Tom Ridge tears trump a new one.

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Link to tweet

BREAKING: Tom Ridge, the first homeland security secretary RIPS TRUMP: "The department was established to protect America from the ever-present threat of global terrorism. It was not established to be the president’s personal militia."

[greenjar_01]

1. Counterpoint: It was established such that a President could make it his or her personal militia

Hands up if you opposed DHS from go.

[Miguelito Loveless]

3. Indeed.

The U.S. became a de facto police state with the passage of the "PATRIOT Act".

[Miguelito Loveless]

2. It was established by your administration

with the full intent that this is what it would eventually become. You can only claim possible error in who the targets off DHS would be, but it was always going to be the American STASI.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. If the department of Homeland Security doesn't get its act together and quits assaulting...

American citizens going about their normal everyday business (including the right to protest peacefully and speak out), this department needs to be disbanded and wiped out. These people should know better (at the DHS) and they're either been brainwashed or too many trump nuts have infiltrated the DHS and altered and ruined the department's true focus, terrorism against American citizens (or perhaps the DHS should be turned against trump nuts across the board, being that they are the true terrorists in the room).

Personally, I think that the DHS, being abused as it is using dubious and nefarious rationale offered by Barr and other scumbags under rump's direction, should be forever wiped out/off the board. Another example of the swamp, eh? And I thought rump was going to drain the swamp? Sure...

rump is the new swamp thing (like the comic), and is the most hypocrite of all in the room now.

[Walleye]

5. They're tear gassing and shooting and beating people for graffiti?

Reminds me a little of Arlo Guthrie: “Officer, did you think I was gonna hang myself for littering?”