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Janie Soito's avatar

He was met at the entrance by an FBI agent who escorted him during the entire visit. How the hell could they not know who he was????

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Marla Stewart's avatar

Tim, unsure you will see this? May get buried in the many responses here. But when Trump announced going after ‘Dem’ cities, this incident came to mind: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/protest-confusion-panic-unusual-ice-screening/281-1a080acb-52a7-4685-9f8d-d17c9732f554

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Robert J Danolfo's avatar

Where are those low life, crawling little worms called Republican Senators. They are a disgrace to our country. They are like the Pharisees, all clean and white without and inside filled with dead man's bones and all corruption.

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Jane Stevenson's avatar

Sen. Padilla is a class act. If it had been me, I know I would have let loose with a string of F-bombs. I simply have no words for how outraged I am.

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Bill Webb's avatar

They keep escalating things. As a US Senator he has a right to be in any federal building or facility as part of oversight. He also has a right to ask questions at a press conference held by a public official. As soon as he claimed to be a US senator the Secret Service or whoever was trying to eject him for asking a question should have stopped and asked him for ID (assuming they didn't recognize him). They ignored what he was saying and kicked him out of the room and handcuffed him with force and even tried to stop his staff from recording it. If they were just her staff and not law officers they should be charged with assault, though with this DoJ that won't happen. It may have to be charged by California instead.

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Chris Lindstrom's avatar

The frightening thing about the “security@ team is they don’t care who you are. They are robotically simple going to do what they are programmed to do and can’t stop themselves.

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Robert J Danolfo's avatar

As much as I despise il duce, you would think that with his history of never taking blame and attacking anything or anyone that makes him look bad, he would have fired botox brain Noem already.

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GA Westover's avatar

Arrest on state charges any person who touched him. We know who they are. They need go be arrested. Preferably Puppy Killing no talent trumpbo Barbi as well.

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Jeffrey Gaines's avatar

Welcome to Trump’s Fourth Reich.

And it will only get worse.

Til he and all his violent Brownshirts, including Kristi Noem (who proudly shot her defenseless dog in the head, bc it was too rambunctious) are gone from power.

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Kelly Hughes's avatar

I had to look up Padilla’s height. He’s 6’3” It looks like they sent the lollipop guild after him.

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Kathleen Iverson's avatar

That made me just laugh out loud - but the situation was serious and completely gross and horrific!!!!!

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BC's avatar

The most important thing any of us can do now is SHOW UP! These protests are not for trump. He won't change. They are reminders to our elected representatives that we have power and agency and that we will mobilize against them and run them out of office. Don't be a "Susan Collins" and express your concern while watching our democracy wither away. Be an Alex Padilla and FUCKING SHOW UP!!

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Catherine Carroll's avatar

A friend told me about this yesterday evening. I just signed off the front page of the NYT. NOTHING there! I read every headline. Granted there was a lot of bad news overnight, so maybe cut NYT a break. Thanks guys for bringing this so clearly to our emails which I just signed into. You are invaluable.

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Monica in SoCal's avatar

Spokestwit channeling Cartman—"Respect mah AUTHORITAH!!!"

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CatChex's avatar

So I’m not the only one waiting for Parker and Stone to create a cast of WH characters?

Can totally see the Karoline creation - and now I probably won’t hear her (I avoid listening to her, tbh) without hearing Cartman.

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Laura T's avatar

This video and Sam and Tim's reactions were a big wake-up call for me. I saw this story and honestly rolled my eyes in a sounds like Trump and Trump's people kind of thing. This administration is normalizing authoritarian government. My only defense is that I can only get so outraged and upset every time something like this happens. But thank you for the reminder that this is not fucking normal.

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Jan's avatar

Noem has too much fill and Botox for her brain to work.

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Jan's avatar

What, Sam Stein, you aren’t supporting a sitting Senator?

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