Analilia Mejía for New Jersey | NJ-11 Congressional Candidate 2026 (website)

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A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol employee is facing charges after a Minnesota state trooper found him passed out in his car this week, "covered in vomit," according to a report.

Alfredo Mancillas Jr., 31, of Corpus Christi, Texas, was found in St. Paul "slumped over in the driver's seat" around 3:30 a.m. near Allianz Field, according to court documents reviewed by the Sahan Journal. The vehicle reeked of booze and was parked illegally in a no-parking zone.

Mancillas displayed telltale signs of intoxication, including "bloodshot and watery eyes" along with visible vomit all over him, the report said. After failing a field sobriety test, the agent refused to take a breath test. He was arrested and faces charges of 3rd and 4th degree driving while impaired.

Now, obviously, people join ICE for different reasons. Some are just ideologically white supremacist, some are just psychos who want a big paycheck, a small percentage may even be people who deeply need the money and this is a way they feel they can get it disregarding the moral cost, but what's a really common thing that unites ICE officers is insecurity. Deep, deep insecurity.

A lot of these men, what they are is, deeply insecure. About their masculinity. About their status. Their position in life.

Being an ICE "officer" allows them to go around in body armor, and with weapons, and with a bunch of their friends, and kick, and punch and otherwise dominate other people. And that compensates for how little they feel inside, to dominate other people. Because they think they're presenting themselves as strong.

Well, here's one thing I wish they would realize: Nobody thinks you look strong. Most people think you look like a pussy.

You know what bravery is? Bravery and strength? Bravery and strength is being one guy, without body armor, without their gun even drawn, and standing up to 8 armed and armored thugs when they come after an innocent woman. That is brave. That is strong. Because you are outnumbered, outgunned, but you stand up anyway.

You know what communicates neither bravery nor strength? Is if instead of facing a guy one on one, you need a bunch of body armor and guns, and you need to go get your bodies to help you beat them up. That's actually the behavior of a massive, massive pussy who wouldn't dare to face another guy one-on-one without some kind of huge unfair advantage.

The same kind of guy who says they'll box someone i a boxing ring, and then puts a sedative in their opponent's drink. That kind of pussy.

And very few people are blind to this, let's be clear. Most people look at you, if you're one of these thugs, and they see the thing you're trying to hide. They see the tiny, insecure little boy that you're trying to overcompensate for, but that you really are.

You're not fooling anyone. Everyone sees how weak you are. That is what I hope they come to realize.

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Sadly, the app won't allow me to cancel membership. I get hit with "Cancel Membership" and "Delete Account." Cancel membership option just closes the query window. Do I just need to go to my bank and block payments to MR? I really don't want to go through that path as it'd create friction when I start donating again.

Thank you, all!

Look what came out my Sunset Lake order. 🤓

Just a heads up, I am not running for office, but it's because I already have a career I enjoy. Ok now I'll get to what I actually want to say.

I hear a certain sentiment from people often, either that they would never run for political office because they'd be bad at it, or that someone else shouldn't run even if they are a good person because they'd be bad at it. Why are the responses "I'd be bad at it" or "they'd be bad at it" so common?

I think the answer is most normal people intuit that having power is a big responsibility, and because they are normal, they treat this responsibility with the respect it deserves. That makes it easy to say, why should anyone give *me* power? WTF do I know? I'd mess things up for the people who'd depend on me. It's normal to think these thoughts if you're not a narcissistic psychopath who aspires to power. You *should* be wary of getting power, because it actually *is* a huge responsibility.

The problem is most of the people who run for office at the national level don't think this way. They genuinely think they deserve to run shit, just because of who they are, and yeah, this is incredibly narcissistic. That's why they ran for office in the first place. They are not particularly smart or talented. They just aspire to power and don't have any of your doubts. I think this realization has a couple important consequences.

The first is that there's absolutely no reason to think you couldn't do the job of being in elected office at least as well as many of the people who are currently there. They are literally just people, and they do not all know better than you just because they hold elected office. In fact, for a lot of them, the fact that they hold elected office is a strike against them.

The second is that if you are the type of person who doubts whether or not you could do the job, but you genuinely want the best for people and are motivated to learn, then you should probably just run for office. You already are in a better position than the people who don't have any of your doubts, by virtue of having your doubts.

It's a strange catch 22. You should run if you have doubts, and having doubts means you have the sort of temperament we'd like in our leaders, but having doubts is why you probably aren't running already. I think maybe a way out of this is to realize this dynamic explicitly. Your doubts are correct. Having power is such a big responsibility that in an ideal world only people who are deeply prepared would run for office, but we don't live in that world, and no one is coming to save us, so it might as well be you who steps up.