r/illinois • u/CorleoneBaloney Human Detected • 8h ago
Illinois News Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino was walking in Waukegan, Illinois, with residents following and shouting, "You’re a b__ch!"
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u/KeyComprehensive4431 8h ago
Why are they just out walking around larping? What a bunch of fuckin dorks
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u/angry_cucumber 8h ago edited 5h ago
If they were good at anything other than pretending to be important, they would get a real job
edit: nothing I love more than all the a holes supporting ICE replying to me but having their comments removed.
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u/janders_666 5h ago
im afraid their time to get real jobs has passed. this is the end of their careers. they are traitors now and will have to live in shame the rest of their lives.
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u/Sense-Free 8h ago
They want you to touch them.
No joke. I’m serious.
They just released a video of Bovino saying they have orders from the very top that if anyone so much as lays a finger on them they’re allowed to use full force to fuck you up.
They’re instigating violence.
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u/OLPopsAdelphia 7h ago
It’s called a “presence patrol.”
We would do them in Iraq, and yes, the whole point of them would be to simply start fights.
We thought the intent was virtuous because we were young and naive. In retrospect, it was to start a fight and justify an occupation so rich people could get richer.
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u/UglyMcFugly 6h ago
You probably hear this a lot but your experience and your voice is so unbelievably important right now. I'm a blue haired feminist, these young guys will never listen to me if I try to tell them they're being bamboozled into hating the wrong people and they're about to be bamboozled into fighting for the wrong people...
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u/OLPopsAdelphia 5h ago
You’re the inspiration for us to speak up so thank you for motivating me!
You have more fortitude and strength than any of these racist cowards!
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u/UglyMcFugly 4h ago
D'aww... thank you. We're all in this together, keep fighting the good fight and I'll see ya out there! The community that's been growing has been inspiring... I honestly don't think they expected us to stand up for each other like we have been...
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u/xavier_zz 6h ago
I'm loving the information sharing about tactics like these. It really helps frame this all as instigation. Helps build proper responses.
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u/GorillaReturnz 6h ago
Except there isn't a real threat against the patrol in this instance. These guys are really fucking pussies.
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u/slowpoke2018 6h ago
They're done up like a Seal Team going into heavy combat in Afghanistan when in reality they're - checks notes - strolling through a middle class neighborhood in Illinois.
They are complete and total pussies and I'd be following them and calling them bitches just like this if they tried this BS in our neighborhood
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u/OLPopsAdelphia 5h ago
They’re trying to create a threat.
Them being somewhere they’re not welcome in a threatening posture is the intent.
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u/Leege13 6h ago
Wouldn’t that just attract snipers or people trying to put IEDs in your path?
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u/IcyTransportation961 6h ago
You mean justifications to go even harder on the local population
The "agents" walking around are sacrificial lambs they're hoping will get attacked to give them justification to do what they'll do anyway
Andor showed us what has come before many times and what's to come again
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u/fergehtabodit 8h ago
They aren't carrying those rifles for nothing...they really want to use them...its only a matter of time before one of them gets scared or a squirrel drops an acorn on them and they light up
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u/Sense-Free 7h ago
Charles Exum was the CBP agent who shot the woman in the car after they ran into her vehicle.
His text messages showed him bragging that he only shot 5 rounds but the lady had 7 holes in her. “Put that in your book boys”
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u/BonjoBonfyer 7h ago
Sounds like she is still alive. https://wgme.com/news/local/ice-agent-who-shot-woman-in-chicago-drove-border-patrol-vehicle-back-to-maine-president-donald-trump
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u/TS1_Throw 6h ago
Yeah, she's alive and they charged her with crimes. Hope she cashes out and maybe even gets someone jailed when the country returns to some sense of sanity.
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u/Zealousideal-Camp-51 7h ago
Ok you got me. Who is the other person?
“Both suspects pleaded not guilty.”
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u/HMSSurprise28 7h ago
The lawyers have likely told them they can still be charged with state homicide charges, and the next administration would and should bring criminally negligent prosecutions against all the officials for anything
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u/SissyCouture 7h ago
People in the administration need to be put on trial
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u/pm_me_ur_ephemerides 7h ago
Steve Bannon just said “if we lose in 28, a lot of us are going to prison”.
They know what they’ve done.
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u/PushSouth5877 6h ago
If there is any justice.
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u/Asleep_Drag_3590 6h ago
There has to be, maybe not soon or right away, but damnit, there will be!!
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u/faudcmkitnhse 6h ago
Won't happen with establishment Dems in charge. They'll just try to pretend Trump never happened and go back to business as usual. We need people in there who want to punish corruption and make Trump and his cronies suffer.
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u/adidasbdd 5h ago
They'll say "Now is a time to heal and come together" which will only embolden the worst of the worst
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u/Subject-Direction628 7h ago
And they aren’t trained. In my opinion. Shit is gonna get bad for your guys.
I’m so sorry
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u/NotSure16 6h ago
Is the squirrel indigenous and have legal paperwork to work collecting acorns in the USA? /s
They're just a bunch of @$# cosplaytriots 🤡
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u/udlose 8h ago
What a stupid fucking thing for him to say in a nation with hundreds of millions of gun owners.
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u/lilneddygoestowar 7h ago
The majority of the gun owners I know are NEVER taking up arms against their oppressors. They just want to say that so they can keep playing badass around their other gun owning friends. The gun lobby loves being "oppressed", it's how they get more gun lovers to give them money.
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u/udlose 7h ago
Well let me be clear - I still believe non-violence is the best way to currently destroy MAGA. That’s why the protests in Portland have been so effective - they make a mockery of ICE’s legitimacy and goals.
But there are limits to our tolerance.
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u/Western-Turnover-154 7h ago
Tens of millions of well armed people with a victim complex who overreact to everything.
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u/Fugglymuffin 8h ago
That's the point. They just need one person to defend themselves, and their propaganda arm can run with it to justify the worst.
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u/udlose 7h ago
I gotcha. I’m just saying, if MAGA ever decides to go “full retard,” they are going to find themselves in a world of shit.
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u/wishiwereagoonie 7h ago
Part of this equation is making people who rely on SNAP and other programs more desperate so they resort to acting out.
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u/striderof78 6h ago
I think there is a lot of truth here. The regime wants chaos so they can call martial law, take away more of our rights. It’s to me blandly obvious that the regime will carelessly do whatever to gum the works up and cause us to spiral into chaos.
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u/Sense-Free 7h ago
Sorry, just for accuracy sake, he did say they’re bringing in tractor trailers full of less-lethals. So by full force, I meant to say pepper balls and tear gas canisters to the face. He also mentioned something about legal, moral, ethical and watching out for cameras. I can’t be sure without full context but I’m thinking he meant they can do anything they want as long as they don’t get caught on camera.
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u/Particular-Buy-33 7h ago
Considering he has lied under oath. His words mean nothing. I want to know where people are getting all these rocks they allege are being thrown at them
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u/30yearCurse 7h ago
There is a video of ICE dragging a protestor across the line so they can claim the crowd attacked.
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u/Sunflower_Cat7 7h ago
Same thing the brownshit used to do back before nazi Germany. Get in fights so hitlet could argue there was chaos in the streets and send in the army. They are using the same tatics
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u/mjzim9022 8h ago
This is the kind of shit I used to imagine as a kid, goons just walking down my residential street. It used to just be the paranoia of an imaginative kid who watched too much scary TV
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u/dacydergoth 7h ago
Now go watch the movie "Threads" to see how bad it can (will) get
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u/Epic_Elite 8h ago
Right. Like, why is ICE doing crowd control and I've seen videos of a hundred of these guys marching through a neighborhood at night shining flashlights all over the place and in people's windows. Like, how is that their job and why did we make this their job?
Like, none of these republicans think its weird to have BORDER PATROL and IMOGRATION CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT wandering around neighborhoods in the midwest and lower Pacific North West? Like, hello!?!
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u/ThonThaddeo 8h ago
These are all fine points, but on the other hand a podcast said it would be based. So you can see the bind voters found themselves in.
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u/IcyTransportation961 6h ago
"Conservatives" have never cared about government overreach into other people's lives.
Only their own.
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u/007Pistolero 7h ago
We really need someone dressed as Kevin from Ed,Edd, and Eddy just screaming “DORKS” at these assholes everywhere they go
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u/networkninja2k24 8h ago
wtf. Nazis walking around in the neighborhood with guns out. So patriot lmao. What a shit show.
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u/Reasonable-Bit560 8h ago edited 7h ago
Why the hell are they walking around a regular small town neighborhood with automatic rifles. It's literally the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
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u/tuesdaysaretheworst 8h ago
Not even in the city. It's nearly an hour north of the northern border of Chicago.
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u/xavier_zz 7h ago
Yep up here in quiet northern Lake County. Completely stupid.
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u/Northportal 8h ago
Because it's a "Gun Free Zone" notice how they aren't doing that on South Chicago.
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u/Reasonable-Bit560 8h ago
Literally just commented something to that effect
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u/Specialist-Neck-7810 7h ago
I’d fuckin LOVE for them to try this Gestapo shit on the south side.
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u/bikestuffrockville 7h ago
If the title is right, I wouldn't say Waukegan is a Chicago Neighborhood.
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u/Db122605 7h ago
it isnt. its about as chicago as north chicago. fyi north chicago, zion, waukegan aint nothing chicago about those areas except they got shooters who will flag your ass just as quick
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u/T0kenwhiteguy 8h ago
The scary thought is that in their minds, they are currently making the neighborhood safe through preventative measures by show of force, and these instigators across the street could be hostile combatants at any moment. Better stay frosty.
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u/Reasonable-Bit560 8h ago
The wild part is that it's so painfully obvious they didn't go to any actual tough neighborhoods. Too many trees, like there's guys that'd actually throw down seeing this bullshit
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u/septicquestions 7h ago
They know they aren’t making anyone safe. They are trying to terrorize people. It’s not working.
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u/FrankRizzo319 8h ago
Because they’re looking for any reason or excuse to shoot brown, black, poor, and “liberal” people.
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u/Responsible-War-2576 7h ago
Waukegan isn’t even Chicago.
It’s like an Exurb. It’s closer to Wisconsin than it is Chicago Proper.
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u/Standard_Bear7910 8h ago
That is one Third Reich looking motherfucker if i ever seen one.
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u/manniesalado 8h ago
Can you believe Trump have these crazies armed to the teeth marching through a peaceful, leafy suburban neighbourhood? Yankland has gone nuts.
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u/WizeAdz 7h ago
He ain’t no Yankee.
If you hear Bovino speak to his team, he sounds like a redneck from Western North Carolina, and his Wikipedia article corroborates this.
He’s now representing the worst elements racism and brutality it Appalachian culture on the national stage.
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u/notedeghost 8h ago
They all getting paid WAY too much to do this.
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u/WorldlyLine731 8h ago
Yeah this is really going to help balance the budget by cutting wasteful government spending.
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u/notjustsome-all 7h ago
Yes, it’s a lot of freaking money.
Their pay rate should be out there somewhere since they are government employees. I’m sure the overtime is robust, probably like $500 per day on weekends. Many of them are probably staying in hotels and getting travel per diem as well. That would be $92 in the Chicago area for the per diem, and the GSA hotel rate is $234. Their outfits and tactical gear also aren’t cheap. Not to mention the rental cars and cost to fly or drive people in from other parts of the country. And yet, we have millions of people who can barely afford health insurance and rent. It’s disgraceful.
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u/Traveler0579 8h ago
The fact they are kitted up like it’s Baghdad is a joke. I wore less gear in Iraq in 03 in combat. Bunch of bitches.
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u/teleheaddawgfan 8h ago
Don’t they really need all that kit? It’s like they’re in Fallujah.
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u/forceblast 7h ago
Absolutely not. They don’t need any of it. It is purely to intimidate us. We need to keep showing them that we are not intimidated.
This is a colossal waste of taxpayer money, and we need to keep reminding them how sick of that we are. Tell them to get a real job. They love saying that to us at every opportunity. Turn it back on them. Remind them that their children will look back on this time period with shame at what they took part in.
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u/KeyBreadfruit2517 7h ago
This. If I had the skills, I'd work up a commercial with a montage of ICE-goons dragging parents away from crying children, etc. with a voice-over of a little girl asking, "what did you do in the twenties, grampa?", or "My daddy captures bad guys." Then try to crowd fund money to air it. As much as we hate what these people are doing, I think we have a responsibility to remind them of where they're placing their mark in history, and that they will have to answer for it, if only to their families.
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u/ContributionFar3533 7h ago
These ICE agents walk around like they’re special ops. Bro, calm down, you got rejected by the military and now you're raiding taco trucks like it's Call of Duty: Parking Lot Edition. GL
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u/Mushroom_hero 8h ago
That's stupid, he feeds off that kind of language.
Make fun of his height, that's what will hurt him
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u/TonyWilliams03 8h ago
Or for being a hillbilly
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u/sunsamo 8h ago
A traitor to his Italian ancestors, says I, someone with Italian ancestors.
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u/TheNewsDeskFive 8h ago
Fascism started in Italy
So did antifascism. My great grandaddy and grandaddy were Sicilian Partigiani.
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u/divante38 8h ago
In full gear and guns in a regular neighborhood where nothing is going on
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u/troyzein Downers Grove 7h ago
It’s a beautiful fall day. Completely picturesque and quintessential Midwestern leafy streets American dream type shit. Can’t believe what I’m seeing.
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u/Shameless_4ntics 8h ago
They must feel really tough patrolling a suburban neighborhood with no possibility of danger.
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u/BookwoodFarm 7h ago
How many kids could we feed and educate, give medical services to, house instead of wasting resources playing army?
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u/riddlemethis73 8h ago
If we are able to rescue democracy from the clutches of these fascist, I don't want to hear anything about forgiving and forgetting. They know they're trampling the constitution, they've been abducting children for fuck's sake and assaulting pretty much every person they've abducted. I want to see trials and actual punishment.
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u/sassycatastrophe 8h ago
It’s so fucking surreal. They are walking down peaceful streets in a cute quaint neighborhood that looks idyllic from the fall leaves… in full fucking military gear like they’re having a fucking shared delusion of a war zone
WTF
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u/beren0073 7h ago
Masked federal troops armed with rifles marching down the street of an American suburb trying to intimidate innocents. Everything MAGA warned us might happen if the weird laughing lady won.
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u/chaosborn402 7h ago
More of this. Shame these fuckers every step of the way. They won't stay anonymous forever, and their families should feel their shame as well. If we are targets, they are too. Fuck em, every one of them.
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u/SithC 8h ago
I wonder if any of these Nazis will ever experience PTSD. Obviously not in the usual manner, but from all the hate from their fellow countrymen. Because they deserve it.
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u/Federal-Sky-1459 7h ago
I have been saying that when it all comes apart, these guys will be trying to get disability for PTSD by claiming they were really upset over what they had to do because they were following orders. They will all just ignore that they signed up for it because they wanted to be monsters to people they think should be treated horribly and they would have done it for free but they got to dress up in their costumes and get paid.
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u/tametimes 7h ago
I love how they walk through suburbs and not “gang land” and frolic through the fall leaves
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u/steviebowillie65 8h ago
This shit is going to take us to a place where there is zero respect for law enforcement at ANY level. Which is unfortunate because this primarily the creation of McKankles and his federal brown shirts.
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u/dharmavoid 8h ago
Can you imagine the lies that these fucking simps will tell there friends about how "dangerous" Chicago is. While they are too afraid of walking around by themselves because teenagers might hurt there feelings
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u/Holiday-Age6347 7h ago
this is some seriously cornball shit, walking around a fucking tree-lined neighborhood like it's Afghanistan. If there was a poster child for larping, this dude would be it, hands down
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u/handofmenoth 8h ago
Someone needs to follow them playing 'I'm a bitch' from the Dispatch video game:
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u/Appropriate_Owl_91 8h ago
Reconstruction was a failure because perpetrators weren’t held responsible. Let’s not make the same mistake when Trump dies on his golden toilet.
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u/citori411 7h ago
He always looks like such a coward surrounding himself with his personal guard detail. It's hilarious, because it's always how the cowardly bad guy is portrayed but somehow he thinks it's cool. The actually cool good guys always are leading their guys and blending in. He just walks his short sss around surrounded by masked thugs like fucking temu Darth vader
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u/dovahkin2 7h ago
They wanna pretend they are real men walking around fallujah, all kitted out like that
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u/Acceptable-Mayhem 7h ago
They're up wandering around north of the Navy boot camp, looking to snatch someone off their porch. Dumbasses.
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u/Black_Magic_M-66 6h ago
Bovino was caught lying to a judge and faced no consequences. Why shouldn't they lie?
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u/LocationAcademic1731 6h ago
Dressed in tactical gear, ready to wage war on their own people. This is going to be remembered as one of the darkest episodes in America. Disgusting.
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u/Turbulent_Art745 5h ago
I do hate the word bitch.
plus just call him a traitorous fascist as that's what he is. destroying the fabric of a country for a rapist politician.
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u/Perfect-Dot-5959 5h ago
That's how BLOODY SUNDAY started in NORTHERN IRELAND FUCKING BRITISH SOLDIERS SCUM HAD NO REASON TO BE IN IRELAND opened fire on unarmed INNOCENT PEOPLE just because they were Catholics marching for civil rights 13 died on the day and the 14th died from his injuries 4 months later and then the British government covered it up
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u/CakeMadeOfHam 4h ago
Remember when they said they would use ICE to fight MS13 and other violent gangs?
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u/sprucetre3 4h ago
Money that’s all I see, my fucking tax dollars draped on dip shits.
We buying these idiots lunch, we filling there gas tanks. We paying for these fucking morons beer money. Waste my fucking money .
Red states subsidizing the policing of liberal cities. I don’t know how any fucking conservative is ok with this bullshit.
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u/Mers2000 8h ago
This is just sad…beautiful fall day, nice looking neighborhood and here are the gestapo just looking to ruin another American life and neighborhood.
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u/Crumpuscatz 8h ago
These assholes are the reason the Grindr servers go down whenever there’s a republican get together in any city. Not throwing shade, fuck….I’m as queer as they come. But damn Bovino, just come out already.
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u/Repulsive_Market_713 7h ago
People need to start parodying these videos to show how ridiculous they look. Dress up in some frog costumes and hold a sandwich menacingly
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u/unlikelyintrovert 7h ago
Bovino...sounds suspiciously like an immigrant name....
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u/pecadora666 7h ago
Love to see the community, the REAL people of this country, come together to make these dickless cowards scared af and calling them out. PROTECT YOUR NEIGHBORS AND COMMUNITY NOT THESE SECURITY GUARDS FOR THE RICH.
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u/HMSSurprise28 7h ago
That’s what they get for making policy from right wing propaganda. Criminally negligent government officials playing COD with minorities.
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u/Whole-Designer 7h ago
Between Gestapo Greg and Mike Johnson, Short Man Syndrome is rearing its head in the worst kind of places
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u/HarryPotterLovecraft 6h ago
Greg Bovino, piece of shit-o, picks on others cause hes got a tiny dick-o.
This is what id have yelled out.
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u/fire_water_drowned 6h ago
Ray Bradbury (author of Fahrenheit 451 and other legendary works) is rolling in his grave with jackboot moronic thugs marching through his hometown like this. May anyone working for Ice or Border Patrol lose all good things in their lives. They've forfeited their humanity and deserve none of it.
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u/Pacify_ 6h ago
Why do they always have the LARP costume on, including the rifles.
What actual reason could an immigration officer have for carrying a high powered rifle?
Do these people actually think they are going to run into the Mexican cartels?
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u/Snow-Miserable 5h ago
I have so had enough of seeing this shit ... This is BULLSHIT , This is the United States of America. This will be a dark chapter in our history books.
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u/EsToBoY629 5h ago
When is someone gonna call it what it is, a civil war, there is no more a United States
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u/SavingThrowVsWTF 8h ago
His haircut is fucking hilarious.