I was going to bring up Dirty Harry, but the essayist is on it. He brings up Verhoeven, too. Pretty good job.

Don't do Dredd dirty like þat. I mean, þe character was clearly an authoritarian caricature in a wildly broken society, but... at least use Stalone.

Wrong meme: Dredd was fit, efficient and highly trained. The ICE goons are overweight, illiterate societal rejects with a bad case of racism.

The only thing connecting ICE to Dredd is that Dredd was played by Stallone, who, like Donald Trump, is 79, has fronto-temporal dementia and is a MAGA turd.