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  1. No idea of the occasion, but your point is fair. I'll revise my previous post: "Dehumanizing rhetoric about political opponents in a partisan speech in front of uniformed service members reeks of overt fascism."
  2. Dehumanizing rhetoric in a partisan speech in front of applauding, uniformed service members.
  3. Kristi Noem Says ICE Will Be ‘All Over’ the Super Bowl After the homeland security secretary’s comments, Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican rapper who will headline the Super Bowl halftime show, responded on “Saturday Night Live.” Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, gave the clearest indication yet that agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement would attend the Super Bowl in February, where the Latin superstar Bad Bunny is scheduled to headline the halftime show. Asked on Friday by the right-wing [plagiarist] podcaster Benny Johnson [on the Russian payroll] if there would be “ICE enforcement” at the Super Bowl, Noem replied, “There will be,” adding that federal immigration officers would be “all over” the event. “I have the responsibility for making sure everybody goes to the Super Bowl, has the opportunity to enjoy it and to leave,” Noem said on “The Benny Show.” People should not attend the event, she went on, unless they are “law-abiding Americans who love this country.” Bad Bunny, a Grammy-winning musician who is from Puerto Rico, rose to fame with hits such as “MIA,” “I Like It” and “Me Porto Bonito.” He recently finished a 31-show residency in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, saying he chose not to perform in the continental United States because he feared that his fans would become targets of ICE agents. After the N.F.L. announced last week that he would appear at the Super Bowl, which will take place on Feb. 8 in Santa Clara, Calif., far-right commentators complained that Bad Bunny did not sing in English and that he had been openly critical of the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Johnson wrote on social media that Bad Bunny was a “massive Trump hater.” When Johnson suggested in his interview with Noem that the N.F.L. was sending a message to the Trump administration by choosing Bad Bunny to headline the Super Bowl halftime show, Noem replied, “They suck and we’ll win and God will bless us.” Bad Bunny, who hosted the season opener of “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, used his monologue to respond to the backlash. “I’m very happy, and I think everyone is happy about it,” he said, referring to his Super Bowl appearance. “Even Fox News.” The show then played a montage of Fox News hosts whose words had been spliced together to say, “Bad Bunny is my favorite musician, and he should be the next president.” The artist later spoke in Spanish, saying that his Super Bowl performance would be an important milestone not readily erased. “And if you didn’t understand what I just said, you have four months to learn,” he added. A representative for Bad Bunny, a representative for the N.F.L. and a representative for Roc Nation, which will produce the Super Bowl halftime show, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Saturday. A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security said, “There is no safe haven for violent, criminal illegal aliens in the United States.” The Trump administration has for months cracked down on illegal immigration in several big cities. U.S. citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped by ICE agents and in some cases taken into custody. Noem’s comments echo those made by one of her chief advisers, Corey Lewandowski, on “The Benny Show” on Wednesday. “There is nowhere that you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally,” Lewandowski said. “Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else.” “We will find you,” he went on. “We will apprehend you. We will put you in a detention facility, and we will deport you.”
  4. Odds on FOX Sports or Clay Travis taking this racist piece of shit off the air?
  5. Ah, yes, because this obsessive stable genius, a fan of a team that's now 3-2 with dim prospects for the remainder of the season, is "taunting" an undefeated one that will likely be favored in all of its remaining conference games and a solid chance of making the playoffs. Now, mind you, I -- an alumnus of the University and fan of the program since the days of Earl -- personally take no pleasure in seeing Texas play like shit. But that particular poster is a Grade A piece of shit.
  6. Meanwhile, our darling fascist bullyboys chuckle quietly to themselves as they take perverse pleasure in a brown woman being physically assaulted by jackbooted thugs. Dickheads like @statsman wipe their shit-smeared asses with our Bill of Rights and are an existential threat to American democracy. May they all burn in hell.
  7. At least he's consistent. In that prick's mind, there is an "in-group" that must be protected at all costs, including the use of bad-faith arguments and outright deceit. The motherfucker sees any potential success by those outside his chosen group as a personal affront to his worldview, a carefully constructed hierarchical house of cards propping up his selfish, fragile ego.
  8. Hey @statsman, I only see your posts if someone quotes you. You're on ignore because I don't associate with genocidal fascists. And don't even bother responding. You're an enemy of the Republic and common decency.
  9. Someone should remind those guardsmen they have a duty to disobey unconstitutional orders, which that Trump-appointed judge has just ruled.
  10. I get that. It was just a simple request about how far our 4th Amendment rights used to extend before we allowed fascist thugs to take over the federal government.
  11. I went to the original TikTok account where these videos were posted. Feel free to peruse the account: https://www.tiktok.com/@xrivex Here are the two videos posted immediately before that one. Peaceful protestors Sometime shortly after what looks like the first salvo of tear gas, followed up by more in this one, with folks mostly just running away. Obviously, there's no way of telling exactly what happened to prompt the tear gas. Still, we know that ICE was just caught lying about shooting an American citizen to death in Chicago yesterday, so...
  12. Question for the lawyers: In normal times, would this guy be legally justified in resisting or defending himself if he doubted the identity of these individuals dressed in street clothes with no identification that they’re actually LEO, especially since they refuse to produce a warrant giving them the authority to arrest him? Personally, I'm a white, blue-eyed, middle-aged American citizen who doesn't look too different from these pricks, so I've no immediate fear of this kind of treatment. That said, we all know where these fascist take-overs go when the protected in-group shrinks over time, and I'd like to be fully informed. TIA
  13. Well, he's wholly supportive of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, so you can probably also guess that he's generally racist and is, therefore, quite content knowing some brown person is suffering somewhere. Whether he actually believes the regime doesn't really matter; he's just happy to see cruelty inflicted on his "lessers."
  14. Yep. They're giving me angry, intrusive thoughts. Yep, yep. If I -- a guy who hasn't participated in any sort of physical violence since I got into an 8th-grade fistfight (1985) with another kid who insulted my mom (a 7th-grade math teacher) -- am getting these unwelcome thoughts, I can only imagine what others are thinking or might eventually do in retaliation. And while I do not support, call for, or cheer on violence, it certainly seems inevitable that hotheads will retaliate, which is exactly what this regime wants to justify a major crackdown on Americans and our inalienable rights. It's only a matter of time until it all blows up.
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  16. And the victory bells ring out.
  17. Guns Up and Horns Up to that Houston coach with stage 4 cancer. Keep kicking its ass, dude.
  18. And another hand to the face or facemask. But, sure, let's go with the Rig 12 refs fixing the game for Tech.
  19. Refs missed a block in the back by Houston Edit: Missed an OPI on Houston, too.
  20. After watching Hammond lead the team at Utah, you're not going to have to twist my arm too much to convince me of that.
  21. I'm not sure if Tech's offense is fizzling out at the end of drives or if Houston's defense should get all the credit. That said, Houston' D has played pretty darn well, all things considered.
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