Bill Kristol
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I mean, that was terrible, but actually less purposeful than the ICE violence.
It was young kids in the National Guard.
And I think afterwards, and Nixon did defend it for a while, and there was a lot of stupid stuff said, but at the end of the day, they kind of
I don't believe the guard got deployed much after that.
And they set up a commission to look into all this.
You know, there's none of that with Trump.
I won't say they wanted this to happen, but they are purposely trying to exploit it to further intimidate people not to correct the obvious things that have been shown to be wrong about the way ISIS is behaving.
Unbelievable, really.
And it's really that comes on top of J.D.
Vance saying Thursday ICE agents will have absolute immunity, I guess, from state prosecution, which isn't correct, I gather, from my lawyer friends.
But they have quite a lot of immunity and probably more than they should have with qualified immunity the way that doctrine is developed.
But what does that what does that say?
That says, Van Swentel, Yale Law School, knows a little bit about this.
What that says going forward is you guys are fine.
You guys are free.
Go for it.
You follow the example of what happened there in Minneapolis, leaving even aside the pardon power, which obviously could kick in and take care of these guys.
So the degree of the just, you know, we've seen where this is going and they embrace where this is going.
That's why it is accelerationism, don't you think?
And Kristi Noem, I think on TV yesterday, wouldn't even deplore the fact that an ICE agent, I think maybe it was the one who shot Rene Good, maybe it was one of the others, right?