🚨 Update on ICE’s BOMBSHELL “database”

An ICE agent in Portland, Maine, confronted a woman filming in public, calling her a 'domestic terrorist' and explicitly stating she would be added to a 'database' they are compiling. The guest, Graham Platner, describes this as ICE using digital tools to track and threaten activists, framing it as an 'unamerican' tactic designed to cow dissent.

The guest recounts the incident where an ICE agent videotaped a woman's license plate and threatened her, stating, 'we've got a nice little database we're putting together. You're going in it and you're going to be a domestic terrorist.'

The host and guest vehemently oppose current efforts in Congress to increase funding for ICE, especially given recent incidents including the Maine threat and a reported second fatal shooting by ICE agents in Minnesota. They argue that an agency acting unconstitutionally and illegally, and 'murdering American citizens in the street,' should not receive additional funding.

Platner states, 'Democrats in the Senate need to be the bulwark against increasing funding to ICE while it very clearly has turned itself or is acting in an unconstitutional and illegal manner and it's murdering American citizens in the street.'

The host suggests that the current administration uses state force and violence, exemplified by ICE's actions, as a means to suppress resistance arising from economic policies that disproportionately benefit the wealthy. This is framed as a tactic to 'tamp down whatever resistance comes out of the fact that people's lives are going to continue to get materially worse.'

Cohen asserts, 'when you have an economic system and a politics that is entirely uninterested in improving the lives of people, it is going to use state force and state violence to protect itself from whatever the backlash is going to be.'

Both speakers criticize Democrats for their perceived reluctance to wield political power, often prioritizing 'norms' or procedural concerns (like the filibuster) over achieving policy goals. They advocate for a more aggressive approach, drawing historical parallels to Abraham Lincoln's actions to end slavery and Roosevelt's New Deal, which involved decisive use of power rather than seeking middle ground.

Platner states, 'when we have power again, we need to be electing people who are going to wield that power and understand that we can use it for good.' Cohen adds, 'When Republicans have power, they wield it. They wield it to the nth degree and they abuse it. And meanwhile, you've got Democrats more focused on protecting the sanctity of the filibuster than actually getting something done.'