Bobby. wrote on Jan 9
th, 2026 at 12:21pm:
You don't bring a car to a gun fight.
If we're lucky, it will end there.
But you have masked, armed individuals, often in plain clothes and unmarked vehicles, abducting people without warrants and openly disregarding the constitutional rights of those they target.
If this continues to escalate, detaining five-year-olds to coerce parents out of their homes, raiding high schools, and targeting teenagers, it's going to be gun vs agent.
At that point, these "agents" are going to start getting themselves killed.
I hope it doesn't come to that, not out of concern for their safety, their conduct has forfeited any claim to decency they imagine they are owed, but because this outcome is precisely what Trump wants.
This is why these deployments are concentrated in blue states.
He needs escalation. He needs disorder. He needs a pretext to invoke broader emergency powers to shore up control ahead of the midterms.
That is what this has been about from the start.
So yes, I hope it does not escalate, not for the sake of the agents, consequences tend to follow behaviour, but for the sake of American democracy itself.
The self-styled Second Amendment absolutists should have put a stop to this long ago. Instead, because it's their team doing it, they're cheering it on.
Even when, possibly especially when, the ICE agents have Nazi tattoos.