Late Late Night: Someone Has To Be Kidding Us

Oh, my goodness gracious and golly gee. Wait til you hear about this. They’re trying to do something to hopefully make people less afraid when they are in the neighborhood. They’re trying to make them more pleasant. This is ridiculous and just plain silly. Who had this not-bright idea that they thought *was* a bright idea? Thank you, Raw Story:

On Monday, the Trump White House appeared to float a trial balloon to rebrand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, changing the acronym so that instead of “ICE,” it would be “NICE.”

“ICE -> NICE AGENTS. ‘National Immigration and Customs Enforcement.’ DO IT!” said the official White House X account, posting an AI-generated image of an agent wearing “NICE” gear bent down to comfort a child, accompanied by the words “NICE AGENTS — DEFENDING OUR COUNTRY.”

If the administration had been hoping for a surge of MAGA support for the idea, it was drowned out by mockery and outrage from everyone else.

NICE agents? Give me, and us, a break! That is absolutely ridiculous, and it won’t catch on, because everyone has seen what ICE (and CBP) are really like. They are in no way NICE. What yahoo came up with this one? It’s lame. It will be ineffective. We still consider them ICE because they are *not* NICE. Sheesh! We could go around shredding that one for days!

“Dear @WhiteHouse: Where’s the agent’s mask?” asked Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA). “And is the agent comforting a kid that was just separated from his parents?”

“Orwellian word games won’t make tearing our society apart and violating our rights any nicer,” wrote David J. Bier, director of immigration studies at the libertarian Cato Institute.

“These people are just such an embarrassment to the United States of America,” wrote former Barack Obama communications strategist T.J. Adams-Falconer.

“This looks like a repurposed Hitler Youth one sheet,” wrote former congressional candidate Robert Jon Anderson.

“Nazi Inbred C*ck Edgelords,” wrote Twitch streamer “ConnorEatsPants.”

BOOM. They need to give it up. No one is going to use it. Everyone will still say ICE because they’re not NICE. Seriously, now, who came up with this? Mullin? Trump? Whoever did, it’s a flop. All it’s going to do is generate far more derision than they can handle. So, until the next batch of ridicule comes around, we’re done for the night.

See you tomorrow!

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