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Jilly_in_VA

(11,970 posts)
Mon May 19, 2025, 11:23 AM May 19

Stop Comparing ICE To The Gestapo, Homeland Security Says

The Department of Homeland Security is now seeking to distance itself from comparisons to Nazi Germany after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) called its Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents a “modern-day Gestapo.”

“It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo,” Homeland Security said Sunday on its official X account, referencing the police force that apprehended and deported groups of people labeled political enemies in Nazi Germany.

“Attacks and demonization of ICE and our partners is wrong,” the department said. “Our message is clear: DO NOT come to this country illegally. If you do, we will arrest you, deport you and you will never return.”

The post also echoed a statistic contained in last week’s statement from DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, who said “attacks and smears” against ICE have led to a “413% increase in assaults,” although she did not provide more details.

Video of ICE operations around the country has sounded alarm bells among immigration and democracy advocates as agents with face coverings are seen wrangling people into their custody. President Donald Trump and his supporters say that they are targeting gang members and violent criminals, although in many cases, the administration is seeking to deport people without allowing them a chance to prove they are not who the administration says they are.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stop-comparing-ice-to-the-gestapo-homeland-security-says_n_682b2df4e4b02ef0f55d5854

Apparently the comparison makes Frau General Kristi and her henchmen uncomfortable. Good. Keep it up!

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Stop Comparing ICE To The Gestapo, Homeland Security Says (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA May 19 OP
No-badge/no-ID masked jack-booted thugs kicking down doors and grabbing people at will dalton99a May 19 #1
Also seems like Rebl2 May 19 #5
Make no mistake, MarineCombatEngineer May 19 #8
Kidnapping there is usually a ransom SomedayKindaLove May 19 #75
Good point. MarineCombatEngineer May 19 #77
Even much worse than Hitler's original Gestapo, MarineCombatEngineer May 19 #7
How many of them are Proud Boys and other J6 criminals.... groundloop May 19 #39
I think it probable that at least some are one or the other RVN VET71 Tuesday #92
Nazis is as Nazis does... Jack Valentino May 19 #82
At least our side knows how to say "Gestapo" EarlG May 19 #2
She can't help it, MarineCombatEngineer May 19 #10
Pretty sure margerita takes her gazpacho with cojones - raw. erronis May 19 #34
Yep, bleached blond bad built butch body. brush May 19 #66
The "Brain Trust". enigmania Tuesday #93
The key words here are... The Madcap May 19 #3
The "disappeared" - the obvious intent. erronis May 19 #35
If the shoe fits... Basso8vb May 19 #4
...don't kill the dog for dragging it off. lastlib May 19 #31
If it walks like the Gestapo and looks like the Gestapo, it might as well be the Gestapo...thanks t-rump and Kristi... wcmagumba May 19 #6
Well if it walks like a duck.. LW1977 May 19 #9
Oh well atreides1 May 19 #11
At the Nuremburg trials, MarineCombatEngineer May 19 #13
Good point orangecrush May 19 #19
Act like the Gestapo, get called the Gestapo nt meow2u3 May 19 #12
They could stop acting as them, Noem sakabatou May 19 #14
Law enforcement in the US is supposed to follow the Constitution, Progressive dog May 19 #15
Stop comparing them hildegaard28 May 19 #16
Well, if Unterfeuhrer Kristi doesn't like "Gestapo", in the alternative, we could.... lastlib May 19 #33
It's that does-shoe-fit thingy. And DHS knows it fits or else it wouldn't be yipping allegorical oracle May 19 #17
Or what? orangecrush May 19 #18
Unmask them, then. Make them wear name tags. MineralMan May 19 #20
Um I'm actually JustAnotherGen May 19 #21
Sickening? I guess the truth is enough to make them sick. patphil May 19 #22
Let's get those "smears and attacks " up 5000%. Gary 50 May 19 #23
Yeah, the left just doesn't have the resources zorbasd Tuesday #106
From now on they shall be known as members of Don's Garden Club whose task is to deport alien dandelions Ping Tung May 19 #24
Ok, but is it ok to call them and GROP Brownshirts? multigraincracker May 19 #25
Hey, Kristi! lastlib May 19 #26
Comparing ICE to the Gestapo Turbineguy May 19 #27
ICE should have been disbanded quakerboy May 19 #28
Abolishing ICE should be the goal of everyone chasing the nomination in 2028. MichMan May 19 #79
Go tell it on the mountain: Jesus arrested in immigration enforcement action. usonian May 19 #29
keep up the pressure! they are feeling it! The sound of their whining is music to my ears! Its like a sweet lullaby Blues Heron May 19 #30
ICE is a gestapo, and Tom Homan is a fucking maniac terrorist. Get over yourselves. Initech May 19 #32
Don't forget BonnieJW Tuesday #100
So maybe ICE should stop behaving like the Gestapo? Ocelot II May 19 #36
Then stop acting like the Gestapo. sinkingfeeling May 19 #37
Darling Kristi would perhaps prefer.... Picaro May 19 #38
She who busies herself playing dress up needs to read the Bill of Rights Attilatheblond May 19 #45
Reading is woke, evidently. enigmania Tuesday #94
Homeland Security says we're ON TARGET. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 19 #40
If you work for I.C.E. and violate human rights you WILL face justice eventually. Moostache May 19 #41
Yeah, the Gestapo went after Commies, socialists and trade unionists Warpy May 19 #42
or else what? Cirsium May 19 #43
And instead of overseeing their work and controlling abuse, the boss lady of Homeland Security wants to be a TV star Attilatheblond May 19 #44
If you don't like the comparison, stop treating people the way the Nazi's treated the Jews. Simple. appleannie1 May 19 #46
Watching a video yesterday of masked ICE members kicking in a garage door in San Diego reminded me of the kimbutgar May 19 #47
F**k your feelings, gestapo snowflakes. Grokenstein May 19 #48
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...it's a duck maspaha May 19 #49
They are all under a nazi regime so all nazi enforcement departs get the Gestapo label. nt ImNotGod May 19 #50
If we shouldn't be calling ICE the Gestapo, then we ask that they stop acting like the Gestapo. OLDMDDEM May 19 #51
It Seems Like Only Yesterday That They Could Not Acknowledge the Reality of the Holocaust! The Roux Comes First May 19 #52
Why'd they even mention this? C_U_L8R May 19 #53
If the shoe fits... dlk May 19 #54
ICE bromeando May 19 #55
Coming soon: Kristinacht NBachers May 19 #56
"We're much more like the ss than the gestapo!" Said noem. unblock May 19 #57
LOL. Would Nazi Stormtroopers work? ananda May 19 #58
Hey, ICE! If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo... ShazzieB May 19 #59
Truth hurts, huh? Alliepoo May 19 #60
Stop acting like a Gestapo & maybe we'll stop comparing ICE like a Gestapo ... aggiesal May 19 #61
Do police state actions, get compared to police state actors. Eugene May 19 #62
Hitler had a private army called the Brown Shirts. The Wizard May 19 #63
Then I'll just refer to them as jack-booted thugs. madinmaryland May 19 #64
ICE visit bpj62 May 19 #65
Yeah, stop comparing ICE to the Gestapo. LudwigPastorius May 19 #67
Cope harder, area51 May 19 #68
Who is paying them? With what money? Way past time for these yahoo's to be bluestarone May 19 #69
Act like the Gestapo, get named the Gestapo CanonRay May 19 #70
I hope people realize that ICE's powers are being expanded Johnny2X2X May 19 #71
What did the Gestapo say?? Ferrets are Cool May 19 #72
Waaaaa get the red out May 19 #73
they are more offended by being CALLED the gestapo Skittles May 19 #74
Their behavior is what is sickening! SheltieLover May 19 #76
The Trumpteenth Commandment: THOU SHALT NOT Buns_of_Fire May 19 #78
STOP COMPARING TRUMP with JESUS CHRIST----- Jack Valentino May 19 #80
"If the shoe fits...EAT IT." -- Ben Grimm. Iggo May 19 #81
I would refer to her as frau Himmler FirefighterJo May 19 #83
It's not a fair comparison MurrayDelph May 19 #84
is east german stasi better? pansypoo53219 May 19 #85
and we won't stop... DBoon May 19 #86
GESTAPO!! That is who you are! RainCaster May 19 #87
A request to 'please not notice' that ICE is acting very Gestapo like is hereby denied. Aussie105 Tuesday #88
Well Kristi, its the HIT dog, that yelps. Volaris Tuesday #89
Nope. I don't believe I will. GoCubsGo Tuesday #90
"Stormtroopers" is a better term maxrandb Tuesday #91
Perhaps they could stop Bettie Tuesday #95
Perhaps they could stop Bettie Tuesday #96
"Stop comparing ICE to the Gestapo," says Heinrich Himmler. surfered Tuesday #97
I dunno. I just think that they are more like the Mafia HarryM Tuesday #98
Having just returned from a fascinating and wonderful Berlin visit, I can say we were often wiggs Tuesday #99
If the behavior matches... Brainfodder Tuesday #101
That gets an unapologetic NO!!! from me Siwsan Tuesday #102
so the Gestapo is trying to rebrand. like twitter turning to "x". Javaman Tuesday #103
Lice has earned that title 100% Clouds Passing Tuesday #104
Shocked, SHOCKED I tells ya! markbark Tuesday #105
No LetMyPeopleVote Tuesday #107
The irony is amazing LetMyPeopleVote Saturday #108
ICE is a gestapo and Tom Homan is a terrorist! Initech Saturday #109

dalton99a

(88,651 posts)
1. No-badge/no-ID masked jack-booted thugs kicking down doors and grabbing people at will
Mon May 19, 2025, 11:27 AM
May 19

They are Trump's Gestapo

MarineCombatEngineer

(15,514 posts)
7. Even much worse than Hitler's original Gestapo,
Mon May 19, 2025, 11:32 AM
May 19

under Been A Dick Donald, they've become Gestapo 2.0 with much more technology available to violate rights.

RVN VET71

(2,894 posts)
92. I think it probable that at least some are one or the other
Tue May 20, 2025, 08:01 AM
Tuesday

The only reason to wear a mask is to avoid identification. The only reason persons on "official" government business would disguise themselves is that they fear repercussions from the public if their affiliations with fascist street violence and the insurrection were known.

So, yes, they are either Baby Boys or January 6th traitors. Maybe not all of them. I'm sure their boss, the dog killer, would want to protect the actual thugs and fascist traitors by requiring everyone to mask up.

Jack Valentino

(2,098 posts)
82. Nazis is as Nazis does...
Mon May 19, 2025, 10:58 PM
May 19

If they wear masks, don't present ID or a warrant---
I would support those who are assaulted that way
in exercising their rights to self-defense under the much-touted 2nd Amendment

EarlG

(22,939 posts)
2. At least our side knows how to say "Gestapo"
Mon May 19, 2025, 11:29 AM
May 19
‘Gazpacho police’: Nazi gaffe lands Republican congresswoman in the soup

The extremist Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene triggered a wave of viral jokes on Wednesday after ranting about the “gazpacho police” patrolling the Capitol building in Washington DC.

Greene was apparently mixing up the famously cold Spanish soup gazpacho with the Gestapo – the brutal Nazi-era secret police in Germany.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/09/marjorie-taylor-greene-gazpacho-police

The Madcap

(1,171 posts)
3. The key words here are...
Mon May 19, 2025, 11:29 AM
May 19

"Never return." That can have many meanings. The question is whether they will eventually take things to that obvious parallel with Nazi Germany.

wcmagumba

(3,951 posts)
6. If it walks like the Gestapo and looks like the Gestapo, it might as well be the Gestapo...thanks t-rump and Kristi...
Mon May 19, 2025, 11:31 AM
May 19

Sieg Heil, right in the Fuhrer's face.....

atreides1

(16,650 posts)
11. Oh well
Mon May 19, 2025, 11:36 AM
May 19

The Gestapo followed the law and obeyed the courts, while following orders!

ICE just follows orders, which makes them worse then the Gestapo!!!

MarineCombatEngineer

(15,514 posts)
13. At the Nuremburg trials,
Mon May 19, 2025, 11:38 AM
May 19

didn't the Nazi's on trial try that same defense?
How well did that work out for them?

Progressive dog

(7,480 posts)
15. Law enforcement in the US is supposed to follow the Constitution,
Mon May 19, 2025, 11:48 AM
May 19

not some psychopathic grifter. Until ICE officers begin to act like patriots and defend the law from Trump, I'll call them gestapo.

hildegaard28

(485 posts)
16. Stop comparing them
Mon May 19, 2025, 11:52 AM
May 19

To the Gestapo or what? They'll come to your house without a warrant, bust down your door, steal all your stuff, and arrest and hold you without due process, like the Gestapo?

lastlib

(25,961 posts)
33. Well, if Unterfeuhrer Kristi doesn't like "Gestapo", in the alternative, we could....
Mon May 19, 2025, 12:50 PM
May 19

call them "Stasi," or "KGB" or.....

allegorical oracle

(4,984 posts)
17. It's that does-shoe-fit thingy. And DHS knows it fits or else it wouldn't be yipping
Mon May 19, 2025, 12:06 PM
May 19

about it. ICE Barbie is scrambling because she's inept.

DHS needs to come clean and admit that it keeps changing the playbook. One day, it's "the worst of the worst" being hunted. Then it's any immigrant, legal or not. Or it's a child with cancer, or the Mayor of Newark, NJ.

Truth is, DHS doesn't know anything except threatening, whining, and racking up numbers of human beings that will please djt and Herr Miller.

patphil

(7,853 posts)
22. Sickening? I guess the truth is enough to make them sick.
Mon May 19, 2025, 12:31 PM
May 19

But not sick enough to make them clean up their act.
What they're doing is immoral, un-Christian, and un-American.
If they don't want ICE to be compared to the Gestapo, then they should stop acting like the Gestapo.
All this rush-rush hurry up and deport these people without a chance to defend themselves makes it obvious that Homeland Security knows what they're doing is wrong, but they don't want to have to defend their actions in court.

zorbasd

(408 posts)
106. Yeah, the left just doesn't have the resources
Tue May 20, 2025, 11:13 AM
Tuesday

to propagate the truth as the right does with lies...sad.

Ping Tung

(2,444 posts)
24. From now on they shall be known as members of Don's Garden Club whose task is to deport alien dandelions
Mon May 19, 2025, 12:33 PM
May 19

lastlib

(25,961 posts)
26. Hey, Kristi!
Mon May 19, 2025, 12:44 PM
May 19

If ya don't wanna be CALLED Gestapo---don't Gestapo. Simple.

BTW, how is your dog? Did it ever recover from you KILLING it??

quakerboy

(14,356 posts)
28. ICE should have been disbanded
Mon May 19, 2025, 12:45 PM
May 19

Once they let themselves (apparently eagerly) be used to harass US citizens participating in political protests, they became illegitimate. They next responsible person in power after that should have disbanded or at least gutted and completely reformed the organization. Not doing so was a huge failure that will cost our nation deeply.

usonian

(17,849 posts)
29. Go tell it on the mountain: Jesus arrested in immigration enforcement action.
Mon May 19, 2025, 12:46 PM
May 19
https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2025/04/22/vermont-migrants-arrested-dairy-farm-workers/83220821007/

At Pleasant Valley Farms in Berkshire, Vermont.

Jesus Mendez Hernandez (25 years old) among detainees.

Blues Heron

(7,017 posts)
30. keep up the pressure! they are feeling it! The sound of their whining is music to my ears! Its like a sweet lullaby
Mon May 19, 2025, 12:46 PM
May 19

As in bye bye sick Nazi fucks!

Initech

(104,932 posts)
32. ICE is a gestapo, and Tom Homan is a fucking maniac terrorist. Get over yourselves.
Mon May 19, 2025, 12:48 PM
May 19

And the only reason immigrants are an issue is to distract you from the people who are really stealing your money, your jobs, and your livelihood - Wall St billionaires.

Picaro

(1,971 posts)
38. Darling Kristi would perhaps prefer....
Mon May 19, 2025, 12:56 PM
May 19

Savak (the Shah’s secret police)? DAS (the secret police in Colombia)? FSB (Russian secret police)?

But I think we should keep using gestapo. Everyone knows that one. And it’s obviously getting a reaction.

What all secret police have in common is that they do not exist in democracies. DAS, Savak, and the Nazi Gestapo no longer exist. The FSB— well, they still exist. Because Russia is anything but a democracy.

ICE have very quickly mutated into a secret police. When this is over— and it will be over—ICE should be disbanded and defunded. The enthusiastic participants in these extrajudicial kidnappings should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Attilatheblond

(5,988 posts)
45. She who busies herself playing dress up needs to read the Bill of Rights
Mon May 19, 2025, 01:21 PM
May 19

and the courts need to hold her accountable, swiftly and with extreme prejudice. You know, like the prejudice she shows others who don't look like most of the people in the Dakotas.

Moostache

(10,526 posts)
41. If you work for I.C.E. and violate human rights you WILL face justice eventually.
Mon May 19, 2025, 01:08 PM
May 19

Take THAT to the bank. You will stand tall before the man and if you are guilty, you WILL be punished accordingly.
That is guaranteed to happen.

None of the death camp guards thought that they would be prosecuted either. That may be a more apt comparison than the Gestapo or the SS in my eyes. Doing things - like hiding your face and wearing masks to execute your orders - that make you clearly appear to be guilty of nefarious actions does not SCREAM "HEY, we're just innocents doing a job here"...

I.C.E. agents that are guilty of crimes must answer for them before rebuilding of trust can happen...

Warpy

(113,430 posts)
42. Yeah, the Gestapo went after Commies, socialists and trade unionists
Mon May 19, 2025, 01:15 PM
May 19

and when they ran out of those, they settled on Jews, no matter how remote the ancestry or how long they'd lived in the area.

If my dad's family had stayed in Alsace, I wouldn't be here. My grandfather got a few people out, but I think the ones left behind never left his mind.

So pardon me, DHS flunkies, if I see some really strong parallels between German police out of control in the 1930s and ICVE right now. Both countries had due process mechanisms in place. Bothe the Gestapo and ICE are ignoring them.

So, DHS spokesmodel, go to hell and take your bosses with you. We've seen this movie before and we already know how it turns out.

Cirsium

(2,536 posts)
43. or else what?
Mon May 19, 2025, 01:17 PM
May 19

Stop comparing ICE to the Gestapo, or else what? You will come after us? That is what it seems like to me what with all of the threats against critics coming from the people in the administration.

Attilatheblond

(5,988 posts)
44. And instead of overseeing their work and controlling abuse, the boss lady of Homeland Security wants to be a TV star
Mon May 19, 2025, 01:18 PM
May 19

with her own torturous Reality Game Show where she can wear costumes and play Roman Emperor to do thumbs up or down as to which combatants get to live a safer life in the US.

appleannie1

(5,273 posts)
46. If you don't like the comparison, stop treating people the way the Nazi's treated the Jews. Simple.
Mon May 19, 2025, 01:26 PM
May 19

kimbutgar

(25,145 posts)
47. Watching a video yesterday of masked ICE members kicking in a garage door in San Diego reminded me of the
Mon May 19, 2025, 01:26 PM
May 19

Gestapo. And those ICE agents are they pardoned January 6th terrorists? They don’t look official to me.

And I believe with what I see with my own eyes.

OLDMDDEM

(2,533 posts)
51. If we shouldn't be calling ICE the Gestapo, then we ask that they stop acting like the Gestapo.
Mon May 19, 2025, 01:50 PM
May 19

The Roux Comes First

(1,706 posts)
52. It Seems Like Only Yesterday That They Could Not Acknowledge the Reality of the Holocaust!
Mon May 19, 2025, 01:53 PM
May 19

All of a sudden they can spell "gestapo"!

C_U_L8R

(47,352 posts)
53. Why'd they even mention this?
Mon May 19, 2025, 01:54 PM
May 19

With this juvenile fear/propoganda tactic, it seems these Keystone Cops indeed want to be compared to the Gestapo.

unblock

(55,153 posts)
57. "We're much more like the ss than the gestapo!" Said noem.
Mon May 19, 2025, 02:08 PM
May 19

"I'll have some of that gazpacho!" Said mtg....

ShazzieB

(20,715 posts)
59. Hey, ICE! If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo...
Mon May 19, 2025, 02:15 PM
May 19
THEN DON'T ACT LIKE THE GESTAPO!

P.S. GO TO HELL!

aggiesal

(10,044 posts)
61. Stop acting like a Gestapo & maybe we'll stop comparing ICE like a Gestapo ...
Mon May 19, 2025, 02:21 PM
May 19

Right now, the word fits like a glove.

Eugene

(65,147 posts)
62. Do police state actions, get compared to police state actors.
Mon May 19, 2025, 02:24 PM
May 19

Homeland Security is trying to go full secret police. The courts are the only thing stopping them.

The Wizard

(13,168 posts)
63. Hitler had a private army called the Brown Shirts.
Mon May 19, 2025, 02:25 PM
May 19

ICE, formerly the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, constitute Trump's private army. When will our schools make "Mein Kampf" mandatory reading?

bpj62

(1,051 posts)
65. ICE visit
Mon May 19, 2025, 02:40 PM
May 19

My brother is a gm for a restaurant group in the DC area and last week during the lunch rush hour he received a visit from ICE wo demanded to speak to all the employees as well as requesting a records search. My brother asked them to produce a warrant for both the records search and the request to interview the employees. The agent said they didn't have one but that it wasn't necessary. My brother politely declined thier request and denied them access to the restaurant. The agents left and they haven't come back.
ICE is currently acting like theGestapo and they should continue to be called out for thier actions.

LudwigPastorius

(12,509 posts)
67. Yeah, stop comparing ICE to the Gestapo.
Mon May 19, 2025, 02:46 PM
May 19

There’s a huge difference!

The Gestapo didn’t cover their faces.

bluestarone

(19,827 posts)
69. Who is paying them? With what money? Way past time for these yahoo's to be
Mon May 19, 2025, 02:52 PM
May 19

Brought in before a JUDGE!!

Johnny2X2X

(22,886 posts)
71. I hope people realize that ICE's powers are being expanded
Mon May 19, 2025, 02:56 PM
May 19

Soon, they'll have the power to round up and send to a foreing prison, anyone the administration deems an enemy of the state. Citizen or immigrant status doesn't matter.

Skittles

(164,443 posts)
74. they are more offended by being CALLED the gestapo
Mon May 19, 2025, 10:14 PM
May 19

than they are by actually BEHAVING like the gestapo

Buns_of_Fire

(18,433 posts)
78. The Trumpteenth Commandment: THOU SHALT NOT
Mon May 19, 2025, 10:47 PM
May 19

refer to to Nazi Fucks by calling then "Nazi Fucks".

Jack Valentino

(2,098 posts)
80. STOP COMPARING TRUMP with JESUS CHRIST-----
Mon May 19, 2025, 10:53 PM
May 19

at least until he is likewise crucified! (literally, not figuratively)

Iggo

(48,854 posts)
81. "If the shoe fits...EAT IT." -- Ben Grimm.
Mon May 19, 2025, 10:54 PM
May 19

Also Ben Grimm: “It’s clobberin’ time!”

FirefighterJo

(395 posts)
83. I would refer to her as frau Himmler
Mon May 19, 2025, 11:05 PM
May 19

That was one dedicated dangerously mad bitch dedicated to the Führer (Which means guide btw.) ... But she is right, ICE & Co is still in the brown shirt phase me thinks. Once going full Gestapo (Geheimisse Stats Polizei) things will get way worse. "Gott mit uns" as was described on their belt buckles.

DBoon

(23,723 posts)
86. and we won't stop...
Mon May 19, 2025, 11:10 PM
May 19

Will they kick in our front door in the middle of the night, take us to a hidden prison, and have us "disappear"?

Aussie105

(7,027 posts)
88. A request to 'please not notice' that ICE is acting very Gestapo like is hereby denied.
Tue May 20, 2025, 12:54 AM
Tuesday

Can't deny what is happening out in the open.

Repressing the media, controlling the legal system, putting insecurity in the hearts of people, telling people they aren't seeing what their lying eyes see . . . yeah, no, not new tactics.
History is full of methods by which dictatorships do what they do and get away with.

I guess Novichok and defenestration are up next in the dictator's playbook?

Volaris

(10,875 posts)
89. Well Kristi, its the HIT dog, that yelps.
Tue May 20, 2025, 06:30 AM
Tuesday

Maybe quit acting like the gestapo, and people will stop calling you out for it.
Otherwise, Mr. Wick will see you now

After watching her grandstanding ass in front of the senate last week, she's the FIRST ONE I want put under oath and cross examined. I normally don't speak this way, but fuck that self-important, hateful b***h.

GoCubsGo

(33,855 posts)
90. Nope. I don't believe I will.
Tue May 20, 2025, 07:37 AM
Tuesday

And, as long as she keeps playing the part, I'm not going to stop calling the person running the show "Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS," either.

maxrandb

(16,566 posts)
91. "Stormtroopers" is a better term
Tue May 20, 2025, 07:39 AM
Tuesday

70% of Americans under 40 have no idea what the Gestapo was, but they know Stormtroopers.

Bettie

(18,312 posts)
95. Perhaps they could stop
Tue May 20, 2025, 08:15 AM
Tuesday

acting the like the gestapo?

No? Then, why should we not call them that again?

Bettie

(18,312 posts)
96. Perhaps they could stop
Tue May 20, 2025, 08:15 AM
Tuesday

acting the like the gestapo?

No? Then, why should we not call them that again?

HarryM

(366 posts)
98. I dunno. I just think that they are more like the Mafia
Tue May 20, 2025, 08:28 AM
Tuesday

Donny's Mafia. They use the same lawless tactics as the Mafia. To call them Gestapo is giving them more credit than they deserve. The Mafia have been known to take people in unmarked cars and cart them off to someplace to be killed. Perhaps this does not go that far, but it goes close to that. Gestapo were an official part of the government, there "legally." Donny's Mafia is not obeying the law, and doing it with gusto.

wiggs

(8,238 posts)
99. Having just returned from a fascinating and wonderful Berlin visit, I can say we were often
Tue May 20, 2025, 08:39 AM
Tuesday

making connections between German history and present US behavior in an alarming and urgent manner. Discussions with Berliners, gallery exhibits about general injustice, omni-present grafitti messages, brilliant museum experiences re 30s/40s Germany and older Europe, and tour info made it clear that humans have a long history of sad/brutal injustice....and Berliners are aware of it much more than we are.

We felt, more than ever, that comparisons with authoritarian playbooks including those of 1900s Germany -- while chilling and previously inconceivable -- shouldn't be avoided. the US needs to wake up.

Javaman

(63,868 posts)
103. so the Gestapo is trying to rebrand. like twitter turning to "x".
Tue May 20, 2025, 09:41 AM
Tuesday

yeah, no, gestapo is gestapo is gestapo.

markbark

(1,602 posts)
105. Shocked, SHOCKED I tells ya!
Tue May 20, 2025, 10:04 AM
Tuesday

Apparently Gruppenführer Noem takes exception to certain comparisons.
If it walks, swims and quacks like a duck, can we at least consider the possibility that we have a member of the family Anatidae on our hands?

Initech

(104,932 posts)
109. ICE is a gestapo and Tom Homan is a terrorist!
Sat May 24, 2025, 06:07 PM
Saturday

And his minions are fucking Nazis! Get fucked, MAGA!

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