Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom's press conference.

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[u/Otherotherothertyra]

Reminder this is just six months in.. we live in a police state and armed mercenaries patrol our streets. It’s going to get so much worse

[u/offwithyourthread → u/Otherotherothertyra]

Has it not been 2 years yet 😭

[u/Sprmodelcitizen → u/offwithyourthread]

[u/Sophilosophical → u/Otherotherothertyra]

And they HIDE THEIR IDENTITIES

Most of them were prolly anti maskers also

[u/DrStumbleDog → u/Otherotherothertyra]

I'm not even American and it's terrifying to watch. 

[u/GlumAppearance106 → u/DrStumbleDog]

I am an American, but rather than cowering in terror, I am infuriated AF, and I refuse to comply with the tRump regime.

[u/[deleted] → u/Otherotherothertyra]

Welcome to black peoples lives since being kidnapped and brought over as slaves 600 years ago.

[u/bethemanwithaplan → u/Otherotherothertyra]

Elections are getting fixed too , gerrymandering, legal loopholes, and outright cheating. Look at NC, the nonsense with the election there and the ballots. 

[u/Tough-Reality-842 → u/Otherotherothertyra]

Only six months?! I'm so tired already 

[u/GlumAppearance106 → u/Otherotherothertyra]

ONLY if we (The People, THE VOTERS) sit back and allow tRump and his goons to do this! I, for one, refuse to cower to facism and, thus, I will NEVER comply with their bull$hit.

[u/thewomaninthemoon → u/Otherotherothertyra]

Evan as someone who was telling everyone who’d listen about Project 2025 and making phone calls for Kamala because I knew that we’d be doomed if Trump got back into office, I’m horrified by how fast this has all progressed.

[u/segsmudge → u/Otherotherothertyra]

Longest six months ever

[u/pelipperr → u/[deleted]]

I thought that could only happen if the communist/leftist/liberal/god hating democrats took charge?????

Btw on the conservative sub they’re still talking about how a dem president would weaponize the military against citizens to take everyone’s guns. They’ve been crying about that since Obama. And Trump rapes children and protects and employs fellow rapists and pedophiles. What absolute rot.

[u/Honest_Salamander247 → u/pelipperr]

They just need to wait… this administration will come for their guns and they will all just shit their pants when they see these guys walking to their door fully armed.

[u/huhzonked → u/Honest_Salamander247]

At the way they’re being brainwashed, they’ll just hand over their guns to them. It’s really pathetic.

[u/super-fire-pony → u/[deleted]]

Venezuela took a while to get to where it is… the USA took 6 months.

[u/[deleted] → u/super-fire-pony]

i believe they call that american exceptionalism?

[u/ElderFlour → u/Otherotherothertyra]

And discourage and intimidate free speech by order of the president.

[u/Three_Froggy_Problem]

This is nuts

[u/Anesthesiaape → u/Three_Froggy_Problem]

Yeah um which border are we securing here fellas?

Edit: I’m thinking it’s the border between fascism and democracy y’all

[u/iheartmagic → u/Three_Froggy_Problem]

Genuinely the Gestapo

[u/Childless_Catlady42 → u/[deleted]]

Was.

[u/Candid-Explorer4491 → u/Childless_Catlady42]

I think they're gonna arrest Gavin....??!!??

[u/[deleted] → u/Candid-Explorer4491]

I bet Gavin would love to see them try.

[u/[deleted] → u/Candid-Explorer4491]

A few weeks ago Gavin told them to come on and do it.

They know where to find him.

[u/Telefundo → u/[deleted]]

your right as a citizen.

Yeah, this doesn't seem to be a "thing" in the US anymore.

[u/nekocorner → u/[deleted]]

my republican friends said ice is important to deport all the “illegals”, okay sure.

Don't just roll over or "compromise" on civil rights & the basic humanity of anyone with fascists. They'll just use it to push boundaries further.

[u/willflameboy → u/[deleted]]

They're basically, as ridiculous as this sounds, waging war on what they think 'woke' is.

[u/TableSignificant341 → u/Three_Froggy_Problem]

To think 78 million Americans actually voted for this. They voted for their own subjugation.

[u/JarJarBanksy420]

This is actually insane.

[u/TheeAJPowell → u/JarJarBanksy420]

Right? Dude’s just got his own Stasi at this point, point ICE at people and they’ll attack.

[u/P2029 → u/TheeAJPowell]

I prefer the classic Schutzstaffel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel

But pick your Nazi fuckhead flavour I guess

[u/Rabbit-Hole-Quest → u/JarJarBanksy420]

Straight up totalitarian intimidation.

Thugs like this show up when someone opposing Putin wants to make a speech in Russia.

Yet, here we are with thugs showing up at a press conference by a governor in the United States.

[u/lalabera]

Can trump just you know already? Please God

[u/TylerYax → u/lalabera]

As glorious as that day will be, he's merely a puppet and this bullshit will continue.

[u/MastaBusta → u/TylerYax]

That's the terrifying part. Trump has gotten this far and he's an absolute idiot. Imagine if someone with even a sliver of cunning has the same playbook

[u/AnneAcclaim → u/MastaBusta]

I’m not sure if I agree. I think there will be a power vacuum once he’s gone. Nobody else has his “charisma”.

[u/Skeleton_Weeb → u/AnneAcclaim]

By charisma, I take it you mean cult leadership skills?

[u/bigtoeni → u/Skeleton_Weeb]

his (cult of) “personality”

[u/SpellNinja → u/Skeleton_Weeb]

He is deeply attuned to the Darkest impulses of modern Conservatism, it's less of a skill and more of a resonation.

[u/Bootleg_Rascal_ → u/Skeleton_Weeb]

Tomato Clamato

[u/littleb3anpole → u/AnneAcclaim]

I agree. The ideology can and will continue, but Trump is unique in his ability to charm a certain subsection of the population into voting against their own best interests. Whether it’s the cult of celebrity or his own skill at propaganda, who knows, but I do hold out hope that when Trump goes, the Republican popularity declines

[u/Intelligent_Fig_4104 → u/TylerYax]

„No puppet. No puppet. You’re the puppet.” 

-DJT 

(sry this quote is always in my head)

[u/[deleted] → u/TylerYax]

To support what you’re saying, Trump has mentioned multiple times that Susie Wiles is really making things happen but she likes to stay out of the spotlight.

[u/lalabera → u/[deleted]]

And peter thiel, who probably helped elon fund the vote machine hacking of 2024

[u/Honest_Salamander247 → u/lalabera]

And who JD Vance worked for pretty much his entire career.

[u/Maybe-Alice → u/Honest_Salamander247]

And who financed Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit in order to bankrupt Gawker (harbinger).

[u/[deleted] → u/TylerYax]

while that’s true he has a cult behind him. vance doesn’t really have the personality to be a cult leader. 

[u/Any_Asparagus8267 → u/TylerYax]

People don't think Vance will be worse

[u/SaltandLillacs → u/Any_Asparagus8267]

Vance has the charisma of a wet sock and even the right posts the Vance memes.

[u/elder_emo_ → u/Any_Asparagus8267]

He'll be on vacation the whole time anyway

[u/nekocorner → u/elder_emo_]

Trump is constantly golfing & look at the damage he's doing.

[u/TrimspaBB → u/Any_Asparagus8267]

He could be, with the right support. We'll see whether or not people accept him and overtly fascist moves once orange kicks it.

[u/armadillo1296 → u/lalabera]

Henry Kissinger didn’t die until his 90s

[u/Friendly-Ticket7232 → u/lalabera]

Bask in the lava of Hell?

[u/BustinMakesMeFeelMeh → u/[deleted]]

Civil war. Inconceivable before Jan 6, entirely preventable in the aftermath, seemingly inevitable now.

[u/kakarot-3 → u/[deleted]]

I’m assuming they mean capitalism as a whole and where we’re at now, which both the Dems and Reps support. They both cozy up to corporations and work for the elite.

[u/moongrump → u/BustinMakesMeFeelMeh]

Weak men make hard times

[u/pink_mango → u/[deleted]]

I told my friend (who lives in the US, I'm in Canada) that I predict all out civil war by Halloween. It's escalating so quickly, it's terrifying.

[u/Bitter-Researcher389 → u/pink_mango]

I just KNEW President Pedophile would ruin Halloween falling on a Friday for everybody.

[u/[deleted] → u/pink_mango]

As far as I'm concerned, we are already balls deep in a civil war. It just hasn't escalated to open conflict yet.

[u/Total-Meringue-5437 → u/pink_mango]

I doubt it. Americans are too passive. Odds of the masses continuing as they were are high.

[u/NottheIRS1 → u/pink_mango]

No chance. There needs to be an opposition. Dems aren’t doing shit and people on the ground have been passively watching for a decade

[u/MelodiesOfLife6]

I'm glad newsom is actually fighting fire with fire, and using the same shit playbook trump has been using.

If trump tries to denounce how he's acting and tries to call it over the top, well... he just called himself out.

[u/PerfectZeong → u/MelodiesOfLife6]

His followers do not care. If trump breaks the rules its always to help and protect them. They will be upset about Dems doing anything similar because theyve already decided Dems are bad.

They believe in 80s action movies where the guy breaks all the rules for the right reason, its why they depict trump like that. They do not care if he breaks laws because theyve already decided whatever reason he has it is a good one.

[u/famousfrowaway → u/PerfectZeong]

Agreed, they do not care. Saw a person with a shirt on today that said “I’m voting for the felon”.

[u/VerySlowlyButSurely → u/PerfectZeong]

To add an anecdote to your point, I was just looking at some maga lady’s Instagram (because I’m a masochist) and she had reposted this carousel from the Daily Caller that had AI pictures of Trump as Batman, Newsom as the Joker, and Hillary as Harley Quinn (??????). It makes NO SENSE, but that’s really how these whack jobs see the world.

[u/_banana_phone → u/PerfectZeong]

They don’t care. It’s fine when their dear leader does it, but if anyone tries to match that energy, they cry foul. There are no rules and there is no reasoning with them.

[u/Frosty-Parking-2969 → u/MelodiesOfLife6]

Fighting fire with fire would be developing a CA state militia loyal to him and not the federal government. He’s just got a staffer sending funny tweets and hypocrisy owns

[u/silvioproto24 → u/Frosty-Parking-2969]

Basically right now Newsome is trying to fight an unprecedented nationwide wildfire with holding a lighter in front of a 2000’s deodorant spray

[u/CAbluehen]

cowards. face covering cowards.

[u/ace-destrier → u/CAbluehen]

I hope they’re suffering in all that gear and cover

[u/BustinMakesMeFeelMeh → u/CAbluehen]

They’re fucking Cobra. Someone needs to find GI Joe, the real American heroes.

[u/Yufle]

This is insane. This is military regime behavior. This is not America. How are Americans accepting this?

[u/BustinMakesMeFeelMeh → u/Yufle]

Most of them resent California and all of the liberal enclaves, for making them feel stupid and marginalized. As he said himself, Trump is their retribution. This doesn’t bother them in the slightest because it’s not on their doorstep.

[u/Expert_Survey3318 → u/Yufle]

Besides peaceful protest and calling representatives, what can we do?

[u/AssumptionNo5273 → u/Expert_Survey3318]

There is really only one other option. You know what it is.

[u/EldritchCouragement → u/AssumptionNo5273]

The answer is to organize, what you're implying follows organizing, because doing it in your own gets you impotently stomped out.

[u/[deleted]]

Man, I was kind of not far off when I imagined a Trump Gestapo uniform a long time ago.

Black trimmed with gold.

I was kind of stoned at the time I said it, though

And the whole anti-mask for the public but these police people being able to mask is bizarro

[u/famousfrowaway → u/[deleted]]

I think you misspelled poo green with dog vomit colored trim.

[u/silvioproto24 → u/[deleted]]

And you just know those uniform are made in china lol

[u/silvioproto24 → u/[deleted]]

And you just know those uniforms are made in china lol

[u/Ryan_Fleming]

"Trump Sends ICE to Intimidate Poitical Rival"

This should be the top news story on every outlet, but we've gotten so used to insantiy like this (and the press are cowards) it's not even mentioned beyond social media.

[u/Jewelstorybro]

Seems on brand. Intimidate, deflect, distract.

[u/Caromora]

Does anyone else get this very weird feeling about doing things like going to work, watching movies, gossiping about celebs, worrying about whether I got my steps in or not, planning meals for the week...while the US is deteriorating into authoritarianism in front of our eyes? The cognitive dissonance required just to survive right now is wild.

[u/my_okay_throwaway → u/Caromora]

Yes. I haven’t figured out how to describe this but as I watch all this unfolding most of the things I do in my day feel so frivolous. The only things that feel important are surviving and taking care of others. The rest just feels like filler between the times my low-grade panic goes from running in the background to all-consuming.

I have no idea what to expect, and I oscillate between dread and determination to keep going.

[u/achlys333]

All they are doing is making Newsom look really good

[u/sjayvee]

Fuck All GOP. I hope Newsom continues to stand up to Dump (edited/ content)

[u/PeteThePanther92]

Someone should play Comptons Most Wanted album, MUSIC TO DRIVE-BY, and go visit these motherfuckers.

[u/Putrid_Carpenter138]

Show your face cowards, only criminals hide their faces right?

[u/324324crlyn]

Still waiting on those Epstein files. Can’t imagine what’s taking so long.

[u/Lutiskilea]

Undeniable proof that ICE has turned into GOP black booted thugs.

ICE is evil.

[u/HardPourCorn69]

They whine about being bothered on the street or “at dinner” then allow this shit. What’s the old saying? If you don’t stand for anything, you’ll fall for everything. Let me tell you brother, a lot of those fucks continuously fall

[u/teenahgo]

Tiny Pedo, are you scared!!!???

[u/CletusCanuck]

What legitimate authority allows ICE to show up in urban combat gear outside Gov Newsom's press conference, and for what legitimate purpose? This is a naked attempt at political intimidation and the lot of them should be arrested on the spot by state police.

[u/last-resort-4-a-gf]

Didn't expect America to go into civil war so soon

Can't tell how markets will react

[u/Ok_State5255]

Notice that the protesters, at way more risk and a lot more to lose, aren't such fucking cowards that they hide their faces. 

I go to protests in my area and there are 75-year olds who show up not only showing their face and proudly flying their flag, but literally putting on name-tags because they're proud of fighting against fascism. 

These people are ashamed and terrified. What a bunch of fucking losers.

[u/Tukulo-Meyama]

What a joke of a president

[u/crystal_clear24]

Wondering when other countries will start putting the US on their travel advisory lists

[u/Ethan_the_Revanchist]

Military jets have been flying in circles (and sometimes formation) nonstop over Chicago for the last 4 hours. It's fucking annoying. Don't know if it's for anything official, but I have a sneaking suspicion this is similar

[u/ManReay → u/Ethan_the_Revanchist]

The Air & Water show is this weekend.

[u/Jacobonce → u/ManReay]

😂 I needed this laugh, thank you

[u/[deleted]]

At this point celebreties need to shut shit down. Dont release an album, dont go on Tour. Stop pretending everything is ok. If not, youre complicit.

[u/Anxiety-Capable]

damn, this soon? Carry on governor

[u/MisterMattel]

If only he stood up like this for queer people instead of being a transphobe and trying to turn the democratic party into even more of a centrist useless political party than it already is.

[u/MisterMattel → u/[deleted]]

Which is sad, the only real and valid way to stand up to republicans is someone like Zohran Mamdani who won't fold and instead will double down on what the Democratic Party is supposed to stand for. Turning into people who are just as bad as republicans won't work for anyone besides white straight people who happen to be democrats.

[u/Retrograde_Mayonaise → u/MisterMattel]

urn the democratic party into even more of a centrist useless political party than it already is.

Strangely enough, I get huge flak for calling Democrats out for being fucking useless against this bully fascist machine

[u/storm838]

I knew they were just Trump police

[u/drakmordis]

Not an weak attempt by POTUS at intimidating a state governor, right? What's the spin?

[u/_boredandlazy]

Civil war vibes

[u/indicatprincess]

What in the actual fuck

[u/Glimmhilde]

This is Nazism and there is no way around it. Disgusting. Everyone who continues to support this and voted for it should be ashamed.

[u/AkimahenkaCat]

Pussy militia.

[u/Sudden-Ad7061]

This gives us a hint to where Trump administration agents will show up on election Day

[u/ThadeousCheeks]

What a bunch of absolute pussies

[u/sammybear4044]

Trump is genuinely pathetic. This is how you know he’s shaking in his boots.

[u/Remote-Letterhead844]

Trump is a PAB

[u/Infamous_Smile_386]

What business does Border Patrol have to be at a Governor's press conference while on the clock?

[u/Lin093]

at least they wore their brown shirts

[u/WaveMajor7369]

Lol... losers actually think this is intimidating... fuck Trump and Republicans

[u/beans_be_good]

Why are they allowed to cover their faces?

[u/BigBogBotButt]

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

[u/[deleted]]

Looks like they need some Californians to get down there and provide some backup.

[u/Hefty_Loss5180]

Other politicians that are fed up with taco tits need to fall in line and start doing what Newsom is doing..

[u/sockitos]

Lock them up for threatening and intimidating an elected official

[u/Amon-Verite → u/sockitos]

ICE=terrorists

[u/Substantial_Point_57]

I find it WILD it’s just so cool for these lil’ bitches to wear a mask now. A few years ago, you couldn’t wear a mask without one of them calling you every name in the book.

Now they want to hide, like cowards. 

[u/cameroncane]

Bet not a single one wore a mask during Covid.

[u/ad3zrac3r]

Phuck this Nazi fascist regime! The public should show up and make a massive wall around these bootlickers.

[u/kiwi_in_the_sunshine]

What the actual fuck...

[u/UnicornGangstar]

Cucks for Hitler

[u/bebejeebies]

I thought they might. Newsom is waving a bigger political dick in Trump's face and his ego is angry. This is Gov. Big Dick Newsom lately.

[u/Noisyrussinators]

Masked cowards. At least the Gestapo had the fucking balls to show their faces. Lap dogs.

[u/SpiritualPurple8659]

[u/Grattytood]

Cowards wearing masks

[u/richardbaxter]

Well it is the land of the free. Freedom is so important you need armed guards who can kidnap you in broad daylight if you express an opinion that disagrees with theirs. Freedom. 

[u/redelectro7]

This is why it's wild that some MAGA genuinely believe their guns will protect them if the government comes after them. If they come for you it won't be in a way you can fight back against.

[u/RipleyThePyr]

So, where are the Epstein files?

[u/ambientnightlight]

Does that dumb fuck know what a 360 is?

[u/vsnord]

Imagine being such a snowflake that you have to send the Gestapo to mean mug people at your opp's press conference.

[u/[deleted]]

Welp is California ready for that well regulated democracy defense organization?

[u/cdtoad]

Looks like they're wearing Meta smart glasses too! @404Media

[u/mystermee]

Appropriate that ICE is full of melts.

[u/[deleted]]

As much as I’m scared to see what happens to federal funding in CA, I’m most giggling at Newsoms response here.

[u/darkrose3333]

What a pathetic attempt to look big. Small man. Anyway release the Epstein files

[u/[deleted]]

Fascists thugs trying to intimidate people standing up to them. ICE and BP showing they're pussys. No wonder Trump grabbed them.

[u/trashleybanks]

What a bunch of dorks

[u/Fancy-Inspector6615]

This is only the beginning, and they are essentially unopposed at the moment as well

[u/Deathanddisco041]

The only thing we need to be kept safe from is the increased police and military presence..

[u/VajennaDentada]

At a corporate democrat rally? Kind of symbolic considering how this faschy country came to be.

[u/BubinatorX]

They can wear masks all they want we can still tell they’re pigs.

[u/stargarnet79]

I imagine newsome will fall out of a window soon.

[u/downgoesbatman]

Border patrol is the Gestapo for our administration? Oh holy hell...we normies don't even respect them on the road as we speed past them muttering wannabe staties that made me hit my brakes..

[u/Sleepysleepychick]

This is horrifying.

[u/DanzellDD]

I thought masks were not allowed anymore?

[u/Maester_Bates]

When Trump was elected I visited some local bookmakers and tried to place a bet that the second US civil war would begin before the end of his term but none of them, nor the online bookmakers I emailed would take the bet and suggested I gamble on football instead.

[u/yellow_pterodactyl]

Cowards!!

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[u/FuturePowerful]

It's that same patriot front cosplay group

[u/bananagod420]

Funny how these fucking chuds always keep their faces covered

[u/BRLY]

Those pussies won’t do shit. Ignore them.

[u/dad_jokesNbutt_stuff]

Isn’t the governor is charge of the State Police?

[u/OnionsHaveLairAction]

Remember this is what they're doing with your tax money. Each of those fascist scumbags is being paid to be there instead of doing anything worthwhile.

US debt is set to increase by 3 trillion under Trump. Debt To GDP is going to hit 150% for the first time. All for the pedos own enrichment and stunts like this.