Walz backed down, Frey is standing firm – both are idiots but my guess is that Walz knows a losing hand when he sees one…while Frey is probably so beholden to Minneapolis corruption that he knows he stands or falls with it. Bottom line is that if Minnesota allows mere federal law enforcement, then the jig is up for the Left in that State…they’ll lose their ability to steal money and elections.
Trump isn’t backing down. The various hand-wringers on the Right went into full Doom mode but were silenced when ICE was seen having beers and watching Minnesota cops clear out the rioters from their hotel. Nobody is leaving. Nobody is slowing down. The illegals are still going to go. All of them.
That this is all an op is shown by the RINOs who immediately jumped out with their pre-written amnesty plans…and the Democrats also came out with theirs. Both are absurd, neither has a chance of passage and if any get through Congress, they face a certain veto by Trump. The Democrats want to make ICE get a judicial warrant for each illegal and they can only get such if the illegals commit a federal crime beyond illegal entry…so, you know, no deportations once you get into the country. Nothing shows better that this whole effort is to keep up the fraud…because Democrats know they can’t win without it. And do keep in mind that if we lose in 2028, then that may be final…Democrats will pack the courts, open the gates and do everything they can to make sure they can’t lose a vote.
This is why the continued insistence on the Right with keeping the filibuster is just plain and simple stupid – there is no upside to keep it, no downside to dropping it. Keeping it just allows Democrats to slow us down in 2026 while dropping it doesn’t matter long term…Democrats will ditch it at their first opportunity. This isn’t the old America – we’re no longer living in a nation where everyone is a patriot. Democrats hate this country. They only see it as something to steal from – with the Leftwing fanatics additionally seeing it as something to kill as soon as possible.
But if we stand firm, we’re going to win. The economy is starting to go like a rocket. Trump is clearly enjoying himself, knowing that he has every advantage. He’s already on the stump for 2026 and he plus GOP have something like a billion dollars in the bank to campaign with. The Democrat policies are downright insane and nobody looking at them will figure they have the better path forward..and Trump will make sure everyone looks at them.
That vile Ilhan Omar was the “victim” of an alleged “attack”…someone sprayed some liquid on her. The pre-made MSM Narrative was her continuing her speech like the Brave Fighter for Justice she is…but, sorry, someone sprays some unknown liquid on my I’m going to immediately wash it off and get myself checked out. This is simple prudence…that she kept talking puts a huge amount of Smollet on this event. There’s nothing I want more than her being stripped of her “citizenship” and deported. She’s not one of my fellow Americans…she’s a mere Paperwork American and if we can find the slightest falsehood in there, out she goes.
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It’s funny how the media is trying to characterize this change of tactics in MN, as if the social justice morons won. This does prove quite conclusively though that the chaos was indeed caused by radical leftist citizens, not ICE. Even after it is shown that ICE is operating quietly and efficiently in other States, Democrats still pretend that MN is where all the authoritarianism is …. Which clearly shows me that these people are all just spoiled children looking for something meaningful in their life. Their lives are so void of meaning and love that they have to conjure up some evil force attacking them and their non binary friends to give some them some feeling of life. It’s like they’re some cosplay group on video games. They are a sick bunch of people, but clearly a minority. 2026 will be another good year for MAGA …
It’s going to be interesting to watch the Left’s growing understanding that it has been played. The slavering mob of mental defectives, all caught up in their narcissistic posturing of illustrating to each other “look how virtuous I AM!” as they constantly escalated their violence and stupidity, sucking poor deluded Timmy in their slipstream as he struggled to be the face of this allegedly noble uprising by taking his WalMart plastic bullhorn to rally the insurrection by telling them to keep doing what they had already been doing without him, to entreat the mobs to fight fight fight, resist resist resist. (Kind of missed the visual impact of standing astride the ramparts when he had to balance himself, halfway up a gate, teetering while being supported by security, trying to peer through the gaps, but hey, it’s Drama Tim-Style.)
The thing is, it looks like finally someone got through to Tim, et al, with a dose of reality and potential consequences, followed by a big “Oh, shit!” moment, followed by a quick change of undies and a phone call to the president and, no doubt, adequate fawning and apologizing and promising and boot-licking.
What message is sent when ICE can operate calmly and effectively when mobs are not organized and dispatched? Not the message that the problem is ICE, that’s for sure. Suddenly the mobs are abandoned, in the spotlight as the true villains, while Trump and his immigration cops are proved to be the good guys just doing their jobs.
And the fraudsters have lost their cover, lost the big violent front-page breathless headline distractions so helpfully provided by the Lefty mobs and the always-compliant Agenda Media. That’s gonna be fun to watch, too.
Yep, outplayed all the way. And the only people to pay the price are a couple of smug, arrogant, wannabe rebels and the reputation of a whole city—at least so far. But I have a feeling that behind the scenes some interesting legal issues are percolating, just waiting to be brought out after the melodrama has become a little more tepid—and some organizers are waiting to see what happens.
And i am with you 1000% percent on Omar … she is dirty and corrupt af. I want her in prison as an example of political corruption and why Muslims should NEVER be in American politics. Ever. She is a fucking snake.
To become naturalized, Omar had to take this oath:
“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.”
We have seen Omar publicly state that she sees her role in Congress as representing Somalis, she displays the Somali flag, and she defies the Constitution and laws of the United States of America. She uses vile and derogatory language to describe the United States and routinely exhibits her contempt for this country.
These things alone justify stripping her of her citizenship status, without even considering immigration fraud or any of her activities that appear to be unlawful.
(BTW this oath ought to disqualify most Muslims, who make it clear that their primary allegiance is not to a RELIGION but to the laws associated with that “religion”, which are antithetical to those of the United States.) Start applying the oath to naturalized citizens who are clearly violating it and get rid of birthright citizenship (taking care of the million or so Chinese with claims of birthright citizenship through birthright tourism) and a lot of problems, current and future, will disappear.
Absolutely loath that she sits in our Congress – the long term effect of Clinton policy which, in response to the barbarians attacking our troops in Somalia was to say, “hey, lets bring them here!”. She’s no American.
The obedient little Lefty bots have been trying to convince us that “Trump is losing this battle” and “Trump has no support” and even the absurd zombie theme that “The Walls Are Closing In On Trump”.
This was in the Comments section of Coffee and Covid this morning: Some pretty big names in this list, including the Mayo Clinic and every Minnesota sports team.
(Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx – On behalf of the entire organization
Minnesota Twins – On behalf of the entire organization
Minnesota United FC – Shari Ballard, CEO
Minnesota Vikings – On behalf of the entire organization
Minnesota Wild – On behalf of the entire organization)
But no—instead we should pay attention to the mewlings and chitterings of couple of oddly obsessed wannabe keyboard warriors and their new Walz-like mascot, who is just so darned tickled to think he is part of their club.
Once more, with feeling: the Democrats don’t have any coherent, substantive policy ideas to offer legal American voters. That’s why they devote more effort to gaming the voting system than to anything else. They’ve known for decades that the more they strip away election rules and transparency, the easier it would be to get illegals into voting booths.
They need the illegal demographic to make up for the voters they’ve been shedding for the last few years. Real Americans aren’t buying their nonsense. This is from something that Eric wrote yesterday:
The Alex Petti narrative seems to be collapsing. From Jeff Childers this morning:
The MSNBC make-up crew did an excellent job on Petti’s face and body, for what it’s worth (which is not much). As Childers note earlier in his column, Good and Petti will go down in history as a rounding error amid the some 1,400 annual police shootings that result in a death.
There’s video now allegedly of him a week before acting like a total barbarian. Never, ever shed a tear for these people or give them any benefit of the doubt.
Bottom line, there’s nothing to protest – it is routine law enforcement. These people, though, are there because they’re stupid enough to believe that ICE is a new Gestapo out there torturing and murdering innocent people…anyone who believes that and shows up is looking for trouble.
What is wrong around here? We should be celebrating that a violent, Marxist piece of garbage is dead!! 🎉
This is a short and concise analysis of only one of Trump’s strategies and worth thinking about.
Trump has done a masterful job at understanding the game and making strategic moves to secure our future and those of our allies. He is not a swamp creature though he knows who they are and how they operate. And most important, Trump is a God fearing man, understanding our mortality and having to answer for our actions once we move beyond the physical realm. Without that there are absolutely no ethical standards to which man is beholden to and will be an open instrument of evil.
This puts the immigration situation in the proper perspective:
Yep!
What’s going on out there in the Real World? Let’s do a comparison, as there are more than one worlds, according to the Left. So let’s draw a line down the middle of the page and start with the Left’s side. What’s going on over there?
Well, they are succeeding in getting some school districts to officially go along with teaching their students to rebel against the authority of their government. They’ve got this typically whitewashed name (“National Day Of Action”) which should be, if accurately named, “Day of Declaration of Rebellion Against Our Government” and they’ve got indoctrination centers/”schools” using tax dollars to teach kids it’s OK to break the law because feelz. They’re pretty happy about this, as it is an extension of their silly “No Kings” onanistic exhibition of ignorance.
They were getting some traction on their SAINTLY NURSE SHOT IN BACK !!! BY GESTAPO !!! squealing, but that is dying down except in the depths (and I use that term literally) of Leftist delusion as it turns out this guy turned his back on the noble profession of nursing to become a street thug committed to serial felonious acts while armed.
I think that about sums up the week for the Left. Meanwhile, on the sane side of the street, we learn:
Trump parlays what seemed like apprehension of a criminal (Maduro) into a cascade of not-good-very-bad consequences for the International Left. He further weakened the hold of the Communists on Cuba by cutting off Venezuelan oil and a lot of oil from Mexico, leaving that island’s “leadership” unable to explain why they can’t govern in a way that allows their people to eat or have electricity. He sent a message to China that their assumption of ongoing energy from the Western Hemisphere is now on very shaky ground. And oh, yeah, there is that attacking-the-drug-supply-chain thing, and the prospect of Venezuelan citizens finally being able to vote freely for non-Communist leaders. Kind of a cascade of good news stemming from arresting Maduro, and growing understanding that this was always the plan.
Then there is the Trump plan to set up young people with nice nest eggs growing fat as the babies grow up. This is a brilliant idea.
(Now we can sit back and wait for Social Media lunatics to start posting about how this is just going to enrich Trump, though they will probably just ignore it in favor of salacious lying like claiming Melania was a prostitute, a new “let’s see what is underneath the bottom of the slime barrel” strategy of the always-foul Left.)
Speaking of Trump working to benefit our children, the school voucher concept, with its various aspects, is finally starting to shape up. Even egg-shaped Polis is officially on board.
What else? Well, in spite of the Agenda Media trying to massage the message and Timmy trying to act like he put the hurt on Trump, the end result of the chat with Trump and then the woodshed meeting with Homan is that Minneapolis is now committed to working with ICE to apprehend illegal aliens with criminal histories. When law enforcement can actually enforce the law without open rebellion against their authority fomented by the Left and enabled by the state and city governments it will be clear that ALL the violence was directly due to the Left. All of it. Including two deaths.
So let’s see what the Left has in its arsenal. Bandaids on Trump’s hand? That never stirred up the whatever-it-was-supposed-to-stir-up the masterminds seemed to think it would. “Trump falls asleep”? Yeah, that ought to get some traction, admitting that a man who is dozing off is still accomplishing more than we can keep up with and disrupting one Leftist narrative and strategy after another. “Epstein”? Epstein has turned out to be the tar baby for the Left, and every time they try to play with it they just get smeared themselves. “No one is above the law”? Well, they just shot that in the head when they started teaching school children that they are, in fact, above the law if it makes them feel good about themselves to break it. This is on the continuum of official violations of laws enshrined in “sanctuary” declarations, incitement to rebel against the authority of the government, etc.
Big banks like Bank of America are getting on board – and it is a good thing. Long term, this is the solution for social security…we oldsters can’t get off it as its just too late and even those 40 or so and up will remain shackled to it, but if we can get the kiddies to see the benefits of long term investment wealth, then that will burn down social security and by 2100 it’ll be an ancient relic of a very stupid past.
At least if younger people can witness the growth of their funds through investment they might get over that panicky fear of putting SS funds into the market. I agree, we are stuck with SS, but if we could just invest that money so it could become productive we might at least make it useful.
I was fortunate (or unfortunate, depending on how you look at it) to have worked for myself after I retired from the navy. I sheltered a lot of income (legally), that did not have SS deducted. I get about half the social security benefit that I would have gotten if I had made the same income working for someone else and had it all subject to withholding, but I was able to save a lot more as a result. I also took SS at 62 instead of 66, but I used the extra money to pay off a 15 year mortgage in 9 years, so, with the interest I saved, my break even point (the difference between the amount I got at 62 vs. the amount I would have gotten at age 66) was extended to around age 80. I just turned 81, so, if I live a lot longer, I’ll end up getting less than I would have, but, at age 62, there was no guarantee that I would live this long.
That said, if I had had the option to put everything I put into SS over the 50 years I worked into market index funds, I would not only have a significantly higher income, my net worth would be a lot higher. I still remember the first time the DJIA passed over 1,000 and stayed there, early in Reagan’s first term. Now it’s nearly 49,000. The S&P 500 has returned an annual, inflation-adjusted return of nearly 7% since the mid-1950s.
But it’s CAPITALISM, dammit! So it cannot be accepted, cannot be respected, cannot be officially recognized in any government in which the Left has veto power. The Left’s convinced that if the gummint doesn’t do it, it can’t/shouldn’t be done.
When you let people think for themselves, when you encourage them to make their own decisions and be responsible for them, you make it easier for them to break out of or avoid the Borg and this must be discouraged, if not prevented, and preferably forbidden.
The system is not well-geared towards getting people to develop generational wealth…my granddaughter is being carefully instructed in this by her dad. She gets an ounce of silver from us each Christmas and she loves to watch its value grow. It isn’t much, of course, but it is deeply instructive to a young mind. I’m setting up the house to be inherited and we’re trying to gear it to make sure she never sells it – even if she moves, hold on to it. Never give up real property! Build that wealth. If she sticks with it, in a generation or two the family will never need to work…they’ll be able to just do what they want.
That ounce of silver every year is a great idea. It’s something shiny and pretty she can actually see and hold, and every year is an education in changing (and hopefully) growing value both in the value of that year’s gift and the accrued value of all of them.
Fortunately, Trump has reversed the trend in that direction.
That ounce of silver every year is a great idea
From the time I was around 5 until I graduated from Highschool, my aunt and uncle (my dad’s sister and her husband) sent me a silver dollar every year for my birthday, either a Morgan or Peace dollar (90% silver). About 20 years ago silver rose from around 4 or 5 dollars an ounce to around $20, and I sold 12 of the 13 I had, keeping one Morgan that was in really good condition. I got around $10 each, and most of them were so worn the mint marks were not legible. This last Thursday silver hit $118/oz. before a massive round of profit taking took it back down to $81, before finally settling yesterday at around $86, which is still up 20% for the month of January. Today those 13 silver dollars would be worth just under a grand. Interestingly, one of the ones I sold was a 1932 Peace dollar, which was so badly worn that the date was barely legible. The dealer I sold it to said in good condition it alone would have been worth around $1,200, but it was put into circulation at the beginning of the depression, and was so widely used that there were very few that were in good condition.
I’m not the only one noticing:
“Let’s get to the good stuff, which is the terrible, awful, horrible week the left is having.
How about that Fulton County election investigation, which our own Chris Queen and Matt Margolis wrote about? And what do you think about the investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar’s finances? Or that Walz-Trump negotiation that somehow enabled the Minneapolis Police to actually do their jobs, and the bonus news that it looks like Walz is ruling out public office forever? (If you can believe him.)
The lemon icing on the cake, however, is the conniptions the left is having over the arrest of Don Lemon for his very active and proud role in the invasion of Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn. TMZ, that upstanding pillar of the Fourth Estate, is worried that the arrest of low-IQ Lemon might change democracy forever. “
Polls:
Wow, strange that I still remember that.
Me too.