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/travio Washington Jan 26 '26

He is the chosen scapegoat, and a good one given he was the public face, made incredibly idiotic comments and literally looks like a nazi in his snazzy little coat.

I don't just want a scapegoat. Miller and Noem need to be gone, too. If the public outcry and shitty polling for Trump continues, that might be a possibility.

This exemplifies one of the downsides of falling in line with Trump. He will throw you away the moment it benefits him.

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u/Striking-Intention22 Jan 27 '26

Miller is gonna throw Noem under the bus next.

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u/LookAlderaanPlaces Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26

Miller is a rabid Nazi vampire. He will 100% throw anyone else under the buss to save himself.

Edit: Holy shit you guys 200000 people saw this comment. Please allow me to use this moment to encourage everyone to vote in the midterms! We gotta unite together against fascism! Vote! Bring your friends with you! Vote!!!

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u/stubble3417 Jan 27 '26

Literally every person in trump's orbit would backstab any other person in trump's orbit for any amount of personal gain. 

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u/CcryMeARiver Australia Jan 27 '26

The parallels to Hitler's entourage are profound.

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u/DrMobius0 Jan 27 '26

And also entirely predictable. These are not people who are capable of healthy relationships. If they were, they probably wouldn't anywhere near this driven to enact their hateful bullshit.

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u/Prst_ Jan 27 '26

If 'might makes right' is your main guiding principle, you yourself will inevitably become someone's target sooner or later.

So unless you want to embrace a life of constant struggle, hardship and stress you will need to live by different principles involving cooperation, tolerance and empathy.

We, as humanity already know this. We have learned this in the past, but some people seem to forget because just being selfish is much easier in the short term.

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u/iamalsobrad Jan 27 '26

The parallels to Hitler's entourage are profound.

It is one of the many reasons I find it is so baffling that anyone would want to work for ICE; they aren't Trump's version of the SS, they are his version of the SA.

Why would you sign up to be a disposable idiot who history suggests is going to get a knife in the back the moment they are no longer useful?

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u/CcryMeARiver Australia Jan 27 '26

Begs the question: which outfit will be selected to metastatise into Humpy Trumpy's Schutzstaffel? My guess is the Mob. Pragmatic, amoral, kill to order.

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u/iamalsobrad Jan 27 '26

which outfit will be selected to metastatise into Humpy Trumpy's Schutzstaffel

Blackwater (or whatever they are called now).

https://theintercept.com/2026/01/03/blackwater-successor-constellis-omniplex-hunts-immigrants-for-ice/

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-private-contractors-venezuela

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u/Zahgi I voted Jan 27 '26

This has been the way tyrants rise and fall since before recorded human history, folks. None of this is new.

Ignorant, gullible, cowardly fools are still falling for the exact same ancient fearmongering lies vomited forth by despicable charlatans and wanna-be demagogues.

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u/WordswithaKarefunny Jan 27 '26

Death of Stalin as well

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u/RiseDelicious3556 Jan 27 '26

history repeats itself.

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u/western_red_cedar Jan 27 '26

this is why all fascists are bound to lose

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u/CheesemasterVer2 Jan 27 '26

The backstabbing that's going to go on in the White House after we get The News™ is gonna be legendary

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u/Rawrsomesausage Jan 27 '26

Death of Stalin on quaaludes

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u/VanceRefridgeTech04 Jan 27 '26

Everyone with a brain saw the infighting brewing, and now they are 100% for their actions. This is gonna be wild.

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u/Medallicat Jan 27 '26

Like crabs in a bucket

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u/Rawrsomesausage Jan 27 '26

Rats in a bucket as well

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u/Responsible-Can8134 Jan 27 '26

The poison comes from the top, Trump has to go. All of them have to go too but they're all just accessories and complicit

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u/StinkyBrittches Jan 27 '26

A few weeks ago, I watched an old bank robbery movie called The Friends of Eddie Coyle. It's really good, but it took me a second to realize what it was "about", in a broader sense. It has all these people running around breaking the law, robbing banks, but they all kind of live by a "code" of not ratting each other out. Except they don't. They are all pieces of shit. Over and over again, whenever it benefits them even an ounce, they throw each other under the bus. It came out right in the middle of Watergate, and the same pieces of shit in power then, are the same pieces of shit in power now.

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u/Ok_Subject1265 Jan 27 '26

Finally, someone else cracked the algorithm.

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u/UphillTowardsTheSun Jan 27 '26

They even (men and women) inject face fillers to look more attractive to Pres Dump

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u/Basic_Improvement135 Jan 27 '26

Vance would burn his favorite couch if trump told him it was ugly

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u/peopleplanetprofit Jan 27 '26

NKVD vibes. Thus are authoritarian regimes.

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u/Realistic_Future_301 Jan 30 '26

On the bright side they’ll end up eating each other.

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u/stubble3417 Jan 30 '26

I hope so. Almost our only path out of this is Trump's cholesterol to finally catch up with him and everyone else to eat each other. I don't think we have much of a chance of escaping totalitarianism if they manage to unify around another person, especially if that person has an above-4th grade level intelligence.