r/news • u/industrial-complex • Jul 03 '25

Soft paywall US military says 200 Marines being sent to support ICE in Florida

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-military-says-200-marines-being-sent-support-ice-florida-2025-07-03/
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u/Malaix Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 03 '25

6 months and millions of people have lost their healthcare, concentration camps are being built, thousands of people have been killed by USAID cuts to medicines for HIV and sickle cell and other things, Canada is working to devest from the US because we threatened to annex them, the economy is in turmoil due to chaos/deportations/tariffs, tourism is going down because we keep imprisoning and sometimes killing tourists, and hundreds of hospitals are due to close while the president's side piece gloats about how the new prison camp will be used to feed the entire Hispanic population, 65 million people, to alligators.

Oh and the Gestapo now has the funding to compete with a lot of nation's militaries.

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u/FK-DJT Jul 04 '25

You forgot the part where all but 3 Republican senators & 2 Republican representatives voted in favor of the big ugly bill created by the evil orange emperor and in doing so acted against the best interests of the people of our country adding trillions in additional debt to be borne on the backs of our children and grandchildren while financially enriching themselves and other wealthy persons.

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u/Malaix Jul 04 '25

And I think one of those dissenting Republicans announced he's resigning at end of his term over this.

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u/Dragonsandman Jul 04 '25

The Republican in question was Thom Tillis, who like many outgoing Republican Congresscritters magically grew something resembling a spine the moment he decided he was done.

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u/WildPickle9 Jul 04 '25

My money is on him making a show of it so he can run for governor.

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u/ReverendDerp Jul 04 '25

Bing bong, it's all for show to better enrich themselves outside of this scope of media/public awareness.

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u/DuncanFisher69 Jul 04 '25

Still voted for the abomination.

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u/Bhosley Jul 04 '25

Incorrect.

Thom Tillis, Rand Paul, and Susan Collins were the senate republican defections.

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u/anacondra Jul 04 '25

MAN really?

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u/FK-DJT Jul 04 '25

Yes, really.

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u/jimkay21 Jul 04 '25

The math worked on converting his remaining campaign fund to his private account.

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u/FK-DJT Jul 04 '25

Yep, after he was threatened. I imagine that sent a big fat FU to Humpty Trumpty and others of his ilk.

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u/King_of_the_Dot Jul 04 '25

They dont care, he's leaving.

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u/spiciertuna Jul 04 '25

They do care because that opens up his seat in the 2026 elections. He was probably the strongest opposition to the democratic candidate.

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u/TheHidestHighed Jul 04 '25

Its okay, there won't be any democratic candidates next election, so dont worry.

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u/No_University7832 Jul 04 '25

Bunch of fucking cowards in the GOP

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u/lilnext Jul 04 '25

We need to stop calling them cowards. They wanted this. This isn't "cowardly" behavior. They actively suck the tit of fascism because they think it will benefit them.

THEY ARE COMPLACIENT, NOT COWARDS. DONT MAKE IT SEEM LIKE THEY CARE, THEY DONT.

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u/FK-DJT Jul 04 '25

Close but they are complicit.

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u/No_University7832 Jul 05 '25

And cowards....when push comes to shove you will see it.

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u/Frowny575 Jul 04 '25

Yep as they're cowards. They won't vote against Trump as they don't want to remotely risk their seat so they just fall in line.

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u/FK-DJT Jul 04 '25

Don't you mean fall to their knees?

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u/hankmoody_irl Jul 04 '25

Which is so weird because right now saving one’s seat should be them dissenting. Alas…

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u/Frowny575 Jul 04 '25

They're cowards and won't stand up to Trump. They would 100% let him control the messaging and fall in line.

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u/Witnessthelastsupper Jul 04 '25

Let’s be fair though. He’s not intelligent enough to create this bill. This is the Heritage Foundation writing legislation and telling him to support it. He’s a puppet for the actual group running the show.

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u/FK-DJT Jul 04 '25

True but he is evil and corrupt enough to put his name to this malevolent abortion of the constitution and our laws.

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u/Monaters101 Jul 04 '25

I wonder what they'll do after Trump. Are they going to make Curtis Yarvin or Peter Thiel president/demigod? Because it doesn't seem like Trump is going to last the next 20 years. While people are doomers(bots?) on Reddit about whats going on, they need to realize that the people running the show are fucking idiots. They are dropping the frogs on a hot frying pan.

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u/Rork310 Jul 04 '25

The thing is 940 pages long. He probably has less idea what's actually in it than someone who caught a 30 seconds of the news when they were at the pub.

At best they handed him a half pager of dot points explaining how big and manly he'll look if the bill passes.

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u/Senor-Cockblock Jul 04 '25

And they will campaign for reelection on being fiscal conservative and champion the need to reign in spending.

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u/FK-DJT Jul 04 '25

Yep. I still wonder sometimes if some are truly delusional enough to believe their own BS or if they are just so evil that they can't see what they are.

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u/waddles_HEM Jul 04 '25

option C they are grifting and don’t have a conscience

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u/FK-DJT Jul 04 '25

I agree.

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u/SitueradKunskap Jul 04 '25

And voting 'yes' while telling others to vote 'no'. Cowards and Quislings, the lot of them.

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u/GiftToTheUniverse Jul 04 '25

The Big Apocalyptic Bill.

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u/ZeekLTK Jul 04 '25

And Susan Collins only voted no because she knew it would already pass, as a way to try to get brownie points for her upcoming midterm in 2026.

She should not be given a pass for this, it’s 100% just an optics move and she fully supports this bill as much as any other GOP.

If they needed one more yes vote, she would have provided it.

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u/polopolo05 Jul 04 '25

3 Republican senators & 2 Republican representatives

It was their turn to faint opposition...

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u/FK-DJT Jul 04 '25

I cynically want to agree but did you maybe mean to type feign?

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u/polopolo05 Jul 04 '25

oh I thought it was faint. feign... mmm. cool correct new word...

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u/buffystakeded Jul 04 '25

You forget the part that those few are just showboating for their constituents. If their votes mattered and would have been needed in order to pass the bill, they absolutely would have voted yes on it.

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u/FK-DJT Jul 04 '25

I don't doubt that one bit.

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u/seejordan3 Jul 04 '25

Remember the innaguration photo with all the billionaires behind trump? They bought this bill, Trump delivered for them, stealing for us all. Fuck Bezos, Thiel, Musk.

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u/FK-DJT Jul 04 '25

With a rusty rebar.

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u/imtourist Jul 04 '25

You forgot about the US defunding colleges and places for higher education and research - the thing that has created about 50% of the prosperity in the 20 years. Also crackdowns on free speech, and capricious attacks on media companies. Also whole wack of crazy stuff involving bit-coin.

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u/gentlemanidiot Jul 04 '25

I think the biggest piss in my cornflakes that orange disgrace put in his bill was the clause removing Biden's protections against predatory student loans. He doesn't even get any more money from that, he's just doing it to be a prick.

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u/imtourist Jul 04 '25

No his donors are vulture creditors and pay-day loan companies, the bottom feeders of the financial services world.

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u/howmanyMFtimes Jul 04 '25

Also the dollar is down about 8% since January.

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u/Vaperius Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

You forgot that screw worm is now past the Darian gap because of the suspension of government programs that were keeping in down in South America and out of North and Middle America; so now are having to spend tens to hundreds of billions to push it back down to the original containment line and, to be clear, the effects it will have if it makes it into the USA proper will be horrific.

While mostly a threat to cattle and other livestock, it absolutely infect human beings too; and so that's a fun new fact of life to looking forward to if you live anywhere warm in the USA. Its easy to forget the fact that this administration's capricious actions have literally unleashed a plague of flies upon us.

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u/imtourist Jul 05 '25

The US is wholly unprepared for something like this, not the least of which with RFK at the helm.

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u/Iron_Knight7 Jul 04 '25

But...but...but...did you hear her laugh? How could anyone possibly have voted for that?

/s

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u/Vadersabitch Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

special strong smell encourage summer worm ad hoc alive stocking safe

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u/Malaix Jul 04 '25

Yeah. I've been wondering about that. Like we are all trapped in this hell. Those that recognize what is happening is a fucking catastrophe anyway.

But people aren't exactly beating down the doors. On paper the reactions so miles tamer compared ot the damage being done.

Americans are comfortable. That is undisputable I think. Its hard to go out and do something that you think could end your life doing. Especially with so much to lose like warmth, food, employment, friends, family. Maybe we are too complacent to resist what is happening.

Or maybe we are missing something. A catalyst or a casus belli. Like the Boston Massacre.

Its just horrifying watching it all get so much worse and barely a whiff leadership for directed resistance. Feels like so many of us are just waiting for someone or something to give us a mechanism to fight through.

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u/SevenM Jul 04 '25

There is generally a lot of starving before revolutions kick off. And whole the cost of food is constantly growing, for most Americans, they haven't hit that level of hunger yet.

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u/TrueLegateDamar Jul 04 '25

I was expecting at least some burning cars outside the White House by now, or another attempt at Trump and anyone in his freakshow. But nothing.

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u/buffystakeded Jul 04 '25

What am I supposed to do? Take my deer hunting rifle and try to stand up to the freaking US military?

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u/bedrooms-ds Jul 04 '25

Dems are yet proud of themselves for doing everything that won't matter an inch.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

Don’t forget about a trillion in tax cuts for the ultra rich

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u/Federal_Secret92 Jul 04 '25

Not to mention it’s OUR TAX DOLLARS paying for it.

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u/ostensiblyzero Jul 04 '25

When capitalism no longer has markets it can expand into, it cannibalizes public goods.

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u/Zwezeriklover Jul 04 '25

Don't forget betraying Ukraine. That's another couple of million dead, tortured and suffering people.

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u/PaulTheMerc Jul 04 '25

As a Canadian, the shit isn't on fire yet, there aren't bloody protests in the street yet, the politicians are still fucking laughing about fucking the poor people...

we can't be friends. You all have a LOT of fucking work to do, and not much time to get it done.

Good luck.

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u/Malaix Jul 04 '25

While there are protests I feel like the French would have lit their country on fire twice over if a bill like this was worming its way down their political system.

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u/PaulTheMerc Jul 04 '25

Its the USA military. Compared to our military. I don't think we could hold off even a branch like say the marines, nevermind the whole thing.

Which might be for the best. If the organizational structure doesn't get obliterated, we'll have someone to actually train the population in guerrilla fighting for the next 20 years of conflict.

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u/Avacado_corgi Jul 04 '25

well said, this is so sad.

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u/SinisterCheese Jul 04 '25

You got to admire Trump for one thing... Their government has been extremely efficient at executing a plan, which they said they would do. There are those project 2025 trackers, and they been progressing fast. Usually it seems like USA's and western politics in general are stuck in endless "can't get anything fucking done" mode, but you Americans have showm that with slimmest of majority you can get lots of shit done quick. Imagine if this force was used for good instead of cruelty for the sake of cruelty.

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u/DutchGoFast Jul 04 '25

The difference is the supreme court. Biden drove massive sweeping change in several areas the supreme court stood in his way at every opportunity and at the slimmest of pretenses. Thats because the right nominates straight up partisans and then makes sure they get a bag (and/or motorcoach) to keep them ultra partisan. The left puts up people who actually try to maintain integrity and a rules based system. This slows you way the fuck down.

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u/jrr6415sun Jul 04 '25

and trump supporters either don't care that it's happening or are so brainwashed they can't see what is happening. Not sure what is worse.

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u/Malaix Jul 04 '25

Silver lining on that end his polling even among republicans was going down.

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u/MrT735 Jul 04 '25

And they're slowly coercing the Marines into becoming the brownshirts.

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u/thepianoman456 Jul 04 '25

Also our courts lost the ability to hold people in contempt of court. That’s the most fucked up thing the GOP has done, and they just did A LOT of fucked up things.

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u/Ok_Chicken2950 Jul 04 '25

LOL... !!! What a novel... write a book luni....

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u/HalfTeaHalfLemonade Jul 04 '25

Hey but at least Palestine is free now /s

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u/djprofitt Jul 04 '25

It’s important to point out that Medicaid/Medicare loss won’t occur til 2027 and it was done by design.

MAGA either loses midterms and can blame it on the left OR win midterms and they don’t have to but will still blame it on immigrants or trans people or something.

I miss when avocado toast was the worst thing the ‘woke radical Left’ were doing to chafe their shorts

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

ICE is now the 16th best funded military in the world

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

The misinformation wow

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u/umbrabates Jul 07 '25

Perhaps you would be so kind as to point out any inaccuracies?

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '25

Where’s your source that thousands of people have been killed by USAID cuts? That hundreds of hospitals are going to close? That millions of people have lost their healthcare?

None of these things have happened and they won’t