I saw a video of a man interviewing some of the anti-ICE protestors and he was asking them about the fraud in Minnesota and to a man, woman and other, they were convinced it wasn’t happening – made up to justify hating Somalis. In other words, racist MAGAts were just inventing a reason to go after black immigrants. This is 180 from reality but we do have to understand why they believe it: the MSM has told them this is the case. Sure, it is heavily reinforced by Leftwing social media, but they get their main cue from the MSM. Over and over again on CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the DNC propaganda outfits, the basic Narrative is repeated: it is just that evil, bad Orange Man and his racist supporters going after poor immigrants who didn’t do nothing. Then after the Leftist watches that, xe heads over to Bluesky where it is a stream of “people are being kidnapped!”, “ICE is going door to door with guns drawn” and “it was clearly a murder by ICE” over and over and over again. What you won’t get in either MSM or Leftist social media is the fact – very clear by now – that quite a lot of money was stolen…and while Somalis have been the face of it, the reality is that the entire political and social organism of Minnesota has been in on it…and it is likely going on in California, New York, Illinois and every other State and locality where the Left is dominant.
Here is our problem: they can’t be talked out of it. I’ve seen major Lefty accounts posting video clearly showing the woman tried to kill the ICE officer and the comment with the video is “here we see the ICE officer shooting the woman for no reason”. And then 10,000 Lefty accounts repost it and after a day or two it has a million views and you start getting smaller Lefty accounts saying “I saw the video where the ICE officer shot her for no reason”. Boom: this is now Leftist dogma as much as “hands up, don’t shoot” and “Russian collusion” are. Absent a road to Damascus moment, these people will go to their graves certain they saw ICE murder someone on video. And these people get to vote – they will go into the voting booths this November and pull the lever based upon their conviction that ICE murdered someone…and is daily kidnapping, murdering and torturing others. A Big Lie will have a gigantic influence on how America is governed.
This is not sustainable.
It is my view that the insanity the Left is displaying will be a massive turn off to all non-Left people by November – coupled with the rapidly improving economy, my expectation at this point is a GOP victory in the mid-terms. Of course, I could be wrong – but if I am wrong it means that a quite monstrous lie will propel the Democrats into control of at least one house of Congress, if not both. Think about that – a political result based entirely upon lies. And then the liars will get to enact laws and carry out other Congressional actions. How is a Republic supposed to survive with that? I mean, if the Democrats lie their way into a Congressional majority in 2026, then they’ll just put the lies on turbocharge for 2028…and if they can lie to victory one year, they can certainly do it again…and our whole system will be in the hands not just of liars, but of liars who believe that lying is the best possible thing to do…that not only should they lie, they should lie in the most astonishing and easily exposed ways and carry out the most absurd policies based upon the stupidest lies imaginable. That will be it, my friends: we’ll be cooked. We’ll have laws mandating illegal entry into the USA and immediate fraudulent benefits to everyone we bring in…just as one example.
I hope that Trump and team are fully cognizant of what we’re up against – there are rumors and rumblings that major anti-corruption efforts are underway, with Somali fraud in Minnesota just a very small tip of a gigantic iceberg. I hope this is true – because while we can’t convince these Leftist morons they’re wrong, we can start sending a lot of them to jail…or at least into the mental meat-grinder of a felony trial (though, of course, Leftist judges will try to toss the cases…and Leftists still working within Justice will try to sabotage the cases). We really do need to start seeing people like Walz in cuffs. We need to start detailing just how bad it is. The good news is that Trump and the GOP appear to have something like a billion dollars in hand to let the American people know what has been going on – and watch as the Left tries to pressure the networks into not running the ads (it won’t work – while the Lefties running the major networks will want to comply with censorship of MAGA, there is just too much regulatory and monetary risk in doing so).
Outside the GOP money, we continue to see gains in GOP registration – after a slight, regional blip for Democrats in the runup to the 2025 elections, we have now resumed the GOP’s increase…including flipping North Carolina Red for the first time since Reconstruction. Fetterman is out there sounding more MAGA by the day because if he does want a second term, he only gets it with MAGA votes. Essentially, the crazed Leftist type can no longer win in Pennsylvania State-wide. Do keep in mind that Trump’s opposition is very much astroturf…it is rent-a-mobs at the beck and call of the DNC. It is armies of bots on Social Media endlessly reposting Leftist talking points. In money and registration, it is all running strongly GOP. The woman who got herself killed by ICE was part of a network of Leftist groups paid by Leftist moneybags to stir up trouble…bottom line, she’s dead because the Left wanted her dead. Her and a lot more…they are convinced if they can gin up a Kent State (or a dozen) they’ll win – they believe a Narrative which said that Kent State led to Leftist victory in the past…forgetting that two years later the tin soldiers and Nixon won in a landslide and that the Guard was overwhelmingly favored against the protestors in public polling.
It all turns on Trump. The fate of our country is in his hands – if he can continue to show the courage and just go after these people (and he shows no sign of slacking), then we can crush them once and for all.
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Think about that – a political result based entirely upon lies.
Hmmm. You mean like the entire Obama presidency? Or the Kabuki Theater of the ongoing Trump “impeachments” designed to influence his election chances? (And let’s be honest here—what we are really talking about is rigging the election, just one of many approaches the Left employs to do so.)
We would have had another political result based entirely upon lies if we had not managed to overcome the Dem Lie Machine and get Trump reelected. Now that he is in office, with the best Cabinet we have ever seen, the focus is on a different political result based entirely upon lies–the political result being taking back Congress this year and the lies being the elaborate skein of nonstop lies spun around what is really just a simple law enforcement effort.
I’ll be surprised if we don’t see the Donkey party suffer death by a thousand cuts between now and November. They’re vulnerable by just about any metric I can think of. And Trump has several things going for him that he didn’t have 8 years ago. He not only has, as you note, the best cabinet ever, they are loyal and tight-lipped, ie., NO LEAKS on major initiatives. He also has an opponent that has engaged in countless nefarious endeavors to get rid of him and/or damage the country. I’ve lost count of the 80/20 issues where the Dems have taken the 20 side. Add to that spectacular economic growth that we haven’t seen in a long time, real wage growth that Biden could have only dreamed of, and, like Mark, I’m feeling pretty optimistic about November.
Now I want a public display of Dems admitting that they think it is OK to break the law, that they advocate for mob rule over the rule of law, and that they think it is OK to obstruct law enforcement and even assault them.
That’s why I wondered if it is possible to subpoena some of these rioters to testify in front of Congress. Get some admissions that they don’t feel constrained by the law, that they advocate for mob rule over the rule of law, that they think it is OK to assault law enforcement officers.
I would like to have them quizzed on why ICE officers have to wear masks, as the Left tries to make a big deal out of this. Bring out the ugly truth that the Leftist mobs have threatened the lives not only of ICE officers but their families, their wives and children, if they are identified by the mob. Get that out there, and in the Congressional record.
True – but I think a Democrat victory in 2028 would make lying not just part of the Democrat platform, but the whole thing. Nothing they’d say would be true…they’d be telling the most fabulous lies right to our faces…it’ll be Solzhenitsyn’s “We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.” The USSR told their people there was no crime when a mugging or an assault was a regular occurrence. They were prosperous as they waited in bread lines. They were equal as they saw the apparatchiks entering specially reserved stores. They were free as they were arrested for nothing.
OTOH, something did occur to me last night: apparently a large number of DOJ attorneys resigned this past weekend because DOJ wasn’t going to open a civil rights investigation into the ICE officer who shot the insane liberal…this is the trash taking itself out but the long term is more important: if we do get Vance in 2028, he’s going to take over a government he’ll immediately have total control of. I think Trump fully understands this…a lot of what he’s going is probably laying the groundwork for what comes next.
About some (“a large number?”) DOJ lawyers quitting “because DOJ wasn’t going to open a civil rights investigation into the ICE officer who shot the insane liberal” you are right—this IS the trash taking itself out. I’m sure DOJ is thrilled to see the last of these losers, glad they didn’t have to get screeched at for firing them. (Which would have, you know, been an existential threat to democracy and exactly what Hitler would have done.)
These are LAWYERS and they don’t understand what a civil rights violation is? (Of course a lot of lawyers and even judges still don’t know what “insurrection” is, either.) The absolute worst thing this cop could be charged with could be negligence, and that only if the videos showed that he had no reason to believe he was in danger and overreacted.
I’m wearing out my Gomer Pyle “surprise, surprise” reaction, but here it comes again. Surprise, surprise, the story about the alleged mass exodus (“a large number”) of DOJ attorneys walking out to protest (so our anonymous source claims) “because DOJ wasn’t going to open a civil rights investigation into the ICE officer who shot the insane liberal” turns out to be, you guessed it, a LIE. (And BTW, 4 is not a “large number” unless you are a lying liar liarface telling a lie.)
From a trial lawyer who was a DOJ prosecutor for 22 years who posts as Shipwrecked Crew:
“Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
Let me tell you the real reason why the four prosecutors in Civil Rights Criminal Section resigned.
It has to do with the death of Breonna Taylor.
Louisville PD Officer Brett Hankison was retried after a jury in his first federal trial ended 11-1 for acquittal. These four individuals were part of the leadership team that agitated to retry him.
Hankison had already been acquitted in state court trial.
Hankison did not fire the round that killed Taylor. No one was struck by any round Hankison fired.
Hankison was convicted in a second trial in Nov. 2024, with the verdict coming just prior to the election.
After the Trump Admin. took over DOJ and the Civil Rights Division, it asked to have the sentencing postponed so new leadership could examine the history of the case and the decision-making behind retrying a case that had ended 11-1 for acquittal after a 12-0 acquittal in state court.
The DOJ filed a Sentencing Memorandum that said it could find NO CASE EVER that had been prosecuted on the legal theory relied upon by the DOJ prosecutors and supervisors who were behind the Hankison case.
It was a “cause” to “get” one police officer.
The Civil Rights prosecutors who had handled the case were removed by AAG Dhillon, and both have since left the office.
In the Sentencing Memoranda, DOJ recommended a sentence of “Time Served” — 1 day — given the conduct of the Biden DOJ.
The judge was unhappy — she had expressed a clear dislike of Hankison and was cowed by the protesters in and out of the courtroom.
She sentenced him to 33 months AND denied him bail pending appeal even though DOJ did not oppose and agreed there were significant legal issues with the conviction.
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals AGREED with Hankison and DOJ, and ordered him released pending appeal just before Christmas.
DOJ is likely to concede error by the Biden Civil Rights Prosecutors — who were supported by the now resigned leadership.
Now you know the rest of the story.
I have an article I’m working on re Hankison’s case that mostly focuses on the outrageous conduct by the Judge — a Trump appointee, but more important than that, a McConnell acolyte.”
Now that is actually funny – I mean, terrible injustice to that cop but you gotta think about the DOJ Civil Rights guys…their whole career to this point has required them to “get whitey”. The Great White Defendant as Tom Wolfe described it in his 1987 novel, Bonfire of the Vanities – in the Blue World, the only people you book are black and other minorities. Hardly any crime is committed by white people. But you can’t rise in Blue World if all you do is jail black people. You need your Great White Defendant. Well, that Blue World attitude took over the Executive entirely under Obama and even more so under Biden…so, these people were out beating the bushes trying to find some white guy who charge with a felony. Even guys who didn’t do anything!
And now its over.
Side note – more and more, Butler is looking like a set up that almost worked: a report that one of Vance’s secret service guys is passing out intel to any fool who talks to him:
I read that. I’m not sure if I am ready to think of Butler as a purposeful set-up, but it was certainly a Perfect Storm of various kinds and levels of incompetence.
Side note: Didn’t there used to be a fitness standard for Secret Service agents?
Shipwrecked Crew always has precise legal analysis of issues and in this cited post he brings up several things I find alarming. Any one of them is cause for concern, regarding the ethics of the legal team prosecuting Hankison. In no particular order, they are:
A. The judge was unhappy — she had expressed a clear dislike of Hankison
B. denied him bail
C. Hankison had already been acquitted in state court trial/Hankison was convicted in a second trial
D. NO CASE EVER had been prosecuted on the legal theory relied upon by the DOJ prosecutors and supervisors who were behind the Hankison case.
A addresses the increasingly common phenomenon of judges expressing and then ruling on bias
B brings up the judicial abuse of power in denying bail to nonviolent defendants, many of whom are charged with process crimes.
C concerns double jeopardy. He was retried in a case where he had been acquitted by unanimous vote by the jury
D relates to the increasingly common legal malpractice of creating charges by selectively applying parts of laws to create new laws never heard of before, never legislated, and never previously charged, to enact political bias—as we saw in the infamous “34 felony” Trump case.
While your post is correct, Mark, it fails to address the real problem, which is the Agenda Media. Without the obedient parroting of these lies to the public, the mob rule and shift to anarchy would stumble and eventually fail. It is the firehose of lies creating, supporting and enhancing these lies that is the problem.
And here I come back to what I have been saying for years—WE NEED A BETTER VOICE. We’ve got Republican billionaires who have failed to buy a network company, even when one has been on the brink of failure and open to a takeover. We have failed to put in place a muscular, talented PR team to play offense instead of defense to the skilled propaganda machine of the Left.
And at the same time we are giving an outsized voice to the minority of Leftists who echo these lies. F ’em. Let them howl and holler into their echo chambers of insanity. Calmly arrest them whenever a legal opportunity arises and appeal to the so-called “moderates” and the Independents. Let the fringe be the fringe, but make sure they are identified not just as the fringe but the Lunatic Fringe.
Stop being characters in their melodramas. Send ICE in to make arrests and then surround the “protesters” and bust ’em. I’m serious about using EMP projectors on their cars. The more I think about it, the more I like the scenario of AWFLS lining up their soccer mom vehicles to block ICE and then having a squad of officers pop up to go around slapping big stickers on every windshield warning that after a siren sounds they will have 15 minutes to leave the scene or their vehicles will be disabled and impounded, with possible damage to the vehicles and towing and impoundment fees required to retrieve the vehicles. It’s calm, it’s nonviolent, it shifts the focus from ICE to self-interfest, it imposes consequences that do not trample on free speech (they are free to stand and shriek all they want, just without their rides) and it would have great entertainment value.
ARREST EVERY SINGLE DEFENDER OF AN ILLEGAL ALIEN and let the courts sort them out. Every one. That is, mayors and governors and police chiefs and whoever is managing buildings where they are being shielded, as well as those in the front lines physically impeding ICE officers. Immigration law is federal law. The statutes about shielding illegal aliens is federal law. So send in FBI and any other federal law enforcement officers we have to deal with the scofflaws.
Interrogation interviews would be simple: Once there is admission of trying to shield illegal immigrants from law enforcement there is admission of guilt of violating federal statute 8 U.S. Code § 1324 – Bringing in and harboring certain aliens and then after due process (expensive! Just ask the J6 defendants) there would be lining up the applicable penalties, which is “a violation for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs“. Yes, that means blocking access to a building or bus holding 15 illegal aliens means 15 separate violations, either directly or a conspiracy to do so or aiding or abetting someone else who is doing so. Federal raps, federal courts, federal felonies, lots of money for defense—suddenly there would be skin in the game, not just the cheap thrills of performative pseudo-virtue.
Pile on obstruction charges, possible assault charges, possible battery charges, and all of a sudden it starts to get real. While hubs or significant other is trying to get the car out of impound and towed to a mechanic who can try to fix the fried electronics and trying to get that super-sticky adhesive off the window glass, and writing checks for bail and criminal lawyers.
FAFO
As Sun Tzu said, “It is more important to outthink your enemy than to outfight him”. We have the resources to defang this serpent, but for some reason we lack the will to employ them. We have the law, for example. We have federal statutes that are being broken, but we ignore them and let people violate them at will. We have the ability to come in behind a mob and fracture its focus by letting them engage with ICE while we simply remove their vehicles, making future mobs rethink the wisdom of risking their own vehicles the next time they want to engage in some virtue signaling.
Can any of these temper tantrum “adults” be subpoenaed to testify in front of Congress to explain why they think it is OK to violate federal law and assault law enforcement officers?
THAT is a Congressional hearing I would watch!
Obama’s entire presidency was a lie and the main reason we are at this current flash point. He was truly a Leftist Manchurian candidate … he populated the federal agencies with partisan hacks and divided the country racially. Obama is a complete piece of shit
And because of Democrats, we actually have to argue in the Supreme Court today to try and keep retarded men out of girls sports competitions. That’s how fucked up Democrats are …. It’s exhausting sharing a country with them
Here we go …
Trump issues chilling warning to Iran and urges protesters to ‘take over’: ‘Help is on the way’
What’s currently happening in MN is not a protest. It’s an act of war. This is violent assault on law enforcement and civil norms.
I hate to cite CBS News on anything, but in a quick Google search their site seemed to be marginally less hysterical than most. Its headline, though, merely adds to the confusion being ginned up around the shooting of Renee Good:
At least 6 Minnesota federal prosecutors resign amid pressure to treat Renee Good killing as assault on ICE agent. That seems like a pretty straightforward statement, right? It comes right out and claims that the issue is what some see as “pressure to treat Renee Good killing as assault on ICE agent”. An uncomplicated declarative sentence. (OK, so it dishonestly implies that there is a connection between the resignations and the death of Good and the assault on the ICE agent, but it carefully refrained from coming right out and said so.)
But then in the third paragraph of the story we are told “ the resignations stemmed from concern over a request to probe Good’s widow “. That’s not the same thing as identifying the car-hitting-agent incident as a purposeful assault. Suddenly the narrative is no longer about that incident itself but about the involvement and culpability of the woman who, seeing the car pointed at the agent, yelled “Drive, Baby, Drive” and who could therefore be considered part of the ensuing events, actually inciting the event.
So now we have two separate, though somewhat related, claims—related to the actions of two separate people in the commission of one act but very different in nature…and both implicated in the resignation of some attorneys, as per the coy headline. So the stage is set for ensuing hysteria.
Then we get to the part where one of the prosecutors who resigned for whichever reason— Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson either quit because he resisted “pressure to treat Renee Good killing as assault on ICE agent” or because he resisted “pressure to investigate Good’s “widow” ” for complicity in the act, however it might be defined—but then he is identified as the lead prosecutor in the Feeding Our Future case, which has some of the flying monkeys trying to link this to the reason for his resignation. However, as muddled as the background is, which is common in stories based on anonymous sources, the implication is that the resignation clearly relates to some kind of conflict in Thompson’s mind about the Renee Good killing.
Here we are given TWO reasons to quit, but let’s keep digging.
Another unidentified source kind of clears things up a little:
Finally, a hint of clarity—a dispute which has its basis in politics, or the attitude toward police shown by the choice between seeing the policeman as victim (it was an assault) or villain (“excessive use of force” or a Civil Rights violation). Now we are told, in so many words, that Thompson’s valiant and noble act of defiance was based on the simple matter of defining the legal parameters of the shooting.—or a simple disagreement which undoubtedly happens all the time when these kinds of decisions have to be made but seems to have taken on far more import now that it applies to a national, hot-button, political movement.
But….we’re not done. BECAUSE there is another tidbit of information that just might be relevant.
So—and apologies here to the trolls who get so distressed when facing a lot of words—-It looks like a handful of people in the Civil Rights Division’s criminal section had ALREADY decided to leave “under an early retirement program” and had done so “well before the events in Minnesota”. This leaves us with the questions of who decided to take this independent decision and misstate it (that is, LIE ABOUT IT) to try to stir up unnecessary controversy about the shooting.
But there is no political agenda behind all this, right? Though it must be nice to have a simple economic decision recast as nobility and personal sacrifice, to be treated as a symbol of integrity. And it opened the door for a lot of wholly predictable political grandstanding and speechifying as the Usual Suspects rushed in to elbow each other out for the spotlight.
You don’t get these kinds of fawning tongue baths in the press if you just crunch the numbers and decide it makes sense economically to take advantage of an early retirement offer—not when you can ride a wave of invented nobility and bask in the glory of attributed moral courage. And there are always those keyboard warriors eager to swallow the narrative to excrete it out on the internet.
Cluster, this one’s for you.
How the Democrats Lost Their Manhood
You won’t be surprised, but it’s still fun to read something like this:
“Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.” —Edwin Louis Cole
And:
The day the Democratic Party lost testicle #1 was in 2016. They limped by for another eight years and severed part #2 in the summer of 2024.
Love that … I have always said anyone can be a father, but being a Dad is a choice.
No doubt, Democrat men have lost their way. But so have a lot of men. We live in a culture that doesn’t value men or fathers unfortunately …. Hence the chaos.
And considering the continued actions of Democrats, I don’t think we get out of this without violence.
Fortunately most Leftist “men” don’t know how to do violence, at least not effectively.
There was a cute family-oriented sitcom a few years ago where the daughter in the family had a good friend (high schoolers) who everyone assumed was gay because of his mannerisms. In one episode they were talking about some kind of conflict and he said it could be resolved with a “dance fight”—like in West Side Story. For some reason that stuck with me, and when I think of Lefty urban and suburban types (as opposed to the professional thugs) I always think of them as “dance fight” types.
True … The Left got away with the violence of the summer of 2020, but we can’t let them off the hook again. What they’re doing in MN is a straight up act of war, and I wish ICE would start arresting these people, let them spend a few days in jail to cool off, then hit them with massive fines and community service. Change their miserable life.
You and I have gone head-to-head on the whole “civil war” thing but it occurred to me the other day that I might have to post something cutting you some slack on that, after seeing the blatant effort by the Left to push things into overt violence.
The masters have got their mindless little meat puppets wound up so tightly that they are ready to snap. The fog of TDS has gotten so thick that it disguises the ugly reality that today’s American Democrats are coming out, loudly and publicly and often violently, in defense of criminals and law-breaking. They try to hide it, kind of, behind bleats of “justice” and so on, but they aren’t even trying very hard any more.
There was a time when Democrats and Republicans wanted the same things, and the conflict between the parties lay in the best way to accomplish those things, boiled down to the choice between just constantly expanding federal government to deal with everything or keeping the feds restrained to their Constitutional role and making the states step up. Now this is ancient history. Now the meme of Trump dressed as a magician, with top hat and magic wand, saying “For my next trick I will make Democrats support the cartels” isn’t funny because it is prescient. They aren’t quite there yet—-not quite—though supporting the cartel businesses of drug running, human trafficking and sex slavery under the overall guise of “immigration” is awfully close.
The camel’s nose under the tent in the Democrat degeneration into total lawlessness was the whole “sanctuary city/state” thing. This should have been shut down immediately, as it is illegal. We had whole states, governors and mayors and even so-called law enforcement officials, all openly bragging about defying federal laws. and we did nothing about it. So they built on this tacit acceptance of wide-scale lawlessness, expanding its scope until suddenly it included making lethal threats to federal law enforcement officers. Suddenly it supported threatening their lives and those of their families, forcing them to try to hide their identities just to preserve what any civilized society would consider basic levels of civil security. Suddenly it included approval of using vehicles as weapons to attack law enforcement officers. Suddenly it supported mass libeling of these officers, calling them Nazis and the Gestapo.
It is a progression of anarchy, from sanctuary cities to lethal attacks on law enforcement, and includes the savagery of actually threatening to kill children because their fathers work for the government.
And the hypocrisy is that they do this while preening that this represents virtue. No, it represents a widening chasm between civilization and barbarism. Democrats are now represented by infanticide and human sacrifice, wholesale fraud and theft, human trafficking and sex slavery, violence, arson, intimidation, abuse of governmental power to crush the opposition, and a slow-motion insurrection to incrementally destroy a government and assume its powers. And they are so energized by their successes in these endeavors that they are escalating to threats of overt violence against any and all opposition, which takes us to your repeated conviction that we are facing a civil war.
And I am starting to agree with you. Your nice neighbor, the one with the full-sized candy bars on Halloween who sits next to you in church, is today’s version of the German who calmly watched the boxcars roll by and then swept up the glass after Kristallnacht. Different collapse of civilization but basically the same indictment of character and lack of basic decency and same eventual goal of those pulling the strings.
re: “We live in a culture that doesn’t value men or fathers unfortunately “
I think, rather, that we live in a divided culture in which one side does not value men or fathers while the other side does, and tries to maintain the cultures of strong men and strong fathers while rejecting the trope of “toxic masculinity”.
When Lindsay Graham is more manly that most on the Democrat side of the aisle you can see the difference. We have Trump, Vance, Cruz, Jordan, et al. They have Booker and Kinzinger and that penis-headed ex-astronaut.
True … The Left got away with the violence of the summer of 2020,
But it was violence for the sake of violence. There was no end-game. I mean, burning down a police precinct, throwing a Molotov Cocktail into an occupied police car? Come on!
Jeff Childers post this morning has a key paragraph that boils down Democrats’ most basic weakness, flaw, whatever you want to call it:
That has been the Democrat Party for most of my adult life. Their basic ideology is almost completely devoid of solutions, and the solutions that they do offer usually create new problems, ie., The War on Poverty created more poverty.
I should have included the next paragraph which finishes the thought:
It is a progression of anarchy, from sanctuary cities to lethal attacks on law enforcement, and includes the savagery of actually threatening to kill children because their fathers work for the government.
Yup … and it’s the culmination of dumbed down and weaponized school curriculums. Democrats have taught these kids to hate the country, hate their parents, and to rebel violently if needed. And even worse, it’s now aided and abetted by elected politicians. These are not protests that Democrats are engaged in … these are acts of war. No one has the right to violently agitate and interfere with law enforcement. And if you noticed, I softened my stance lol. I suggest we arrest and massively fine these people and sentence them to community service. If that doesn’t work, well then ………
There’s been a lot of talk about how polls show the vast majority of Americans condemn the shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by an Ice agent. Like most controversaries, I imagine the poll results have a lot to do with how the question was asked. The response to “was the murder of an innocent protestor by an Ice agent justified?” would likely be quite different from “was Ice agent X justified in shooting the woman who was trying to run him over with her car?”
As if often the case, about the only news organization that reported that polls were almost evenly split according to party lines was Fox News.
Yep – and IMO, the polls are all nonsense, anyways. We’ve got polls showing Trump losing support…but, if so, how did we just flip NC Red for the first time since Reconstruction? If Trump’s losing support, places like North Carolina would be the first to show it.
The big question since Election Night, 2016 has been: can Trump transfer his “magic” to the GOP? That is, can he get MAGA to also be Republican? I think the shift is starting to happen…the keys are Trump and how MAGA any particular GOPer is willing to go. Sears probably didn’t have a chance last year in Virginia. NOVA Democrats were fired up to give the bird to Trump after their humiliation in 2024…but she came in 220,000 votes under Youngkin’s 2021 total. Youngkin had adeptly secured MAGA support..Sears tried to tell NOVA Dems that she was “nice” enough to vote for…of course they rejected her in scorn. Had Sears gone MAGA, she would have at least saved some seats for the GOP and, just perhaps, had been able to win it. We find that the more tightly GOPers hold to MAGA, the better they do…getting more of those low-propensity GOP voters to show up. The crucial thing is to give them a reason to show…these are people who have been alienated from American political life for decades. They trust Trump because he’s the only person they’ve ever seen who hasn’t betrayed them and has actually tried to do what he said he’d do…if GOPers give MAGA that, they’ll start to show up…and all up and down the ballot.
Yep – and IMO, the polls are all nonsense, anyways.
I’ve always viewed polls, particularly political polls, as about the same as weather forecasts: they’re often wrong, most people take them with a grain of salt, and no one loses their job over it. I don’t know if polsters do it, but I’ve noticed weather forecasters (I keep a tab open at the top of my monitor for Accuweather) often adjust their forecast on the fly when the original forecast (specifically temperature) doesn’t match up with the actual temperature. It’s actually kind of humorous.
I have been waiting for Harriet Hageman to have a shot at some Dems, and when she did it was a thing of beauty: emphasis mine
It’s been a long slow slog, constantly interrupted by Dem intransigence, lying, distractions, more lying, etc. but the truth is finally struggling to the surface.
How many times have we been told that J6 defendants were convicted of insurrection? And every single time that has been a lie. How many times have we been told that the disorder caused by Trump supporters on J6 was an “insurrection”? Every single time that has been a lie.
Now I wonder, as it is a crime to lie to Congress in a hearing, if that applies to a member of Congress who is not a witness but who has tried to insert lies into the record—because if so, Raskin needs to be cited, charged, and dealt with accordingly.
They’ve always been liars but now it is a whole, new level of lying – a direct attempt to browbeat the world into not calling them out on it, with their tactic being to lie ever more outrageously in the confidence they’ll never pay a price for it and eventually we’ll get tired and concede the lies, or at least enough of them to matter.
This is why I’ve endlessly harped upon the need to punish liars – you’re right: Raskin should face consequences. Unfortunately, we can’t arrest a House member for things said in the House…but if we had a caucus with any backbone at all, they’d expel him…and everyone else who lies in an official setting.
Just FYI, my new tactic on social media is to encourage liberals to go full batshit insane and riot and burn shit down. Let’s just get this started.
I’m not sure how much encouragement they need.
”Shooting a mom in the face” …. This is the shit we have to put up with. These people are exhausting to be around, all they do is distort, bitch, and riot. And what they are doing is not protesting, it’s an act of war and they need to be put down. Let’s arrest, prosecute, incarcerate, and fine their lawlessness.
Also funny how the people who were so aghast at Jan 6, and so indifferent to Ashli Babbit, now think it’s perfectly fine to attack federal police and are enraged at the police shooting back. If they didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards.
I think the “shooting a mom in the face” is part of a strategy shift by the Dems. I’m not sure why they have backed off a little on sending black-bloc professional thugs to “protest”. Maybe they cost more than payoffs to assisted living residents, maybe someone made the decision that the optics were too bad so decided to try out granny mobs, maybe they have tapped into a hidden cache of aging hippies who miss the 60s anti-war glory days of howling invective, maybe the cutoff of federal money has hit the NGOs and grifters operating on federal money, but in any case the narrative has changed and the flying monkey brigade is, as usual, following right along. Watching the antics of some of these geriatric “protesters” it does look like the Left raided the dementia wings of the local nursing homes. The video of the lunatic shrieking “shoot me!” over and over supports that theory.**
It looks like one of the prompts for this move was the shooting of that homicidal ICE “protester” in Minneapolis. You can just see a Dem focus group trying to work out how to spin this. “She wasn’t black, she wasn’t trans, she wasn’t an illegal alien, what demographic can we try to use to build outrage? Well, she does have some kids, though most live with their dad (and we do NOT want to get into the reason for that!) Great! Let’s go with the mom angle!”
And sure enough, the Usual Suspects obediently fall in line and the new narrative takes over. Of course, the lack of self-awareness is blatant, but whatever. The fact that the party of infanticide and child mutilation is now trying to build support based on the reproductive history of its miscreants is really pretty funny. So we have “Maryland Dad” and “mom shot in face”.
And there is another effort to build a theme they hope will resonate. It is built on the “I can’t breathe!” element of the George Floyd saga as he was dying of a drug overdose but, fortunately for the rabid Left, ending his days in the custody of a police officer who could then be blamed for his death. Now it is common for black men being restrained by officers to shout “I CAN’T BREATHE!” Most recently, and this is funny, when an AWFL got chased down and restrained after throwing a water bottle at an officer a helpful idiot in the crowd called out to remind her of this. “Can you breathe?” yelled the helpful agitator.
The Left is trying out another theme—that is, the refrain of “are you proud of yourself?” or “are you proud of what you are doing?” Again, massive self-owns flying right over their heads, because what they are really saying is “Are you proud of defending the rule of law?” with the unspoken corollary of “Because I am proud of breaking it”.
That is an LOL – of course the ICE guys are proud, and we’re proud of them. Heck, I don’t think I could show as much restraint as they have.
And the Left is now taking infants to riots in the hopes that one or more will be injured or killed…and you think about that: parents are willing to have their kids killed for the cause.
These people are, above all else, insane.
That was a quick escalation from taking a dog to a riot, hoping it would be hurt and in so doing generate outrage and sympathy for their cause. We do have pay attention to what they tell us, though, whether it is verbally or through their actions.
Starting with the total lack of respect for the life of the very young (unborn) to the callous indifference to the sex trafficking of children (especially of those made vulnerable by the implied invitation to turn their futures over to drug cartels in to encourage illegal immigration) to the support for maiming children to advance the whole “trans” farce, the actions of the Left tell us what we need to know about how much they truly value children. Making them cannon fodder at organized riots against the government is just the American version of hiding terrorists in schools and hospitals.
Writing about Trump’s potential invoking of The Insurrection Act in Minnesota, Jeff Childers had this excellent analysis:
My understanding of “insurrection” is that it is two-pronged: that is, an effort to overthrow the government and assume its powers. So we would have to look at definitions of the two terms. (Note: While I have evidently been granted the title of Her High Eminence the Grand Pooh Bah of the blog, I am not an attorney nor pretending to be one, just dabbling in the murky waters of trying to apply analysis and logic to the actions of the Left, or at least of the Left’s silly meat puppet minions.)
So—does “overthrow the government” require violent dispersal of government officials and physical occupation of the seats of authority, or could it also apply to systematic disruption of the ability of the standing (elected) government to function by means of incremental erosion of various elements of the government, such as denying that legislated laws are binding and defying enforcement of those laws? In other words, can “overthrow of the government” be attempted/accomplished incrementally rather than by a single explosive shift of official power?
My personal opinion is that the Left has been engaging in a slow-motion insurrection, incrementally testing the will of the government/people to push back (which has been aided by installing a weak, complicit, puppet government which acted as an accomplice to the effort). One such test was the announcement that some states and/or cities were openly going to violate immigration laws, which signaled official violation of at least one federal statute—-8 U.S. Code § 1324 – Bringing in and harboring certain aliens—with its explanation of specific crimes related to “concealing, harboring, or shielding from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection” anyone here illegally (as defined in other statutes as well). This was in support of the shameful official policy of ignoring immigration laws, and followed the shameful #RESIST movement of 2017, which was openly and publicly dedicated to sabotaging the efforts of the Trump Administration to govern, and which was openly and publicly supported by many including some members of Congress, a movement which was never addressed as the first step in this incremental insurrection. One can say “overthrow of the government” or “undermining of the government’s ability to function” and this appears to me to be a distinction without much of a difference–which may eventually be part of a judicial ruling.
When this was given tacit approval, by simply ignoring it, the Left then built on the acceptance of unfocused civil unrest in the form of organized riots run by paid agitators, which had also received tacit approval in the form of acceptance with minor if any consequences or repercussions. They then did a lateral move of shifting the generic rioting to focused rioting against the rule of law, in directing the rioting toward organized violation of immigration law as well as toward efforts to enforce these laws.
This was an extremely and important symbolic shift, because now the Left was openly advocating for overthrowing the authority of the federal government’s legislation and enforcement powers. And it has been accomplished without acknowledgement of its significance. THIS is where the Left has stepped out of the shadows of general unfocused civil unrest into overt challenges to the authority of the government and overt efforts to derail that authority. And this is where the Left has crossed into actual insurrection.
And it hasn’t happened in a vacuum. For example, we have seen an auxiliary effort as some members of Congress have tried to do the same, regarding military discipline, encouraging military personnel to violate their sworn oaths of allegiance to the nation and their military commands in the name of political agendas. This after working use the judicial system through the actions of partisan activists using the disguise of the law to attack the authority of all three branches of government and the infiltration of activists into law enforcement.
I sometimes use the game Jenga to illustrate incremental weaknesses that can lead to downfall, and I have just described several pieces the Left has pulled out of the structure of American government, all without evident recognition of the cumulative damage done. Here I have just considered the various efforts to overthrow the government—the efforts to assume its powers are still somewhat hidden, waiting for a more definitive collapse. But we know who are waiting in the shadows for this to happen, so they can step up and take over.
Hakeem Jeffries has telegraphed his intent to be one of these, especially in his latest statement, in which he “literally threatened ICE agents and Trump administration officials with future prosecution for doing their jobs and enforcing the law.” It is easy to view the bleatings of blowhard like Jeffries as just more bleating by a blowhard, but this is really a statement of the Democrats’ intent to punish and destroy those who support the existing rule of law, and that is an ominous prediction we ignore at our peril.
Outside of Colorado, few have heard of Tina Peters, but she is a perfect example of the punitive overreach of truculent Leftists.
I suppose we should use the Leftist strategy and start this by identifying Peters as a “mother” and “grandmother” but instead I would just call her a “whistleblower” who was denied the legal protections of whistleblowers. And BTW in addition to her outrageous prison sentence (longer than those handed out to many rapists, etc.) she has also been put in solitary confinement.
So let’s look at the editorial content of this linked article, which BTW is not the article written by Jeff Childers but merely linked by him. He does not engage in this kind of journalistic malpractice as seen here from the Colorado Sun. I’ve highlighted the egregious editing designed to herd readers into Leftist-preferred conclusions, and these do not even include the outrageous comments by the judge who sentenced her to this unprecedented punishment as he obediently parroted Leftist talking points about “undermining the democratic process” and “spreading lies”. Clearly Matthew Barrett is from the lawfare branch of the judiciary.
BTW, Leftist darling Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold “mistakenly” put voting systems passwords “on the Colorado Secretary of State’s website for several months before being spotted and taken down” but she was given a pass because shut up.
According to AP “reporter” (in a sudden fit of accuracy he is not passed off as a “journalist”) Jesse Bedayn was careful to characterize the Griswold incompetence as a mere “mistake” and assured everyone that no harm was done by having the passwords online for months, though he did make sure to inform us that Peters had engaged in ” a data-breach scheme based in false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race, careful to make sure this was a “scheme” and the claims about voting machine fraud were “false”.
And speaking of lies, there is this:
“The American Psychological Association (APA) Dictionary of Psychology defines pedophilia as “a paraphilia in which sexual acts or fantasies involving pre-pubertal children are the persistently preferred or exclusive method of achieving sexual excitement.”
So why does the Left persist in using this highly inflammatory word to describe the sexual attraction to, and/or engagement with, young people years beyond the age of puberty?
It’s back to my sorting-out question of “qui bono?” or “who benefits?”
Who benefits by convincing people that when an adult man has sexual relations of any kind with—for example—-a 15-year-old girl this is not just immoral, or illegal, but is PEDOPHILIA?
Obviously, it is because the word is so powerful, even when misused and falsely defined that it is a great weapon and often an effective distraction. Libels against the Catholic Church were enabled by the claims that priests (implying all priests, not just a very small number of priests) were “pedophiles”. This conjured up imaginary scenarios of dirty old men molesting little girls. That was the weaponization of the word. The distraction was related to the need by the Left to distract from the real problem, which was that of homosexual priests preying on post-pubescent boys and young men, because of the Left’s identification with homosexuality.
Now it is being freely applied to the admittedly distasteful and illegal involvement of Jeffrey Epstein with, allegedly, girls as young as 14 or so. Illegal, disgusting, wholly inexcusable, so why not just stick with the facts instead of (as the British would say) “overegging the pudding” by slapping on a word that does not accurately describe the problem?
Because it is an emotional trigger, and because it invokes a lot of emotion-based imagery, and because shortened to “pedo” it is convenient and catchy.
So the lie becomes an unquestioned part of the narrative, of the discourse, and is accepted, where it becomes just another part of the Left’s arsenal of slanders and libels and attack vocabulary.
And this one’s for Cluster:
A rare actual photo of Bill Bonks.
LOL
Grady Judd is not the sheriff in my Florida county, but I’d be thrilled if he was, and he speaks for most if not all of the rest of them. Here he carefully explains why ICE us dealing with the apprehension of illegal aliens the way they are.
This is the sheriff who explained how to avoid being arrested for murder: “Chill out. Drink a 7-up. Eat a Moon Pie. Stop killing people.”