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.
What happened to Alex Pretti, is what happens to people in war. We are at war. Make no mistake about that.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/insane-video-federal-officers-violently-attacked-tackled-minneapolis/
No police anywhere …. I am surprised that some good men in MN haven’t formed a posse yet and go fuck those people up … I sure as hell would if I lived there. I wouldn’t let those MF’ers continue this without paying a heavy price.
The Anti-ICE Demonstrations Look More Like Mao’s ‘People’s War’ Doctrine Than Civil Disturbances
I think this has without question “crossed over” into federal obstruction territory, and worse, into rebellion against the authority of the United States and its laws.
I’ll be calling that number …
Called twice and all I get is a general voicemail message that says the “person is unavailable” and to leave a message. I’ll keep trying
This is the reality behind the faux “we’re just defending our neighbors” script.
Trey Gowdy was just on Fox and what a disappointment he is … spent a good amount of his time defending Alex Pretti. There is no defense. When Alex made the decision to go interfere in a law enforcement operation with a loaded gun, he determined his fate. PERIOD. NO ONE has the right to interfere with law enforcement …. That’s how civil societies operate.
ALL of us condemned what we saw on Jan 6. I know that many of those people were agitated by Capital Police and fired upon with rubber bullets which created the chaos, and the narrative is false, but I never had much sympathy. They placed themselves there … actions have consequences. The same can not be said for the rioters in MN.
Every single one of those rioters in MN need to know that their life is on the line if they continue to agitate.
I still think that when someone sets out to commit a felony and decides to do so while armed he is setting himself up for a bad outcome. If he escalates this by resisting arrest, well, play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
I’m not a lawyer and even I know about “enhancement”, or escalating the seriousness of a crime by committing it while armed. But the Left is so tickled to have a bloody martyr they are nearly peeing down their legs in glee. Now they have something to throw to the slavering mobs howling for blood. And we’re seeing their lies, invented to incite the hysterics. Now Pretti got shot for helping a woman! Yeah, that’s the ticket! The bastids shot him in cold blood for being nice!
And they are inventing conditions, like “he didn’t even BRANDISH his gun!” or “he didn’t even REACH FOR his gun!” But he didn’t have to. He wore it, and if it became visible during a confrontation that was enough for the officers to demand that he relinquish it. At that point their duty was to take control of a lethal weapon, to protect themselves and everyone around them, and it appears that the struggle we saw on that video was him trying to keep the officers from taking the gun. In any case, he fought violently, and at one point he was on top of an officer when a shot was fired, which was believed to be from his gun. Even if it was accidental, and it might have been, when officers see an armed violent man on top of another officer and have reason to think he fired his weapon their job is to act quickly and decisively to end the encounter.
As Stephen Kruiser said this morning, Murderous Chaos Is ALWAYS the Dems’ Endgame and as long as the Left has a hive of zombie virtue signalers convinced that violent mob rule and defending criminals are proof of moral superiority they will have plenty of cannon fodder to feed into the shredder.
Jeff Childers addresses this as well:
“This is already a widely discussed story, so I won’t dwell on the details. Plus, I wasn’t there. I wasn’t there when Pretti was shot while federal agents were dealing with his “peaceful arrest-resisting.” It seems self-evident that going to violent, chaotic protests, shouting obscenities, blowing bear horns in agents’ faces, interfering when they tried to subdue another protester, carrying a semi-auto with extra magazines, and wrestling with officers in a high-adrenaline encounter carries known risks of an unfortunate misunderstanding and tragic outcome.
Nurse Pretti stayed home to avoid the risk of a mild viral infection, but he practically sprinted to a tumultuous street protest, armed, and grappled with law enforcement. Make it make sense.”
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“It’s also worth noting that the streets of Minneapolis (-17 degrees) were calm until just after Operation Metro Surge began in response to the Quality Learing fraud. Are the protests a cover up? “
Trey seems to have lost his backbone since leaving Congress. When he was surrounded by real men like Devon Nunes and Ted Cruz he tried to keep up, but on his own he has been pretty flaccid and mealy-mouthed.
Another important point …. ICE was there to apprehend a child molestor and rapist when confronted by rioters and Alex Pretti. That’s who they are protecting
This adds an interesting element to the argument, such as it is, about the wisdom and/or legality of taking firearms to a riot. I doubt that any of the mouthbreathing hysterics in Minnesota have considered this, but in most cases being armed while committing a crime is considered an “enhancement”, or elevation of the crime to a higher degree.
So far it looks like most of, if not all, of the arrests of rioters have probably been for assault. Now there seems to be a decision to make those assault charges more serious. (I’m kidding—-I doubt there has been any thought at all behind the idea to start showing up heavily armed.)
When these assaults are charged under federal law, such as 18 U.S. Code § 111 – Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees, that takes the charges out of the Soros-controlled revolving door of Minnesota “justice” and puts it in federal courts. re: 18 U.S. Code § 111:
And by the way, for those thinking of quibbling over jurisdiction, this statute addresses that”
So go ahead and strut around with weapons sending the message—-wait a minute. What message are you trying to send? That you will defend your favorite criminals by shooting law enforcement officers? That you will resist arrest by shooting whoever tries to arrest you? Whatever. The think I hope DOJ will keep in mind is that every person rebelling against the authority of the government and/or its laws is committing a crime, and if that person is carrying a gun that crime is enhanced.
What is the government dealing with in Minnesota? Well, AG Bondi sent a demand letter to Governor Walz:
Note that she actually offered to let the state back off from its illegal rebellion against the authority of the United States and its laws (“sanctuary policies”) and the response was a flat “no”.
Let’s go back to the real definition of “insurrection” It is a usually violent effort to overthrow a government and assume its powers. (Neither of which, BTW, were even mentioned in passing by Trump supporters on J6.) The State of Minnesota is now officially, by its formal rejection of the demands made by the Attorney General of the United States, assuming the powers of the government by rebelling against its authority and assuming the power to establish its own laws. Not just immigration laws, but now also fraud and election laws.
I say, take them to court and let the system sort it out, rather than be deterred by “might be hard” fretting. It is abundantly clear that the obstruction has gone far beyond “mere disagreement or non-cooperation”.
I also think Walz, et al, have gone beyond the scope of what is addressed here, though this is probably only a few days old. Walz instructed Minneapolis rioters to “resist ICE” which seems like a clear call to rebel against the authority of ICE and by extension the authority of the United States.
People are revealing the various means whereby the anti-ICE lunatics are coordinated…and I don’t think anyone involved in them realizes that as soon as they sign into the aps for it, they are part of the conspiracy…the conspiracy being, just for starters, to impede federal law enforcement, which is a pretty hefty felony.
The real difference between 2026 and any time in the last 70-80 years is that we have a federal government committed to enforcing federal laws. It has been a while – think of the Selma March…the pictures of people beaten bloody outraged the national conscience and placed the Civil Rights Act front and center. Cool. Except that the beatings didn’t have to occur…Johnson was already shepherding the Act through Congress; it was going to happen. And if Civil Rights activists wanted to march from Selma to Montgomery truly peacefully, Johnson could have got the feds (in the form of the National Guard) out to make sure nothing bad happened. But “bad” was desired. It wasn’t good enough that the Constitutional process of the USA was moving forward to secure justice for all…there was no fame or money to be had in that! Needed someone beaten half to death by morons! And so it was done…as the feds stood by, even though the “Klan Act” already gave Johnson all the power he needed to ensure peace and the right to vote.
Makes you really wonder as we see what they’re up to right now: just how much have we all been played for decades?
“Makes you really wonder as we see what they’re up to right now: just how much have we all been played for decades?”
(Ahem..) “some of us” have been harping on this very thing for at least the two decades I have been talking about it.
A post on Facebook …
A Communist insurrection is happening in our country of domestic enemies who hate America, hate reality, hate God, and hate liberty. I’ve dealt with these people and there is no reasonable or sound mind about them, they are fully deranged with hate and indoctrinated with extremist ideology that is lawless and nihilistic.
“As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.
What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t ‘protest.’ It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.
Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.
This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace ‘ICE agents’ with ‘occupying coalition forces’ and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.
The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.
I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.
Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.
We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just ‘activism’ until the structures harden and spread.
Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.”
I posted this about an hour ago
Timmy’s going to the woodshed, or at least the principal’s office, and the vice principal is going to have a little chat with him. We all remember how it was always the VP who was the enforcer, and Homan is going to tell Timbo how the cow eats the cabbage. Remember, he has already brought up 8 U.S. Code § 1324 – Bringing in and harboring certain aliens when talking about addressing “sanctuary city” type nonsense. And I have a feeling Tim was reminded of these salient elements of that statute:
“knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation; or engages in any conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts, or aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts, in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both; in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) resulting in the death of any person, be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, fined under title 18, or both.
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Let’s parse this a little, remembering that it is Walz’ office trying to put some shine on the poo, so to speak. So talking about an agreement to discuss an independent investigation is fine, as long as it does not waive federal intervention if it looks like it is following the mob determination to hang the officers and put their heads on pikes. Any situation this confusing and chaotic demands a thorough investigation, and if it soothes Timmy et al to pretend that they made this a condition of meeting with Homan, well, we can give that to them. because they need to save face. It was going to happen anyway and if Trump is willing to let Tim pretend he is driving the bus, let him.
The important part of this is that Walz claims he agreed to “look into” either following the law and working with ICE, the way sane states do, or into reducing the number of federal agents in Minnesota—which would be the natural outcome of Minneapolis functioning like a normal city anyway. It’s just verbal tapdancing trying to sell the idea that Timmy didn’t cave because he saw orange jumpsuits being ordered in XXL and negotiated a deal from a position of strength.
Note that this press release does not mention that Walz called Trump.
It is possible that having a Lt. Governor named, with evidence, as coordinator of a conspiracy to commit several federal felonies, under the color of her office, MIGHT have had a little to do with re-evaluating his position. Easier to kick “Flan” under the bus if the Prez lets you stand on the curb to watch.
(Read Trump’s letter “Lawyer Up” for some clues about what might have gotten Tim’s attention.)
The elephant in the room is that this will end the effort to distract from the fraud investigation. Oh, the Left will try to keep the violence ramped up, but if the state is working “in a more coordinated fashion on immigration enforcement” with the feds, that is likely to mean some police efforts to control mobs, and less official sanction of their antics.
Timmy may have decided to just roll the dice and take his chances on the fraud issues, as they don’t carry a possible death sentence, and he may even have gotten a wink and a nod indicating that he won’t be the prime focus of the fraud investigation if he just plays ball with ICE. It might be the art of the deal—he comes across on immigration and ICE, we let him go states’ evidence on the fraud in exchange for a sweet deal or even immunity, we round up the real crooks, win-win.
And Lefties seethe in impotent fury. Call that win-win-win.
It’s not just a media feeding frenzy about Pretti—the Usual Ghouls are drooling over the chance to use his corpse as an altar for their ritual attacks on the government. And make no mistake about it—that is exactly what this is. This is an effort to undermine and weaken the government while assuming some of its powers (such as the power to determine which laws can be enforced). The Right represents the Constitution and Constitutional governance and the Left represents incremental undermining of Constitutional authority and moving toward anarchy (which always ends in collectivist tyranny) even as they try to disguise this in the pretense it is just about Trump.
If Minneapolis police are now cooperating with ICE and this means things are calming down, that’s proof that the violence was created by the refusal of the city and its police to cooperate in the first place. Which is what we have been pointing out. Without the incitement from Minnesota officials and the tacit approval of the police department in its stepping away from doing its job, the lunatics were not only free to rampage through society acting like savages, they were encouraged to do so by, among others, the disgusting lapdog Agenda Media. Without all that incitement and encouragement and enabling all these losers can do now is fret and howl and mutter.
One of the funniest things I saw in this whole thing was when some loon thought he was making a point in claiming that ICE/Trump/so many bad people were unfairly “targeting” Minnesota and particularly Minneapolis, and the proof he offered was that states like Texas and Florida weren’t having all these ICE problems. There is literally no connection in the brains of these people between their actions and the results. This guy literally did not understand that the reason ICE efforts are not violent in some states is because in those states the citizens and state governments support the rule of law, and do not allow insane jacked-up virtue signaling anarchists to form violent mobs to rebel against government authority and attack law enforcement officers. It’s not even a matter of failing to connect the dots—these mentally deficient morons don’t even realize there ARE dots. They are so narcissistic they think they define morality, when the opposite is true.
I do wonder what Trump told Walz…because suddenly having the local cops doing their basic job deflates the whole Democrat op. That’s all it ever took.
It destroys the narrative that the problem has been ICE, if now ICE can work normally and calmly they way they do in other places. It puts the blame squarely where it belongs. I don’t think that has sunk in yet, to the Left. Now Timmy has finally gotten some good advice and has jumped ship, exposing the hard ugly truth behind who has always been responsible for the mayhem and for two deaths.
They were so giddy celebrating Pretti’s death that it never occurred to them that if the rioting was determined to be a contributing factor, like him being there to riot and particularly because of the online information organization, that anyone determined to be complicit in the whole thing might be prosecuted for murder. Flanagan must be excreting rectangular building materials right now.
The timing is also funny, coming hard on the heels of a headline saying (and I kid you not…) “The Walls Are Closing In On Trump”. Yes, someone dragged that tattered old meme out and ran it up the flagpole, right around the time the only relevant Walz was rolling over and destroying the entire Leftist ICE narrative.
This guy literally did not understand that the reason ICE efforts are not violent in some states is because in those states the citizens and state governments support the rule of law,
It’s not just with regard to immigration law; it applies to pretty much every other law that the Left doesn’t like. Take this article from the NRA’s American Rifleman Magazine”
Just a side note/personal observation: if the conservative gun owners in this country were even remotely as critical a threat to society as the Left believes, Liberals would be an endangered species.
It is ultimately how they got all the bans on smoking through – I get that the non-smokers are pleased, but I warned at the time that giving the federal courts the power to ban a legal product would have bad long-term consequences. It should always have been left up to the people…and if there was profit to be had in a smoke-free bar, then such would come along. But the Left didn’t like that.
Yeah, I get that it took judicial activism regarding the smoking ban (though I have to admit I like being able to go to bars again, and not having smoke drift across my table in restaurants, etc.) and it is being employed to try to control guns, but I don’t see a connection between that and the rampant violence and open rebellion against government authority that the riots represent.
My husband smoked for at least 40 years and had to stop when he had surgery for melanoma. After the surgery he started again till I told him I never nagged him before but stopping and then starting again after six months was just plain stupid, and when he thought about he agreed.
And he got to be more sensitive to smoke and smoking odors than I was, often saying “Now I know what you were talking about”. It is simply impossible for a smoker to understand the physical, visceral, reaction to cigarette smoke. It’s not just a smell. So while I try not to nag smokers, I also understand that when I smoked I had no clue and when my husband smoked it took him about six months after quitting for his senses to be able to register the effects of the smoke. So even if it doesn’t make sense to you, just accept it—and if you ever quit, get back to me a few months later and tell me how long it took for it to hit you, too.
but I don’t see a connection between that and the rampant violence and open rebellion against government authority that the riots represent.
Immigration seems to be the first area of Leftist pushback to laws they don’t like where they have employed violence as part of the mix, well, aside from the riots after George Floyd’s death, but that didn’t have anything to do with a law they didn’t like, just sympathy for a drug addicted thug. This time I think they’ve overplayed their hand.
I always come back to my conviction that the street people of the Left are never about what they are FOR, not even “sympathy for a drug addicted thug”, but what they are AGAINST. Which is always the Invented Other of the supposed “Right” and anything that is a symbol of that.