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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 26 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Weird how we only start seeing these kinds of ideas hit news sites just when people are starting to turn on the ol' GOP.

Like, we've been seeing this guy vomit hateful, nonsensical bullshit for years now and everyone out here with half a brain just looking at each other like, "Is this for real?" but apparently Doctor-Evil-Meets-Wormtongue actually running policy in our country is fine. It's fine. Don't worry about it. Go back to your slop, piggies.

But now when people are talking about primaries and voting out incumbents, suddenly everyone is scrambling to throw everyone else under the bus and we get stories like this finally reaching our eyes.

I mean, this absolute freak of nature has been screaming on camera like Elliot Rogers reincarnated for so long, that it feels obvious and hollow now that people are talking about it. Feels very "It's only bad when we're in trouble."

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

Wtf are you talking about? These stories have been out there the whole time. Last week. Last month. Last year.

A problem is that they're still not mainstream articles. Like this one.

NYT did have a number of negative articles about Miller as well, but people weirdly don't give enough of a shit.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They are ALL dangerous, they just specialize in different parts of a shitty rainbow. RFK, Noem, Bovino, Miller, Thiel, Elon, Bari, Johnson, Schumer, Maxwell, The Orange One, and so many others...

ALL need to be trialed and hanged. Anything less, would allow the next generation of shitbirds to do this again.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago

Yep. We need to deal with the current crop of traitors, and do it so strongly and decisively, that future assholes will find another hobby.

And if they don't, it should make it harder for them to find supporters.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 hours ago

Why do you think I keep challenging him to fist fights? He’s the most evil one in DC and that’s saying A LOT.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 73 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Normal people cry at the end of Schindler's list because of all the Jews who got away. Stephen Miller cries at the end of Schindler's List because of all the Jews who got away.

Is this why he supports the genocidal state of israel?

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 16 hours ago

Difficult read but I got it! I got the joke! In understand why both normal people and that nazi sonobabich cry at the end of Schindler's list!

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 10 hours ago

Oh, by the way, his wife is a real peach, too. A female version of him.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 10 hours ago

He's Wormtongue, whispering poison into the dottering old fool's ear.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 45 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'm convinced Miller is running the country right now. Nothing else fits the evidence.

Bondi is likely more answerable to Trump since she's leading Trump's personal revenge squad, but articles earlier suggested she does follow strategy set by Miller. For example, I wouldn't be surprised if Miller also directed the decision to pardon all J6-ers since it fits a little too perfectly into his turn-ICE-into-Trump's-militia strategy.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 23 points 19 hours ago

I wouldn't be surprised if Miller also directed the decision to pardon all J6-ers since it fits a little too perfectly into his turn-ICE-into-Trump's-militia strategy.

100% agree. Also, trump never gives pardons away for free. He normally charges at least a couple of million each. No way it was his idea to pardon a bunch of poors.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 21 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Who's running the country?

The bumbling Alzheimer's patient who shits his own pants or dollar store Hitlers right hand wannabe?

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I am pretty sure it's whoever the last person was to talk to him. That's why people fight so hard for access.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This is exactly it.

Last to talk to him and know how - kiss his ass, tell him how whatever it is will make him look good, etc.

[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Literally an email from the latest Epstein drop showing that this was know and conveyed by Epstein, himself!

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You people need another Luigi.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Fun fact: Steven Miller doesn't get Secret Service protection.

He did recently move into military housing after somebody graffiti'd the street outside his house (or something like that), though.

[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Yea.... Try hard enough to get on a military base without authorization... You will be shot.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

It's a shame Miller is too much of a sniveling coward to stay in his own house.

I'm surprised he (presumably) still leaves the protection of the military base to go to work.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

While it is a bit different I've heard of veterans getting into bases without proper authorization before. Mind you that's prolly cause the guys on duty just assume they're friends or family of someone on the base but still, but I also suspect that whatever base is housing Miller probably has stricter orders or at least the attempt to have them what with malicious compliance and all.

[–] Horsecook@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The post-9/11 security theater is almost entirely abandoned. Shit, the gate guard was born after 9/11. It is not hard to get onto a base.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

Was just talking about what I've heard not what I know. Though that's not at all surprising, the whole 9/11 security theatre has been breaking down since I'd say the mid-2010s in general.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Why impeach? Just send an Italian plumber.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 21 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

How is this guy still alive? He gives interviews so often that it seems like he should be a target by now.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 32 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 16 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

So he lives in fear of his life? Thought MAGA didn't live in fear

[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

That's the only way conservatives/MAGA live. They are in a perpetual state of fear. It's why everything new or different is bad to them. Conservatism is literally fear of the future!

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago

No one lives in more fear than those who have to tell you they don't.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 17 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

He's not so much alive as undead.

Stephen Miller

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You might be on to something. I found this picture of him from 1922.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 17 hours ago

He looked more alert in those days. Better fingernails too.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago
[–] homes@piefed.world 15 points 19 hours ago

Yes, he should be at the top of the list of admin to fire and prosecute the instant Trump is out of power, but it's a huge mistake to think that he is "the" problem or even the worst one, rather than Trump. Yeah, sure, Miller is Head Ghoul on the Trump 2.0 team (I heard "Grossferatu" lmao!), but he's just one of many sycophantic enablers that are responsible for the horrors we all experience at the hand of Trump. And the recent Vanity Fair article revealed a lot more about the dynamics of Trump's cabinet than they're comfortable with.\

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

A truly evil man that needs to be punished and given a public execution.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago