Discussion: Walls Come Crashing Down On Border Vigilante With Impersonation, Fraud Charges

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Put him in a fucking cage without toothpaste or soap and let him sleep on a concrete floor.

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Or it’s likely their real mission has nothing to do with the one they proclaim.

BP impersonators:“We’re here to protect America!”
Translation: “We’re here to fleece the rubes.”

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Lock. Him. Up.

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Like Samuel Johnson said. Felony Federal agent impersonation is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

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One terrorist at a time …

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You may ask yourself…

Why would Barr and Trump allow this to happen?

You may ask yourself…

Is that 450 articles on Faux News making this man a patriot-martyr for white nationalism?

You may ask yourself…

Is that the POTUS pardoning the racist patriot-martyr after a few weeks of conservative media Poutrage?

Same as it ever was…same as it ever was…

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A Venn diagram of right-wing nuts and con artists shows substantial overlap. This is similar to the case of the nut who’s supposedly trying to privately fund the border wall – he’s also involved in various grifts.

It’s because the right-wing audience has an almost bottomless gullibility about anything that fits into their ideological world view: birtherism, the imposition of Sharia law, the belief that US special forces were taking over Texas via secret tunnels under Walmarts, ad nauseam. No doubt the Trump small-donor list would be an absolute gold mine for phone scammers.

It’s always amusing to re-read Rick Perlstein’s exposition of this phenomenon:

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con

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“These are the kinds of people that you don’t want to be running into
in the dead of night out in a remote part of the desert. They carry
semi-automatic weapons, they conceal their faces …"

These are also the kinds of people I don’t want to be running:
a dog-grooming business
a hot-dog cart
a t-shirt kiosk at the mall

if, after a lengthy interview process and an impressive cover letter, I am convinced that they are trying, I might let them stand by the freeway with giant arrow signs telling about cell phone bargains.

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explain that to the mormons

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pretty sure this would not be any different than any other week in their lives

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how did I get here?

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And yet, no response at all from the Real Three Percenters. I guess they just don’t care about the First Amendment rights of 8 million fiber artists! Sad.

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With Trump’s crack team of vetters? They allow any and all white national dictaters to come and chew the fat at Trump’s table.

(yes I do acknowledge your snark)

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Well…when you play cops and robbers…eventually its your turn to be the robber.

Whomp–whaaaa

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Well, it weren’t the Neighborhood Trolley…unless maybe King Friday’s syphilis has finally turned him into a magalomaniacal racist grifter and Queen Saturday is an eastern European moron trophy wife and I didn’t realize I was living in Make-Believe all this time…

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Does this make him an “illegal”?

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Toothpaste? What’s that?

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GOP scum overflows their swamp of crime.

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“We need wall. We’re going to get wall.” someone needs to teach these morons definite/indefinite articles

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do not blaspheme against Mr. Rogers

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