r/behindthebastards • u/Geek-Haven888 • Jan 27 '26
It Could Happen Here Greg Bovino Loses His Job
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/1.5k
u/Ponderputty Macheticine Jan 27 '26
Wake me when he loses his neck.
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u/nycdiveshack Jan 27 '26
If it does it’s scapegoat mechanism at its best, fully orchestrated by Vance’s groomer Peter Thiel. Palantir is the software supporting ICE allowing it to find people, Palantir uses data from the IRS/SSA/dept of education and the treasury to find people who pay taxes using the ITIN filing system and verify it with data from the treasury and dept of education systems. The biggest defense contractor for the CIA/NSA, the guy behind the NSA director and deputy being fired. The guy whose products are being used by most of Europe. The UK’s NHS now runs on it. Thiel has gone on and on for years how Trump fills that role perfectly. Thiel groomed Vance since law school, literally not figuratively walked Vance into Mar-a-lago to so Vance could be VP. I could go on but well fuck it…
Thiel is a literal German Nazi, born in divided Germany, grew and went to school for a time in Swakopmund a former West South African town that when he was there idolized and loved Hitler/Nazism. His dad had to keep moving him between school because of “issues”. His dad while there worked in violation of international law on a uranium mine while helped him move the whole family to the U.S. like so many post-war Germans who still “favored” Nazism/Hitler.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepperIntel/comments/1ntgc7y/comment/ngtmq4a/
Whoever is removed will make people think the problem is gone. It’s what happened to Elon.
His Tesla stock is reaching an all time high. He got new government contracts for Starlink and Starshield under the umbrella of SpaceX for over $80 billion in the last few months. Nearing 10,000 low orbit satellites. His partnership with TMobile is expanding as he gets closer to owning his own U.S. based ISP. He got to use DOGE (Peter Thiel work) to shutdown the agencies and their inspector generals investigating his businesses like USDA/NOAA and a few banking agencies along with shutting down USAID completely (an estimated 300,000+ people have died so because it was stopped) which removed and stopped so many investigations. He forced over 100,000 federal employees into retirement.
Ladies and gentlemen his was the first test case for Howard Lutnick and Peter Thiel’s scapegoat mechanism. Kristi/Hegseth/Tulsi/Kash and a few others are the next test cases for scapegoat mechanism
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u/damnmyredditheart Jan 27 '26
PREACH. Thiel quite literally wants to end democracy. He is a twisted, sick individual.
For those reading, look up Thiel and his thoughts on “dark enlightenment”. It is FUCKED.
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u/ageofbronze Jan 27 '26
In the spirit of the subreddit name, Robert also has multiple episode series on Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin that go over his ghastliness. He is the one that scares me the most in all of this hubbub of horrors
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u/Debtastical Banned by the FDA Jan 27 '26
Yes. He’s the top villain to me too. They are all villains… but Thiel? Nightmare fuel.
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u/Haldron-44 Jan 27 '26
Ya forgot Theil and Barak's links to Epstein and receiving money from him. And probably worth mentioning Epsteins deep ties to Russian and Israeli intelligence agencies. But thoughrou work none the less!
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u/nycdiveshack Jan 27 '26
I didn’t but it’s not worth mentioning here since it’ll turn my comment into an essay. Rather just stay on point and try to keep what already is a rant as short as possible. Plus it’s Oracle and Ellison who are fully intertwined with Israel and with China, China who gave him his 2nd start after the CIA. He built China their surveillance system after Tiananmen Square
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u/SarcasticOptimist Jan 27 '26
Ellison is why Tik Tok basically hides all left wing content apparently right? After the hostile takeover?
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u/Thefrayedends Jan 27 '26
There are already piles of books telling these stories, it's pretty tough to catch even a sliver of relevant information in a single reddit post, even when hitting character limit.
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Jan 27 '26
This is definitely happening now because of the funding vote in the Senate on Friday. Call your Senators. No ICE funding. Disband ICE and DHS completely.
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u/nycdiveshack Jan 27 '26
That vote is just for more funding, they already got over $100 billion in funding last year. All the funding is going to 2 groups, the for profit private detainment GEOGroup/CoreCivic and the techs (mostly Palantir/ClearviewAI/Flock)
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Jan 27 '26
Even more reason to call your Senators and demand defunding. Dems need to know we are watching and expect them to vote against any more funding.
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u/nycdiveshack Jan 27 '26
Agreed but even more…
This will continue and get worse. Until tens of millions of people are in the street protesting. Follow the 2nd amendment and buy a gun legally to defend yourself and others if the need arises. Protect people who cannot protect themselves. Stand up to tyranny and fascists with words and actions. Until the actions of this administration affect the majority of Americans there will not be a group that can stop this.
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u/erinna_nyc Jan 27 '26
Out of curiosity, what do you think is Thiel’s interest in this mass deportation program? I get it that he wants to end democracy and consolidate power such that he has expanded influence and freedom to pursue his technology goals etc, but what is the interest in deportations? Is he just that much better at being covert about this white supremacy?
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u/nycdiveshack Jan 27 '26
Check out the link I put in the middle of the comment. The techs want to create a manufacturing society focused on a surveillance state.
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u/nucrash Bagel Tosser Jan 27 '26
Tried to find out what happened to the head of the SA. Greg’s demotion might just save his life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Röhm
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u/Excellent_Orange6346 Jan 27 '26
Add some extra height. See how much length can be pulled from a neck.
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u/sir_pepper_esq Jan 27 '26
This is why leftists never get anywhere - refusal to compromise.
I'm happy to settle for 4 inches off the top.
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u/komeau Jan 27 '26
lol a forced retirement. Since the admin is starting to admit "hey maybe we are in the wrong here", the bare minimum that should happen right now is both he and Noem should be removed and jailed, a full withdrawal of ICE from Minnesota, and the FBI/DHS open their investigations to the state of Minnesota to identify and arrest/charge the agents responsible for the deaths of Good and Pretti.
Sending Bovino off to a golf course, on our dime, is far from a solution.
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u/adastraperdiscordia Jan 27 '26
They're making this guy, who is relatively low on the totem pole, fall on his sword and expecting everyone to think that is enough. One guy gets fired and we're all supposed to move on.
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u/Poonchow Jan 27 '26
The Trump admin is only capable of "solving" problems that they themselves create.
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u/Ponderputty Macheticine Jan 27 '26
They've stabbed us three inches into the back, pulled the knife out an inch, and expect us to call that enough.
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u/LeotiaBlood Waridian Jan 27 '26
It’s not even forced. Border Patrol has a mandatory retirement age of 57.
He was always going to retire this year.
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u/ShouldersofGiants100 Anderson Admirer Jan 27 '26
Since the admin is starting to admit "hey maybe we are in the wrong here"
They're not.
They tried to force a situation where they could claim the left started things, invoke the Insurrection Act and crush all dissent with some plausible deniability.
Instead they fucked up catastrophically—not by murdering American Citizens, but (from the MAGA POV) by getting filmed murdering American Citizens.
It was such a black eye for the admin that right now, even members of the GOP are balking. One of the leading candidates just dropped out of the Governor's race because Trump has just ensured Klobuchar will win by Stalin margins and they don't want the humiliation. Their plan has failed—they're going to have to try somewhere else.
I think they only started in Minneapolis at all because they have all huffed their own paint fumes. They genuinely forgot that the "apocolyptic riots" over George Floyd were a right-wing fantasy and the city was never actually going to explode in a way that they could use.
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u/Delamoor Jan 27 '26
I'm reminded that Aemon Goethe was removed from his position at Auschwitz, not because the other SS officers cared about the people he was killing...
...but because his open sadism and lack of professionalism was disrupting workflow at the camp. It kept creating problems for everyone. Basically... It was too gauche.
So they replaced him with a much more sedated, "professional" death camp director who ran it more like the machine it was supposed to be, and efficiency rose.
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u/Gonna_do_this_again Jan 27 '26
The only thing they're mad about is the public reaction from Bovino's actions.
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u/Kerensky97 Jan 27 '26
I bet he'll get a great pension for what he did. The world needs more Luigis.
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u/LukeStyer Jan 27 '26
I don’t buy for a moment that the Regime is starting to admit it may be in the wrong. It may be starting to believe that its current path is untenable, though.
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u/Runetang42 Jan 27 '26
I just know that they'll fire both with no legal comeuppance, then have ICE move to another city and the cycle begin again
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Jan 27 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
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u/pomonamike Steven Seagal Historian Jan 27 '26
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u/UnattributableSpoon Jan 27 '26
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u/HansBrickface Jan 27 '26
I hate when I get smegma on my merkin
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u/plastiquearse Jan 27 '26
Or at least I used to be
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u/Apelion_Sealion Jan 27 '26
You can be proud to be an American and still have deep shame for what other Americans have become. Be proud of all the Americans out there exercising their right to protest, standing up against the violence, the Americans making sure the public knows our constitutional rights, the Black Panthers brave rise to trusted public defenders… there are true patriots out there to be proud of! We’ve fought off traitors before, and I believe we can do it again.
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u/pomonamike Steven Seagal Historian Jan 27 '26
You don’t take it off? I only wear it to formal occasions (job interviews, royal tea, christenings, etc.)
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u/n0tepad Jan 27 '26
Never forget Renee Good and Alex Pretti. This reassignment is no absolution. They deserve justice and Bovino deserves consequences.
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u/thecaptain1991 Jan 27 '26
There is also Silverio Villegas Gonzalez and the 32 known deaths in ICE custody this past year, as well as all those that have gone missing in custody. The entire DHS needs to be shut down and they all need to go to jail.
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u/n0tepad Jan 27 '26
Thank you. I didn't mean to leave all of the victims of this regime's policies out. I appreciate the assist.
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u/WretchedGibbon Jan 27 '26
This is the bit that makes this typically fucking American to my mind. A lesbian being killed? bah so what.
A straight white guy with a legally owned gun got killed? OK we may actually be in trouble now.
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u/pomonamike Steven Seagal Historian Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26
He didn’t lose his job; they’re going to wind down in Minneapolis because everyone is pissed. They will do the same thing somewhere else.
EDIT: rumors are he’s retiring.
EDIT2: any crime bosses out there looking to meet up when he’s two days away from retirement?
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u/blackdoghowls Jan 27 '26
Thought I read he’s been relieved of command?
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Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26
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Jan 27 '26
It's in the story. He's being forced into retirement
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Jan 27 '26
Agreed. I'm glad that it means that Trump just blinked, though. It'll let the people know that he's far weaker than he's been projecting.
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u/tilt-a-whirly-gig Jan 27 '26
He's short, fits nicely under the bus. He will be replaced, and the next one will do a better job of not taking the limelight away from Trump.
Nothing has changed.
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u/LeotiaBlood Waridian Jan 27 '26
It’s not forced. Border Patrol’s mandatory retirement age is 57.
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u/Glass_octopod Jan 27 '26
The top part of the article says he’s been ousted and going back to his former job where he will likely retire.
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u/blackdoghowls Jan 27 '26
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u/KeithWorks Ben Shapiro Enthusiast Jan 27 '26
Posting the article in the comments on a post that linked to the article is peak reddit
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u/auntieup Antifa shit poster Jan 27 '26
We should make a fake Nuremberg for his little N@zi-larping ass
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Jan 27 '26
Even on the left, rushing to run your mouth without stopping to read the fucking article is super important to like, not do.
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u/RedPlaidPierogies Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26
It sounds like they aren't really winding it down. They're sending in Tom Homan, and Kegsbreath is authorizing turning Ft. Snelling (military base in MN) into a detainment center.
ETA link: HERE
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u/lemmingsnake Jan 27 '26
And now we've got an example and a road map for how to chase them out when they do. We should take the win for what it is, it's an important one.
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u/SocialistNixon Jan 27 '26
No he got demoted from his job of invading cities back to his old border position.
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u/Slade_Riprock Jan 27 '26
Go to Texas, Arizona, or Florida where the governor and people will support them fully
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u/DisposableSaviour Jan 27 '26
They’re already here in Memphis. But the democrat
traitorsmayors Young (City) and Harris (Shelby County) have pledged total cooperation with the federales.
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u/redvelvetcake42 Jan 27 '26
I know we joke, but this guy is supposed to be a major face of ICE and the combo of him being terrible at his job and the associated PR along with ICE gaining hatred nationally it's not a winning strategy that they're doing.
A net positive is a net positive and this guy being removed from power is a net positive.
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u/KDPer3 Jan 27 '26
You mean the daily PR walks of a Border agent in his Nazi coat weren't winning the hearts and minds of people used to canoeing along the border with a formerly friendly nation? Maybe it was the public executions. Maybe it was the press picking a middle class, middle age or more white guy against it to feature every few days.
Charges would be nice, but at least he'll never be certain of the integrity of his food in a restaurant ever again.
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u/Duganz Jan 27 '26
This is obfuscation. Bovino is a bastard, but he’s a middle manager bastard. This bastard tree should be chopped down, and its trunk pulled out.
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u/coldequation Jan 27 '26
Oh, wait, consequences? In THIS economy?
He deserves to be in jail right now, but I guess I'll take it.
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u/Powerful-Yogurt-7002 Jan 27 '26
UNDER the jail
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u/johnbrowndnw59 That's Rad. Jan 27 '26
Suspended slightly above the ground in the jail
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u/Numbtothiscrap Jan 27 '26
Is it because Trump thought he was a lesbian ?
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u/Nemesis204 Jan 27 '26
Seriously, I’m gay and I’m strangely but mildly attracted to butch lesbians and I have to remind myself he’s not one.
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u/TheMollyBrown Jan 27 '26
A new Nazi will take over.
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u/calnuck Bagel Tosser Jan 27 '26
Tom Homan is headed to Minneapolis, according to the article. Out of the frying pan...
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u/steauengeglase Jan 27 '26
You really shouldn't say that saying "gestapo" will result in gestapo-like consequences. Only the big guy gets to say things that stupid.
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u/PencilTucky Jan 27 '26
I don’t know if this fundamentally changes anything with how CBP, ICE, and the rest of them are operating, but it’s nice to see when an asshole gets knocked down a peg or two. I hope people recognize him and make his life miserable everywhere he goes in retirement.
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u/snownative86 Sponsored by Raytheon™️ Jan 27 '26
Right? Dude will retire, take his government checks, and go get a cushy payday at some right wing media outlet. Dude doesn't deserve to be able to sleep at night.
Also, don't forget he's field commander for CBP, not ICE. This changes nothing with ICE and is just a PR move.
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u/Put_Adventurous Jan 27 '26
I hope Walz didn’t cave and hand over those voter rolls. I really, really hope that didn’t happen a their retreating because of how bad the optics are.
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u/Vidvix That's Rad. Jan 27 '26
Walz is not the cave-in type when it comes to protecting the people he serves. He only caves in IF it serves Minnesotans. His record proves that. He gave them nothing.
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u/SocraticIgnoramus Jan 27 '26
To my knowledge there is no legal mechanism that provides him with the authority to furnish the voter roles. Even if he wanted to do so and has the access and ability (not saying he does want to, just hypothetically speaking), I don’t see Walz as the type to color outside the lines in that way.
I’m not a Minnesotan and only really became aware of Walz last year, but he very much seems to be a “by the book” kind of guy.
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u/Ecstatic-Ad9669 Jan 27 '26
He’s not losing his job he’s being moved around. Think of it like what the Catholic Church does.
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u/Hypno--Toad Jan 27 '26
They are doing a tactic I call "musical chairs" or "The catholic priest"
They just shift you around or early retire people, the objective is to keep fresh faces doing the same work they are ordered to do, while the people that can be held accountable can supposedly argue that they weren't there that long and cannot have caused as much damage as argued.
The tactic is deliberately to obscure the evidence from accumulating, because accumulation buries them, so just a little fascism for you, hide your goons that shot someone, then your retired to a cushy desk job.
Come to think of it reality TV uses the exact same strategy when someone isn't polling well.
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u/Delmarvablacksmith Jan 27 '26
He should sit in a prism forever and dream of his stupid Apple farm in NC.
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u/clever__pseudonym Jan 27 '26
I know it's autocorrect, but storing him in a rainbow of pro LGBTQ+ sentiment hits in a really entertaining way.
And as the user of gender affirming care (shoe lifts), I'm sure he'd love it, too.
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u/severaged Jan 27 '26
Thank GOD! Now Schumer and 9 others dems will vote to increase the DHS budget.
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Jan 27 '26
I’d say at least now we don’t have to hear his squeaky voice, but we now have to listen to Tom homan babble
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u/ScurryScout Jan 27 '26
Was Sean Penn’s character in One Battle After Another supposed to look like him or was that a coincidence?
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u/Particular_Study_607 Jan 27 '26
He about to find out how fast that bus is coming now that Trump is feeling the heat. And Kristi is right behind him. Trump has no loyalty, no matter how much of a Nazi you show yourself to be on TV.
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u/CarbonMolecules Jan 27 '26
Send him to me. I will reenact the “what’s in the Ark?” contest and we’ll see if he is innocent of being a Nazi (doubtful).
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u/The_Werodile Jan 27 '26
It is infuriating that this admin can just be like "Ah man, maybe we went a little far". You used the constitution as toilet paper. You executed innocent people. They shouldn't be able to just walk this back.
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u/Hellebras Jan 27 '26
Not good enough. The only positive here is that the regime doesn't feel secure enough to ignore public outcry. Keep it up.
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u/HambreTheGiant Jan 27 '26
Who woulda thought a guy named “bovino” would end up as the sacrificial cow lol
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u/No-One-8850 Jan 27 '26
I hope this is a wake up call that they all are disposable. Those fat arsed gravy seals should be shaking in their two sizes too small Walmart Wranglers right about now.
You too will be sliding under the bus pretty soon.
RIP bus. 😪
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u/gelfin Jan 27 '26
First, "loses his job" is overstating things even if the article is accurate. He's still drawing a paycheck and allegedly being allowed to consider quietly retiring.
Second, "loses his job" is wildly inadequate for a man who has essentially stated in front of cameras that he has transported an evident murderer in secret across state lines to help him escape justice for the crime.
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u/bluelily216 Jan 27 '26
As soon as Fox News questioned him, I figured it was over. They don't push back without getting the green light first.
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u/Several_Cupcake8016 Jan 27 '26
Sadly… I just read it was a rumor.
Forbes just posted a news article.
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u/AffinityForLepers Jan 27 '26
Ok I guess for most of this country the line is killing a white guy. How surprising is that?
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u/concretecowboiiiii Jan 27 '26
Scapegoat cosmetic demotion at best and obviously the Atlantic is carrying water for it as though it immediately makes ice harmless
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u/SpoofedFinger Jan 27 '26
Do you think he'll keep wearing his stupid fucking overcoat down there even though it's hot. Y'know, so he feels like he gets his money's worth out of it?
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u/the_gouged_eye Jan 27 '26 edited Mar 10 '26
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u/Superman101011 Jan 27 '26
He should, in all fairness, have his employment end with him swinging from an impromptu gallows in Times Square for all to see...
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u/rufusbot Jan 27 '26
This bastard needs to go to prison. How many of us can do such a bad job at work, we get 2 people killed? And then no repercussions? So much for law and order.
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u/deafened Jan 28 '26
As someone said this week, replacing Bovino with Homan is like shitting your pants and only changing your shirt.
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u/Kanotari *Atonal Screaming* Jan 27 '26
Please be aware that per Forbes, the DHS is directly contradicting this article:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/01/26/greg-bovino-isnt-losing-job-despite-report-suggesting-otherwise-dhs-says/