DHS Goes Full Billy Madison in Rebuke of Maria Cardona’s Anti-ICE Rant on CNN

Somebody ask the Department of Homeland Security whether shampoo or conditioner is better.

DHS put Democratic strategist Maria Cardona on blast after she called out ICE raids on social media this week, using a familiar screed from a hit Adam Sandler film:

“What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things Americans have ever heard,” the post read in part. “At no point in your rambling, incoherent statement were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone is now dumber for having listened to it.”

The statement was pretty much a word-for-word tirade ripped straight from the 1995 comedy Billy Madison, where a high school principal rebuked the titular character — played by Sandler — for using a fictitious children’s book to explain the Industrial Revolution.

The DHS post came in response to a post by Cardona, who was resharing a Friday CNN appearance where she accused ICE of violating civil rights. It read:

A very important point I made @CNNThisMorning – ICE is engaging in egregious, criminal behavior, violating peoples’ civil rights, kidnapping, and snatching innocent men, women, and children off the streets, even detaining American citizens! While doing it, not identifying themselves, hiding their faces, not telling people why they are being taken. This is not normal! This is not American! This is not acceptable! And videotaping these agents, asking them questions, and even hollering that they should not be doing this, does not in any way constitute a “violent attack” against these agents! It is part of the Constitution, to peacefully protest violent behavior against innocent people, and American citizens! So keep those videos coming amigos!

Watch above via CNN.