If Republicans can't put a chain on this rabid dog they might as well burn their passports right now

At some point, the Republican Party is either going to have to put a leash on this animal or accept that the United States is about to become an international pariah, its major officials blocked from traveling to most other nations after international courts indict each of them for complicity in genocide.

If you don't want to listen to the drivel, bless you, but it and surrounding footage basically consists of The Criminal rambling on, obviously mentally impaired, explaining to the world that he is simply going to claim Gaza for the United States, ethnically cleanse the inhabitants by shipping them off to facilities in other nations, then use the land to build an imagined Trump-brand resort and utopia.

Gaza is riddled with unexploded ordinance: not a problem. The Gaza population does not want to be loaded into busses or trains or planes and forcibly relocated: irrelevant. There is no way to cleanse an entire region of its population without either pitting U.S. military forces against those civilians or appointing a mercenary force of some form to do it; it hardly matters which of the two it is, because the U.S. officials issuing the orders will face international charges of genocide either way.

In the end, The Criminal is proposing genocide for the purposes of building a seaside resort. Whether this springs from the man's obvious recent mental decline is irrelevant to what will happen next: The United States will, as a result of any such operation, see anti-American terrorism unleashed against it and sustained against it for the next four decades. There is not a Gazan child alive today who will not know which nations are to blame for the murder of their families and seizure of whatever small bit of property any of them ever had, and they will not forget.

All of this is ridiculously impractical, transparently malevolent, stupid to the point where it is difficult even for the most devoted of The Criminal's wormy fascist toadies to justify, and so far there doesn't appear to be a single House or Senate Republican willing to pipe up and assure the world that no, no matter what Grandpa Hitler is saying, the United States has no intention of unilaterally seizing Gaza and ethnically cleansing its residents.

And the same goes for Canada. And Greenland. And Atlantis, if Kash Patel and the rest of the conspiracy brigades dangle the notion that Atlantis holds vast mineral resources and ought to be liberated from the mer-people.

It would do the world a world of good to have such reassurances. It would immediately set some boundary, however distant, on how far they can expect the madness of King Don to march before the supposed adults of his party block his path; this would be enormously helpful in convincing each of America's once-allies that our nation is not, in fact, a mere crime syndicate catering to the whims of one syphilitic brain.

It would also be terribly easy. This is not something that risks exposing an existential rift in Republicanism—one would hope. It does not require, of Republican senators, the immense courage that it would take to pipe up with thoughts that "actually, presidents are required by law to abide by the constraints imposed by them by legislatively approved budgets" or "actually, imposing a war crime-supporting day-drinking blowhard television show host in a position of maximal military authority is probably a poor idea."

No, this would be a simple announcement that the United States Senate does not foresee giving their Glorious Mad King approval to carry out a genocide for the purposes of a real estate deal, so international allies should rest assured that this particular oozing atrocity can be safely ignored as the ramblings of an old and not-entirely-with-us man.

You will note, dear reader, that no Republicans have piped up with that assurance. There has been a conspicuous lack of Republican senators looking to reassure international allies that the United States is not about to commit ethnic cleansing based on a seditious convicted felon's land development dreams. There are Republicans promoting the idea as a worthy and not-insane one, but nobody in the caucus is willing to give public assurances that invading Gaza, or Greenland, or Canada, or Panama is a bridge that the spineless and crime-spree-backing Republican Party will not follow The Criminal across.

If the United States is to become anything else than an international pariah state, and if Republican Party officials plan on ever again taking a nice trip to the French coast or seeing the London sights without being handcuffed at the airport and delivered to The Hague, it might be worth issuing such notice.

Soon. Very soon, in fact.