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It is not foolish if you consider they are looking for their Reichstag fire.

> They are essentially signaling that you are a trapped rat with no way out.

It makes sense if making you feel like a trapped rat is the goal.

That’s true if you want to keep the peace. The way to read their actions is that they’re trying to incite violence.

If Trump can incite violence then he can invoke the insurrection act, or perhaps declare some form of martial law to seize more power. Perhaps even parlay this into cancelling the midterm elections.

Or simply that the current ICE and Border Patrol agents are too poorly trained to act as law enforcement.

Which, given the statistic that a decent percentage of ICE applicants can't get a passing score on an open book test [0] doesn't surprise me.

[0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ice-is-reportedly-hiring-p...