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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

I read the Guardian article on the trauma inflicted on the 15 year old in Los Angeles and ICE Barbie's (the one with the melting face, remember?) response to the lawsuit. They are not just arresting dangerous felons. The are arresting anyone who looks like an immigrant and we all know it. The ICE people are simply jack-booted thugs and a big paycheck from Trump, not patriotism or a sense of duty, is the reason. You would think Putin was in the Oval Office from all the destruction this country is experiencing.

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Michael's avatar

Just when you think the red hat idiocy plague can't get worse..

Maybe "Puppy-killet" Noem can put on a hard hat and join the fire line.

Be useful for a change

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Valerie Starr's avatar

One can only hope that Dolly Madison’s ghost haunts the gilded abomination known as 1600 PA Ave, tells Mother Nature to work her magic with thunder and lightning, and burns the Chicken Ranch fka the White House so that trumpty dumpty has to move in with jd and company and the garden can be restored to it’s Jackie heyday. Don’t think we’ll see Melaria rescuing the orange menace’s portrait will we! Let potable Pete be a volunteer fireman for the WH (he doesn’t drink water anyway). It’s revealing of the inner skank and rot that is our current government that raiding firemen is in their playbook. Stop being astounded by this charlatan and focus on kicking him, his soft core porn wife and their pedo cohorts out of office , Congress and the Courts.

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Jill Clarkson's avatar

To all those who voted against your better judgment and put this monster and his monster mod in power Shame on you. Act in haste. Repent at leisure. You've sent us all into this dark nightmare of a world and he's only just getting started. I see no way of recovering for many years. I just hope youve not also sealed the fate of your sons, daughters and grandchildren to a future of war and loss of planet.

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Kirsty Gnome-Poledance Himmler's avatar

Really a shame they weren't in position to turn the hoses on them.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Dok. No, Seattle Times, it's not unusual. It's unheard of, and for good fucking reason! Now I have to hope I didn't give myself a Tom Jones earworm.

Remember, kids, at every protest, lead the chant: Epstein. Epstein! Epstein!! EPSTEIN!!! EPSTEIN!!!!

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Doktor Zoom's avatar

Wow, can't believe we let this sucker go so long without noticing I forgot my damn byline again. Fixed!

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

If you worked for the Chump administration and did that, they'd promote you.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

You;re obv talking to me. I seem to be falling down on the jerb.

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Granny's Delusions of Grandeur's avatar

Because of the clever wordplay and missing byline, I'm assuming Dok wrote this.

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Hannah's avatar

For those of you who aren't familiar, this is in the back country. It's visited by tourists and previously park rangers.

It's a fire in steep terrain. They were looking for someone.

I have a kid who lives on the lake. They are getting a bit tired of me asking about their welfare. It's so far away from civilization the smoke hasn't reached people. These were CPB fuckers.

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Doktor Zoom's avatar

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting had nothing to do with this! (And don't feel bad about the slip; when the GOP killed CPB I got the initials reversed several times per draft)

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Hannah's avatar

Oh I'm not at all embarrassed. Sheee-it

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Androgenous AF's avatar

I'd hate to think if these border agents (which border exactly?), get in trouble behind/between the fire lines...

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Mexfiles's avatar

Do you really expect firefighters to be carrying their passports, green cards, whatever when they're out there in the wilderness?

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pskbh's avatar

No one would

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Just_Jim's avatar

No one sane would. But that leaves ICE

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pskbh's avatar

I keep wondering where they go home at night.

How was your day today, Honey?

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underwriter505's avatar

So has anyone hearde a peep from Bob Ferguson? (I had to look him up. I missed it when Jay inslee moved to Idaho.) I live in Colorado, and we do have wildfires here, and if this happened in my state I would expect to hear from my governor loudly.

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Queen Méabh's avatar

I can't believe I'm going to say this, but what a pity that firefighters aren't armed.

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pskbh's avatar

No you really don't want that. Fire + ballistic devices = caca.

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Queen Méabh's avatar

They could use water cannons, though.

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pskbh's avatar

No, fire crews don't have water. They have shovels, and if they're lucky they have air support dumping water to protect them and retard the advance of the fire.

ICE could be raking though, like the National Guard is picking up litter. There's an idea!

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Lesley Houghton's avatar

Our government is insane.

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Colbert Thorenson's avatar

If they ever line me up and ask to see my papers, my pants are coming down and they are going to be leafing through some serious moose knuckle looking for my country of origin.

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Viole Falusche's avatar

I'm crowding eighty, so it's quite possible that I won't live to see any return of sane federal government to this country. But if I do, I'd also love to see all the "ICE agents" involved in this event hog-tied with barbed wire and shipped to The Hague.

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pskbh's avatar

Sent to the fire line first. I didn't say *firing* line.

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