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Sat Aug 2, 2025, 05:33 PM Aug 2

'Defend the Homeland, Get A Brown Shirt!' [View all]

"Still insanely claiming they're arresting 'the worst of the worst' gardeners, roofers, abuelas and taco-makers - and eager to spend their shiny new billions on more rag-tag thugs to meet their quotas - ICE Barbie et al have launched a new recruitment campaign asserting, 'Your country is calling you (to) defend the homeland,' a phrase surely inadvertently carrying a crisp whiff of blood-and-soil Nazism. Ditto - right? - an Uncle Sam raging of an America 'invaded by criminals and predators - we need YOU to get them out.' "

"Of course the urgent call for 10,000 more racist goons with anger issues and zero oversight to boost our flourishing new 'sado-populism' comes alongside all the regime's other, once-unimaginable 'weird shit': The celebration of deadly coal: 'She is the moment,' say wut?; Florida's half-mast tribute to 'shitheel' Hulk Hogan, 'Donald Trump with muscles and a mustache'; the once-reputable Smithsonian lamely bowing to North-Korea-style pressure to remove evidence of former guy's impeachments; Press Barbie squawking it's 'well past time' he get 'the Noble Peace Prize'; and his new 'Marie-Antoinette-on-steroids' move to turn the White House into a 'tacky golf motel' cum brothel with a $200 million vulgar golden ballroom even though we can't afford veterans' health care, to feed hungry kids, to save HIV patients etc because, duh, 'For me not thee, Part 1 million.' "

Continued at link:

https://www.commondreams.org/further/defend-the-homeland-get-a-brown-shirt

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