The far-left clown car known as MSNBC makes it too easy. These articles almost write themselves.
On Saturday's episode of MSNBC's ridiculous show, "Ayman," contributor Dean Obeidallah declared public ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) deportation raids to nab illegal alien criminals to be "fascist spectacles" like those ordered by... wait for it... Adolf Hitler. Then, just for grins, Obeidallah called President Donald Trump a "vile, racist piece of garbage."
Oh, and a fellow panel member compared the deportation raid to the Holocaust and American slavery.
Again, as we continue to say, MSNBC — along with CNN, of course — continue to wonder why their miserable ratings are swirling down the toilet, forcing them to "demote" some of their on-air "talent" as their revenue also continues to free fall.
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After host Ayman Mohyeldin brought up Homeland Security Kristi Noem being filmed as she accompanied federal agents on a recent ICE raid, and Dr. Phil McGraw also joining a raid, Obeidallah pulled a hamstring rushing to bring up the long-worn-out Nazi nonsense references.
These are fascist spectacles. That's what historians call them. They are fascist spec— Mussolini did it. Hitler did it — huge marches, big rallies, the 1936 Olympic Games. Same thing Mussolini — huge march on Rome.
They are spectacles to get press to make them look more powerful and bigger than life. Their goal is to make the rest of us be intimidated and be fearful — paralyzed with fear as Timothy Snyder talks about in his book, "On Tyranny."
We can't be paralyzed with fear ... This is fascism — we're seeing it right in our streets right here. The use of the military — well, it should be next — in the streets of America to round up people who are brown.
The intentional idiocy of Obeidallah's ridiculousness was not only palpable; he knew in advance that he would be eaten up in some corners, which is exactly why he went there.
Mohyeldin predictably responded:
The problem with this, though, is that we're talking about it, but there are probably large swaths of the country who are just watching right-wing media and who follow Doctor Phil, and they're probably buying the fact that, like, "Finally, Donald Trump is in power — two weeks in, he is fixing the immigration system," and they are just eating it all up.
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[P]robably one of the uglier parts of this saga that is unfolding is Guantanamo Bay and this facility that was notorious for abuse and torture now again being used in this draconian way. You know, President Obama, I remember, tried to shut it down. President Biden tried to shut it down. They couldn't do it. And yet this — this facility continues to haunt us in ways that perhaps we probably never imagined.
Yeah, just one problem.
Trump said last Wednesday that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility will hold only "the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people." He added that Guantanamo Bay also has thousands of beds available, and "most people don't even know about it."
We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people," he said. "Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them, because we don't want them coming back. So we're going to send them out to Guantanamo.
How Hitleresque. How fascist. MSNBC and many others in the left-wing media continue to caricature themselves to the point of absurdity.
Oh, I almost forgot Obeidallah's silly "racist piece of garbage" shot at Trump.
Donald Trump's a scumbag. I mean, I think we can say that. He's a vile, racist piece of garbage. He happens to be President of the United States, so we have to pay attention. If he wasn't, he'd be one of vile people out there in this country.
While funny to the objective among us, late-stage Trump Derangement Syndrome is a cruel, ravaging mental affliction. While I never cared much for Obeidallah, it's almost sad to see the guy so bitterly destroyed.
"Almost" being the operative word.
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