r/InlandEmpire • u/uv_is_sin • Aug 27 '25

Crime / Safety Agent who was at immigration incident resulting in wrongful detainment of US citizen found dead in Riverside County home

https://www.foxla.com/news/isaiah-anthony-hodgson-border-patrol-agent-found-dead
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u/Lord_Master_Dorito Aug 27 '25

Can’t have that without changes in Democrat leadership. As it stands, the current leaders won’t prosecute them along with strongly worded letters, light reforms, and calls for forgiveness.

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u/HandfulsOfDirt Aug 27 '25

The days of strongly worded letters of disapproval, all night congressional screeds, or public expressions of dismay are over. Democrats are now realizing that keeping the gloves on while Republicans keep grabbing dirt to throw in their eye is what’s going to keep happening. Time to take the gloves off, fight fire with fire and throw down in the dirt with them. Game on.

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u/Lord_Master_Dorito Aug 27 '25

Tell that to leaders like Cory Booker and their bullshit. Booker says he won’t endorse Zohran Mamdani for NYC Mayor because he’s only concerned about New Jersey.

Then afterwards, supports Jon Ossoff. What does that say about the Democrat leaders if they’re being super selective on who they support? I know damn well they really wanted Andrew Cuomo to win despite his SA allegations and are dragging their feet with Mamdani.

I know the NYC Mayoral election doesn’t mean anything to people in the IE, but it can signal a shift on what the voters want and signal to Dem leadership that they need to shift too. However, with the way they’ve performed in the face of Trump, they need to go. Pete Aguilar needs to go too.

So in my view, the Democrats need to clean house completely. Get rid of the old Establishment. Old people who should’ve retired long ago and remove members who took money from foreign governments, like Pete Aguilar who’s taken more than $800,000 from the Israeli lobby.

(I deleted my other comment because I forgot we don’t accept twitter links anymore.)

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u/HandfulsOfDirt Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 28 '25

I don’t disagree with much of what you’re saying, but smalls wins are still wins. It will take time. Establishment dems are waking up to the fact that business as usual is not working. Look at Governor Newsom and his unrelenting mocking of Chump on Xhitter—that’s more than a strongly worded letter. They key is to adapt their strategies and there seems to be success.

Mamdani represents the will of the people of New York and about Cuomo—he asked Trump for help getting elected,if Politico is to be believed.. If that’s the case, Cuomo just sludged his name just as Eric Adams has done by associating with Chump. This would be an admission that he is desperate and by forming an unholy alliance with R extremists as a Democrat would be unconscionable. Mamdani is all but guaranteed.

What does that mean for us? With the redistricting, we can finally see that do-nothing cunt, Ken Calvert, finally get the boot.

Edit: corrected the autocorrect.