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The Cartoonishly Evil Dr. Phil Is Livestreaming ICE Raids In Chicago’s Deportation Crackdowns
Imagine getting swooped up by ICE agents in bad weather at an odd hour, and then bam! You become the instant protagonist of a live-streamed deportation production, by a guy with a little patch of hair around the equator part of his head.
If you’re hip, you’ll know it’s Dr. Phil, if you’re not it doesn’t matter, the sight of Dr. Phil makes even citizens want to flee the country. So you just stand there, caught completely off guard. No makeup, no wardrobe, no script.
If you’re Dr. Phil, you’re secretly hoping that there’ll be lots and lots of chaos and terror for your backdrop — preferably kids watching their parents getting taken away by federal agents in riot gear and assault weapons.
If you’re Donald Trump, you want to enlist the services of someone like a ‘Dr. Phil’ to normalize the cruelty of capturing human beings like they’re animals, to manufacture consent on your behalf.
Welcome to the Golden Age of TV grifters. It now appears that Trump won’t be needing Fox News, with a useful lap dog like Phil McGraw. The collision of this administration’s policies with reality…
