ICE & DHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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We have to dive straight in with our main story this week, which concerns what's been happening in Minnesota, from the surge in immigration raids, to the killings of Rene Good and Alex Preti, to the massive protests in the streets. And to be clear, for all this administration's talk

of paid agitators, the protests there came from justifiably furious locals, like this almost absurdly Midwestern man.

You know what really pisses me off? Is the fact that they detain people, cuff them, and then still beat the shit out of them. They tell you it's immigrants, only immigrants, it's fucking anybody. I have friends that got detained and all they were doing

was fucking driving home from work.

What the fuck?

Sounds like you don't fit the definition of the...

I'm not fucking paid to be here like everybody fucking says. What the fuck is that? I gotta work in the goddamn morning, just like everybody else. I'm just here trying to stand up for community, dude.

We're all human beings here. I don't give a shit who you are, where you came from, what color you are.

It doesn't fucking matter. This is wrong. Yeah, and you know you are acting like a bunch of dicks when you're provoking that level of response in Minnesota. A state whose whole thing is being Minnesota nice. They put it on merch. Other states couldn't pull that off, especially because Florida nice sounds like a brand of pills

you buy from the gas station that makes your heart explode. And I will say, this does seem like a turning point for this administration on immigration. Polls show the majority of Americans do not approve of what's been happening, and nor should they. Because for all Trump's talk of targeting

the worst of the worst, that rings pretty hollow when you see agents doing things like dragging a U.S. citizen out of his house in his underwear through the snow, and taking a five-year-old into custody. It is frankly no wonder anti-ICE sentiment has spread to places you might not even expect.

From Pop Tarts the cat, who posted video with -"Fuck ICE!" on it. --LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE To the subreddit Massive Cock, where users captioned dick pics with things like, -"How hard I get when I think about abolishing ICE, to an AEW match in Vegas earlier this month where this happened.

Now the face and the eyes of the champion.

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Excellent.

Well done to everyone involved there, from the crowd getting their point across in the perfect way, to MJF going full Jim from the Office into the camera. The point is, to the extent they ever had it, Ice and Border Patrol have clearly lost the public's trust,

and it frankly hasn't helped to see grotesque clips like this one at Mar-a-Lago on New Year's Eve of Christy Nome dancing with Stephen Miller.

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Look, there is so much weird stuff going on in that clip that you probably didn't even notice the Ninja Turtle dancing with vanilla rice on stage there. Here is a better angle of Michelangelo being photographed at the exact moment he seems to realize just how many people in that room

were mentioned in the Epstein fires. I must say, there have been some promising developments this week. Democratic leaders seem to have finally read the public's anger and are currently holding up funds for DHS as a whole as they push for new restrictions on immigration agents. And on Thursday, this happened.

Tonight, Borders are Tom Homan, says the massive immigration operation that's been going on for months in Minnesota, Operation Metro Surge, is coming to an end.

We've had great success with this operation,

There were some issues here, and we addressed those issues.

But I'm not gonna sit here and say anybody did anything wrong. and say anything because you're a standing man.

that takes place in Minnesota if it indeed happens.

But even if every agent leaves town, much larger problems are going to remain, both there and on the national level, because we are going to continue to see this administration obsessively pursue Stephen Miller's stated goal of racking up 3,000 arrests a day. So given that, we thought for our first show of the year,

it might be worth pulling back a bit and talking not just about Minneapolis, or even just ICE, but about the massive agency it's a part of, the Department of Homeland Security. Because as you're about to see, a discussion about it, its funding, and the sweeping powers that we've given it,

is long overdue. So tonight, let's look at DHS. And let's start with its origins, because while you might assume DHS is a long-standing part of American government, it's just 23 years old. It was founded as a response to 9-11, and if you are too young to remember 9-11,

and I will pause long enough for the rest of us to experience the psychic gut punch of that sentence. Very basically, in the immediate aftermath of the most devastating terrorist attack in its history, America started screaming and didn't really stop for a decade. And while thankfully, the Riyadh Comedy Festival has since healed the world through comedy,

and we don't need to be worried about who or what was actually responsible for 9-11. At the time, a major concern was that prior to the attacks, there'd be a lack of communication and information sharing between federal agencies. So, the Bush administration agreed to combine a bunch of them

under a single banner to improve coordination. But even back then, some felt that that was a bad idea to the point that it was openly discussed in news coverage.

What do Secret Service agents have in common with animal disease researchers? Nothing. Except that in three months, both will be working for the new Homeland Security Department. An organizational chart they could give a management expert nightmares.

22 agencies, 170,000 workers. The third largest department in the government.

Okay, first, it is a little weird to introduce a government agency like it's a new sitcom. What happens when an uptight TSA agent and a laid-back FEMA official have to move in together? Find out in Homeland Security Thursdays on TBS. But the larger point there,

that this thing had been hastily cobbled together very much holds, because all of a sudden, DHS contained everything from the Secret Service to the Coast Guard to FEMA and TSA. But for everything that went in, some key counter-terrorism agencies were left out,

because DHS had to operate without the investigative, intelligence and military powers of the FBI, CIA, and the Pentagon. But don't worry, because remember, they had those pig researchers, so they were pretty much set. Now, as a result, DHS tried to justify its existence

in a number of different ways, including by explicitly linking immigration enforcement with countering terrorism. In fact, it was during the creation of DHS that parts of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and U.S. Customs Service were combined to form Customs and Border Protection

and ICE, the two agencies that we know and are being terrorized by today. But oversight of all of this was a total nightmare as the members of Congress that oversaw all of those agencies didn't want to give up control. So, DHS found itself answering to around 100 committees and subcommittees,

which, as the chair of the 9-11 Commission explained, caused chaos.

Think of having 100 bosses. Think of reporting up this way and that way, trying to do your job, and yet you're reporting to 100 people. It's crazy, because it makes no sense. And you could not do your job under those circumstances.

Yeah, that does make sense. Having an endless cavalcade of rapidly changing bosses would clearly be a distraction. Though I've got to say, you do eventually get used to it. I don't even know which of these companies is going to be my new business daddy yet. It's like a Mamma Mia situation,

except less fun and way less sexy. But incidentally, if it is indeed Netflix, sorry for all the times I called your catalog a who's who of the fuck is this. Love the ending of Stranger Things, by the way, very brown.

And good luck with Detective Hole. It sounds great. Now, complaints about the unwieldy nature of DHS persisted over the years, and yet despite that, money kept flowing into it, even as it became known for things like its mass surveillance programs,

particularly of American Muslims, and its widely mocked color-coded terrorism threat charts, which never dropped below yellow. It also became notorious for its willingness to distribute billions of dollars to state and local authorities.

In fact, on the ten-year anniversary of 9-11, one California news station compiled just some of what that money had been wasted on.

Marin County received more than $100,000 in surveillance equipment to protect its water treatment system from terrorist attack. Four years after the money was handed out, state authorities found $67,000 worth of gear still in boxes. It had never been used.

Several counties and cities bought Segway scooters for their bomb squads. Each one cost $4,700.

Okay, first, I'm not sure anything says we have too much money more than buying a fucking Segway. And second, that is just an unfathomably dorky look. It doesn't scream brave bomb defuser as much as it does beekeeper mall cop. And with expenditures like that, it's no wonder

that a 2015 report from a Republican senator found that despite spending over half a trillion and does beekeeper mall cop. And with expenditures like that, it's no wonder that a 2015 report from a Republican senator found that despite spending over half a trillion dollars, DHS was not successfully executing any of its five main missions, and its primary counterterrorism programs

were yielding little value. But because no one in power back then wanted to break apart something that had homeland security in its name, DHS remained the largest federal law enforcement agency with massive funding, sweeping surveillance authority, and worryingly unclear checks on its own power.

It was essentially a loaded weapon sitting on a president's desk in the Oval Office, only held back by their personal sense of temperance and restraint. All of which brings us back to this fucking guy. Because in his first term,

Trump and this sleep paralysis demon used DHS to push everything from his Muslim ban to family separation to his efforts to end DACA. But from the very start of Trump's second term, it was clear they had much bigger plans for DHS. Starting with the fact Trump put one of his biggest allies,

Kristi Noem, in charge of it. And even news stories about her announcement at the time contained some pretty clear hints that she was a bad choice.

Tonight, President-elect Donald Trump expected to name one of his staunchest campaign supporters.

Are you ready?

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to lead the massive Department of Homeland Security. Trump once considered Noem as a potential running mate, but her star dimmed after writing in her memoir

that she had shot and killed the family dog.

Yeah, not great. And even Trump, who has been endowed by Satan with an ability to survive any bad press whatsoever, somehow knew that picking a VP who bragged about speedrunning Old Yeller is a bad move.

No one wants to share a ticket with John Wilkes' wolf here. In fact, Trump was so turned off by Noam's dog news, he apparently said to Don Jr. afterwards, that's not good at all. Even you wouldn't kill a dog, and you kill everything. Just another brief window into a family dynamic

that a skilled therapist would describe as cha-ching.

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And crucially, Nome didn't bring a lot of non-dog murdering experience to the job. She'd never worked in DHS or indeed, law enforcement, but in a foreshadowing of things to come, as governor of South Dakota, she was a relentless self-promoter.

In ads for her state, she appeared in various job-themed costumes, including a dentist, a nurse, an electrician, a plumber, a welder, and a construction worker, selling each role with incredible charisma.

South Dakota has the blueprint for success. Recently, we led the nation in new home building. But we're still growing so fast. We need to hire more builders to keep up.

So I'm pitching in.

Look, I know her performance is pretty flat there, but in her defense, who's gonna tell her that she can't act? Not anyone who likes their dog, that's for sure. Also, I'm in a bit of a tough spot here because I refuse to comment on a woman's looks, but one of my female writers has insisted

that I read something that she's written, and I also refuse to silence women's voices, so given that... -...a ponytail for practical working purposes is intended to keep hair off the base of the neck and or out of the eyes. If you leave the front part of your hair out

and keep the bottom part of your hair down loosely around your shoulders, it's not a working ponytail, it's a hairdo. And John, please do make sure that you put that second -"hair in air quotes," because there is just no way that Clydesdale tail is the real hair of that...

dog killer with the bad filler.

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Her words, not mine, her words... believe women. And the thing is, Noam immediately brought to DHS that same unrelenting focus on PR, from shooting a video in the Salvadoran Socot prison while wearing a $50,000 Rolex, to cosplaying as a law enforcement agent,

from wearing a bulletproof vest on the streets of New York, to putting on Coast Guard fatigues, to dressing up like a border patrol agent on Fox News. And if it seems like she's got cameras with her wherever she goes, it's because she basically does. Here she is with a camera crew on the roof

of an immigration detention facility outside of Chicago. And fun fact, these two men, Carl Frankovich and Juan Munoz, were protesting outside that day, only to be arrested. And to hear them tell it, that seemed to have less to do with their actions,

and much more to do with the presence of Noem and her social media crew. An agent grabbed me, threw me down.

I was then zip-tied and detained.

I was pulled to the ground, um, and ordered arrested. It felt very much like we were just being used

for this political theater.

Kristi Noem was able to walk past us, um, surrounded by photographers, videographers, essentially just getting us in the background as she walked by.

Then look what happened. Homeland Security sent out these social media posts showing Kyle in handcuffs. This one said, we will not allow violent activists to lay hands on our law enforcement. And they also posted this government promotional video.

And there's Kyle again. He and Munoz were never charged with any crime.

That's true. Despite being labeled violent activists, they were never charged with any crime. That's true. Despite being labeled violent activists, they were never charged with anything. So it seems they were arrested just for a photo op for Christy Noem, which is, if I may quote her own dog's dying words,

-"rough." But... But it goes way beyond optics. Noem has been put in charge of DHS at the moment when he's experiencing an unprecedented funding surge. Trump's big beautiful bill last summer essentially doubled DHS at a moment when it's experiencing an unprecedented funding surge. Trump's big beautiful bill last summer essentially doubled DHS's funding over the next four years. And it's worth looking at where

all of that money is, and equally importantly, isn't going. Because DHS's resources now being pointed at immigration more heavily than ever before. To the point that it's being called a veritable Department of Deportation.

ICE alone was handed an extra $75 billion to spend over Trump's term, tripling its annual budget, and leading to this startling fact.

Overnight, it became the highest funded federal law enforcement agency in U.S. history. If ICE was a military, it would be the 17th richest in the world, worth about the same as Canada's entire armed forces.

It's true. And whatever the appropriate budget for ICE is, and they're making a pretty compelling argument for it being zero right now, one thing it should definitely not be is the same as the entire Canadian military. Though, to be fair, that's not a perfect one-to-one,

as I'm pretty sure the Canadian military doesn't totally eat shit on slightly slippery sidewalks.

Now, a lot of that money the Ukrainian military doesn't totally eat shit on slightly slippery sidewalks.

Now, a lot of that money is earmarked for immigration detention facilities, the conditions at which we have talked about before on this show, and which are unlikely to get better given ominous headlines like, ICE begins buying mega warehouse detention centers

across the U.S. But a lot is also going to hiring thousands of new ICE agents, with DHS planning to spend $100 million over a one-year period just on advertising. It's part of what is called a wartime recruitment strategy, and those ads are everywhere.

Slickly produced social media videos...

Join ICE and help us catch the worst of the worst.

Televised ads targeting local police, and a celebrity endorsement. These are all part of a major multimillion dollar recruitment campaign launched by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. It's shared images using wartime imagery like Uncle Sam and slang like in this post with the caption, quote, want to deport illegals with your absolute boys.

That's going to be on social media. It's going to be through streamers, so YouTube and other places where user-generated content is, but also large-scale broadcast and streaming platforms like Hulu, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, all of this sort of thing.

Yeah, I'll be honest. I don't love hearing my employer's name on that list. Though I guess at least I do get a reminder of what the company's name is this year. It's also slightly satisfying to know that one place those ads have been running

is in front of AEW Wrestling, meaning that ICE is having to pay money to appear alongside this. CROWD CHANTING It's still very good. Now, DHS claims those ads are working. They say they've hired 12,000 new ICE agents and officers since last summer. And while there are good reasons to believe

those figures are inflated, we're still going to have a lot more ICE agents on our streets this year. And that should be a real concern. Especially because to hire so many officers so quickly, they've had to significantly lower their standards

for new recruits. Especially because to hire so many officers so quickly, they've had to significantly lower their standards for new recruits, doing things like waiving age requirements, condensing the training period, and ending requirements like taking five weeks of Spanish language training, which is a bad idea for many reasons, including those agents now won't get to understand

even a little bit of Bad Bunny's music, which is sad for them. They're missing out on a lot of joy, plenty of political commentary, and a metric ton of blowjob descriptions. There is a lot in it. It's a rich text. And the thing is, even with those lower standards,

one report found that more than a third of new ICE recruits had failed a physical fitness test that required 15 push-ups, 32 sit-ups, and running one and a half miles in 14 minutes, which, and I do not say this lightly, is a test even I could pass.

Also, and more upsettingly, nearly half were later sent home because they couldn't pass the written exam, which covers things like when officers can and can't conduct searches and seizures. And it gets even worse when you learn that during that test,

they were allowed to consult their textbook and notes. Yeah, half of them failed an open book test. And as we all know, that is the easiest kind of test, even easier than urine. That one is actually harder than you think. Midstream is a delicate dance.

And as the former acting director of ICE points out, this is all a very bad sign. Yeah, I mean, some of these moves, frankly,

have resulted in some embarrassing candidates. ICE agents have tremendous authority when they're out there on the streets. We have to know that these people, A, have that integrity, are gonna, when no one's looking, are they gonna do things

the right way? And secondly, are they getting into this for the right reason. Obviously, there's a tremendous concern as well that the administration is going after individuals who harbor some animus towards immigrants.

Right, because it doesn't seem unfair to assume that some might have applied for that job less out of a sense of public duty, and more because they, oh, I don't know, want to deport illegals with their absolute boys. And that concern has been compounded

by a disturbing pattern of what sure seems like white nationalist dog whistles in these recruiting ads. Like this post reading, Which Way American Man? invoking a meme associated with this anti-Semitic book popular among neo-Nazis. And this one using the phrase,

We'll Have Our Home Again. The title of a song released by a white nationalist band popular with far-right groups like the Proud Boys. And if that connection seems at all like a stretch to you, you should know the Proud Boys themselves don't seem to think so. On the messaging app Telegram, one chapter reposted that ad

next to a picture of a literal dog whistle,

adding the line, message received.

Oh, cool. Although, I do have to say, the whole point of a dog whistle is plausible deniability. So saying, we hear and understand your dog whistle does sort of wreck the whole agreement, but I guess that is the risk that you run when your secret master plan has to rely on

some of the dumbest people alive. Now, I have to tell you, we reached out to DHS for comment and they angrily denied any dog whistles, adding, we will not apologize for using patriotic messaging They also told us, and I quote,

one could say we are homeland maxing

But the administration is also pulling resources away

Diddy's case, for instance, was run by HSI agents.

And many HSI officials have long wanted to be formally separated

who thinks that you might deport them.

And that has had real consequences.

As highly trained agents who specialized

in things like money laundering and counter-terrorism cases in parking lots. Here is a guy in an HSI jacket

And that is not good, because there's probably

But it's not just reallocations within ICE. and then the rest of the episode, harassing people outside of a fucking Lowe's. People would riot!

that's exactly what is being deprioritized.

If FBI agents are not working on drug gang task forces, then there are fewer investigations into violent street gangs and drug trafficking cartels.

And with such a large contingent pulled from their duties, he says drug cartels and bad actors are watching.

I am 100% certain that they are tracking that federal agents are being moved out of drug task forces and seeking to determine ways to exploit the reduced resources on those task forces.

Yeah, of course cartels are gonna take advantage. Drug kingpins, by and large, aren't stupid. Mostly because drug kingpins, who are stupid, tend to spend a very short time as kingpins. And much longer as a suspicious mound of earth somewhere in the Mexican desert.

It's kind of a self-editing field. And I'm still not done listing misallocations of resources, because at the same time that Nome has surged funding to some areas of DHS, she's actively starved others. For instance, CISA, which handles cyber security, lost roughly 1,000 staffers, more than a third of the agency,

meaning it is now less equipped to do things like protect our electrical grids or secure our elections. But maybe the biggest example of a department being hamstrung is FEMA. It is the agency that handles the federal response to disasters. Many believe it never really belonged in DHS

in the first place, and that it's ending up there contributed to its failures during Hurricane Katrina. And if you're too young to remember Hurricane Katrina, I'm afraid you're just gonna have to fuck off. Suffice to say, that FEMA did not have a good Katrina. Perhaps best summed up by this entirely fair question

in front of a flood-damaged apartment complex. Now, soon after Trump took office, FEMA lost about a third of its total full-time staff. And it's also been heavily impacted by a new rule across DHS, which states that every contracting grant over $100,000 must now cross Nome's desk for approval.

To put that in terms the Christian Nome's desk for approval. Or to put that in terms that Christy Nome can understand, two wristwatches. And that requirement is clearly absurd generally, but especially at FEMA, an agency that handles emergency relief

that needs to get out quickly. At one point, about $17 billion in federal disaster funds for states was held up for an extra layer of review by Nome, causing unusual delays in payments. And I'd say that I can't even imagine how chaotic that process must look,

but luckily, I actually can, because another of Nome's South Dakota rads literally showed her as an overworked accountant with ticker tape all over the place, not exactly doing a great job.

We have close to 20,000 open jobs,

including accountants, so I'm filling in.

South Dakota, freedom works here.

Governor Nolan, you didn't carry the two.

Josh, kiss my abacus.

Okay, it seems once more I find myself in a tough spot, because again, I have been told to read something to you, and I don't feel like I can say no. The precise way for you to describe what Christinoma's actively chosen to look like there is, mother of the bride who asked for the exact same hair

as the bride.

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Also, John, while I have your attention, maybe it's time for you to be putting a little gray in the eyebrow makeup. You're not fooling anyone. Let's be adults about this. Those are her words.

She's brutally honest.

Brutally honest. She's a bad person. The future is female. The thing is... Non-delaying funding approvals at FEMA has already had serious consequences. When there were deadly floods in Texas last year,

two days after, nearly two-thirds of the calls to FEMA's disaster assistance line went unanswered. Now, I have to tell you, Nome has disputed that report, saying it's just false, and that report needs to be validified. Though, I believe that sentence itself

could benefit from being spell-cheer rated. And not for nothing, Nome's $100,000 sign-off rule meant that according to one former FEMA official, the FEMA building itself almost had its utilities shut off last year because the bill wasn't paid. And the truth is, so far, we've been incredibly lucky that there hasn't been an even worse disaster

where FEMA's problems were more fully exposed. As last year, for the first time in a decade, not a single hurricane struck the U.S. But our luck can only hold out for so long. Last August, over 180 FEMA employees sent a letter to Congress warning

that Trump officials' actions were risking a Katrina-level disaster. Which is a pretty haunting thing to hear, and it's more than a little dispiriting to realize that the Frankenstein of an agency that we cobbled together after 9-11

is now siphoning resources away from things that actually protect us, even as it floods resources to a bunch of guys in ski masks with questionable Reddit histories who blast rap rock out of the window of their government-issued kidnapper bills,

all for the benefit of Christy Noem's fucking TikTok. So, what can we do? Well, first and most immediately, with DHS impartial shutdown over its funding, Democrats have to use every ounce of leverage they've got to get major concessions. Bernie Sanders has proposed an amendment

that would repeal the $75 billion in additional funding that ICE received. And, I don't know if they'll be able to get all the way to that. They should, at the very least, get as many hard, enforceable limits on immigration agents' activities as possible. Now, second,

we need to get rid of ICE, period. Public trust in it right now is hovering somewhere between Purdue Pharma and the Titan Submersible. It is just not salvageable. And if you're thinking, well, who will enforce immigration law if ICE is gone? I don't know. Maybe the agencies that did it

for decades before 2003. As for DHS as a whole, I would argue it's no longer tenable in its current form. And while maybe there is an argument for having a larger agency coordinating different federal departments, it should probably be redesigned

from the ground up, and deliberately this time, not by suddenly gluing together org charts in a blind panic. But if I can make one last, broader point here, cosmetic changes just aren't gonna be enough. Because even if you get rid of Christy Noem,

which you should, Stephen Miller will still be there. And even if you get rid of him, this administration will remain. But even if they are gone and we get rid of ICE and DHS, we're still gonna be left with the broken immigration laws that gave them permission to do what they have done.

Millions of people will continue to be vulnerable because, as we've discussed repeatedly before on this show, our current immigration system makes it somewhere from difficult to impossible for many to come in the right way. That boy in the blue hat and his dad

were scooped up despite being in the process of seeking asylum. And we've shown you multiple videos of people being arrested as they showed up for their immigration appointments. And that is actually a bit of a tell.

Because that is clearly not this administration targeting the worst of the worst. It's them desperately trying to juice up their numbers. And it is the law that allows them to do that. And that is actually something that Tom Holman made a point of reiterating to people

when he was first sent to Minnesota two weeks ago.

The people out there don't like what ICE is doing. If you want certain laws reformed, then take it up with Congress. Again, ICE is making this up. They're enforcing laws enacted by Congress and signed by the president. The same laws have been on the books...

for the last six presidents I've worked for. If you don't like what ICE is doing, instead of protesting this building, go protest Congress. Tell me you want changes.

Well, hold on there, Tom. Why just one or the other? People could absolutely do both. Porque no los dos, if I may quote a phrase, it seems most new ICE recruits will have absolutely no chance of understanding. But he is right there. Trump's policy of mass deportations

is built on existing laws. And if America doesn't like what that policy looks like, now that they've seen what it really means, then it needs to fucking do something about it. To the extent that we are all horrified by day laborers and grandfathers and little kids in bunny hats being terrorized by men in masks,

then we need to elect people who will commit to writing laws that reflect that. And I've got to say, it does say something, that to the extent that anyone over the last few months has been protecting our homeland and keeping it secure, it has not been Kristi Noem in her wide array of fun outfits, or whichever 20-year-old dipshit's been pumping out

Nazi-flavored content on Twitter. It has been ordinary people on the streets of Minneapolis blowing whistles, delivering food to friends who are afraid to leave their houses, and marching in the cold, even though they've got goddamn work in the morning.

Because, if I may quote that gloriously frozen Midwestern man, they believe we are all human beings here and that this is fucking wrong. and that this is fucking wrong.

And now, this.