ICE Commander Cosplays in Nazi Uniform and Dems Vote with MAGA to Fund ICE?

19 Jan 2026 · 19 min · 8 chapters

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Episode Title

ICE Commander Cosplays in Nazi Uniform and Dems Vote with MAGA to Fund ICE?

Episode Description

The episode discusses the controversial actions of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and the political response from Democratic leaders regarding funding and accountability within the agency.

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Key Themes and Discussions

  1. ICE as a Domestic Terrorist Organization
  2. The hosts argue that ICE is funded by taxpayers to act as a "Gestapo" and is not a legitimate law enforcement agency.
  3. They criticize the portrayal of ICE agents, particularly highlighting a specific agent, Greg Bovino, who has been accused of using Nazi-like imagery and tactics in his operations.
  1. Criticism of Leadership and Accountability
  2. The hosts express dismay at Democratic politicians, particularly Cory Booker, for not taking a stronger stance against ICE and its funding.
  3. They highlight a lack of accountability and moral clarity within the Democratic Party, perceiving it as complicit in ICE's actions.
  1. Rhetoric and Propaganda
  2. The episode discusses how ICE uses propaganda to instill fear in communities, with agents encouraged to film their encounters with immigrants.
  3. The hosts criticize the normalization of violence and intimidation tactics used by ICE agents.
  1. Political Complicity and Funding
  2. The hosts outline a critical view of how Democratic politicians are behaving in relation to ICE funding, specifically mentioning that they may vote to fund ICE despite its controversial practices.
  3. They encourage listeners to hold politicians accountable for their votes on funding ICE, emphasizing that support for ICE goes against the interests of human rights.

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Key Takeaways

  • Moral Clarity Needed: The hosts believe there is a pressing need for Democratic leaders to clearly oppose ICE and its tactics, rather than providing justifications for their actions.
  • Public Awareness and Action: Listeners are encouraged to be vigilant, contact their representatives, and advocate against funding for ICE, especially as legislative deadlines approach.
  • Critique of the Democratic Party: The episode highlights a growing disenfranchisement with the Democratic Party for failing to represent human rights and the needs of their constituents effectively.

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Conclusion The hosts conclude by calling for stronger action from the Democratic Party and increased public awareness regarding the actions of ICE and their implications for human rights in the U.S. They assert the importance of holding elected officials accountable and demand an end to funding for what they perceive as a corrupt and dangerous agency.

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Call to Action Listeners are encouraged to like, subscribe, and comment on the episode, as well as to stay informed and engaged with political developments related to ICE and immigration policy.

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Chapters

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Critique of ICE as a Terrorist Organization

0:05 to 0:23

Explore the claims that ICE functions as a terrorist organization funded by tax dollars.

“of Stephen Miller and Donald Trump, period.”

The Symbolism of Nazi Cosplay in ICE

0:23 to 2:24

Discussion on the implications of ICE agents using Nazi-inspired uniforms.

“You can be a bully and a murderer legally.”

Propaganda Tactics of ICE

2:24 to 3:59

Analysis of how ICE uses propaganda and fear tactics against immigrants.

“or that he studied history and he's on the side of Nazis.”

The Democratic Response to ICE's Actions

4:00 to 5:12

Examination of how Democratic politicians respond to ICE’s controversial practices.

“much invade Minneapolis, which is an unremarkable immigrant population.”

Cory Booker's Stance on ICE

5:12 to 7:20

Critique of Cory Booker's remarks and approach to ICE's accountability.

“The tragic death of Renee Good has brought into clear spotlight so many of the things that Trump administration is doing to make our communities less safe.”

The Failures of the Democratic Party

7:20 to 11:50

Discussion on the shortcomings of Democrats regarding ICE and human rights.

“professional standards and accountability to ICE officials.”

Call for Abolition of ICE

11:50 to 14:09

A passionate call for the abolition of ICE due to its actions and principles.

“Fundamentally, these people do not value human life.”

Critique of ICE and Democratic Complicity

14:09 to 18:38

Learn about the speaker's strong opposition to ICE and the perceived failures of Democratic senators in addressing it.

“I see he's saying, I saw the murder too.”
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0:04ICE is a domestic terrorist organization that is funded by taxpayers. End of story. There is nothing else to say. This is not fixable. This is not necessary. This is not law enforcement. This is a product of the machinist. of Stephen Miller and Donald Trump, period. And they have these cosplayers, these broken men, emotionally stunted, more than likely, probably low-T situations that all of these broken people want to go be members of this because they'll give you a$50 ,000 signing bonus and you get to go beat up on people. You can be a bully and a murderer legally. And so one of their big faces of this movement is this Bovino, who you all have seen.

0:57And he is intentionally using jackets and uniforms that are a complete replica of a Nazi SS uniform. And you have to understand that everything that ICE does is to get a lot of propaganda. They encourage the ICE agents to film everything. They encourage the over-the-top harassing of these immigrants or of American citizens. So this is not an accident, this video I'm going to show you. This is Bovino, and he knew the cameras were following him and here he's trying to act like a tough guy nazi on the streets of minneapolis play the clip

1:59okay so he knew the cameras were on him he had on his nazi jacket out of the road now Now, this is designed on purpose, this style of propaganda for us to fear that little man, that little man that is so small that he has to wear a Nazi jacket. All that man is showing us is that he studied history and he didn't fully comprehend it, or that he studied history and he's on the side of Nazis. he's on the side of a regime that exterminated six million Jewish people. So one of those two things is happening here. And I think it's probably the latter. And the fact that the ADL and other organizations are not immediately sounding the alarm bells about this blows my mind.

2:49This Greg Bovino, he was taken into court in Chicago and a judge found him to be a liar and breaking the law and breaking court orders. Under any other regime, this man would have been fired. The administration that hired him would say, our bad, we do not want a lying criminal on our payroll. But in this regime, they lift him up. They put him on Fox News because he likes the cruelty. He likes for people to be scared. And my guess is they like him doing this because they are trying to intimidate Americans for the plan of, my guess, no midterms. But this is exactly who they picked. Somebody that has no morals, no ethics, and does not follow the law because accountability in this regime is completely thrown to the side.

3:43Nobody ever thinks they're going to be held accountable. And I am just sitting here with my mouth open, like you, that more organizations that are supposed to be for all human rights are not standing up for this? Okay. So I would think after, you know, what we've seen ICE doing, we've seen them pretty much invade Minneapolis, which is an unremarkable immigrant population. They do not have, there's far other places that have far more immigration issues than Minneapolis, you guys. and the immigrant population is very unremarkable there. It's not all of these stories about the daycare and the Somalis, all of that is completely manufactured by the right wing.

4:32So I would think, because all of us in America right now, we're all seeing what's happening and we all have the same feeling in that you've seen the polling on ICE. I would think the Democratic Party, this is it. This is the moment where the resistance can finally coalesce. This is a moment where all of the Democratic politicians, both in the House and the Senate and on a state and local level, can really stand up and show the electorate that they are a resistance party, that they believe in human rights, and they will not allow this regime to have a Gestapo. Here's Cory Booker on this issue. Play the clip.

5:13We must do more. The tragic death of Renee Good has brought into clear spotlight so many of the things that Trump administration is doing to make our communities less safe. But one of the most alarming crises are issues of training and accountability standards for ICE officers. Pause it right there, Kylie. Okay. He says training and accountability for ICE officers. And we're going to get back to that video in just a second. The man that shot Renee Good was a firearms instructor and veteran of ICE. And it's really important what Corey just did there. Senator Booker just did there. He goes from, I'm alarmed by this murder.

5:59And then he just makes you the listener, the citizen, the taxpayer, assume that ICE is acceptable. the problem is training that's the problem he assumes that this well-trained veteran of ice that was a firearms instructor that trains other ice agents when he shot this lady and then called her a fucking bitch that i guess he needs more training and the condescension that as an american citizen that when I hear that, I'm just like, wait a minute. Do you think we're stupid or are you just the controlled opposition? Where is the opposition to this that we do not, ICE is not fixable. It is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

6:56So Kylie, keep playing the clip. Cut the training down from five months to about a month and a half. They have eliminated age requirements and are hiring recruits as young as 18 years old. They're putting people into training before their background checks are even complete. And so when you see people cut corners, people die. I'm continuing to lead new legislation that will bring further high professional standards and accountability to ICE officials. We must also set minimum training standards. We must ban the hiring of anyone affiliated with hate groups. We must hold agency leaders accountable.

7:35We must require every federal officer to wear a body-worn camera during public-facing... Pause it right there. The agent that, John Ross is his name, Jonathan Ross, that shot and murdered, he was filming it because Kristi Noem and their instructions are film as much as you can. And I cannot impress upon you all enough what a capitulation this is. to jump from the murder to then assume that we don't have Google to Google the background. And Kylie, pop up the next slide here. I just asked AI about Jonathan Ross. Jonathan Ross is a veteran law enforcement officer who has served with ICE for years.

8:20At the bottom of this Ask Me Asking AI slide here, within ICE, Ross has been identified not only as an enforcement officer, but also as part of a special response team and as a firearms instructor, which indicates roles in tactical response and training. So I want to say this because this is really, really important. There's nothing that I enjoy about pointing out the hypocrisy and the duplicity in a sitting United States Senator. I don't like it. When I see Mike Lee or Rick Scott or Lindsey Graham say and do stuff like this, I expect it. So I don't have any expectation that they're going to fight for us.

9:11I know they're a part of the hive mind that is MAGA, right? But when I see Cory Booker do this, it's maddening and it also kind of hurts. We believed in this party and you have an opportunity right now to have utter moral clarity and say, do not fall for the hive mind Nazis that put their ICE officers in Nazi uniforms to scare you. Do not fall for Kristi Noem, the puppy shooter, saying that we're against law and order because this whole regime and ICE has been created to skirt law and order. You can very simply say all of those things, Senator Booker, but it brings me no joy to see Chuck Schumer not fighting for us.

10:07It brings me no joy to see Cory Booker just jump over all of the parts of this and say, okay, now we're going to give ICE more funding. And further, when you get to what's going on with ICE, put this up, the Wall Street Journal conservative paper reported over the weekend that ICE has an incentive structure. ICE agents get additional rewards based on their arrest. Those rewards count even if the person is released without charges. Pumps. When I see this with Cory Booker, I think he is still living in la la land. He is still living in assumption politics. I assume if the training is better, the force will act better.

10:51I assume if there are more stringent standard, the higher ups at that organization will enforce those standards. We're fucking past that. We have a sociopath running the entire country because Papa is off at sundowner hour. Christy Noem shot her own puppy and a goat. So she doesn't give a flying fuck and has no empathy. These people are not hiring the best and brightest. They are hiring people that would work for them, which means by definition, if they are willing to be for people that are racist, that are misogynist, that are craven and vile and cruel, that's who they're going to hire. All the training standards in the world aren't going to change the fundamental difference that these people do not value law and order.

11:44They do not value human life. And all the training guides in the world cannot change that. Fundamentally, these people do not value human life. And the fact that somebody in such a high level position, in such a high level profile will stand there and act like we can fix this with a little training is absolutely unaware of where we are in this country and the fascist takeover that is almost completely fully done. It's so, in the words of Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffrey, I don't know which one, I'm deeply disappointed. And very well said. And I think that this is an issue with these corporate Dems, that they're not ready to face how much the base of the party is on to them.

12:34We no longer are able to feel energized by that video where Senator Booker comes on and tries to act like he's a tough guy and then hoodwink us and say, here's how I'm going to fix it. I think what needs to be dug into here is a lot of these AI and technologies that ISIS is using, they have lobbyists and they pay off politicians. And I'm curious, I did some reporting last week about Chuck Schumer at a meeting where the lobbyist for Palantir was there. I'm curious as to what type of meetings Senator Booker has. When I see this type of duplicity in the Democratic Party. I think that we have to realize, like we can scream at MAGA, we can say, oh my God, Trump is a nut, Stephen Miller's dangerous.

13:34I mean, how repetitive can we get? Right. But these Democrats are the ones who are supposed to put up a resistance. And what Cory Booker did right there is why Democrats lose. It is, it is so devastating to the party to have such a gifted senator like Cory Booker, who has such disdain for his constituents, that he is going along in a very manipulative way. He just, that video is so manipulative. It's very manipulative. I see he's saying, I saw the murder too. It's really terrible. Here's how we can prevent it. Well, let's give it a, you know, let's give it a Google. Oh, it turns out this guy's really trained.

14:24It turns out that this whole organization, it's going to take robust leadership, moral clarity. And I'm looking for senators and people in the Democratic Party right now to simply say simple things. ICE needs to be abolished. We've got the people running it that wear Nazi uniforms that think it's cute, neat, and funny to scare the United States citizens wearing the uniforms of a murderous regime that incinerated 6 million Jewish people. We don't think that's funny and we don't think that's fixable. So we, the resistance stems, are gonna have no part of that. Your taxpayer money that should be getting you healthcare is not gonna give more training to a bunch of Nazi racists.

15:15It's a very simple thing. It can be done in a sentence or two. And so I'm looking for people to rise up. I've seen Senator Van Hollen with absolute moral clarity on this issue. I played a clip of that last week, but here's where we are, you guys. And everybody needs to call their senators or other people's senators. Hell, call everybody. Put this up, Kylie. Pay attention to this and track and publicize which Democratic senators sell out and vote to fund ICE. The Department of Homeland Security bill, the bill that funds ICE, must pass by January 30th with 60 votes in the Senate. Republicans do not have 60 votes.

15:59They cannot fund ICE without Democratic senators. So we know how Cory Booker is going to vote here. We know Chuck Schumer is going to vote this way. We know that probably like you have Kristen Gillibrand, who doesn't say a peep, is a New York Senator, doesn't say a peep about what's going on. And so I just want the Democratic Party to understand that we as a base, what you see pumps in me, these Oklahoma women that have opened up their eyes to the corporate complicity of the Democratic Party, of the moral duplicity of the Democratic Party. Party and we don't like it. And I don't like having to criticize them.

16:45This should be a moment where every single governing person of the Democratic Party is in lockstep, hand in hand. We will not fund ICE, period. They want to fund this and take your health care away from you. They want to have Trump wants his own Gestapo. We're not funding it. They're wearing Nazi costumes, outfits, and they've murdered an American. They have people without criminal records in custody. And if that's the way they're treating a white woman out in the streets, Senator Booker, how do you think he's treating black and brown people in custody right now? So this is so dangerous. And I have zero expectation of any Senator that has an R next to their name other than to just, I'm going to be in the hive mind.

17:36And yeah, what would we attack Greenland? Yeah, great idea. Let's do it. That's what I expect from them. But Senator Booker, this is an absolute leadership face plant. And these corporate Democrats keep showing us who they are. They show us over and over and over again, who they are and who they are, are duplicitous people that are okay with the shit that MAG is doing. They put up just enough verbal resistance. And this is what you call talking the talk. There's zero walking the walk, zero. And we have to be laser focused on getting these corporate Democrats either out of the party or to atone and evolve.

18:27And this is just so unacceptable from Senator Booker. And it is so devastating to see how morally compromised he is on this issue. All right, that's all we have. Like, subscribe, comment, and we will be back later with more news.

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