For example, over the weekend, Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner read the riot attack at the possibility that ICE will bring Minneapolis to Philadelphia. He was not … nuanced. From The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Last week, during a news conference about proposed restrictions on immigration enforcement in Philadelphia, the district attorney said he would “hunt down” and prosecute U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who commit crimes in the city. “There will be accountability now. There will be accountability in the future. There will be accountability after [Trump] is out of office,” Krasner said. “If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities.”
This got up the nose of Governor Josh Shapiro, who has aspirations to improve his living arrangements with an eye on a run-down piece of property in Washington. Shapiro and Krasner don’t dance, and Shapiro seems to be exercised further by Krasner’s recent broadsides.
Shapiro, who is Jewish and is a rumored presidential contender, was interviewed a dozen times last week on national media while promoting his new memoir and condemned ICE’s tactics during all of them. During an interview Thursday on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier, Shapiro was asked about Krasner’s comparison of ICE agents to Nazis and called the comments “unacceptable. … It is abhorrent and it is wrong, period, hard stop, end of sentence,” Shapiro said.
Bullshit. Period. Hard stop. End of sentence. Krasner wasn’t calling anyone a Nazi. He was saying that any federal agents who commit street crimes in his jurisdiction can expect to hear footsteps for the rest of their lives. Which I think should be the case of people up and down this administration. I think the overriding mission of a Democratic administration and a Democratic Congress should not be vengeance but justice for offenses against the law and the republic.
In my fantasy they cut the real waste and ineffective government agencies. First all of DHS, then on to the military for a 90% reduction. Wrap it up with dissolving the Supreme Court and Senate.
Don’t forget UBI thus eliminating VA, Social Services, and SS in one swoop. Finally universal coverage with NO private option just to fuck with the wealthy shits.
Perhaps a few other fun things like the end of all insurance, elimination of all mortgages, mortgage lending, and student loans. The government would then provide 0% interest loans for future home buying, building of residential and commercial buildings, and education.
Oh yeah and a completely progressive tax policy eliminating all regressive taxing schemes and shifting the burden of funding the government to those who actually have the money and benefit from it.
Anything else?