ATL hit the nail on the head
There’s stupid and then there’s whatever the Trump Justice Department is doing.
In the 1960s, an onslaught of rock bands from the UK found their way into America’s jukeboxes. So many artists crossed the Pond that the media playfully dubbed it the “British Invasion.” While a vocal subset of old people would rant that the country would lapse into moral peril because Ringo’s hair was too long, the moniker was just a headline-friendly way to talk about an unfolding cultural phenomenon.
According to the Trump administration, the term “British Invasion” is all a president needed to hear to justify throwing Paul McCartney into a foreign gulag.
A couple years ago, that sentence would — rightly — be dismissed as unfair hyperbole. In 2026, it’s a routine Thursday for the Department of Justice.
