Let me know when Greg Bovino loses his life via public execution
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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Maybe he'll crawl into a bunker and follow his leader
![@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse: They running. The nazis are on the run. And there are going to be a FUCK TON of Very Serious [People] TM telling you to chill out now because you have won. No. We did this already. We did this several times already. You hunt them down, even while they're running. DO NOT LISTEN to people who tell you it's good enough to end Bovino's career. It is not. KEEP CHASING THEM till you hit the sea - then drown them.](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/532a9342-3ca9-4b90-8c88-66b067f107f1.png)
That's the thing we really need to drive home. This specific battle was won, but the war is still on. All this proves is what the working class has already known for generations; when we fight, we win
It's when the enemy army starts to rout that you get the chance to do the most damage.
Prior to WWI, routes were the most common way people died on battlefields. It wasn't during charges into muskets and cannons. It was when one side panicked and literally got stabbed in the back as they tried to run away.
People really don't like dying and will avoid doing dangerous things that potentially get them killed. But when the panic sets in, they stop thinking and are in pure survival mode. This results in complete disorganization where an organized opponent has an opportunity to do as much damage as possible.
He didn't even get fired did he? Just demoted back to his old role where he can honorably retire for a massive pension? Really owned him
It's meant to make libs happy like the national guard giving donuts.
That's basically getting fired in politics. The government version of the golden parachute. Demote the person to some previous or otherwise far less influential role because it would be too damaging to the political brand or government to outright get rid of them. That's why Mike Waltz is in the UN after the signalgate leaks with regards to US military operations in Yemen. It's how institutions counter the Peter principle. Corporate with the golden parachute type deals, government with these demotions.
So, they took ten steps forward. Now they're gonna scapegoat him, take two steps back, and Libs are gonna celebrate?
Honestly, probably because everyone's roasting him because he’s short, and Trump hates that
I was honestly thinking that. Trump loves 
because he is tall and has aura. Bovino literally assembled a personal guard of five foot three soldiers to make himself look taller, and Trump probably hates the optics of that.
They're likely replacing him with White House Border Tsar Tom Homan, who argued way back when he was helping Obama deport 3 million people, that children and parents should be separated as a deterrent. Won a medal for that shit. When he worked for Trump he got to start making that happen.
Helped write Project 2025 and hangs out with Proud Boys.
They're replacing Bovino with somebody worse, at least until they can find an actual werewolf to take over, so Homan can return to his job in the White House of watching ICE blooper reels with Vance, Noem, Hegseth and Rubio, laughing heinously at CCTV videos taken inside child concentration camps
Tom Homan
Hello fellow Homans 
Homan is taking over operations in Minneapolis. This feels like an escalation, no?
Yea that's how I see it, they probably think Bovino is too "gay and woke" to do proper fascist things or something
Homan is probably more of a career bureaucrat, so he's probably there to enforce stronger discipline among the agents while still carrying out the core missions, make the agency's operations more efficient, and move through this current political crisis. Its possible, even likely, that Homan had criticisms of the way the agency was being run by Bovino, because the shock doctrine being employed by the admin is backfiring. Moderate conservatives have been on an anti-trump trajectory, its in the air if not already settled in to a lot of people. The murders in Minneapolis has shocked even more of these people who make up a significant chunk of Trump's base.
There's always two sides. This version of ICE under Trump is a way to create the one crucial element that the fascist right has been lacking: the friekorps (in the 20th century context). In Europe there were all these soldiers who were traumatized during WW1. As fascism began to ascend from the mid 20s - early 30s, there was a nascent army upon which could be built an oppressive force for the ambitions of the Nazi party. In the USA we didn't have much of this, little rural militias are prevalent but not enough to seize power. So ICE is a way to train people to be fascists in more than just ideology, it trains people to fight, organizational discipline, and let's the admin work out the kinks. To a large extent, they want these ICE soldiers clashing with resistance, in order to train them. They'll catch enough of the proud boys and militia guys anyway, dont have to deal with a thousand little armed fiefdoms.
The other side is that it trains us as well. And no matter what, theres going to be more of us. So there's a balance to be struck. Carry out the mission, but dont accidentally create an effective counter force. I think there is an understanding among some more strategic minds, that resistance could be much more organized than we are, and the reasons we aren't more organized are ideological. They can't give too many people a practical impetus to organize collectively, so they're sending the bureaucrat. Bureaucracy hides injustice behind laws, and cruelty behind orders.
They need to scale back the appearance of mayhem without scaling back the mayhem itself. At least thats what I think is going on.
Oooof in this job market.
I can think of one country he wouldn’t have trouble finding work in
Definitely not even close to solving the problem, but I think it is important to recognize that this is a victory.
He fired him because of that photo with him walking between several much taller men.
We're saved! Now ice will no longer be rounding people up because we ~~caught~~ fired the one guy making everything fash
Boil him
I know this is a Brace bit, but why are they all named like that?
if his name was "swine" it would be too on the nose
Greg Porcino
Gregoroink "Sus" Prosciutto
Greg bovine gets replaced by Tom human
People's victory, many more to come
Trump did take away his posting privileges which is a really funny thing to do.
Noem at risk too. Trump's systems moving to separate him and his team from the policies and people they created.