Tom Homan Again Promises That ICE Will Keep Murdering People Until Democrats Stop Calling Them Murderers
from the dysfunctional-government dept
Earlier this year “Border Czar” Tom Homan, with an apparently straight face, told the media that if Democrats didn’t stop calling ICE murderers for the murders they committed, then they would have no choice but to murder more people. A few weeks later, when ICE did murder another person, he doubled down and blamed people for calling ICE murderers for the additional murder. So it’s little surprise that he’s at it again. He’s taking the fact that ICE has been on something of a killing spree over the last few weeks as… vindication for the batshit crazy statement he made earlier about how calling ICE murderers makes them only more likely to murder.
This is classic psychopathic abuser language. “Baby look what you made me do.”
It should never be coming out of the mouth of a government official. It’s horrifying and disqualifying. No, calling ICE murderers for the murders they committed should have zero impact on future murders, and if (accurately) calling ICE murderers leads them to murder more people, then what the fuck are we doing here? Shut down ICE. Fire everyone associated with them, including Tom Homan.
Of course, Homan wasn’t just blaming people for calling murderers murderers. He also wanted to blame the people they murdered for not “complying.”
Once again, saying shit like that should lead to an immediate firing and possibly an investigation. First of all, it’s clear from the videos released after some of the recent ICE shootings that it had nothing to do with people not complying, and appeared to be almost entirely about raging ICE agents who had no interest in de-escalating situations and seemed to be looking to cause harm.
But, more to the point, not complying with a law enforcement demand (especially a ridiculous one) should not result in your execution.
Tom Homan has been credibly accused of accepting $50,000 in a fast food bag to try to curry favor with President Trump. Does Tom Homan think it would have been okay for law enforcement to shoot Tom Homan dead in a Cava restaurant, claiming that he was clearly violating the law in accepting a bribe? Or does he only accept due process when it comes to himself and his friends?
And just as bad, Tom Homan, like so many MAGA leaders, absolutely positively refuses to take any responsibility at all for his own mistakes. First he claims that the mess in Minnesota he inherited didn’t involve any mistakes at all.
Of course it’s funny because in that clip he suggests that he was the one who refused to buy ICE body cams because of the government shutdown (which is a lie; ICE received a ton of money in the earlier budget bill, and Homan knows this. ICE can afford body cameras). But then a couple minutes later, when a reporter asks about the now-revealed anger issues and mental health problems of one of the ICE murderers from last week, suddenly Homan deflects and says to talk to someone at ICE instead.
Dude. Weren’t you just talking about how you were in charge of properly outfitting ICE.
It’s truly astounding how this MAGA administration appears to be fundamentally allergic to ever taking responsibility for anything. This seems like an impossibly short-term strategy. Or simply the product of a government run by people who are in way, way over their heads, but too vain to admit it.
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Comments on “Tom Homan Again Promises That ICE Will Keep Murdering People Until Democrats Stop Calling Them Murderers”
Land of the free. OBEY OR DIE!
If we stop calling them murderers, they’ll still keep murdering. They just want us to stop noticing.
‘Now look what you made me do to you!’ has long been America’s catchphrase on the international stage, now cis white American citizens are no longer spared.
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Naked abuser logic. I’ve long held that conservatism is little more than an institutionalized cycle of abuse. They only prove my point every time they talk or do something.
It’s truly astounding how this TRUMP administration appears to be fundamentally allergic to ever taking responsibility for anything.
Tom Homan
Your last paragraph sums it up perfectly.
Just the normal maga creed then. Got it. LCSM+, I guess.
Lie. Cheat. Steal. Murder. The plus is just a cheatcode for burn it all down via whatever means necessary.
Here’s another – ICRI
Impeach, Convict, Remove, Imprison
I especially love his implication that burying an ICE agent would be worse than ICE constantly murdering civilians. ACAB, but there are bastards and then there are bastards…
No responsibility is the new masculinity
It’s truly astounding how this MAGA administration appears to be fundamentally allergic to ever taking responsibility for anything.
Trump is leading by example from the top down. There are countless examples of him refusing to take responsibility for the consequences (we all suffer) for his unilateral decisions.
I hypothesize this is the new masculinity, with examples like Josh Hokit disparaging Michelle Obama at the UFC fight at the White House, or Trump intervening with FIFA regarding the red card and one-game suspension of Folarin Balogun.
Similar to conspicuous consumption of the gilded age, the arbitrary and capricious discharge of strength, the open abuse of power is intended to demonstrate a man is beyond the reach of consequences, or does not care what consequences occur.
I suspect (but do not know) that self-ascribed guardians of masculinity such as Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, Mat Walsh and Bill O’Reilly would at least see this as the natural progression of the expression of manhood they have asserted for the last decade.
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Joe Rogan would say things somehow got really bad, but no one could have predicted it, and he had no idea it could end this way.
If innocent lives were not at risk...
…this would be one of the more inept versions of “mistakes were made” passive-voice deflection.
“The beatings will continue because they improve morale”
I look forward to everyone saying this was all just a hiccup in the country’s history and everyone really just overreacted to it like they did Iraq Pt 2 and everything else after that.
Re: Some might say that, but they'd be wrong.
I look forward to everyone saying this was all just a hiccup in the country’s history and everyone really just overreacted to it.
There is a lot of wishful thinking that this is somehow not as bad as the German Reich even though we’re seeing a lot of the same events that run when the ultra-wealthy sponsor a tin-pot dictator to rule with an iron fist.
There are some differences. For one, we have better information distribution, which goes both ways. When ICE shoots someone, or when a hospital gets bombed in Palestine, video of it hits the internet in minutes and is distributed worldwide in hours. (I suspect the motivation behind the wave of age-verification is partly to discourage or at least track who is watching this kind of content.)
But then right-wing propaganda has been honed to effectively manipulate the general population. The combination of fear, hatred, culture-war ideology and red-pill conspiracy theories that is offered by FOX News encourages viewers to silo themselves so they only get their information from FOX and reject conflicting content from other sources. We’ve seen how this formula has informed the President, US Senators and Supreme Court Justices in their policymaking, how FOX News opinion is regurgitated verbatim in the words and arguments of elected officials.
Then there’s the problem that the ultra-wealthy are really rich. The top three hundred-ish wealthiest persons have a larger share of the global wealth than ever before in history. (One estimate is four times that of the gilded age), and they seem determined to do anything necessary to continue to accumulate more. Once they’re done wrecking the United States, they’ll still have the means capture and exploit the rest of the industrialized world. Europe has been softened by decades of neoliberalism and is already seeing far-right movements get purchase. The UK is where we were in 2015, one charismatic strongman away from putting on a Reich all its own.
At this point, the US recovering from this as just a hiccup is a remote possibility, but if it were to happen, the culture and policy in the States would have to fundamentally change. Something far more than the New Deal or the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And even if the Democratic party were to, by a stroke of luck, seize power in 2028 (despite all the election tampering and the churning propaganda machine), the establishment Democratic party is too captured by business interests and is too far right wing, and will be content to wait for the wealth-sponsored Republican juggernaut to rally and take over again.
I’d love to be proven wrong, though, and there are some historians and history buffs online who think the people of the US will rise to the occasion after all before the water runs out. For now, though, things look bleak.
So if we start calling the GOP “Warriors for Democracy” they start defending the Constitution to the max? (I’m… dubious.)
That explains it..
It’s pretty obvious we’ve been calling them Nazis.
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Godwin himself stated directly “comparing the tRump regime to the Nazis is appropriate”. The current ICE is just the start of this regimes Schutzstaffel, wait until they really get going.
'Why did you MAKE me do this?!' -The motto of abusers throughout history
No different than an abusive husband who defends his actions as they relate to his bloody and battered wife by claiming that the people calling him abusive made him act that way and the wife had it coming in any case for not doing what she was told.