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BumRushDaShow

(161,132 posts)
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 07:35 AM Thursday

Stephen Miller Shouts Unhinged Message to Gun-Wielding Cops

Source: Daily Beast

Updated Oct. 2 2025 3:08AM EDT
Published Oct. 1 2025 9:57PM EDT


Stephen Miller issued a shocking directive to police officials in a fiery speech in Memphis.

The White House deputy chief of staff joined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi in Tennessee on Wednesday to promote Donald Trump’s so-called “Memphis Safe Task Force.”

In a rant aimed at motivating the federal law enforcement agencies operating in the state as part of Trump’s crackdown on a claimed crime wave, Miller told Memphis police officers they were now “unleashed” to fight crime by order of the president.

“We are sending in real cops with guns and badges to go out with you on the street every single night, making arrests,” Miller said. “These are people who have taken down drug cartel kingpins, the worst criminal offenders in the United States, standing with you, shoulder to shoulder to shoulder.”

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-miller-shouts-unhinged-message-to-gun-wielding-cops/

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Stephen Miller Shouts Unhinged Message to Gun-Wielding Cops (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Thursday OP
Steven Miller only went into politics... sop Thursday #1
LOL! Ray Bruns Thursday #2
Seeing that kept me from giving voice to what I really think & wish for him... hlthe2b Thursday #5
Now that's brutal. Truth hurts. marble falls Thursday #12
Let's be honest angrychair Thursday #18
Miller is extremely twisted democrank Thursday #3
Scared? No. OldBaldy1701E Thursday #7
Wow! Is miller directing a Gaza-like attack on Memphis? UpInArms Thursday #4
Wow, if he wasn't already bad enough, this is crazy bad. ananda Thursday #13
Whooooo-- Bayard Thursday #22
The residents already acquited cops who beat a motorist to death on camera exboyfil Thursday #6
You just know he has a burial ground somewhere for the bodies of the animals he kills. Solly Mack Thursday #8
The ghoul, Stephen Miller, sounds like he is ready to turn Memphis ultralite001 Thursday #9
Nosferatu Miller sop Thursday #11
Deranged in the true sense of the word. louis-t Thursday #10
They need to get that Farmer-Rick Thursday #14
He needs flying lessons Turbineguy Thursday #15
We've witnessed the brutality of "real cops" EarthFirst Thursday #16
He says there won't be a block in Memphis where a citizen has to be afraid MadameButterfly Thursday #17
Stay safe Memphians 🩵 Clouds Passing Thursday #19
In a sane country he'd be detained and institutionalized Blue Owl Thursday #20
I think Rebl2 Thursday #21
No brain damage... GiqueCee Thursday #25
Saw that Rebl2 Thursday #30
Since he was a baby? ReRe Thursday #33
Miller told Memphis police they were now "unleashed" ...by order of the president." Grins Thursday #23
I've been wondering lately if all the crazed, totally false bullshit spewing from Orange Julius Caesar's mouth generalbetrayus Thursday #24
Oh, I don't think... GiqueCee Thursday #26
Bingo. Permanut Thursday #27
Miller is the source, and Trump doesn't even know what's being said in his name. sop Friday #36
tough talk from a cuckold . Klarkashton Thursday #28
As part of Trump's crackdown on a CLAIMED* crime wave. Botany Thursday #29
Head of the SS Evolve Dammit Thursday #31
Reincarnated?! electric_blue68 Thursday #35
I think the Nazis froze Goebells and GOP just thawed him out?? Evolve Dammit 15 hrs ago #39
What do you do when an entire cabinet needs involuntary commitment orangecrush Thursday #32
There's a blurring here ReRe Thursday #34
Not sure why you are confident that that people will be read their rights, etc. OrwellwasRight Friday #37
I don't know. ReRe Friday #38

hlthe2b

(111,568 posts)
5. Seeing that kept me from giving voice to what I really think & wish for him...
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 08:43 AM
Thursday

So, thanks... It bubbles just below the surface, but I don't want to give verbal or written voice to it.

democrank

(11,814 posts)
3. Miller is extremely twisted
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 08:07 AM
Thursday

and….he has an enormous amount of power in this administration. That should scare almost anyone.

UpInArms

(53,477 posts)
4. Wow! Is miller directing a Gaza-like attack on Memphis?
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 08:14 AM
Thursday
“Every resource we have, federal, state, and local, we are going to use to dismantle their [criminal] networks without apology and without mercy,” Miller said. “Everything we have, we are going to bulldoze the criminal element of this city and liberate all the law-abiding citizens in this city.”

Claiming he wanted to eliminate “any physical space, anywhere” in Memphis where a citizen didn’t feel safe, a fired-up Miller then took his impassioned rant up a notch.

“This is Memphis, this is the United States of America, and all that bulls--t is done,” Miller blasted. “It’s over, it’s finished.”


ETA

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https://archive.ph/RT7bF

ananda

(33,469 posts)
13. Wow, if he wasn't already bad enough, this is crazy bad.
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 09:58 AM
Thursday

I mean, way over the deep end of sadistic psychopathy.

We have some really sick sadists operating with unchecked
power in this world: Trump, Miller, Netanyahu, etc... and a
lot of equally sick businesspeople looking to profit from it.

So let's say much of Memphis gets the "Bibi" treatment..

qui bono?

exboyfil

(18,304 posts)
6. The residents already acquited cops who beat a motorist to death on camera
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 08:53 AM
Thursday

All the guy did was run away from a traffic stop. Really no different than George Floyd.

Solly Mack

(95,814 posts)
8. You just know he has a burial ground somewhere for the bodies of the animals he kills.
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 09:26 AM
Thursday

Humans, being animals, included.

Farmer-Rick

(12,088 posts)
14. They need to get that
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 10:02 AM
Thursday

lightweight scrawny guy alone and see how tough he is when he's not hiding behind armed gestapo.

What a piece of shit he is. Full on Nazi traitor.

EarthFirst

(3,845 posts)
16. We've witnessed the brutality of "real cops"
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 10:26 AM
Thursday

…who have been hardened with military equipment and watched ‘beat cops’ turn into militarized urban assault squads; complete with uniforms and equipment that fit the bill.

If these ‘real cops’ aren’t the solution; we’re fucked when the actual military steps in; further emboldening traditional law enforcement.

We’ve entered an extremely dark period in our history.

Stay vigilant. Be prepared.

MadameButterfly

(3,609 posts)
17. He says there won't be a block in Memphis where a citizen has to be afraid
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 10:27 AM
Thursday

Yeah, except for all the innocent people afraid of being arrested without habeus corpus and sent to foreign prisons forever.
Right now that's immigrants, black and brown people.
Eventually, that would be all f us, if this were to continue.

These guys need some history lessons on why habeus corpus and police standards were instituted in the first place.
Then, if they think it can't happen to them, they need to study the French Revolution, for starters.
OK, Miller is a lost cause, but the public, and maybe some his sycophants could be educated

Rebl2

(17,050 posts)
21. I think
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 11:12 AM
Thursday

Miller needs to be locked up. Was he ever in the military? If so, I think he’s suffering from brain damage.

GiqueCee

(2,867 posts)
25. No brain damage...
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 02:16 PM
Thursday

... he's always been this evil. There's a video from 2003 of him on a school bus no less extolling the virtues of torture and chopping off the fingers of suspects. At least one of his uncles has openly expressed his utter contempt for this malignant spawn of Satan. Remember the movie, Rosemary's Baby? Miller is proof that it actually happened.
I'm sure there are many who would gladly pay for the privilege of pissing on his grave.

Rebl2

(17,050 posts)
30. Saw that
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 04:20 PM
Thursday

after I wrote this. Told my husband I would not be surprised if he didn’t kill or torture small animals as a child .

ReRe

(12,069 posts)
33. Since he was a baby?
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 07:07 PM
Thursday

If he has been bad since a baby, then he should have been institutionalized in grade school. If he wasn't physically abusive, but only verbally abusive, then it's a wonder he lived thru HS. When is this society going to put purely evil individuals behind bars? One can be evil without killing someone (e.g. my stepdad).

Grins

(8,917 posts)
23. Miller told Memphis police they were now "unleashed" ...by order of the president."
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 12:38 PM
Thursday

Memphis police DO NOT WORK for Trump!! Or anyone from Washington.

The mayor and police chief should remind that shriveled testicle of that fact.

generalbetrayus

(1,263 posts)
24. I've been wondering lately if all the crazed, totally false bullshit spewing from Orange Julius Caesar's mouth
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 02:11 PM
Thursday

(think: "war-ravaged Portland" ) has been coming directly to him from an equally crazed Stephen Miller.

sop

(16,293 posts)
36. Miller is the source, and Trump doesn't even know what's being said in his name.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 08:52 AM
Friday

During a Sunday morning phone interview with NBC White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, Trump referenced a weekend conversation with Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, and he alluded to being told by Kotek that the reality in Portland is different from what’s being portrayed to him: “I spoke to the governor, she was very nice,” Trump said. “But I said, ‘Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening? My people tell me different.’ "

Botany

(75,443 posts)
29. As part of Trump's crackdown on a CLAIMED* crime wave.
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 02:36 PM
Thursday

* not a claimed crime wave but a bald faced lie so he can send out ICE agents and the military to
enforce his dictatorship over America by picking up people and deporting them without due process,
beat people up, and claiming that it is now a crime to have free speech and talk against America.

There is no crime wave not unless you are looking @ Trump and company.

ReRe

(12,069 posts)
34. There's a blurring here
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 07:49 PM
Thursday

This is NOT ICE. These individuals will be read their rights, jailed, investigated & if guilty, prosecuted. If prosecuted & found guilty, then they will be imprisoned in TN. On top of that they will probably be facing Federal charges as well.

I think TN bit off more than it can chew. If they have already arrested 53 & 20 for illegal gun charges, whew! That state is going to be busy!

OrwellwasRight

(5,268 posts)
37. Not sure why you are confident that that people will be read their rights, etc.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 10:04 AM
Friday

In this rant, Steven Miller makes clear that people will be "exiled," that their money will be seized, that they will make up whatever charges they have to under whatever law they have. At the very end he remembers that he has to performatively give a nod to process, but he clearly doesn't mean it.

And looking at the people already killed in Chicago without due process, I think we now have evidence, not just supposition, that people won't be read their rights, investigated, and imprisoned only if found guilty. I think people will continue to be brutalized, Brownshirt style.




ReRe

(12,069 posts)
38. I don't know.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 09:12 PM
Friday

I don't recall it being announced that all police were to behave like ICE now. Is it just the blue cities in the blue states?
Of course, Memphis is not in a blue state.

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