Rosie O'Donnell, immigrants and other Epstein distractions

By Sid Schwab / Herald Columnist

Example number infinity that F(elon)OTUS can do or say whatever he wants and he’ll get no resistance from the MAGAfied, much less congressional Republicans: Speaking of Rosie O’Donnell, Trump said, on unTruth Sociopath, “I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship. She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!” You’d be excused if you thought that can’t possibly be true, even considering the sort of bizarrity he bleats hourly (tinyurl.com/noRosie4u).

As dismissive of the Constitution as he is, Trump might believe he has that right. We know he wouldn’t be informed otherwise by AG Pam Bondi, whose only legal concern is doing whatever Trump demands, unlawfulness notwithstanding and immaterial. Nor would his base stop to think about the implications, if a Democratic president were to assert that power. They hate everything O’Donnell is as much as Trump does. It’s a major motivator for their votes.

Thinking of thinking, think how much better off America would be if Trump hadn’t hired, and congressional Republicans hadn’t bent over to them, nothing but arrogant incompetents. According to him, it’s “evil” to ask questions about Kristi Noem’s requirement to get her permission for FEMA expenditures over $100,000 and how it delayed critical responses to the devastating Texas flood. That’s but one of many accouterments of dictatorship we’re seeing: suppressing probing questions, demonizing dissent. Inklings of a nascent police state have become inkblots, but MAGAs see only butterflies (tinyurl.com/butter4u).

Under Trump’s Bogus Belligerent Budget Bill, ICE will soon have more funding than the FBI, making it America’s largest and most well-financed “law enforcement” agency. Unlike the FBI, which requires college degrees and puts agents through months of training, including teaching what the law does and doesn’t allow, ICE, by rapidly increasing its numbers, will require practically nothing; not even a high school degree (Bulwark: tinyurl.com/ICEvFBI). With those enthusiastically brutal arrests by masked, anonymous ICE agents so widely publicized, people who apply must picture themselves doing it, and want in.

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