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Seth Meyers on Sen. Padilla Detainment: ‘This Is What It Looks Like to Live in a Police State’
Breitbart ^ | 06/20/2025 | Alana Mastrangelo

Posted on 06/20/2025 10:42:59 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

NBC late-night host Seth Meyers reacted to Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) being handcuffed after he stormed into the Department of Homeland Security’s press conference last week, claiming “This is what it looks like to live in a police state.”

During Wednesday’s episode of Late Night, Meyers played a clip of Sen. Padilla claiming he was not told why he was being arrested last week, after he burst into U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press briefing, saying, “This is what it looks like to live in a police state.”

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You said this Wednesday and now its Friday and you still on the air. What police state are you talking about again douchebag?
1 posted on 06/20/2025 10:42:59 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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What was it when people were tackled and arrested for being on the beach maskless? Or when King Biden and Fauci forced people to not go to work, close their businesses, forced vaccines to keep your job or stay in the military?

Was that a police state, Seth?

2 posted on 06/20/2025 10:46:07 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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you can’t hate these leftists enough folks. After what they did to us during covid they blame the right for being authoritarian. They are the kings of projection.


3 posted on 06/20/2025 10:47:09 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Lizavetta

AMEN


4 posted on 06/20/2025 10:47:36 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Coast Guard and police apprehend a paddle-boarder for ignoring lockdown...  April, 2020 : r/pics
5 posted on 06/20/2025 10:48:51 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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I remember that pissing me off in 2020


6 posted on 06/20/2025 10:49:13 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think his 15 minutes is up.


7 posted on 06/20/2025 10:49:23 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How about raiding Mar-a-Lago, with shoot-to-kill orders, allegedly because the opposition candidate dud exactly the same thing the president did? Is that action like a police-state?


8 posted on 06/20/2025 10:50:34 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
safe AND effective (they said)

COVID-19(84) - GLOBAL TYRANNY 🌍🌎🌏 GLOBAL EVIL

A WORLDWIDE 🌎🌏🌍 DECEPTION, too

DRY RUN? Lotsa parallels


Seems like many governments follow Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum


9 posted on 06/20/2025 10:56:35 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yet you said nothing when the Biden DOJ, the FIB and the DC Swamp courts were trampling on American’s civil liberties left and right for 4 years. You’re just a lying, hypocritical piece of excrement Seth. You have nothing to say that is worth listening to.


10 posted on 06/20/2025 10:57:15 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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He was detained for impersonating a 12 year old girl.


11 posted on 06/20/2025 10:58:28 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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Did Seth say anything the last four years? January 6th protestors being kept in solitary confinement? Pro life advocates praying silently and then being arrested at gunpoint at their homes? Moms being pursued for speaking their mind at school board hearings? Political opponents being arrested in multiple jurisdictions on spurious charges? How about during the COVID era - lockdowns, business closures, being fired for refusing an experimental vaccine?


12 posted on 06/20/2025 11:01:51 AM PDT by SunStar (Democrats piss me off!)
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Actually, this is what happens when you run into a press conference held by a Presidential Cabinet secretary acting like a raving lunatic.


13 posted on 06/20/2025 11:04:22 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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That occurred to me as well. If we were truly in a police state or dictatorship, someone spouting off as he did, would be summarily removed from the airwaves, and be in jail.

Heck if this was a ruthless dictatorship with Trump, people like these so called late night comedians would be afraid to say such things. They would be fearful for their safety. Clearly they are not feeling any fear of saying what they say.

This is one of those inconvenient truths.


14 posted on 06/20/2025 11:06:54 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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I did not see the press conference. But I heard he was behaving erratically, and did not identify himself as a US Senator. Not all members of Congress are immediately recognizable on sight. For all they knew, he was a raving lunatic.


15 posted on 06/20/2025 11:09:37 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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One of the portrayals often seen in the movies and television is the UNITED STATES SENATOR demanding something, just because they are a SENATOR.

The scene could be in a restaurant, entertainment venue, etc. It is basically “I DEMAND you pay attention to ME! I am more important!”

Senator panties-in-a-wad seems to have watched too much TV.

PS - He had no ID and just barges into the room. As far as security was concerned, he could have been anyone.

Turns out he is not nobody.


16 posted on 06/20/2025 11:15:04 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try - AND - Every Time You Fall Down, Get The Frak Up! )
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Padilla is a 68 IQ overgrown emotionally unstable moron that stormed into an official government proceeding, shouted down a presidential cabinet member, resisted LEO’s present and lunged towards her. The bunghole should shut his pie hole because he really is lucky he can still walk and breathe. Which he certainly would not be able to do if I was on her security detail.


17 posted on 06/20/2025 11:21:38 AM PDT by jpp113
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To: Lizavetta

A STEADY DRUM BEAT OF STUPID

SETH-—IS SOMEONE APPROACHED ME IN THE SAME MANNER-—
THEY WOULD NOT WALK AWAY

THE CORONER MIGHT BE THE NEXT PERSON INVOLVED


18 posted on 06/20/2025 11:25:25 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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OF—— NOT IS. SORRY


19 posted on 06/20/2025 11:27:16 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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IF—— NOT IS. SORRY


20 posted on 06/20/2025 11:27:27 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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