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DHS Agents Arrest Man by Pretending to Be Stranded Motorists… A Ploy to Get The “Worst of the Worst” Who are Midwest Nice (fuelarc.com)

submitted 1 week ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Honestly, I would fall into this trap.

The federal agent genuinely sounds like she is a person having car trouble, this trap would work on me because I guess I too am a fundamentally decent person.

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[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's not going to be a regime change. It's just going to collapse like Haiti.

[–] greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The American Century of Humiliation is underway.

Only question is do we consider its start Trump II (2120), Trump I (2116), Reagan (2080) or Nixon (2069).

[–] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

~~Wow, Reagan and Nixon were time travellers?~~ I'm an idiot please ignore

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're saying 100 years after. As in, when does our century of humiliation end?

[–] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ope, totally missed that the other two were 100 years ahead as well

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ahhh a fellow midwesterner, I see.

[–] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah haha. Ope has to be one of my favorite words

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I picked it up rather quickly after moving here, and I didn't realize it til I was at a bar in Atlanta and said it twice as I was moving through a crowd and felt a tap on my shoulder, when I turned around she asked where in the Midwest I was from. 😅

[–] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

I feel that. I did my undergrad out in Pittsburgh and picked up 'yinz' (like y'all) while I was out there. Now yinz and yous guys (chicago-ism) do battle in my head and I never know which is going to leave my mouth

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm going to go ahead and say 2125. Either way, I won't be around to see it.