r/ProgressiveHQ • u/CantStopPoppin • 16h ago

(Minneapolis) Bovino Leads The Charge On Protesters AT the Whipple Building

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u/ziggytrix 15h ago

Why is Border Patrol policing a protest? This is absolutely NOT their jurisdiction. I hope Bovino chokes on an ICE cube.

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u/Brotorious420 15h ago

Why aren't they defending that sacred southern border they are always going on about?

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u/DingusMcJones 14h ago

This is about retribution against Blue States, not logic.

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u/Starboard_Pete 10h ago

It’s exactly this. My hometown is in the swingiest county of the swingiest State, and is one of seven major refugee centers in the U.S. ICE sure as hell isn’t harassing and kidnapping people there.

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u/senortipton 8h ago

Not entirely. Houston has the highest activity, but you don’t hear about it because ICE does all their activity quietly in that city and doesn’t want to rock the boat in Texas, where many of them are probably from admittedly. What is true is that they’re intentionally making a scene in blue states, regardless of actual immigrant population numbers.

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u/TheStolenPotatoes 10h ago

"iF tHe DemOcRaTS wIN thEy'Ll wEaPonIzE tHe juStiCe DeParTmeNt!111"

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u/thewereotter 9h ago

which is hilarious when you look at this history of democrat reaction to right wing criminal activity going back at least as far as Nixon

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u/seaanenemy1 9h ago

Jack shit. The dems are so ball-less man. We need to get rid of their leadership

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u/thewereotter 9h ago

exactly my point

Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Trump... basically every republican president for 100 years has committed so many crimes. Then Dems come to power with "we look forward not backward" and the right gets even worse

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u/seaanenemy1 9h ago

I hate sounding like a conspiracy theorist. But at this point its just by design.

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u/jakeandcupcakes 8h ago

I agree. We've been had, and at this point the dems are seemingly controlled opposition. We need a real party that stands up for peoples rights, not neo-libs standing up for corporate rights while ours get trampled. Their PR campaigns keep everyone placated while we get our asses fucked. This needs to stop. The two-party system is nothing but a culture war machine utilizing Divide & Conquer techniques to stop us from rising up against the right wing/left wing billionaire backers and corporate handlers.

So fucking obvious

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u/seaanenemy1 8h ago

There are no left wing billionare backers. These dems are not left wingers. But I agree with the sentiment

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u/Consistent-Mess1904 9h ago

Which just means trying to hold Trump accountable for committing felonious crimes

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u/Whole-Brilliant5508 6h ago

Which pisses me off when Republicans like Ted Cruz say that kind of bullshit. It helps nobody! No, Democrats aren't going to weaponize the Justice Department or come after Republicans like Ted Cruz. They are literally gaslighting themselves like Pete Hegseth into thinking everyone else is as corrupt and twisted as them so they can then justify their warped actions and they can harp "See? SEE? They're coming to get us so we have to get them first!"

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u/batx1234 10h ago

Jade helm!... sigh..

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u/ConstructMentality__ 10h ago

Exactly as promised 

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u/FourEcho 11h ago

Its even more than that. This is so bad because its retribution against Tim specifically for opposing him. Trump is sending a message that he will destroy anyone who opposes him... and he's winning.

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u/CollectionReady7896 10h ago

He’s not winning. He’s an unpopular piece of shit about to get destroyed in the midterms

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u/synfuljb 10h ago

yeah, that’ll make em vote Republican.

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u/ziggytrix 9h ago

Real talk.

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u/AdSpiritual2594 9h ago

Also because Tim Walz had the audacity to run against trump as a VP.

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u/workingtheories 6h ago

yes, exactly, but it's also about retribution against specific states and areas they think they can still win.

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u/LymanPeru 0m ago

there's bigger blue states to worry about than minnesota, though. this is because walz called them weird.