Pretty much. The fact is that ICE does stuff like beat up and arrest a state-level union president because they don't like the color of his skin.

Tech issues on slrpnk.net right now, so using a different account.

Anyways, there's a reason Trump had dinner with King Bonesaw this evening

Unfortunately local cops are in favor of killing citizens.

Its who the US military was allowed to randomly kill in Vietnam.

It's not stupidity so much as a desire for bribes

A lot of early wind, solar, battery, and electric vehicle work was done in the US. The country has steadily lost leadership in all of those due to a lack of political support

Its when the Sharpies give you a bad trip

Good luck once locked up without the right to an attorney

if they care to

ICE doesn't care if your skin is too dark, or your name sounds vaguely Arabic or Spanish.

Yeah, cops aiming for genitals is a thing.

Bongino wasn't fired; he's still in his former role in the Border Patrol in California. He is talking about he has never tasted beaver though.

The cruelty and harm is the point of these kinds of policy

ICE has been raiding elementary schools in the past few days.

I dont expect 2nd graders to read the article.

No. The point of DOGE was to purge leftists from public service and exfiltrate controlled personal information about Americans to Palantir and friends.

They do. Slowly, imperfectly, and some of the time.

It's worth doing in parallel with other efforts.

To be absolutely clear: while The Atlantic tends to be reliable, this author of this piece is their humor columnist.

They're wearing body armor. Dude with a concealed gun likely ends up dead, and ICE gets no charges because they were afraid.

The end of the Republic.

They were filming be-afraid-of-scary-brown-people propaganda

The problem is that you're probably not lying in wait with a mythical concealed-carry shotgun. Realistic sequences that have happened in the recent past:

• A couple guys wearing utility company uniforms ask to step inside to diagnose a problem. They then jump you and arrest you.
• Your camera system stops working due to jamming. Then 15 armed men break through your door and surprise you while you're asleep in bed.
• Several people in the crowd at your kid's graduation ceremony suddenly surround you and zip-tie your wrists before you realize what's going on.

You're going to be dealing with a situation where you don't see in advance what's happening, and where you're confronted with a whole batch of people who are heavily armed and wearing body armor. That's a situation where one individual acting alone is very unlikely to succeed in killing an assailant with a gun.