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"Why did your team in 64 Minneapolis cancel our federal law enforcement officer and agent reservations?" 65 the government account of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency [49] 66 asked, repeatedly tagging Hilton's corporate account per the longstanding suite 67 of best practices among the population of squeakers prone to this kind of 68 social media crashout. 69 70 The meltdown continued in a subsequent post, which began with the capitalized 71 sentence "NO ROOM AT THE INN!": "When officers attempted to book rooms using 72 official government emails and rates, Hilton Hotels maliciously CANCELLED their 73 reservations," the agency, which [50]had a $28.7 billion budget in 2025, 74 posted. "This is UNACCEPTABLE. Why is Hilton Hotels siding with murderers and 75 rapists to deliberately undermine and impede DHS law enforcement from their 76 mission to enforce our nation’s immigration laws?" The hotel group and the 77 independently owned hotel in question both [51]apologized later that day, both 78 taking care to note that they don't condone any kind of discrimination. In the 79 streets, the horrors continued. 80 81 It is not accurate to say that the current government of the United States 82 speaks with one voice; there are too many half-sociopath [52]influencers and 83 podcasters and unstable television personalities scrabbling around in high 84 positions for there to be anything like that kind of shared purpose, and the 85 reactionary social media gremlins working under them are all too busy [53] 86 signaling to their own degenerate micro-communities to get into anything like 87 harmony. But, one brutal and stupid year into the second Trump administration, 88 it seems fair to say that the federal government has cohered into a sort of 89 collective personality. It is maybe more accurate to say that the public-facing 90 part of the federal government is identifiable at this moment as a specific and 91 repellent type of American Guy. 92 93 You do not have to know this guy personally to know what he is about; you do 94 not need to understand what he believes to grasp how dangerous he is or why. 95 You need only to put some tactical gear and a gaiter on him, dress him up with 96 whatever weaponry looks toughest, and drop him behind the wheel of a rented 97 Jeep Wagoneer. Instinct and panic and a gnarled suite of anti-values will do 98 the work from there; you can't trust him for much, but you can trust that this 99 guy will point that vehicle's enormous snarling grille at a smaller vehicle 100 being driven by someone the guy in question has identified as a target. They 101 would be doing this, or spending hours every day fantasizing about doing it, 102 even if they had not been told that [54]their right do it now supersedes every 103 other right in public life. 104 105 This type of person exists in American life—"our neighbors, friends, and loved 106 ones," in [55]the words of Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin—in sufficient 107 enough numbers that everyone who does not want to become a character in the 108 incoherent first-person shooter video game that plays over their every waking 109 moment knows to avoid them. They are all around us, but contra Sen. Mullin they 110 are not really our neighbors or friends; they do not quite fit that concept, 111 and cannot really buy into it. They are self-deputized; their personal defects 112 make them unstable in a way that leads inexorably to car crashes. 113 114 In his weepy tweet defending their negligible honor and that of the work they 115 do, Mullin calls them "red-blooded American patriots," and that, too, is both 116 directionally correct and plainly laughable on the merits. They're American, 117 all right, and the patriotism they claim—an old, small, ignorant version, but 118 one that for those reasons nevertheless has some claim on the word—is just one 119 of many. Before they put on plate carriers and masks and threw themselves into 120 the dirty business of terrorizing their neighbors and breaking their families, 121 they were still identifiable as who and what they are and always were—seething, 122 unappeasable, deliriously and defiantly pig-stupid, and absolutely a threat to 123 the peace and comfort and flourishing of everyone and anything else. The masks 124 only make them easier to see. 125 126 Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks at a news conference on 127 January 7, 2026 in Brownsville, Texas.Kristi Noem doing the classic Standing 128 Around In Front Of A Bunch Of Uniformed CHUDs maneuver in Texas in January 129 2026. (Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images) 130 131 There is no disjunction between the political movement that is so frantically 132 preening and whining and lying [56]on social media and into any camera lens it 133 can find, and the one prosecuting an aimless, endless, brutish reign of terror 134 in the hospitals and outside the preschools and across the big-box parking lots 135 of the greater Twin Cities metropolitan area. They are two sides of the same 136 coin, or the same side of this particular personality type—baffled, brutish, 137 plainly terrified and out of control, incapable of self-regulation or basic 138 self-soothing, never learning a single thing and making as big and violent a 139 mess as they can on principle. There is no legible strategy in the ICE-led 140 offensive in Minnesota beyond [57]trying to make the situation worse to see 141 what might happen, and no sense of what victory might look like; when "get told 142 to eat shit by dozens of bystanders" and "drive off amid a cloud of tear gas" 143 represent this big a part of the tactical stack, it becomes easy to doubt that 144 there actually is any broader goal. 145 146 It's a terror campaign, of course, but the people doing it are themselves so 147 terrified and so manifestly out of their depth and incapable, and so deeply 148 lost in their own single-serving fogs of war, that it all becomes recursive. 149 Its purpose, to the extent one is visible, is to keep going. The original 150 justification for the surge was [58]an incomprehensible viral video by a 151 conservative influencer, but it has since become both [59]a campaign of 152 indiscriminate punishment and cyclical content creation and omnidirectional 153 retribution—a frantic tantrum unconvincingly dressing itself up as an act of 154 stern paternal discipline, and a screen-addled movement of hair-trigger 155 illiterates that has [60]lost the ability to do anything but react, generating 156 new scenes to react to. 157 158 It could only ever be incoherent, and was always going to be brutal. As a 159 farcical re-enactment of the lost foreign wars of the last two decades on 160 American soil, it could not be any other way. For the same reason, it is hard 161 to know when or how it will end. In Trump's second term, the federal government 162 has intentionally rid itself of the capacity to do anything but make things 163 worse; it has quite literally traded Ph.D scientists and dedicated civil 164 servants for the chance to hastily stand up this expansion team from the 165 waiver-wire flotsam of the violence worker community. The public money that was 166 once spent, grudgingly and kludgily, on keeping people alive is now being spent 167 on this mission and others like it, whose only purpose is to hurt those that 168 the state has identified as enemies. 169 170 The people carrying this out have been behaving [61]exactly as you might expect 171 armed sadists to behave after they'd been told that they would be immune from 172 any future consequences. None of them really seem to understand the mission 173 they've been given beyond some atavistic mandate to violently pacify and punish 174 everyone that Doesn't Look Right, to make everything clean and quiet and keep 175 it that way, to patrol empty streets with their blood up and their guns out 176 until such time as the threat, which was always just everything and everyone 177 else, is somehow neutralized. 178 179 And that may well be what the mission actually is. Some people who did not know 180 anything, and who kept themselves scared all the time, and who held a grudge 181 against the whole rest of humanity because of how ignorant and frightened that 182 bigger world's existence made them feel, handed weapons to other people who 183 felt the same way, and told them to figure it out. All that war and the ways in 184 which the rot it made weakened various important structures and edifices, the 185 terrible use reactionary cynics found for that rot, the toxins that invariably 186 showed up in the groundwater downstream from all that violence—all of these 187 things made the culture stupid and cruel in new ways, or maybe just in very old 188 ones. All of that made this awful moment, too. 189 190 The capacity to cry about being treated rudely on social media while carrying 191 out this open-ended gambit is new, but the instinct to do so wasn't. There is 192 something deeply, shamefully American about this strike force of out-of-town 193 shitheads complaining about the customer service it has received from the 194 people it is trying to oppress, and doing so in language—NO ROOM AT THE INN! 195 —that stridently references and oafishly misuses one of the foundational 196 stories of the faith that movement relentlessly claims. A lesson about 197 humanity, and a whole humane way of seeing the world, shrinks so effortlessly 198 into a preening, indignant, fundamentally meaningless complaint. 199 200 Minnesota, among other places, is currently in a stalemate between people who 201 [62]want to live their normal lives without fear of being brutalized or 202 terrorized or beaten or even killed, and an occupying force that understands 203 preventing that from happening as more or less the substance and purpose of its 204 mission, and that is awful. But just because the people doing all that shooting 205 and crying don't know what they're doing doesn't mean anyone else is as 206 deceived. Every day, those pissy goons go out looking for trouble, and every 207 day people who never previously imagined that they would do such a thing tell 208 them to fuck off, absorb outsized violence for doing so, and resolve to do it 209 again the next day. 210 211 It's inspiring, this persistence of community and care in the face of a 212 campaign to annihilate them, and the defiance of people who want to live their 213 lives against a force that doesn't want anything at all, and all of these small 214 and vital human things pushing up through the attempt to make those things and 215 that resistance impossible. But it is also a reminder of how pathetic—how 216 sincerely and deeply abject, how valueless and lost—this offensive is. There is 217 all this rude and humble everyday life and all these different types of people 218 who believe it is meaningful, and then there is this attempt, overseen by an 219 elite that doesn't believe in anything at all, to replace it with something 220 dumber, simpler, more demeaning, and more like content. They are going to lose, 221 and not just because they are outnumbered. 222 223 Recommended 224 225 [63]Sports Highlight Of The Day 226 [64] 227 228 The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is This ICE Goon Eating Shit 229 230 [65]240Comments 231 [66]Tom Ley 232 January 12, 2026 233 [67]Ice guy slips and falls 234 [68]Subscribe to skip adsAdvertisement 235 236 If you liked this blog, please share it! 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