He's reminding the MAGA base that he's "smarter than the experts"

If the authorities feel under no obligation to uphold those rights, then those rights have already been lost.

It's their way of letting us know that evidence and facts no longer matter. That they can do whatever the hell they want and there's nothing you or anyone else can do about it.

..... except they won't be armed. Which means they'll just get beaten up.

Some people are staying off social media except for half an hour in the evening while watching the news.
"I refuse to allow anxiety about that lunatic to dominate my life" is the general vibe.

... which is why a lot of the other stuff IS flying around....

You're talking as if the rule of law still exists in the US.
This is what happens when you put a felon in the White House.
We're only a year in and so many crimes have already been committed that bringing them to trial would swamp any post-Trump legal apparatus. If there IS a post-Trump....

Might is right. It runs through his entire argument.

I didn't get a #1 Dad mug for Christmas.
I no longer feel obliged to parent....

The senator explains why ICE isn't the Gestapo by giving his understanding of what the Gestapo was.
And ends up defining ICE.
Best self-own of the day....

He was equally steady when in charge of the Bank of England.
Polite and respectful, but John Wick firm...

This is fucking outrageous.
Didn't the Civil War settle this shit?

"glabella"
One "b" and two "l"s.

FFS..... 😢

We've done our best to be polite; convinced that the majority of Americans are decent and that Trump's reign of terror will one day soon come to an end.
We're trying to avoid awkwardness in the meantime....

There's little point talking to people who don't tell the truth. It's logically self-defeating.

They have too much skin in the game now. Frogs in boiling water.....