Monday, January 26, 2026

This Year's First Big Stupid Idea: 'Retrain ICE'

Some things get so evil that they forfeit their right to exist. Trump's rogue paramilitary gangs are one of them.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 12:32 PM | 20 COMMENTS | permalink

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Abolishing ice isn't radical, funding it is

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-- The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) Jan 24, 2026 at 1:37 PM

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"ICE misrule isn't happening because someone skipped a meeting during their onboarding process," Linkins points out.

This is a deeply ingrained and incurable corruption"not that anyone at ICE wants to be "cured." ICE agents already receive comprehensive training, which they comprehensively ignore. In the latest instance, we've learned from a whistleblower that agents have claimed the right to break into homes without a judicial warrant, directly countermanding their vaunted legal training. No one can or should trust a retrained version of this agency. A root-and-branch teardown is in order. Mass firings are in order (I guess the leakers and whistleblowers can stay in some capacity). The clawback of billions of dollars is in order. Damnation, in every sense of the word, is in order.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-01-26 06:21 AM

ABOLISH ICE

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-01-26 08:15 AM

Why does Trump need a huge, weaponized, massively funded paramilitary force emboldened the Get Out Of Jail Free card of "absolute immunity"?

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-01-26 11:28 AM

The training angle is just another way the media is failing.

It's not a lack of training.

It's an intentional arming and dispersal of people to sow chaos, fear and violence with impunity.

My biggest bone with media has been this golly gee whiz approach they take where they treat a high level administration official saying habeus corpus is a power of the president that he can suspend at will as a *whoops* simple mistake.

There's always an undue assumption of good faith that the media needs to drop if they have any plan of relevancy in the coming years.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-26 11:43 AM

ICE needs to be disbanded.

Its leadership and likely hundreds of its ex-members need to be prosecuted.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-26 12:39 PM


Why does Trump need a huge, weaponized, massively funded paramilitary force emboldened the Get Out Of Jail Free card of "absolute immunity"?

#3 | POSTED BY DOC_SARVIS

Let me see.

1. There's indications that a Signal chat exists organized by the MN State officials to obstruct justice.
2. Local PD doesn't protect Federal officers. (you complain about their training, well have local PD protect them)
3. Biden let in Millions of illegal immigrants, gave them impermanent status (TPS), even I knew Trump would come along and revoke it .. you idiots.

I could go on, but structurally, I know your mind can't comprehend the facts, because you're running on emotion, given your language and lack of curiosity.

#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-26 12:46 PM

#6 Flag: Is proud to be listed among the Retort liars and cowards

#7 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-26 12:48 PM

I could go on, but structurally, I know your mind can't comprehend the facts, because you're running on emotion, given your language and lack of curiosity.

#6 | Posted by oneironaut

Who won the 2020 election?
Your entire party is built around a lie.

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-01-26 12:51 PM

#6

Is one of Trump's favorite pimps.

The only reason he isn't killfiled even more is because we don't see intellectual disasters like this all that often.

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-26 12:52 PM

I could go on, but structurally, I know your mind can't comprehend the facts, because you're running on emotion, given your language and lack of curiosity.

#6 | Posted by oneironaut

None of you paid foreign agitator bulls*&^ justifies what ICE is being used for.

Sorry, s*&^heap, but as usual you can just f*&^ off.

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-26 01:02 PM

ICE murders is not "lack of training", it's fruit borne of signaled permissiveness from potus.

#11 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-01-26 01:07 PM

"it's fruit borne of signaled permissiveness from potus."

It's also due to incentivizing the kidnapping of innocent people. ICE gets a bounty for everyone they remove from the street, legal or not.

Until and unless the Icehole has to pay three times the bounty to anyone falsely detained, this program should stop. It's LITERALLY incentivizing extra-judicial kidnappings.

#12 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-01-26 01:10 PM

"There's indications that a Signal chat exists organized by the MN State officials to obstruct justice."

"indications"?!? From what outlet(s)?

Two reliable links, please.

#13 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-01-26 01:10 PM

Let me see.

1. Conspiracy Theory
2. Cry baby nonsense
3. Conspiracy Theory

I could go on,
#6 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER

You should go turn yourself into DHS and let them deport you.

#14 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-26 01:13 PM

You cannot train or retrain morality, decency, or grace, to wit:

Landis: [interviewing Elaine for a job] Not many people have grace.

Elaine Benes: Well, you know, grace is a tough one. I like to think I have a little grace. Not as much as Jackie O...

Landis: You can't have a little grace. You either have grace or you don't.

Elaine Benes: Okay, fine. I have no grace.

Landis: And you can't acquire grace.

Elaine Benes: Well, I have no intention of getting grace.

Landis: Grace isn't something you can pick up at the market.

Elaine Benes: [annoyed] Alright, alright, look, I don't have grace, I don't want grace, I don't even say grace, okay?

Landis: Thank you for coming in.

Elaine Benes: Yeah yeah right.

#15 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-26 01:13 PM

Their endless search for any plausible justification for this--and Ms. Good's killing (murder, execution, culling, assassination, slaying) speaks volumes as to what unthinkable methods TrumpCo will turn to in order to inevitably achieve their oft-threatened fever dream goal of establishing martial law in predominantly blue cities and states. Human history says we ain't seen nuttin' yet, and should that beast escape it's cage--"whoa Nelly!"

#16 | Posted by dutch46 at 2026-01-26 01:32 PM

nb4 link: NO I don't think he sholda been swisscheesed, BUT he was not "helping her up"; he was attempting hands-on obstruction of agent therefore earned an arrest.
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After link: You don't like source; I don't care

#17 | Posted by john_savage1 at 2026-01-26 03:02 PM

re 17

Liar. Your lies are not helping you.

So keep it up!

#18 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-26 03:05 PM

Stephen Miller said Alex Pretti was "an assassin who tried to murder federal agents" and J.D. Vance retweeted it. End of story.

#19 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-26 03:06 PM

he was attempting hands-on obstruction of agent therefore earned an arrest.
i.4cdn.org
After link: You don't like source; I don't care

#17 | Posted by john_savage1

You misspelled EXECUTION as ARREST.

#20 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-01-26 03:21 PM

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