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ICE "Wartime" Recruitment

Observant1
edited January 12 in Off-Topic
"ICE is reportedly investing $100 million on what it calls 'wartime recruitment' of 10,000 new agents,
in addition to the 20,000 already employed. Its recruitment is targeting gun and military enthusiasts,
people who listen to right-wing radio, who have gone to Ultimate Fighting Championship fights
or shopped for guns and tactical gear, live near military bases, and attend NASCAR races.
It’s calling for recruits willing to perform their 'sacred duty' and 'defend the homeland' by repelling 'foreign invaders.'”

"There’s coming to be no difference between Trump’s foreign and domestic policies.
Both are based on the same eight maniacal ideas:
1) Might makes right.
2) Law is irrelevant.
3) America is at war with the world’s 'radical left,' who are defined chiefly by their opposition to Trump.
4) Fear and force are better weapons in this war than hope and compromise.
5) The U.S. stock market is the best measure of Trump’s success.
6) Personal enrichment by Trump and other officials is justified in pursuit of victory.
7) So are lies, cover-ups, and the illegal use of force.
8) Trump is invincible and omnipotent."

"Trump is putting America on a war footing because war is good for him as it is for all dictators.
War confers emergency powers. It justifies ignoring the niceties of elections.
It allows dictators to imprison and intimidate opponents and enemies.
It enables them to create their own personal slush funds.
It distracts the public from other things (remember Jeffrey Epstein?).
War gives dictators like Trump more power and more wealth. Period."
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-foreign-and-domestic-policies

Comments

  • JD_co
    Chilling.

    This country is under attack from it's own govt, and all we have to counter with are rallies.
  • AnnaAnna
    How many Trump pardoned felons are taxpayer paid today????
  • JD_co
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/eye-opening-thread-long-ice-165033826.html

    Bold added:
    The Atlantic reported in August that training for ICE officers had been cut to just 47 days: "Academy training was shortened to 47 days, three officials told me, the number picked because Trump is the 47th president. DHS officials said the training will run six days a week for eight weeks."

    Yes, 47 days because Trump is the 47th president.

    "Cheesecake Factory training is up to 4 weeks and then even after that you’re still in a probationary period and have to follow lead servers around until they deem you fit enough to drop brown bread by yourself. Just leaving that here for some framing."
    It used to be 5 to 6 months.
  • CrashCrash
    Jayzuz Mother Pus!
  • Observant1
    edited January 12
    JD_co said:

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/eye-opening-thread-long-ice-165033826.html

    Bold added:

    The Atlantic reported in August that training for ICE officers had been cut to just 47 days:
    "Academy training was shortened to 47 days, three officials told me,
    the number picked because Trump is the 47th president.
    DHS officials said the training will run six days a week for eight weeks."

    Yes, 47 days because Trump is the 47th president.

    "Cheesecake Factory training is up to 4 weeks and then even after that you’re still in
    a probationary period and have to follow lead servers around until they deem you fit
    enough to drop brown bread by yourself.
    Just leaving that here for some framing."
    It used to be 5 to 6 months.
    No worries. What could go wrong???
  • Observant1
    edited January 12
    "On Jan. 7, 2026, U.S. Vice President JD Vance appeared on Fox News to discuss
    Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents' deportation actions, among other issues.
    Numerous listeners claimed Vance proposed that ICE would go 'door-to-door'
    to determine the immigration status of people across the country."

    "Footage of Vance on Fox News shows him responding to a question from Watters about how
    President Donald Trump's administration would speed up deportations of immigrants in the country illegally,
    to which Vance said ICE agents would be going 'door-to-door' to check documentation.
    As such, we rate this claim a correct attribution."
    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/vance-door-to-door-ice/

    Comments: This is straight out of a FASCIST playbook!


    Note: Segment about deportation starts at 14:12.

  • JD_co
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