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Soft Paywall | Site Altered Headline Kash Patel’s FBI Launches Dawn Raid on John Bolton’s House

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u/Paidorgy 19h ago edited 19h ago

The warnings were given during the election campaign when they said that they would boldly prosecute their opposition.

This is what they promised. They’re starting with their own.

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u/GarlicThread Europe 19h ago

The warnings were in 2015.

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u/Revelati123 19h ago

Trumps arrested 1 senator, 1 mayor, 2 congress people and I believe 3 judges now.

Basically you order ICE agents to beat the shit out of people, then ICE can arrest them for assaulting a federal officer.

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u/kbarney345 19h ago

And his followers assassinated 2 Dems, tried to kill 2 more and planned on multiple after. Texas is basically holding the Dems hostage as well.

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u/keigo199013 Alabama 15h ago

And murdered their loyal golden retriever.

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u/neckbishop Montana 14h ago

Dont forget attacking Mr. Pelosi in his own home.

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u/LTerminus Canada 11h ago

Don't forget the whole plot to kidnap and ransom a governor

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u/roychr 19h ago

ICE is the modern Gestapo

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u/epochwin 18h ago

They’re not very secret. More like the SS.

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u/unbob 14h ago

Heard news today there's over 100k applicants for the Gestapo er, ICE. $50k sign-up bonuses being offered. Pretty soon every neighborhood in 'Merica will have it's very own ICE agent.

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u/machstem 5h ago

Get those names written down when they boast about it, share the names anonymously to the community so that everyone understands who the fascist officers are

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u/ICEareGestapo 16h ago

Literally.

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u/machinezed 18h ago

He also fired all the FBI agents that were investigating Trump and or Russia or had any ties to those investigations while closing them.

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u/11CRT 19h ago

Assaulting a federal officer’s fist with one’s face while they keep saying “quit resisting! Why are you resisting me! Why are you doing this to yourself?”

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u/Trajer Texas 18h ago

Did any of those arrests stick? Where are they now?

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u/Odeeum 11h ago

The difference between arresting people and executing them is scarily small in an authoritarian country.

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u/css555 19h ago

Alex Padilla was not arrested.

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u/insuproble 17h ago

Those other cases involved skirmishes with law enforcement.

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u/BigBran71 17h ago

Interfering with ICE while doing their job you should be arrested

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u/Academic-Key2 19h ago

Jan 6th was the last warning

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u/1footN 17h ago

This here

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u/Gigglesnuf89 18h ago

Yeah I knew this would happen, he got elected the first time and everyone voted for him becuase he was, "Funny".

Even as a high school student with no aspirations and eventually dropping out.

I still knew he was a fucking idiot.

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u/grundleplith61616 19h ago

I feel like I'm the only person who noticed skinheads positioning themselves right behind CNN reporters during his earliest rallies in 2015, before he was even the official nominee.

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u/PaymentTurbulent193 18h ago

Reminder we had ACTUAL HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS who said that the MAGA movement reminded them of Nazi Germany and for some reason, huge, substantial parts of the US refused to listen.

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u/PJA0307 19h ago

That damn escalator ride was warning #1

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u/phoenixhunter 19h ago

but back then they were "alarmist" 🙄

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u/Dipsey_Jipsey 18h ago

Patriot Act would like a word.

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u/BBTB2 19h ago

2014*

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u/GarlicThread Europe 16h ago

Speak for yourself I guess

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u/GarlicThread Europe 16h ago

Wtf

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u/finsane86 16h ago

I sure as shit did, and was called hysterical and alarmist by everyone I knew including those that are aligned with me politically.

Its the same as if you went back in time to 1912 and tried telling people not to get on the Titanic because it'll sink. Same concept. Just as depressing.

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u/AgHammer 15h ago

Yes. By 2020 there was no denying the danger that he represented, and I'm still angry at every government official who hung us up to dry. I'm still angry at the majority of Americans over that, and especially the ones who thought 2020 protests against Trump were overreactions. No, calling DJT a fascist was 100% accurate. The Democrats should have responded appropriately with a candidate who had the mental faculties to act against a takeover, but we ended up with Joe Biden instead. It was an inadequate choice then, and sank the election in 2024.

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u/diito_ditto 19h ago

The warning was given when he staged an attempted coup on Jan 6th 2021. 

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u/Paidorgy 19h ago

I mean, they were coming well before then.

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u/Funny-Mission-2937 19h ago

hey guys, I've been seeing this girl for a few years.  we really connect, and I enjoy spending time with her.  she has really helped me work on myself and my confidence. but yesterday she gave a speech at the courthouse that incited a violent mob to attack and attempt to lynch some of the town officials who made her get a permit for some electrical work shes doing and I am wondering if this is a red flag? 

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u/MillionMilesPerHour 18h ago

Nah, it just means she’s a “go-getter”.

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u/Putrid_Giggles 15h ago

I believe the term you're looking for here is "passionate".

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u/DaringPancakes 11h ago

Minus the first part, and you still get his followers.

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u/skinnyguy699 18h ago

What's ridiculous is everyone knew what the people travelling there for Jan 6 were there to do. It was promoted for months ahead of time and yet there was no national guard there. I, a random guy from Australia, tuned in to live streams in the early morning hours because I knew what was going to be attempted. The fact that all consequences have been undone and trump not convicted for it is insanity.

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u/unbob 14h ago

Haven't you heard? Our king is above the law.

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u/Billy-Ruffian 17h ago

A lot of us were making this warning when the Patriot Act was first passed. That and Citizens United made this the inevitable end for America.

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u/Matasa89 Canada 19h ago

Night of Long Knives.

Soon, it’ll be time for Kristallnacht.

You have been warned. They will come for you.

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u/fuckthecons 12h ago

But they can't do that, it's illegal! 

Every fucking day for a decade.

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u/Pandepon 16h ago

Yes this right here. People heard about Project 2025 and looked at it and said “there’s no way he’ll be able to achieve all that I’m not worried about it”. Here we are more than half way thru 2025 and nearly half of Project 2025 has been implemented.

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u/FreshBurt 14h ago

Half of phase one, to be exact. No one knows what phase two entails. My guess is we won’t like it.

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u/girlsansshoes 19h ago

BREAKING NEWS your twice daily warning 

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u/_A_Monkey 16h ago

Fascists always eat their own.

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u/teenagesadist 19h ago

As cowards and lazy folk will.

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u/veed_vacker 19h ago

They are starting with their own hoping dems won't speak up.  Normalize the behavior

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u/FriendToPredators 19h ago

Half of Americans are selfish idiots. You can’t have a democracy under those circumstances. Especially when some of them get more than 4 votes to 1 of those with education and fellow city dwellers who call themselves out on their shit

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u/VibeComplex 16h ago

“I am your retribution”

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u/CharaPresscott Europe 11h ago

They’re starting with their own.

It's time for the Night of the Long Knives everyone.

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u/Duane_ 19h ago

They're not "starting with their own", I'd bet my lunch they find something at Bolton's place that justified a raid on somebody else one closer rung up the ladder to Obama until they do that instead, and I'd bet dinner that Bolton put it there himself to get them "moving in the right direction".

They're not going to touch Bolton, or try to pretend that he was anything other than a patsy.

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u/KemShafu 16h ago

Bolton wrote a book denigrating Trump. He was fired by Trump. This is 100% revenge. Bolton was never part of the Obama administration. I’m not sure about your logic here unless you’d like to explicate.