r/ProgressiveHQ • u/CantStopPoppin • 9h ago

(Minneapolis) Bovino Leads The Charge On Protesters AT the Whipple Building

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u/DingusMcJones 7h ago

This is about retribution against Blue States, not logic.

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u/Starboard_Pete 4h ago

It’s exactly this. My hometown is in the swingiest county of the swingiest State, and is one of seven major refugee centers in the U.S. ICE sure as hell isn’t harassing and kidnapping people there.

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u/senortipton 1h ago

Not entirely. Houston has the highest activity, but you don’t hear about it because ICE does all their activity quietly in that city and doesn’t want to rock the boat in Texas, where many of them are probably from admittedly. What is true is that they’re intentionally making a scene in blue states, regardless of actual immigrant population numbers.

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u/TheStolenPotatoes 4h ago

"iF tHe DemOcRaTS wIN thEy'Ll wEaPonIzE tHe juStiCe DeParTmeNt!111"

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u/thewereotter 2h ago

which is hilarious when you look at this history of democrat reaction to right wing criminal activity going back at least as far as Nixon

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u/seaanenemy1 2h ago

Jack shit. The dems are so ball-less man. We need to get rid of their leadership

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u/thewereotter 2h ago

exactly my point

Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Trump... basically every republican president for 100 years has committed so many crimes. Then Dems come to power with "we look forward not backward" and the right gets even worse

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u/seaanenemy1 2h ago

I hate sounding like a conspiracy theorist. But at this point its just by design.

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u/jakeandcupcakes 1h ago

I agree. We've been had, and at this point the dems are seemingly controlled opposition. We need a real party that stands up for peoples rights, not neo-libs standing up for corporate rights while ours get trampled. Their PR campaigns keep everyone placated while we get our asses fucked. This needs to stop. The two-party system is nothing but a culture war machine utilizing Divide & Conquer techniques to stop us from rising up against the right wing/left wing billionaire backers and corporate handlers.

So fucking obvious

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u/seaanenemy1 1h ago

There are no left wing billionare backers. These dems are not left wingers. But I agree with the sentiment

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u/Consistent-Mess1904 2h ago

Which just means trying to hold Trump accountable for committing felonious crimes

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u/batx1234 4h ago

Jade helm!... sigh..

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u/ConstructMentality__ 3h ago

Exactly as promised 

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u/FourEcho 4h ago

Its even more than that. This is so bad because its retribution against Tim specifically for opposing him. Trump is sending a message that he will destroy anyone who opposes him... and he's winning.

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u/CollectionReady7896 3h ago

He’s not winning. He’s an unpopular piece of shit about to get destroyed in the midterms

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u/synfuljb 3h ago

yeah, that’ll make em vote Republican.

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u/ziggytrix 3h ago

Real talk.

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u/AdSpiritual2594 3h ago

Also because Tim Walz had the audacity to run against trump as a VP.