Colm Tóibín
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And he looked at me and I looked at him and said, oh,
meaning that that's where ICE goes.
ICE goes to the hardware stores.
ICE goes, because that's where a lot of the illegal people who are doing that sort of work that's really necessary in Los Angeles, that's where they go in the morning to collect the materials for the day.
And they're like sitting ducks there.
Their trucks are outside and they can be got.
And they know that and they don't do it.
So you're living casually within a world.
And the problem is, of course, if that man were to be taken,
He could be held for months on end without anyone knowing where he was in one of the most horrible conditions.
In other words, he would be held effectively without habeas corpus.
He would be disappeared and he would be held in a concentration camp.
And that's actually what's happening, except that everyone is bothered about something else.
So when the Epstein things happen, people then start worrying about a war.
And then Trump decides he wants to buy Greenland.
He wants to buy Greenland.
I mean, just the comedy of that until you realize, of course, that it's taking up 24-hour news cycles, his efforts to buy Greenland.
What's the Danes doing?
What's NATO?
Trump wants to buy Greenland.