Department of Homeland Security quotes Sandler film

In the latest indication that the United States is well on its way to fulfilling the destiny laid out in Idiocracy, the X account of the department responsible for stuff like ‘nuclear incident response’ continues to sound increasingly like a teenage troll.

Department of Homeland Security: going rogue

The Department of Homeland Security used a quote from the Adam Sandler film Billy Madison in response to CNN pundit Maria Cardona, who had said:

[Immigration and Customs Enforcement] ICE is engaging in egregious, criminal behaviour, violating peoples’ civil rights, kidnapping, and snatching innocent men, women, and children off the streets, even detaining American citizens! While doing it, not identifying themselves, hiding their faces, not telling people why they are being taken. This is not normal!

The Department of Homeland Security reply took the form of the put down given to Sandler’s character by a quiz show host in the 1995 film:

What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things Americans have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent statement were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone is now dumber for having listened to it.

Far from… https://t.co/IR1EfIJqYN

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) October 13, 2025

Rambling, incoherent – isn’t that your typical Trump speech?

Now, this might seem like a response that would fit better in reply to virtually any public pronouncement from their boss, a certain Donald J. Trump, but the Department of Homeland Security instead used it in to lambast entirely valid criticism of its rights violating policies. ICE has been running amok during Trump’s second term, with its agents kidnapping people off the streets and deporting them into grim dungeons overseas. This is done on the pretext that those taken have violated immigration law, but this claim often cannot be verified due to the often total absence of due process followed. This had been going on since even before Trump’s escalation. Its masked agents have in many cases wrongly imprisoned American citizens.

Trump’s latest moves involve the attempted deployment of troops to supposedly crime-ridden cities like Chicago and Portland, though it appears to be a thin pretext disguising an attempt to intimidate political rivals by sending military personnel to Democrat strongholds. The man who recently told a room full of generals of his desire for them to crack down on “the enemy within” has been fighting the matter in the courts.

Others chimed in on the juvenility of the Department of Homeland Security tweet:

ok its undeniable – we are living under ROG – Redditor Occupied Government. There was probably some Mckinsey contracted study that found that epic le-troll quote tweets work well on impressionable young white supremacists and now this is all we have https://t.co/ONKkavog9i

— Dilzman Vs Dilzsociety (@DILZMAN) October 14, 2025

ICE – supporting your right to do what we say

There’s no denying that the Department of Homeland Security on X resembles a cross between your average far-right vigilante account and one run by a military-obsessed 14 year-old. Nakedly fascistic imagery abounds, with endless slow-mo clips of heavily armed, uniform clad meatheads deployed on US streets. One reposted missive aims to reassure with the bromide that now sets alarm bells ringing when heard on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean – “We supports the right to protest, but…”:

Interfering with our agents or operations will lead to consequences.

We support the right to protest, but public and agent safety is non-negotiable.

Zero tolerance. The mission continues. 🇺🇸#DHS #CBP #USBP #OpMidwayBlitz #Chicago pic.twitter.com/KQvlCRIvdC

— Commander Op At Large CA Gregory K. Bovino (@CMDROpAtLargeCA) October 13, 2025

We support the right to protest, but…not if you say something we don’t like.

We support the right to protest, but…not any with politics we don’t agree with.

We support the right to protest, but…not for much longer.

It was left to @crystalkangg to get at some core underlying truths:

the fact this is real is so funny. fuck ice. fuck trump, fuck christopher columbus. no one is illegal on stolen land, we’ve all been illegal since 1492. https://t.co/0ueZ80iDBJ

— crystal (@crystalkangg) October 13, 2025