OU BOUM: A silly child described monsters and killers!

THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2025

But what if they actually aren't? Karoline Leavitt stood at the podium describing the foreign terrorists.

Hundreds of people had been frog-marched away to a Central American gulag. Here's what the youngster now said:

LEAVITT (3/19/25): A predatory incursion is absolutely what has happened with Tren de Aragua. They have been sent here by the hostile Maduro regime in Venezuela, and the president immediately upon taking office, designated TDA as a foreign terrorist organization. And under this act, it is within the president’s authority to deport these terrorists. And anybody trying to defend these terrorists who have now been sent off of American soil should talk to the families of the individuals who these heinous monsters have killed and have raped. 

If you talk to those families, they are so heartened by the president’s decision to take tough action and to use his executive authority. Something that no other president has been willing to do because President Trump does what he says he’s going to do, and he is deporting these foreign terrorists from American soil to secure our homeland, and he’s within his rights to do that.

That's what the youngster said. Such representations have been general over Red America in the course of this past week. 

On Sunday, videotape of the killers and rapists had appeared as they arrived in El Salvador—as they were being frog-marched off to residence in the gulag. At that time, President Trump had posted this:

PRESIDENT TRUMP (3/16/25): These are the monsters sent into our Country by Crooked Joe Biden and the Radical Left Democrats. How dare they! Thank you to El Salvador and, in particular, President Bukele, for your understanding of this horrible situation, which was allowed to happen to the United States because of incompetent Democrat leadership. We will not forget!

The videotape was tape of "the monsters." Crooked Joe Biden had let the monsters in.

The president had shipped hundreds of killers and rapists off to exile in a foreign gulag. The people in question were foreign terrorists, the White House spokesyoungster had said.

But what if some of the people in question actually weren't foreign terrorists? What if some of the deportees—what if most of the deportees—weren't even members of the gang in question at all?

Across the platforms which message to Red America, such possibilities weren't permitted to surface. But over here in Blue America, as we've noted in the past two days, the key word is still "alleged."

In newspapers written for Blue America, news reports referred to the deportees as "alleged gang members." In yesterday morning's New York Times, this report even saw the light of day:

Judge in Deportation Case Draws Ire of Republicans as White House Pushes Back

[...]

A separate legal fight has been quietly simmering about the level of danger presented by the Venezuelan immigrants who were deported by Mr. Trump under the extraordinary powers of the Alien Enemies Act.

Lawyers for some of the men have claimed they are not members of Tren de Aragua at all, but instead were targeted by the gang while living in Venezuela. And recent court filings the government has submitted to Judge Boasberg have provided a murky view of who these migrants might be.

In one recent filing, the Justice Department cited an immigration officer who acknowledged that several of the people suspected of being gang members did not have criminal records in the United States...

Others appear to have been arrested while merely in proximity to Tren de Aragua members during law enforcement raids, according to the officer, Robert L. Cerna II, the acting field office director of the deportation arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Is it possible that some of these monsters aren't actually monsters at all? Indeed, how many of these alleged monsters might not, in fact, be actual monsters? 

How many monsters might not be real monsters? According to that samizdat, this is the state of the evidence:

"Recent court filings the government has submitted to Judge Boasberg have provided a murky view of who these migrants might be."

According to the Times report, the people who were frog-marched away to the gulag were, in fact, actual "migrants." But was the rest of screeching true—the formulaic, scary screeching about the killers and rapists?

Was the rest of the caterwauling accurate? As we noted yesterday, the answer arrives from the mists of time:

Trust us, the Voices said.

As noted earlier, we're skipping a bevy of other questions about this removal project. We're focusing on a single question:

Is there good reason to believe that the screaming and yelling is accurate—that the accusations are true? In part, we ask for  an obvious reason:

As we noted yesterday, the Voices we're being told to trust have issued an endless string of ludicrous claims about an array of other topics. Keeping that fact in mind, should we necessarily believe the Voices when they screech about this?

What are the names of the frog-marched monsters—of Karoline Leavitt's killers and rapists, of the foreign terrorists who now people her speech? Does the youngster even know the names of the people she's characterizing as they're frog-marched away?

Could she say their names? Also, what's the evidence on the basis of which the silly child stood before the world, right there in the White House, and issued her latest self-assured statement, in which she praised her daft employer for shipping the terrorists away?

By now, Leavitt has issued a stunning array of dumbbell statements. In fairness, some of these pronouncements have provided brief moments of something like comic relief. 

Back in February, her presentation about the name of a certain body of water was a conceptual gong-show for the ages. At the targeted Associated Press, David Bauder played it straight as he reported the matter:

White House says it has the right to punish AP reporters over Gulf naming dispute

The White House said Wednesday that news organizations that refuse to use President Donald Trump’s new name for the Gulf of Mexico were telling “lies” and insisted it would continue to bar Associated Press journalists from presidential events.

Trump has decreed that the international body of water—which borders Mexico, the United States and other nations—be called the Gulf of America. In its influential Stylebook, the AP said it would continue to use Gulf of Mexico, while also noting Trump’s decision, to ensure that names of geographical features are recognizable around the world.

The White House’s outright attempt at regulating language used by independent media—and the punitive measures attached to it—mark a sharp escalation in Trump’s often fraught dealings with news organizations.

At a regular briefing Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that “it is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America, and I’m not sure why news outlets don’t want to call it that.”

Bauder's report continued from there; no paywall keeps you from reading it. Bauder's report includes videotape of the youngster Leavitt's pronouncement.

Meanwhile, too funny! Bauder was being possibly polite—but as you can see by watching the videotape at his report, this is what the spectacularly silly youngster had actually said:

LEAVITT (2/12/25): I was very upfront in my briefing on Day One that, if we feel that there are lies being pushed by outlets in this room, we are going to hold those lies accountable. And it is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called "the Gulf of America." 

Too funny! It's a fact that the body of water is called "the Gulf of America," Leavitt assuredly said. 

In truth, (some such) "fact" had been in existence for something like two days. For the previous four hundred years, it had been called something else!

Now, the potentate had ruled that it should be called something else. And if the AP didn't do what the potentate said, the AP was "pushing a lie!"

That came from the low-IQ Wurlitzer organ from which our world's "facts" now emerge. That's the caliber of the mental realm from which the current revolt from below has been emerging. 

Yesterday, the same silly child stood before the nation and world and described the foreign terrorists who were also killers and rapists. They were also monsters, she said.

That said, were the people shipped off to the gulag actual killers and rapists? If so, why weren't they simply arrested, held without bail, and charged in the courts for such crimes?

The silly child wasn't asked about that. That's one of the questions we ourselves are skipping past as we continue to sketch the state of play which now exists inside our rapidly failing nation.

Our view? 

Tribunes who speak to Blue America still haven't developed the language with which to describe ongoing events. They refer to a gulag as some sort of "prison," but also this:

Once again with our apologies, they refuse to employ appropriate language to describe such manifest lunacy as this:

THE PRESIDENT (3/4/25): We’re also identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program for our seniors and that our seniors and people that we love rely on.  Believe it or not, government databases list 4.7 million Social Security members from people aged 100 to 109 years old.

It lists 3.6 million people from ages 110 to 119.  I don’t know any of them.  I know some people that are rather elderly, but not quite that elderly.  

(LAUGHTER) 

3.47 million people from ages 120 to 129. 

3.9 million people from ages 130 to 139.

3.5 million people from ages 140 to 149.

And money is being paid to many of them, and we’re searching right now. 

In fact, Pam [Bondi], good luck.  Good luck.  You’re going to find it.

But a lot of money is paid out to people because it just keeps getting paid and paid, and nobody does—and it really hurts Social Security and hurts our country.

1.3 million people from ages 150 to 159.  And over 130,000 people, according to the Social Security databases, are age over 160 years old.  

We have a healthier country than I thought, Bobby [Kennedy Jr.]. 

(LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE)

Including, to finish, 1,039 people between the ages of 220 and 229; one person between the age of 240 and 249; and one person is listed at 360 years of age—

AUDIENCE MEMBER:  Joe Biden!  

(LAUGHTER)

THE PRESIDENT: —more than 100 years older than our country. 

But we’re going to find out where that money is going, and it’s not going to be pretty. 

By slashing all of the fraud, waste, and theft we can find, we will defeat inflation, bring down mortgage rates, lower car payments and grocery prices, protect our seniors, and put more money in the pockets of American families. 

 (APPLAUSE) 

That was an act of transparent lunacy. But those are the Voices we're told we should trust about the lives of others.

In our view, tribunes who speak to Blue America are being inappropriately polite. As we've noted in the past, Robert Frost once described it like this:

Something we were withholding made us weak...

That situation obtains today as we refuse to use appropriate language to describe the lunatic conduct with which we're all surrounded.

Tribunes who speak to Red America are speaking of monsters and terrorists. But what if some—indeed, what if most—of those monsters and terrorists aren't?

The overmatched child who speaks for the president will never be able to go there. And over on the Fox News Channel, morally vacuous buckets of garbage like this are being served.

That link will take you to the morally vacuous pseudo-conversation we stumbled upon at 6:15 this Tuesday morning. Tomorrow, as the week finally ends, we'll finally have to transcribe the morally squalid ruminations emitted by the four friends that day on the corporate propaganda show, Fox & Friends. 

We'll also have to return to last Friday's Washington Week to show you what Jeffrey Goldberg rather timidly said. Operating with extreme caution, he told us viewers, as he signed off, that we should go to the Atlantic read about ketamine.

We should read about ketamine, he said. But who in the world was he talking about? 

 Who in the world was he talking about? To our ear, it almost seemed like he didn't quite want to say!

Tomorrow: Moral squalor on Fox & Friends. Plus, who was he talking about?