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Should be a wild four years.

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Three FBI Most Wanted fugitive arrests in two months signal return to 'premier' agency: former agent
BI Director Kash Patel said the three arrests since Jan. 20 were no 'accident'
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The FBI has had prompt success capturing fugitives since President Trump took office, according to Director Kash Patel.
Patel announced on Tuesday that the FBI has apprehended three fugitives from the agency’s 10 Most Wanted list since Jan. 20.
"This is the FBI that I was proud to work for, and I'm really excited to see that they have already arrested several of the FBI's Most Wanted fugitives," former FBI agent and Fox News contributor Nicole Parker told Fox News Digital. "When President Trump took over in 2017 in his first administration, I was a violent crime agent in Miami, and I specifically remember that he said that his top priority was to focus on violent criminals."
Parker believes that in his second term, Trump’s "focus" is what "Americans care about most: making America safe, focusing on violent crime and taking the most violent criminals off the street."
Patel on Tuesday said the FBI, Justice Department and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi "have captured our third fugitive on the Ten Most Wanted list since January 20, 2025."
"That’s not an accident," Patel wrote on X. "When you let good cops be good cops, this is what happens. This administration is giving the new FBI and AG Bondi the resources to get the job done — and we won’t stop."
Parker said the new leadership will "make the FBI, in my opinion, the number one, premier law enforcement agency again."
The FBI told Fox News Digital that the three fugitives captured since January are as follows:

Francisco Javier Roman-Bardales – Captured 3/18/25
Roman-Bardales, 47, is an alleged MS-13 key senior leader accused of racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to provide and conceal material support and resources to terrorists, narco-terrorism conspiracy and alien smuggling conspiracy.
Authorities took Roman-Bardales into custody in Mexico on Monday, then extradited to the United States for legal proceedings.
"FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Roman-Bardales has been extradited to the United States to be held accountable for the extreme and depraved violence and terror his leadership of MS-13 allegedly brought to the streets of the United States and across North America," FBI Acting Assistant Director in Charge for the New York Field Office Leslie Backschies said in a statement after his arrest. "The FBI, along with our law enforcement partners are committed to eradicating MS-13 and all violent transnational criminal organizations wherever they operate as we protect our nation."

Arnoldo Jimenez – Captured 1/30/25
A second Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive was arrested in Mexico on Jan. 30.
Arnoldo Jimenez is accused of murdering his wife, who was found dead in the bathtub of their apartment, less than 48 hours after they were married in Burbank, Illinois, in 2012. He is also accused of fleeing to avoid prosecution.
"The FBI is extremely appreciative of the Burbank Police Department, our law enforcement partners in Mexico, and the public for their tremendous investigative efforts and collaboration in the capture of Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Arnoldo Jimenez," Douglas S. DePodesta, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Chicago Field Office, said in a statement. "The FBI will use all of its available resources to bring criminals to justice, no matter how much time has passed or where they may be in the world."

Donald Eugene Fields II – Captured 1/25/25
The first FBI 10 Most Wanted fugitive arrest under the Trump administration took place in Florida in January, when Lady Lake Police Sgt. Michelle Bilbrey arrested 60-year-old Donald Eugene Fields II during a routine traffic stop on Jan. 25.
Fields is charged with child sex trafficking and child rape charges in federal and state court. He is accused of knowingly attempting to recruit, entice, provide, patronize and solicit a minor into engaging in a commercial sex act from about January 2013 until June 2017.
"Thanks to proactive policing by the Lady Lake Police Department, one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted fugitives has been captured," said FBI St. Louis Special Agent in Charge Ashley Johnson said in a statement.
Earlier this month, Atlanta police identified and detained Justin Smith, who is not on the Top 10 list but is on the FBI's general Most Wanted list.
Smith allegedly shot his pregnant girlfriend in the head multiple times in Philadelphia in 2021, killing her and her unborn child.
"This is what we need. We need to hold these individuals accountable," Parker said. "To take several of them off of the streets within two months is absolutely phenomenal. I am so excited to see what is in store for the FBI over the next three and a half years. Again, we're only two months into it, and for this to have already occurred, it shows me that Kash Patel is serious when he says, ‘Let good cops be good cops.’ Let's let them just do their jobs."
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Levitcus prime24 said:
I d wonder what it is exactly they hate about trump, like not the repeated MSM talking points but their own actual reasion why they hate him.
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Most of the people in my family who hate Trump have this awful tendency to use the news as background noise. Like no matter what they're doing they always have it on droning in the background.

Both of my parents do it, though my dad is pro-Trump and complains all the time about how much he hates how unfairly the media treats him. It never crosses his mind to just.. stop listening to it and listen to some music or a podcast about something he likes.

I notice anyone under the age of like 35 doesnt do this (most college aged liberals are only peer pressured into their beliefs and are usually very easy to sway otherwise or secretly do a wrongthink in good company) but Gen X and Boomers are especially susceptible to this and it really does feel like theyre being subconciously brainwashed. Especially with the way they quickly gloss over things that would make you otherwise think logically about a situation.

You really can't hate them enough.
 
Sexy Senior Citizen said:
Three FBI Most Wanted fugitive arrests in two months signal return to 'premier' agency: former agent
BI Director Kash Patel said the three arrests since Jan. 20 were no 'accident'
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At this point I view FBI arrests like poker chips. They're only cashed in when the FBI wants to put a big investment into something.
 
MrJokerRager said:
Ideally the universities should be defunded on universal grounds rather than Israel First.

And a lot of them or all of them as well.

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i thought this research was interesting from this thread
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so the demographic that has the most exposure to AI generated content, or in other words the demographic that has the most exposure to computer generated propaganda, are educated women with white collar jobs

not a coincidence
 
IsaACKRepentance said:
Both of my parents do it, though my dad is pro-Trump and complains all the time about how much he hates how unfairly the media treats him. It never crosses his mind to just.. stop listening to it and listen to some music or a podcast about something he likes.
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People almost want to be brainwashed, because then some authority they recognize is telling them the information they "need to know" and they can react based on that. Social Media algorithms abuse this and essentially tell you what to think about or what to get angry about.

Someone posted about fanaticism being part of the human experience, and how our post-modern society allows people to find their own thing to be fanatical about instead of religion so it leads to Devotees of Trans just as much as it leads to Devotees of MAGA.

The main issue is people never think critically about anything, especially when "their side" gives them some kind of marching orders, and all forms of media abuse this psychological loophole.

Even this website does it because it's a collection of people and there are always people looking for some marching orders in every cohort. There is nothing we can do about it but be aware of our human tendencies and try to foster habits that guard against chugging the shit milkshake someone else made for us.
 
neger psykolog said:
"political violence" means assassinations, kidnappings and shit and sometimes also includes the damage of private property.

There's no violence happening. The cars are inanimate objects and belong to a company.
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Mass arson isn't violence?
You know, the crime so unviolent that by law as a citizen it is your duty to gun down the arsonist should they try to flee.
Because arson is such a murderous and violent fucking crime that the law itself finds that the possibility of the arsonist fleeing to burn something else is so unconscionable, that gunning them down is seen as preferable compared to the alternative of letting them go and live with the possibility
 
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Joepedo couldn't/wouldn't even do the basic things for American citizens, and everytime I see these it sticks with me more than gay judges.
 
MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti said:
People almost want to be brainwashed, because then some authority they recognize is telling them the information they "need to know" and they can react based on that. Social Media algorithms abuse this and essentially tell you what to think about or what to get angry about.

Someone posted about fanaticism being part of the human experience, and how our post-modern society allows people to find their own thing to be fanatical about instead of religion so it leads to Devotees of Trans just as much as it leads to Devotees of MAGA.

The main issue is people never think critically about anything, especially when "their side" gives them some kind of marching orders, and all forms of media abuse this psychological loophole.

Even this website does it because it's a collection of people and there are always people looking for some marching orders in every cohort. There is nothing we can do about it but be aware of our human tendencies and try to foster habits that guard against chugging the shit milkshake someone else made for us.
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It's just basic human nature that has taken hold ever since the first group of cavemen followed the alpha caveman. Hence why we call people "herd of niggercattle" instead of actual human beings who can think for themselves.
 
30+GameOvers said:
It's just basic human nature that has taken hold ever since the first group of cavemen followed the alpha caveman. Hence why we call people "herd of niggercattle" instead of actual human beings who can think for themselves.
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It's always been around the issue is that it's just easier then ever to convince people because of technological advances that allow for fast and easy mass communication.
 
Breadbassket said:
It's always been around the issue is that it's just easier then ever to convince people because of technological advances that allow for fast and easy mass communication.
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That's not a bad thing. What people need to learn is that dinosaur media is on it's last legs. Be there when it falls and plant your flag there instead of complaining. You will never change human nature, most people simply want to be told what to think and that's that.
 
30+GameOvers said:
It's just basic human nature that has taken hold ever since the first group of cavemen followed the alpha caveman. Hence why we call people "herd of niggercattle" instead of actual human beings who can think for themselves.
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It's absolutely a survival mechanism on the same level as "ape together strong" and there's a reason it's so ingrained in our biology. Our poor monkey brains were never equipped to understand a virtual reality like the internet. The closest our ancestors would have gotten is, what, using their imagination while a storyteller feeds them a tale meant to teach a lesson such as "don't get separated from the hunting party if you want to make it back alive?"

They only had one reality to keep track of, while we realistically have an almost infinite amount of reality bubbles we can enter into thanks to the internet. We are not equipped as a race for this, and it will be really funny if "society ending virtual realities" is the Great Filter that tends to kill any alien species that makes it this far.
 
Anyone 'member Ohio Palestine? I 'membered
Do you guys 'member Hurricane Milton? I 'membered.
What i don't 'member, you guys, is what is the conclusion to those things? Does anyone even talk about that? I checked the threads and they are dead.
 
Wash away the rain said:
Ok so the arsons of unsold vehicles and the shooting and vandalism of dealerships doesn’t hurt his bottom line are you retarded or malicious.
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He's sitting on several billion dollars in hard cash. I don't think he gives a shit. The value of Tesla stock is irrelevant to Musk's bottom line now. Besides this just gives him an explanation for Tesla's ultimate failure. "It's not because of all the securities fraud I've committed the past decade it's those darn dirty kids what finally sunk it!" Once again your childish ploy of the week has backfired spectacularly.
 
Catch The Rainbow said:
King Herod was also not a religious Jewish king or part of the line of David.
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Didn’t he marry into the Maccabees?
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We should hang her and others that sell fentanyl.
sedoL said:
Anyone 'member Ohio Palestine? I 'membered
Do you guys 'member Hurricane Milton? I 'membered.
What i don't 'member, you guys, is what is the conclusion to those things? Does anyone even talk about that? I checked the threads and they are dead.
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The bureaucracy is not only indifferent but actively hates us and hopes more of us die in incidents like this.
 
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