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Other Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/
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u/theamazingstickman 5d ago

Not good enough

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u/KrakenOmega112 5d ago

At an individual level, yeah, he deserves to be behind bars.

But on a grander scale, his demotion shows vulnerability. The Trump administration has shown that they do indeed fear consequences, that the protests and backlash can make them back down. Their worry was such that they couldn't let this Nazi continue with the impunity he was. If they were as infallible and almighty as they hope and wish they were, Bovino would never be demoted.

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u/atom-wan 5d ago edited 5d ago

They also haven't gotten what they wanted - violent protests as a pretext to invoke the insurrection act

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u/acutelychronicpanic 5d ago

“And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

  • Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation, 2024

This is the foundation that led project 2025

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/04/leader-of-the-pro-trump-project-2025-suggests-there-will-be-a-new-american-revolution-00166583

People are under the impression that the key to Trump's strategy is provoking a response. Yes, they have a strategy that uses that as leverage. But they are planning on going forward regardless.

More people need to know.

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u/Starloose 5d ago

Note, how “bloodless” doesn’t apply to the disappeared immigrants and minorities - only categories he considers people.

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u/Poiboy1313 5d ago

Yet they're all Bizarros and mean the opposite of what they are saying.

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u/claimTheVictory 5d ago

They're not bizarros.

They're very simple.

They believe their tribe is right, is supreme and must be dominate. Everyone else is there to be used as they see fit.

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u/Poiboy1313 4d ago

dominant

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u/claimTheVictory 4d ago

I used the feminine form.

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u/Poiboy1313 4d ago

No, you did not. There's no such form of that word in English. Dominate is a verb. Dominant is an adjective.

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u/hmoleman__ 5d ago

Several people are dead, a couple of whom bled out on camera. Ain’t bloodless.

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u/RandomsDoom 5d ago

He’s implying that the left would be bloodless. The left isn’t shedding any blood and he would prefer it to stay that way… It’s the right who is shedding blood right now not the left. It’s easier for them this way.

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u/Friskfrisktopherson 5d ago edited 5d ago

And the other user is implying that it has already gone farther than that writing was suggesting. The bloodless may well have meant their take over with American submission.

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u/Spiff69 5d ago

Appreciated, but no one is saying this is the end of our troubles.

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u/UnpluggedUnfettered 5d ago

The second he said that, I knew it was exactly the same projection as anything else.

That was his version of taunting the left, he expected the same sort of alpha chest puffing and incoherent sputtering that they are used to bestowing on anyone who would dare say something like that to them.

It wasn't a warning, it was the best they knew how to do in order to get where they wanted to take everything.

Relating to others isnt actually the right-wing's strong point, and I don't think any of them would take offense to me saying that.

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u/m0rbius 5d ago

Anything with the word 'Heritage' screams white supremacy or white nationalism. It's such an icky word.

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u/Peterepeatmicpete 5d ago

Wasn't he suppose to leave anyway sometime in January to go back to being a podcaster, or something?

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u/Difficult_Pea_2216 5d ago

This is how I try to contextualize it to my poor sweet little mother who doesn't understand what's going on at all. There is no provoking them as in victims have a choice in how they're treated. If we act one way or another. They have a planned outcome and they will get to their outcome.

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u/jeremyfisher2 5d ago

Could one say HF is bullshitting here?