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/10 The ICE “reformers“ want you to eat around the cockroach. I want you to send the plate back.
Stomp the cockroach.
Stomp the cockroach.
January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
/10 The ICE “reformers“ want you to eat around the cockroach. I want you to send the plate back.
Stomp the cockroach.
Stomp the cockroach.
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/9 The classic response is to say this: imagine you are in your favorite Italian restaurant. The waiter delivers a magnificent dish of delicious pasta. In the middle is a cockroach. Do you send it back, or eat around the cockroach? The government wants to you eat around the cockroach.
January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
/9 The classic response is to say this: imagine you are in your favorite Italian restaurant. The waiter delivers a magnificent dish of delicious pasta. In the middle is a cockroach. Do you send it back, or eat around the cockroach? The government wants to you eat around the cockroach.
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/8 The “monitor and mildly reform” crew remind me of my favorite defense attorney closing argument used to refute prosecution defenses of sleazy cooperating witnesses.
Yes, prosecutors say, our cooperating witness has some flaws, but work around those and look at the corroborating evidence!
Yes, prosecutors say, our cooperating witness has some flaws, but work around those and look at the corroborating evidence!
January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
/8 The “monitor and mildly reform” crew remind me of my favorite defense attorney closing argument used to refute prosecution defenses of sleazy cooperating witnesses.
Yes, prosecutors say, our cooperating witness has some flaws, but work around those and look at the corroborating evidence!
Yes, prosecutors say, our cooperating witness has some flaws, but work around those and look at the corroborating evidence!
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/7 Doing so is not inconceivable because we did it 23 years ago when we perceived the existing entities didn’t work. Being brutal and lawless to Americans is as much of a problem, if not more, than failing to protect Americans. ICE is infested with lawless bigoted anti-Americanism.
January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
/7 Doing so is not inconceivable because we did it 23 years ago when we perceived the existing entities didn’t work. Being brutal and lawless to Americans is as much of a problem, if not more, than failing to protect Americans. ICE is infested with lawless bigoted anti-Americanism.
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/6 ICE is a monument to totalitarianism, lawlessness, and bigotry. It should be ripped out and woodchippered root and branch and replaced with something focused on the concept that you can’t defend the rule of law by burning it down.
January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
/6 ICE is a monument to totalitarianism, lawlessness, and bigotry. It should be ripped out and woodchippered root and branch and replaced with something focused on the concept that you can’t defend the rule of law by burning it down.
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/5 But it’s true that sometimes entities and agencies are irretrievable because their culture is so enmeshed in complacency or infighting or incompetence.
Or, I argue, in bigotry and contempt for the rule of law and thuggish entitlement.
Or, I argue, in bigotry and contempt for the rule of law and thuggish entitlement.
January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
/5 But it’s true that sometimes entities and agencies are irretrievable because their culture is so enmeshed in complacency or infighting or incompetence.
Or, I argue, in bigotry and contempt for the rule of law and thuggish entitlement.
Or, I argue, in bigotry and contempt for the rule of law and thuggish entitlement.
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/4 That’s because, in part, catastrophic events had completely deprived existing structures of credibility, rightly or wrongly. Of course, that’s because of evil being done to us by outsiders, not because of evil we were doing to each other; perhaps that’s different.
January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
/4 That’s because, in part, catastrophic events had completely deprived existing structures of credibility, rightly or wrongly. Of course, that’s because of evil being done to us by outsiders, not because of evil we were doing to each other; perhaps that’s different.
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/3 Nobody had patience in 2003 for the concept “maybe we should reform existing entities rather than dramatically eliminating and reorganizing and renaming.” Nobody had patience for the “sensible reform, modest oversight” message some are now pushing over “abolish ICE.”
January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
/3 Nobody had patience in 2003 for the concept “maybe we should reform existing entities rather than dramatically eliminating and reorganizing and renaming.” Nobody had patience for the “sensible reform, modest oversight” message some are now pushing over “abolish ICE.”
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/2 We created ICE in a flurry of post-9/11 enthusiasm for muscular terminology and reorganization, as part of creating the Department of Homeland Security. Recall being sneered at by conservative and centrist bien-pensants if you thought “Homeland Security” was ominous?
January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
/2 We created ICE in a flurry of post-9/11 enthusiasm for muscular terminology and reorganization, as part of creating the Department of Homeland Security. Recall being sneered at by conservative and centrist bien-pensants if you thought “Homeland Security” was ominous?
1, she had a wife. Do you know what gay people are? 2. It was murder, not a 'lack of coordination'. Ffs, grow a spine and stop this mealymouthed muttering.
January 8, 2026 at 3:42 PM
1, she had a wife. Do you know what gay people are? 2. It was murder, not a 'lack of coordination'. Ffs, grow a spine and stop this mealymouthed muttering.
Nah, that would be The Fat Chocobo. No one knows who Chocobo Supreme is, for they move in silence and the last thing you hear is Wa- message terminated, kwei.
January 6, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Nah, that would be The Fat Chocobo. No one knows who Chocobo Supreme is, for they move in silence and the last thing you hear is Wa- message terminated, kwei.