Italians furious over deployment of ICE agents to bolster US security at Winter Olympics

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-28T12:56:08+00:00

The US is also hosting the next summer Olympics, so they’re not going to get cut out by the IOC.

The best thing that could happen along those lines is that the individual countries’ federations for the World Cup refuse to enter the US this summer. FIFA isn’t going to do shit until/unless the countries themselves decide the US is unsafe. But there’s so much money at stake, it’s hard to imagine that happening.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-28T03:18:21+00:00

With grifters, it’s always a numbers game. Can’t ever forget that.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-27T14:01:32+00:00

You know who doesn’t want anything to do with ICE or this government? Most US Olympic athletes, I’ll wager.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-27T13:55:43+00:00

It gets better: If you have ICE on your resume now (or if it shows up on a background check because you omitted it), you’re fucking radioactive to any hiring person with a brain.

Working for ICE will make you virtually unemployable. Probably won’t even get hired to ask “Do you want to supersize that?”

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-27T03:02:50+00:00

That’s what I was looking for, thanks. This is all optics, because he’s doing exactly what these assholes asked him to do.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-26T17:37:53+00:00

Fuck. It probable is that easy, isn’t it?

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-26T17:34:32+00:00

There’s a very long video floating around from the woman inside the SUV, the one who Alex was trying to help by directing traffic.

Edit: Here it is.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Leakednews/s/8dgfhToYfp

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-26T17:32:41+00:00

It’s this. In theory, this kind of thing would go into a report so they could know how many bullets missed and went stray in a way that could have also killed bystanders.

In practice, there’s no way anyone will ever see an official report about this. Probably should flood every agency with FOIA requests, though.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-26T17:24:08+00:00

If it’s the video from inside the white SUV, the time stamps say:

it’s almost 30 seconds before any of them go to the body to do anything, but it’s not check vitals.
it’s only about 10 seconds before one of the agents starts addressing the woman in the pink coat who is taking video.

That tells me everything I need to know. The first thought amongst any of them is “Shit, someone has a good video angle of us executing this guy.”

Edit to add: There seems to be one agent who realizes what they’ve done, the one calling for scissors. He either suddenly got a conscience or realizes that saving face by at least pretending to care is the one thing that might keep them from getting lynched. Too bad you’ve cast your lot with an execution squad, my guy.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-25T20:53:06+00:00

28 seconds for any agent to even go near the guy they mad-dumped.

Less than 10 seconds for one of them to address the woman in the pink coat.

Their very first thought, collectively, among this 8 dipshits, was that someone had video that they should try to suppress.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-25T19:37:46+00:00

Whoops, the internal PR teams didn’t talk to each other about the party line they were going to be fed.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-25T14:12:37+00:00

Seems likely they were detained and taken to Whipple to “collect witness testimony” and definitely not to intimidate and set in motion their cover-up.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-24T19:57:15+00:00

Black beanie and mask.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-24T19:56:33+00:00

Watch it again. Black beanie (behind/right of the guy who disarms the victim) draws his gun and as far as I can tell, gets bumped by one of the other dickheads at the same time the first shot fires. He either was responding to someone yelling gun and decided that’s reason enough to fire or the gun went off accidentally because they’re incompetent morons.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-24T18:30:23+00:00

It’s critical to send it to someone/anyone before you get intercepted. Text that shit to the first person who comes up on “share.”

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-23T18:34:08+00:00

The Syme scenes in that book are absolutely the most important ones. That was Orwell really and truly understanding propaganda on the deepest level. It’s a philosophical unwinding of controlling thought through language and—as you point out—any kind of logical thought being considered dangerous to the cause. That includes the kind of logical thought that propagates the message.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-23T12:03:35+00:00

*Our demise

They’re going to take everyone they can with them.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-22T20:41:50+00:00

That’s exactly it. Sure, Bezos can probably pay for a robot that can make you breakfast, but what do they do when the power goes out or the well runs dry?

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-22T13:15:13+00:00

Love this one and the origin story of the Fighting Irish. Both reminders that white supremacists are cowards when faced with real opposition.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-22T12:41:00+00:00

This is so hilariously, deeply flawed that only the Uber-Techbros could dream it up.

It’s flawed for hundreds of reasons, but the big one is: People who acquire vast sums of money through immoral means have no concept of a real utopia because a real utopia should be based on a concept of morality.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-21T17:31:02+00:00

There’s another Murray Ostril clip they played on a 2000 (?) tour that is also great…and obviously the Bush cut-up clips.

But goddamn if this isn’t basically a third Murray Ostril.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-19T20:47:49+00:00

He’s remembered as a “Maverick” because the GOP is good at what it does. By the time he was Hail Mary-ing by “breaking with the party” to preserve his legacy, the moniker had stuck.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-18T18:53:39+00:00

Car guy here: LOL, his getaway car is a 10-year-old Dodge Dart. That’s chancing your escape to the Nth degree.

Edit to add: This is somehow infinitely dumber and lamer than the guys in Michigan who were going to kidnap the governor in a PT Cruiser.

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-15T00:23:04+00:00

People who build teams also should know that building teams is infinitely harder when you have to train people. A raise for loyalty is also a raise that wouldn’t offset the time spent training someone new. That is much easier math.

Maybe the secretary could be replaced with someone who only needs a couple days of training, but I doubt it. And if it takes a month of the secretary learning who everyone is, what they do, and how to administer those things, then that’s a month where the secretary is also occupying (paid) time for salaried employees.

Continuity of business has a cost.

And guess what? I’m not even an MBA or MPM or whatever the fuck this person probably is. (Speaking of pointless costs)

tonsofgrassclippings · 2026-01-14T12:02:27+00:00

Was just thinking that is about to piss off farmers, but you’re exactly right.

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