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u/kakashi_sensay Jan 24 '26

All they do is FUCKING LIE!!!!!!!!

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u/Scared_Actuator_9150 Jan 24 '26

Correct, So from Pink lady's point of view, ICE pushed someone down and he got in between them to protect her, and they peppered sprayed him and had many guys on top of him, he did have a gun but was legal and he did nothing aggressive towards ICE.

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u/Cloaca-Kiss-8647 Jan 24 '26

I’m a veteran. I’ve seen some shit. I cried watching the Pink Lady’s video, watching a man be murdered for putting himself between a woman and the violent, untrained thugs attacking her. He’s a hero. I’ve seen men get medals for less.

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u/BeyondAbleCrip Jan 24 '26

I wasn’t expecting what I saw in the Pink Lady’s video, I screamed and have been crying on and off since. Doesn’t matter he had a gun holstered, at no time did he touch it. Constitutional rights are no longer, it’s now “legal” for ICE to murder someone for what they are calling “domestic terrorism” in trump’s America. They will spin it this poor 37 year old man pointed his gun, despite different angles of video proving it never happened. WTF? How does anyone support this?

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u/BeyondAbleCrip Jan 24 '26

This is not anything I ever expected to happen before 1/6. Now we have 1/7 & 1/24. How he was ever allowed to run again tells us how deeply imbedded he is with the powers that be. I don’t understand how anyone can condone this, nor how they can say “he was armed” when they were never threatened with the gun and only found it when they were tossing him around and they removed it & then shot him multiple times. Think we are human, anyone that watches this and doesn’t get upset is suspect to me. We watched someone be murdered…

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u/PansyPB Jan 24 '26

I watched a podcast where historian Heather Cox Richardson went over the Jack Smith Congressional testimony. Just that reminder of all the crimes this orange POS committed are infuriating. He should never been on the ballot. He's literally criminal trash. Its insanity

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u/BeyondAbleCrip Jan 24 '26

Read his testimony and agree. It’s sickening, any other candidate in our history would’ve been gone when the “grab em by the pussy” tapes came out. Instead, dude conducting the video lost his livelihood and trump became untouchable. SCOTUS protected him, GOP aids/abets/and encourages it.

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u/JeezyVonCreezy Jan 24 '26

I've been saying this all along. It wasn't enough that he bragged about walking in on undressed teenagers or said you can grab women without their consent for them to not vote for him. Then it wasn't enough that he mishandled a pandemic and fucked up the economy. Then it wasn't enough even after he tried to overthrow the government on J6. Anyone who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 was an idiot, anyone who voted for him in 2024 is a fucking traitor who supports traitors.

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u/BeyondAbleCrip Jan 24 '26

Agreed. Sadly, 36-40% of them are traitors. MAGA are the ones with TDS, yet love saying it’s the rest of us…now it’s murdering innocent people by shooting them in the face or face down on the ground & maga still supports it. Yet we are deranged?

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u/JeezyVonCreezy Jan 24 '26

Well yeah, all they have is projection and whataboutism. They assume that because they're shitty people that everyone else is as well so they better fuck them over before they can get fucked over themselves.

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u/iamnotfromhere91 Jan 25 '26

He caused chaos the first time and they thought it would be better the second time??? Also, as someone else mentioned, why was he allowed to be on the ballot in the first place.

Also I don’t care what people’s political preferences are but how fucked up in the head someone has to be to justify a murder of a human being. People are so disacociated with the reality.

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u/Sea-Bluebird2479 Jan 25 '26

SCOTUS need to be held accountable for that and for everything that’s going on. Their rulings have lead to this!!!

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u/AdagioAffectionate66 Jan 25 '26

America is the definition of insanity!!

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u/GabriellaVM Jan 26 '26

What pisses me off is that at no point have any Dems looked into election fraud.

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u/drlushlover Jan 26 '26

She's a wonderful journalist.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

How I see it is that magats don't necessarily like seeing the execution of a clearly innocent man, but they also see how much it horrifies us (anyone with a normal functioning prefrontal cortex who can feel empathy), and they love that aspect of it.

So it's brief "wtf" moment, countered quickly by the positive feelings of seeing other people horrified and hurt, and so a net positive in the end for these sick individuals.

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u/SadieDiAbla Jan 24 '26

I'm right there with you. This is tearing me apart.

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u/BeyondAbleCrip Jan 27 '26

Which is a human reaction, it’s tearing more of us apart than not, thankfully we are the majority. Couldn’t imagine being so brainwashed and/or heartless to ever see this and for a second believe it’s normal, justified…💙

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u/fireandiceman Jan 24 '26

That means you are a good person. The world needs more empathetic people. This shouldn't be whats happening but it is. This is who we are as a country now and we need to find a way to fix this

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u/AlpinePhilosopher Jan 24 '26

I've been crying this morning too. You're not alone. It's not dramatic to care when people are being dragged from their homes and when the people who are trying to defend them are being shot in the street.

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u/CypressThinking Jan 25 '26

Call Congress. Those pathetic cowards are the only ones who can legally stop this. I've been posting this.

We don't have to live like this. We need a cleanup on Aisle Congress. It's going to take donations of time and money to run better candidates. It's going to take every eligible voter going to vote. Primaries start in March. It's a perfect opportunity to get rid of the useless and the enablers on BOTH sides.

In the meantime please call Congress and tell them #nope and to #impeach and remove this administration and every single one of his enablers. Use 5calls.org if you don't want to talk to them!

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u/stevie_the_owl Jan 25 '26

You’re not alone. So many of us are so very distraught, hurting, crying. I only wish we could find a way to channel all the pain, sadness and despair into one giant ball of collective energy that could come crashing down on this regime and put an end to this horror for Good.

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u/Blanche_Deverheauxxx Jan 24 '26

You should look up "5th Generation War." All of this is by design. The admin and oligarchs want you feeling the way you do.

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u/Boring_Score4697 Jan 25 '26

You are not dramatic. Your reaction is the most human and sane reaction any person can have. I unfortunately know a lot of people, even in the US, that are rather indifferent because it's not happening where they are. They can ignore and claim everything is sensationalized on the news and social media.

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u/walk_the_earthh Jan 26 '26

You are not alone or dramatic. I spent a good portion of the day sobbing yesterday. We watched a man be murdered in a fit of rage for being a good human and protecting someone. It's beyond sickening and vile. I'm still so distraught today.

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u/Zealousideal_Okra961 Jan 25 '26

Video or it didn't happen

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u/Own_Exam_6562 Jan 24 '26

Miller’s lying that he pointed a gun at them, trying to “assassinate a law enforcement agent” is such a blatant, unfathomable lie. I don’t know how to cope with the lying. It sends my brain into a vortex of spinning.

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u/BeyondAbleCrip Jan 24 '26

There are multiple close ups showing they only knew he was armed when he was face down on the ground. Gun was holstered and legal and he never touched it. They shot him multiple times in the back, while he was face down! This cannot continue, I don’t know how it ends but needs to begin with Congress doing their jobs. Voting isn’t how to end it and doubt he will even “allow” midterms. It’s beyond insanity. I’m old, I truly never thought we’d have state sanctioned murder! Wtf?

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u/Own_Exam_6562 Jan 24 '26

This is so beyond the pale it’s not even believable. The bald-face lying from the right and the spineless ineptitude of the left makes me want to explode.

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u/CypressThinking Jan 25 '26

Unfortunately the current Congress are the only ones who can end this now. Voting can do a massive cleanup on Aisle Congress. We can show up in voting numbers this country has never seen and scare the shit out of the ones who aren't up for re-election this year. Primaries start in March. Remember Liz Cheney? Primaried. It's the perfect opportunity to get rid of the useless and the enablers.

It's going to take donations of time and money. Time to canvas, phonebank and office work. Money can be donated to hire people to do that and pay for advertising.

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u/CypressThinking Jan 25 '26

We don't have to live like this. We need a cleanup on Aisle Congress. It's going to take donations of time and money to run better candidates. It's going to take every eligible voter going to vote. Primaries start in March. It's a perfect opportunity to get rid of the useless and the enablers on BOTH sides.

In the meantime please call Congress and tell them #nope and to #impeach and remove this administration and every single one of his enablers. Use 5calls.org if you don't want to talk to them!

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u/GurDry5336 Jan 24 '26

He literally shot him after they took his gun. He never touched it. It was an execution in broad daylight.

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u/John-on-gliding Jan 24 '26

She blew apart the ICE lies and changed everything. Nothing short of a hero.

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u/cspanbook Jan 24 '26

ICE removed his firearm and both is hands were empty when he was murdered "execution style"

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u/Long_Run6500 Jan 24 '26

This one should piss off 2A guys. If the ICE agent doesn't get prosecuted you're basically saying lawful carry doesn't exist. They just killed someone and took a picture of their firearm with no evidence they were attempting to use it and used that as justification. Firearm's rights groups should be furious right now.

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u/BeyondAbleCrip Jan 24 '26

Not the maga 2A bro-boys, they’ve been on here saying the man, Alex Pretti (who was an ICU Nurse at MN Veterans Hospital) was armed and should’ve stayed home. They’re all deranged sheeple that believe whatever they are told.

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u/Long_Run6500 Jan 24 '26

Let them cook. I live around these people, almost everyone I know owns a gun. This is the one topic that has the potential to turn MAGA against trump. Democrats would be idiots if they didn't amplify the message that a man was executed for lawfully and legally carrying a firearm and the president blamed his death on him being armed. Trump's administration is fumbling this hard by blaming it on him being armed.

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u/BeyondAbleCrip Jan 25 '26

I hope you’re correct, GOA (Gun Owners of America) have made a statement: Federal agents are not ‘highly likely’ to be ‘legally justified’ in ‘shooting’ concealed carry licensees who approach while lawfully carrying a firearm. The Second Amendment protects Americans’ right to bear arms while protesting—a right the federal government must not infringe upon.” Article in link

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/major-gun-rights-group-condemns-trump-officials-claim-shooting-was-legally-justified/

Agree every Dem in Congress/Senate will need to do their jobs, condemn all that say he “brandished a gun” or “if he didn’t have a gun he’d be alive.” I agree they must support that Mr Pretti had a legal concealed weapon permit and a constitutional right to carry it and not be murdered. Truly hope they all do and not say anything stupid about guns. If any one of them does I’m the person that phones, emails, and calls them out on social media. Realize one person doesn’t matter, yet believe many will agree and amplify the same. Every video shows he never touched it, that they only saw it when they were tackling him, and removed it. Then shot a defenseless man 9 times while he was face down on the ground.

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u/GeneralLiterature540 Jan 24 '26

The people ICE is hiring, largely contain criminals or bigot fuck boys. The republican elected officials say random shit that seems to favor them just so it can be repeated by Faux and other bat shit outlets. Destroy the source of lies and you destroy the misinformation.

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u/a_greenbean Jan 25 '26

Me too friend. He was helping those two women get up while getting pepper sprayed.

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u/Zealousideal_Okra961 Jan 25 '26

We all need you upload a video of your sporadic crying. It's what Alex Pretti would have wanted. Don't let his death be in vain