The real criminals are in the whitehouse

Something about their gait and bullet proof vests make them look a bit scared and uncomfortable to be walking in a city park.

This lady in the blue shorts must be having a day. lol

Took a family vacation to DC two years ago. So unsafe that we let the kids wander around by themselves to get photos and ice cream 🍦

😂

That's so stupid. A waste of taxpayer money and making the city unsafe for all of the wealthy post-gentrification residents who like to jog and walk their dogs around town every evening.

Hey I saw Forrest jump into the reflecting pool and that’s a no-no.

What a waste of money and damage to our democracy this administration is.

What are these 6 dudes waddling around actually doing?

Right? Certainly not instilling fear into the residents.

Well, at least it'll be hot as balls for the next week. Should get nice and steamy under those vests.

More wasteful spending.

Looks like a new MAGA gang is moving in.

Some poor Krishna, who tried to sell a beaded bracelet near the Smithsonian Metro, is going to be halfway to Guantanamo before they figure out his parents live in Potomac.

Small-dick energy in full-effect.

oh ya, and "we look stupid."

These guys have got to be thinking to themselves: "this is f'n stupid."

Listen, I am not saying DC doesn’t have problem areas. But the fact they are focusing on the Mall shows you they are not actually trying to solve the problem but simply to make visual statement of power and authoritarianism.

Do they actually think a few fat, out-of-shape dudes with ill-fitting Etsy riot "gear" shows power? I almost wet myself laughing. "Bad Boys" they fer damn sure ain't!

You noticed their lack of fitness too. They'll get some exercise walking around the mall.

With stops along the way for the snacks they keep in those "vests"?

They're little bitches

Yup.

I think they actually do think that.

I think so too. The combination of no self-awareness and self-delusion is powerful in these guys.

The only people actually joining the feds right now are Meal Team Six and Gravy Seals types. Cosplayers who want an excuse to legally shoot black people, basically.

Scary, ain't it?

These are the replacement guys, the real cops are at lunch.

As someone who did live there when much of the city was dangerous (we loved the ganja gang on the corner of Euclid because they kept the more dangerous dealers out and were very nice) DC is not a scary place. Plus, one can just look at the readily available statistics that show DC crime at a low.

They will all be rushing off to South America when this is all over Nazi see Nazi do . The German Nazis found free haven there so will the American Nazis

Right! Looks scary, doesn’t it?

The normalization of these images is the point.

This is a freaking holiday for these guys..talk about wasting taxpayers money

FUCKING WASTE AND ABUSE OF TAX PAYER DOLLARS. Like we aren’t paying enough for the tariffs? #FUCKTRUMP #FUCKPUTIN #FUCKTHAGOP Fucking treasonous traitors against the United States, our allies, the free world, and everyone who fights for democracy 💯

What's the temp in DC today, I hope they fry their asses off.

Tragically pleasant for August. 80s. Also totally not scary crime ridden etc. Here’s the scary National Mall.

They all look like they will soon pass out. Good for them

They need to raid the White House.

Republicans love to waste money doing useless shit to solve nonexistent problems.

They don't even attempt to wear any type of coordinating "uniform"

Seriously, the Mall?

Just another day in the gradual descent into fascism. Go about your normal business. Everything is fine. We have always been at war with Eurasia and whatnot.

Where women are so afraid of crime that they run alone.

I knew those bus loads of midwestern 8th graders were up no good. Sure, they sold chocolate bars for a dollar to get there, but what else do you think they're selling?

Caravans of youth coming to terrorize DC. We see them all the time in their gang colors hanging around DC obviously up to no good.

Hemp friendship bracelets! We could get addicted to rough natural fibers.

At least they're getting their steps in, I guess.

MAHA!

"If I'm committing crimes openly in D.C. everyone else must be, too." Trump, probably.

In autocracies, terrorizing citizens is never a waste of time or money. It’s the way.

This is the ultimate result of performative politics. The Republicans have been using performative politics for ages to get elected, create media moments, and foment outrage on the right. They are now just governing with performative governance. Not solving problems, just acting like it.

Why is always fat white guys in fake gear they don't even know how to wear properly. Bunch of wannabes

The way I see it, the more these jerkoffs are milling around aimlessly, they aren’t somewhere else violating someone’s civil rights.

Embarrassing

I'm stealing this.😁😁😁

What a waste! Crime is lowest in DC it’s been in years! Trump is an imbecile!

I know this is your point, but in all of DC this is where I feel the SAFEST

What a sad life if you only think DC is the only place you feel safe.

I love the Mall.

More tax dollars being wasted. The spigot will eventually run dry.

They need to be greeted with a hearty “f*ck you” from everyone they meet.

Have they slammed any brown skinned joggers on the mall to the ground ?? No? Guess that mission has not been accomplished; yet.

The Lady running is probably in far better shape than the goons with the tac gear...

She’s certainly taller…

We mustn't stigmatize people on what is presumably their first day of vigorous exercise in years

😂🤣😂

Why do they look like Meal Team Six

This is always the problem w/ bored beat cops suddenly congregating together. One bored LEO is bad enough, 4 of them desperately finding something to do (i.e. harass the public over minor infractions) quickly becomes some sort of confrontation to ease the boredom. It's an asinine cycle.

One of them will need to eat or use the can & suddenly their undying need for preferential treatment kicks in. They start to line jump, or subtly ask for something that isn't a usual thing. Once someone pushes back or complains, that person then becomes a target & a reason is found to arrest them.

And the people who receive the brunt of this targeting are the homeless and mentally ill. Not to mention your skin color having a huge impact in LEOs suddenly finding fault in the smallest interaction. For any other profession, this behavior would be damning, but we are forced to coddle our LEOs.

Hammer looking for a nail

I expect tourists will be harassed. You know, them Hospanics that Trump & Co are terrified of taking away their white privilege.

omg how embarrassing for them

Hey Amerika. Sieg heil!

Canada needs to build a wall. Reinforced with drones capable of carrying dirty radioactive bombs. Or just fly some jets along border to create Chem trails. That would deter them🤪😵‍💫🇨🇦🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🇨🇦🇨🇦🦫

Will Meal Team Six ever have enough self awareness to understand just how pathetic they look?

They are a national joke.

DEA should be looking in the White House if they’re looking for drugs

Meal Team 6

I don't see any crime happening, I guess it's working!

what concerns me is that lady jogging hardly breaks her stride.

She knows what it is like here in Trumpland. Crazy

All that Kevlar sure makes me feel safe. LOL I was there with 250K other people and I never once saw a Kevlar bedecked goon waddle down the path. I think they would have been ridiculed then.

All cities are “hellscapes” except for those of us that live in them and don’t see it but sure… we’ll believe what you say not what we see and experience!

The most famous felon in America lives right there.

This is insanity. The Handmaid's Tale takeover is happening right in front of our eyes. Armed federal agents are rousting the homeless. They're snatching immigrants and sending them to gulags. Anything could happen next. When will we actually get angry?

Do these rough, tough HE-men have any idea how ridiculous they look parading down the mall in their tactical gear?

Glad to see ICE drop the age limit so grandpa can get his steps in.

Every republican in Washington shouldn't be able to buy a pot to piss in until this bullshit is rescinded

At least they are getting their steps in. Maybe this is a diabolical plan to get them into shape.

Ah yes. Walked this stretch as a tourist with my 10 year old daughter last year at around 9:30 at night. Coming over from the MLK statue where there were about 10 different class trips stopping for a visit after the sun had gone down. Dangerous 🙄

😄

How ridiculous they look patrolling. And it's to pacify an infantile paranoid old dude!

those dudes can't even catch their breath

😂👌

😂😂😂😂

Any opportunity to have uniformed thugs in the public eye

The way these guys are literally waddling in sloppy gear isn't impressing anybody. It's setting them up for well deserved mockery.

she doen not have indicator lights, not street legal.

This is catnip for people who think Barry is still mayor.

Bro it’s obvious how tremendously goofy this is just from the shot of the woman casually jogging while these assholes in tactical gear try to look menacing.

Heard they got museums over there…

Just wait until the school trips start. Hungry 6th graders, the most dangerous of villains

At this point, it's just getting people desensitized to constant police presence in everyday life and normalizing their actions. Life leading up to police state. The more people will look away instead of calling it out for what it is.

They already have a dedicated police force for the national sites in DC… this is just hilariously authoritarian nonsense.

At least they're getting their steps in.

There’s a rapist pedophile in the White House go get him

30 years ago we went to the Smithsonian for a high school field trip and then had lunch on the Mall. We watched some guy get beat up and his shoes stolen in broad daylight in front of 250 gawking teenagers

that was 30 years ago. crime was honestly more prevalent in DC back then. there's no excuse for trump to order this NOW with crime rates at historic lows in the metro (and across most of America).

I'm just guessing, but these are the guys management figured they could do without.

Don’t these fat azz incels have any PT requirement? Couldn’t pull the lid off a yogurt much less outrun anyone.

Yeah. Lived here for more than 20 years and raised three kids in the city. Closest thing I ever came to an altercation was when I almost hit a jogger who turned out to be my daughter’s soccer coach. Scary shit up here. Bring in the Natty!

Not exactly thrilled with their new assignment and it shows... You're either part of the solution or a part of the problem, boys.

😂…..Everyday is more ridiculous than yesterday.

Those clowns aren’t going anywhere where they might face actual resistance.

Well he finally got around to sending federal troops to the Capitol. It’s only five years too late.

you win the internet today!

Getting their 10,000 steps in.

They look like fools.

I was just thinking that, too. Ridiculous. You can't even parody this because it's ALREADY parody.

💯

#arrestICE #arrestTrump

I get the sense that these are preparations for the uprising that is about to occur based on trumps next moves. The question is what?!

Senseless

Presumably giving out lots of citations for Peddling without a License

Did they get these guys to return as retired annuitants? Isn’t there an annual Physical Fitness requirement?

Gravy Team.

I'm sure the admin will claim that the runners only came out because of the new presence and the claim will be covered credulously.

They must feel like complete wankers.

At this point, we’re just paying heavily armed tourists with the money Republicans stole from rural hospitals and hungry children.

This is pretty consistent with how I assumed this would roll out. Photo ops with military-looking dudes in tourist photo op place that I don’t think could run a mile let alone a sub-10 minute one

Moseying around for eight hours.

The 3 you can see clearly, can be outrun by me no problem….and Ima old lady! 🤣

Nice morning for a walk. DC in August can be brutal

Not one of those male clowns could jog if they had to!!!

Fair point. #fascism is scary and awful, but it’s also really fucking #stupid and dumb-looking 😆 Nice vests, idiots! Were they tailored to your wives or your daughters? 🤣 #fascists #laughatfascists #lolatfascists #dumb #idiots

Pirro said the National Guard are there to defend the Zoo and National Gallery for the visitors to Washington. Yes, that honorable force of patriotic people, signed up for the Guard to defend the Zoo and the Galleries. Trump dishonors eveybody.

They look like they lost their tour group and can’t find their bus.

lost their tour group and can't find their *Penske rental box truck ;)

This reminds me of the time George HW Bush ordered the DEA to use one of their undercover agents to lure a drug dealer to the Ellipse, so they could bust him there, and Bush could say on TV that crime had gotten so bad they were now arresting dealers next door to the WH

Not even a dealer, a kid who just acted as a go between iirc

Walkies.

They kind of look like they are embarrassed and just trying to blend in as tourists.

OT, but I like your new userpic!

Thank you!

They look ridiculous in all their gear while people are just strolling and jogging. What a waste.

I'm sure there are areas of the city that might benefit from extra eyes, but just like with LA, I'm also sure they're not focusing on those. Because this isn't about crime.

They could start with the Oval Office.

The convicted felon rate in the WH is skyrocketing!

Much like federales in 3rd world countries. Nice work

We need to start a bail/legal account for protesters & if any money is left over at the end of this regimes rein, it could be donated to the ACLU or whoever the people think it should go to. Some people can't risk protesting without support of bail money.

It leads right up to a den of criminals — the MAGA/GOP congressman and senators who are aiding and abetting a 34-times convicted felon and probably pedophile who is destroying America.

I have always loved to visit DC in the past, but I won't be going again any time in the foreseeable future. The authoritarian street security theater is bad enough, but it just hurts my heart to think of the extent to which it has been degraded by the Republicans.

You see this is 3rd world countries in tourist areas and grocery stores. Join the FBI so you can become glorified security guards and mall cops!

Lord I used to wander around in the middle of the night with girlfriends at this very spot! Where there were park police secret service and dc police already

Gang o’thugs

I love that the optics are not doing what the TV guy wanted them to do.

Fat ignorant white thugs who couldn’t get a job anywhere else.

Send them to anacostia or something. Too scared to do a beat there

These dudes look like mall cops.

One of the few comic images from all the books we read on autocracy and fascism.

They want us comfortable with a police presence before the religious zealots and techno-lords get the reigns of power.

You know, according to Trump, where all the Black people hang out and are committing crimes.

It will also discourage large protests

The usual knuckle-draggers.

"The National Mall. A wretched hive of scum and villainy."

Bust that suspicious-looking ponytailed female jogger!

With all due respect, they look like a gaggle of schlumps who can’t do anything else but walk around in army costumes to make a living.

Der Shitler is doing this to build a wall of military and LEO to isolate himself from resistance to his eventual declaration of martial law. This is a calculated move. Any other so-called analysis from MSM is head-in-the-sand ignorance.

I think anyone that sees the feds like this should just yell “the criminals are in the White House!” Again and again.

With no particular purpose or plan, it’s merely for show, to send a message. Don enjoys sending a message. Thank you for your attention to this matter…..

Interesting, you people are making light of this deployment. What you will soon be seeing is the arrest of your citizens on false charges. These officers will be ordered to meet quotas of arrests. I have seen this in other countries who fell into the depths of authoritarian rule.

The current regime has entitlement issues and has been self-sabotaging for a decade. Here is the post mortem from Los Angeles www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

3 pseudo cops for every jogger

DEA, no uniforms or dress code. Even the utility companies have the same shirts. You realize of course that mango Mussolini is just going to show this video and tell everyone what a great job "his" DEA is doing even though this could have been filmed last week with the same serenity.

They had to buy their own kevlar vests. That's the cost to join this sad looking gang of wimps.

Question is why does Trump really want to take over Washington DC?

What an insane waste of time and resources. I know the point is to move us towards martial law, but this is also just SO stupid and wasteful.

I get the sense a lot of this is just straight up revenge for DC making Trump look really bad in 2020.

Insured and ridiculous.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

not needed and it’s a threat. visible threat

White collar don’t look too close sort of crimes.

Fuck these losers

What an utter waste of resources

I hope those guys feel like fools.

This is such a great video to show the distorted reality of Trump and MAGA

Waste of money! Against the Constitution 🤬

Let’s see this Meal Team Six pass the Presidential Fitness Test. 🤣

some say that Captain America is a criminal

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Another distraction from Epstein.

Relevant tune: ohhisteve.substack.com/p/but-we-jus...

The White House IS a den of crime.

Do you see! That jogger is a secret antifa sleeper cell agent who awakens at the word soy boy. OMG, WHAT HAVE I DONE!

Do they give you the impression that they are "professional agents" or a group of keystone kops?

Better go after the suits in D.C.

Makes you wonder if it’s just that big balls got beat or is that orange menace to society going to hand over Alaska to his bestie Friday.

police and federal agents shouldn’t be allowed to be fat. i’m just gonna say it.

Why do I hear “Staying Alive” when I watch this?

Paul Blart: ICE unit. These guys out here expecting to play candy crush at the churro kiosk confused it’s not that kind of mall.

19-year-old DOGE employee Big Balls throws a male Karen tantrum and gets an old-fashioned ass-kicking. Meanwhile, the POTUS diverts the DEA from busting cartels and fighting the drug trade to stage a distraction from the Epstein files cover-up by parading them around DC.

Now would be a perfect time for another country to invade us, with our military deployed to bully, harass, and disappear our own citizens and the clown car leading the administration.

Two of our biggest adversaries won’t lift a finger — and here’s why. Putin’s dream is watching America implode like the Soviet Union, using a complicit U.S. administration to gut us from the inside. While we burn bridges, China is seizing the world we’re abandoning.

Exactly.

All those "drug enforcement" thugs, dressed like a bunch of early morning drunks, should scare up some Ozempic. Why are they all fat and slovenly? More of the Jan. 6 convicts at work??

They're just trying to get their steps in.

They are test-running a Martial Law-lite in DC, to see how much the local population tolerates it.

WTF

A bunch of racist slobs.

Hope they enjoy their stay in DC on our dime

Well you can tell them to go to the White House and arrest a Pedo

Where is DOGE now?? I found some waste, fraud, and abuse...

I would have such a hard time not confronting these goons. Good thing I’m in Canada or I would be in a gulag somewhere in Florida

They look out of shape compared to the woman running. Only thing they’re protecting is the Twinkie aisle.

Did they get lost looking for a Dunkin’?

Meal Team 6 reporting for duty.

I mean. The nation's capital is after all a hotbed of people who hate the government. Just like everywhere, at this point.

Lincoln, NE for instance.

Those fat fucks can't even catch their breath, let alone a criminal

I feel so much safer now. Are we great yet?

If you thought tourism industry was terrible last week…. His killing the USA in every possible way.

We live in the Age of Unenlightenment. Someone needs to walk beside them playing "Entrance of the Gladiators" by Julius Fučík.

The only crime is the outrageous prices at beverage carts on the mall

need a video of these lard asses next to normal metro cops that are already at the mall every day

They're warily scanning for somebody jogging while being hispanic-looking

DC area resident for over 30 years. This is comical

A waste of time and money, all so Trump can try to portray himself as a hard ass.

Poor pitiful pathetic ICEstapo, afraid to go anywhere w/o their guns & combat vests.

They look like your average ICE Gestapo scumbag criminal traitors.

do we use any uniforms any more?

This is fantastically silly. Horrifying, but also silly. They should be laughed at.

I’ve been taken aback by military policing in Paris with guns straddling across their chests. And in Brazil. The case in DC hits me harder. I lived there for 8 years. trump is afraid of people. So many want him disappeared he will disappear all. It’s his only gambit. His will is law.

Performative bullshit.