Originally published at: Greg Bovino Emerges as Trump’s Man For Conjuring Up a Blue-City Insurrection - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Elected officials, activists, and at least one former high-ranking Department of Homeland Security official have all noticed the same thing: when the Trump administration wants to turn up the heat, they send in Gregory Bovino. Over the past year, Bovino, now a Customs and Border Patrol commander-at-large, has rocketed from an obscure posting in the…
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FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FASCISTS
I AM ANTIFA.
saying it again.
FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FASCISTS. I AM ANTIFA
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Another of the performative trolls/attention whores/bullies/fascist creeps who have mastered the criteria for what it takes to succeed in MAGA world.
A prime candidate for the post-regime trials.
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Of course, most of us have seen this guy on TV.
One need not be former military to know this guy is dressed for ground, urban warfare – something not seen since maybe the 60s. Like boys playing soldier.
ETA I only today notices he wears 2 stars. the cockades of a maj general. Whew!
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Bovino will get some innocent bystander killed. Count on it. He is drunk with power and craves the spotlight. Thank you, Josh, for a revealing look at Bovino who is out of control.
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For those who may be feeling temporarily faint of heart, I recommend the music from Le Mis, “Do You Hear the People Sing”, played loudly several times, until it brings tears to your eyes and strength to your heart.
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Geez, I’m old enough to remember how loudly the Republicans screamed bloody murder when the Feds did ▼THIS▼ to the Branch Davidians’ Compound in 1993:
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Nick Fuentes wrote on Telegram this week that the administration’s operations “almost seem designed to invite a response from Left-Wing agitators.”
Or, you know, from some regular American stand-your-ground “castle doctrine” armed patriots when masked cosplayers burst into their homes unannounced at 3am, all because someone thinks “determining alienage” is more convenient when US citizens are lined up next to a dumpster in their underwear.
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From Guardian,
But the refusal to seat Grijalva has broader implications. In using his procedural control over the functioning of Congress to deny a seat to an elected Democrat, Johnson is setting a dangerous precedent and raising questions about future transfers of power. If a Democratic majority is elected in 2026, will the outgoing Republican speaker duly swear in its members? Or will he use his procedural powers to delay one, several or many of them from taking their oaths of office – either under the pretext of election fraud or personal ineligibility, or out of sheer, bald unwillingness to hand over power to members of a party that the president and his allies have repeatedly described as illegitimate?
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That was the Branch Davidians, not the feds. Though the feds’ actions led to their decision to self-immolate.
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Johnson’s term ends with the close of the previous session. All members-elect participate in the election of the next Speaker before they are sworn in.
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During Trump I, when cabinet members and department heads could only last a scaramucci or two, it was funny to cite TFG’s “only the best people” line. It’s no longer funny. These situations, driven by TFG’s minions, are horrifying, tragic, and un-American.
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The living embodiment of a domestic terrorist.
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“Bovino’s actions, some of which appear to place federal law enforcement in the position of conducting local policing, seem to be part of a larger strategy to escalate tensions in these cities.”
He sounds like a master baiter.
There’s no place in a free society for this president, for his top advisors, or for this nazi.
His actions are designed to escalate domestic violence in defense against a dictatorial takeover, not to reduce it
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That was then:
President Joe Biden delivered his sharpest rebuke yet of Republicans and their fealty to his predecessor in an evening speech in Philadelphia on Thursday, alleging they “thrive on chaos” and warning their attempts to undermine democracy could devolve into violence.
“They live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies,” Biden said in front of a red-lit Independence Hall
This is now:
US Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino at CNN’s’s bureau in Chicago on Tuesday.
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I’ve lived in the desert, but not too long…I’ve seen how the sun and the heat fry weak people’s minds and turn them into absolute nutcases displayed for all to see clearly their confidence born of ignorance.
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Someone should whisper in Trump’s ear that Bovino is using the spotlight to launch a stealth run for President.
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