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BaronChocula

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14. This is how authoritarianism is practiced

Reply to senseandsensibility (Original post)

Fri Jul 10, 2026, 07:51 PM

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A paramilitary group with inadequate to no training runs around terrorizing communities while breaking the law and refusing to cooperate in municipalities where law and order are still followed. The mayor should have known about this stonewalling from the events in Minnesota, but his first impulse was to step aside and let the wolves investigate the wolves. I don't know. Maybe he didn't have many options. But why would he have fewer options than Mary Moriarty, Hennepin Co, Minnesota DA who is pursuing investigations into ICE killings?

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Direct quote from Jake Tapper about the Houston shooting by ICE [View all] senseandsensibility Friday OP

Link, please? Ocelot II Friday #1

I just heard him say it on CNN senseandsensibility Friday #2

Ice hide his identity................ Lovie777 Friday #3

Message auto-removed Name removed Saturday #27

And he didn't blame Joe Biden for it? SocialDemocrat61 Friday #4

To be honest that's kind of what I expected senseandsensibility Friday #5

Exactly SocialDemocrat61 Friday #6

They key to all their rhetoric is popsdenver Friday #7

Thank you! Scubamatt Friday #8

The New York Times ran an interview with Whitmire SouthBayDem Friday #9

Well, I think he's changed his tune senseandsensibility Friday #10

Up yours, Trump Enabler. You, Jake Tapper, spent four years attacking Joe Biden for. . .reasons AZLD4Candidate Friday #11

What point is there in quoting the current regime or its dubious monarch on anything? quakerboy Friday #12

True, but this quote is from Tapper. senseandsensibility Friday #13

Yeah. Im just saying, whats the point in reporting anything ICE or its lord say quakerboy Friday #15

Words can be crimes, and that IS news. Maru Kitteh Saturday #23

This is how authoritarianism is practiced BaronChocula Friday #14

It will take the courts to get the evidence out of the corrupt executive regime.. and it will be a battle. pat_k Friday #16

maybe Tapper should write a book about INCREASING FASCISM IN AMERICA Skittles Saturday #17

"How much longer the public should believe them"? Huh? Haven't we already moved past that point? GoodRaisin Saturday #18

Anyone who still supports ICE will never abandon them. Orrex Saturday #19

I have no respect for Jake Tapper. Bluepinky Saturday #20

You're a year late with that question edhopper Saturday #21

Good for Jake Tapper, but I won't spend 5 seconds watching him. 33taw Saturday #22

Trigger-happy murderers. Martin68 Saturday #24

What a dumbasa. Scruffy1 Saturday #25

Why are we looking for a corn kernel Keepthesoulalive Saturday #26