In America, we don’t use federal agents to intimidate citizens out of participating in their own democracy. Yet more than a dozen Border Patrol agents showed up Thursday in downtown LA at a rally Gov. Gavin Newsom held on congressional redistricting an event that had nothing to do with immigration.
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Masked, armed, and some carrying rifles with tactical helmets, the agents lined up outside the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo while Newsom and other leaders spoke inside. Local officials called it what it was: a brazen show of force meant to send a message.
Border Patrol agents stage show of force at Newsom's 'big beautiful press conference'
Border Patrol agents arrested at least one person, who a coworker said was delivering strawberries, outside of Gov. Gavin Newsom's event in Little Tokyo.
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They NEED TO BE ARRESTED! What the hell? States are sovereign entities. Call up the National Guard or State Troopers to actually protect the state, instead of do the bidding of a megalomaniacal psychopath.
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Luckily Newsom won’t be intimidated.
Fuck these obeying in advance treasonous fuckwits.
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If they're a citizen who are registered to vote but aren't there because they're afraid of being detained because of their appearance, aren't they a lock to vote Dem anyway?
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Probably need to change that to "in America we didn't use to use federal agents to intimidate citizens...". What amazes me is how compliant all the law enforcement agencies have become. It didn't take much for their true colours to shine through. Fascist bastards, every one of them.
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And did absolutely nothing 🤣🤣🤣
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Just wait for midterms. If we let them, goons will intimidate everyone at polls to ensure things go Trump’s way. And that’s excluding the likely tampering.
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The Trump Gestapo
DEI is not about DEI Anti semitism is not about anti semitism ICE is not about immigration Crime enforcement is not about crime
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What? You think all the Gestapo did was just round up people for the work camps and ovens? They played a central and brutal role in suppressing opposition to the regime and implementing its horrific policies.
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It is about intimidation.
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That IS America NOW !
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Except it sure looks like we do now. 😢
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So if we are not in America - where are we Auntie Em? 🚬😎
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Ill.send those MF a message 🖕
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Reality disagrees with you: in America, we do use federal agents to intimidate citizens out of participating in their own democracy. We shouldn’t but we obviously are doing that now.
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Where are the refusers?
The National Guard, the Border Patrol, the police, the army, etc, using their right to refuse?
I assume that they were all just waiting for the chance to bully the population of the USA for a criminal.
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This is nothing other than incipient authoritarianism. Some Americans--sadly--may agree with it, but if it eventually turns on them, it'll be too late.
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Please, that’s nonsense. We’ve got to ship out 10+ million illegals.
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You think that's bad, wait until Election Day 2026. What are we going to do?
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It sure looks like you do now.
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Sent a jackhammer crew to sidewalk outside campaign hq.
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tRumps intimidation that's all that was.
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They mess with this Gen Xer, they’ll fucking find out what I made of and what I’ll fight for.
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No one is fooled by these guys.
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lolsob
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We never used to use federal agents to intimidate citizens, but all norms are gone when it comes to drumpf.
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The $45 billion for ICE isn’t really about deportations. It’s about building his own secret police who can intimidate, arrest, and disappear people without accountability.
They kidnap law abiding citizens.
They bully political opponents in Blue states and cities.
Raise those sandwiches high!
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More and more evidence that these are now his SS.
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Gavin needs to arrest them for intimidation and terrrorism.
Let them learn that trump can’t pardon state convictions.
Why not make them scared rather than letting them make us scared.
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The Honor Dress of the Movement. Looks similarz?
Resist Trump & his Republican Minions. There is no common ground
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America is dangerously close being a failed democracy and these examples of intimidation tactics by federal agents demonstrate that for all intents and purposes, the US is now operating as a fascist state.
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Think fair to characterize it as a more visible aspect of the ongoing attack on and campaign against democracy (and our being a constitutional republic both).
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Intimidate, intimidate, intimidate, intimidate, intimidate.....
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As we all know, Trump’s fascist regime has nothing to do with immigration…it’s about controlling every aspect of our lives for personal gain.
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Screw these douchebags
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Is “he” dead yet?
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Or the border which is way south of LA
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So, if in a few years we somehow fix this mess,, where will all these pseudo, paramilitary, Trump supporting ICE agents,, where will they all go??? Go away? Slink away into the shadows? I think not. These “I hate brown people” motherfuckers are here to stay. That’s my take.
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I expect to see a lot of this on election day, provided there is one...
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Oh please.
Yes "we" do, & "we've" been doing it since this country's inception.
Indigenous peoples, enslaved people, women, freed Black people, LGBTQI, & now immigrants.
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They're showing up at music shows, too.
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Delete the “don’t “.
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I’ve seen reports that cosplay Noem said it was already scheduled, and not a single person called out her blatant obvious lie. First, the news conference hadn’t been scheduled for long, and second, why would they have scheduled something there?
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In the US we didn’t use to use federal agents to intimidate citizens, but these are different times
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You don't make the rules, park boy
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You are now , this is an example of it. In America there are federal agents intimidating citizens out of participating in their own quickly eroding democracy as we speak today .
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#NotOK
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Can we start suing the individual BP agents, ICE agents, etc. who are breaking the law?
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Until Americans revolt and remove the regime things like this will only get worse. How long before they openly execute anyone who opposes the regime?
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Maybe we should all start wearing ICE parody uniforms for public events.
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Fascism is fun, huh? 🙄🤬
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There will be a full-blown hot civil war between now and the mid-terms. Count on it and be prepared.
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…they did not JUST show up, they were sent, ordered, directed - can we learn to watch our wording? #americagetittogether
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This is an illegal regime against everything democracy stands for. They are willingly committing crimes against all of US openly and without shame.
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...."...In America, we don’t use federal agents to intimidate citizens out of participating in their own democracy...." Should read as:..."..In America, we didn't use to use federal agents..etc....".... THIS is NOT your parent's America; it shouldn't be yours either.
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We didn't used to, but apparently some federal agents do when ordered to.
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Unfortunately and apparently we do.
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Fact! INTIMIDATION! Trump’s basic tactic of control. Using what few agencies at his control to override we the people BECAUSE HE believes he has us running scared.
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Yes true but that was the old America. “We are not in Kansas anymore” America officially became a dictatorship 6 months ago and people are still mentally living in the past
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Well, you can't say that anymore. When all you have is policies that oppress and rob people, force is all you have. Eventually, people will push back, and not with sandwiches. In the meantime, get behind Gavin and push other states to redistrict. Release the Trump files.
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Everyone should start dressing in Halloween costumes early
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They're getting paid huge bonuses to kidnap brown people off the streets, so they'll go anywhere they think they can find brown people to kidnap.
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I dont know. Intimidating? Those guys?
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Icestapo
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he spends our money like he did he's daddy's. Not asking for it, just doing it
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They will 100% do this at blue voting locations. We will never have free and fair elections again.
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He will extend the DC occupation & has said he doesn’t need congress to do it.
He will not stop with DC!!!
If you value your freedom & democracy, you MUST get involved in protest & calling your members congress!!
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Trump floats circumventing Congress to maintain control of DC police
The president must secure congressional approval to extend the 30-day federal takeover.
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…and while the federal agents were there, they arrested a street vendor to make a photo op.
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If border patrol agents are in LA, who is watching the border?
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LoL....libtards
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🤔💥T🔨
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I’m afraid that in America, we DO use federal agents to intimidate citizens.
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Brown shirts. Fking ICE Nazis.
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If you encounter Federal troops in your city, please ask them to call the military's GI Rights helpline for resisting illegal orders.
The troops are trained to ignore protesters, so maybe holding up a big sign would be better.
1-877-447-4487
GI Rights Hotline: Military Discharges and Military Counseling
Are you in the military or thinking about joining? Are you unsure of where to get reliable answers? Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487. Call for yourself or someone you care about Free and c...
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More performative theater that will ultimately backfire. People are waking up around the country to this BS.
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A sign of things to come during the next election.
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Wasn't that weak. Yeah, orange sh*tler, you're looking very pathetic! And IT SHOWS! dumbass!
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Well…. Perhaps we are not living in America anymore.
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Federal Agents can go anywhere at anytime and there is not a fucking thing you can do about it so suck it up buttercup.
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It’s the start of the hunger games right here in United States. We need to hold the line against this fascist regime.
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Were they even real BP
or did a bunch of goons show up in Rent A Cop uniforms
with trump you never know........................
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And why Border Agents ?
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Terrorist gonna terrorize. They are Nazi criminals. Treat them accordingly.
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The police should have detained the federal agents for harassment. That’s why they were there.
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Why are they following these orders. Let’s see some righteous indignation and disobedience.
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Weak, scared, mostly white beta males pretending to be something they will NEVER be.
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In America we have always used federal agents to intimidate citizens, just not usually white ones.
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Magats fail to see what is going on. Don't worry the rethuglicans will come for them eventually. All the rhetoric they have spewed is a distraction from true intentions. Ignorance will be our downfall.
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The American Gestapo is not a conspiracy theory.
What they did to US Senator Alex Padilla is pure Nazi.
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But America, Trump's America, now does use Federal agents that way, so what are you going to do to stop it?
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Americans really need to stop saying America isnt something it clearly is, or that it doesnt do something it clearly does.
You live in a fascist police state. The sooner you accept where you are and stop acting like you are trying to prevent it, the better
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And yet it is happening and …
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America is fascist now.
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So technically in America you do use federal agents to intimidate citizens. Since you know, it happened live on TV yesterday. What are the American people gonna do about it? When is enough enough?
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And ICE was promptly call Out on their bullshit
#Resist #fuckICE
#releasetheepsteinfiles
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Using intimidation and fear as political weapons is called TERRORISM. Trump and his MAGA terrorist cult also includes dirty law enforcement. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of these scumbags.
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Such assholes.
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Trump and his MAGA minions hate America and the American people. They just bow down to King Felon (and Pedophile) Trump and the Trump Crime Family. Kings meets mob boss, that’s what those anti-American MAGAs love
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They think it's intimidation while it's only adding fuel to the fire. Newsom will be more resolute in response.
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But clearly we do. This administration has no guard rails. There is no bottom. They put the National Guard on the streets of our America, this was childish intimidation.
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#TyrannicalTrump #MakingAmericaGrimAgain
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They looking for a fight #freela #freedc #freeepsteinfiles
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Gestapo does Gestapo things
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They need dogshit sandwiches thrown at them. Just my humble opinion
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They were retraumatizing Alex Padilla and threatening the others
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The new Nazi army is really starting to come together.
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CBP is going to claim that they have to monitor things since most of California is within 150 miles of the border (with Mexico or the Pacific Ocean). It doesn’t mean they’re right. They’re acting like hired thugs.
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He use them. STOP YOU. From Voting He use them. STOP YOU from VOTING
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They are the new Gestapo. Fuck these fascists and their toadies in ICE, DOJ, and DHS.
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Time for the governor to beef up his security detail.
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You spelled intimidation wrong and border control was there to do that task. I will say it over & over & over:🖕Fck djt, 🖕Fck his administration 🖕! They’re a bunch of treacherous treasonous fascists that are tearing the uS Constitution apart and ignoring our laws.
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Trump’s agents are all about fear & intimidation. They love walking around with their gear & guns, taking out their own life frustrations on those who can’t fight back. They’re getting well paid to stalk the vulnerable. Just like trump. Bastids all.
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When our country becomes SANE again I hope every coward and bully supporting Trump and his band of criminals gets the same treatment they are dishing out tripled.
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The reason they showed up is because a cartel member showed up at the border with a slingshot and they fled to LA for Newsom to protect them. As we know from Uvalde, they are cowards.
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What was that? A threat? A show of force? Whatever it was, we should just say, “Fuck it and move on.”
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Might I suggest to Governor newsom and other governors of blue States get your National Guard involved. Have them make it safe to go to court, or just by Hispanic in America. If the state police can't do it, fight fire with fire
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Sorry, that's what happens in the Fascist States of America. Left unopposed, it will only get worse.
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It made me laugh 😆- they looked so pathetic and weak
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This is a line that has not been crossed since Civil Rights era except during 1st Trump Administration at DC BLM protests. #PureFascism
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Nazi intimidating…with our tax dollars
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Wondering how long the border agents will allow themselves to be seen as stooges…no one voted for this! Why aren’t they arresting violent criminals?!?!?
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Trump's black shirts
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This is disgustingly similar to the intimidation tactics used by police during civil rights movements.
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ICE is for TWO THINGS: 1) terrorize the populace. 2) promote the scam to hand over $millions to un-vetted entities to build fencing with tarps and create concentration camps.
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All it's doing is fueling the fires of revolution. The more they push, the more we punch back.
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They should be ashamed of themselves, but that requires a conscience.
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There’s going to be a lot of this. Where ‘we don’t’ becomes ‘we didn’t use to’. The new abnormal normal.
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I just realized that they're gonna use ice to lower voter turnout in 2026 and 2028.
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It's become clear that no matter how much Trump's goons are bullying the population, the population is NOT standing for it.
The only problem with that is that it leaves very little room for the goons if we refuse to bend the knee, and their logical next step is totalitarian lethal force.
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Governor Newsom has the cards.
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They are out there to 'draw fire' so martial law can be declared.
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Yeah well that is what happens in a place called a third world dictatorship previously known as America!
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... and everybody going on about it just gives them more POWER
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Time to start calling them what they are - Trump's Brownshirts, & if he gets his way at the next elections, will become the equivalent of Hitler's SS! These aren't Govt Fed agents, they're vigilantes that the criminal in chief is hoping will help him take power & establish himself as Dictator Trump!
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Don’t you mean “historically until now”? 😉
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.... & they even ARRESTED some people while there!! (Double dipping? Multi-tasking? Branching out?)
Can only wish that all their vehicles got towed. 🥌
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Ya, but Epstein.
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That whole 2nd amendment thing is gonna get out of control, sooner not later.
Citizens are reaching a real breaking point.
Just sayin'...
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We do now ...
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Trump is a coward.
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The fascists will not win!!!🇺🇸🔔
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This is how the gestapo works. This is how criminal mobs work. This is how people that know they can't win any other way work.
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These BS military actions make ALL cops look complicit and untrustworthy.
When we don't trust them, we don't believe they serve justice. So we don’t believe ‘em when they’re in front of a grand jury or a petit jury.
Protect and serve means more than just protecting and serving Trump and the GOP…
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What kind of people are they - that they sit in their office and plan this level of intimidation against their fellow Americans - there has to be a time of reckoning after this dark period passes…
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They didn’t interfere with newscum’s little look at me I’m here event.
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Silly rabbit, ICE and CBP aren't just for immigrants anymore. They're the new brown shirts.
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since when? its been happening as long as i have been alive. they get away with it is the problem. and we know why, even if most democrats dont want to face the fact that our leadership is in on nit.
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They’re going to do this on Election Day too.
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While we’ve been distracted by Putin’s crimes around the globe, he and Donold have been subverting democracy here at home.
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It’s wrong. Trump has his own Gestapo now. Not at all happy about that.
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Americans don’t, but fascists do.
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Fascism not Democracy!
While we watch and blame the Felon we shouldn’t forget that none of this would be possible if not for his co-conspirators in Congress! Republicans have made it clear their Oath of Office means nothing to them, they will support the Fascist over our Constitutional Republic!
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When law enforcement becomes a tool for political intimidation rather than public safety, democracy itself is under siege. This isn’t policing — it’s theater meant to scare citizens from participating in their government.
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Tax payers are funding those fucking Nazis.
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That’s done under authoritarian rule/regimes.
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Let’s just fucking leave man. There’s other countries and other places to go. Fuck this bullshit.
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ICE is a monumental grift! The amount of money being funneled into this, not even including the pay out from the prisons for profit is astounding.
IT'S A TRILLION DOLLAR GRIFT!
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Welcome to the new normal.
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Sturmabteilung
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The fact that they showed up like that strongly signals how big a threat they think Newsome is.
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I'm certain the little hands PedoFuhrer ordered it.
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Desperate behavior
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Intimidation is an authoritarian move
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Okay, but… 😁
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I think in this timeline it’s safe to assume that we do now use agents to intimidate citizens. We are a changed America. I never in my lifetime thought I would see the things that I am seeing now.
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It looks like Kristi Noem is going big time Gestapo by unleashing her ICE thugs outside the rally held by Governor Newsom in California. Intimidation and cruelty are the hallmarks of ICE. 😡
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Traitors doing the bidding of a traitor/child rapist.
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It made them smirk.
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Just another example it isn’t about removal of criminals and gang members but rather removing our freedoms in daytime drama format
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Intimidation
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WE NEED 24/7 MUSIC FESTIVALS!!!
YouTube video by Chance Meeting
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I mean, apparently we do.
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Despicable
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Grifting for OT pay 👎🏿🤮🐖🗑️
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This is an open email to all U.S. government employees, ESPECIALLY law enforcement personnel. You need to expel MAGA and other lawbreakers from your ranks. Fail to do this and you will be judged by the conduct of the worst. Is this fair? Fuck fair. This is war. Fight or get run the fuck over.
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Yet, that is exactly what is happening.
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That’s because ice agents are incompetent uneducated fucking militia groups. They don’t even understand their job.
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It’s almost like CBP heard us making fun of them as the softest most useless and most scared of all LEO. We are in AZ and they are always such jerks at checkpoints and shit. Just real douchey, 9 line wearing bitches.
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But that’s the rub … to this administration EVERYTHING has to do with immigration.
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Actually should be viewed as a Hatch Act violation by whomever ordered this to happen since Federal officials arenʻt supposed to get involved in election matters (yeah I know, Trumpers donʻt care about the law).
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Fascists be fascisting.
