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BumRushDaShow

(164,063 posts)
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 07:09 PM 20 hrs ago

Idaho bar offering a month of free drinks to customers who help ICE make arrests

Source: The Independent

Sunday 30 November 2025 14:09 EST


An Idaho bar made a splash on social media after offering a month of free beer to customers who helped Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest undocumented immigrants.

The Old State Saloon in Eagle, a suburb of Boise, told customers on social media Saturday that “anyone who helps ICE identify and ultimately deport an Illegal from Idaho gets FREE BEER FOR ONE MONTH at Old State Saloon!”

The small town watering hole added that it “may award multiple months to one person if multiple illegals are deported.” The bar wrote that any customers who do so should send “a detailed email with any evidence, photos, videos, summary of events, dates and times” to the bar’s email.

The post quickly gained attention from many in the MAGA world who lauded the effort, while comments from anti-ICE Americans were few and far between. The eyebrow-raising offer comes as the Trump administration has sent hundreds of ICE agents into Democratic-led cities to target undocumented immigrants.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/idaho-bar-ice-arrests-free-beer-b2875294.html

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Idaho bar offering a month of free drinks to customers who help ICE make arrests (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 20 hrs ago OP
That is one hateful waterhole I will not be visiting... wcmagumba 20 hrs ago #1
A real livs Randomthought 20 hrs ago #2
Just wait, one of the bar's patrons will tag someone who is NOT an illegal immigrant, and ICE will illegally grab them, SWBTATTReg 20 hrs ago #3
"The Nazi Bar" markie 20 hrs ago #4
They didn't say WHAT beer. They are probably still trying to find a way to get rid of all that Bud Light they stocked.. Ol Janx Spirit 20 hrs ago #5
Idaho must not have any farms/ranches that lost immigrant laborers. Norrrm 20 hrs ago #6
But they did decimate a horse racing venue BumRushDaShow 19 hrs ago #7
Idaho: 3rd highest Trump net approval rating (#1 is Wyoming, #2 is West Virginia) progree 19 hrs ago #8
What I find interesting about those statistics... jmowreader 19 hrs ago #9
Plus BumRushDaShow 19 hrs ago #11
". . . has more cattle than people. " AverageOldGuy 17 hrs ago #16
I've disowned all my Idaho relatives. pfitz59 17 hrs ago #15
I've done the same with my MAGA siblings wolfie001 7 hrs ago #22
My Blue as F Maryland making me proud as F wolfie001 7 hrs ago #21
Just so you don't go there... jmowreader 19 hrs ago #10
Idaho should just stick to it's weird militias and potato farming mdbl 19 hrs ago #12
They had "Heterosexual Awesomeness Fest" during Pride month flvegan 18 hrs ago #13
If so.... sheeeesh! electric_blue68 1 hr ago #29
Another state I won't visit lonely bird 18 hrs ago #14
Okay. So you have one of your buddies dress up as ICE... hunter 16 hrs ago #17
If any of the free drink recipients had a conscience, the would be needing that beer DFW 11 hrs ago #18
This is what someone might do if they're planning a little insurance fraud. Grokenstein 11 hrs ago #19
I saw another OP that seems to describe this situation BumRushDaShow 10 hrs ago #20
I hope they go bankrupt. lark 6 hrs ago #23
Leave a Yelp review iemanja 3 hrs ago #24
Guessed it would be Eagle. maxsolomon 3 hrs ago #25
Swell, Bigots on Benders. What could possibly go wrong? Attilatheblond 3 hrs ago #26
As with the fascist J_William_Ryan 2 hrs ago #27
Perfect way to make mean drunks even meaner Torchlight 2 hrs ago #28
Idaho, particularly the handle portion, is home to a lot of the doomsday prepper, militia MAGA types. bearsfootball516 55 min ago #30
Yup John Coktosten 54 min ago #31

SWBTATTReg

(25,907 posts)
3. Just wait, one of the bar's patrons will tag someone who is NOT an illegal immigrant, and ICE will illegally grab them,
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 07:20 PM
20 hrs ago

at which point the family of the wrongly accused person that ICE grabbed (and that person) can sue the bar into closure, every penny they have, as they should. Some people just for the free beers will go to any length to get those beers, so in short, this is not a good idea.

Ol Janx Spirit

(513 posts)
5. They didn't say WHAT beer. They are probably still trying to find a way to get rid of all that Bud Light they stocked..
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 07:26 PM
20 hrs ago

...up on back when righties still drank it.

For them it's a twofer.


progree

(12,619 posts)
8. Idaho: 3rd highest Trump net approval rating (#1 is Wyoming, #2 is West Virginia)
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 07:49 PM
19 hrs ago

Map shows Trump's approval rating in each state after 10 months
Newsweek, 11/29/25
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/map-shows-donald-trump-s-approval-rating-in-each-state-after-10-months/ar-AA1Ro0uS

Recent Civiqs polling underscores that Trump’s popularity remains highest in traditionally Republican states such as Wyoming and Idaho.

But the president continues to face significant headwinds in Democratic states such as Hawaii and battleground states like Michigan. Overall, Civiqs puts his net approval at 39 percent, with his net disapproval rating standing at 56 percent. ((that's a net approval rating of -17% in my book (39-56=-17). I think they mistakenly included "net" twice in that above sentence -progree))

According to a new state-by-state breakdown, Trump‘s approval ratings remain positive in several Republican-dominated states, with the highest net approvals in Wyoming (+34 percent), West Virginia (+27 percent), Idaho (+23 percent), North Dakota (+18 percent), Montana (+17 percent), and Oklahoma (+17 percent).

Conversely, the president is experiencing significant disapproval in historically Democratic states, according to the polling. Hawaii reports a net approval of -55 percent, Vermont sits at -50 percent, Maryland at -44 percent, Massachusetts at -42 percent, California and Rhode Island at -40 percent, and Washington and Oregon at -36 percent.

Trump is underwater in all the 2024 battleground states

Below is an Imgur of the map
but it is "static", to see the map where you can mouse over each state and see its name and net approval rating pop up, click on this link:

https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/26517440/embed


jmowreader

(52,811 posts)
9. What I find interesting about those statistics...
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 08:01 PM
19 hrs ago

...is the places where he has net positive approval, they don't like him all that much either.

BumRushDaShow

(164,063 posts)
11. Plus
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 08:15 PM
19 hrs ago

the state with the smallest population of the 50 states (WY) has the highest approval. A state where it is often said, has more cattle than people.

wolfie001

(6,645 posts)
22. I've done the same with my MAGA siblings
Mon Dec 1, 2025, 08:17 AM
7 hrs ago

A lot of us and I only communicate with one of 'em. He keeps his yapper shut.

jmowreader

(52,811 posts)
10. Just so you don't go there...
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 08:05 PM
19 hrs ago

The Old State Saloon is at 50 State Street in Eagle. It's in the old Eagle Drug Store building, which makes sense because you'd have to be on drugs to think this is a good idea.

mdbl

(7,920 posts)
12. Idaho should just stick to it's weird militias and potato farming
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 08:34 PM
19 hrs ago

To quote Kathleen Madigan.

lonely bird

(2,650 posts)
14. Another state I won't visit
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 09:02 PM
18 hrs ago

Cut off the federal money to them. They can raise their state taxes.

hunter

(40,254 posts)
17. Okay. So you have one of your buddies dress up as ICE...
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 10:41 PM
16 hrs ago

... another buddy pretend to be "illegal," assist in an "arrest," and FREE BEER!



If "ICE" is masked, and the "illegal" is masked, you and your buddies can do it three times.

Free beer for all of you!

DFW

(59,515 posts)
18. If any of the free drink recipients had a conscience, the would be needing that beer
Mon Dec 1, 2025, 03:59 AM
11 hrs ago

But then, if they had a conscience, the wouldn't have been eligible for the freebies in the first place.

Grokenstein

(6,219 posts)
19. This is what someone might do if they're planning a little insurance fraud.
Mon Dec 1, 2025, 04:30 AM
11 hrs ago

"Oh no! ANTIFA done burnt mah bar down."

maxsolomon

(37,956 posts)
25. Guessed it would be Eagle.
Mon Dec 1, 2025, 12:11 PM
3 hrs ago

"Small town watering hole" isn't exactly accurate: Eagle is a booming suburb filled with generic American Mallscapes and masses and masses of Repukes.

It's where you live when you think Boise has too many Libs.

Attilatheblond

(7,936 posts)
26. Swell, Bigots on Benders. What could possibly go wrong?
Mon Dec 1, 2025, 12:36 PM
3 hrs ago

I see potential lawsuits ahead for that bar, not the least of which will be liability issues for over serving drunks who then get behind the wheel and kill people.

J_William_Ryan

(3,212 posts)
27. As with the fascist
Mon Dec 1, 2025, 01:23 PM
2 hrs ago

Trump regime, this isn’t about ‘illegal’ immigrants – it’s about the racist right keeping all persons of color out of the country.

Torchlight

(6,176 posts)
28. Perfect way to make mean drunks even meaner
Mon Dec 1, 2025, 01:28 PM
2 hrs ago

I imagine the owners are aware of the likely consequences of this and giggle to themselves about it every hour or so.

bearsfootball516

(6,667 posts)
30. Idaho, particularly the handle portion, is home to a lot of the doomsday prepper, militia MAGA types.
Mon Dec 1, 2025, 02:43 PM
55 min ago

Unfortunetly I'm not surprised by the article.

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