The Democrats – the overall American Left – have chosen Minneapolis as ground zero. This is logical in that the city is entirely under Democrat control in a State where all State-wide offices are held by Democrats. That is, they can control both the State and City response to federal actions with zero chance that anyone on the Democrat side will face criminal charges at the State or local level. There are lots of places Democrats could have chosen – and ICE is operating all around the country, of course – but they chose Minneapolis. What they are trying to do here is to get MAGA to back down – to withdraw. To give up any serious attempt to enforce federal law in Minneapolis.
Their strategy is to use a paid network of activists to track ICE and then vector in people who are willing to block streets, shout, push and shove and generally act like idiots in the hope that ICE will end up killing some of them. Which, of course, is precisely what has happened – with the Democrats all demanding Trump pull back, joined in this by the weak-kneed people on the Right who will only fight until the Democrats tell them to stop.
It can’t be emphasized enough how important this is, to both sides. Do keep in mind that it isn’t just money being stolen in Minneapolis…it is every State-wide office. Trump got 47% of the vote in Minnesota – so, you know, MAGA isn’t radioactive there. It has appeal. Yet not one State-wide office is held by the Republicans. How did Kamala win the State? Because of her 1.6 million votes, more than 500,000 came from Hennepin County – you know, Minneapolis. Without that 70% vote out of Hennepin, Trump would have won the State. That county also provided the margin for Walz and Ellison in their State-wide “victories”. In a nation divided about 50/50, in a State divided about 50/50…it is the one place that goes 70/30 which gives the Democrats power. Absent that, they wouldn’t hold a single State-wide office in Minnesota.
There hasn’t been a Republican mayor of Minneapolis since 1961. The chances that a party retains control of a large political entity for 65 years without fraud are near zero. The only thing that has changed is that the Democrats put the fraud in Minneapolis on steroids and now use it to control the whole State, not just Minneapolis. And if the fraud is at long last exposed and those who carry it out are removed from power…if there is no more money to steal, then it is all over. Turn out the lights. The GOP will win it all next round and if the Democrats want to come back, it’ll have to be by providing something people want…not by merely perpetuating a corrupt system via fraud. And if Minneapolis goes down, then so will Boston and Los Angeles and San Francisco and Portland and New York City and Chicago…on and on and on.
It has been my contention for years that the vote totals out of the deep Blue cities are pure fiction. Just whatever number the Democrats think they can get away with…and in States where the AG is Democrat, the Democrats think they can get away with anything. That 500,000 vote margin for Harris in 2024…it could be, in reality, any number between zero and 500,000…with the higher you go, the more unlikely the alleged number is. You think about places like Minneapolis and Chicago and Los Angeles which get worse year by year…higher crime, spreading poverty, ever more illegal immigrants, ever more flight of native Americans…and somehow or another in these increasing disaster areas, the Democrat margins increase. That is simple absurdity – it is like the PRI remaining in total control of Mexico for like 80 years straight. Doesn’t happen unless people cheat.
So, this is the battleground – and while Democrats decided to go ape in Minneapolis, it is actually the ground of Trump’s choosing. He was going to respond the same way no matter where Democrats did this. And keep in mind, during the Summer of St Floyd of Fentanyl, it was in cities all across the country. Democrats can’t seem to muster up enough people for more than one city at a time…and they are defending the city where billions have been stolen via welfare fraud. Those investigations continue. More and more indictments on that will come down. The Democrats out there thumping their chests about fighting off Trump’s ICE “Gestapo” will likely soon find themselves being arraigned…unless they can get Trump and ICE the heck out of Dodge.
And, so, Trump can’t back down. I don’t think he will. I won’t. I did say prayers for the dead, I did pray for the people of Minneapolis to choose peace. But I am not about to get weepy-eyed over insane people getting killed because they believed stupid Democrat lies about what ICE is doing. We all have agency. We make our choices. We endure our consequences. There is nothing to actually protest in the ICE actions. It is mere routine law enforcement…if you decide to get in ICE’s face, then you just bet your life that nothing bad will happen. Two of these Leftwing fanatics have lost their bet. More probably will. Yes, this could be the “Bleeding Kansas” precursor to Civil War II. I don’t want that. I don’t think it’ll go there…but it might, and if it does, I won’t shed a tear for the Left as we destroy them.
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Well it looks to be over in Iran. What a shame. I am very disappointed in the western civilized world for not coming to help. We allowed 5th century mullahs to over power and kill their citizenry to retain power. Shame on all of us.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/world/middleeast/iran-how-crackdown-was-done.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFA.USAQ.AtdNc0uQ7YVv&smid=url-share
I’ve been following some of the social media hysteria following the death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, and of course most of it is wholly predictable. The overall tone is Leftist glee that they have a new martyr, very thinly hidden behind a lot of faux mourning and anguish.
I can accept that he was a nice guy, compassionate, smiled a lot, and loved his dog. But none of that provides an explanation for the choices he made yesterday. The whole melodrama carefully built up around his death is designed to obfuscate some very important details.
One is his decision to go to an event which had an extremely high probability, close to a guarantee, of becoming violent and to take a loaded gun to this event. Just stopping here for a moment the obvious reaction is WTH?? In what universe could that be considered rational? What could possibly be the reason for doing this? But it gets even harder to understand when we factor in the guarantee that the violence would involve confrontations with armed law enforcement. At this point there is no way to assume that his motives were benign, because this is simply incomprehensible from a perspective of common sense.
Set aside the decision to take a loaded weapon to what was not only pretty much guaranteed to be a riot, it was designed to become a riot. Set aside the presumption that this would involve some violence and physical attacks on armed law enforcement officers. The man supposedly had a concealed carry permit, which means he probably had to take a class and get a certificate of competence first. And those classes stress the rules on how to handle an engagement with a law enforcement officer if you are armed. You inform the officer that you are armed. You tell the officer what weapon you have and where it is. You then, very slowly and carefully, follow instructions on retrieving the weapon (from a pocket, holster, glove box, console, etc.) and deliver the weapon to the officer. So even if a gun was inadvertently revealed to an officer by printing through clothing, and the reaction was sudden and a surprise, there is no explanation for any failure to act appropriately after that point.
Maybe he was just shaken by the abrupt demands from several loud voices to hand over his weapon. Maybe he was disoriented. Maybe he was even trying to get to the gun to hand it over. Maybe his violent resistance to the efforts to control him and his lethal weapon were merely panicked reactions with no violent intent. At that point, though, the die were cast. He was part of a demographic proven to be hostile toward ICE, making threats to kill not only ICE officers but their families, in yet another day expected to be one of violent attacks on ICE officers, carrying a gun and at least seeming to resist efforts to take control of the weapon and control him. If that’s the case he just experienced the ultimate penalty for what proved to be lethal stupidity.
Going back to the original decision to go to the event—it was a premeditated decision to commit at least one federal felony, if not more. And to be armed while doing so. We can’t overlook that. The purpose of the event was rebellion against the authority of the United States and some of its laws, and to forcibly interfere with the ability of law enforcement to enforce those laws. That’s two federal statutes right there that form the core foundation of the riots. There may have been an intent (regarding the event altogether, not just Pretti) to physically assault, attack and injure law enforcement officers. a possibility heightened by the repeated threats to do just that, the killing of one such officer and the maiming of another.
Alex Pretti might have been a pretty nice guy, overall, good to his mother and grieving for his dog, but he set out that day to commit several serious crimes. Even writing off his physical reaction to demands to surrender his weapon leaves us with quite a list of federal crimes with which he could have been charged, had he lived. So the effort to distract from all these, and sanctify him while slandering and libeling law enforcement officers faced with an impossible situation is just plain vile, vicious and typically callous of the always-lying Left and its reliably dishonest flying monkeys eager to dart in and spread the shit.
From what I understand, he had no ID on him, and if you are carrying concealed, I don’t know a jurisdiction which doesn’t require you to have the requisite ID on you to confirm you can, indeed, concealed carry.
The Left wants us to concentrate on the shooting – on some seconds of activity and ignore the larger context. But everything must always be placed in context. We here have gone over the immigration laws and so we know they are very decisive against any action which could assist an illegal to enter the USA or remain here. In fact, if you look at the law, the fact that we drive by Home Depot and see Latinos looking for day work requires us to report that to ICE because we all have a reasonable suspicion that those men are here illegally. To be sure, nobody is ever going to prosecute someone on that, but that is how the law reads.
Now, the plain fact of the matter is that these laws have been largely unenforced. Every few years over the past 40 years we, the people, have noticed ever increasing numbers of illegals and the problems they bring and we’ve demanded our representatives in Congress assembled do something about it. And they have thumped their chests and said they’d get tough on it. And in this bit of theater they did actually pass a lot of laws…in fact, law upon law upon law to make it impossible for someone illegally in country to stay. They can’t be employed. They can’t receive benefits. Can’t rent or buy a house. Rent or buy a car. Obtain credit. Squat on private property. Stay with a legal friend or family member. On and on and on – and the flip side of it is law after law making it a felony for anyone in the USA to do anything that would in any way assist an illegal in staying or evading detection…or impede the ability of ICE to find, detain and deport them. And then nobody ever enforced it.
But Trump ran specifically on enforcing these laws. Said it over and over and over again. On stage. On TV. In endless television commercials. If you voted Trump in 2024 you had zero doubt in your mind that the goal was the deportation of every last illegal in the USA. And with this in front of them, 50% of the American people voted for Trump and gave him a solid Electoral College win. And the GOP control of the Congress, which then passed a law which massively increased funding for ICE and Border Patrol in order for Trump to carry out this central promise of his 2024 campaign. And so we were off to the races.
Of course you can protest this. Everyone can protest anything they like. You can argue, petition and vote for a change in policy…but until that change is enshrined in law, then the laws must be enforced…and nobody has a right to in any way impede the enforcement of the law. This is America 101. What these Democrats and assorted Commie agitators are doing is attempting to impede enforcement (this, by the way, is a felony which carries a max sentence of 10 years for each incident). They say it openly. They organize to do it. They have a whole social media and internet infrastructure designed to track ICE and get people into position to impede in the shortest possible time. They are not protesting – they are conspiring to break the law. That Trump doesn’t have all of them arrested shows he’s being the reasonable man. But the fact that these people are doing this is all on them – they have decided to get into an argument with men and women who have guns and are engaged in lawful activities. We all hope nobody gets killed…but these people are betting their lives they can impede and not be harmed.
Two of them have lost their bet. That is all that has happened. The particulars of each incident are irrelevant…if these people weren’t trying to impede, nobody would be getting hurt.
That Trump doesn’t have all of them arrested shows he’s being the reasonable man.
I don’t agree, and won’t until it is proved that all this dilly-dallying is part of larger and more effective plan. I’m watching the Left successfully pump up the hysteria until it will, inevitably, reach a tipping point and a lot of people will die. We have to defuse this quickly and decisively.
Minneapolis has decided to be front and center, so let this hellhole be the poster child for effective enforcement of those federal statutes. It can’t be harder than taking Maduro. Do a blitzkrieg. Arrest Walz and Frey. Simultaneously hit all the online seditionists while setting up a big fake ICE raid and then hitting the mob with skunk juice, videoing them puking their guts out (for great social media posts) and then loading them into stock trailers (they can be hosed out) and hauled to someplace like a convention center where they are allowed to shower, dress in jumpsuits and be arraigned and charged with multiple felonies and given bail or detained. In the meantime their cars are towed to impound lots–maybe even held for evidence.
Sheriff Judd in Florida, when he does a presser on arrests, holds up mug shots of each person he talks about. Do that for each of these miscreants. Let it sink in that as serious as they seem to think bookkeeping “felonies” are, federal counts of rebellion, sedition, insurrection, interference, etc are a lot worse and a lot more likely to follow their career efforts.
Read this and tell me there is not abundant proof of conspiracy to violate several federal statutes. Walz has said, over his little electric bullhorn, that ICE agents are not real law enforcement, and incited people to “resist” ICE.
Him having a legal gun is immaterial and you all know it. He never brandished a gun was no threat at all and was disarmed prior to being shot in the back several times. The video doesn’t lie you are.