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EarlG

(23,391 posts)
26. Obey Or Die, as Colbert pointed out this week
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 01:19 PM
21 hrs ago

Homan's comment is sick. "There will be more bloodshed unless we decrease the hateful rhetoric." Well guess what, the hateful rhetoric is unlikely to decrease -- especially since the President of the United States is one of the prime instigators of the hateful rhetoric -- so Homan's comment might as well just end at "There will be more bloodshed."

That's a cabinet secretary informing Americans that there will be more bloodshed. So what is the federal government's plan to decrease the hateful rhetoric?

Just last week an ICE agent shot dead a U.S citizen and mother of three in the street, and called the victim a "fucking bitch." Then the head of DHS called her a "domestic terrorist." Then the President of the United States called her a "paid agitator." Then the Vice President of the United States called her a "deranged leftist." All without knowing anything whatsoever about this woman. They spat on her dead body -- and likely put her family in danger.

So when is the hateful rhetoric going to decrease? It's not! Which means that according to the director of ICE Tom Homan, "There will be more bloodshed."

He's not talking about the President doing anything to decrease the hateful rhetoric, or the Vice President, or anyone in any position of power in the Trump Administration. He's telling regular Americans -- who have the First Amendment right to freely express their opinion about their own government -- that THEY need to decrease the hateful rhetoric.

It used to be the government's job to recognize that when the public is on edge, the government should use their power to de-escalate potentially dangerous situations. Not anymore. Now the government's job is to inflame dangerous situations for clicks and likes.

The bottom line is that Homan is saying that if you protest in a way the government doesn't like, then you can expect to be killed or injured by representatives of the government, and we should all just accept that as the new normal.

This really is sick stuff.

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Of all the Trump gang I take advice from he's the least likely to be listened to Ritabert 22 hrs ago #1
So is he offering to show us how that is done? Sarcasm in the extreme. efhmc 22 hrs ago #3
Tell that to B.See 15 hrs ago #49
Translated: "COMPLY OR ELSE!" durablend 22 hrs ago #2
Shutup or Die. C_U_L8R 22 hrs ago #4
That's what I read. orangecrush 21 hrs ago #10
Yes, we've been warned. dedl67 19 hrs ago #40
What "hateful rhetoric" did Renee Good use? Wednesdays 22 hrs ago #5
"That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you" orangecrush 21 hrs ago #8
Someone taunted Ross. intheflow 21 hrs ago #29
Taunted? stillspkg 19 hrs ago #35
Her partner yelled something like, "I was in the real military. You want a piece of us?" intheflow 17 hrs ago #44
Who is this "WE"? Fatboy needs to look in the mirror and talk to himself. CousinIT 22 hrs ago #6
Hoeman is a mushmouthed meathead Hey Joe 21 hrs ago #28
Who said, "I'm not mad at you." Who said "Fucking bitch."? tetedur 22 hrs ago #7
Exactly. orangecrush 21 hrs ago #9
They can kill people in cold blood and spew hatred. Irish_Dem 21 hrs ago #11
More projection of course NewHendoLib 21 hrs ago #12
And here I thought the problem was the wild misuse of a firearm; the real problem is the 1st Amendment, apparently. nt Gore1FL 21 hrs ago #13
Well I'll be damned.... orangecrush 21 hrs ago #14
I agree, with 3 provisos: snot 21 hrs ago #15
Wow, starting off a post with "both sides do it"??? Makes one niyad 21 hrs ago #18
you're claiming there isn't hateful (and extreme) rhetoric readily visible .. ? stopdiggin 21 hrs ago #27
Kick down speech is hateful. Kick up speech is satire or a warning. haele 20 hrs ago #30
check out some of the recent 'speech' / activity stopdiggin 20 hrs ago #31
I hate to check you there, but isn't this thread about Houman and his comments? haele 16 hrs ago #47
I responded to a post decrying stopdiggin 16 hrs ago #48
Hmmm, KoKo's song is running through my mind right now. niyad 18 hrs ago #43
Until Homan and the rest of this misadministration stop with the hateful rhetoric, madinmaryland 21 hrs ago #16
As I have said before, may this disgusting, lying, pathetic, pretend human niyad 21 hrs ago #17
Return the $50,000, Homan. Kid Berwyn 21 hrs ago #19
Hey Homan, you and your Nazi thugs go first, and tell ICEb***h Barbie to stop spreading MarineCombatEngineer 21 hrs ago #20
Yes, YOU need to... 2naSalit 21 hrs ago #21
"We have whistles. They have guns." surfered 21 hrs ago #22
"I'm not mad at you" is hateful rhetoric? karynnj 21 hrs ago #23
Hateful Rhetoric? Like, "Ilhan Omar is garbage. Somalis are garbage." MineralMan 21 hrs ago #24
They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. They're rapists and murderers. They're garbage. Solly Mack 21 hrs ago #25
Obey Or Die, as Colbert pointed out this week EarlG 21 hrs ago #26
Is he gonna go first? chowmama 20 hrs ago #32
So--SET the EXAMPLE, Mr. 50K! lastlib 19 hrs ago #33
The beatings will continue until morale improves. nt Exp 19 hrs ago #34
The witless irony of Tom Homan! struggle4progress 19 hrs ago #36
Even better - Mblaze 19 hrs ago #37
"The department's recruitment content has been widely shared by the Proud Boys and other extremists." muriel_volestrangler 19 hrs ago #38
Sure, Baron Harkonnen . . . hatrack 19 hrs ago #39
Well, then fucking stop with it, Mumbles. GoCubsGo 19 hrs ago #41
MAGA have always been promising bloodshed IronLionZion 19 hrs ago #42
The ones who are spewing the hateful rhetoric are Trump and his minions and MAGAts. raccoon 16 hrs ago #45
The beatings will continue, NameAlreadyTaken 16 hrs ago #46
Homan looks like what I imagine those that went after enslaved people JI7 15 hrs ago #50
It's his own grave JustAnotherGen 15 hrs ago #51
No, mushmouth. Hateful behavior(ICE) is johnnyfins 15 hrs ago #52
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