Over the past week, it feels like the United States has been in a pressure cooker. Things were already bad before, but the murder of Renee Good has crystallized widespread disgust of ICE as Americans – including many Trump voters – conclude that being shot to death by unaccountable masked thugs probably isn’t what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
Though the Trump administration is currently playing it cool, they must be privately concerned about this growing and widespread resentment of ICE, whose agents are now heckled, mocked, and insulted wherever they go.
That’s probably why ICE “commander” Greg Bovino appeared on Fox News to explain that anyone protesting them is actually a poor lost little lamb who’s had their brain warped by those mean and sinister politicians (and apparently also social media influencers):
Bovino says "rhetoric does cause violence" and characterizes protesters as "almost like cannon fodder" pic.twitter.com/0HGXBe1hxR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 13, 2026
“That rhetoric does cause the violence. We’ve heard those elected representatives say some very terrible things about law enforcement, about federal agents, and that’s reflected in what you see by that vocal minority out on the streets. And they actually take what those elected representatives say, and they put it into action. And that’s too bad, because they’re being set up. They’re almost like cannon fodder.”
They’re forcing us to shoot them!
Bovino went on to clarify that he’s fully prepared for these protesters to be gunned down in the streets by ICE, but argues that those pulling the triggers won’t have blood on their hands. You see, the people who warped their minds and convinced them to protest are the real villains:
“Those elected representatives, and those so-called “community leaders” and social media influencers – they don’t care if these individuals get hurt or killed, they’re after a reaction.”
It goes without saying that this is classic projection, as Bovino is essentially describing the MAGA playbook for manipulating their vast army of red-capped morons. Even so, it’s.. let’s go with “concerning”, that Bovino is so blase when he posits an impending massacre of unarmed protesters at the hands of the state.
But hey, at least when that happens we now know in advance that the official line will be that the dead and maimed were all hardened domestic terrorists marched to the deaths by sinister liberal politicians. Heck, if those darn Democrats have blood on their hands, maybe they should be in the camps too?
Published: Jan 13, 2026 07:30 am