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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUnreal. Watching the US/Denmark hockey game on Peacock - an ICE commercial? Really?
Showing them as pillars of humans, keeping the US safe from - what? photoshopped pics of people made to look as criminals?
We know who the true criminals are. It rhymes with "Lice"
Initech
(108,115 posts)Fuck ICE!
Traildogbob
(12,783 posts)Have not seen one on USAHD. Watching the game there.
Peacock helping to recruit murderers. The left needs to purchase time showing their brutality and murder.
With lots of Miller and Trump mug shots cheering it all on.
AStern
(765 posts)so I'm not surprised to hear this. FWIW, I'm watching the game on CBC. No ICE anything other than the playing surface.
Wiz Imp
(9,433 posts)And how do you know all the players are Trumpers?
AStern
(765 posts)Other sources: https://votehub.com/2026/01/20/the-political-lean-of-pro-sports/
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/brady-matthew-tkachuk-support-donald-182146087.html
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/01/21/nhls-american-players-among-the-most-right-leaning-in-pro-sports-report/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gaayLeBwE1FlgdehVbd-lg6l7H8U0-I3QeeHpFDfFto/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/aug/07/the-nhl-preached-inclusion-so-why-has-it-got-into-bed-with-donald-trump
The only NHLer/HoF that isn't a right wing asshole that I know of is Dominik Hasek
p.s. Who cares if they have nothing to due with commercials. NBC is catering to the conservative NHL/Hockey fan base.
allegorical oracle
(6,347 posts)between regular military members and choir boys. Sometimes they run four-per-hour, depending on what I'm watching. Wonder what's being spent to buy that time ad time.
cliffside
(1,632 posts)"Just 10 years ago, the annual budget for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, was less than $6 billion notably smaller than other agencies within the Department of Homeland Security. But ICE's budget has skyrocketed during President Trump's second term, becoming the highest-funded U.S. law enforcement agency, with $85 billion now at its disposal.
The windfall is thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, enacted last July. After hovering around the $10 billion mark for years, ICE's budget suddenly benefited from a meteoric spike.
"With this new bill and other appropriations, it's larger than the annual budget of all other federal law enforcement agencies combined," said Lauren-Brooke Eisen, senior director of the justice program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan policy institute..."
GoCubsGo
(34,784 posts)They were running them during the NFL playoffs, too, as well as in other non-sports programming. They're all over the free streaming channels you see on sites like Pluto TV.
