Holy crap, I totally agree with George Will!
For starters, he called this government a "loutocracy." I'm using that!
"Assume this loutocracy’s statements on its deportation mania are lies until proven otherwise."
For a glimpse of what government of, by and for louts looks like, find on the internet the video, taken by a citizen in Minneapolis, in which a participant in the excitement of a melee — tear gas and other instruments for combating citizens — exclaims: “It’s like ‘Call of Duty’! So cool huh?” “Call of Duty” is a video game, away from which some new agents were perhaps lured by the signing bonuses, some up to $50,000, that have fueled the agency’s breakneck expansion.
Today, it is more than prudent, it is good citizenship to assume that everything ICE says, and everything the administration says in support of its deportation mania, is untrue until proved to be otherwise. Or, as Noem might say, until it has been “adjusted.”
Some administration louts have said that the most recent (as of this writing) person killed in Minneapolis by a federal officer was a “would-be assassin” and, of course, a “domestic terrorist.” Because Republicans control congressional committee gavels, and because today’s president controls congressional Republicans, there will be no oversight of ICE’s rampages. The Senate, which disgraced itself by confirming Noem and others unqualified for Cabinet positions, is especially unlikely to suddenly acquire the inconvenience of a conscience. So, expect more killings, and more political smearing of the victims. That ICE’s disgraces will continue is, in its revolting way, a promise kept: loutocracy.
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I don't believe that is the right moment to bring up all of his 'past sins'....
We can argue about the budget later....
(but too few do nowadays), such as opposition to government tyranny which we now have---
(but from the right instead of the left, which frankly, was the brand of tyranny I always feared
would eventually occur, from the RIGHT wing---),
well, that is worthy of recognition, particularly because they are too few now---
but their ranks are growing!
It doesn't mean we will ever agree with their ideas about the federal budget or whatever---
but at this point in time, support for free speech and democracy and opposition to dictators
seem a little more important to me,
and I welcome the vocal support of any Republicans and conservatives
who always claimed to support these values----
even though their ranks have been sadly diminished by those
who surrendered their political morals in favor of supporting one deeply flawed 'man',
if you can call him that....
Thanks for your post on this.
Save us.
