*Finneas O'Connell and Billie Eilish at the 68th GRAMMY Awards. (Photo by Kevin Winter via Getty)*

The new dumbass activist slogan that will cost Democrats ten house seats, two Senate seats, and 30 electoral votes even if no Democrat ever utters the words just dropped. It’s “No one is illegal on stolen land,” and it got a standing ovation when Billie Eilish said it at the Grammys:

I let that clip play out a bit because I want to address “It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now…” It is actually not hard to know what to say and what to do: Say “thank you for the award,” thank the showbiz people around you who pretend that they don’t care about having their name said on TV but who will enact an unspoken fatwa against your career if they get skipped, and then sit the fuck down. You want to fight Trump’s deportation overreach, which I think is a just and worthy cause? Then shut your pretty celebrity mouth and park your toned celebrity ass back in your seat before you say something dumb — that’s the formula that fights Trump. Because rich, vapid celebrities spouting insane activist aphorisms is just fuel for the MAGA fire, as proved by the fact that right-wing media is covering Eilish’s speech like it’s Pearl fucking Harbor.

As many have pointed out, “no one is illegal on stolen land” contains two stupid thoughts that — when combined — form something of a Stupidity Voltron several times more powerful that the sum of the statements’ stupidity on their own. Because if a group of people have no right to decide who can live amongst them, then how could land ever be “stolen”? The second part of the statement gives primacy to group rights, but the first part denies those rights altogether. I’d also be interested to know which countries Eilish believes are not “stolen” — I think that this is probably the exhaustive list:

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