Right Now

 In what obscure model of the universe is this a sane country anymore? 

Detaining five year old children because their father fled in fear of being kidnapped by masked goons is now part of our everyday reality. The father of little Liam Canejo Ramos has a pending asylum case with no orders for deportation. And yet, now father and son are currently in government custody. How a preschooler fits into a scenario involving "the worst of the worst" remains to be seen. 

Could it be worse than worst? Well, if involves ICE, the answer is an unqualified "you betcha." Only a few days later, ICE goons attacked, beat, then shot a protester out on the streets to condemn the murder of another innocent American citizen, Renee Good. Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse unaffiliated with the similarly acronymed ICE, was attacked and killed on the streets of Minneapolis. By Border Patrol agents. 

Minneapolis, Minnesota. One thousand four hundred sixty-five miles from the U.S./Mexico border. 

Or just two hundred fifty miles from the U.S./Canada border.

If you're a MAGAt, it would be hard to choose a worse threat than these two foreign menaces. The way they openly defy the wishes of Mad King Worst. But rather than getting into a shootin' war with those countries, why not send locked and loaded masked idjits to a city in the country you pretend to govern to terrorize and kill  the people right here in the United States?

Minnesota happens to be the home of Governor Tim Walz, who in another version of this story would now be Vice President of the United States. Instead of the Pope-Killer we have now. Governor Tim might have spent the past several months giving out tips on how to keep your lawnmower running at peak performance and sharing recipes for hot-dish with visiting heads of state. 

No, we're living in the model of the universe in which Americans are being shot and killed by the Secret Police, and toddlers are being snatched up off the street on their way home from school. Because, we are told, this will Make America Great Again. 

News Flash: This is the kind of behavior that made Germany into one of history's most grotesque punchlines. This is the kind of behavior that I used to protest as a member of Amnesty International when despots in foreign lands would disappear their dissenters. 

This is happening in America. 

This is happening in America right now.