"Poli'ticks" MMXXVI
0No matter which political party you align with, we are all human. Can’t we all agree that federal government agents should not be killing American citizens?
Nor should the killing be justified as a response to “domestic terrorism” or falsely labeled as self defense when the video evidence CLEARLY shows the woman trying to drive away from the agents (not trying to attack them or run them over).
Keep in mind Trump recently threatened Iran for killing peaceful protesters. Oh the irony…
Trump threatens Iran over protest crackdown as deadly unrest flares
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I was wondering if anyone was going to do it! It’s really early in the year but we already have:
-A new South American colony (nothing could go wrong there);
-Threatened a war with a NATO member state; and
-And the White House added its official account of January 6, which is totally true and not a complete fabrication.
This was the most damning view of ICE murdering the woman in Minneapolis that I’ve seen
@canonizer the whole thing is just batshit. Like the current occupant of the oval office. I can’t believe this is the United States.
Hmm, I wish I hadn’t posted that video.
But there is a reason this thread died out. I don’t have any common ground with someone who supports Republicans, which believe that illegally terrorizing neighborhoods, illegally renaming arts centers for dear leader, illegally renaming departments created by statute, illegally selectively prosecuted “enemies”, illegally firing bureaucrats, illegally asking for loyalty tests for hiring, destroying the FDA, destroying HHS, leading us into an illegal occupation with Venezuela (while inviting China and Russia to do the same in their heretofore nonexistent "spheres of influence), and and and and are all OK.
All of the violence blocks out the grifting and, perhaps intentionally, the Epstein files.
But Joe Biden!
It’s some real wag the dog shit.
@canonizer why do you regret posting the video?
@klezman I’m having trouble finding it verified elsewhere
Another example of how Trump is the epitome of an egomaniac
(in case it wasn’t already obvious).
@kawichris650 Even the wording of the headline is stupid - a “snub”? You have to be in the running before a snub is even possible!
@klezman
Well, now he thinks he’s in the running for taking over Greenland (despite the NATO alliance).
He’s like a child wanting something that doesn’t belong to them. You tell the child “No, you can’t have that” and then they want it even more.
@kawichris650 I’ve got two young ones who I’ve watched grow up over the time span of both Trump presidencies. I can confirm that his behaviour most closely resembles that of 3 to 10 year olds, depending on the specifics.
I’m the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. This Is Something I Thought I’d Never Have to Write.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/opinion/greenland-trump-europe.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1A.R1qh.pz2-eZCHYZgE&smid=nytcore-android-share
Trump is a dipshit. The entire world is paying the price.
I’m not opposed to federal ICE agents lawfully arresting illegal immigrants.
However, what should citizens do when it’s the federal agents that are breaking the law?
Imagine ICE agents breaking down your door with weapons drawn and without a warrant. You are then handcuffed and forcibly removed from your home without the decency of being allowed to put on a shirt or pants.
In another example…
This video shows two Target employees at work (both American citizens) getting detained by ICE. Both employees were eventually released after their identities and legal status had been confirmed.
https://youtube.com/shorts/GNyi9gki7pQ?feature=share
And another example…
An off duty police officer was pulled over and boxed in by the vehicles of ICE agents.
And yet another example…
A man was assaulted by ICE and detained for 9 hours. Granted he was following them, but that alone is not a crime, and he was not obstructing them. ICE eventually released him and never arrested him (since he had not committed any crimes).
There have been countless cases in which federal ICE agents are not following the law; on the contrary, they are directly violating the constitutional rights of everyday American citizens. There’s no oversight, no accountability, and no consequences. This should be alarming for everyone.
@kawichris650 our government is the leading sponsor of domestic terror.
@canonizer @kawichris650 let’s not forget that all people in the United States have the same constitutional rights, with few exceptions. I think the focus on American citizens in this discussion misses the point that what they’re doing is illegal no matter who they’re doing it to.
Of course, illegal immigrants don’t have a right to stay in the country. But they do have all the other civil rights.
@canonizer @kawichris650 @klezman
It seems to be a free for all in MN right now. Hiring thousands of untrained workers to wear masks, military gear and carry weapons, then turning them loose in the streets, what could go wrong? Ugh.
And this Greenland situation is really pissing me off. Are we no better than Russia now? Taking other countries for our own, just because we want them? Trump needs to be put in check, but the very people who should do so are the ones leading him down these paths, or so it seems.
@klezman
You are absolutely right.
The reason I emphasized American citizens is because many of them might sit back and think, “Those situations won’t happen to me. I was born here, I’ve never received as little as a parking ticket, and ICE has no reason to bother me.”
Sadly that’s not the case.
ICE is stopping people indiscriminately and detaining them, without cause.
I heard someone else say it’s like Trump is using ICE as if it’s his modern-day version of the Gestapo. That was eerie, but it’s a disturbingly fitting description. Especially considering Trump has said “Hitler did some good things” and “I need the kind of generals Hitler had.”
@chipgreen Exactly!
Unfortunately it seems too many people are too afraid of putting him in check.
Our government is supposed to have three distinct branches: Legislative (Congress), Executive (President), and Judicial (Courts). That separation of power is supposed to ensure checks and balances are in place to prevent any single part from becoming too powerful.
Trump has essentially merged them together and is treating our democracy as a dictatorship.
@chipgreen @kawichris650 @klezman
I feel like everything is on the table between removing Maduro and saber rattling at Greenland. It hands Taiwan to China, Ukraine to Russia, swaths of Lebanon and Syria (and the WB/Gaza Strip) to Israel; AND puts assassination in play for any world leader anywhere in the entire world.
And the US army does not have endless resources. There are only so many aging carrier to spread around the globe.
@kawichris650 @chipgreen
To them, “cause” means your skin isn’t light enough and/or you have a non-American accent. Revolting doesn’t begin to describe it.
Trump specifically selected those people because they were sycophantic toadies. Those who weren’t necessarily that way to start (e.g. RFK) traded whatever integrity they had in their deal with Trump. Republican Senators failed the country by allowing those appointments to go through, despite the overwhelming evidence that this is what would happen.
The Fourth Amendment is apparently irrelevant to ICE.
An internal memo and whistleblower complaint reveal an ICE directive stating ICE agents can forcibly enter homes without a judge’s warrant.
Full article and link below.
https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/immigration-officers-assert-sweeping-power-to-21307655.php
By REBECCA SANTANA,
Associated Press
Updated Jan 21, 2026 5:38 p.m.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches.
The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force to enter a residence based solely on a more narrow administrative warrant to arrest someone with a final order of removal, a move that advocates say collides with Fourth Amendment protections and upends years of advice given to immigrant communities.
The shift comes as the Trump administration dramatically expands immigration arrests nationwide, deploying thousands of officers under a mass deportation campaign that is already reshaping enforcement tactics in cities such as Minneapolis.
For years, immigrant advocates, legal aid groups and local governments have urged people not to open their doors to immigration agents unless they are shown a warrant signed by a judge. That guidance is rooted in Supreme Court rulings that generally prohibit law enforcement from entering a home without judicial approval. The ICE directive directly undercuts that advice at a time when arrests are accelerating under the administration’s immigration crackdown.
The memo itself has not been widely shared within the agency, according to a whistleblower complaint, but its contents have been used to train new ICE officers who are being deployed into cities and towns to implement the president’s immigration crackdown. New ICE hires and those still in training are being told to follow the memo’s guidance instead of written training materials that actually contradict the memo, according to the whistleblower disclosure.
It is unclear how broadly the directive has been applied in immigration enforcement operations. The Associated Press witnessed ICE officers ramming through the front door of the home of a Liberian man in Minneapolis on Jan. 11 with only an administrative warrant, wearing heavy tactical gear and with their rifles drawn.
The change is almost certain to meet legal challenges and stiff criticism from advocacy groups and immigrant-friendly state and local governments that have spent years successfully urging people not to open their doors unless ICE shows them a warrant signed by a judge.
The Associated Press obtained the memo and whistleblower complaint from an official in Congress, who shared it on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive documents. The AP verified the authenticity of the accounts in the complaint.
The memo, signed by the acting director of ICE, Todd Lyons, and dated May 12, 2025, says: “Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of the General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose."
The memo does not detail how that determination was made nor what its legal repercussions might be.
When asked about the memo, Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in an emailed statement to the AP that everyone the department serves with an administrative warrant has already had “full due process and a final order of removal.”
She said the officers issuing those warrants have also found probable cause for the person’s arrest. She said the Supreme Court and Congress have “recognized the propriety of administrative warrants in cases of immigration enforcement,” without elaborating. McLaughlin did not respond to questions about whether ICE officers entered a person’s home since the memo was issued relying solely on an administrative warrant and if so, how often.
Whistleblower Aid, a non-profit legal organization that assists workers exposing wrongdoings, said in the whistleblower complaint obtained by The Associated Press that it represents two anonymous U.S. government officials “disclosing a secretive - and seemingly unconstitutional - policy directive.”
A wave of recent high-profile arrests, many unfolding at private homes and businesses and captured on video, has shined a spotlight on immigration arrest tactics, including officers’ use of proper warrants.
Most immigration arrests are carried out under administrative warrants, internal documents issued by immigration authorities that authorize the arrest of a specific individual but do not permit officers to forcibly enter private homes or other non-public spaces without consent. Only warrants signed by judges carry that authority.
All law enforcement operations — including those conducted by ICE and Customs and Border Protection — are governed by the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, which protects all people in the country from unreasonable searches and seizures.
People can legally refuse federal immigration agents entry into private property if the agents only have an administrative warrant, with some limited exceptions.
Federal agents this month rammed the door of the Minneapolis home of a Liberian man with a deportation order from 2023, who was then arrested. Documents reviewed by The AP revealed that the agents only had an administrative warrant — meaning there was no judge who authorized the raid on private property.
The memo says ICE officers can forcibly enter homes and arrest immigrants using just a signed administrative warrant known as an I-205 if they have a final order of removal issued by an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals or a district judge or magistrate judge.
The memo says officers must first knock on the door and share who they are and why they’re at the residence. They’re limited in the hours they can go into the home — after 6 a.m. and before 10 p.m. The people inside must be given a “reasonable chance to act lawfully.” But if that doesn’t work, the memo says, they can use force to go in.
“Should the alien refuse admittance, ICE officers and agents should use only a necessary and reasonable amount of force to enter the alien’s residence, following proper notification of the officer or agent’s authority and intent to enter,” the memo reads.
The memo is addressed to all ICE personnel. But it has been shown only to “select DHS officials” who then shared it with some employees who were told to read it and return it, Whistleblower Aid wrote in the disclosure.
One of the two whistleblowers was allowed to view the memo only in the presence of a supervisor and then had to give it back. That person was not allowed to take notes. A whistleblower was able to access the document and lawfully disclose to Congress, Whistleblower Aid said.
Although the memo was issued in May, David Kligerman, senior vice president and special counsel at Whistleblower Aid, said it took time for its clients to find a “safe and legal path to disclose it to lawmakers and the American people.”
ICE has been rapidly hiring thousands of new deportation officers to carry out the president’s mass deportation agenda. They’re trained at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Brunswick, Georgia.
During a visit there by The Associated Press in August, ICE officials said repeatedly that new officers were being trained to follow the Fourth Amendment.
But according to the whistleblowers’ account, newly hired ICE officers are being told they can rely solely on administrative warrants to enter homes to make arrests even though that conflicts with written Homeland Security training materials.
ICE officers often wait for hours for the person they’re hoping to arrest to come outside so they can make the arrest on the sidewalk or at the person’s work — public places where they are allowed to operate without the risk of infringing on the person’s Fourth Amendment rights.
Whistleblower Aid called the new policy a “complete break from the law” and said it undercuts the “Fourth Amendment and the rights it protects.”
@kawichris650 Waiting for the ACLU to file a suit. I wonder if standing rules will be mangled to say that nobody has standing to sue.
But I also hate how some time in the last ten years we’ve started to just say “immigrant”, as if all of us are the same. Illegal immigrants are a subset of immigrants, and the vast majority of immigrants came here the right way. Damn Newspeak.
@kawichris650 @klezman The idea that non citizens do not benefit from the protections in the constitution seems entirely novel.
Another citizen was killed by federal agents this morning.
Alex Pretti was a 37 year old that worked as an ICU nurse. He was recording video of federal agents and then he defended a woman after a federal agent pushed the woman to the ground. There are several videos of the incident and Alex is seen with his phone in his hand. Not a gun. He did have a firearm permit though and he was in legal possession of his 9mm handgun.
The federal agent claims he feared for his life and shot Alex in self defense.
Look at how many agents were surrounding Alex. Does his death seem justified?
@kawichris650 awful. Perhaps we need some foreign nations to establish a board of peace here.
Trump is using citizens as pawns and he has no regard for their life, nor the constitution.
Is this what a greater America looks like?
Is this what people wanted when they voted for him?
@kawichris650
I am sickened by the messaging coming from the federal government regarding this latest incident, significantly more than the Renee Good shooting. That incident, Good’s decision to drive away directly lead to her death, although I’m not say that was necessary or that ICE actions also helped lead to the consequences. All videos that I have seen so far, this was a citizen trying to assist someone who was pushed down by ICE, subsequently sprayed with something, beaten to the ground, and then shot when apparently an ICE agent saw a gun and freaked out. Unless there is a body cam that shows this ICU VA nurse (or has our government calls him, a domestic terrorist) actually pull his gun, I cannot believe a word that comes from this government. Even if he does pull his gun, someone could argue he was afraid for his life based on 8 individuals stomping on him while on the ground. There is no defense for what happened today, and anyone that tries to defend it is only looking at it through a political lens. I am furious at the reaction and comments from our federal government. I see very little difference from these videos to those coming out of Iran. Sickening.
@dirtdoctor
I should add that the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension had a signed judicial warrant to collect evidence from the scene and the DHS agents blocked them having access.
Kristi Noem is spreading propaganda in an attempt to whitewash the entire incident, despite the numerous videos accessible to everyone.
There is absolutely no accountability, no honesty, and no human decency.
@dirtdoctor @kawichris650 I fail to understand the surprise here. Sadly.
This is the person people voted for, even though they should have known this was what would happen.
@kawichris650 @klezman
It’s crazy if you read articles and comments on Faux News. People are actually say this individual deserved to be killed. The messaging must be working for the MAGA cult. November elections will be interesting.
@kawichris650 @klezman
Also, I love how Republicans are now saying that someone shouldn’t be allowed to carry a gun anymore. Since this person had a gun, he must be up to no good and clearly was a domestic terrorist. Hmmmm, haven’t they been the party saying for decades that carrying a gun is a 2nd amendment right?
@dirtdoctor
Exactly
@dirtdoctor @kawichris650 What, are you guys suggesting that the Republican talking points are not all said in good faith? That they might just be ways to rile people up and use anger to get votes? Nah…
@klezman
I’m not at all surprised about the ineptitude or the corruption.
However, I don’t think anyone expected Trump to use federal agents to wreak such havoc in cities throughout the country.
@kawichris650 @klezman Edit “In blue parts of the country”.
@FritzCat @kawichris650 which part are you editing?
That there’s surprise in parts of the country that voted for Trump that he’s corrupt?
@klezman
I think @FritzCat was referring to this part:
@kawichris650 @klezman Bingo.
@dirtdoctor @kawichris650 @klezman unless your name is Kyle Rittenhouse . They have selective memories. Comes from following a liar . Truth becomes relative
@dirtdoctor @kawichris650 @marjoryk Truth is now relative or just irrelevant?
@kawichris650 @klezman @marjoryk
Another thing, with all the comments about a peaceful protestor would never bring a gun, what does that mean for the tourists/visitors to the capitol on Jan. 6th?
@dirtdoctor
Exactly
@dirtdoctor @kawichris650 @marjoryk Pfft…logic schmogic.
Today I was looking at who elected Trump. It was white men. I suspect that most of those MAGAts are getting exactly what they wanted. We’re screwed.
And Klezman, everyone knew he was corrupt; there’s no surprise anywhere.
Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino was relieved of his command in Minneapolis.
The development follows intense backlash over how top federal officials, including Bovino, responded to the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti.
Bovino, citing no evidence, suggested over the weekend Pretti intended to “massacre” federal agents. Some of the claims by Bovino and other officials were contradicted by witnesses and video from the scene.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gregory-bovino-border-patrol-leave-minneapolis/
In my opinion, Kristi Noem should be relieved of her position with the DHS. Noem and Bovino echoed the same propaganda, almost as if they were reading the same script.
@kawichris650 Relieved of their posts isn’t good enough - impeached and convicted so they can never hold another office of public trust is the right call.
@klezman
I wholeheartedly agree
Also, if Trump continues down this path and things get dire enough, maybe, just maybe, enough Republicans in Congress will reach a breaking point, find their spines, and finally remove Trump from office.
I know the odds of that happening are extremely low, but as the sayings go… “Desperate times call for desperate measures” and “There’s a first time for everything.”
Let’s start this post with three VERY simple facts and finish with one simple opinion/conclusion.
Fact #1:
Kash Patel is the director of the FBI.
Fact #2:
The official mission of the FBI is:
Fact #3:
The director of the FBI doesn’t know the law regarding the 2nd amendment, and worse, is spreading incorrect information to the public during a TV interview.
Opinion:
Of all people, the f’ing director of the FBI should know the basic essentials of the 2nd amendment. Or at the very least, should take 30 seconds to Google it before opening his mouth and spewing blatantly false information to the general public. If that extremely low bar can’t be met, the person should not be the director of the FBI.
Kash Patel on Fox news:
Factual 2nd amendment info:
(Sorry for the audio and video being out of sync at times.)
@kawichris650 has Kash been right about anything ever? Facts clearly don’t stand in the way of the story this administration wants to tell.
@kawichris650 they are not serious people. rights are only for their chosen few, when convenient.
Waiting for the onslaught of Republican condemnation of the attack on Ilhan Omar. How long should I hold my breath? And also for the recognition that incendiary language may have played a part?
Oh wait…that only applies in reverse…
@klezman I have to admit, I don’t understand the reasoning behind squirting apple cider vinegar on someone (if there is any reasoning). Am I missing something?
@kawichris650 Is that what it was? I haven’t followed it much.
And for the record, her antisemitic bs can take a long walk off a short pier. I have no love for her.
@kawichris650 @klezman There are some who are reminded of a certain event involving Jussie Smollett.
@klezman
First off, when has ANY Republican called her a “Facist” or “National Socialist” or a " Threat to Democracy"??? OR said she’s committing a “Genocide” on any group?
Second, of course Republicans decried the attack. Then people with Critical Thinking skills wondered why she didn’t immediately go for medical assistance but continued her “speech”.
But hey, let’s just compare her to Kirk.
@klezman
Also, please point out ANY VIDEOS posted CELEBRATING THE ATTACK ON HER! There were thousands posted celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder by Liberals.
@klezman
Sorry, should have said “videos posted by liberals”, not “murdered by liberals”. But there were a lot of false information on Charlie Kirk used to justify his murder.
@klezman @MarkDaSpark
Trump literally said “probably had herself sprayed”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/28/trump-congresswoman-ilhan-omar-syringe-attack-minnesota/88393253007/
It’s strange that Republicans can take absolutely no responsibility for what comes from the tippy top of their party but get animated at whatever the unnamed hordes of random liberals (I do not know who you are talking about either) happen to say on youtube.
All of the “take the temperature down” stuff is directed at protesters being terrorized and not at the government weaponizing resources against the people.
@klezman @MarkDaSpark Somewhat further -
And, again, Trump had already said:
“She shouldn’t be allowed to be a congresswoman, and I’m sure people are looking at that, and she should be thrown the hell out of our country. And most of those people — they have destroyed Minnesota, OK?”
…effectively threatening to denaturalize her, which would politely be called “novel” and more casually referred to as tyrannical.
I would posit that Trump’s comments raise the temperature and foster an environment of stochastic violence leading to such incidents.
Also, many of the “incorrect” things about Charlie Kirk were just his own quotes.
@canonizer @klezman
Taken OUT OF CONTEXT! Geez, try reading other, non-biased sources!
And Ilhan? You do remember she MARRIED HER BROTHER? And her “naturalization” may have (and probably was) been fraud?
Oh, and “Tyrannical”, that would be attempting to prosecute a PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE for something no one WITH A BRAIN said was a “Crime”, the “Victims” never said it was a crime, nor was anyone EVER PROSECUTED FOR IT!
Really? None of the “DEMOCRATIC” leaders ever say ANYTHING raising the temperature? I need to find that video that shows just about EVERY DEMOCRAT saying junk EXACTLY THAT.
This is why I try to stay out of this. The Echo Chamber is astounding.
As someone else put it:
@MarkDaSpark can you find anything substantive about Omar marrying a brother?
You know that the justice department is separate from States? Trump was prosecuted in NY and Georgia. The NY case was frivolous. The Georgia case wasn’t.
And the documents case by the DOJ was a slam dunk but Garland was incompetent and SCOTUS was in the tank (hence Trump’s personal ty to Roberts).
But yeah, it’s sad that there aren’t conservatives here who want to look at the problems facing our country and have a serious conversation about them. I was the liberal in the conservative group think at wine woot in good faith. It seems like my time and compassion were wasted.
@canonizer
I feel exactly the same way. I learned a lot from those discussions, much of which informs my political outlook to this day.
Trump suggests “nationalizing” the election in 15 unnamed places. Nothing tyrannical or unconstitutional to see here.
I continue struggling to imagine the awful world republicans worried about that would have resulted from Harris’s presidency.
@canonizer Trump v. United States in the Supreme Court will eventually be regarded as worse than even Dred Scott. That’s what’s allowed all this to happen.
@canonizer
To me the question is not Harris vs Trump, as I wasn’t a big Harris fan either, but was that Republicans thought Trump was the best person to represent them during the primary process. All those folks were fine with the first administration, especially how it ended with the election lies and January 6th tourism trip to the Capitol, that they wanted him to represent them again in the presidential campaign.
@dirtdoctor Oh, that one’s a little easier in my mind. No other candidate came forward quickly so there was the republican power base foundered. Bush faded quickly. No one likes Cruz or Rubio. I can’t remember who else was on the stage. Meanwhile, Trump entertained and appealed to baser instincts.
“Republicans” crowed that Harris was a communist who was going to let criminals run free. Trump pardoned J6 insurrectionists (“rioters”) who have now joined up with ICE on a state supported campaign of terror, while tariffs continue to drag on the economy and the rest of the world is reorganizing without the US, all the while exercising the cronyiest form of capitalism by choosing winners and losers in the form of tariff waivers and, of course, grifting ACTUAL BILLIONS OF FUCKING DOLLARS FOR HIMSELF.
And it was all predicted, not even merely predictable.
But Hunter Biden.
@canonizer @dirtdoctor
You claim that, but where’s your PROOF?
Oh wait, there’s the BILLIONS OF F’ing DOLLARS MISSING IN MINNESOTA! And Timmy? Somehow managed to sideline every WHISTLEBLOWER that tried to let people know about it!
As well as the MILLIONS that ILHAN OMAR is worth now.
And remind me again exactly what Hunter did to get on ALL those Executive Boards? Other than his Dad was VP?
@dirtdoctor @MarkDaSpark
(I) Can you point to any US policy change made because Hunter was on the board of Burisma? (I don’t know what other boards he was on). Comer spent years on it. That was a great use of time and money.
Here is a very partial list off the top of my head for the Trumps - Binance pardon owns 87% of Trump’s stable coin (crypto friendly environment), UAE owns 1/2 of World Liberty Financial (gets chips), free plane (pressure on Israeli bombing throughout middle east), Eric/Jr. on the board of Vulcan (gets DOD deal).
It is totally absurd to compare Hunter Biden’s personal corruption to the Trumps. He was not in the government. He did not have clearance or special adviser privileges. That said, Hunter Biden is a degenerate (he did not need Epstein to find drugs and hookers apparently though). He certainly profited off of his last name.
(II) Please show me a congressperson whose net worth did not rise dramatically during their tenure. I’m perfectly happy to see a non tainted justice dept go after any congressperson. I heard a story that Biden was investigating her, which is believable because that justice department was not partisan hackery offering personal legal services to the president (Bondi, Patel, Pirro, et al).
I do not see Democrats standing in the way of prosecuting crime.
(III) Nick Shirley is a dipshit. The (again) non partisan hackery justice department under Biden started prosecutions against Feeding Our Future in 2022 (https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/us-attorney-announces-federal-charges-against-47-defendants-250-million-feeding-our-future).
Basically, when not ruled by a mafia styled steaming pile under Trump, the system works - not quickly or equally - but makes the effort. It’s not the “find me a crime to fit the person” existence we all live under now.
Moving this from the Clues thread:
Message? You mean the one that over 300 MILLION non-Spanish speaking didn’t get? The message that IIRC, he hates the USA? THAT MESSAGE?
Yes, the message that we need to let light and love win is needed … except that one side continues to call the other facist and tyrannical, and their “tolerance” is only towards people that totally agree with them! “Light & Love” but only when you do everything we tell you is that. Nevermind that a truly DIVERSE population includes those YOU DISAGREE WITH.
The point of the USA is yes, we are a “Melting Pot” … but of those that came here to HELP BUILD OUR COUNTRY! Hardly anyone is saying to never let anyone LEGALLY IMMIGRATE. It’s that people cutting in line are not welcome!
@MarkDaSpark It will be interesting to see if the FCC follows through on the suggestions of the illegal obscenity in his program.
@MarkDaSpark
Where do you get hates America? There isn’t a big conspiracy - the NFL is trying to expand its audience with Spanish speakers. It’s not like Harris selected the performer.
But we shouldn’t have any patience for ICE, which constantly breaks the law and makes things less safe for Americans.
@MarkDaSpark Where do you get he hate Americans. He is an American citizen. My best friend is on a green card. She was born in Germany and is more American than most people. She has applied for citizenship, but it is not a guarantee and she could lose her life here. We took this land from the Indians and we, by default are living on their land. We are ultimately the trespassers. Not Bunny, not my friend, but us. I will never understand the fact that Ice kills people.
@danandlisa
And speaking as an immigrant, I continue to scream at the radio or screen when I hear all immigrants, legal or not, lumped into a single category. I also tend to know a lot more about this country compared to most people born and raised here.
@klezman I am Scottish, England, and French. I consider myself a mixture because no one born here is American as there is really no such title. No matter where you come from, we are a beautiful and messy melting pot. My dad was a racist, until he wasn’t. My little nephew’s grandparents are from Kenya. Do I care, no. Because I am a mixed race as well.
@MarkDaSpark and no one is telling conservatives to do anything! They don’t have to get gay married, give up your guns, get abortions. They are literally free to do whatever they want.
Why isn’t “conservative media” covering the crypto grifts, free planes, Trump suing the government for $10B, etc? Where is the disagreement in the conservative party? I can point to it all over the democratic party.
@MarkDaSpark
Being one of the few conservatives currently willing to contribute, what are your thoughts on the 2020 election results and do you believe that the election was rigged and Trump should have won? If so, what evidence convinced you that was the case when multiple courts ruled against such allegations? If not, what is your reaction to Trump continuing to sow doubt into Americans’ minds about the integrity of our elections? I am truly curious to know a conservatives thoughts on this issue, as Trump’s unwillingness to honor an election result is one of the bigger issues I have with him. I have never seen any evidence that even slightly made me question the election results and that some mass fraud occurred that changed the results. Only a bunch of conspiracy theories with no evidence, just someone’s belief that something must have happened.
To my conservative friends, is it now okay for the DOJ to spy on our legislators who have oversight responsibilities of that very agency?
@dirtdoctor I should add, without a judge issued warrant.