"Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country." - DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, redefining habeas corpus as tyranny
First, let me say again: Presidents don't have constitutional rights, they have constitutional powers. The Constitution guarantees rights to everyone in the United States; a president has no more or less of these. So the notion that Kim-Jong Trump is entitled to deport people with no due process is false; and suspending habeas corpus is not even a power of the presidency, Congress has the power to suspend habeas corpus.
South Park's most recent episode offers a withering depiction of Kristi Noem and her Mar-a-Lago face. Noem responded that "it's always the liberals" who "make fun of women for how they look." Nevermind that the creators of South Park are libertarians; the issue with Noem isn't her physical appearance in itself so much as the desire to create a surface level appearance of glamour and artificial beauty while carrying out horrific human rights abuses. I'm thinking specifically of Noem getting her hair done up for a photo op in el Salvador where the people she helped put in a torture gulag with no due process are used as props, something that she should have to answer for in a court of law at some point since it is a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
A high-ranking American official visits a prison on foreign soil which we are using to warehouse enemies of her regime. She appears in a fitted long-sleeve tee and active-wear slacks. There is a ballcap on her head and a pound of makeup smeared across her plasticized face. A gold Rolex Daytona—worth more than some of these men will make in their entire lives—sits proudly on her dainty wrist. Every piece of this visual is carefully engineered.
It's like she has used plastic surgery to achieve the effect of Dorian Gray's portrait.
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