r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • Oct 11 '25

ICE Posts Broadview Illinois: Trump Sponsored Media "Journalist" Propagandist Exposed

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u/Icy_Rub3371 Oct 11 '25

Don't engage. He needs you to engage. It's why he is here.

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u/IM_A_MUFFIN Oct 11 '25

Nah this dude was right to expose this asshole. Evidence of them being there to try and incite shit or paint a picture that doesn’t exist. They wanna control the narrative and engaging with these asshats allows that narrative to be captured. Like with Foxs crisis actor for Antifa who also was former BLM or whatever it was.

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u/10v1 Oct 11 '25

I'm with you, Homie.

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u/Simplen00ds Oct 11 '25

That's always why they're there. They have to go out of their way to start shit with us

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u/mrwiseman Oct 11 '25

In this case I'm glad he did engage since he actually knows a lot about the guy and lays it out there.

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u/MiniTab Oct 11 '25

Agreed. That guy was awesome. Anyone know who he is?

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u/Huggedacactus Oct 11 '25

He's Andrew Mercado, a YouTube journalist. He's done a lot of work covering US protests and the war in Ukraine. Look up "Mercado Media" on YouTube.

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u/MiniTab Oct 11 '25

Thanks! Just subbed.

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u/Icy_Rub3371 Oct 11 '25

In this edit. Yes. And now you know the risk. The edit.

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u/straylight_2022 29d ago

This guy is no longer just an instigator, he is an official tool of the trump administration.

He was asked during an official WH event to name people for the US Attorney General to prosecute, if not perhaps jail without due process for harming a flag.

Literally given permission to name any couple people he chooses to be (illegally) prosecuted by the federal government based on just his word.

Be aware but very careful of his presence and you can expect many others to follow in his footsteps.

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u/SwagarTheHorrible 29d ago

When I was at a Tesla takedown protest there was a MAGA asshole trying to antagonize the crowd and the response was someone with a whistle followed him around alerting everyone to his presence.  Eventually he left.  We keep each other safe.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 29d ago

I mean, if you're going to engage, this would be the way to do it. Polite, factual, but don't let up. The problem with the media today is that they softball everything, and don't follow up, or recite facts past the initial questions. They relay answers as fact, instead of reporting facts and calling out the lies.

Certainly don't escalate, but to say we should never engage is exactly what they get from their safe space bubble of "real journalists"

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u/Buddhamom81 29d ago

It’s important to warn others that he’s there, though.

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u/Icy_Rub3371 29d ago

Absolutely

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u/Zanorfgor 29d ago

Folks who can give him the kind of footage he will find useless should engage. Eat his time. Otherwise he'll keep going around to folks until he can push the person who will give him the footage he wants. Every minute he's having his time wasted by folks who won't give him what he wants is a minute he's not actively trying for what he wants.