“Whatever the discipline, whatever the method… to say to a man, ‘You are going to die at such an hour on such a day,’ is an act of supreme torture. The law should heal, not mimic the violence it seeks to punish.” – Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829)
“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (1869)
“I only know that I had a horror of the whole business, and that from the moment I saw a man shot by a firing squad, my real interest in life was the death penalty… I refused to accept anything which, directly or indirectly, for the best of reasons, killed people or justified their being killed.” – Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)
“They can take out a city. Let them take, let them take out Los Angeles; let them take out San Diego. That’s — this is a very small price to pay, and it’s going to be over with very soon. It’s essentially almost over with.” – 6 October, 2026
“And I said it the other day: Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles on the way. Let them hit. You want to see a horror show? You want to see problems? Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles if you want to see some bad things happen. You want to see a country that would be in free fall?” – 7 October, 2026
Editor’s Note: Individual “Shit Traitors Say” posts will be updated regularly as traitors continue to say more shit.
“Isn’t Baldwin a well-known pervert?” — J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director, 1964
Between 1958 and 1974, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin was surveilled by the FBI because he was considered a threat to national security.
Baldwin’s FBI files “included details of Baldwin’s education, military status, residences past and present, criminal record, publication history, bank records, and every other detail of his behaviour and opinions that could be unearthed.”
In 1966, Baldwin was placed on the Security Index, alongside other “dangerous individuals” who “posed a threat to national interest and security,” and, in the words of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, doubled as a “thought-control relay station.”
Baldwin was believed to be an “Independent Black Nationalist Extremist” with a “propensity for violence” and “could be detained during a national emergency.”
Here are some other “notes” from the James Baldwin FBI files:
“Information has been developed by the Bureau that Baldwin is a homosexual, and on a recent occasion made derogatory remarks in reference to the Bureau.” — Unnamed FBI supervisor, 1963
“Baldwin rented an apartment in the Babek Section of Istanbul. She found out later that Baldwin was evicted by the landlord for having homosexual parties.” — Unnamed FBI informant, 1966
“It is believed that the subject, due to his position as an author, is likely to furnish aid or other assistance to revolutionary elements because of his sympathy and/or ideology” — FBI memorandum, 1972
“The theme of homosexuality has figured prominently in two of his three published novels. Baldwin has stated that it is also ‘implicit’ in his first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain. In the past, he has not disputed the description of ‘autobiographical’ being attached to the first book. Baldwin has expressed a sympathetic viewpoint about homosexuality on several occasions, and a very definite hostility toward the revulsion of the American public regarding it.” — M. A. Jones, FBI Crime Records Section officer, 1964
They say they’re not afraid of the Russians; that they’d fight the Russian army with their standing army; that they’d challenge Putin to a street fight; that the Finns are a proud people, not afraid of anyone, anywhere.
The Finns tell us they’re ex-military.
And so then a round is bought, and a joint is shared. Things get fuzzy. They say they don’t want to visit America, and we say we can’t blame them.
We tell the Finns we gotta go, but they say, “No, you must stay for another round,” and we look at each other, thinking the same thing.
So of course we stick around because who wants to piss off the ex-military Finnish guys?
“This meeting today is proof that with determined leadership, nothing is impossible. When I took office, the war in Gaza was raging — the war in Gaza is over.”
Donald J. Trump Chairman of the Board of Peace February 19, 2026
