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Head in the Office

Democrats Are Too Scared to Abolish ICE

Head in the Office

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Politics, News

5.0797 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

The boys talk about ICE’s depravity as they continue their occupation of Minneapolis, with the added discussion of how much the democrats are failing and/or unwilling to meet the moment. Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota quit because the DOJ is pressuring them to investigate Renee Nicole Goods' widow for no reason, and leaked memos detail how ICE agents are scared of the conditions on the ground that they helped create. Even with all this going on, centrist democrats can't help but insert their opinion to try to annihilate all of the momentum progressives are building.

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Seen on this episode:

MN & ICE updates - https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigration-agents-terrified-by-ice 

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/21-secret-ice-programs-revealed 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/01/13/more-americans-now-want-ice-abolished-a-stark-change-since-trump-took-office/ 

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/g-s1-105963/up-first-newsletter-minnesota-prosecutors-trump-economy-speech-inflation

https://time.com/7346014/ice-protests-renee-nicole-good-democrats/

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/14/democrats-ice-funding-appropriations-00726552

Senate fails to pass war powers resolution - https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/trump-venezuela-war-powers-vote.html 

Transcript

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0:00.0

My Democrats. My Democrats. They're back in full swing. They are fully back. There's calls to abolish ice. There's calls to make a difference as Trump's stormtroopers terrorize Minneapolis. And my Democrats have shown up on the scene to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and make the least bold, least courageous, adopt the least courageous position they can think of.

0:21.2

My Democrats are taking a sit right now. My Democrats saw that it was time to make a difference

0:25.7

and they said, let's make a statement. We are reaching catastrophic levels of monitoring

0:29.7

the situation. Catastronic levels of maybe there's going to be a strongly worded letter.

0:33.9

They're not quite there yet somehow. We don't have the strongly worded letter yet, but they're getting together and rumor has it. They're writing one as we speak.

0:41.8

And for this installment of Democratic capitulation, we talked about Alyssa Slotkin,

0:46.1

if not last episode than the episode before, and how we were worried that Democrats were going

0:50.7

to hyper focus on the idea that instead of abolishing us, instead of some some fundamental reform to how we enforce immigration law in this country, they were just going to

0:58.4

say shit like, more training, more funding even. And to start off this episode, I want to talk

1:04.4

briefly about Cory Booker. Cory Booker. One of our favorite. The walking platitude, Cory

1:08.2

Booker, has come out with another banger. This is a video he posted, I think, on his Instagram yesterday. It's like a talking head video. It's about 80 seconds long. And he's going to describe what his plan is and what he thinks the Democrat should do to stand up to ice and make a difference in this moment. Okay, let's see. Let's hear. He's looking real angry in this video. He must do more. The tragic death of Renee Good has brought into clear spotlight. So many of the things

1:34.9

the Trump administration is doing to make our communities less safe. But one of the most alarming

1:40.4

crises are issues of training and accountability standards for ICE officers.

1:46.0

The Trump administration has cut the training down from five months to about a month and a half.

1:52.0

They have eliminated age requirements and are hiring recruits as young as 18 years old.

1:58.0

They're putting people into training before their background checks are even complete.

2:02.5

And so when you see people cut corners, people die. I'm continuing to lead new legislation

2:08.2

that will bring further high professional standards and accountability to ICE officials.

2:13.9

We must also set minimum training standards. We must ban the hiring of anyone affiliated with hate groups.

2:20.7

We must hold agency leaders accountable. We must require every federal officer to wear a body-worn camera during public-facing

2:29.4

enforcement actions and require that footage be preserved so that the truth can't be hidden or destroy.

2:36.7

What Donald Trump is doing is undercutting the strength of our law enforcement.

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