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Source: Screenshot from Bovino’s X account.

Being a Tough Guy Ain’t as Easy as it Looks!

The movies always make it seem so simple!

Steven L. Taylor
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Source: Screenshot from Bovino’s X account.

Greg Bovino in action:

https://twitter.com/cturnbull1968/status/2014137401644360038?s=20

The video is worth a watch.

First and foremost, can someone tell me what the protestors are doing that would deserve tear gas? People standing there and yelling/blowing whistles is constutitionally protected under the First Amendment. Indeed, the fact that he is so lackadaisical about it rather underscores that there was no threat. When various administration officials bleat about “riots” and “obstruction” by protestors, keep these kinds of videos in mind.

Second, the fact that he fumbles around to get the pin out of the canister rather undercuts his tough guy image. It is further a reminder that real life isn’t an action movie.

Third, the poetic justice of the gas blowing back towards the ICE operatives is just the chef’s kiss of it all.

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23 responses to “Being a Tough Guy Ain’t as Easy as it Looks!”

  1. Sleeping Dog Avatar
    Sleeping Dog

    This morning’s ambient temperature in downtown Mpls is -20F with the windchill being -38F, ICE will be on ice today

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  2. Scott Avatar
    Scott

    @Sleeping Dog: Houston (and Texas) are in full panic mode today with a little prediction of freezing rain and two days of temps in the 20s.

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  3. CSK Avatar
    CSK

    When I first saw the photo above of Bovino, I thought he was wearing a Nazi uniform.

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  4. Steven L. Taylor Avatar
    Steven L. Taylor

    @CSK: In case you missed it: Greg Bovino’s Costuming Choices.

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  5. Scott F. Avatar
    Scott F.

    Sadly, Bovino’s pathetic cosplay is rather effectively distracting from the savage treatment his agents are raining down on the human being in the grey coat they have wrestled onto the snowy pavement behind him.

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  6. Kathy Avatar
    Kathy

    Has a general strike ever taken place in America?

    I can’t recall any offhand.

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  7. Scott Avatar
    Scott

    Bovino is same personality type as Trump. A classic bully. Always punches down and always sucks up. Acts the tough guy except when there is push back.

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  8. CSK Avatar
    CSK

    @Steven L. Taylor:

    I DID miss it. Damn.

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  9. Steven L. Taylor Avatar
    Steven L. Taylor

    @CSK: Indeed.

  10. Charley in Cleveland Avatar
    Charley in Cleveland

    Seeing how geared up the ICE/CBP guys are – camo, sidearms, “556 Duty Rifle,”tear gas, pepper spray, etc. – makes it all the more laughable that Herr Miller tells Trump they need to be protected from protestors by the National Guard. Seems like Bovino watched Inglorious Basterds and modeled himself on Christof Waltz’s smarmy Nazi.

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  11. Barry_D Avatar
    Barry_D

    @CSK: “When I first saw the photo above of Bovino, I thought he was wearing a Nazi uniform.”

    He is.

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  12. al Ameda Avatar
    al Ameda

    @Scott:

    @Sleeping Dog: Houston (and Texas) are in full panic mode today with a little prediction of freezing rain and two days of temps in the 20s.

    …and so Ted Cruz has decamped to that well known Blue State California hellhole of Laguna Beach.

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  13. ChipD Avatar
    ChipD

    As others have noted, he looks like Don Knotts.
    https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6mjf5xfk4zxavimnaahilq73/post/3md2ofm4e3c2j

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  14. becca Avatar
    becca

    @ChipD: Bovino does present as Deputy Barney Fife. Sheriff Andy did let ole Barn have a gun, but made him keep the one bullet he was allowed in his pocket.

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  15. Michael Cain Avatar
    Michael Cain

    @Kathy:

    Has a general strike ever taken place in America? I can’t recall any offhand.

    Not above the level of a city. At higher levels, most of the national unions like the Teamsters oppose general strikes. Minneapolis had a sort-of general strike in 1934, organized by the Teamsters. Police shot 67 of the strikers. Interesting that much of the “strike” in Minneapolis today is by business owners rather than labor. Interviews by reporters seem to be of small business owners who are staying closed, not workers walking out.

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  16. drj Avatar
    drj

    Regarding Bovino’s sartorial choices, first time as a tragedy, second time as a farce.

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  17. Kathy Avatar
    Kathy

    @Michael Cain:

    Thank you.

    Interesting that much of the “strike” in Minneapolis today is by business owners rather than labor. Interviews by reporters seem to be of small business owners who are staying closed, not workers walking out.

    Business closings was what increased the tempo of the current protests in Iran.

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  18. Sleeping Dog Avatar
    Sleeping Dog

    @Michael Cain:

    The small businesses in Mpls have been struggling since the gestapo showed up. A combination of employees not showing up and customers avoiding any chance of coming across some sort of action. People are staying home.

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  19. Jay L. Gischer Avatar
    Jay L. Gischer

    Sometime ago, I think it was maybe the late 90’s or early oughts, there was a call for a general “Mexicans Don’t Work” day on Cinco de Mayo. Just to give folks a taste of what the state would be like without them. I thought this was a response to prop 187, now I’m not so sure.

    I remember very clearly that we were in the midst of a remodelling project, and our contractor and his one employee did not work that day. The contractor, a man we liked very much, came by to tell us it was nothing personal, and that they would be back to work the next day. We said we understood and supported him.

    I guess this can’t be called a “general strike”, and I further can’t find any reference to it on the internet (though I could a few years ago).

    Strange things.

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  20. Gustopher Avatar
    Gustopher

    A man was just acquitted for trying to hire a hitman to kill Bovino.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/trump-administration-chicago-bovino-murder-for-hire

    I haven’t checked to see if the government hadn’t proven their case, or if the jury just said that it wasn’t a crime. Presumably the former, but pursuing weak cases that fail is likely to send the latter message.

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  21. Tony W Avatar
    Tony W

    @Jay L. Gischer: America doesn’t have the balls to do a General Strike. We are too soft, too coddled, and too spoiled.

    We think a strike means “Don’t buy anything on Thursday”, but the French know that a strike means “Don’t buy anything, and don’t work, until the other side gives in.”

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  22. Daryl Avatar
    Daryl

    Being a Tough Guy Ain’t as Easy as it Looks!

    What do you expect from a cult whose leader sports orange make-up, has a hair-spray budget, and wears lifts and diapers?

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  23. JohnSF Avatar
    JohnSF

    What a twerp.

    Well, it looks like the US has its freikorps.
    But with extra clownery.
    “First as tragedy, then as farce”, as somebody said.

    Laugh, or cry?

    I have mental image of some NCO’s I’ve known taking Mr. Bovino aside and explaining, with considerable profanity, exactly why he is a useless trooper. lol

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