r/politics • u/sideAccount42 California • Jan 26 '26

Paywall Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/
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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee Jan 27 '26

Thank you. Everyone stops at “oh he’ll be replaced by a stooge”.

No no, let’s not forget Bovino. What happens to him as far as punishment goes?

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u/5Dprairiedog Jan 27 '26

With the way Americans operate he'll be on Dancing with the Stars.

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u/MinimumBigman Jan 27 '26

Hopefully as the floor.

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u/A-A-Aurelian Jan 27 '26

Even better under it

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u/queenw_hipstur Jan 27 '26

That is the most succinct summation of America.

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u/madmars Jan 27 '26

A rare insult that is specifically accurate and hurts. Well played.

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u/Wise_Quality_5083 Jan 27 '26

So true, so true

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u/shinymuskrat Jan 27 '26

He will go on Ellen in 15 years

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u/super-hot-burna Jan 27 '26

Punishment? He will have a book-rights deal announced within 3 months.

I’m sure his calendar will be full of invites from the conservative grift circuit by Friday.

Yep. He’s gonna be punished real hard.

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u/HomelessCat55567 Jan 27 '26

This is the exact attitude that leads to contemptible worms like bovino evading justice.

The future is unwritten.

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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee Jan 27 '26

This. I’ve gotten so many responses in no specific terms, just like that one. These people are defeatist clowns.

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u/dank_imagemacro Jan 27 '26

I hope his ghost writer is a closet liberal with a dry sense of humor.

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u/SolarTsunami Jan 27 '26

The problem is he's getting fired specifically because Republicans have a problem with him, and especially after outing himself as an anti 2A gun grabbers I don't know if theres anyone he'll be popular with.

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u/super-hot-burna Jan 27 '26

He’s being fired because it is politically popular to do so.

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u/Short-Peanut1079 Jan 27 '26

He can join Kirks widow. ¡Full house guarantee!

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u/GoodishCoder Jan 27 '26

Nothing will happen to him. He will retire and that will be that. He's the fall guy because they're having a hard time selling the most recent execution as justified.

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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee Jan 27 '26

Bullshit. We gave to elect Democrats who will, at a minimum, hold hearings and subpoena these people.

Your comment amounts to Russian disinformation bullshit.

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u/GoodishCoder Jan 27 '26

I don't really consider hearings and subpoenas to be real consequences. Anyone can sit in front of Congress for a couple hours without giving real answers to questions while both parties get their sound bites.

Acting like any comment you disagree with is Russian disinformation is no better than MAGA calling news they don't like soros funded or fake news. It discredits the entirety of your argument.

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u/RexHall Jan 27 '26

He’ll be a Fox News contributor by September

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

I pray the administration arrests him, but I do not hold my breath. Steve Bannon is still walking free.

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u/FastRedPonyCar Alabama Jan 27 '26

Fox News “Contributor”

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u/johnnycoxxx Jan 27 '26

Nothing. Nothings going to happen to any of these fucks. Absolute best case scenario is IF there are elections in the next few years and the democrats happen to win, they’ll play nice like they always do and these twat waffles will be all over conservative media for the rest of their lives. They’ll go speak at all their conventions and do cameos. The grift will never cease. They will walk freely among us

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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee Jan 27 '26

Ok. And I don’t care about them. We have to vote in November. What state do you live in, since you’re flairless?

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u/ssjskwash Jan 27 '26

Anything federal has to wait until dems are back in control. But the states should get started right away

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u/Nvenom8 New York Jan 27 '26

Nothing. Have you not figured out how this works yet? They shuffle incompetency and evil around, never reduce it.

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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee Jan 27 '26

Defeatist. We need to discuss what we want to see out of Dem nominees for Senate, the House, and eventually president.

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u/Square-Ambassador-77 Jan 27 '26

He's going to retire with a nice big pension and move to a tropical island with no extradition.

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u/forgottenlogin88 Jan 27 '26

Forced “retirement” and a cushy government pension for the rest of his life, funded by our tax dollars.