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Joe Schmoe, Troublemaker's avatar

"I'm here to kick bubblegum and chew ass. And I am all out of bubblegum."

— SNL Cold Open "J.D. Vance" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvX_02EGYl0

Nemo's avatar

If Juan Tobay Robles isn't released when Todd Lyons comes to court, Judge Schiltz should throw his ass in the slammer immediately. Contempt of court can't be tolerated. Hennepin County jail will be just fine. And make sure that everyone in the jail knows why he is there.

swmnguy's avatar

They released Mr. Robles yesterday, so Lyons get off scot-free, with impunity for his criminal behavior.

Dr Snarkington's avatar

I wish I didn’t

Mavenmaven's avatar

Think of how much we've normalized and accepted in this past year, who would have thought that we'd be negotiating how much storm troop behavior we are willing to justify legally and tolerate? When Kamala said this will happen, people thought she was fear mongering.

https://thegrio.com/2026/01/26/before-minnesota-kamala-harris-warned-about-trump-turning-against-u-s-citizens/

Trux Mint In Box's avatar

“ICE recruits don’t get that $50,000 bonus at signup, the government is not dumb. The money is a pre-tax amount broken into payments over four years, and if you drop out before two years, you have to pay the bonuses back, and still owe the income taxes.”

Yep. That’s why they are so desperate to arrest anyone they can. They have to meet quotas or they can get fired and they also get abduction bonuses. They are mostly making 20 bucks and hour and I bet reimbursement for hotels and gas and other expenses is a nightmare of red tape. I bet they barely break even. I also think there is a hierarchy of ICE goons where they form alliances to help boost their chances to make abductions. They’re all battling eachother for dollars. That’s why it’s all such a mess.

That’s why they are often seen stealing shit. I still think the guy in the gray coat with Pretti’s initial intent was to steal and sell the gun.

NH is for 🦡🍄🐍's avatar

“…which would you rather: Join ranks with the goons who keep firing off multiple rounds of rubber and metal bullets and gas in close proximity to your face, or live an honest life selling your butthole on OnlyFans?”

I’m not sure it’s an either-or choice here…but if those were my options my pink pucker would be on full display. (Sorry for that visual…)

Rooster Cogburn's avatar

Selling? How about Rent-To-Own?

lmurr's avatar

"Say hello to my little friend. His name is Donald."

goCatgo's avatar

Well Pilgrim, sumtimes ya just gotta do whut ya just gotta do.

RocktonSam's avatar

When your out of Schlitz, your out of gusto

cmd Human Scum's avatar

Wow, I had forgotten those ads and now I will hear that tune ALL DAY.

paperlesstiger's avatar

The press is failing us again. Alongside their helpful articles about how to live without any money, they need to add in some tips about how to survive attacks by Nazi Brown Shirts in a police state. Get hip to Trump's America, media.

The G-7 Experience's avatar

Maybe Bari's UBS News can give some - "The More You Know" or "Schoolhouse Rock" to give us advice about surviving ICE CPB encounters?

"M"'s avatar

They're not going to do that because they're owned by White billionaires who don't want you to see the truth

To learn those things, you're going to have to learn to listen to Black people and let Black people lead

and I don't mean "push them to the front of the protest like sacrificial lambs", either

Tough medicine for White progressives, but that's the choice

and if you're a real patriot who believes in multicultural democracy, you really already know it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WptX5i2_O1U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByE9K0YWzts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiC_nfCqaBY

swmnguy's avatar

I'd love to have some tips about how to survive attacks from Nazi Brown Shirts in a police state.

I fly home from Orlando tomorrow, so such info may come in handy.

My operating thesis to this point is to 1) hide, b) run like a mofo, 3) carry a whistle at all times, D) maybe buy and install a GoPro to mount on the dashboard of my car and wear like Flava Flav's alarm clock everywhere I go, connected to my cell phone data to stream to cloud storage.

I grew up in the sticks in a cold place where the power goes out, so I already hoard non-perishables.

A "10 Weird Tricks To Survive A Death-Squad Attack" listicle would be super-handy.

SkeptiKC's avatar

The fourth estate has failed the American people entirely. Only a select FEW independent new sites may be trusted to report appropriately verified, emperical truths on a timely basis.

"M"'s avatar

"The fourth estate has failed the American people entirely."

Because people didn't want to listen to those of us practically yelling "the antitrust laws are weak and their enforcement needs shoring up" when White billionaires were gobbling up all the mainstream media

People were telling us to "shut up" because it was "fine"

Parakeetist's avatar

Yeah.

I listen a lot to WMNF, which is out of Tampa. They have a lot of independent shows.

Pacifica Network still have stations, and they carry a lot of independent talk and shows as well.

There's also NPR.

[Redacted]'s avatar

The press? Yah mean TV? You Tube? Those blogs?

We don’t have “the press” any more. We have entertainment. That “press shit doesn’t do anything for ratings.

VwllssWndr's avatar

The press cares only about shareholders.

"M"'s avatar

It wasn't always like that

People didn't pay attention to those of us trying to tell them why the trajectory was bad

But it would be really great if people now stopped for a minute and thought about how it got like that, since it wasn't always like that

https://www.wonkette.com/p/ice-director-todd-lyons-maybe-gotta/comment/206564111

goCatgo's avatar

OT

"The US dollar stabilized on Wednesday after sliding to its lowest level in nearly four years as President Trump shrugged off concerns of an easing greenback."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gold-tops-5300-amid-weak-dollar-supercharging-rally-155015644.html

Whale Chowder's avatar

The exchange rate to Euros is brutal now. The dollar has lost some 10% of its value in the last 12 months.

"M"'s avatar

#TrumpLies

Rooster Cogburn's avatar

Vietnam standing by holding onto their Dongs

If you'll pardon the expression

goCatgo's avatar

Yep, ya need 26,133 of 'em for 1 Greenback.

Or a nice catfish for 2.

RocktonSam's avatar

Oil is up because his aramta is headed to Iran.

"M"'s avatar

People only want to pay attention to "up" or "down"

I think I'm amazed how few people see the instability itself as a flashing light

Enter Ranting's avatar

Three bankrupted casinos on lines 2 through 4.

lmurr's avatar

"What's the big deal? People keep shoving money into my pockets so everything's great!"

Parakeetist's avatar

"We can't buy shit at the grocery store. It's too 'spensive."

"Yay, Trump!"

Sherry's avatar

Until they start arresting these criminals for defying law, they’re gonna keep on doing it. Let’s see if that (ever) happens.

[Redacted]'s avatar

Let me tell you something about criminals. This is based on experience based on a life on the fringe of law enforcement. Arresting criminals doesn’t stop them from doing it. They do what they know how to do. Fact that they know that what they know how to do is self destructive doesn’t give them an option if that’s the only thing they know how to do.

gallbladder's avatar

Todd Lyins.

Yeah, I know: that was far too easy.

PrimerGray's avatar

No one looks at your season total and asks how many were empty net goals.

The G-7 Experience's avatar

You won't when you go into the pool house...

Miss Grundy's avatar

O/T: Pretti shooting witness talks about his shooting to Anderson Cooper on CNN:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3xwgrMiO7o

Miss Grundy's avatar

O/T: Two women in ICE custody save the federal agent who detained them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duzC0C9zFkI

An example of Minnesota nice.

Wokey McWokeface's avatar

His partner was just going to let him seize out.

The G-7 Experience's avatar

Was probably waiting for a priest to send the Devils out of him...

"M"'s avatar

They saved him and then he detained them

The gutpunch is in the order of the details

https://youtube.com/shorts/EJxrO0b3Pys?si=-TlAA_XZGKdpD5BE

Miss Grundy's avatar

👆👆👆This!!!👆👆👆

VaselineHabits's avatar

Please guys, stop being nice to fucking Nazis.

I understand WE don't want suffering, but please remember THEY WILL FUCKING KILL YOU. Stop being nice to abusers, it never works out

"M"'s avatar

That’s the point being made here about 100,000 times in the comments

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wj4w4VUPvkU

paperlesstiger's avatar

They should have stitched him to the upholstery.

SkeptiKC's avatar

...with a dull upholstery needle.

Smoke O'Possum's avatar

No love for staplers?

Dr. Rrrrrobotnik's avatar

As succinct an encapsulation of where "when they go low, we go high" gets us as could be asked for.

"M"'s avatar

Sorry - you don’t get to play the Blame the Black Woman Game without defining terms first

White people don’t ever want to consider the possibility they’ve fully misinterpreted the actual meaning of what Forever FLOTUS said, even when they quote her verbatim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CGYpWS4a6E

Skunk Formerly Known As Stoner's avatar

“22,000 people […] does not seem like enough to keep up the pace of terror on a population of 341 million”

It is not. The military have a rule of thumb: for an occupation to be successful, you need one soldier for every 40 residents. So they’d need to enlist at least 8 million ICE goons.

swmnguy's avatar
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And their goal to deport 10,000,000 people total; 1 Million per year, would take a decade if they were even close to their goals.

They're not even close to their goals.

They bragged last week of having kidnapped 3,000 people in the Twin Cities since the first week of December, using 15% of their total nationwide personnel. So, if we're to be generous, 6 weeks. 500 arrests per week on average. No confirmation as to whether they were actually deported, or just kidnapped, of course.

So 500 people per week? There are 52 weeks in a year. At that rate, they'd deport 26,000 people, using 15% of their resources.

Divide 26,000 by 0.15, if they used ALL 100% of their personnel, at that rate they'd arrest 173,333 people in a full year.

Not 1,000,000. Not even close.

Somebody working for Noem must have a calculator function on their laptop. So the next time she went on camera, she said they'd arrested 10,000 people in the Twin Cities since early December.

So, pretending we don't know she's a pathological liar, multiply 173,333 x 3.33.

577,200. More than halfway to their goal.

But that's with paramilitary death squad saturation tactics. And accepting their lies. And assuming that they're actually deported all the people they kidnap, which we know they're not. And knowing that they've included in their numbers people already in jail or prison, transferred to them by state and local law enforcement. And we have to consider that they've caught all the easy targets; now people are hiding, vengeful racist neighbor tips must have been used up, etc. Diminishing returns set in with a vengeance.

This entire thing is an abject failure, except to terrorize and enrage Americans, and to do as much damage to civil society in a major American metropolis.

So maybe that's their real intention? Because they've fallen flat on their face with their stated objectives.

[Redacted]'s avatar

Guys! “Their goal” is to preserve the content. They run out of content, or at least this content, they’ll have to find some other content. So they’re cool working this seam for the next ten years.

[Redacted]'s avatar

Seriously, how often do we have to remind ourselves that the gop controls all three branches. If the gop wanted to resolve the issue of illegal immigration the gop would have the power to do it. But the gop doesn’t want to solve the issue; the gop wants to preserve the issue to keep the base riled.

Also too, the gop wants us to know that we cannot stop the gop so we might as well give up.

VwllssWndr's avatar

They'll never hit their goal. I've seen the videos: it takes a half a dozen of them to snag one person.

Maybe I'm crazy but it seems to me like the way Obama and Biden handled this was more effective and a lot more efficient, but they didn't provide any white supremacist wank videos.

swmnguy's avatar

Well, any fool knows you can't send Proud Boys to do a grownup's job.

There is such a thing as professionalism. And if you think it's expensive hiring professionals, see how much it costs to hire amateurs.

VaselineHabits's avatar

I'm much more concerned about them molding our vast military industrial complex in their image.

Frankly, that is currently happening. We've got to keep the pressure from abolish ICE/Minnesota on them (Reps and MEDIA that can be swayed by pressure). There's still plenty of impeachment to go around as well as prison time for these fucks. Bovine also better not just get to retire with no punishment

Rooster Cogburn's avatar

Unemployment among White Male HS Grads hits 0%!

Wokey McWokeface's avatar

I'm not a fan of Michael Wolf, but I'm enjoying his recurring role on the daily beast podcast, dishing on the Trump royal court. News flash: Melania has a sad!

lmurr's avatar

Aww, poor thing. Reality sucks.

Joe Bacon's avatar

SHAHEEN: It's been reported that the oil sold for $500 million and $300 million went to Venezuelan government. What happened to the other $200 million?

RUBIO: It's still sitting in the account is my understanding

SHAHEEN: The account in Qatar?

RUBIO: Yes

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mdim7g6g4n2u

Now how much of that 200 million went into Trump's pocket? 🤔

Eileen's avatar

All of it, Katie....

Hops: grrrr mad's avatar

"That money was just resting in my account, before I moved it on..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9wCMSSjTKk

Les Bontemps's avatar

And why is it in Qatar?

[Redacted]'s avatar

Qataris won’t talk.

Georgiaburning's avatar

How much did they say that shitbox 747 was worth?

The G-7 Experience's avatar

The Qatari's couldn't unload it on the market.

Stulexington's avatar

And is that the same account Jared manages?

Wokey McWokeface's avatar

"The account" *is* Trump's pocket.

paperlesstiger's avatar

He is setting up slush funds all over the world. There will never be a full accounting.

VaselineHabits's avatar

JFC, THEY ARE RUBBING IT IN OUR FACES

No quarter, no mercy

VwllssWndr's avatar

People voted for this. They didn't care about the crime.

Dina's avatar

Allofitkatie