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Author: Steve203 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: MAGA wants more brutality
Date: 02/04/26 10:10 PM
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A couple articles about Trump the God's interview with NBC.

After the Minneapolis shootings, Trump says his administration could use 'a softer touch' on immigration

“I learned that maybe we could use a little bit of a softer touch. But you still have to be tough,” Trump said in an Oval Office interview with “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Llamas. “We’re dealing with really hard criminals. But look, I’ve called the people. I’ve called the governor. I’ve called the mayor. Spoke to ‘em. Had great conversations with them. And then I see them ranting and raving out there. Literally as though a call wasn’t made.”


https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/articles/minn...

At the bottom of a second article about the same interview with "soft" Trump:

Fox News viewers turn on Trump as network shares major ICE update

One person said, "Trump is pulling 700 federal agents out of Minneapolis after saying we need a 'softer touch.' Is this a strategic de-escalation or is the administration finally admitting the crackdown went too far?"

"Declaring victory as Trump cowardly slinks away in defeat," another person added.

"Disagree with the president wholeheartedly. You press on until all are deported," a third wrote.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fox-news-v...

29% of Republicans want ICE to go even harder. More beatings. More blood.

Steve
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Author: jerryab   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: MAGA wants more brutality
Date: 02/04/26 10:17 PM
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29% of Republicans want ICE to go even harder. More beatings. More blood.

Send them to MAGA-land and watch MAGA screech as they lose lots of farm and other workers on whom MAGA depends. MAGA is incapable of learning.
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Author: Steve203 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: MAGA wants more brutality
Date: 02/05/26 2:01 AM
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Fox Noise rushes to push back on "soft Trump" narrative.

Never mind that the data shows only a small minority of those arrested have any criminal record at all, Fox feeds the official narrative that they are all, ALL, horrible, VIOLENT, CRIMINALS.

SCOOP: Thousands of violent illegal immigrants arrested in Minnesota as admin vows ‘we will not back down’

"President Trump’s commonsense immigration enforcement policies are delivering the public safety results the American people demanded, with more than 4,000 dangerous criminal illegal aliens already arrested in Minnesota since Operation Metro began," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital on Wednesday in response to DHS' announcement.


https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/articles/scoo...

Steve
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Author: Steve203 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: MAGA wants more brutality
Date: 02/05/26 10:13 AM
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Fox Noise rushes to push back on "soft Trump" narrative.

Lets have some more "Trump regime strong" visuals from Fox Noise to delight MAGA

Lots of lurid pix at the link of storm troopers pointing their guns at civilians, and roughing them up.

Trump strong! Regime strong!

Gun-wielding ICE agents brush back Minneapolis agitators

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital in a statement that ICE officers were in Minneapolis on Tuesday "conducting a targeted enforcement operation to arrest an Ecuadorian criminal illegal alien previously charged with assault."

"Two agitator vehicles began stalking our officers and attempted to obstruct ICE operations — a felony and a federal crime — by blocking one of the ICE vehicles by closing a gate. Officers reopened the gate and exited the area while agitators attempted to close the gate in an effort to obstruct their operations," she continued. "The agitators then followed the officers as they departed and made hand motions suggestive of possessing a firearm."

"Obstructing federal law enforcement is not only dangerous but also a crime and a felony," McLaughlin also said. "Because of this obstruction, this criminal illegal alien is at large."


https://www.foxnews.com/us/gun-wielding-ice-agents...

Same excuse: "targeted operation...criminal illegal alien" vs rousting people on the street, because they are brown. And, of course, they don't have the alleged "criminal illegal alien" to show us their claims are legit. Nothing but more threatened and roughed up civilians in their wake.

Steve
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Author: Steve203 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: MAGA wants more brutality
Date: 02/05/26 5:17 PM
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Even more from Fox Noise: exercise your first amendment rights, at the risk of your liberty, and maybe life.

From protest to felony: the lines Minnesota anti-ICE agitators may be crossing

In Minnesota, more than 150 protesters have been arrested since the start of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operation, "Operation Metro Surge," including protesters who interrupted a church service, and others who blocked, assaulted, or attempted to otherwise restrict ICE officers in the state. The administration's response to these protests could prove telling as it moves to deploy ICE officers to other states in the weeks and months ahead.

Bondi last week announced the arrests of 16 Minnesota protesters for "allegedly assaulting federal law enforcement —

Bondi said the 16 individuals in question have been charged with violating 18 U.S.C. § 111, which punishes any individual who "forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates or interferes" with officials engaged in carrying out their official duties.


https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/articles/prot...

Keep in mind, the regime described Pretti as a gun wielding assassin bent on killing large numbers of officers. Noem has said that taking photographs of ICE agents is "violence". Seems the bar for punishing anyone daring to say anything is pretty low.

Steve...trying to imagine how a woman carrying a sign "intimidates" a storm trooper with an assault rifle and body armor
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Author: SuisseBear 🐝🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: MAGA wants more brutality
Date: 02/06/26 1:27 PM
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Seems the bar for punishing anyone daring to say anything is pretty low.

Poll: Two-thirds of Americans say ICE has 'gone too far' in immigration enforcement

... but, from the first graph in the article, the Republican base broadly supports ICE actions, the rest being split evenly into those that think "ICE has gone too far" and "ICE hasn't gone far enough".

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/05/nx-s1-5699413/poll-...
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Author: Steve203 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: MAGA wants more brutality
Date: 02/06/26 2:27 PM
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.. but, from the first graph in the article, the Republican base broadly supports ICE actions, the rest being split evenly into those that think "ICE has gone too far" and "ICE hasn't gone far enough".

Yes. I have seen that poll before. Trump the God is only concerned with how his MAGA base sees it. Three quarters of his base is either OK with the current level of brutality, beatings, and shootings, or wants ICE to go harder.

The woman in Chicago, who a CPB agent shot five times, has persuaded the court to have agent's body camera video released to the public. While the agent who shot her was not wearing a camera, other agents were. This is the same case where text messages between the agents showed the shooter bragging about how many bullets he put into the woman.

The government dropped it's charges against the woman last November, so seems she was shot, repeatedly, over nothing. The government apparently continues to call her a "domestic terrorist".

Judge allows release of body camera footage in case of Chicago woman shot by CBP

A federal judge on Friday granted a motion to permit the public release of body camera footage and other evidence in the case of a Chicago woman who was shot five times by a Customs and Border Protection agent last fall.

During Friday's hearing, Judge Alexakis took aim at the government's continued allegations about Martinez, despite dropping its case against her.

"I don't understand why the United States government, after being given many, many opportunities to do so, has expressed zero concern about the sullying of Miss Martinez's reputation," the judge said. "She's a United States citizen ... and under our legal system, it bears repeating, she's presumed innocent of any offense for which she has not been convicted."


https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/articles/chic...

Steve

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Author: jerryab   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: MAGA wants more brutality
Date: 02/06/26 2:47 PM
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the rest being split evenly into those that think "ICE has gone too far" and "ICE hasn't gone far enough".

Too easy.

Take the "not gone far enough" group and put 2-6 of them in a MaddMaxx cage and let the entertainment begin for the rest of that group. First group done, NEXT GROUP. NEVER run out of wannabes.
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Author: Steve203 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: MAGA wants more brutality
Date: 02/06/26 4:43 PM
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Yes. I have seen that poll before. Trump the God is only concerned with how his MAGA base sees it. Three quarters of his base is either OK with the current level of brutality, beatings, and shootings, or wants ICE to go harder.

More polling:

How bad was Alex Pretti’s killing for the Trump administration? New data tells us

(CNN poll) While 54% of Republicans said the use of force against Good was “necessary” back in mid-January, that number dropped all the way to 33% on Pretti’s killing.

(Another 24% of Republicans said the force against Pretti was “excessive,” while a plurality — 43% — said they weren’t sure.)

(Quinnipiac poll) And again, Republicans were the big movers. While 77% of them said the shooting of Good was “justified,” just 55% say the same of Pretti.


https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/articles/two-...

Putting on MAGA hat to interpret results: See? The CNN poll shows 76% don't have a problem with Pretti being killed, and the Quinnipiac poll shows 55% endorse Pretti's killing. What Dems and Independents think doesn't matter, because our God and Savior Trump will prevent them voting, or prevent their votes being counted.

Steve
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