Ah, the crisp, refreshing taste of diet fascism.

Bold of you to assume this about enforcing law (or keeping peace).

This is escalation for the sake of performative leadership. It’s another manufactured crisis. They find a manageable problem under someone else’s purview, exacerbate it, use the escalation to claim the other party is losing control, step in, and pretend to help while the other party solves the problem, then they take credit and walk away. It’s a power grab. Bonus points if it distracts everyone else from the supposed leader’s negligence, incompetence, and outright theft. The Big Beautiful Bill isn’t drawing the same portion of the public’s attention as it was before, is it?

The bullest of shit indeed: enacting cruelty on the vulnerable to enable robbing the overwhelming majority Americans.

This concludes the rant. Thanks for your post. I hope we never stop talking about this and never let future generations forget.

Don’t get our hopes up.

More important things to do, a lack of pettiness, dignity and a good sense of discretion, to name a few. I hope they make an exception for this one thing, though.

You would do well on the show.

It goes to his presidential library for the use of its staff after his presidency. He won’t technically own it, but he’ll be able to use its value indirectly. It’s definitely flouting bribery laws and daring anyone to do something about it.

I’d like to see a game show called “Bribe or Gift?” In which politicians compete for campaign funding.

Agreed. I can only imagine what their personal conversations are like.

Serj: Okay, this one’s going to be about the prison industrial complex.

John: Yeah! More prisons! More prisons!

Serj: Dude, no. Here, take these. Why don’t you go color something pretty while the adults talk.

John: [crayon munching noises]

That’s some 5D, non-euclidean chess right there. Start a charity that only pays out to ICE veterans who make less than the standard retirement amount, so it only covers those who are unable or unwilling to do the job. Restrict the posters to photos and names only so it’s clear that the charity isn’t soliciting hostile action against ICE agents but still gives potential victims enough information to evade most assaults. The “Blue Lives Matter” mob probably wouldn’t touch it with a ten-foot pole. Even if they do, the resultant infighting will still distract from their potential targets.

“For just a dollar a day, you can save this ICE agent, John Smith, and his family from a life of poverty if he ever leaves. He gave everything. Please just give something.”

[Cue Sarah Mclaughlin] “In the arms of the angel…”

You think ICE would do that? They’d just lie about their intent and achievements?

We were warned no later than 2001:

They’re trying to build a prison

They’re trying to build a prison

Following the rights movement, you clamped on with your iron fists

Drugs became conveniently available for all the kids

Following the rights movement, you clamped on with your iron fists

Drugs became conveniently available for all the kids

I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch right here in Hollywood

(Nearly two million Americans are incarcerated in the prison system, prison system of the US)

(They’re trying to build a prison)

They’re trying to build a prison

They’re trying to build a prison

They’re trying to build a prison

(For you and me to live in)

Another prison system

Another prison system

Another prison system (for you and me)

Minor drug offenders fill your prisons, you don’t even flinch

All our taxes paying for your wars against the new non-rich

Minor drug offenders fill your prisons, you don’t even flinch

All our taxes paying for your wars against the new non-rich

I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch right here in Hollywood

(The percentage of Americans in the prison system, prison system, has doubled since 1985)

(They’re trying to build a prison)

They’re trying to build a prison

They’re trying to build a prison

They’re trying to build a prison

(For you and me to live in)

Another prison system

Another prison system

Another prison system (for you and me)

For you and I, you and I, you and I

You and I

They’re trying to build a prison

They’re trying to build a prison

They’re trying to build a prison for you and me

Oh, baby, you and me

Oh

Oh

All research and successful drug policy show that treatment should be increase (oh)

And law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentence (oh)

All research and successful drug policy show that treatment should be increased (oh)

And law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences

Utilising drugs to pay for secret wars around the world

Drugs are now your global policy, now you police the globe

I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch right here in Hollywood

Drug money is used to rig elections and train brutal corporate sponsored dictators around the world

(They’re trying to build a prison)

They’re trying to build a prison

They’re trying to build a prison

They’re trying to build a prison

(For you and me to live in)

Another prison system

Another prison system

Another prison system (for you and me)

For you and I, you and I, you and I

You and me

They’re trying to build a prison

They’re trying to build a prison

They’re trying to build a prison for you and me

Oh, baby, you and me

Written by: Shavo Odadjian, Serj Tankian, John Dolmayan, Daron Malakian

Album: Toxicity

Released: 2001

Thanks! It’s still better than Fox News, at least slightly.

“US throws surprise military parade in Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans attend. Traffic jam as spectators laying supine in pine boxes clog the roadways.”

To be fair, he was known to carry a pointed stick.

https://youtu.be/piWCBOsJr-w

No no no! We have to protect the freedom of law(ish) enforcement so we can have the freedom to freely free ourselves from the oppression of people who put paper signs on telephone poles.

That’s a really good point. If it’s such a terrible crime, let the public see it and decide for themselves.

It seems that way now more than ever.

I would love to see that. I’ve only seen a photo of one in the Fox News article.

The Fox article does have an image of one of the posters, if that’s what you’re asking. Sorry if it seems like I’m being obtuse.