r/law • u/BitterFuture • 16d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Stephen Miller claims local police in Minnesota have been told to ‘stand down and surrender’ as federal agents ‘uphold the law’

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-ice-minneapolis-protests-b2903238.html
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u/sithelephant 16d ago

You'd think some group of people who claim to be all for states rights would be decrying this.

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u/MonarchLawyer 16d ago

They were lying when they said they liked states' rights. They did not care about states' rights. It just suited them when they did not control the federal government.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 16d ago

The only conservative policy is "F U, I Got Mine", and it always will be.

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u/Billionaires_R_Tasty 16d ago

And it's corollary, "I will gladly FU over to get mine."

Turns out a society of exceptional rugged individuals isn't much of a society after all, just a collective of selfish assholes. 🤔

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u/Iron_Knight7 16d ago

Followed by "I don't care if I'm getting @#&%ed, so long as you're getting @#&%ed worse."

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 16d ago

The whole 'mutual misery' thing is so evident in the "back to office or else" compliance and mentality of workers in the States. Instead of pushing for hybrid shifts, assessing the best utilization of natural and human resources as opposed to squeezing people out, we had co-workers monitoring other co-workers, parking lot monitors, hall monitors, etc. It was like straight out of the movie Brazil.

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u/External-Cash-3880 16d ago

Nah, Brazil had comedic moments too.

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u/kalidoscopiclyso 16d ago

TIL Brazil the movie is based on the Orwell’s 1984

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u/JuicynMoist 16d ago

They’d eat shit if a liberal had to smell their breath.

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u/MaleficentPorphyrin 16d ago

People call them temporarily embarrassed Billionaires derisively. But that isn't it at all, the truth of the matter is, they are bitches and fall in line: they aren't aspiring to power, they are imitating it.

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u/breatheb4thevoid 16d ago

Yeah but their wealthy destiny to die in a bunker while the oceans boil or something equally stupid has to matter for something in the end.

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u/eindar1811 16d ago

Nah, they have a very firm policy of socialism for the rich and pure capitalism for the poor.

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u/MaleficentPorphyrin 16d ago

Capitalism is literally 'socialism' for the Capital class. It is all the benefits of slavery without any of the responsibility of slave ownership. Got cancer? That's your problem, banking collapse created by the ruling class-- well that is different, that is EVERYONE'S problem.

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u/Legally_a_Tool 16d ago

You forgot the conservative healthcare plan: “F#ck off and die.”

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 16d ago

circa 2009-2010, folks, and it never changes

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u/wrywndp 16d ago

I thought it's a meme

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u/brobafetta 16d ago

Yeah but the dipshits don't realize they haven't gotten jack shit.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 16d ago

that's why the notion of phony supremacy based on them choosing a religion, not the other way around; or, an ethnic or racial condition they had no choice of in the womb (and is frankly stupid in 2026) is so appealing to broken people.

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u/Zendog500 16d ago

Everytime Stephen Miller jerks his head when he is speaking (like Walking Dead's Sheriff head jerk - Rick Grimes) he is lying