Blackmail, Bluster and Batshit Bonkers - Trump Thread #153

[Spandauer]

Enough already.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5472639-who-are-they-kidding-its-oil-oil-oil-baby-trump-thread-152

Newsom is on the money on that one.

Is the next stage for ICE to start shooting local law enforcement. On that Dog killer Kristi Noem press conference she was blaming democrat run sanctuary states for not informing ICE when foreign criminals were finishing their prison sentences.

You could see how agents might get stationed outside a jail or police station if someone gets arrested and they want to grab and report Vs the police who want to process

Yes. And a $50k signing bonus. We’re talking sums of money that these men could only ever dream of. Plus they get the added bonus of being Billy Big Balls on the streets and playing out the shooting scenes from Grand Theft Auto. Win win.

There’s also the time/cost of processing all of the false arrests—the Native Americans (eye roll) and just about anyone who is brown or has an accent. Some are even being shipped to other states before being repatriated back home. All at a cost. I also read that each arrest counts toward their quotas, regardless of whether it was a legitimate illegal immigrant. There is a financial motivation to arrest citizens and legal immigrants.

I don’t believe the ICE /Border Control are per se fantasists looking to cosplay their dreams of being The Man. You only have to read Christopher Browning’s book “Ordinary Men”, about the regular German police officers who were responsible for thousands of murders of Jewish people in the build up to, and during WWII to see that “regular” people are very easily sucked in to committing these crimes.

”Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever.”

What is it they say about history repeating….

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/647492.OrdinaryMen

Latest theory on what triggered the first murderer to start shooting.
The man in grey grabbed his gun and walked away with it. Another, not realising, can be heard to say 'where's the gun?'. This caused one of the brain dead goons to worry Alex had it so shot him point blank in the back. Everyone jumps back, they probably aren't sure who fired. Another of them, who probably wasn't in possession of their shared brain cell at that moment, put another 9 rounds into him to be on the safe side.

Archived article from The Atlantic, Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

https://archive.is/WWRlQ

Then why the official ICE recruitment advertisement videos using images based on the “Halo” video game? 🧐

@YankTank I’m not saying that there aren’t psychos/weirdos/etc in ICE, I’m certain that there are. More that I am saying we often like to assume that most people aren’t like that, but history shows us that all too often there are plenty of people who are happy to just go along with it, with a small minority actively enjoying it.

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

https://bsky.app/profile/metaresistance.bsky.social/post/3mdchsm2jos2y

Agreed. I’m only pointing out that the particular set of recruitment videos is deliberately going after a specific subset of the population.

I watched The Zone of Interest last night and he certainly has vibes of Rudolph Höss.

@DuncinToffee heartbreaking yet gives rise to hope.

ICE have been recruiting at Car racing tracks, gun clubs and through social media groups where they can be pretty sure what demographic they are hiring.

And all the while the media are totally ignoring around 50,000 murders by the Iranian government in the last few weeks.

Not a single story on the BBC for the last two days
but wall to wall Minnesota

its almost as if we are being given a squirrel to watch

In other news, Uncle Xi has purged his top General. Nobody knows why as usual. Paranoia ? Show of power ? Not resolute enough on the Taiwan invasion?

I bet this is a problem for Whitehouse staff. Stuff like this should be in his daily intel I would have thought. But I bet they won't want to tell him. Cos the child he is, Trump will want to do the same.

A question yelled at a press gaggle would be good. I reckon a question on Xi purging would make the pricks ears prick.

Anyhow, I would bet Trump would want to sack someone, cos HE won't want to be outdone.

Watch this space. I predict someone ICE connected. The Hoss wanabe ?

back in the 90s, when I spent time in us studying, military recruiters were targetting us forrin students. with the promise of citizenship if you sucessfully completed training.

I fairness, the perception of Iran at least in the West is "despotic regime". While America is supposed to be a beacon on a hill. Despotic regime kills protesters is less of a headline than leader of the free world kills.protesters. it might also be because we feel less connection with the Iranian victims. Which is wrong.
It's horrendous, and it should be being reported more though.

This amused me:

The Rest is History are covering the Iranian revolution and how the US could not have fucked it up more if it had set out to.

Given we are almost 50 years on, the case that it is the most consequential revolution of the 20th century (and yes, that does include Russia), then it's curious how little we study it.

The political ramifications of shi'a Islam have been overlooked in the Western narrative.

Ouch!

We helped a bit with the fucking up to be fair...

And the Rest is Classified has just done a 2 part special on the current situation which is really good.

True, if irrelevant. It is of limited help in the future.

Quote:

"Given we are almost 50 years on, the case that it is the most consequential revolution of the 20th century (and yes, that does include Russia), then it's curious how little we study it."

Nah. not by a long shot. China says hold my Tsingtao.

Quote : " The political ramifications of shi'a Islam have been overlooked in the Western narrative."

Probably because the terror attacks are by Sunni.

See what you think of the reasons advanced - it's beyond my paygrade to precis I'm afraid.