They went from asscrack hanging out their dad jeans to looking ready to drop into the middle of a war zone.
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Raw Story already stretches the truth for clicks. You're here just making completely unsubstantiated claims. They are doing more than enough heinous shit without people mudding the waters with lies.
In response to the article itself, which references a 360% increase in weapons spending, ICE more than doubled the number of agents it employs. I wish they wouldn't, but they seem to think that all of these untrained traitors need weapons. It makes sense that they would have a massive increase in weapons purcheses to outfit the new traitors and the future traitors they're hoping to hire.
This is a non-story for the most part and you don't need to add lies to it.
They’ve amassed missiles armed with warheads.
The article you linked makes no mention of this. What is the basis for this claim?
Not one mention. Why you lying op? There's plenty of bad shit in here without lying
More accurately, its preparation for martial law in November. Any US citizen who thinks there will be free and fair elections is not paying attention. The regime are not leaving power willingly.
Time is running out for nation wide general strikes ..
You don't need missiles for martial law though.
Who needs martial law when you can bomb a voting centre and say it was overrun by Antifa
I thought the whole "missiles and warheads" thing was a debunked claim from a misunderstanding of less-lethal launchers and their ammunition. Rubber balls and teargas sorts of stuff.
What they're buying seems to be the same shit that any podunk small-town PD has been buying for the last 15 years with their budget surplus. Which is a problem in and of itself, but it's not an escalation beyond what is unfortunately the norm.
If they're picking up heavy machine guns or Hellfire missiles, let us know.
Yeah there’s no reference to that in the article.
That's the trouble with raw stories. They're often inaccurate. Yet if they say what will get people riled up, they'll get engagement and praise here.
Actually it's looks like the summary below the source is what's inaccurate. Neither the title nor the story talk about warheads.
Raw news is the hyperbolic left leaning version of News Max... designed to get you upset but accomplishes nothing.
Maybe I'm not reading your tone correctly, I get you're maybe trying to correct some misinformation about "missiles topped with warheads", but this seems to be really, REALLY downplaying the threat here, especially with the last line of "if they're buying this other shit, let us know" like what they currently have access to isn't bad enough for the threat to US civilians?
I'm just wondering why you took this take. Again, unless i misread your tone here. It just seems extremely dismissive of basically a shadow army loyal to Trump.
So more than one thing can be evil at a time. Posting with a title that is clearly not even implied by the linked article is the kind of evil misinformation that got us in this mess. That is as close to a "tone" in what he wrote. It's nowhere near extremly dismissive of anything. Doesn't even mention anything about a threat.
🤷♂️ I guess you're right, but the take away I got from their last sentence was ICE buying more weapons isn't something they are concerned about or want to hear about, unless its machine guns and hellfire missiles. That's the dismissive part to me. They're saying it's not news worthy unless it's an escalation from the weapons regular police departments already have.
I was the one saying this [ice buying more weapons] is a threat. To U.S. civilians.
what in the fuck would an immigration agency need with missiles of any kind?
what in the actual fuck
Because they're not an immigration agency, they are a certain twatwaffle's personal bully party. An inept, untrained, pathetic bunch of tiny dicks. The brown shirts, if you will.
valid
No shit, ya don't give em the largest budget of any enforcement agency and expect them not to spend it, right?
“Trump is building up a well-funded, poorly trained paramilitary force that could easily take on a life of its own,” Brooks explained. “Once you have a massive moneymaking machine ginned up, it’s hard to reverse course and turn off the spigot.”
Doge them, immediately. Take the guns first, go through due process second. Let that sink in, Thank You for your attention to this MATTER.
Re-electing Trump is the worst financial decision this country has ever made.
Trump knows he's screwed if he loses the presidency. He knows he must hold onto it by any means.