The All-Nazi All The Time Regime, Plus

I dunno; some other stuff. Tell you when I get there. Plus music.

Daisen-san, where I wanna be (credit Weldon Berger)

The All-Nazi All The Time Regime

Senior Trump advisor Stephen Miller is a white nationalist and a broad-spectrum people hater who despises an executive branch not built for oppression. He’s also among the growing number of Republicans whose families abhor them.

So it is only right and just that he—with the assistance of his equally abhorrent wife—turns out to be the regime’s Musk whisperer.

Stephen Miller has, along with Project 2025 coauthor and Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought, became one of Musk’s closest allies in the administration, The New York Times reported earlier this month. WIRED has learned that the relationship is far closer, and more complicated, than has been previously known publicly.

In many ways, Musk’s targeting of federal agencies is perfectly in sync with the aims of Miller, who has championed DOGE’s work internally and even helped in making a lot of it possible. (In public, Miller has equated federal workers with “radical left Communists” and “criminal cartels.”) Still, sources tell WIRED that Trumpworld is more comfortable with Musk taking the heat for the recent federal cuts rather than the less famous—and, in their view, far less telegenic—Miller.

Yet through their actions so far, the Millers and Musk have developed a MAGA version of the Pet Shop Boys adage from the song “Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)”: You’ve got the brawn / I’ve got the brains. Stephen Miller’s knowledge of the federal apparatus, Katie Miller’s contacts on Capitol Hill, and the couple’s good standing among Trump loyalists, coupled with Musk’s relentless ambition and effectively infinite resources, made the scale of the DOGE government takeover possible. Musk is not the independent actor he’s often portrayed as and taken to be, in other words, but is rather carrying out actions essentially in concert with the man to whom the president has delegated much of the day-to-day work of governance.

Miller was the architect of the family separation deportation policy in Trump’s first term, and has recently been seen on the teevee with an unhinged rant about the imperative to destroy federal agencies standing between a massive upward transfer of wealth and the oppression or expulsion of everybody who isn’t white, although that’s not exactly how he framed the programs/pogroms.

Miller’s deep involvement suggests that Musk isn’t likely to suffer a fatal backlash from within to his activities, as some people are predicting/hoping. The regime has a lot of wrecking yet to do, and they won’t want the world’s thinnest-skinned, richest and mouthiest man—and who would have guessed Trump could be topped in the thin-skinned and mouthy sweepstakes—outside the house with his feelings hurt and threatening to use his money and his personal, drug-fueled, instantly reactive der Stürmer in ways they don’t want him to.

It also suggests that the Republican congress won’t be finding any haven from Musk’s primary threats inside the White House. Miller wants what he wants, and what he wants is carnage, and he won’t be helping any congressional Republicans avoid that even if it means igniting a MAGA backlash against them.

So however shambolic the Musk operation may seem, it takes guidance from and has the blessing of the regime’s powers that be, if not from all of its lesser (and powerless) lights.

What to do, what to do . . .

I’ve been saying for a while that the midterm elections are off the table as a remedial opportunity because what would be the point of plotting for decades to seize total control of the government only to lose it to Democrats, assuming they’d effectively oppose the regime, after two years. Electoral politics hasn’t been working out all that well for their opposition lately anyway, but no sense taking chances.

So, what to do? so far as I can see, the potential remedies involve mass civil disobedience (peaceful, of course) and mass economic sabotage (also peaceful, of course).

The obvious problem with these things is that the regime have now all but fully subjugated every arm of state security, including all the armed agencies within the homeland security office, the justice department and, of course, the war department. Even if, as is my hope, some Trump supporters and their fellow travelers could set aside their objections to most of humanity long enough to join in those kinds of activities in an effort to restore the government services the regime is intent on throttling—Medicaid and SNAP for the poor folks, price supports and overseas contracts for farmers—I doubt the regime will have any qualms about suppressing them as ruthlessly as they’re already threatening to repress the usual “enemy of the state” suspects (video).

But we oughtn’t to let the prospect stand in the way of an effort.

Full disclosure: I’m looking to find a way out of the country before the regime take away my cancer meds and make me homeless again. So it’s up to you to practice what I preach.

The Epstein files rickroll

I think this was hilarious but understandably, a lot of people don’t.

The official X account for the House Judiciary GOP is facing criticism after it posted a false link claiming to provide access to the newly released Epstein files—only for users to find themselves "Rickrolled" with Rick Astley’s "Never Gonna Give You Up" music video.

The post, which featured "#BREAKING: EPSTEIN FILES RELEASED" alongside the misleading link, was quickly flagged by community notes on X. Users pointed out that the link did not contain the Epstein files but instead redirected to the 1987 hit song.

It’s so on the nose for those absolute clowns.

Fucking Junior

RFK Jr doesn’t give a fuck what you think, and he doesn’t want to hear about it. From Reuters:

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is seeking to eliminate public participation in many of his department's policy decisions, a move that appears to contradict his pledge to Congress of "radical transparency."

In a document posted on Friday in the Federal Register, HHS announced plans to rescind its decades-long practice of allowing public comment on a range of agency actions.

Love that “apears to contradict,” although you could make a case that he’s being radically transparent about his contempt for everybody who disagrees with him.

Comfort Music

Adrianne Lenker, Bright Future, “Real House” Live;

Two from Pokey LaFarge, In the Blossom of Their Shade: “Rotterdam” live;

and “Fine to Me” live;

Bill Frisell, Guitar in the Space Age, “Pipeline” live.

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