Excellent! Perfection! Not a damn note!
Dodgers block ICE agents from entering stadium in Los Angeles, team says
Whatâs interesting is ICEâs response - just going to social media and calling the story âfalse.â When we can see that the story isnât âfalseâ - thereâs clearly some masked federal agents there. Reporters talked to DHS, because some of them appeared to be wearing those uniforms, and they pointed the finger at CBP. But all those organizations are now doing ICE work, and none are identifying themselves, and this incident really highlights (and reinforces) that confusion. Given that they were doing ICEâs work, they are effectively ICE agents, and ICE calling the story âfalseâ is ultimately just more dishonesty and obfuscation on their part.
If ICE get their feelings hurt by being mistaken for other branches of Gestapo, then maybe they should try wearing uniforms, showing their ID when asked, and uncovering their faces.
If they want people to see a difference between them and any and every random gang of anonymous thugs wearing badly fitting military harnesses and Punisher-themed bandannas over their faces while black-bagging, kidnapping, and disappearing innocent civilians off the street in broad daylight while beating up everyone who dares question them, then there has to actually be a difference.
[Narrator: they wonât, and they canât, because there is no difference.]
Maybe we could get all the other gangs to start wearing âNot ICEâ badges. I mean, the mistake is kind of insulting to them too. 
Some of that may be budget. ICE has blown through theirs. Other agencies may be stepping in so that ICE doesnât go bankrupt this week. Thatâs 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.
I donât 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. (Canât hold anyone accountable if you never find out who they are, after all.) I wouldnât be surprised if they were fine with confusion with non-governmental thugs wearing military cosplay and kidnapping people, just for the added confusion. (Iâm sure weâll eventually find out, after it happens⊠assuming it hasnât already.)
Theyâve 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.
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 Trumpâs information on the subject, then what is his basis for deciding that theyâre wrong? And why does no one ask him this?
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 wonât, even if they know they should.
Thatâs certainly true, although I suppose really it doesnât need to be asked of him (because itâs not like he actually provides answers to questions), but every reporter who reports on this could ask it as something of a rhetorical question.
In the same veinâŠ
âWe 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.â
â Al Franken
Not really his source for ALL information on this. I mean, thereâs Fox News, Putin, The Heritage Foundation, Steven Miller - oh, all sorts of sources of âinformationâ 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?
Ya know what? Iâll wager they donât care if there are a few people masquerading as ICE and kidnapping people; collateral damage.
@DukeTrout has likely already expertly covered this ongoing issue; so to gild-the-lily, hereâs a wonderfully terse summary of the slow and cautious âuh, maybe 2024 was stolenâŠ?â issue care of two comments in the always quaint reddit sub r/OutOfTheloop (last sentence bolded by me):
Whatâs up with recent claims that Harris actually won the election?
[â]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
Go for it. In these troubled times, Iâm sure the Nobel Committee could use a good laugh.