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Stephen Colbert blasts Trump's plan to deploy secret police throughout the U.S.

mimisabreena Wednesday, July 22, 2020 Mashable

This year is already frightening enough, but if there's anything 2020 has taught us, it's that things can always get worse. In an unfathomably terrifying development, unidentified federal agents in Portland, Oregon have been detaining protestors and loading them into unmarked vans. The U.S. has been in a tailspin for a while now, but this really, really does not bode well.

"We cannot have secret police abducting people in unmarked vehicles," said Oregon governor Kate Brown. "I can’t believe I have to say that to the President of the United States."

"Really, you can't believe that?" Late Show host Stephen Colbert responded on Tuesday. "Because it's just one in a long list of other things you shouldn't have to say to the president of the United States, like 'Frederick Douglass is dead,' 'Don't drink bleach,' and 'You can't date your daughter.'" Read more...