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“Everything I’ve done, I’ve done at the direction of the president and Stephen,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told one source who relayed her comments to Axios.

Kristi Noem said that slain ICU nurse Alex Pretti wanted to “inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement.” Carlos Gonzalez/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images

Pretti, 37, was legally carrying a handgun when he was tackled by multiple federal agents, but video shows he did not brandish the weapon. Agents can be seen on video disarming Pretti before firing numerous shots into him while he was on the ground, killing him.

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    Man they’re really going for Nazi 2.0 with “I was just following orders” and all

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      Speedrunning the Third Reich, the Confederacy, and the Nixon Administration all at once.

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          And nearing The Day After Tomorrow combined with Children of Men.

          28 days later not far off.

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            This country is possibly the worst position it could be in if we were to have a zombie outbreak. RFK would probably promote zombie parties to get your kids exposed to the zombie virus

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              Taxoplasmosis. A brain parasite, it affects the fear center. As much as 30 percent could have it, explains a lot. That is where they spread it.

              Rats, mice that get it lose their fear of cats. All mammals can get it though.

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            Ooooh!!! Ooooh!!! And Married with Children!!!

            but AAAAAAALLLLLLLLL!!!

            Aw c’mon, Peg!

            …did I do it? Did I make a refefence correctly???

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              . . . *taps fingers on desk* . . . I’ll allow it.

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          Honestly, I kind of hope so. It didn’t go well for the emperors or politicos or the nobility, but the average lower-class person’s life substantively improved when Rome fell.

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          We are not in 400 ad, we are in the 1st bc. In the time of Sulla, a generation before caesar, in the agrarian revolt and civil wars and him becoming dictator for life, 10 years, and killing and stealing the assets of his rich pals that supported him because they feared moderate reforms under the populares. This is increased oligarchic repression in a terminally sick republic.

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          Yeah, but it takes real racism to put them all back together!