Republicans in the US Senate indicated Sunday that they planned to move ahead this week with government funding legislation that includes $10 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a federal agent gunned down intensive-care nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a killing captured on video from multiple angles.

“My support for funding ICE remains the same,” declared Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), a sentiment echoed by other GOP lawmakers ahead of votes on a package of six government appropriations bills approved by the US House last week.

“We’re not defunding ICE,” said Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) after the horrific shooting of Pretti. “Live with it.”

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    “We’re not defunding ICE,” said Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) after the horrific shooting of Pretti. "Live with it

    I hope you regret those words you fascist pig.

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      I can’t “live with it” if I’m getting shot you fuck— he picked those words precisely to make that tease.

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    “Live with it”

    Gonna say the same when your fucking back is against the wall next to all the other fucks just like you when all this is over? Society destroyed fascism once. We will fucking do it again.

    We have to make these assholes start thinking carefully about their words. They need to be looking over their shoulder 24/7 now. I’m fucking done. Ban me for inciting violence, IDGAF. As far as I’m concerned, it’s self defense now.

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    When it passes it will be a bipartisan vote, Chuck Schumer is going to ensure that just enough votes are rounded up to make sure it passes. They love the police state as much as Republicans

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      Yes, the Democrats plan to give ice the money also they just plan to act big mad about it.

      This is because they and their donors are the super rich. Which is also who Trump, his circle and Republican donors are. So you see the problem.

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        Which is why Schumer, Jeffries and every corporate Democrat need to lose to progressives in their next primary.

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          Replacing people like Jeffries and Schumer won’t change anything, their positions in the party will be replaced by someone willing to keep the status quo unchallenged. No one is ever given any positions of power that may become a threat to the power structure. The only solution is to abandon the duopoly in support of a workers party.

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    “How will we pay for this?” they only ever say when it’s something that helps people, like health or education.

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    America. Government seems to have forgotten who they work for… they need to be put back in their place.

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      Everyone needs to channel their inner Luigi and deal with these cunts.

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    So when do we start to expose the pedo-kompromat that someone somewhere is likely holding on these weirdos?

    Unless all of them are truly, really, really, really that evil?

    Which would make them evil in both scenarios, that’s not better… Yuck

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      The justice department has a lot of the childfucking kompromat, if not the videos Israeli intelligence made. One wonders about the cia though presumably they were in on it. By action or inaction. Maybe they were compromised first to allow the bulk honeypot, but they could even have copies of the originals too, somewhere.

      Russia claims to have some too according to medvedickhead last summer.

      Justice stuff is going to be really well guarded, the incendenary stuff probably filed under random subjects so court orders, prying eyes could not find it, an old trick.

      If only a patriot could leak what justice has, unlikely though given the overwhelming pressure to keep it hidden.

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    ’Dems continue to do nothing or cross the isle and vote for it amidst a chorus of well we have no power or how could have known or we are too divided or we want to be tough on crime’

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    I think their priority is to keep up the distraction from the fact that they’re being blackmailed by Israel through the Epstein files. I think they’d rather burn our country to the ground than face consequences for their treachery. In other news we just approved an entire new fleet of fighter jets for Israel paid for by American taxpayers.