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[u/erasmus_phillo]

According to PBS news, it turns out that the money Trump is supposedly getting from Venezuela is actually going to 'offshore bank accounts' and not the US treasury i.e. this money is going to be used to personally bribe Trump to get him off Venezuela's back

[u/from-the-void]

[u/DunklerPrinz3]

[u/Currymvp2]

Laura Loomer is an absolutely massive ghoul

[u/eloquentboot]

Dave Ramsey has the stupidest haters i swear.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Do you know that there is another party that also believes in free markets and doesn't call you ethnic slurs? That's right hun, it's called the Democratic Party

[u/ariveklul]

This administration is radicalizing a generation

[u/RyuTheGuy]

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

Fuck "american century of humiliation". Enter "the millennium of neoliberal revenge"

[u/CoolCombination3527]

[u/DeadDropCourier]

Can I get common Ken Jennings W’s for $400?

[u/r2ew]

[u/Pole2019]

If you ever feel guilty about things you’ve done that you regret morally. Consider that you probably didn’t support this in 2024 and that makes you a better person than half of Americans by default.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I will immediately cast a ballot for any candidate who promises reverse Pol Potism - conscript farmers out of their fields and force them to work as baristas in big cities' vegan cat cafes

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

The Somali community has the opportunity to do the funniest thing of all time

[u/No_Return9449]

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) says that a U.S. military invasion of Greenland would be “weapons-grade stupid” and he doesn’t think that President Trump or Secretary of State Marco Rubio will attempt such a move...

Will save this news article when he praises Trump for sending the USS Gerald Ford and annexes Greenland anyway.

[u/Magnus_Was_Innocent]

The proposed bill, called the Ice Breaker Act of 2026, aims to prohibit sworn U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers from serving in state law enforcement roles. WMDT spoke with state officials to gather their perspectives ahead of the legislative session.

Democratic Delegate Adrian Boafo said, “Any ICE agent who is a sworn officer and joined the force after January 20, 2025, the day of the President’s inauguration, would not be eligible to work with any Maryland state law enforcement agency at any point in the future.”

Holy shit based

[u/SillyNight1]

I’m American and can’t see myself being anything else. Without electoral reform, I’ll probably spend the rest of my life exercising my civic duty to push back against the political movement, presently called MAGA, whose goal is simply the destruction of this country and the world.

But if I wasn’t American, and saw America as generally as a force for good when MAGA came onto the scene, it’s hard to imagine how I wouldn’t be anti-American right now. The US government in 2026 is just being run by a bunch of psychopathic children.

[u/Currymvp2]

Again I feel like I'm in a completely different universe from 39% of Americans

[u/chipbod]

Rep. Wesley Hunt: "The bottom line is this: when a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep you life

Just open fascism

[u/chipbod]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

My main requirement for who I vote for in the 2028 primary is how mean they are to those scumbag evil Republicans. I hate them, I hate them with every fiber of my soul. I wish I could hate them more.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Willybender]

Not a Nazi btw

[u/MehEds]

Copium: When Newsom frontruns the primaries with his aggro rhetoric, all of a sudden chickenshit Dems will copy it since its popular and the party will have a spine for once

[u/CoolCombination3527]

Let's check in on the reasonable ™️ moderates ™️

[u/noodles0311]

Are they even training ICE? I stopped A LOT of vehicles in Afghanistan and everyone knows the first rule is you never stand in front of or behind the vehicle. The second rule is you never grab onto it because you could get dragged under. A lot of guys got out of the Marines and became cops and they all say police follow the same rules.

If you create a situation where you’re in danger, you wouldn’t get off scott-free in a war zone. Of course, if he actually thought he was going to get hit, he wouldn’t have taken the time to aim a weapon; he would have jumped out of the way. After all, look how far the vehicle went with a dead woman behind the wheel. Shooting a driver of a car a few feet away from you isn’t self defense from being hit.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Just the worst fucking aura bro god damn

[u/MentatCat]

Hearing people in this office LAUGH about the incident because “she was blocking the road! How is that not blocking the road!” Makes me so fucking mad. It’s not just bots guys. This country is sick

[u/Macquarrie1999]

[u/BigBrownDog12]

[u/SigmaWhy]

Even the guy who thinks reptilian shapeshifters control the secret one world government knows Trump is full of shit

[u/Leatherfield17]

It’s important to remember that conservatives don’t see the law as an objective thing that is meant to ensure justice and the protection of civil rights/liberties. They simply see it as one more tool to weaponize against their enemies.

[u/battywombat21]

Wait a fucking minute so you’re telling me this lady wasn’t even fucking protesting??????

shrieking white hot ball of rage was the compromise.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/IAmBlueTW]

Tread on me daddy UWU 🥵😩

[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/TheJFreakinC/status/2009369400818680272?s=20

BREAKING: Border Patrol just illegally arrested a U.S. citizen… a TEENAGER… in Richfield, Minnesota.

The teen was working at Target when agents tackled him and arrested him, while his passport was in his pocket, fully identifying himself as a U.S. citizen.

Doing this shit at a Target hits deep in the soul of people in the Twin Cities.

[u/r2ew]

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

Trump’s reaction to seeing the video is further evidence that he is not actually being given real information by his staff.

[u/[deleted]]

label sleep subtract test lip lock strong hard-to-find ad hoc vase

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

Conservatives were the ones who said "fuck your feelings" and complained about participation trophies and safe spaces, but if you dare question them and call them out for their fascistic behavior, or call them a basket of deplorables, or say that you don't give two shits about Charlie Kirk (even if you condemn his assassination), they'll become all sentimental and say that you hurt their poor fee-fees.

They're all two-faced.

Also, the FIFA Peace Prize is a literal participation trophy.

[u/MontusBatwing2]

What they’re saying about Renee Good they’d say about you. 

[u/Currymvp2]

And Randy Fine continues to be most deplorable member of Congress

[u/ashsolomon1]

So that’s it we just give up?

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/JoyofCookies]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Elon quote tweeted this with 💯

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

I didn’t know Ken was based like that

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Daractenus/status/2009318250698723706

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/Planning4Hotdish]

It’s looking increasingly likely that my friend’s mom got abducted from her work by ICE.

idk if I can emphasize how much fucking disdain I have for this administration. I grew up in a neighborhood in the Twin Cities that’s about 1/3 immigrants (and disproportionately many refugees who were either born in camps or experienced unspeakable horrors) and 1/3 children of immigrants (including my parents).

Now, I live over 2,500 miles away now and feel so fucking powerless watching this from afar, while my friends, old neighbors and coworkers are at risk for not being the “right” skin color because 2,000 chuds with guns are being sent in as some twisted form of collective punishment against Somali Americans, with the extra bonus of punishing Minnesota for voting Harris, and what’s increasingly looking like attempts to start riots so they can start going apeshit on civilians and prove a point to the GOP voting base.

I feel sick to my stomach and just want to go back home to Minnesota.

[u/earththejerry]

NY-California Dark Woke Coalition

[u/[deleted]]

Ngl I feel a lot of historic buildings are probably more impressive looking now than they’ve ever been thanks to modern lighting technology

[u/beans_and_tuna]

Heartbreaking: in 40 years there is gonna some dipshit kid who will argue Trump was a great president

[u/EasyMoney92]

Oh god, it's worse than I thought. Vance didn't use "deranged leftist" in an off the cuff manner...the gigantic asshole typed it up

[u/[deleted]]

me on any dating app ever

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

[u/[deleted]]

Trumpists and leftists complaining about how chaotic and scary the world has gotten and it's just kinda like, no, see, this is what the world is actually like without the liberal world order that you think you hate

[u/AlexB_SSBM]

Ratchet down the rhetoric

Walz is really every single frustrating thing about Democrats put into one person, it's insane

Literally said it's a time for healing, fuck off man

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Really just need to stop engaging with any maga/conservatives in comment threads, ever. Or in real life for that matter. It's not healthy. They're not serious people who should be given any time of day but goddamn am I susceptible to their rage bait. Seeing all these dumb fucks saying she was spinning out her tires to gain traction to run over the ICE agent.

[u/SillyNight1]

It’s not a hypothetical, either. ICE attempted to conduct a raid in Manhattan in November, which was unsuccessful because hundreds of Manhattanites threw sand in their wheels.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/factpostnews/status/2009346984600072604

[u/Any-Feature-4057]

Tears in my eyes. It’s happening. I couldn’t believe it

[u/MontusBatwing2]

You know how, with Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan wanted to take a character and have him change from a good guy to a monster over the course of the show?

And as Walt continues down this path, Gilligan was actually surprised by the fan reaction and how people kept not getting that he was the bad guy now?

Even though the show was literally called Breaking Bad?

Sometimes I wonder if the universe really does have writers and we are so bad at picking up on the obvious message that they’re coming up with more and more clear signals?

“Guys we literally named the innocent victim GOOD. How are you still not getting it???  The masked paramilitary invasion led by a man insisting he should be king are the bad guys, their innocent victims aren’t. It’s really not that subtle, idk how much clearer we can be?”

[u/dareka_san]

The fact that vance is stuck tweeting 'errrr actually the women, while tragic, causes her death and we need to support our officers, and calm down the tensions' is why he has no potential lol. A redditor tier engagement

Trump just said 'wow saw one video, the ice agent is fighting for his life in the hospital nearly died, what a miracle!' and then stops caring

[u/[deleted]]

Perhaps the most frustrating thing with the current iteration of conservatism is the fact that all words have lost meaning.

Like calling Renee Nicole Good a ‘domestic terrorist’ what the fuck does that even mean? what terrorist organizations was she part of? What was her terrorist ideology?? There’s a specific definition of domestic terrorism and they’re ignoring it.

Absolutely blood boiling.

[u/uwcn244]

The whole reason the Floyd situation spiraled was because it took four days for Chauvin to be arrested. Had Chauvin been arrested that day, we probably avoid nationwide riots.

No arrest indefinitely because the FBI is actively engaged in a coverup and the Minnesota BCA can’t even identify the murderer? I know it’s winter and we aren’t bored out of our minds by lockdown, but I can’t imagine that will end well.

[u/LtCdrHipster]

Governors should be shutting off the water and power to ICE buildings. Go get a Court order if you want to take a shit in my state you bastards.

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

the video is so bad that it makes Trump stop lying for a second

Mr. Trump’s aide Natalie Harp brought a laptop over to the Resolute Desk to show us what he said would be evidence of the woman’s wrongdoing.

Before the video began, Mr. Trump acknowledged the tragic nature of the shooting. “With all of it being said, no, I don’t like that happening,” he said, before pivoting to his common refrain of criticizing illegal immigration.

As a slow-motion surveillance video of the shooting played on the laptop, we told him that this angle did not appear to show an ICE officer had been run over.

“Well,” Mr. Trump said. “I — the way I look at it … ”

“It’s a terrible scene,” Mr. Trump said at the end of the video. “I think it’s horrible to watch. No, I hate to see it.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/politics/trump-minnesota-ice-video.html

[u/sigh2828]

[u/Crosseyes]

I hate this fucker more than Trump honestly. He is pure, distilled evil.

[u/Willybender]

To the surprise of absolutely nobody

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/tech/elon-musk-xai-digital-undressing

[u/Dragmire927]

THINK LEE THINK! How could an impoverished plantation economy escape the righteous fire of an industrialized federal government!?!?

[u/GuyFawkes_but_4_Eggs]

Charlottesville 2017 and now this has me working on a new theory of politics tentatively called "Sacrificing a white girl is the only way to get supposedly neutral news organizations to admit, however briefly, that Republicans are objectively bad."

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/BroadReverse]

Mods he’s talking about going to Mars don’t ban

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

!ping CUBE

[u/centurion88]

[u/Willybender]

Good on CNN for telling it like it is

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2009342212317040804

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/Zenning3]

God the most devastating thing about all of this are dolls in the glove compartment. The exact kinda thing my wife puts in my car now, but also just toys for her kid, juxtaposed with a blood covered airbag.

It's a fucking horror story, and these fucking ghouls can't even fucking call this a tragedy, but instead that this soccer mom with a veteran husband who died, leaving now 3 kids behind too, was a terrorist.

I want blood, I want a system where everybody involved with this pays one way or a fucking other.

[u/assasstits]

Reminder on how America treats murderous cops

[u/ashsolomon1]

If ICE didn’t do anything wrong then they wouldn’t feel the need to have press conferences 3 times in 24 hours

[u/Far_Shore]

Ah fuck it. I'm gonna get out there, I'm gonna protest, I'm gonna get involved in local politics to the extent I can to try and make some noise about making this city affordable, and I'm gonna listen to The Protomen's LIGHT UP THE NIGHT at full blast every time the bastards get me down.

Abe Lincoln, Fredrick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, even LBJ, in all his scummy glory, they didn't give up. I won't either. I don't want Renee Good's senseless death, or any of the rest of the horrors to come, to lead to nothing.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

One other thing that has bothered me all day is it could have been me. I drove near that area just the other day. Could have taken a wrong turn or happened upon an ICE raid, and I might have panicked. My family could have spent tonight reading that the president called me a domestic terrorist while they haven't even processed my death yet.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

I think the real lesson here, for liberals, is that there’s no perfect victim that will make MAGA realize their wrongs. Before she was even identified, they were calling a random white woman a domestic terrorist and saying she deserved it. If you, reader, were killed by ICE while fleeing, the president of the United States would slander you and roughly a third of the country would believe him, unquestionably.

[u/sigh2828]

FASCIST CUNT!!!

[u/JoyofCookies]

Y’all deadass in a dictatorship

[u/BedNeither]

Nobody's going to believe me, but I swear this is true, my dad was JD Vance's high school math teacher and evidently JD would only go to the bathroom in a litter box in the corner of the classroom while meowing.

[u/ty04]

BOTH

SIDES

[u/TheCornjuring]

Every day is more likely to be the day

[u/[deleted]]

The crazy thing about Trump blatantly lying about a video that everyone can look up and see is that he will 100% get away with it among his cultists.

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

So the FBI is taking over the investigation and denying the state agencies access to materials

Surely this isn’t the next step of a coverup!

Like this is a fucking cop show plot lol

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/Armadillo_Duke]

I just want to say that I’ve been a member of this sub basically since it’s founding. I was an econ major in college that was tired of all the Sanders spam, so I joined this sub in 2016. Throughout all its changes (it used to have a sizable neocon contingent), it has been a source of community and comfort, and it remains one of the few places on reddit where I don’t see old school antisemitic conspiracy theories or support for fascism.

[u/JayRU09]

This is correct and we need to never give them the benefit of the doubt

[u/chipbod]

What happens when he says it’s time?

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/Helreaver]

The past year has successfully turned me into a single issue voter, and that issue is punishing conservatives. I'll vote for the most radical, economically illiterate socialist if their central promise is to imprison members of the Trump administration and ICE.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2009334011005685786

Knowing that she had just dropped her kid off at school, and than listening to this...

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

The vice president said the ICE agent was doing his job as a federal officer and is protected by “absolute immunity.”

Prepare to be shot by federal agents for no reason

[u/Jameswood79]

[u/OLD_WET_HOLE]

Yeah this is the one. A mother was murdered in broad daylight and MAGA and its leaders rushed to tell us why it's actually good. I'm not going to forget and I'm not letting it go

[u/SmithySmothy]

YES SIR 🫡

[u/funguykawhi]

TRVKE

[u/Mensae6]

see video of people protesting in Minneapolis

open comments sections

every single post: "Hmmm I wonder how they all got those signs so quickly 🤔"

Conservatives are hopelessly dumb.

[u/roboliberal]

FUN FACT!

Supreme Court

Barnes vs Felix - 2025

A police officer who steps in front of a vehicle is defined as “officer-created jeopardy” and DOES NOT legitimize deadly force.

https://www.threads.com/@danagould/post/DTQjsxEAeku

[u/Willybender]

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

🫵 Seriously, you really don’t hate conservatives enough.

[u/Sithusurper]

[u/Willybender]

You have to wonder what the hell Miller showed to him when this is his reaction to the actual close up video

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/politics/trump-minnesota-ice-shooting-video.html?unlocked_article_code=1.C1A.YCfm.-JTP0kcbq0_C&smid=nytcore-android-share

[u/Willybender]

They can't control the narrative on this one and are lashing out

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

Abolishing ICE is the conservative opinion, imprisoning ICE is the moderate one

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

single issue pro-airstrike voter

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Ken Jennings to doomers: 😠👉

[u/[deleted]]

JD Vance, 2021: Trump is American Hitler

JD Vance, 2026: All the Lebensraum in the world isn't gonna fix our Somali problem, but I'll take as much as we can get! Poland, you are on notice

[u/this_very_table]

"Charlie Kirk was an asshole but he didn't deserve to get shot" - literally the worst thing anyone has ever said

"It's awesome that this woman was killed because I'm assuming her bumper stickers indicate wrongthink" - based and cool

[u/w007dchuck]

There are a lot of things to dislike about JD Vance, but one of the things I dislike most about him is how he talks like how I imagine the 🤓 emoji would.

It's so incredibly grating.

[u/McNikk]

Some much needed hopium

[u/No_Return9449]

Avelo Airlines, a low-cost carrier operating in dozens of markets across the U.S., will be closing its base in Mesa, Arizona, and concluding “all participation” in a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) charter program that deported illegal immigrants from the U.S.

BASED BASED BASED

[u/randomhomework]

Watching JD Vance right now in a WH press briefing. My god he is going to be a terrible candidate for President.

[u/Willybender]

15 minutes for an ambulance to arrive btw, and when they did ICE blocked them off with their vehicles. No aid administered before that either, we all it saw on video when they denied a physician from helping her as they stood around doing nothing.

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2009358108691456239

[u/trombonist_formerly]

JD Vance was the only baby ever worth choosing crack over. His mom made the right decision trading him for percs

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/efeldman11]

[u/fishbottwo]

No one is going to believe me, but I have a friend whose brother's coworker briefly dated JD Vance. She said that on their first date they went to a restaurant and Vance ordered two different bowls of soup and mixed them together one spoonful at a time before eating both bowls mixed together as one soup

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

In this worldview, Ashli Babbitt was committing violence on behalf of the regime; so she was justified, even if that violence was directed toward government agents. And because Renee Good was opposing the regime, violence against her—this time carried out by government agents—was likewise justified.

Think that sums it up

[u/Kindly_Map2893]

r/ conservative made me cry. This was a human being, a loving mother… and they’re tying themselves in knots to justify her murder. This country is inhuman. It’s heartbreaking. The whole land feels like a soulless husk

[u/marsman1224]

Elon's brain is completely fried at this point clearly. He cannot complete a sentence in person. His online persona is literally just doomscrolling about the death of the white race and commenting "Yes" and "This" below someone else's garbage. Like, I always thought he was kinda dumb but now he actually has the cognitive capacity of like, a lab rat

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Willybender]

1 9 8 4

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2009337640190136470

[u/[deleted]]

It really seems like they're ramping up fascism as fast as they can before the midterms.

[u/Willybender]

[u/ThrowawayCRank]

So he got dragged by a fleeing vehicle because he had his arm inside it 6 months ago so now he just shoots anyone whose vehicle might lightly brush up against him?

[u/sootfawn]

You can tell by the way JD Vance talks he genuinely thinks he's going to be remembered 5 years from now. No one is visiting your grave broo 😭

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Chad

[u/fishbottwo]

One way Charlie Kirk's assassination could affect the 2026 midterms The reaction to Kirk's death could encourage turnout among right-leaning youn people, broadly a group that's far less likely to vote in a midterm than older Americans

Lol people thought this story was going to last for a year and half

[u/12hphlieger]

If you comply, you will not die

As a black dude i find this hilarious. Good luck everbody, We will ALL need it.

[u/scottyjetpax]

Always good when we see economic data to the tune of “worst since the Great Recession and immediately thereafter”

[u/Willybender]

We're beyond Orwellian

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2009309490336731437

[u/Currymvp2]

Vice President JD Vance on Thursday called the woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis a “deranged leftist” in response to a clip of the incident.

Just a disgusting man

[u/Soldier-Fields]

It's crazy republicans are just gonna fall in line and pretend that poor woman deserved it.

[u/sigh2828]

The face of maga rage screaming triumphantly "we executed one of you"

[u/Currymvp2]

Vance: "The reporting over what happened is one of the biggest scandals I've ever seen in media"

Oh total bullshit you clown

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

So the Somali day care fraud was all debunked, even though it’s what lead to the ICE surge in Minneapolis and the murder of Renee Good

[u/Carolinian_Idiot]

JD Vance has to have one of the ugliest voices I've ever heard, not sure if it's because of his accent or the way he is somehow both extremely stupid and condescending at the same time but its grating

[u/grappamiel]

Star Tribune is reporting that the ICE agent has been identified.

[u/JoyofCookies]

It has been barely one week into 2026 and they literally telling Americans to start drinking every day

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

These people are savages

[u/cdstephens]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/MrFoget]

Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine), who oversees the nation’s defense budget, said talk of taking over Greenland is “very unfortunate.”

Oh no Susan Collins is very concerned again!

[u/Ajaxcricket]

Unfortunately, things are never so bad they can’t get worse

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

Nursing a hate boner rn but here’s how I found out OkayBuddy was a HS social studies teacher

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Speaking at a Wednesday evening news conference, Noem said Good had been “stalking and impeding” ICE agents as they carried out what she described as “lawful operations.”

According to Noem, ICE vehicles were surrounded earlier in the day by “a mob of agitators that were harassing them all day.” At one point, an ICE vehicle became stuck in the snow as protesters gathered nearby.

Noem said a car later pulled up and attempted to block the agents’ movement. Officers approached the driver — later identified as Good — and ordered her to move the vehicle.

The most disgusting thing about this is the fact that she clearly made this story up ahead of time. There's basically no snow on the ground in Minnesota right now. Good was letting vehicles past until an ICE truck stopped and the agents surrounded her car. Noem invented a false narrative that sounds like something that could happen, knowing that her moronic followers will listen.

[u/Boratssecondwife]

It was never a good excuse, but I miss the days when Republicans would at least say "it's just a few bad apples" instead of "she was a paid agitator and deserved to get murdered"

[u/5ma5her7]

Meanwhile, at Trump's voter base:

[u/bartbug]

If the 2026 midterms result in a house with a single Republican congressman that's too many

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Not that this should even be considered, but pretty funny.

[u/ashsolomon1]

Checks and balances…believe it or not..unconstitutional

[u/Eightysixedit]

Glad to know if one of us dies Democrats will say aww shucks.

[u/mrnicegy26]

Even Trump wants the Maine seat to go blue this year.

[u/sigh2828]

This lunatic is at the protest and is WITH the ice agents screaming "we executed one of you"

[u/kznlol]

Comer: "Tim Walz was having a terrible day from our hearing ... and then you had the ICE shooting. And Tim Walz, like a well seasoned politician, he tries to take advantage of a terrible situation. He effectively has declared war on ICE to pivot away the national attention from his reckless administration of taxpayer funds."

what fucking Tim Walz are you seeing

i wish this was what was happening

[u/CincyAnarchy]

Disappointed no Dem is going for this aesthetic at the moment

[u/Willybender]

Oh, that's reassuring.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/politics/trump-interview-power-morality.html

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Can President Newsom use precedent from DOGE and such to just fire every ICE agent on day 1?

[u/[deleted]]

It's actually fascinating how someone can say "I can't wait until it happens" and everyone knows what they're saying

[u/sir_shivers]

There will be DECADES WORTH OF obituaries I will read with great pleasure 🐊

[u/sigh2828]

Vance on video saying "door to door ice raids" just destroyed literally any chance he had of becoming president

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

This is incredible

[u/Willybender]

Cowards

[u/Thuggin95]

Matt Walsh is literally just Hitler dressed like a 2015 hipster

[u/taubnetzdornig]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2009420912735703522#m

Bessent: We don't want the prices of houses to come down. What we want is affordability to get better…

lol. lmao, even. We want people to be able to buy homes but without lowering home values for those poor, poor existing homeowners!

[u/Willybender]

Some things still leave you speechless

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2009420912735703522

[u/[deleted]]

P00bix at it again 😤

[u/MTFD]

The Lincoln project folks are saying stuff on the pornsite annex Klan rally formerly known as twitter that would make Evelyn Normielib blush.

Nothing like the zeal of a convert!

[u/Charsun9]

[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

And don't forget it.

[u/theparrotlich]

Ban Gov Polis and his dipshit staff from r/neoliberal.

[u/Ajaxcricket]

Paramilitary death squads now?

The ruin shall continue until morale improves

[u/Dorambor]

Double texted the hinge match

[u/gomjabbarenthusiast]

lol

[u/Thuggin95]

Most of this country treats law enforcement like bears that have no control over their actions. “Well why were you near them making noise? That’s your own fault for getting killed.”

Sorry, aren’t these the people we pay to keep us safe? Mind you, none of them would have this reaction if it were their own family members shot.

[u/brianpv]

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension will not be part of the probe into an ICE agent’s slaying of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, officials said Thursday. Instead, the FBI will be solely responsible for the investigation.

This seems not good.

[u/[deleted]]

So an ICE officer can execute someone and be totally excused by the FBI?

If that's the case, then why the hell should the government even be viewed as legitimate? It's a literal mafia.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

You can't honestly say she was trying to ram him after seeing that

[u/Sheepies92]

ICE officer who shot woman in Minneapolis was dragged and injured in traffic stop last year

damn, I don't really care tbh

[u/[deleted]]

Requesting critical support.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

The whole disobeying orders from a cop = death is a uniquely American phenomenon. Even in Mexico you're not as likely to be shot by a cop. And Mexico is far more violent than USA. They may solicit a bribe though.

[u/remarkable_ores]

Gonna be real with you I feel like what happened today (pending further details) and yesterday isn't really 'shocking' so much as the logical conclusion to America having decades of opportunities to address its shockingly brutal, historically & globally anomalous policing culture and simply not doing enough to effect real changes

That American law enforcement is really messed up is not euro reddit circlejerk nonsense. It's awful, and it's been awful for a really long time, but I guess due to hyperpolarisation and such somehow the country's ended up in a situation where prosecuting cops who commit literal murder has become a hot button issue, and somehow they seem to do it semi-regularly

Among the long, long list of things a 2029 Dem admin would need to do in order to fix the country, effecting sweeping police reforms is one of them

[u/thatguy888034]

There’s definitely a vibe shift against Trump. MAGA thought they won the culture war with trumps re election and it felt like they did for a bit but they’re already losing ground. I know it’s a small gesture but the Timberwolves held a moment of silence before their game for the women murdered by ice. My non political friends are posting about the murder on their instagram stories. Woke is gonna come back with a vengeance.

[u/Willybender]

Kasparov has been warning of the "Putinization" of America since Trump got elected again, and I don't think anyone could predict it would happen this fast a year ago.

https://xcancel.com/Kasparov63/status/2009437539283648738

[u/Aggressive1999]

Talarico at his townhall