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douglas9

(5,814 posts)
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 07:52 AM Feb 1

Bizarre Message from Demoted U.S. Border Patrol Czar at Mount Rushmore on Lakotas Sacred Black Hills

The demoted head of the U.S. Border Patrol operations in Minneapolis delivered a bizarre message at Mount Rushmore, as his caravan snaked its way back across the west. Lakotas said the presence of Greg Bovino on their ancestral lands in the Black Hills was a violation of the sacred.

Bovino's message comes after the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE and the U.S. Border Patrol in Minneapolis, and the illegal arrests and assaults of Native people there.

At Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, Bovino referred to the chiseled rock heads of the four U.S. presidents behind him, as the original 'turn and burn' -- the folks that helped make America.

Bovino said he's proud of what the "mean green machine" is doing in Minneapolis and calls them the 'modern day equivalent' of the original turn and burn presidents.

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/01/bizarre-message-from-demoted-us-border.html

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Bizarre Message from Demoted U.S. Border Patrol Czar at Mount Rushmore on Lakotas Sacred Black Hills (Original Post) douglas9 Feb 1 OP
Pompous ass crowing about "turn and burn" democrank Feb 1 #1
I hope I live long enough... 2naSalit Feb 1 #8
Nazi - the term you meant was nazi Dr. Shepper Feb 1 #2
Something's not right with this boy. sop Feb 1 #3
Something tells me that we have not heard johnnyfins Feb 1 #4
Until the cell door clangs and we never hear from the POS ever again. Swede Feb 1 #5
Small man at Speedway Kid Berwyn Feb 1 #6
Fuck that asswipe... 2naSalit Feb 1 #7

democrank

(12,604 posts)
1. Pompous ass crowing about "turn and burn"
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 08:02 AM
Feb 1

Bullying chest beater…..likes to toss gas canisters around. A real creep.

sop

(18,653 posts)
3. Something's not right with this boy.
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 08:52 AM
Feb 1

"When Bovino's caravan reached Rock Springs in Wyoming, protesters confronted Bovino, who was carrying a rifle, and his federal agents outside the Sheraton as they checked out."

You really have to be unpopular for protesters to show up outside your motel in Rock Springs, Wyoming.

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