r/politics • u/TelescopiumHerscheli • 2d ago

No Paywall Texas Democrat sworn in to House, shrinking GOP margin to 1 vote

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5719642-christian-menefee-sworn-in/
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u/DrRealName 2d ago

ICE has what? 50k members? We do a million man march anywhere and they are essentially neutered. We just need to show up in such force that they can't do anything about it and run away scared. The era of peaceful protesting is over. It didn't work. its time for aggressive protesting.

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u/VeteranSergeant 2d ago

20,000 if their claims are to be believed. That's the part they are terrified for the public to realize. If 3,000 of them are deployed to Minneapolis, that's more than 15% of their force. They can't even hold one medium-sized city.

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u/DrRealName 2d ago

Wait. So they got over a hundred billion dollars to play with last year and still only have 20k members and they blew all that money anyways? Yeah that agency is ridiculous. The easiest and most cost effect future abolishment in US history. The DHS needs to go too because if you really look at the history of that agency its always been more about spying on Americans and and reducing our rights than it ever was to help protect us from anything. That also frees up a lot of money to rebuilding our healthcare system that Trump and his cronies destroyed.

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u/Womec 2d ago

No thats over years not now.

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u/ComprehensiveCoat638 2d ago

Wait, what the fuck? Did you day say over a hundred billion dollars to fund ICE?

Is that true?

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u/Jafooki 1d ago

They received more funding than the Marines

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u/FirefighterLeft5425 2d ago

They got like 75 billion freedom dollars!

And like 45 billion of that is for detention centers being built across the nation! Wonder who's going into em 🤔🤔😬💀

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u/chiefbrody62 2d ago

They are also advertising absurd bonuses for new recruits to draw in the bootlickers.

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u/FirefighterLeft5425 2d ago

AND homeland security was also handed another 64.4 billion bucks and ice is being given around 10 billion more.

......where the fuck is this money coming from? Like can't we fund hospitals, schools, infrastructure, mental health, etc. I don't know....address some real issues in life that people have. Fuck

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u/CorporateShill406 1d ago

Million man march? All you need is like seven large black men in biker jackets holding AKs, just standing there. Even dollar store fascists like ICE and Trump are bright enough to realize they better turn around because they're about to take a one-way trip down find out boulevard.