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Babylon Bee’s SHAM Headline Falls Short, Yet Captures MSM Attention

The Babylon Bee has a reputation for creating witty satirical headlines, but their latest—if it is their latest—falls short.

I have not visited Babylon Bee’s site to confirm its origination, but the story of a Leftist Wisconsin judge threatening to close the court sure seems like one of their creations.

Come on Babylon Bee, or whoever concocted this story, can you imagine a Leftist Wisconsin Judge threatening to close court to start raising bail money for defendants because another “judge”—Hannah Dugan—was not allowed to obstruct justice? Preposterous! Let’s do better Bee.

To make matters worse, the supposed real name they provide for this “judge” is Monica Isham. Yes, we know it is supposed satire about an activist masquerading as a “judge”, but “Isham”, really? We get it, the final portion of her last name is “Sham” and just in case you didn’t get the joke the first part of her last name is “I”. So, who is it that is a “sham” of a judge, it is “I”. I the SHAM. We get it, we get it.

The problem with stories like this is that it goes too far. No one would actually believe that a judge would be that stupid, not even judges on the kookiest side of the Left.

I am not saying that TDS is not real. I have seen the reports of politicians like Wisconsin State Assembly member Ryan Clancy throwing his full support behind illegal criminal aliens by saying, “There’s no precedent for taking a judge in this manner…and what judge Dugan apparently did was what all of us should be doing.”

When leftists like Ryan lament that there has been no precedent for arresting felonious judges in this manner most normal people reply, “Well, of course there is no precedent for this, because until we made the mistake of electing leftists most judges refrained from committing felonious acts in broad daylight in front of dozens of witnesses.”

I have also seen formerly well-balanced journalists slide into hysteria, such as Juan Williams spouting statements like, “ICE cannot be judge, jury, and executioner…. The judge’s responsibility is to maintain justice and decorum in [the] court so that witnesses, defendants, and people who have been involved with crimes don’t think that going to the courthouse means that you are going to a hunting ground for ICE.”

If the reports are true, it seems to me that it was the “judge” who shattered decorum by reportedly confronting and shouting at ICE agents who were only trying to do their jobs. Apparently, this activist masquerading as a judge feels that maintaining justice entails berating other law enforcement officials attempting to carry out their duties under the justice system, and Mr. Williams apparently agrees with that activist.

The United States of America is almost 250 years old and ICE has been around for a long time, and I recall that we have had a history of many presidents deporting millions of illegal immigrants. Are we supposed to believe that ICE has never entered a courthouse under any prior administrations?

Keep in mind, there are also those on the Left who want to confuse the term “courthouse” with “courtroom”. So far, I have not seen any reports of the ICE agents entering the “judge’s” “courtroom”.

Nevertheless, no matter whence the story originated, we should all be grateful for activist Hannah Dugan who in one day, with one ill-fated act, single handedly shattered the myth that Leftists and Progressives care about innocent victims “hiding in the shadows” because they are afraid to come forward to confront their abusers and victimizers in our courts.

You literally had an alleged abuser and victimizer in court being confronted and this “judge” decided to thumb her nose at the victim and their representative sitting right in front of her so that she could fulfill her Progressive duty. Can you imagine victims emerging from “hiding in the shadows” when they witness judges doing all they can to free their abusers? I am sure we can all imagine how comforted those victims would be going home knowing their abuser is back on the streets with the assistance of a “judge”.

Believe it or not I have even seen some instances in which Leftists praised, not the victim, but the abuser, for showing up in court, almost as if he deserves our thanks and a commendation medal from us.

There are reports that ICE agents had to pursue this person who was freed by the “judge” in a foot chase—a person who had a federal arrest warrant—before they could detain him. Can you imagine if this guy, or one of the ICE agents veered into oncoming traffic? Let us hope things didn’t go that far.

Can you imagine a story like this originating from someplace other than satirists like the Babylon Bee? Oh…wait….