By Michael Woyton
From the felon in the Oval to senators to masked thugs, if it wasn’t clear before, it certainly is now.
In President TACO’s administration, cruelty is not a bug, it is a feature.
During a recent press availability, the grifter-in-chief answered a question about former President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis by calling him “not a smart person” and a “somewhat vicious person.”
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The man in the orange makeup said that he doesn’t feel sorry for Biden because of what Biden did “with his political opponent” — spoiler alert: he was talking about himself — and because Biden hurt a lot of people.
To follow that, over the weekend, the adjudicated rapist reposted on social media the bizarre claim that Biden was executed in 2020 and “replaced with clones or robots.”
Let that sink in for a minute, while we page Jake Tapper whose recent book said Biden was the one who is and was mentally deficient.
Moving on to the Senate, which is preparing to deal with axing health care and SNAP benefits in the budget bill, Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst made light of her constituents’ concerns that people might die if health care is taken away by saying at a town hall, “Well, we all are going to die.”
Because that comment was not well-received, Ernst decided to apologize … and managed to make things worse.
She posted a video Saturday while walking through a cemetery and said she wanted to sincerely apologize for her town hall statement in which she “made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that yes, we are all going to perish from this Earth,” per the Des Moines Register.
“So I apologize. And I’m really, really glad that I did not have to bring up the subject of the tooth fairy as well,” she said dripping with sarcasm.
Ernst then encouraged those who want eternal, everlasting life to embrace Jesus Christ.
I supposed the only reason it wasn’t worse than it already was is because Ernst was holding her phone so she couldn’t make air quotes when she said “sincerely apologize.”
Remember that she is the senator who initially said she was not going to support Pete “I Promise to Stop Being an Alcoholic” Hegseth to run the Pentagon, but turned around and voted for him anyway because “Americans deserve a strong Secretary of Defense.”
And then there’s ICE.
We’ve seen them use zip-ties on children and set off smoke bombs to disperse members of the public who are protesting their thug-like methods.
It even happened at the district office of Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-New York, when Department of Homeland Security agents forcefully entered the office and handcuffed a member of his staff.
In a statement, Nadler called the incident “aggressive and heavy-handed” and said it was evidence of “a deeply troubling disregard for proper legal boundaries.”
He called on the president and DHS to stop using such dangerous tactics.
“If this can happen in a Member of Congress’s office, it can happen to anyone — and it is happening,” Nadler said.
The latest is the targeting of immigrants who are dutifully showing up at court to appear before a judge.
“Some are green-card holders, some are asylum seekers, others may be seeking other protections from removal,” said immigrant rights attorney Rachel Levenson.
She described what is going on in lower Manhattan in an interview with Hell Gate.
Levenson said ICE agents have for the past two weeks been stationed at three of New York City’s immigration courthouse, “arresting dozens of immigrants who have shown up for routine hearings for their immigration cases as part of the Trump administration’s targeting of asylum seekers.”
She said her organization — Make the Road NY — has tracked 50 people whose cases were dismissed only to have the majority of them arrested by ICE immediately afterward.
People are being forced to either be arrested at court, Levenson said, or, if they don’t show up for their hearing, have a removal order put out on them anyway.
She’s hoping that the federal courts will intervene soon, but until that happens she said it was important for immigration attorneys to show up to see what is happening and for volunteers to help walk people safely from court out of the building.
Read her entire interview through this link.
No doubt, unless the felon-in-chief is reined in, the level of cruelty will increase and, sorry Sen. Ernst, people will die.
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