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speak easy

(12,598 posts)
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 10:05 PM Jul 2025

Better get used to our Gestapo. This is going to be normal very soon.

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Better get used to us now, cause this is going to be normal very soon

Immigration Arrests in Los Angeles Spike Amid Aggressive Enforcement

Federal officials said they are intent on maintaining the enforcement efforts as they seek to achieve the president’s goal of mass deportations.

“Better get used to us now, cause this is going to be normal very soon,” said Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official in charge of Los Angeles enforcement, told Fox News on Monday.

Later that day, Mr. Bovino wrote on social media that his agents might return to the park that they had swarmed earlier: “We may well go back to MacArthur Park or other places in and around Los Angeles. Illegal aliens had the opportunity to self deport. Now we’ll help things along a bit.”

New York Times
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Better get used to our Gestapo. This is going to be normal very soon. (Original Post) speak easy Jul 2025 OP
Fascist countries very quickly accept and acquiesce to brutal secret police. Irish_Dem Jul 2025 #1
I'm not sure if everyone is just going to fold and fall in line. cayugafalls Jul 2025 #4
I hope you are correct. Irish_Dem Jul 2025 #9
Better get used to the resistance too DV1 Jul 2025 #2
Nothing will please Trump more than some dead ICE officers he can parade around as martyrs. hunter Jul 2025 #3
Better memories from better times in MacArthur park... Jack Valentino Jul 2025 #5
"And I'll never have that recipe again" speak easy Jul 2025 #8
The DNC has this covered, gab13by13 Jul 2025 #6
Already seems "normal" to me, in the daily nightmare of Trump 2.0--- Jack Valentino Jul 2025 #7

Irish_Dem

(82,292 posts)
1. Fascist countries very quickly accept and acquiesce to brutal secret police.
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 10:08 PM
Jul 2025

The populace is terrorized into compliance.

cayugafalls

(5,984 posts)
4. I'm not sure if everyone is just going to fold and fall in line.
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 10:41 PM
Jul 2025

Every day, exponential growth in the chaos.

Just the humble opinion of this silly old dude

hunter

(40,852 posts)
3. Nothing will please Trump more than some dead ICE officers he can parade around as martyrs.
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 10:32 PM
Jul 2025

That's going to be a dreadful day.

gab13by13

(32,753 posts)
6. The DNC has this covered,
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 10:48 PM
Jul 2025

using the Chuck Schumer strategy to let Krasnov burn it all down and then throw a bunch of money at the next election and win back Congress.

I donate to the ACLU and Indivisible.

Jack Valentino

(5,244 posts)
7. Already seems "normal" to me, in the daily nightmare of Trump 2.0---
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 10:56 PM
Jul 2025

(but perhaps 'normal' is not the correct word--- and perhaps one word will not suffice--
I'll go with "dreaded but expected" )


Times have changed.... now the nightmares begin AFTER I have woke up and I check the newsapp

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