MAGA: Sex pests in, student journalists out

The Trump Administration makes predictable choices.

You can tell a lot about a country based on who it welcomes and who it rebukes, and how.

For example, America under Donald Trump has arrested and is attempting to deport Rumeysa Ozturk, a student at Tufts University. My friend Will Bunch explains:

All that is known is that Ozturk is one of four bylines on a March 26, 2024 op-ed in the student Tufts Daily that called on the university president to act on a student senate resolution condemning what it called “genocide” by Israeli forces who, a year later, have reportedly killed more than 50,000 people in Gaza, and to divest any Tufts funds that support Israel. The piece quotes the late author James Baldwin on the importance in education of critically examining society, criticizes the Tufts administration for dismissing pro-Palestinian arguments, and states: “We, as graduate students, affirm the equal dignity and humanity of all people and reject the University’s mischaracterization of the [student] Senate’s efforts.”

It’s hard not to think that the American thought police have disappeared a promising student into their gulag archipelago for the alleged “crime” of publishing their political opinion in a college newspaper.

America, it seems, is just a little less free than it was a few months ago.

Anyway, here’s who we’re welcoming to the country:

Andrew Tate, who returned to the U.S. last month while under indictment on sex trafficking charges in Romania, has been accused by his girlfriend and choking and beating her…

The Tates arrived in Florida last month after the Trump administration reportedly intervened on their behalf. Special Envoy Ric Grenell allegedly raised the issue with Romania’s foreign minister at last month’s Munich Security Conference. Soon after, the Tates returned to the U.S.

The TMZ report contains purported text messages between Stern and Andrew Tate, who tells her, “You need to be hit.”

Utterly predictable.

But this is what we have. A government of, by and for sex pests.