There have been quite a lot of violence directed towards ICE of late. Attempted ambushes of ICE officers, attacks on their buildings. A man was killed in Los Angeles when he arrived, armed, to attack ICE officers (the LA Times that day, of course, ran with a story about how illegals are feeling “fear” over the ICE raids). These attacks are the direct result of Democrat rhetoric about ICE and the immigration enforcement efforts.
Keep in mind that ICE is made of American citizens – you and me, that is – who are merely trying to enforce long-standing American immigration laws; and these laws were passed in a bi-partisan manner as everyone agreed that we needed strict enforcement of our immigration laws. The Democrats are making out that ICE is a Gestapo-like organization of purely evil people who are “invading” America to snatch people at random off the streets and “disappear” them to nobody knows where. This is all very stupid rhetoric…but, remember, it isn’t designed to get to you and me. It isn’t even really designed to get to most Democrats. It is designed to get the most stupid people in America to commit violence. It is intentional – and it is having its intended effect.
Someone in Democrat-land has decided that the way forward here is to incite violence – likely on the theory that if enough violence happens, the American people will be intimidated into abandoning Trump on the immigration issue. Sure, they are still keeping up with the lawfare with ever more absurd court rulings from activists in judicial robes, but they know where this ends: the Supreme Court swatting it all down. Perhaps on 7-2 votes in the end. This is because there is simply no case to be made that removing an illegal is wrong. Heck, you’d be on thin legal ice bringing a case about a legal immigrant being deported – foreign presence in the USA is a revocable privilege. And the Executive has near-plenary authority on deciding who can come…and who has to go. So, the Democrats know that the system won’t back them – and this means it is time to wreck the system. That is, apply violence to it and hope that everyone runs away.
This is just like their anti-Trump rhetoric – calling him a Nazi and an existential threat to Democracy…it got shots fired and a man killed in Butler and nearly in Florida…and they do hope still for someone very stupid to get close enough to try again. This is why I am always worried when Trump does a public appearance. But the man has a yard of guts and simply won’t be intimidated. Will we?
I hope not. No matter what they do, remain firm. They are trying to terrorize us into giving up. Don’t give into it. Stout hearts! Once the fever breaks – and it will – if we remained strong we’ll win it all.
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I understand how upsetting it must be to live here without any problems, for years, and then suddenly find yourself at risk for deportation. I get it. It has to be very scary.
BUT…every single day you have been here you have known you were not here legally. Every single day you have been here you have known you were breaking the law. So if, during all those years, you never took any steps to rectify this situation, start to show some respect for the country and its laws, and begin a process to legalize your presence here you really have no one to blame but yourself.
The government does have some responsibility here, because of its policy of just looking the other way, but the real responsibility is on the person here illegally.
And we need to consider that the real goal of the current government crackdown is to discourage future lawbreakers. Yes, we are dealing with other problems. We are trying to clean up our disastrous agency messes, get control of our spending, and take care of citizens first. We’re trying to get rid of dangerous criminals. But the biggest impact of these raids is its effect on illegal border crossings. We are sending a loud and clear message that we will not tolerate it and we will do everything in our power to find and deport those who break our immigration laws.
It’s interesting to see how stridently Democrats find this offensive and intolerable.
Yep – and the violence is getting worse. Point blank because they know that if Trump succeeds, it is all over for them. Power and wealth will disappear…and they’ll wake up in a non-Woke world and find that people are demanding atonement and accountability. Sort of like the Germans after WWII – while it was going on they were able to continue the mental gymnastics which allowed them to keep fighting for their regime…once it was over and a GI was dragging them to the camps to see, it was all different.
The mentality was shown on X just the other day – a man posted a bit of art which had four panels:
First panel: little boy in a swing.
Second panel: little boy playing blocks with his father.
Third panel: distraught father with the blocks but no little boy.
Fourth panel: same as panel three but now there’s a woman in the picture with the caption, “let him go, the abortion was months ago”.
The comments on it are vile. Now, to be totally fair, it does take two to tango – every abortion is the result of two people making decisions. But the basic thrust of the piece was that this concept that individual choice is the only issue is ripped to shreds by it…there is the dead child…and, very often, there is the man who would have been willing to step up, but he had no say. But the comments are all along the lines of “sorry we’re not your breeding cows you sexist pig”…as if that was the problem. And such comments are coming from both male and female accounts…because there are lots of men who had signed on to having their children killed as long as they can continue to have sex without a promise. And you roll that around the head: people are really willing to do this just so they can have some sick pretense to autonomy when they’re actually ruled by their most base appetites. And they get violently cruel when someone even mildly questions their life choices.
That’s the world the Left lives in. That is the world that Trump’s reforms threaten – because it is all based on subsidy. If the government isn’t shelling out for this anti-human garbage, it won’t happen. The Left is afraid of losing their lifestyle…and, afterwards, being asked just how they could have supported such a thing…
“every abortion is the result of two people making decisions”
I disagree, vehemently—unless you mean the original decision to have sex. And even that can be shadowy—the woman lies and says she is on the pill, or she forgot to take it, or it just didn’t work, for example. Or the condom broke. Even this decision doesn’t have to be irresponsible.
And once the pregnancy has occurred, the father has absolutely NO input into the decision to kill his child. None.
And the Death Squad won’t even consider making the identification of the father a requirement to kill the baby, much less give him a vote in its life or death.
And just an observation here: This toxic vile kind of response is not limited to abortion, or even necessarily related to it. It could very well be just a case where the evil and hate need to spurt out and it was just that one trigger, this time. I have been reading comments about people who object to loud “fireworks” in neighborhoods that go on well into the middle of the night, terrifying children and pets and keeping people awake when they have to go to work the next day, and the ugliness of some of the responses is very similar to that about the cartoon. It is inexcusable and impossible to explain without going into the obvious, which is that some people are just inherently vicious and cruel and eager to dump on any potential target that comes on their radar, no matter what it is.
You know me – I try to bend over backwards to be fair!
But, you’re right – and we can also consider this: “I don’t want to bring a child into a loveless relationship”…but you were willing to bring sex into it! And “I can’t financially handle a child!”…but you could handle having sex! It is all just a lot of nonsense – excuse making and explaining-away. A childish demand to have the cake and eat it.
I don’t disagree with your scorn for these feeble excuses. It’s just that it is the females who tend to make them. If the father agrees, then he’s as bad as she is. But many men grieve for their murdered children. Many would have been happy to be fathers, to take on all the responsibility, but the pathologically selfish females (I can’t bring myself to call them “women” because to me they violate every characteristic I associate with real women) demand full control. They couldn’t be bothered to exert control when it was all bumps and tickles, but when it comes to acting like a moral and decent human being they are indifferent to even basic humanity, driven once again by their pathological selfishness.
And here, to show that you are not the only contortionist here, I too am willing to bend over backward to acknowledge that yes, especially to young unmarried girls, the news of an unwanted pregnancy can be terrifying, and cause a lot of panic. But here is where the Death Squad steps in, in their jackboots, to put pressure on these frightened and panicky girls.
They howl about “choice” as if choice is their sacrament, not death. But then they do everything they can to block real choice. A choice is a decision made after thought, based on knowledge and evaluation of facts. What they push is guessing based on fragmented and often deceitful information, under pressure to act immediately.
A few years ago the Colorado legislature voted to pay for abortions under certain circumstances. That is, that there be a three day waiting period after applying for this payment, and during that time she get counseling to inform her of all her options, including the one offering full payment of all her expenses up to and for a period of time after the birth if she would sign a contract to let the payors adopt the baby. During this period she would get physical counseling, so she would have full knowledge of the state of development of her baby, including an ultrasound.
Then, once she was prepared to make an actual CHOICE instead of a panicked GUESS, the state would pay for the abortion if that was her informed decision. And the pro-death crowd went predictably insane, howling at every effort to provide full disclosure of the facts to allow a newly pregnant female to make an actual CHOICE instead of a terrified GUESS. So I do not just call bullshit on the claim this is about CHOICE, I call it a purposeful and intentional deception to push frightened females into permanent and often distressful and guilt-ridden actions. There is no hell hot enough to punish these ghouls.
And I am willing to extend a little sympathy to those who were herded, pressured, driven into killing their babies because they were lied to, with the facts and truth kept from them. Many of them, tens if not hundreds of thousands if not millions of them, have suffered painful guilt every day of their lives after going though this. Some never realized the reality of what they had done, believing that they had merely expelled a clump of meaningless cells, till later in life going through a wanted pregnancy they saw ultrasounds of the desired baby and learned that they had butchered an actual sibling of this child, a real baby with a heartbeat and toes and fingers and a face and a developing personality. Talk about a gut-punch!
It is a horror – and a century from now the historians will not be kind to our era. And by “our era” I mean everything from 1914 on…they won’t differentiate much between Auschwitz and Planned Parenthood because they’ll even easier see it than we do that the ideological underpinnings of both are the same. Birth rates have collapsed under this Culture of Death onslaught but those who are still having kids are largely deeply religious people…and the future belongs to whomever is there (this is why, BTW, the Left is so adamant against alternative and home schooling…they have to get the Believers kids into the mill or there won’t be a Left in 20 years).
It’s only been 6 months and the way the Democrats are acting, I’m not sure they can make it another 3.5 years. They are losing their shit and fast, and now resorting to calls for violence. Are we firm? Hell yes. The Democrat party has devolved into two factions; old white liberals and young, poorly educated college students. There really is no other large constituency the Democrats can count on, and these two factions don’t stand a chance in hell confronting MAGA. But they are loud and disruptive … up until the time they are not, which usually starts with a fist to the face. Like Mike Tyson said, “everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face” …. And when and if MAGA and the progressives go at it, I imagine going something like this lol
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/golf/article-14887097/Former-NHL-enforcer-Nick-Tarnasky-golf-course-fight.html?ito=native_share_article-top
“There really is no other large constituency the Democrats can count on” and the problem is that this constituency is not based on any actual political ideology but just on blind emotion. That makes them easily led, but unpredictable, as any shiny new thing might distract them. When the only motivating factor is blind hatred of an Invented Other, it’s an ongoing job to keep that hatred fresh, to keep inventing new things to hate about it.
Just look at the problems the Dems are having now. “Trump is Hitler” is old hat, now that the party has openly come out as the new incarnation of Hitler, howling for a new Final Solution (“from the river to the sea”) and edging uncomfortably close to a new Kristallnacht. “Trump is/was/will be a dictator” isn’t aging well, given the double whammy of Dems eager to re-elect the closest to a real dictator in the Oval Office this country has ever seen along with the daily proofs of Trump trying to shift political power back to the Constitutional model. With all Americans getting lower taxes, the huge support for clearing out illegal aliens combined with linking the party to anarchy in the form of rejecting federal law, the rise of indignant parents finally realizing that the State has thought it owned their children and the subsequent pushback of “Oh, no, you DON’T!” and the other myriad erosions into what has always been the foundation of the party’s support, the Dem higher-ups are realizing that they don’t have much left now but intimidation.
That means violence. But the thing about this kind of violence is that it is its own worst enemy, in that every time there is Leftist-incited, Leftist-sponsored, violence it nibbles away at support for the Left as more and more people are turned off by it. There is a difference between a loud and rowdy “protest” and people showing up in military gear to ambush law enforcement, and it’s a difference that is going to eventually eat away enough Dem support to reach a tipping point.
I think the one thing that will make the most difference would be a coordinated attack on the roots of the violence. That is, investigation of and arrest of those inciting and paying for the violent mobs and groups and outing them as foreign agents attacking and trying to overtake our government.
The pieces are in place, and all we need is for the government to put them together. For example, I think most people in this country now understand that these “protests” are not organic uprisings of public outrage but are carefully planned and paid-for events controlled and funded by…well, by “someone”. There has been exposure of the rent-a-mob companies, and stories of milder “protests” by groups that clearly came from retirement homes brought in on buses and carefully keeping track of the time so they don’t “protest” past the contracted time frame. There is enough information out there about groups of men traveling together from one riot city to another, and arriving to find rental cars and hotel rooms and riot supplies like pallets of bricks all staged for them.
I want, I rather desperately WANT, to believe that while The Left is carefully building up to more extreme and deadly violence the government is biding its time, collecting and collating evidence to be ready to engage in a massive sweep of the entire subversive and insurrectionist effort and its ringleaders and bankers and organizers.
From an article on how organized crime (“the Mafia”) was pretty much dismantled in this country: “The legal changes came in the early 1970’s, but it took time for the government to learn how to effectively use the new tools. One of the pioneers in the area was Rudolph Giuliani, who made his name in the Mafia commission trial of 1985. In this landmark trial the heads of the five families were all imprisoned, a coup that would have been unthinkable a decade before. This decapitation signaled the end of organized crime’s glory days.” (Side note: The retribution against Giuliani has continued.)
I think that a similar move, but this time directed at those working to undermine our government, would not only serve to reset political discourse in this country but force a lot of Dems to examine and possibly re-evaluate their political identities. Because once the focus on the Left moves from the Left-controlled areas of anti-Trump hysteria to the nuts and bolts of foreign intrusions into our country and the associated violence and subversion it will be harder for those suburban wine moms to continue to align themselves with the party.
And this leads me to another of my rants: the utter failure of the Right to explain itself and its ideology.
We keep telling people on the Left that to be conservative they have to abandon their ISSUES. Yeah, that’s smart. And it’s also wrong.
Issues are important to people. In many ways they define people. It is stupid to tell people that to be a conservative, to vote for Republicans, they have to change the way they FEEL. But really, all they have to do is make a small change in the way they THINK. That is, to realize that they can keep their core issues, if they are really about serious things like taxation or education or even the environment. (Not the superficial “issues” based on how much they hate certain people and why because those are not political issues, just pathologies.) All they have to do is develop understanding of (and commitment to) the Constitution and then commit to addressing those ISSUES within the framework of that rule book.
Once there is understanding and agreement that any issue will be addressed within the framework of the Constitution, guided by the 10th Amendment, the Democrat Party ceases to exist except as an echo chamber for a few misfits controlled by their personality disorders. Because the Democrat Party has become nothing more or less than a means to defy and discard the Constitutional rule of order on how issues are resolved.
Opening up the Big Tent concept of conservatism, under which we don’t have to agree on issues, just on the means by which they are resolved, means that future discourse will no longer be how much to distort or discard the Constitution but on the merits of each issue so the people, through their states or local governments or even through their national representatives, will resolve the conflicts.
“But they are loud and disruptive” This is the perception. But really, how MANY are “loud and disruptive”? The noise they make, and far more important the attention they get from the obedient lapdog media, amplifies their impact.
I think if we break down the components of the “loud and disruptive” element of the Left, we find some factors that often disappear into the noise.
One is that the mild “protests” that consist of people waving pre-printed signs are always fake, always generated by rent-a-mob companies, and are really mere performative theater designed to convey the impression that a LOT of people feel very strongly about the Topic du Jour. If I am sitting around in the retirement home facing yet another afternoon of bingo and someone offers me a hundred dollars and a box lunch to get on a bus and then hang around for three hours waving a sign in front of any media cameras I’ll probably not only jump at the chance but call friends to join me.
One is that the louder “protests”, those with more howling and shrieking and hysteria, while also organized and paid for by agitators, are also attended by the same cast of characters. These tend to attract the same people who show up over and over again, with the same eagerness to get photographed emoting some bogus passion for whatever. So they don’t represent large numbers of people but just a core group of misfits with nothing else to do but act out their personality disorders and hope for some media coverage. (I will bet that the Green Hat Howler Monkey woman whose staged photo is constantly used to illustrate faked outrage is not humiliated by this but proud and gratified. And she stands as inspiration to all those who rush to their vehicles to perch a cell phone on the dashboard to record some performative angst or incoherent rant to then post it on social media.)
That leaves us with two minor groups: The truly violence-directed individuals who seek violence for its own sake (though some try to cloak this pathology in political jargon to try to pretend they are not really crazy) and the paid thugs who are happy to break heads and attack law enforcement and probably even kill some people if the riot is headed in that direction. I suggest that the combined number of both groups is pretty small.
Without the Complicit Agenda Media, the aggregate of the second and last groups would still be a very small number, insignificant but for the bogus importance generated by the media efforts to exaggerate their size and relevance.
Having said all this, I can’t deny the noise coming from some Dem party spokespeople and some media sources claiming that the party in general is aching for more violence, demanding it.
“In candid interviews with over two dozen House Democrats, Axios found a theme of anger, despair, and a dangerous appetite for chaos.” WHICH ” two dozen House Democrats”? Name them, Axios.
“There Needs To Be Blood”: Democrat Lawmakers Say Their Base Is ‘Preparing For Violence’
Liberal activists are confronting Democratic lawmakers in town halls, office meetings, and online, demanding they ditch political niceties and start “fighting dirty” — even if it means getting hurt, arrested, or worse.
“Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough … [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public,” one lawmaker revealed, describing discussions with furious progressives.
“Liberal activists” are doing the confrontations cited here. Who are they? Are they registered Democrats? This reeks of the whole “Let’s you and him fight” tactic of the professional rioters who get things rolling and then when social contagion kicks in leave to let the amateurs get thumped or arrested.
As we have seen documented, town halls are being packed with fake constituents, bused in to create the impression of an unhappy base. Any time some legislator claims that he or she is hounded by “constituents” demanding violence, he or she had better be able to back that up with information proving that these people are really “constituents”.
““Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough … [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public,” one lawmaker revealed, describing discussions with furious progressives. WHICH “lawmaker”? And which “furious progressives”? and note the lack of capitalization of “progressives” which implies that these are just generically progressive thinkers and not representing an actual movement that calls itself Progressive.
Another added that constituents have urged them to prepare for “violence … to fight to protect our democracy.”” Again, lots of vague assertions of demands from a “base” or “constituents” but really just more of the unattributed “someone said” tactic of the Left. And who claimed this?
Note the careful editing and placement of what might actually be a quote, though of course like the others is is not attributed to anyone in particular. The editing and placement imply that these “constituents” are saying that proactive violence is necessary to “fight to protect our democracy” when the context could actually be a concern that violence might be necessary as a DEFENSE to “protect our democracy”.
I am still skeptical of the implication that violence is being demanded by most Democrats. Oh, they are easily stirred into emotional violence, muttering about “No Kings” and orange man dictators and “worse than Hitler” but when it comes to actual blood they back off. Remember the horror at the sight of that mangled arm after that murderous thug got shut down by Rittenhouse?
One success of the Complicit Agenda Media has been its ban on graphic evidence of violence. (Social media now calls for ** in the middle of words deemed too violent, such as “kill” now seen as “k**l”.) This lets people emote at a distance, without being faced with the reality of the results of their rhetoric. So show photos of dismembered babies, babies with fully formed limbs and recognizable faces. If someone is so passionate about killing these babies he or she should have no problem seeing the results. Show the mangled bodies of victims of Palestine bombs in Israel. Show the Palestinian savages, AKA good citizens/innocent victims, celebrating the dragging of mutilated bodies and battered prisoners through the streets.
Quit letting these people continue to advocate for brutality and violence and death without having to actually see what this all looks like.
Comey and Brennan are under Federal Investigation …. FINALLY
It’s time to really fuck these people up … I am tired of 40 years of fighting around the margins. Tit for tat, and nothing ever changes. It is time to assassinate the Mullah, threaten Iran with nuclear devastation, and alarm Russia and China that if they engage, the same fate will come upon them. It’s time for good men to stand up. We dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan, and today they are an ally. Time to do it again.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14891401/Houthis-blow-second-cargo-ship-week-shocking-footage-blast-rescue-crews.html
It will probably take a landing force – but if we’re not prepared to treat them like the pirates they are, that could get dicey.
There are no redeeming qualities of those people. They treat their country, their women, and their children like shit and constantly blame others for their plight. And we have been fucking around with them for over 50 years trying to win hearts and minds. I am done with that. They need to either straighten up or die.
Yep – people tend to forget there’s a reason the Crusaders were ferocious. It is a very alien civilization, Islam: there are very few shared values and a huge problem is that our side keeps pretending there are a lot of shared values. We have to, that is, recognize that if a Westerner opts to live in Islam it requires a surrender of a lot of rights we take for granted…and so, too, should it be for a Muslim who wishes to live in the West: surrender a lot of your values as you come through the door. Otherwise, it just isn’t doable.