This Isn't a Reduction. It's a Home Invasion.

     Imagine you buy a house. Then the HOA hires an illegal alien, he sends a bunch of juvenile delinquents to your doorstep and they demand access to your home and workstation. You tell them no then they come back the next day with guys claiming to be from the US Marshal's Service and they force their way in.

     Then your neighbor down the street gets a visit from the same HOA goons, except they bring with them actual, armed FBI agents. Alarmed, the homeowner then calls the local police. Only, rather than siding with him and protecting his rights, they not only help the vandals break into their home, they then kick him and his family out while the goons ransack their house. Sounds insane, right?

 

    This is exactly what's been going on in Washington DC. Rachel Maddow made this one the segments on her show last night. Musk and his children's crusade have been barging their way into government buildings run by organizations that aren't even part of the government and are not even under legal or administrative purview by the Executive branch.

     This is part of the description beneath the Maddow video: "The U.S. Institute for Peace announced Monday that despite being independent of the executive branch and controlling its own building and the land it sits on, their objections to members of Elon Musk's DOGE team trespassing in their building were overridden by D.C. police."

     The police are actually helping the robbers break in and take whatever they want and all under the aegis of a self-interested sociopath who actually wields no power whatsoever over government or anything outside of his own corporate sphere. DOGE simply doesn't exist except in Trump's and Musk's drug-addled brains.

     How insane is that?

     This is the very delineation of the bull in the china ship. It's dangerous, reckless, mindless, and guarantees nothing good. And, like the proverbial bull, Musk or his minions don't belong anywhere near these buildings, much less in them, much less helping themselves to whatever highly personal and sensitive information they please.

     Hard as it is to imagine for anyone not actually playing witness to these thuggish spectacles, the asylum's staff is getting kicked out of the asylum and the ones with guns are giving the keys to the inmates.

     Much has been made of the fact that it only took Hitler 52 days to destroy Weimar Republic Germany and stuff it with his ideologues. Even Hitler himself was surprised by how quickly he was able to accomplish this, at how little opposition he encountered.

     Trump got illegally shoehorned back in the White House thanks to Elon Musk's electronic skullduggery and it's been closer to 60 days. And it could be said that the only reason Trump didn't beat Hitler's timeline is because the US government is simply much larger than Germany's government in 1933. But the German people elected Hitler and allowed him and his thugs to have free rein when they could have stopped him.

     We're now at the point where historians in the future will be wondering, "Why didn't the Americans do more to stop that lunatic?"

 

     And it isn't just the ransacking of government offices at the hands of a corporately-funded street gang (which is doing more damage than a so-called Venezuelan street gang ever did). It's also the rash and sloppy ICE raids that often feature masked ICE agents. Just recently, they abducted yet another college student who's living here legally.

     The government has just given itself the right to revoke student visas and any other visa willy nilly if someone's been deemed a "national security risk". Who actually gets to make that decision and under what legal justification is anyone's guess.

     One can only hope that the next Democratic president (Please God, let it be AOC) makes Letitia James the new Attorney General. Then the Republicans will see a weaponization of the Justice Department that's worse than their worst fever dreams.