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FadedMullet

(788 posts)
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 04:06 AM Jan 25

Six "ICE" agents, all dressed differently and wearing masks. How is this to be perceived any different.....

.......than cosplay militia or wannabe cops living out their idiot fantasies. Bovino is now saying that protestors should not be armed. as an excuse for this latest killing, but one wonders if it isn't because his clowns are so amateurish that they could easily be mistaken for vigilantes.

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Six "ICE" agents, all dressed differently and wearing masks. How is this to be perceived any different..... (Original Post) FadedMullet Jan 25 OP
They are vigilantes. rubbersole Jan 25 #1
That's exactly who they are... Wuddles440 Jan 25 #3
Remember when right wingers were Bettie Jan 25 #2
So now you want only the government to have guns? D_Master81 Jan 25 #4
Trump's thugs remind me of marauding apes in Jane Goodall's "Chimpanzees of Gombe". where apes hunt down and kill RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Jan 25 #5
Keeps saying he "didn't need to be there" aka he was EXECUTED FOR BEING THERE. Maru Kitteh Jan 25 #6

Wuddles440

(2,008 posts)
3. That's exactly who they are...
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 11:36 AM
Jan 25

and why those in the media and general public need to stop referring to these thugs as "federal agents". I served 30 years in Federal LE and most of these goons are not vetted, trained, and recognized as such.

Bettie

(19,446 posts)
2. Remember when right wingers were
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 07:10 AM
Jan 25

So afraid that Democrats would take their guns away? Now , their own party is doing it.

D_Master81

(2,397 posts)
4. So now you want only the government to have guns?
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 11:39 AM
Jan 25

Seems to be a fair statement but any time we have tried to make sensible gun legislation the RW nut jobs come back with the BS that if the government is the only ones with the guns they will enslave us. Interesting how quickly they flip when they are doing the enslaving

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(1,953 posts)
5. Trump's thugs remind me of marauding apes in Jane Goodall's "Chimpanzees of Gombe". where apes hunt down and kill
Sun Jan 25, 2026, 12:19 PM
Jan 25

their own kind with beastly savagery. Sorry religionists, Apes had the fall, humans are just carrying the ball.

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