Speaking to Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Wednesday, the White House deputy chief of staff launched into an unhinged rant against Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson—both of whom Donald Trump has called to be jailed—while accusing them of failing to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

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    I love his rants. He fancies himself to be a Hitler-style orator, but he always comes off as a screeching weenie, instead of the scary tough guy he imagines himself to be.

    IF the Forces of Good manage to take our country back from the Nazis, we need to have a very official tribunal to try people like PeeWee Himmler, but I still harbor fantasies about what I would like to see happen to someone like this guy. Dragging him behind a vehicle past cheering crowds would we a good start.

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    I thought ICE agents were going to protect everyone from the giant antifa transgender illegal alien Mexican gang threat and that no city was a sanctuary and that they’d go in regardless of anyone’s wishes and Thanos snap the deadly threats away with their supreme force.

    What’s with this new nonsense where they’re the ones who need to be protected?

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    What I heard in there is that America is one of the most dangerous places on earth because of gun violence. Weird that republicans say guns keep us safer, and that we should keep the most devastating weapons legal, and must absolutely lower the bar to the lowest level so anyone can obtain them in the name of American liberties. This administrations is filled with maggots that will continue fueling themselves off the dead bodies resulting from gun violence, while pinning the blame on the boogeyman, and not their policies and agendas.

    Maggots.

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      Yeah, pretty much.

      Trump is old and easy to manipulate as long as they distract him with pointless things (like attacking his personal enemies with the DOJ). He’s the President like a 3 year old is The Chef when helping cook. You flatter him with unearned praise and give him activities to distract him while you do the actual work.

      In his cabinet are people, like Miller and Leonard Leo, who are effectively controlling the power of the presidency by proxy. Miller is a white supremacist xenophobie who was given ICE and he’s using it exactly how you’d expect an open racist to use it.

      The fact that it creates domestic friction and causes protests is a bonus, so Bondi can attack Democrats as terrorists and supporters of terrorists and work on “””protecting””” the next election.

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      He is like every villain rolled into one, but he seems to have more of a direct role deciding policy than Goebbels.

      Marco Rubio, seemed to take credit but apparently Miller is actually the idea man who decided the U.S. should start murdering boats full of Venezuelans in international waters with drones.

      Miller also seems to be the one who came up with the idea to give ICE quotas they had to meet.

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    Elsewhere during his Hannity appearance, Miller claimed that the apparent success of the federal takeover in D.C. showed why other cities should welcome the president’s crime crackdown.

    “The Trump plan has brought historic safety to one of the most violent cities on earth, Washington, D.C. That’s what President Trump wants for Chicago. That’s what he wants for Portland, that’s what he wants for Los Angeles,” Miller said.

    “And yet, Democrats are on the side every night of the gangbangers, the predators, and now even the domestic terrorists.”

    Just found this break down of the arrests made by the Memphis safe taskforce as of Monday:

    The DOJ offered some insight into the reasons behind these arrests, although 16% of them have been labeled as “other” without further elaboration.

    In the first week of operation, beginning September 29, the 20 local, state and federal agencies that are involved in this crime-fighting operation successfully apprehended 181 warrant fugitives in total. The DOJ says 82 (or 45%) of these warrant pickups were ICE arrests.

    The task force also arrested 41 suspects on gun-related charges, 26 for narcotics violations, 18 for sex offenses, two for probation/parole violations, and one homicide suspect.

    The DOJ says the task force also made 52 “other” arrests, but no further information on those arrests is available.

    So out of 181 “fugitives,” you’ve arrested exactly 1 murder suspect. Nearly half of everyone else you arrested were immigrants, and 16% of people you arrested you can’t even give us a reason for doing so?

    I know we’re not supposed to use the F word anymore, but this sounds like a lotta FASCIST BULLSHIT!

    If I didn’t know any better, I might think ole honest Stephen Miller is lying to the rest of America about what the administration is actually achieving going into these cities that have become “war zones” and “bloodbaths”

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    Every time I see some news from the USA now I’m beginning to wonder whether it’s me that’s losing touch with reality or the US. But it’s getting harder to accept what I’m seeing and hearing.

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      Imagine living here. I was borderline agoraphobic before the red hats invaded. Now I never leave the house without my bodycam and pistol. Crazy comes at you fast.

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      All major news orgs are simply parroting the lies from the fascist administration. People are protesting against ICE kidnapping people and racially profiling and deporting people without due process(and lots of other things, but these protests are the ones the administration treats the worst). Anytime you see something stephen miller says, it is a lie.

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          Obligatory, the founding members of the think tank that created Project 2025 were up to some fuckery in Russia during the late 80s and early 90s.

          Holding mock elections to teach Soviet officials about democracy and “free” markets, helping to establish the first go between for U.S.-Russia businesses when they embraced capitalism. Teaching them how you should run government like a business out of the kindness of their hearts.

          There’s a reason the U.S. is feeling increasingly like post Soviet Russia, and a reason it feels like some people in positions of power seem to be pushing for secession and the collapse of the Union. They are, and the members of the Heritage Foundation that helped establish post Soviet Russia never intended to help them establish democracy regardless of what they claimed to be doing in the late 80s.

          The oligarchy they created in Russia wasn’t democracy gone wrong. It’s the result of their test run overthrowing an established government, and it went exactly like they hoped. They replaced it with a state run corporation, free of any public protections or accountability.

          Now they’re dismantling our federal government under the guise of replacing it with a Christian Nationalists government.

          Meanwhile, Russia is feeding their “patriots” the same BS, and using a nearly identical playbook. The only difference is which nation their patriots have to be willing to fight and lay down their lives for (Russia vs US) but the outcome is the same, the Oligarchs always win.