fascist theater show designed to assure crackers that the government is “keeping them safe” from people with the wrong skin tone.”
Musk Using AI to Install a Federal Panopticon
“There are a near infinite number of things “AI” technology is terrible at, but one thing it does really well is sort through the vast amounts of data and metadata collected as part of our already existing police state panopticon society; in fact, without automation we really wouldn’t be able to sift through that amount of data at all with human eyes. AI doesn’t have morals, it doesn’t have humanity, it doesn’t have any sense of what’s right and wrong; it presumes the world it’s programmed to presume, and engages in the tasks it’s purposed to engage in – and billionaire nazi cultists who want to build their own tech-feudalist dicatorships are the guys in charge of the coding and tasking of this technology.”
– Nina Illingworth
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