Some of that may be budget. ICE has blown through theirs. Other agencies may be stepping in so that ICE doesn’t go bankrupt this week. That’s why there were FBI agents tackling Senator Padilla and (allegedly) CBP agents at Dodgers Stadium. They are probably going to have USDF&W agents tackling school kids at recess, too.
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I don’t think they do - certainly not between ICE and every random gang of federal forces also doing kidnappings and deportations; they want that uncertainty to exist because it makes them even less accountable than they already are. (Can’t hold anyone accountable if you never find out who they are, after all.) I wouldn’t be surprised if they were fine with confusion with non-governmental thugs wearing military cosplay and kidnapping people, just for the added confusion. (I’m sure we’ll eventually find out, after it happens… assuming it hasn’t already.)
They’ve been doing that from the start of this administration, though - CBP, DHS, etc. have all been acting as ICE agents, essentially. Possibly in part because they foresaw the budget issues, but also because every single federal law enforcement agency has had its mission changed to dealing with border issues and/or immigrants as much as possible, with mass deportations/imprisoning being the primary goal of this administration.
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Trump has said this multiple times, now, this time more generally, about the entire intelligence community, and it makes me crazy every time. It really raises the question: given that the intelligence community is the source for all of Trump’s information on the subject, then what is his basis for deciding that they’re wrong? And why does no one ask him this?
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Because the only people who are allowed close enough to him to be able to ask are those people who have been selected on the basis that they won’t, even if they know they should.
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That’s certainly true, although I suppose really it doesn’t need to be asked of him (because it’s not like he actually provides answers to questions), but every reporter who reports on this could ask it as something of a rhetorical question.
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In the same vein…
“We love America just as much as [Conservatives] do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.”
— Al Franken
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Not really his source for ALL information on this. I mean, there’s Fox News, Putin, The Heritage Foundation, Steven Miller - oh, all sorts of sources of ‘information’ that Trumpy occasionally pays attention to, and probably more so than he pays attention to the intelligence community, because they will insist on giving him written briefings. And with words of more than one syllable, to boot.
If the intelligence community wants to tell him stuff, get someone he likes to whisper it in his ear, or broadcast it on Truth Social.
/s?
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Ya know what? I’ll wager they don’t care if there are a few people masquerading as ICE and kidnapping people; collateral damage.
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@DukeTrout has likely already expertly covered this ongoing issue; so to gild-the-lily, here’s a wonderfully terse summary of the slow and cautious “uh, maybe 2024 was stolen…?” issue care of two comments in the always quaint reddit sub r/OutOfTheloop (last sentence bolded by me):
What’s up with recent claims that Harris actually won the election?
[–]niltermini an hour ago
Answer: a county in NY (Rockland) had zero votes for Harris and has sworn affadavits from voters saying they voted for her. The NY Supreme court just ruled the case should move to discovery after they found the machines had been significantly altered. The machines that were altered are the same machines that were used in 40% of counties throughout the US
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Go for it. In these troubled times, I’m sure the Nobel Committee could use a good laugh.
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Ok, so what has he (or some pathetic sycophant toady in his entourage) promised Pakistan if he gets the NPP?
As I’ve said before, if the Nobel Prize Committee lose their minds and award it to him, I expect to see every Nobel Prize Winner still alive to immediately return theirs. We need a list of them all and how to get at them.
And if they do it, from that day forward nobody should ever accept any Nobel Prize.
FYI from the article - India directly contradicts Pakistan and says there was no third party involvement. See first and last paras extracted below.
Something else for those two countries’ leaders to squabble about.
“President Trump demonstrated great strategic foresight and stellar statesmanship through robust diplomatic engagement with both Islamabad and New Delhi, which de-escalated a rapidly deteriorating situation,” Pakistan said in a statement. “This intervention stands as a testament to his role as a genuine peacemaker.”
Governments can nominate people for the Nobel peace prize. There was no immediate response from Washington. A spokesperson for the Indian government did not respond to a request for comment.
In May, a surprise announcement by Trump of a ceasefire brought an abrupt end to a four-day conflict between nuclear-armed foes India and Pakistan. Trump has since repeatedly said that he averted a nuclear war, saved millions of lives and grumbled that he got no credit for it.
Pakistan agrees that US diplomatic intervention ended the fighting, but India says it was a bilateral agreement between the two militaries. In a phone call with Trump last week, the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, had made it “absolutely clear” that hostilities ceased only after Pakistan requested a ceasefire, and that no third-party mediation had taken place, said India’s foreign secretary, Vikram Misri.
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Every time I see news about this, I wonder how far away from the roofline they were installed. There’s so much incompetence in that cast of clowns, that I wouldn’t be shocked if they fall over during the next big storm. Are we sure they won’t attract lightning? Should we have 
stand next to them and check?
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Be careful. That’s how you end up with Trumpenstein!
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i’ve vaguely read that the dominant “uhhhhh…” issue is that (the helicopter known as) “marine one” couldn’t safely negotiate the ‘yuge’ flags if there were any wind.
Trump’s Ex-Chief Of Staff Spots 1 Glaring ‘Problem’ With New White House Flagpoles
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There have been posts about this case in the elections topic, too:
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