You Knew This Was Coming


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ICE thugs have been brutalizing people both verbally and physically for a year. The crowds of protesters have confronted them and have somehow stayed peaceful in the face of ICE brutality and illegality.

Now a mother in Minneapolis is dead at the hands of an ICE agent holding a gun like he thinks he’s Rambo. Trump and his mouthpieces claimed the ICE thug was afraid for his life, but video of the scene puts the lie to that. The real issue, though, is that he should never have been where he was and doing what he was doing.

This is Donald Trump’s Gestapo, crafted by his chief Nazi, Stephen Miller. It is Trump’s national private police, made up of people desperate to feel strong, needing to feel in charge of themselves for once and basking in the glow of receiving a pat on the head from someone in authority. Thanks to megalomaniac Trump these people are unrestrained by law, justice or even simple decency. They are the American SS.

They abuse people who may possibly be guilty of a misdemeanor but likely aren’t, like overstaying a visa. They abuse people born in this country and who are, therefore, citizens of the U.S. by order of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. They abuse legal residents, like visiting nurses and college students. But all of these people are treated by ICE like they’re heinous criminals who have been convicted of the most terrible crimes. Committing offenses against humanity is the ICE marching order. It’s designed to terrify all of us into compliance.

It was just a matter of time before there would be unjustifiable violence*. I mean, really, they recruited thousands of low character men craving some justification for acting out their anger, gave them face masks, uniforms without identification and guns. They put them in black, unmarked vehicles and told them they have quotas to meet and that isolating the right suspects is unimportant. Just lock up bodies. I wonder how many of them are the very same January 6 insurrectionists who are traitors to our country. How many of them do you suppose are Proud Boys or Oath Keepers? Bear in mind that Hitler recruited his Gestapo from prisons and recruited violent criminals.

Oh, and they made these thugs above the law, untouchable and all powerful over state and local officials and law enforcement.

WHAT THE HELL

DID YOU THINK WOULD HAPPEN?

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This ICE murder in Minneapolis is one of several ICE murders – two more in Portland yesterday. And you know that Trump, Miller and Noem all lied about the Minneapolis murder in less than an hour. They lie reflexively, automatically, pathologically – and they will call this and any other violence a reason to send our military to Democratic (blue) cities to enforce martial law. You know that they’ll call for yet more brutal actions and they will spew yet more vile lies about law abiding people – like your neighbors or even you.

With the invasion of a sovereign nation and the kidnapping of its president; the lionization and pardoning of January 6 terrorist insurrectionists, calling them heroes and patriots; with the justice-free Department of Justice; most especially with the astonishing cowardice of the Republicans in Congress; with the six extremist Justices of the sycophantic Supreme Court; Trump hopes he will have redirected us away from the Epstein matter so that we won’t find out about the crimes he committed and he’ll thereby escape accountability.

But we won’t forget the violation of those little girls. We won’t allow them to be abandoned again. And we won’t allow justice to be perverted for the benefit of rich perverts.

See Andy Borowitz’s 9 second read about Minneapolis.

And if you want clarity about what is happening to America and Americans, see Rick Wilson’s 3-minute read, Stephen Miller’s Murder Machine – Murder and Lies in Minneapolis.

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2 Responses to You Knew This Was Coming

  1. Jim Altschuler January 9, 2026 Reply

    Amen to Mr. Borowitz and Mr. Miller.

    ENOUGH!!

    Kristi Noem has no business in any government position, and no business speaking for anyone other than herself.

    Stephen Miller should receive the same treatment as Adolf Eichmann!

    J. D. Vance should be considered with the same sincerity as Charlie McCarthy [a ventriloquist’s dummy}.

    Donnie Trump should be handed over to a mob of pissed off women to be treated in whatever means they feel is appropriate.

    I and all fellow residents of the USA DESERVE BETTER!

  2. Kirk Landers January 8, 2026 Reply

    I agree with each point you made, Jack, and it makes me burn inside. When I watch WWII movies and read books about Nazi Germany, I’ve always abhorred the deeds of the Nazis. Apparently, tens of millions of our countrymen rooted for the Nazis, and the GOP members of Congress must have felt compelled to kiss their jackboots.

    The video of that incident leaves no doubt that it was cold blooded murder. There is no other rational caption for what we see. The fact that the Speaker of the House and the rest of the MAGA faithful defend it as a righteous shooting is every bit as alarming as you say it is.

    But we need an action plan. We need to inspire our millions to flood every federal office building in the country to impede the conduct of government business. We need to demand that our congressmen and senators issue public warnings to military and federal law enforcement personnel that if they engage in the murders and kidnappings of American citizens their deeds will be punished to the maximum letter of the law. We need to demand that Congress rescind Trump’s right to free convicted felons. We need to surround ICE and Border agents with thousands of demonstrators where ever they go. When the weather becomes safe, we should flood airports with tens of thousands of demonstrators to block the movement of Nazi enforcers like ICE and the Border Patrol.

    I think we need to be able to take constructive action, otherwise, thousands, maybe millions of us are going to be a lit fuse, ready to explode and not necessarily in a positive way.

    Other than that, happy new year.