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Nick Richards's avatar

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

When all you have are extra enforcement agents, everything looks like it needs to be enforced.

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Annie North's avatar

Also, what happens when arrests are down less than 50 per day? We still have 10s of thousands of ice agents that are still employed? 80,000 detainee beds? Are we still going to be paying for all of that?!?! This is fucking ridiculous!

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DANA's avatar

Then they start going after the dissidents, the creatives, the homeless, the vulnerable. Felon 45 didn’t build up ICE for immigration. It’s for population control.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

I am sure they will find something to do to validate their being on the payroll. That is, perhaps, the scariest part of all.

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Dallas's avatar

That graft is the most important thing to the profiteers.

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John Reynolds's avatar

HHS just mandated that Hospitals and clinics will not get reimbursed for treating undocumented patients. Instead they're supposed to let them bleed out in the street like our friends the Zionists do when they shoot Muslims and Christians in the occupied areas. This smells like a Steven Miller brainstorm .

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Clif Brown's avatar

That famous artwork of westward expansion combined with "defending the homeland"? Westward expansion wasn't defense it was ethnic cleansing.

Why is there never a problem getting men to dress up in high-tech hardware and uniforms and now to mask up as well to be tough on helpless people?

I was having coffee at a Dunkin the other day and along comes a city police car - all black with "SPECIAL OPS" on the side. This is pure military and the patrolmen and women are no longer wearing a white shirt and tie but are decked out with all kinds of gadgets all in black with POLICE printed on the back of their uniform. It's as if the whole force is part of a SWAT team. Far from anyone being Officer Friendly, the impression is pure intimidation. A long way from appearing to be just another person with a police hat on, now an officer can be spotted a mile away and the look doesn't invite approach, far less saying hello.

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JennyStokes's avatar

When these people 'blurred and masked' come for American Citizens what is the chance they turn against their Government?

The ONLY reason we have immigrants in the Western world is because western powers wanted their resources. This is about money. Nothing less.

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lee levin's avatar

Always

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Viroquan's avatar

While they cut agencies like FEMA who actually help disaster survivors

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RealNoDeuces's avatar

The makers of Candy Crush can’t believe their fucking luck. Thousands of thumbs standing around in masks, playing their game.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Are you sure it isn't Tour of Duty? or even more violent games?

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lee levin's avatar

So true!

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Mike Miller's avatar

They are treating it like an insurgency which the US is famous for failing spectacularly.

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Ken Klippenstein's avatar

well you saw how the LA deployment went!

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JennyStokes's avatar

The ONLY war I can remember USA winning was Grenada!

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Ken Klippenstein's avatar

😂

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

I almost agree. I think Panama was close.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Oh yes. I forgot that one!

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lee levin's avatar

Yep. US went in to erase the stink of Vietnam

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Dallas's avatar

This stuff is evidenced in the vibe and countenance of these goons. I believe they’ll have a hard time recruiting, even with cash incentives. They themselves feel the wrongness, I see that and feel that. Especially now with the Epstein cover up ongoing

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Denise O'Leary-Siemer's avatar

The homeless are next!

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SAM's avatar

White house put out a press release yesterday regarding it. This country is not safe.

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Boris Petrov's avatar

The Epstein Horror and Russia-gate immense crimes are indeed horrible and require full analysis and punishment. However, right now nothing compares with Gaza genocide and the Final Solution phase of seven decades of terror and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

This is US genocide and now -- it is fully conducted and owned by Trump. As China’s foreign minister said: "The United States has lost its legitimacy to lead the world …. It is no longer morally qualified to speak of values or peace while supporting genocide in Gaza."

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Cécile Stelzer-Johnson's avatar

WE are actually in contravention of our own laws in defending Netanyahu:

The Leahy Laws are two provisions in US law that prohibit the US government from providing assistance to foreign security force units credibly implicated in gross violations of human rights. These laws, named after Senator Patrick Leahy, aim to prevent US complicity in human rights abuses by foreign militaries and other security forces. One provision applies to assistance provided by the Department of State, and the other to assistance from the Department of Defense.

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SAM's avatar

Good looking on that Pew Research poll. The fact that I read dozens of news articles a day and have never seen those numbers speaks volumes about the propaganda in the MSM.

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Doug Larson's avatar

Trump is creating his own secret state police (gestapo) outside of the Justice Department, FBI, and legitimate law enforcement agencies nationwide to go after anyone he deems a threat.

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DANA's avatar

The MAGA base has no problem with immigration raids - this is not going to be the undoing of this regime. Trust me, they will squirm a bit when the “good” immigrants they know are rounded up and shipped out, then wring their hands like Sen. Susan Collins after a SCOTUS decision that proves she was duped, and just mutter about what a shame it is their neighbor didn’t do things the “right” way.

But the Epstein stuff? Hahaha, that will be the end for them. No one is more righteously dedicated to the cult “mission” than MAGA. This will hollow out the base from inside, as the cult disembowels itself. Cults have a predictable trajectory. This was expected.

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Cécile Stelzer-Johnson's avatar

More immediately, yes, the Epstein scandal is more important because the MAGA base is collapsing and Trump is getting more and more confused and shows that he is unable to be coherent.

But after Trump is gone, there will be a lot of work to reclaim our country and make it the shining beacon on the Hill again!. I hope we have another President like Abe Lincoln, or Franklin Delano Roosevelt...

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JennyStokes's avatar

How can you reclaim a country which has an Israeli owned: Congress. Senate and a duopoly owned by more money. This is going to take a revolution.

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Cécile Stelzer-Johnson's avatar

Quite agree: Keep pointing out to them that they are supporting a guy who was condemned by the International Court and is committing GENOCIDE.

You know how to pound a nail? Put the point in the right spot and KEEP HITTING. When there are enough of us, they'll have to change or lose their precious seat!

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lee levin's avatar

Worthy hope, but given the dems allegiance to billionaires, doubtful.

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Cécile Stelzer-Johnson's avatar

I agree, but there is a way [and it's not the "third way"]. We'll just have to sit on their six like we are calling MAGA congress folks until they listen. they want to get re-elected, all of them, so they have to go through us/US! We need to push for a change of leadership in both Parties!

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Slightly Lucid's avatar

Here’s a thing though. Americans were totally whipped up about immigration for the last many years. Even otherwise sane people were talking about the invading “hoards.”

Facts and figures couldn’t dissuade them; it was an entirely manufactured panic.

Now, Americans are seeing the fallout from their tar and feathers outrage, and they don’t like it - so they’re changing their minds (especially as it now impacts some of them personally. )

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JennyStokes's avatar

100 % agree with you Slightly Lucid.

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lee levin's avatar

Will white supremacist Stephen Miller get the message?

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