Mike Kilo

I'll take you up on your offer, CP. My choice for President in 2028? @GregoryKBovino That’s right. You heard me. Greg Bovino for POTUS! I know he’s not a polished candidate with a donor Rolodex and a consultants’ kitchen cabinet. I don’t care. Let’s draft him. He has my support for two main reasons: (1) he is the only major figure who can hold the MAGA (or is it time to call it the post-MAGA?) coalition together by delivering on the single most important promise that created it, viz, ending the third-world shitification and Islamofication of America; and (2) as the man who actually ran the biggest, most aggressively successful interior enforcement operation in modern American history, he has shown himself to be a bold executive capable of making the tough calls that career politicians and even most Trump appointees will not. Before I get into it, two disclaimers are necessary because PolitiX is what it is: First, I am not being paid by anyone connected to Bovino, the Border Patrol, or any bourbon brand he may or may not be endorsing. (Although I'm open to it. <G>) If you need to believe otherwise, there is a stack of dunce caps by the door labeled “I believe every CNN narrative.” Put one on and stop reading. Second, primary season is not general election season. Fight hard for your guy. Or gal. Once the nominee is set, get behind him. Or her. I will. Bovino, DeSantis, Vance, Rubio, whoever. Or DeSantis-Rubio, Rubio-Vance, Bovino-Hegseth, Vance-Rubio, Rubio-Hegseth, whatever, whatever. There are 24 possible permutations among those 4 names.) The cause - saving our Republic - comes first. So back to Bovino. ***Undeniably, Bovino Is the Most Badass MAGA of the Big Beautiful Bunch*** Of all the viable potential GOP Presidential candidates, Bovino is the purest expression of the actual MAGA priority that built the movement in the first place. MAGA is five big ideas. One of them towers over the others for the base: ending unchecked immigration. Not “reforming” it. Not “securing the border while expanding legal pathways.” Ending the invasion and removing the people who are already here. The other candidates talk about it. Bovino lived it on the street, in the cities, for thirty years. Greg is not a media personality who discovered the border in 2016. He joined the Border Patrol in 1996. He spent his career catching illegal aliens when the political class was busy pretending the problem didn’t exist or was a feature not a bug. When the Trump administration decided to actually do interior enforcement at scale in sanctuary cities, Bovino was the guy they put in charge. Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans, Minneapolis. He led the operations. He talked the talk and he walked the walk. He was the public face. He took the political hits. “America First”? Bovino’s entire professional life has been the enforcement of American sovereignty against the open-borders consensus. Immigration is not one issue among many for him. It is the issue. The other potential candidates have mixed records, donor pressures, or institutional caution. Bovino has the opposite problem: he was considered too aggressive by the very administration that appointed him. Fighting the Deep State and the sanctuary machine? That was the job. He was relieved of command in 2023 under Biden for telling the truth to Congress about the border. He was later elevated, then sidelined again after Minneapolis. The pattern is clear: when the mission is actually enforced, the institutional antibodies treat the cure as a cancer cell and activate. That is a feature for a candidate, not a bug. **Bovino Is Effective** It is not enough to be MAGA on paper. We need someone who will actually do the job. Bovino has already done the hardest part of the job under the worst conditions. He led large-scale, high-visibility enforcement operations inside American cities while local politicians, media, and protesters tried to stop him. He produced results measured in thousands of arrests. He did it without a political career to protect or a consultant telling him to “soften the language.” The media and the left treated him as the villain precisely because the operations were working. That is the track record of an executive, not a talker. Like Trump and, TBT, like Hegseth (who I really like), he is not a career politician. He is a career law enforcement officer who spent decades in the operational end of the most politically radioactive issue in American life. The President is the Chief Executive. Bovino has already demonstrated the willingness to make the unpopular, high-stakes decisions that produce measurable enforcement outcomes. Most of the other names being floated have never had to own that kind of operational responsibility. **But They Hate Him!** Yes, he has baggage. Minneapolis was ugly. Two American citizens were killed by federal agents during the operations. Bovino’s public comments after one of the shootings were blunt to the point of being politically radioactive even inside the Trump administration. He was removed. The media called him a provocateur, a fascist, a liability. But they called Reagan, Bush, Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney, and John McCain literally Hitler too. They called Maggie Thatcher literally Hitler. Heck, they called Pope John Paul II literally Hitler, too. But what's new? If you're not a Democrat you're literally Hitler. <YAWN> You know who else has baggage the legacy paleomedia treats as disqualifying? Donald Trump. The difference is that Bovino’s baggage comes from having actually run the operations the base voted for. The hatred is not abstract. It is the hatred of results. The same outlets that spent years downplaying border chaos suddenly discovered the precise limits of federal enforcement power the moment those powers were used in Democratic cities. That reaction is predictable. It is also evidence that the man in question was not playing by the old rules. The media will never like a candidate who treats mass illegal immigration as a problem to be solved rather than a constituency to be groomed. Bovino has already lived that reality at scale. The Teflon effect that protected Trump is available to anyone the media cannot process rationally. Bovino qualifies. **Bovino ’28!** To recap: 1. He is the candidate most defined by the core MAGA issue, viz, ending the immigration invasion, rather than a generalist who can recite rote talking points. 2. He has an operational track record of leading the largest interior enforcement actions in recent memory, not just talking about them. 3. Like Trump, he is not a politician. He is a longtime operator who has already absorbed the political cost of doing the job. 4. The media and the institutional left hate him for the same reason they hated Trump: he is willing to treat sovereignty as non-negotiable. That hatred is a signal, not a disqualification. There are plenty of polished potential candidates. Most of them will hedge on the issue that matters most to the people who actually deliver Republican votes. Bovino will not. If the goal is to hold and grow the MAGA coalition rather than manage its expectations, he is the clearest available choice. Bovino ’28.

The halal MREs are low-key the best.

IMO hotter than that Chicom spy lady.

So much better than the Fuddy "I lost all of my guns in a boating accident."

FFS stop it with this stupid Fudd trope. It was kinda funny, maybe, once. Like for one day on AOL. 35 years ago. No, you didn't lose all of your guns. You still have them. And the world you should know that you're be willing to use them if you have to. Man up.

Rage bait.

I've been called a lot of things, but never a "boomer". That's the worst possible thing you can call a Gen-Xer. As for racism charge. <YAWN> It's pure projection given the historical reality that gun control has always been racist AF.

Where is the Yakuza when you need it?

Serious question: does a doctor's medical malpractice insurance cover advice given to patients regarding their "gun habits"? Bear in mind that, to be complete, any such advice cannot be limited to "just lock your guns up so you can't get them quickly enough" but must necessarily include advice on defensive gun tactics responsive to, say, a home invasions and burglaries.

Accurate.

This is so racist.

As a transactional lawyer, I get this. It usually goes something like, "Hey, Mike. You see we just did this deal ..."

This one hits hard.

You could drop the White House into the new ballroom and lose it.

Rage baiting.

It's a worse crime for a drunken white girl to act like a drunken monkey than it is for a BIPOC to physically assault a white girl. Priorities.

The lawfare has begun.

I guess I lost this debate with Grok. Because science or something.

This is spot on. Even the vegan thing.

lol

Woke white western liberal courts have apparently decided that nobody from the third-world is capable of being held accountable for any of their actions. First, they have to respect immigrant rape and murder culture. Second, immigrant IQs average so low that all immigrants must be regarded as functionally lobotomized.