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ananda

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18. But I think they do care about how it looks...

Reply to Harker (Reply #17)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 02:20 PM

1 hr ago

from a government and legal policy angle.

The optics on this are going to be so bad, that's why...

... even if they plan to circumvent every single safeguard
and legality written in the oath they have taken.

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ICE plans $100 million 'wartime recruitment' push targeting gun shows, military fans for hires [View all] demmiblue 5 hrs ago OP

But we have no money for food, housing, medical care, housing, science, vaccines, etc. Irish_Dem 5 hrs ago #1

And tell me how this is a "wartime" recruitment? ananda 3 hrs ago #10

Trump is not hiding the fact he is waging war against the US. Irish_Dem 2 hrs ago #12

I suppose they figured "wartime" sounded better than "open season. " Harker 2 hrs ago #15

That is true. Also, ananda 2 hrs ago #16

I'm not sure they care much about the legal definitions. Harker 2 hrs ago #17

But I think they do care about how it looks... ananda 1 hr ago #18

The rise of vigilante justice bucolic_frolic 5 hrs ago #2

military "fans" ? Like the people who cheer on our military during a war but never serve and ignore disabled veterans? ChicagoTeamster 4 hrs ago #3

People like this. Ray Bruns 4 hrs ago #5

They wouldn't fit in the clothes anyway. Or afford them. ChicagoTeamster 4 hrs ago #8

Gun nuts make the best jackboot thugs (nt) William Seger 4 hrs ago #4

"Wartime recruitment", I guess that means against us, the American public. Lord, are we in trouble. Firestorm49 4 hrs ago #6

Maybe if some of the current thugs liberalgunwilltravel 4 hrs ago #7

Don't use my American flag or the Statue of Liberty on those posters! Bayard 3 hrs ago #9

TV ad in Washington, DC, offers $70,000 signing bonus Grins 3 hrs ago #11

Just like putin opening up the prisons to supply more cannon fodder to his war machine. erronis 2 hrs ago #13

States need to record these actions lonely bird 2 hrs ago #14

Not unlike every other day a story that should be big news isn't even news. twodogsbarking 29 min ago #19