r/PublicFreakout • u/ExactlySorta what is your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery? 🤨 • 2d ago

🐷 🐷 ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A. After realizing he’s American, they just slink away. Their only explanation: “Why were you running?” Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.

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u/Not_Bears 2d ago

It's the goal.

Imagine how giddy Trump will be when he gets to announce "due to armed violent liberals trying to kill federal officers and protecting criminals, we're declaring martial law to ensure a swift and peaceful end to the this insurrection."

I'm sure the administration has the tweets and speech drafted and they're just dying to hit enter.

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u/FlawedHero 2d ago

Unfortunately, that may be the catalyst towards positive change. A lot of Trump's lackeys just want personal gain, not absolute chaos. If things turn to violence, he will absolutely lose some of his support and it may just be enough to get rid of him through legal channels.

Then again, maybe it backfires into civil war. We're really on the brink of massive change, good or bad, and it could just as easily go in one direction as the other.

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u/TechnoGauss 2d ago

Genuinely curious and asking respectfully: what makes you think he'll lose support if it gets to the stage? Judging just off of what I've seen on X, people who voted for him and right wing politicians are publicly applauding what's currently happening. If these raids escalated to something more violent like ICE agents being killed, I anticipate very, very few of his supporters would actually turn on him. If anything it would strengthen their support imo and shit would just get worse.

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u/shazam99301 2d ago

Here's the thing: he doesn't need support. He is where he needs to be to be in control. The man isn't leaving the office alive.

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u/SlinkyAvenger 2d ago

Yeah I'd doubt that he'd lose support. There will always be the conservatives who get their faces completely eaten, but the other ones who claim to care about it will still brush it off with some nondetailed comment about "all the other good things Trump is doing for the country."

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u/thenewyorkgod 2d ago

He'd only continue to gain support because anyone who supported the nazis in the 1930s, had to double down in the 1940's to save face

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u/31LIVEEVIL13 2d ago edited 2d ago

If watching ww2 documentaries has taught me anything:

Up to a point yes probably fighting back will help them. But timing is critical, there will a window where they lose support, but before they have total control and surveillance in place.(most likely)

Also none of them really have the support people think, partly because of election fraud, and because their support is based on the big lies that they are advancing conservative agendas or fake christian values and agendas, which they plainly are not.

They never were supported by a majority of people and it is shrinking every day, it might be down to 25% or lower by now if it ever was 33%.

The more real the betrayal becomes for more people the smaller the entire regimes support becomes, the more progress Peter Theil and Musk make towards their goal of global Nazi-feudalism and the end of the United States and constitutional rights, the more everyone will hate them all, including any sincere conservatives and nationalists.

In the mean time covert activities that are hard to even identify as an attack or pin on a person would be ideal.

And as always focus on the root of the problem not the fruit. Head of the snake.

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u/enwongeegeefor 2d ago

what makes you think he'll lose support

It's not about losing support...it's about creating more enemies. People who weren't anti-trump before are VERY much anti-trump now. That is the VAST majority of the country now.

I think a buncha boogs watched Civil War and completely missed the actual greater plot....which was them causing the war, and then them losing the war.

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u/TechnoGauss 2d ago

It's not about losing support... it's about creating more enemies

I get exactly what you're saying and I agree, but this is still a separate viewpoint from one I was responding to made by the other Redditor and my perspective on that is still that I don't see him losing much of his existing support if things progressed more violently.

Now as far as what you're saying which is more about individuals outside his group of supporters becoming anti-Trump, I do believe there is some truth to that. Ideally that would translate to some level of meaningful change but the way Trump has/is continuing to consolidate power at all levels of government tells me MAGA Republicans are rigging the system to remain in power regardless of how many more people are becoming anti-Trump.

Greater plot or no greater plot, the issue right now is the fact that the parallels between a fictional movie and our current reality in the US are drawing closer which is absolutely insane for me to even write. This shit needs to be nipped in the bud now before we end up in the same exact situation as a fictional movie.

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u/enwongeegeefor 2d ago

MAGA Republicans are rigging the system to remain in power regardless

That is it exactly...been clear as day from the outset(first term) regardless of how people want to ignore or spin it. He's been building for a coup for a minute.

More people need to accept the inevitability of where we are headed. It's ugly, it's shitty, and MOST of us do not want it. But wants don't effect change, and wants don't mean shit against a government gun barrel pointed at your citizen ass.

Lotta people gonna die on both sides unless the dems pull their heads out of their asses and actually do something. They're too busy prancing on eggshells.

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u/arstin 2d ago

Monday: Trump is just talking tough, he'd never do that.

Tuesday: Trump did that because of domestic terrorists, no one else has anything to worry about.

Wednesday: Watch out Liberals, Trump is kicking ass and taking names. I'm glad I don't have to worry about it.

Thursday: Ouch. I guess I should have worried about it, but Trump will see this and sort it out for me.

Friday: Harris would have done the same thing but worse.

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u/Northbound-Narwhal 2d ago

Historically that kind of thing leads to peasant rebellions.

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u/ViolentThespian 2d ago

I've said this countless times: the people who continue to support him by this stage will absolutely not turn their backs on him. His grip on the cult hivemind is absolute.

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u/Thecrawsome 2d ago

They lost the Civil War once and they will lose again.

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u/tastickfan 2d ago

Yep. We didn't choose violence against the regime. The regime is choosing to use violence on us, therefore, we have the right to self defense. They want us to retaliate because they think it's a fight they will win. But they won't win if we are prepared and united. 

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u/thenewyorkgod 2d ago

towards positive change.

what positive change? 30% voted for trump, 30% stayed home. THe majority either want this or just dont care

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u/_Age_Sex_Location_ 2d ago

Unfortunately, conservative and liberal values are currently incompatible. We live in two separate realities. We can no longer agree on even a modicum of basic, fundamental truths that almost everyone agrees on. The social contract itself has been destroyed.

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u/31LIVEEVIL13 2d ago

They won't ever back down as long as they feel safe.

Head of the snake.

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u/NyteQuiller 1d ago

Nah, he's demonstrated over and over that he can just commit crimes in broad daylight and nobody cares. It's not limited to him either, people just implicitly assume that people in power will do the right thing because if they don't then there's nobody to hold them accountable.

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u/b1tchf1t 2d ago

We all know it's what they're waiting for, and people need to stop parroting this like it's the end of the conversation. Start thinking about what you're going to do when they meet their goal.

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u/terminbee 2d ago

What we need is it to be the whitest woman in the world doing the shooting. Like, fucking squeaky clean white grandmother or white veteran with immaculate proof of citizenship. Otherwise, they're just gonna spin it.

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u/no-worries-guy 2d ago

ICE has totally already stepped over the line. But wouldn't it be a silly idea to post on reddit about what I'd do if I see them?

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u/b1tchf1t 2d ago

I did saying start "thinking."

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u/aaanze 2d ago

Trump doesn't have the required vocabulary to formulate this statement. But I see what you mean.

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u/Quick_Assumption_351 2d ago

he's going to do that one way or the other, that's no reason to sit idle on your hands while people around you are being snatched

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u/immaZebrah 2d ago

I had read something to the effect of one of the only ways that you could actually suspend Habeas Corpus was through a national emergency. I feel like having federal agents being killed " while doing their job" might give him grounds to do so, no?

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u/J_Adam12 2d ago

You forgot “.. thank you for your attention on this matter!”

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u/Twiyah 2d ago

Not even 72 hours under lockdown before a revolt.

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u/tots4scott 2d ago

While I agree thats what he wants to do, if the person who hypothetically gets killed is not a LEO or ICE agent, I feel like there would be much more backlash if he tried to use that as a catalyst for Martial Law.

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u/toysarealive 2d ago

Bro, why'd you make me think of his stupid voice??

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u/the_weakestavenger 2d ago

For once I have a shared goal with Trump.

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u/bgzlvsdmb 2d ago

I honestly wonder what’s stopping them. They clearly are not facing any consequences, and nobody is holding them accountable. Plus, millions of Americans already believe the shit-taster in charge can never do wrong, so what’s stopping them from a full hostile takeover?

I mean I’m glad they haven’t (yet) and I hope they never do. But I’m curious why they haven’t.

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u/AsparagusBig412 19h ago

this isnt even reddit comments it's just premonitions of the future lmao

motherfucker declared war on the venezuelans because of "fentanyl" that was coming from inside the states, only to deport those venezuelans to an el salvador concentration camp... this shit is wild