[I]t's not just Israel's policies toward the Palestinians that have eroded Americans' good will toward Israel. Perhaps as important has been Israel's role in American politics ... . Israel, by behaving appallingly and then trying to silence any condemnation of its appalling behavior as antisemitic, gives ammunition to Jew haters. As Jeremy Ben-Ami, the founder and president of the liberal Zionist group J Street, told me, "When you end up using antisemitism as a pretext for kicking kids out of universities and out of the country, and you use it as a pretext for ending cancer research and use it as a pretext for undercutting the First Amendment, you're going to get some blowback against the people doing that." read more
Huckabee's comments drew swift condemnation from across the region, with U.S. allies expressing discomfort with his remarks. read more
According to Yale Law DEI grad JD Vance, the regime's thugs have "absolute immunity."
He seems to be yearning for something along the lines of Hitlerian Germany's infamous 1933 Enabling Act (en.wikipedia.org), the "Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich."
There's a script? I didn't know that. But, then again, even Alfred Jarry's wildly experimental play Ubu Roi(en.wikipedia.org), sometimes rendered as "King Turd" had a script. Here's a real Trumpian line from that work: "That's not my fault! She promised me a big sombrero."
#9
Squeezed dry, of no further use, time to pick up that swag bag.
(Reference "Donald Trump Sends Venezuelan Opposition Leader Away with Trump-Branded Swag Bag After She Hands over Her Nobel Peace Prize" at people.com for a lovely photo of a Trump-branded quid pro quo.)
"These changes have come as Americans have witnessed ICE agents across the country practice excessive force, warrantless searches or arrests, racial profiling, and wrongful detentions. A new report Monday revealed that an ICE agent in Minnesota had accidentally discharged his weapon in a hotel room - nearly killing the person in the room next door."
"ICE Chief Lied to Congress About Training, Whistleblowers"
newrepublic.com
Remember Mafioso Vincent Gigante in his newsboy cap and bathrobe, faking lunacy (unsuccessfully)? Well, this is the same (lunacy) except genuine.
Yes, yes, I know: we are well and truly effed. But, who knows, perhaps in a generation or three a nice man, a more modish Basil Fawlty perhaps, will take pity and advise compatriots about to deal with Americanos: "Listen, don't mention the war!"