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Igel

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13. A couple of things.

Reply to EndlessWire (Original post)

Sun Jan 26, 2025, 10:45 PM

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1. He sent more troops in 2018 than this go around.

2. The "sending IRS agents to the border" presupposes that 90,000 IRS agents were newly hired by Biden in the last year or so, in addition to simple replacement of people that quit or retired. In other words, the new batch under some Congressional bill of recen vintage. The scuttlebutt is that those people were never actually hired, so the net influx of untrained "agents" to the border is effectively nil.

Sometimes when Trump broadcasts his thoughts it's just static we hear, and pareidolia leads us to hear voices in the static.

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Why is rump sending so many [View all] EndlessWire Sunday OP

For show ... it's a stunt to give a complicit media ammo live love laugh Sunday #1

What are the IRS agents for? iemanja Sunday #2

Another dumbass idea from TSF RainCaster Sunday #4

It's all bullshit. The IRS employs fewer than 90,000 people total. The actual # of IRS agents is only around 10,000 Wiz Imp Sunday #18

Those soldiers should be embarrassed RainCaster Sunday #3

they are following orders Skittles Sunday #10

They don't have a choice, do they? Ocelot II Sunday #14

It's a performance for MAGA. Ocelot II Sunday #5

He's playing military tough guy, much worse than bush's crud. I think the 90k IRS agents Silent Type Sunday #6

There was never a plan to hire 80000 IRS agents. That was a fake story made up by the right. Wiz Imp Sunday #15

That is what US Treasury Department officials told Biden was needed, it became gospel. Most here Silent Type Sunday #21

The Treasury Department never said they needed 87,000 agents. Their estimate was for 87,000 Wiz Imp Sunday #22

Prob trying to get the IRS workers to quit. He did that during his last dictatorship, relocation federal workers yaesu Sunday #7

The IRS is one agency which is already completely decentralized. A low percentage of their employees work Wiz Imp Sunday #20

theater for his racist base Skittles Sunday #8

If I was Mexico relayerbob Sunday #9

Its pretty simple thatdemguy Sunday #11

A) it is a performance/photo-op, B) it displaces them from their rightful duties impeding RockRaven Sunday #12

A couple of things. Igel Sunday #13

There was never a plan to hire 90,000 IRS agents. The story was complete right wing bullshit. Wiz Imp Sunday #17

Circus for the magas. But wouldn't be surprised if he wants some of that sweet sweet drug running money too. Attilatheblond Sunday #16

It's all a circus act to cover the kleptocracy. usonian Sunday #19