I had a late meeting tonight and I wasn’t going to write a report. But It was an hour long drive home and, as usual, I tuned into conservative talk radio. Right when I turned it on, they were discussing Justice Barret’s dissent. Mocking her. Calling her a member of MS-13, etc. They were openly discussing how she was supposed to ‘vote their way on everything’, like some dutiful little puppet and not an impartial arbiter of law. They are now floating the idea that Trump should pressure the older Justices into early retirement and install someone else that they ‘know exactly how they will vote’. They threw out one name. Ted Cruz. Seriously, that’s where we are now.
Then they kept playing clips from this Stephen Miller interview on Hannity and my blood was just boiling. These smooth talking, perverted chucklefucks. So I just stewed on it all the way home and decided to to start writing. This will be 99% insults. So if you’re looking for hard hitting, tightly sourced reporting tonight.. you might want to skip this one.
First off, Sean Hannity irritates me. Profoundly. And by "irritates," I mean that watching him or hearing him speak feels like someone scraping the lining of my stomach with a rusty spoon. But, put this overpaid carnival barker on the split screen next to that smug, dead-eyed xenophobe Stephen Miller, and my irritation instantly combusts into full-blown existential fury. It's not just nausea anymore; it's pure dread that these two specimens of rancid political refuse have actual influence over American public policy. They are beyond corrupt; they are vile, cretinous molds festering in the slimy toilets of right-wing populism.
Let’s entertain their rabid fantasy for a second: imagine every single immigrant, detainee, and asylum seeker they rail against actually is a violent sociopath, a rapist, murderer, or heinous criminal. Let's pretend, for the sake of indulging Hannity's feverish nightly delusions and Miller’s ghoulish policy masturbation sessions, that these cartoon villains really do exist exactly as described. Even then, even in their wildest fascist Disneyworld scenario, every single one of these imaginary monsters would still deserve due process. Period. It isn't conditional, it isn't negotiable, and it certainly isn't Hannity and Miller’s toy to toss aside whenever ratings slump.
Yet here we are, with Stephen Miller, a man whose entire aura radiates "I peaked at age twelve in cruelty and appearance", celebrating a Supreme Court decision to strip judicial review away from presidential deportation orders. Miller gloats about the "maximum authority" now granted to the FBI, CIA, DEA, ICE, and every other armed federal agency he can name, to hunt down and deport whomever he deems undesirable with “speed and efficiency”. He frames this as a great judicial victory but this is just Miller’s dark fantasy of authoritarian efficiency, a perverted wet dream of state-sponsored kidnapping and exile. Thank God, he was only shown from the waist up in the interview because his baby jalapeño of a pecker was probably standing straight up at it’s full on and half inches.
He praises a legal outcome designed explicitly to allow government thugs to whisk people away to foreign prisons (prisons so brutal by all reports, no one has ever left alive) without oversight, without meaningful judicial review, and without anyone asking pesky questions about guilt or innocence. Miller is gleeful about bypassing American courts, about silencing due process, about reducing justice to paperwork stamped by soulless bureaucrats. He’s not a policy maker; he's a modern-day Eichmann in a corpse-skin suit, a hollow, miserable creature fueled by cruelty and adderall.
And then there’s Hannity, an intellectual black hole, a discount bag of hammers paid handsomely to nod vigorously and repeat propaganda as holy writ. Hannity’s skull is a decorative urn filled with Fox News talking points and stale conspiracy theories, an echo chamber of nonsense designed specifically for people who’ve outsourced their critical thinking to television charlatans. He cheerfully calls Judge Boasberg "crazy," accusing him of trying to import terrorists into America, because in Hannity’s world, judges who demand constitutional safeguards are traitors, and his cable-news drivel trumps judicial integrity.
These people despise justice. They actively mock it. They frame due process as weakness, judicial review as sabotage, and basic constitutional safeguards as leftist schemes. Stephen Miller, America’s most constipated warlock, smirks his way through an assault on legality itself, waving the FBI and Border Patrol like weapons to hunt imagined enemies. Hannity, meanwhile, drools obediently beside him, parroting propaganda with the earnestness of a dog begging for treats.
They are so far down the fascist rabbit hole that they barely pretend anymore. The obsession with speed and efficiency isn’t about protecting America; it’s about removing accountability. It’s about shoving human beings through the state-sponsored meat grinder so fast nobody notices who gets ground up. Hannity and Miller are arguing for a system that decides guilt by bureaucratic whim, punishment by executive tantrum, and exile by authoritarian fiat.
But these cynical vandals fail to acknowledge the putrid truth of the system they're drooling over. It doesn't stop with immigrants. The same power that allows the President to bypass courts to exile supposed “gang members” or “terrorists” can be used against anyone. Even Hannity, Miller, or any of the mindless sycophants applauding their brutality. If you celebrate a system that decides human worth through accusation alone, you’re building your own gallows.
Their disregard for due process is profound. Miller openly brags that the President’s power to remove aliens shouldn’t face judicial review, gleefully invoking every available federal agency to pursue human beings like prey. They call this a ‘victory’, framing a dangerous precedent as a triumph, while painting the protection of constitutional rights as radicalism. Miller and Hannity present as patriots defending America; in reality they are cis jackals tearing at its flesh.
And now they're furious because Amy Coney Barrett, their Handmaid Supreme, occasionally judges cases on law instead of loyalty. They’ve abandoned even the flimsy pretense of neutrality and cheer as the right begins openly pushing older justices into retirement, eager to stack the court with obedient puppets who'll rubber-stamp their every authoritarian impulse. They want a rigged game, a stacked deck, a Supreme Court that unquestioningly serves their political whims. They never wanted justice, they only want submission.
Their consciences have long rotted away, replaced by opportunistic cruelty. Their morality resembles something you'd scrape off a bathroom stall at an Alabama gas station. They wave victim names around cynically, reducing genuine tragedy to a propaganda tool, parading grief for profit while dismantling the legal protections designed precisely to prevent injustice. Their hearts are hollow, filled only with contempt, ambition, and the malignant joy derived from harming those weaker than themselves.
These aren't principled men. They are carrion birds circling democracy’s corpse, eager to feast on human misery. Stephen Miller is cruelty personified, sadism with a podium, moral decay given flesh. Hannity, his accomplice, is the obedient stooge, the hollow amplifier parroting every twisted impulse with enthusiastic ignorance. They gleefully dismantle justice, waving flags and invoking patriotism while actively undermining those very same foundations of American democracy.
When Miller and Hannity claim that opposing them means supporting rapists, murderers, and heinous criminals, they're projecting their own moral failures. Because nothing could be more heinous or criminal than systematically destroying the very protections that define American freedom. Supporting due process doesn't mean you support crime, it means you're not a fascist bootlicker content to let fear dictate policy.
To Hannity, Miller, and their army of obsequious, morally bankrupt autocrats:
You are cowards and traitors, defiling a nation you claim to love. You’re empty vessels fueled by hatred, driven by insecurity and bitterness. Your ideas are as bankrupt as your ethics, your souls as vacant as your promises. You aren’t heroes; you’re monsters. Banal, everyday monsters who would sacrifice humanity itself for applause.
I don’t support rapists, murderers, or heinous criminals. But you, Hannity and Miller, in your relentless assault on constitutional rights and your gleeful dismantling of justice itself, you clearly do. You’re moral hypocrites, ethical nihilists, minions of Baal who despise America’s fundamental freedoms and openly seek authoritarian power.
Your contempt for due process doesn't make America safer—it makes it crueler, weaker, darker. Your legacy won’t be safety or justice. It'll be authoritarianism, brutality, and shame.
You’re not patriots. You're a malignant blight on the nation’s conscience, traitors wrapped in flags, waving Bibles, pointing fingers, and destroying everything worthwhile about America.
And I refuse to rest until everyone, left, right, and indifferent, recognizes you exactly for what you are: morally bankrupt enemies of liberty, deserving of nothing but contempt and permanent disgrace.
Oh Jeeze, What Else?
How about the entire FDA press office gone overnight? Every single communicator who helps the public understand drug safety, vaccine efficacy, food recalls, and emerging medical crises. In one bureaucratic swoop, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s HHS has silenced the professionals who informed America through COVID, opioid epidemics, and E. coli outbreaks. Need to know if your insulin supply chain is secure, your pacemaker safe, or your kid’s food uncontaminated? Tough luck. There’s nobody home.
Kennedy, who promised “radical transparency,” has instead delivered radical silence, stripping the nation’s top health agency of its public voice. Now journalists (hell, even regular old Americans) can’t even get basic answers about drug recalls, device safety, or contaminated foods. This is deliberate sabotage. They fired the very people who could explain exactly how dangerous their reckless, anti-science agenda really is.
There Was Something Else, What Was It…
Oh yeah, Trump has opened up 50% of the national forests for logging. for “fire prevention”. This isn’t fire prevention. It’s looting. Under the slobbering pretext of “forest health,” the Trump administration has opened more than half of all protected national forests, millions of acres, to the logging industry, stripping away decades of environmental safeguards like they were SA accusations thrown into the trash and forgotten.
Brooke Rollins, an unqualified think tank flunky turned Agriculture Secretary, parrots pseudoscience while torching actual science, declaring an “emergency” so her lumber baron donors can chainsaw their way through protected ecosystems with zero oversight.
This is state-sponsored ecological rape. An all-out assault on biodiversity, climate resilience, and carbon storage to benefit a dying industry and a few well-connected thugs in hardhats. The administration has declared war on trees, because trees don’t vote, and because what better metaphor for authoritarian governance than clear-cutting the lungs of the planet for cash while the world burns and the President golfs.
Final Thoughts
We are being systematically marched towards authoritarianism. Shoved, really. By a chorus of bland-faced bureaucrats, crooked ideologues, and dead-eyed media parasites who dress fascism in business casual and sell it as “security.” They’re not hiding it anymore. They don’t have to. They know half the country’s tuned out and the other half is tuned into whichever channel makes them feel safest, angriest, or most superior. Meanwhile, the machinery of the state creaks forward. Hollowing out institutions, silencing experts, vanishing processes and people, burning trees, jailing dissidents, and firing anyone who might still remember what integrity felt like.
The courts are being treated like vending machines for partisan outcomes. The forests are being gutted under the con of “prevention” while the planet cooks like a frog in a slow boil. The FDA’s entire communications team was thrown into the street during a global health crisis. Instead of providing transparency to the agency, he is muzzling it completely. And the executive branch is now openly fetishizing disappearing people to foreign prisons without trial, accountability, or proof of anything beyond existing.
And what do most people do? They refresh their phones. They shrug. They say, “well, at least it’s not as bad as [insert imagined dystopia].” But here’s the thing: authoritarianism doesn’t always kick down the door in jackboots. Sometimes it signs memos. Sometimes it smiles on cable news. Sometimes it just quietly fires the people who know how the system works so there’s no one left to explain when it stops working.
This IS happening. Right now. And it’s not a single event, it’s a practice run becoming protocol. Every ignored lie, every unchallenged abuse, every law bent until it breaks, every judge pressured, every journalist fired, every tree felled. These are not isolated incidents. They are the architecture of decline. This is the way the state eats its own tongue, and chokes to death on it.
Empires don’t always fall in fire. Sometimes they rot in silence.
You really summed the entire situation up so well. Great writing!
Nicely expressed. You nailed my sentiments exactly.