Last night, Colin Jost and Michael Che covered recent events on SNL's "Weekend Update," including the Malignant Fascist's imagining himself as the Pope*, Trump's Tariffs and other economic news, "Leon" Musk's "pulling out" of DOGE, and more.
* Pope Donny 2 Dolls? St. Upid?
🥺 It is really hard to laugh these days. I don't live in El Paso anymore. I live in the designated military zone patrolled by soldiers from Ft. Bliss. Trump "declared" (without actual legal authority) this week that military troops will be in charge of detaining migrants at the border. That is itself a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act which does not allow the military to act as law enforcement on US soil. So, Trump turned El Paso into a military base with no defined boundary! The heavily-armed troops roam the border in intimidating Stryker vehicles. I live a quarter-mile from what used to be the border (looking at it from my balcony right now!) which means I am now trespassing on Ft. Bliss!! These troops have the added authority over "crowd control." So, if I protest this incursion of troops with my next door neighbors, on our balconies, I'll soon be on my way out of the country as a "homegrown" national security threat! This is not hyperbole! I live in a "police state" and so do you!! 🤬
ReplyDeleteCleora -- I'm taken by the irony of Ft. "Bliss" in the context you're so vividly describing!
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