Wait! Armed IRS Agents now? Wasn’t this what MAGA was losing their minds over a few years back?!?
theombudsmen on
Sweet, we’ll get to factionalize when the shit goes down. How do I enlist for the National Park Service Militia?
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he_trumped_us on
They must have realized how many of us are pissed off and arming to the teeth.
Jealous_Slice9371 on
Iran has convinced me, I need my own nuclear program.
GorgeousStrangeer on
People read a headline like this and immediately envision IRS tax auditors showing up at their house in full tactical gear to do a standard audit. That’s simply not reality. These agencies have long-standing Criminal Investigation Divisions (CIDs). The IRS-CID, for example, is the branch that goes after violent cartels, international money laundering syndicates, and corporate fraud rings. They are federal law enforcement officers who execute high-risk search warrants alongside the FBI. They buy firearms for the exact same reason the Secret Service does, their field agents face actual physical danger.
Tony2030 on
“We’ll protect the environment..over your fucking dead body.” -The EPA
KimmyT1436 on
Trump’s is, or at least the billionaires who enable him are, preparing for a Democratic dominated Congress actually impeaching Trump and voting to remove him from power. Or for Trump losing the 2028 election. Or even for protests that are large and angry enough to threaten Trump’s rule. Trump and the billionaires who enable him are not going to give up power peacefully. They are going to try to cling to power for as long as they can.
That’s why ICE and the National Guard have been sent into blue cities. They are trying to normalize the sight of heavily armed troops patrolling American streets. That’s why Trump is so determined to build his ballroom slash fortified bunker. So that he has a place he feels safe if things don’t go as planned. That’s why they are arming federal agencies who have never needed to be armed before. Because they need an army willing to slaughter their fellow Americans when things inevitably get violent.
Trump and the billionaires who enable him are planning a second January 6th. And this time they intend to get as violent as they need to be in order to stay in power.
charcoalist on
It’s so they can be deputized by ICE and DHS, as trump has been rehearsing over the past year. Remember those awful scenes of federal agents terrorizing democratic cities? It was an amalgam of federal agencies, not just ICE.
trump is at war with the US and he’s raising an army to suppress dissent.
shoobe01 on
This was shared on Fox just a year ago. We must disarm the IRS!
The modern confederacy is in charge of the federal government and are stockpiling weapons while their criminal leaders are trying to pay reparations to a bunch of traitorous insurgents that attempted to overthrow the government.
ANTILAMER13 on
I want to know why this article has 16 active trackers
morally_bankrupt80 on
Just wait until they find out how many the proletariat have been stockpiling
Correct-Avocado5426 on
I hope Sig Sauer sells them all P320s
Real-Document-6577 on
And Trump is organizing the funds to pay them off
streetdrunx on
Reddit mods where are you they’re threatening violence.
etxipcli on
“We’re the government now”
Single-Road-3158 on
Everyone is worried about a coup and probably rightfully so. The question I have is what kind of grift is this? Are they severely overpaying for tear gas? How many manufacturers are involved? From whom did Homan take bribes and is he mysteriously at the center of all this?
The360MlgNoscoper on
Do as they do, not as they say
dadashton on
They are preparing for the election. They will swamp polling places with armed officers.
If the GOP lose as big as the polls suggest then there will be a coup; i.e. Civil War 2.
MillennialFalcon1620 on
How can the IRS even afford it what with anti-tax Republicans running the country?
kzcleve on
Probably just more grift. Easy way to help line your NRA affiliated company buddies pockets.
Klepdar on
Wtf. This administration needs to all go to prison indefinitely.
It’s clear what is coming. “Kill the libs” will be the order.
Expensive-Mention-90 on
“De La Hoz observed the scope of the blob firsthand when he was covering an immigration raid and saw a federal agent wearing a vest that read IRS-CI—short for the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation division. U.S. marshals, Bureau of Prisons officers, and agents employed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives also have been spotted working with ICE. De La Hoz described “a catchall national police force operating at the direction of the White House itself, used for diffuse political goals like immigration enforcement, speech crackdowns, and occupying politically oppositional cities.”
In truth, obscure law enforcement components of federal departments have been quietly arming themselves for years. Often those developments come to public attention only when someone wonders when those guys got machine guns.
In 2013, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agents wearing body armor and toting rifles raided a gold mining operation in Alaska to investigate potential Clean Water Act violations. The raid outraged Republicans.
“In a classic case of federal government power creep, close to 200 armed EPA agents are roaming our country,” Sen. Dan Sullivan (R–Alaska) said in response to the incident. “It is a disturbing fact.” Sullivan introduced legislation to strip the EPA of its weapons, but the bill never passed.
To his credit, Sullivan has been more skeptical of ICE enforcement than most of his Republican colleagues. But if an armed EPA agent is disturbing, surely an armed IRS agent roaming the streets should send shivers down the spine of any freedom-loving American. Like its horror movie namesake, the federal police blob should be frozen and chopped to pieces.”
DontPaniC562 on
Yeah it’s very noticable when you see things like this going through shippers like Fedex or UPS so this doesn’t surprise me.
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Trump is also arming himself.
Coup incoming.
Wait! Armed IRS Agents now? Wasn’t this what MAGA was losing their minds over a few years back?!?
Sweet, we’ll get to factionalize when the shit goes down. How do I enlist for the National Park Service Militia?
[deleted]
They must have realized how many of us are pissed off and arming to the teeth.
Iran has convinced me, I need my own nuclear program.
People read a headline like this and immediately envision IRS tax auditors showing up at their house in full tactical gear to do a standard audit. That’s simply not reality. These agencies have long-standing Criminal Investigation Divisions (CIDs). The IRS-CID, for example, is the branch that goes after violent cartels, international money laundering syndicates, and corporate fraud rings. They are federal law enforcement officers who execute high-risk search warrants alongside the FBI. They buy firearms for the exact same reason the Secret Service does, their field agents face actual physical danger.
“We’ll protect the environment..over your fucking dead body.” -The EPA
Trump’s is, or at least the billionaires who enable him are, preparing for a Democratic dominated Congress actually impeaching Trump and voting to remove him from power. Or for Trump losing the 2028 election. Or even for protests that are large and angry enough to threaten Trump’s rule. Trump and the billionaires who enable him are not going to give up power peacefully. They are going to try to cling to power for as long as they can.
That’s why ICE and the National Guard have been sent into blue cities. They are trying to normalize the sight of heavily armed troops patrolling American streets. That’s why Trump is so determined to build his ballroom slash fortified bunker. So that he has a place he feels safe if things don’t go as planned. That’s why they are arming federal agencies who have never needed to be armed before. Because they need an army willing to slaughter their fellow Americans when things inevitably get violent.
Trump and the billionaires who enable him are planning a second January 6th. And this time they intend to get as violent as they need to be in order to stay in power.
It’s so they can be deputized by ICE and DHS, as trump has been rehearsing over the past year. Remember those awful scenes of federal agents terrorizing democratic cities? It was an amalgam of federal agencies, not just ICE.
trump is at war with the US and he’s raising an army to suppress dissent.
This was shared on Fox just a year ago. We must disarm the IRS!
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The modern confederacy is in charge of the federal government and are stockpiling weapons while their criminal leaders are trying to pay reparations to a bunch of traitorous insurgents that attempted to overthrow the government.
I want to know why this article has 16 active trackers
Just wait until they find out how many the proletariat have been stockpiling
I hope Sig Sauer sells them all P320s
And Trump is organizing the funds to pay them off
Reddit mods where are you they’re threatening violence.
“We’re the government now”
Everyone is worried about a coup and probably rightfully so. The question I have is what kind of grift is this? Are they severely overpaying for tear gas? How many manufacturers are involved? From whom did Homan take bribes and is he mysteriously at the center of all this?
Do as they do, not as they say
They are preparing for the election. They will swamp polling places with armed officers.
If the GOP lose as big as the polls suggest then there will be a coup; i.e. Civil War 2.
How can the IRS even afford it what with anti-tax Republicans running the country?
Probably just more grift. Easy way to help line your NRA affiliated company buddies pockets.
Wtf. This administration needs to all go to prison indefinitely.
Gilead anyone?
Can’t wait for the TSA screeners with guns.
Wow! It’s 2013 all over again. [https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna51718157](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna51718157)
It’s clear what is coming. “Kill the libs” will be the order.
“De La Hoz observed the scope of the blob firsthand when he was covering an immigration raid and saw a federal agent wearing a vest that read IRS-CI—short for the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation division. U.S. marshals, Bureau of Prisons officers, and agents employed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives also have been spotted working with ICE. De La Hoz described “a catchall national police force operating at the direction of the White House itself, used for diffuse political goals like immigration enforcement, speech crackdowns, and occupying politically oppositional cities.”
In truth, obscure law enforcement components of federal departments have been quietly arming themselves for years. Often those developments come to public attention only when someone wonders when those guys got machine guns.
In 2013, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agents wearing body armor and toting rifles raided a gold mining operation in Alaska to investigate potential Clean Water Act violations. The raid outraged Republicans.
“In a classic case of federal government power creep, close to 200 armed EPA agents are roaming our country,” Sen. Dan Sullivan (R–Alaska) said in response to the incident. “It is a disturbing fact.” Sullivan introduced legislation to strip the EPA of its weapons, but the bill never passed.
To his credit, Sullivan has been more skeptical of ICE enforcement than most of his Republican colleagues. But if an armed EPA agent is disturbing, surely an armed IRS agent roaming the streets should send shivers down the spine of any freedom-loving American. Like its horror movie namesake, the federal police blob should be frozen and chopped to pieces.”
Yeah it’s very noticable when you see things like this going through shippers like Fedex or UPS so this doesn’t surprise me.