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AnotherMother4Peace

(5,057 posts)
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 12:20 PM Yesterday

It appears that the Proud Boys, Boogaloo Boys, etc. are now Ice Agents. They already passed

tRump's loyalty test. Violent, cult like groups now consolidated under tRump's Ice Gestapo.

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It appears that the Proud Boys, Boogaloo Boys, etc. are now Ice Agents. They already passed (Original Post) AnotherMother4Peace Yesterday OP
Oh but they aren't truly 'agents' JustAnotherGen Yesterday #1
no question bigtree Yesterday #2
Also a whole lot of pardoned J6ers. GoCubsGo Yesterday #4
They're working hard to put the "SA" in "USA" hatrack Yesterday #3
Welcome to littlemissmartypants Yesterday #8
I think we all knew (or should have known) this was coming the instant they got pardoned groundloop Yesterday #5
The capital police knew that day on J6. littlemissmartypants Yesterday #7
He summoned his goons on J6. Now he has a private para military force and... littlemissmartypants Yesterday #6
Of course. That's what we've been watching on television. GoodRaisin Yesterday #9
This has been in the game plan since Nixon. BurnDoubt Yesterday #10
ICE has been using a song popular John Farmer Yesterday #11
It "appears"? maxsolomon Yesterday #12
I knew someone was going to ask for my source and/or question my assumption. AnotherMother4Peace Yesterday #13
I definitely think it's possible, even likely that RW Militia members been hired. maxsolomon Yesterday #14

JustAnotherGen

(37,744 posts)
1. Oh but they aren't truly 'agents'
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 01:08 PM
Yesterday

Like the CIA or FBI . . .

They are a Paramilitary Organization that serves strictly at the pleasure of Trump, Vance, and Miller.

bigtree

(93,617 posts)
2. no question
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 01:11 PM
Yesterday

...'militias' like the ones who marched on Charlottesville with their semi-automatic weapons.


GoCubsGo

(34,717 posts)
4. Also a whole lot of pardoned J6ers.
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 01:21 PM
Yesterday

This has pretty much all been common knowledge for some time now.

groundloop

(13,609 posts)
5. I think we all knew (or should have known) this was coming the instant they got pardoned
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 03:15 PM
Yesterday

It was just a question of exactly HOW tRump would use his fellow insurrectionists.

I guess nothing should surprise us anymore.

littlemissmartypants

(32,293 posts)
6. He summoned his goons on J6. Now he has a private para military force and...
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 03:24 PM
Yesterday

It can follow him ALL OVER THE WORLD.

Case in point: Italy.

ICE agents will have a security role at Milan Cortina Olympics
https://democraticunderground.com/10143606083


Some of us knew that this was coming.


GoodRaisin

(10,777 posts)
9. Of course. That's what we've been watching on television.
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 03:31 PM
Yesterday

We all knew they and their ilk would come running as soon as the hiring started.

BurnDoubt

(1,566 posts)
10. This has been in the game plan since Nixon.
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 03:39 PM
Yesterday

It was just waiting until SCOTUS was fully baked.
They've been training in the woods in "secret" the whole time, similar to how "flying clubs" became the Luftwaffe and Brown shirts became the SS, in plain sight under cover of "law".
On of the first actions after putting down this coup is to rescind ALL the pardons and reassert the Rule Of Law.
It's a fine line between "giving them the benefit of a doubt" and being fatally gullible.
We knew all along who they were because they told us.
DOJ has always deferred to right-wing paramilitaries and thrown the full weight of the Law at left-wing groups.
Now, with SCOTUS running interference they have the road all to themselves.
It kinda has the aroma of being rigged for seditionists and insurrectionists.

AnotherMother4Peace

(5,057 posts)
13. I knew someone was going to ask for my source and/or question my assumption.
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 05:56 PM
Yesterday

I believe that tRump’s favorite enforcers, his favorite violent gangs are now ICE agents for the following reasons:

1) they’ve disappeared. Where are the Proud Boys? Boogaloos? They used to be front and center. tRumps wet dream. I believe they’re still there, wearing masks with their identifying tattoos showing every now and then.

2) they’re masked up with no identification so who in the fuck are they?

3) Enrique Tarrio showed up on an ICE list as a propagandist and agitator.

4) their fucking tattoos identify who they are.

maxsolomon

(38,338 posts)
14. I definitely think it's possible, even likely that RW Militia members been hired.
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 07:23 PM
Yesterday

I'm just wondering if it's been confirmed.

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