1 ?

2 Ah, monkey got kicked off

3 Pursuit of happiness = property rights

4 Now its gorilla.

5
Thanks God the art thread is over.

6 SPONGE!

7 We can't have foreigners as judges or in elective office.
Time and again, these are the people bent on destroying our laws, freedoms, and way of life.

8 While Yusef and his wife were stealing

Someone told him take care of you self, yusef.

9 We can't have foreigners as judges or in elective office.
Time and again, these are the people bent on destroying our laws, freedoms, and way of life.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2026 11:04 AM (0yjaw)

Nor leftists.

10 "What does it mean to be an American?"

It means to kick ass, take names, bang hot chicks, and crush all the assfuck pissants who ankle-bite you with whiny bullshit.

11 I read the content, so, not first?

12 The judges and politicians think that they will forever be protected from their bad decisions.

13 Quoting the Minneapolis police chief is funny. It does show why republicans lose.

14 To fix the problem - shoot the press first.

15 Nothing happens, until it does.

Trump is getting normies to *see* how things could, and should be, and the commies like *that* even less than they like OrangeManBad.

16 May God bless the United States with wisdom and common sense.

He did! That's why we need to import tens of millions of dependent retards!!!! So the smart people can take power!!!

17 It was fairly simple to answer those questions just a few short years ago. And deep down in my heart I believe the majority of people would have agreed upon the following three:
1) Life
2) Liberty
3) Pursuit of happiness

Quoted from your post. These 3 are Anathema to Communism and the would be Global Caliphate. The useful idiots in the country opposing the three points always always always imagine themselves at the top of the Tyranny Pyramid that would replace it. They are blindingly stupid, yes?

18 helluva essay there

19 Pursuit of happiness = property rights
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 29, 2026 11:02 AM (GD2xa)

It doesn't, but it's the best measurable and protectable proxy the founders could use.

20 Oh you Morons never disappoint me with your sharp insight
Thank you

21 Whatever happens I hope leftists don't start self immolating in town squares. It would look really bad for Trump. Really bad. It would embarrass him, potentially even destroy him. I hope they don't get wind of that and then do it just to hurt Trump at the polls and possibly wreck his presidency forever. Could even lose us the midterms. Especially if they got together did it en masse. That would really own the cons.

22
Her Majesty and The Big Dummy took off this morning for New York and the Westminster KC show on Monday. I'm very concerned for both of them. It's a 1500 mile trip and the weather and the roads are likely to be awful for most of the way. It's the idiots she's likely to encounter that I'm scared of.

Any thoughts or prayers - especially to St. Christopher - for safe travels would be very welcome.

23 >>Luigi Mangione support fundraisers, merchandise yanked by GoFundme, Etsy. Supporters of Mangione have raised more than $20,000 for the alleged murderer's defense on GiveSendGo


It's funny that United Healthcare is headquartered in Minnetonka, MN. In the belly of the radical beast, the state in which the Summer of Love op began.

Bet the deceased CEO and other board members are total Lefties who support the cause.

24 1. definition of magistrate: Federal magistrates are not actually judges. They're just glorified law clerks. They are not nominated by the President, nor are they confirmed by the Senate. Federal district judges just hire them, the way they hire law clerks and secretaries.
2. I know I will get labeled anti-semimetic, but lets stop with the "Judeo/Christian" Jews had NOTHING to do with forming our country or its founding documents, they do not believe Jesus Christ is the Savior/Son of God, among other differences with Christians.

25 Breaking,
"Homan told reporters that Minnesota officials have agreed to hand over criminal aliens to ICE.

“What we did agree upon is not to release public safety arrests back into the community, and they can be lawfully transferred to ICE,” Homan explained to reporters.

Tom Homan STRIKES AGREEMENT with Minnesota Democrat officials to hand over public safety threat illegal aliens to ICE

“What we did agree upon — is NOT to release public safety arrests back into the community, and they can be lawfully transferred to ICE.”

WOW! In… pic.twitter.com/8VILRFhJ6G

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 29, 2026

Homan went on to explain that Minnesota officials will also notify ICE when dangerous criminal illegals are being released so that ICE can pick them up."

26 Any thoughts or prayers - especially to St. Christopher - for safe travels would be very welcome.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 29, 2026 11:10 AM (tgvbd)

Prayers for a safe trip and a big win !

27 It took me a minute to figure out who "Charles" is. 😉 Thanks for filling in, MisHum.

28 It means to kick ass, take names, bang hot chicks, put carrots in chili, wash under tits.

29 And

"WOW! In a massive victory, Tom Homan announces Minnesota police chiefs confirmed they WILL RESPOND to 911 calls and guard federal immigration agents from leftist rioters

The stand down orders are OFFICIALLY DONE.

"The chiefs I talked to committed to responding to 911 calls… pic.twitter.com/PQqcs5bQ2X

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 29, 2026"

30 Create a right that doesn't exist, chaos ensues as it does when you start a syllogism with a busted premise, and then the rights you do have get trampled to protect that newly enshrined pseudo-right.

Education. Healthcare. Food and Shelter. "Protest".

You don't have a positive right to any of these things. If you pretend we do, then nonsense happens.

Garbage in, garbage out.

31 Wow. We're fucked like a truck stop hooker.

It was so much easier when I could stay drunk all the time.

32 He has a tad more testosterone than Portland Police Chief Bob Day
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The entire article appears to have been included in the hyperlink.

33 Pursuit of happiness = property rights
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 29, 2026 11:02 AM (GD2xa)

It doesn't, but it's the best measurable and protectable proxy* the founders could use.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 29, 2026 11:10 AM (zjgNU)

(*In a short statement. They clearly knew that freedom of movement, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, etc... all ALSO were measurable and protectable rights that are necessary for the pursuit of happiness)

34 An untethered currency, a reserve one at that, has allowed the government to export inflation for decades. They have an unlimited checkbook, or near enough anyway.

That’s what drives most, if not all the insanity, get right down to it. They conjure up “money” and subsidize things they want, and punish the rest with excessive regulation, taxation, and there is no safe haven. Maybe gold, which is north of $5000 when it was $20 less than a hundred years ago.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter how many laws there are if they won’t enforce them. Too many people make bank on all these scams. Myriad scams.

35 If you want to know what happened to America (and many other countries) look, not at the start of the Declaration, but at the end. Can you even refer to "our Sacred Honor" with a straight face nowadays? You'll get a snicker.

36 Breaking,
"Homan told reporters that Minnesota officials have agreed to hand over criminal aliens to ICE.

“What we did agree upon is not to release public safety arrests back into the community, and they can be lawfully transferred to ICE,” Homan explained to reporters.

Tom Homan STRIKES AGREEMENT with Minnesota Democrat officials to hand over public safety threat illegal aliens to ICE

“What we did agree upon — is NOT to release public safety arrests back into the community, and they can be lawfully transferred to ICE.”

WOW! In… pic.twitter.com/8VILRFhJ6G

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 29, 2026

Homan went on to explain that Minnesota officials will also notify ICE when dangerous criminal illegals are being released so that ICE can pick them up."
Posted by: whig at January 29, 2026 11:11 AM (E4rtv)
_______

If true, this is yuge and a big win for Trump and the good guys. It's basically a complete capitulation by the goatfuck-curious. If true.

37 I still think Trump should have focused attention on the judicial coup on day one. It would likely reveal whether some of his cabinet picks and other appointments were up to the task at hand. And clarified whether or not certain appointments were a mistake, as has been debated here.

The focus on international issues, specifically the drug cartels and Iran has been a distraction from what I think is a more compelling problem.... the judicial coup.

It has hamstrung the administration's goal of riding the country of the illegals and properly dealing with an increasingly violent left. It's almost to the point where it will define Trump's second administration as a partial failure if he doesn't get the judiciary under control. And pave the way for more horseshit in 2028.

38 Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2026 11:11 AM (VE6XX)

How is the pooch?

39 21 Whatever happens I hope leftists don't start self immolating in town squares. It would look really bad for Trump. Really bad. It would embarrass him, potentially even destroy him. I hope they don't get wind of that and then do it just to hurt Trump at the polls and possibly wreck his presidency forever. Could even lose us the midterms. Especially if they got together did it en masse. That would really own the cons.
Posted by: ...
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The key question is whether conservatives SHOULD piss on leftists on fire or respect their personal decision to unalive themselves.

You can make a conservative case either way with that issue.

40 36 If true, this is yuge and a big win for Trump and the good guys. It's basically a complete capitulation by the goatfuck-curious. If true.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 29, 2026 11:13 AM (iFTx/)

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I was told that Trump might as well just resign because all deportations were over because someone misconstrued one of Trump's Truth social posts as meaning that he wasn't going to do immigration anymore.

41 Clearly our legislature if failing to provide oversight for the judicial. Corrupt bastards, all of them.

42 Posted by: whig at January 29, 2026 11:11 AM (E4rtv)
Posted by: whig at January 29, 2026 11:12 AM (E4rtv)

So Trump didn't chicken out and tell the other states who're already defying the federal government that it's okay to defy the federal government? Funny, I was told he did.

43 Well fvck, this makes the lack of arrest warrants completely surprising but not shocking

Too many Indians are chiefs due to the laziness of their respective branch of government

24 1. definition of magistrate: Federal magistrates are not actually judges. They're just glorified law clerks. They are not nominated by the President, nor are they confirmed by the Senate. Federal district judges just hire them, the way they hire law clerks and secretaries.
2. I know I will get labeled anti-semimetic, but lets stop with the "Judeo/Christian" Jews had NOTHING to do with forming our country or its founding documents, they do not believe Jesus Christ is the Savior/Son of God, among other differences with Christians.
Posted by: susan

44 Willowed:

>>> Pritti looks jewish, the left is conflicted. I'm sure they wish they didn't play up the Israel hate so much. Posted by: connected and litigious at January 29, 2026 11:00 AM (cS1cw)

Dave Rubin is proudly Jewish, and skewers the lefty Jews who try to play footsie with the antisemitism commies.

On a recent show, he said Josh Shapiro has all but admitted he wasn't selected as Kamala's VP because he's Jewish. Yet he's going on all these talk shows hawking the anti-ICE line to lefty harpies.

Rubin points out: what is your future in the Democrat party, Josh? They will clearly throw you under the bus whenever it pleases them. Why carry their water? It just looks pathetic.

45 It may be true that they agreed. Whether "officials" will follow through is a whole other barrel of fish.

46 38 Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2026 11:11 AM (VE6XX)

How is the pooch?
Posted by: ... at January 29, 2026 11:14 AM (F5ijr)

Thanks for asking.. A bit better... Got some meds and it seems to be helping.. Thanks all for the well wishes...

47 44 Rubin points out: what is your future in the Democrat party, Josh? They will clearly throw you under the bus whenever it pleases them. Why carry their water? It just looks pathetic.

Posted by: LizLem at January 29, 2026 11:15 AM (gWBY1)

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Shapiro's religion is the Democrat Party. He'll never be an apostate to that.

48 Why carry their water? It just looks pathetic.

Posted by: LizLem at January 29, 2026 11:15 AM (gWBY1)

He's an Uncle Hiram.

49
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The key question is whether conservatives SHOULD piss on leftists on fire or respect their personal decision to unalive themselves.

You can make a conservative case either way with that issue.
Posted by: whig at January 29, 2026 11:14 AM (E4rtv


What has the largest carbon footprint?

50 7 We can't have foreigners as judges or in elective office.
Time and again, these are the people bent on destroying our laws, freedoms, and way of life.

----------

A big part of the damage done by the Obama administration was appointing federal judges who have no understanding or interest in the traditions and values of this country.

It was entirely intentional. Those judges are a cancer.

51 Speaking of evil judges and courts - Chicago:

https://t.co/h2PUzYbQ6r

52 If true, this is yuge and a big win for Trump and the good guys. It's basically a complete capitulation by the goatfuck-curious. If true.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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Clips came from Homan's press conference today in MN. Go to X and Eric Daugherty has the clips from Foxnews where Homan is speaking.

Also comes up on X under Homan's press conference.

53 50 A big part of the damage done by the Obama administration was appointing federal judges who have no understanding or interest in the traditions and values of this country.

It was entirely intentional. Those judges are a cancer.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 29, 2026 11:16 AM (nWPIJ)

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"But judges."
-Mitch McConnell

54 “Pusuit of happiness” is such a stupid phrase. What in the hell was Jefferson thinking with that nonsense?

55 Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2026 11:16 AM (VE6XX)

Prayers will continue!

56 55 Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2026 11:16 AM (VE6XX)

Prayers will continue!
Posted by: ... at January 29, 2026 11:18 AM (F5ijr)

Thanks

57 "Homan told reporters that Minnesota officials have agreed to hand over criminal aliens to ICE”

Ten bucks says the Minnesota officials are lying. What happens next?

58 What has the largest carbon footprint?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Hmmm, depends I guess on whether fossil fuel derived accelerants (charcoal lighter fluid is an example) are used versus green accelerants like alcohol.

Mass might also be involved as a fattie might burn for a long time producing all kinds of chemical wastes from the pharmaceuticals they are undoubtedly taking.

59 57 "Homan told reporters that Minnesota officials have agreed to hand over criminal aliens to ICE”

Ten bucks says the Minnesota officials are lying. What happens next?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 29, 2026 11:19 AM (OrWo5)

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ICE waits outside of the jails for the release and picks them up.

60 "Homan told reporters that Minnesota officials have agreed to hand over criminal aliens to ICE”

Ten bucks says the Minnesota officials are lying. What happens next?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 29, 2026 11:19 AM (OrWo5)
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I think Homan knows that, too - as does Trump.

61 No mention that the murder of Melissa Hortman was very likely ordered by Tim Walz or his handlers? Boelter was not some "MAGA loon" who killed her simply because she was a Democrat.

62 Posted by: whig at January 29, 2026 11:14 AM (E4rtv)

I believe it is our moral obligation as Americans to let them freely choose their own well lit shining path of flame and gutteral release. Plus we do not want to waste perfectly good urine which would be bad for the environment and may attract predators.

63 It doesn't, but it's the best measurable and protectable proxy* the founders could use.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 29, 2026 11:10 AM (zjgNU)

(*In a short statement. They clearly knew that freedom of movement, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, etc... all ALSO were measurable and protectable rights that are necessary for the pursuit of happiness)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 29, 2026 11:12 AM (zjgNU)

It really does. Jefferson got all his ideas (Natural Law, Natural aka Unalienable Rights, Consent of the Governed and Popular Sovereignty, and the people's right of revolution when government fails to secure our rights) from Locke's 2nd Treatise on Government. Every time Locke wrote about Natural Rights he characterized them as life, liberty and property.

64 “Pursuit of happiness” is such a stupid phrase
——-

The meaning or usage of words changes over time. Sometimes quite a bit. This is definitely one of them. “Well regulated” with respect to the constitution’s 2nd amendment is another.

65 >>It was a despicable act, it doesn't matter that she was a Democrat.


Oddly, I think it does. Thanks to the revelations within the MN Signal chat, we know that several MN state senators, candidates, Walz (former) staffer are leading the ICE out operation, and have cooperation with some in law enforcement (to get one the spot ID on license plates).

In this context, it becomes clear that the MN (and likely other states?) Democrat party is a tightknit, coordinated and organized insurgency that is willing to take out one of its own members if they go against their interests within hours of her vote. This is serious business, and that killing no doubt sent a strong message to the rest of them: ride or die time.

66 If true, this is yuge and a big win for Trump and the good guys. It's basically a complete capitulation by the goatfuck-curious. If true.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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Clips came from Homan's press conference today in MN. Go to X and Eric Daugherty has the clips from Foxnews where Homan is speaking.

Also comes up on X under Homan's press conference.
Posted by: whig at January 29, 2026 11:17 AM (E4rtv)
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My "if true" was directed at whether these MN cocksuckers would actually do any of what agreed to do. I didn't doubt that Homan said what's being reported he said.

67 “Pusuit of happiness” is such a stupid phrase. What in the hell was Jefferson thinking with that nonsense?

Posted by: Bulg at January 29, 2026 11:18 AM (77rzZ)
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What Jefferson meant:

https://youtu.be/Cdmqn9JIuzc

68 54 “Pusuit of happiness” is such a stupid phrase. What in the hell was Jefferson thinking with that nonsense?
Posted by: Bulg

He meant economic and social opportunity which is greater than simply pursuit of property. His source was the original VA Declaration of Rights

"Section 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."

69 54 “Pusuit of happiness” is such a stupid phrase. What in the hell was Jefferson thinking with that nonsense?
Posted by: Bulg at January 29, 2026 11:18 AM (77rzZ)

I like it.

You don't have a right to property. You have a right to not have whatever property you do have stolen, but that's too many words for a catchy slogan. Pursuit of Happiness encompasses all the things that go into building a life as a free man. I suppose it's a bit redundant with Liberty, but you have to respect the rule of threes in this sort of thing.

70 44 Josh Shapiro's future in the Democratic party will be a job opportunity as a camp Kapo. Or maybe clean up duty in the "showers". Extra bread ration.

71 If you need a white pill this morning on the ICE stuff:

Some autist on X dug into the anti-ICE violence, and found it can all be traced to 9 counties in the US. Only 9! Florida and Texas are doing the lion's share of deportations and ICE roundups, one figure said TX has done 25% of all deportations. And yet, no violence in TX or FL. Because the leaders in those states don't tolerate it.

The left is trying to make the MN violence look like the norm. It's not. Not even close. And all of the work they do to make a shell game so we focus on the violence and not the fraud doesn't make the fraud go away. But Walz and Omar and the legacy media are trying, bless their hearts.

I still can't get my head around Omar owning a fake winery when she's Muslim and supposedly doesn't drink alcohol. I can't with all her fraud scams.

72 ICE and CBP to DRAW-DOWN Number of Forces in Minnesota After Tom Homan Strikes Deal with State Officials


I am tired of being part of the weak party.

73 My "if true" was directed at whether these MN cocksuckers would actually do any of what agreed to do. I didn't doubt that Homan said what's being reported he said.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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This might be related; Klobachar announced her plans to run for governor this morning as well.

74 What Jefferson meant:

https://youtu.be/Cdmqn9JIuzc

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 29, 2026 11:22 AM (Ora++)
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Which is most appropriate for the TMR thread!

75 4 Now its gorilla.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Do you love the monkey or do you love me?

76 “Pusuit of happiness” is such a stupid phrase. What in the hell was Jefferson thinking with that nonsense?
Posted by: Bulg at January 29, 2026 11:18 AM (77rzZ)
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He lifted it almost straight from Locke, who lifted it almost straight from ancient Greek philosophers. The phrase is awkward by modern standards, but it was considered important and profound at the time.

77 46 38 Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2026 11:11 AM (VE6XX)

How is the pooch?
Posted by: ... at January 29, 2026 11:14 AM (F5ijr)

Thanks for asking.. A bit better... Got some meds and it seems to be helping.. Thanks all for the well wishes...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2026 11:16 AM (VE6XX)

Was the problem identified?

78 72 ICE and CBP to DRAW-DOWN Number of Forces in Minnesota After Tom Homan Strikes Deal with State Officials


I am tired of being part of the weak party.

Posted by: Major Healey at January 29, 2026 11:22 AM (abIsI)

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The increase from the last few weeks was extra DHS personnel (the Good shooter was HSI, the Pritti shooter was a prison officer) to offer more protection to ICE doing their operations because local cops were refusing to respond to ICE requests.

If local cops are responding now, then the extra DHS personnel (like HSI and prisons) aren't necessary and can be moved elsewhere.

The admin has beaten Minneapolis and Minnesota down. They've won.

Take the win.

79 >>>“Pusuit of happiness” is such a stupid phrase. What in the hell was Jefferson thinking with that nonsense?

Posted by: Bulg

>I'm not sure why this is a problem. It's obviously open-ended, but if you're a law-abiding citizen, clearly there are limits.

Then again, this is why we have so many hack lawyers.

80 Was the problem identified?
Posted by: tubal at January 29, 2026 11:24 AM (pDt9x)

Sort of... Bad reaction to kennel cough... Possible pneumonia...

81 Hey MisHum! I've got a TXMoMe 2023 commemorative USB drive with your nic on it. You can have it if you want it.

82 I believe it is our moral obligation as Americans to let them freely choose their own well lit shining path of flame and gutteral release. Plus we do not want to waste perfectly good urine which would be bad for the environment and may attract predators.
Posted by: ...

Well reasoned. But should we put time, manner, and place restrictions. After all, a flaming leftist might create problems during high winds, drought, or where it might frighten animals and small children.

83 The ICE violence in MN isn't even the norm for MN itself.

People ain't rioting on Main Street in South Mooseknuckle. No ICE agents are getting bumper tagged in the prairies of Outer Howsitgoindere.

It's a localized, containerized Op.

84 The key question is whether conservatives SHOULD piss on leftists on fire or respect their personal decision to unalive themselves.

You can make a conservative case either way with that issue.
Posted by: whig at January 29, 2026 11:14 AM (E4rtv)

If called upon to help, I will donate a gallon.

Of gasoline.

85 78
The admin has beaten Minneapolis and Minnesota down. They've won.

Take the win.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 29, 2026 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

Yeah it is a win. Acceptance of wins should be easy. Maybe some are indeed tired of winning because it just not fit in to their world view.

86 85 Yeah it is a win. Acceptance of wins should be easy. Maybe some are indeed tired of winning because it just not fit in to their world view.

Posted by: tubal at January 29, 2026 11:27 AM (pDt9x)

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Minnesota and Minneapolis are announcing that they're no longer sanctuary jurisdictions.

But it's a loss because Walz wasn't Maduro-d, or something.

87 ICE and CBP to DRAW-DOWN Number of Forces in Minnesota After Tom Homan Strikes Deal with State Officials


I am tired of being part of the weak party.

Posted by: Major Healey at January 29, 2026 11:22 AM (abIsI)
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Huh? We won. The MN Democunts caved. We don't need a yuge ICE presence to pick up detained illegals. ICE can now be redirected to other problem states.

88 Well reasoned. But should we put time, manner, and place restrictions. After all, a flaming leftist might create problems during high winds, drought, or where it might frighten animals and small children.
Posted by: whig at January 29, 2026 11:26 AM (E4rtv)

What is this, the Bulwark?

"The Conservative Case for Getting the EPA Involved When Pissing Out a Burning Smellie"?

Bah!

89 The “foul” mystery brownish liquid US Rep. Ilhan Omar was sprayed with during a chaotic Minnesota town hall meeting late Tuesday is believed to have been apple cider vinegar.

90 Yeah it is a win. Acceptance of wins should be easy. Maybe some are indeed tired of winning because it just not fit in to their world view.
Posted by: tubal at January 29, 2026 11:27 AM (pDt9x)

I'll take the win... Tired of nightly frozen tundra stories..

91 80 Was the problem identified?
Posted by: tubal at January 29, 2026 11:24 AM (pDt9x)

Sort of... Bad reaction to kennel cough... Possible pneumonia...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2026 11:26 AM (VE6XX)

Ah. Sorry to hear it, glad they figured it out. Have a 5 month old pup myself.

92 The admin has beaten Minneapolis and Minnesota down. They've won.

Take the win.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Eh, proof is always in the subsequent events. But it was not certainly a loss as some would put it. I think a fair chunk of those on the left and right just want to get down to a boogaloo festival regardless of how many lives it costs of innocents.

Personally, a lot of that aggression would be well served by allowing dueling again so those itching for violence can bother each other instead of the general public.

93 89 The “foul” mystery brownish liquid US Rep. Ilhan Omar was sprayed with during a chaotic Minnesota town hall meeting late Tuesday is believed to have been apple cider vinegar.
Posted by: SMOD at January 29, 2026 11:28 AM (RHGPo)

Sucks to be the PR guy for the Apple Cider Vinegar Council right now, huh?

94 Just think what will happen if dems win in the next election.

Perhaps the idea (and practice) of nullification now will give red states the blueprint of nullification in case the dems take over power in DC again. 'Cause we know they'll be unabashedly out for revenge on anyone that oppose them now.

And yes, that means people like us.

95 I've been insulated from a lot of this crap. Largely by my choice. An acquaintance and FB friend who had taken my paso fino on summer feed leases and was a nice gal although a liberal went full TDRS after Trump was elected in 24; she expanded her derangement to all Trump supporters. I suppose many libs feel the same but aren't posting that shit on FB or saying it out loud yet. I unfriended, and when I euthanized Lady in Nov. I didn't even let her know, if not for the TDRS I would have; but I aint inviting someone who hates me for wanting to MAGA onto my property. This is the evil of the commies. They are pushing the LIV D voters to demonize people who are not of the commie party. "you must be evil, cuz you voted for Drumpf"

96 I like it.

You don't have a right to property. You have a right to not have whatever property you do have stolen, but that's too many words for a catchy slogan. Pursuit of Happiness encompasses all the things that go into building a life as a free man. I suppose it's a bit redundant with Liberty, but you have to respect the rule of threes in this sort of thing.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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I don't like it all as a freestanding notion, unlinked to constraints. What if your pursuit of happiness means being a pedophile? But Jefferson must have linked it to constraints.

97 90 I'll take the win... Tired of nightly frozen tundra stories..

Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2026 11:28 AM (VE6XX)

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Oh, I'm sure we'll get some more theater from braindead leftist activists.

The hardcore still want to be martyrs.

But the activist base is being hollowed out, the info side has been penetrated and everyone knows it, and the FBI is probably investigating the funding (including letters to funders about retaining documents).

And there are indications that it's not homegrown Minneapolis only doing this, but that it was a national mobilization of activists, at least in part.

98 Ah. Sorry to hear it, glad they figured it out. Have a 5 month old pup myself.
Posted by: tubal at January 29, 2026 11:29 AM (pDt9x)

Mine is 11 and a half which made it worse....Picked it up at the dog park we take him to.. Other dogs were hit hard too with this strain...

99 The failure for locals to cooperate with federal authorities put everyone in greater danger.

That’s why ICE has to go out in public to perform their job. The cocksuckers in local jurisdictions refuse to make this a simple transfer at a jail or courthouse.

This is a “strategy” and purposeful. They want dead people, so they can wave a bloody shirt. In defense of illegal alien gangbangers and rapists, murderers and assorted trash various countries have unloaded on America. The Democrats crafted a way to monetize all of this. So they will fight it, enlisting the aid of the propaganda outlets, and the usual suspects.

100 Hadrian the Seventh at January 29, 2026 11:10 AM (tgvbd)

Will pray for her majesty and the Big Dummy.

101 What is this, the Bulwark?

"The Conservative Case for Getting the EPA Involved When Pissing Out a Burning Smellie"?

Bah!
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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So you would regard it as a state and local matter for unpermitted discharge of waste products because urine is a natural product. Or is it a natural right to piss on flaming liberals as a societal duty.

Or is it the sound principle of never interrupting the enemy when they are making a mistake involved.

102 98 Ah. Sorry to hear it, glad they figured it out. Have a 5 month old pup myself.
Posted by: tubal at January 29, 2026 11:29 AM (pDt9x)

Mine is 11 and a half which made it worse....Picked it up at the dog park we take him to.. Other dogs were hit hard too with this strain...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 29, 2026 11:30 AM (VE6XX)

Dog parks can be locations for disease spread. I am avoiding them now with mine. Too young.

103 94 Just think what will happen if dems win in the next election.

Perhaps the idea (and practice) of nullification now will give red states the blueprint of nullification in case the dems take over power in DC again. 'Cause we know they'll be unabashedly out for revenge on anyone that oppose them now.

And yes, that means people like us.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 29, 2026 11:29 AM (g8Ew

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I'm still suspecting a 5-10 seat Dem majority in the House and probably no net change in the Senate (maybe a gain of 1 Democrat seat).

Just...differential turnout patterns indicate it.

But...enough could change regarding underlying assumptions around voter rolls, illegal voting, and even basic voting patterns to call that into question.

104 We have a launch.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-19
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: January 29, 2026
Launch Time: 9:53 a.m. PST (1753 UTC, 18:53 CET)

https://youtu.be/hCsiEVy_v44

105
Chuck Shumer showing you how to grill > Kathy Hochul showing you how to shovel snow.

106 Charles is off on holiday.

Which Charles is being referred to? Mr. Windsor? Mr. Dildo?

107 The Western Hemisphere at the moment, seems to have a better chance of retaining (or obtaining) "Western Values" than the EU. A few countries in South/Central America have made bold moves in the right direction.

Meanwhile Europe has mostly surrendered to Islam and the Globalists, at least at the governmental levels. There are several movements pushing back against autocratic EU rule, but they are met with tyrannical resistance from the (unelected) bureaucrats.

USA leads the way, but the inner sanctums are full of saboteurs and scallywags. Now is the time for good men to rise up.

108 Declining populations in blue states, increasing populations in red states and mass deportations of felonious illegal voters bode well for the future if we stay the course.

109 >>>The “foul” mystery brownish liquid US Rep. Ilhan Omar was sprayed with during a chaotic Minnesota town hall meeting late Tuesday is believed to have been apple cider vinegar.

Posted by: SMOD

>Fake! Ilhan needs to drown in a MN lake.

110 To answer your question, MisHum:

>>> The United States of America.
What does it mean to be an American?
What does it mean to you?
What does it mean to your loved ones?

To my immigrant grandparents who came here with nothing, and left a country that did not support their chosen religion, it meant religious peace, and a chance to pursue happiness as they saw fit.

It not mean a handout. It did not mean being free from discrimination. It did not mean being free from poverty while they scrimped and saved for their better future. But it meant they got to try. It was an opportunity, not a guarantee, at a better life.

This is why reading about all the illegals coming here and getting unlimited benefits--heck, even the legal immigrants or refugees coming here on legal Visas--and snapping up welfare and tax Bennies absolutely infuriates me. It makes a mockery of the sacrifices my grandparents made.

They never resented America once, never once griped that they didn't get a handout and they sometimes got mocked for their accents. They were some of the proudest Americans I knew. They taught me to take pride in America! And I love them for it.

111 >>> 71
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I still can't get my head around Omar owning a fake winery when she's Muslim and supposedly doesn't drink alcohol. I can't with all her fraud scams.
Posted by: LizLem at January 29, 2026 11:22 AM (gWBY1)

"I never owned a winery!" -- super SMAHHHRRT Ilhan Omar

https://is.gd/snz4M3
@MarioNawfal
🇺🇸 Ilhan Omar's so called $5M winery vanishes without a trace...no license, no footprint, just gone.

Source:
@NEWSMAX
[video]

112 108 Declining populations in blue states, increasing populations in red states and mass deportations of felonious illegal voters bode well for the future if we stay the course.

Posted by: tubal at January 29, 2026 11:35 AM (pDt9x)

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Even if Dems regain the presidency in 2028 and rig the census again in 2030, it'll still be a net towards red states. The great migration is actually still ongoing.

But with a Vance administration and actual counters instead of modelers in the Census Bureau...it could be as many as 30 seats.

113 Amen to all that.

114 >>> 86

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Minnesota and Minneapolis are announcing that they're no longer sanctuary jurisdictions.

But it's a loss because Walz wasn't Maduro-d, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 29, 2026 11:28 AM (GBKbO)

*kicks rocks*

You never let us have any fun!!!

115 And there are indications that it's not homegrown Minneapolis only doing this, but that it was a national mobilization of activists, at least in part.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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This has been the case for leftists going back decades at least. Just like the ridiculous 'shrine' for the unalived Pettus or whatever his name is. No reason at all that Ga Sen Warnock (D) shows up yesterday to bless him.

The left has a network of flying monkeys that move from place to place to create mayhem (the Atlanta Cop City protests were a perfect example--some Brazilian illegal got shot and killed when their encampment was being removed from the construction site. In the subsequent arrests, a lot of these 'activists' arrested had nothing whatsoever to do with GA or Atlanta. Activists were coming from across the North and West and were often from upper class families.

116 How I wish for a Long March mentality to become pervasive for our side. We could learn from our enemy, but sadly we are too feckless.

117 The increase from the last few weeks was extra DHS personnel (the Good shooter was HSI, the Pritti shooter was a prison officer) to offer more protection to ICE doing their operations because local cops were refusing to respond to ICE requests.

If local cops are responding now, then the extra DHS personnel (like HSI and prisons) aren't necessary and can be moved elsewhere.

The admin has beaten Minneapolis and Minnesota down. They've won.

Take the win.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 29, 2026 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

I'll wait and see what actually happens before I celebrate.

118 116 How I wish for a Long March mentality to become pervasive for our side. We could learn from our enemy, but sadly we are too feckless.

Posted by: tubal at January 29, 2026 11:37 AM (pDt9x)

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If we don't return to a 1913 federal government in the first weeks of a GOP presidency, all is lost.

119 > The admin has beaten Minneapolis and Minnesota down. They've won.
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The administration got Minneapolis to agree to the bare minimum adherence to federal immigration law.

That's it. Nothing more. Is it a "win" to get a city government to follow the law? Maybe? I think this isn't over. There are still plenty of agitators in the streets that this agreement does not apply to.

120 @MarioNawfal
🇺🇸 Ilhan Omar's so called $5M winery vanishes without a trace...no license, no footprint, just gone.

Source:
@NEWSMAX
[video]
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 29, 2026 11:36 AM (ULPxl)

Her winery has gone into the ether, along with her clitoris.

121 Blowholes like Krasner do not seem to think that they're at risk if things really go sideways.

122 117 I'll wait and see what actually happens before I celebrate.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 29, 2026 11:38 AM (g8Ew

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There's a difference between "wait and see" and "we've lost."

123 The old republic is dead. It's a tough thing to accept. But we need to be working to shape what comes after to maximize order and liberty.

124 Star Trek TOS episode "The Omega Glory" is beginning to look not like a badly acted, stilted TV episode but a prophecy.

125 The State Department formally determined this month that the Palestinian Authority paid more than $200 million to terrorists and their families in 2025, the same year PA president Mahmoud Abbas claimed he ended the "pay-to-slay" program, according to a nonpublic notice provided to Congress and obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.

Rather than ending these payments, the PA shifted to a new system that it hoped to hide from international donors at a time when the Ramallah-based government is jockeying for a role in postwar Gaza, the State Department disclosed for the first time. Israeli intelligence assessed that the PA funneled $144 million to terrorists and their families in 2024 and committed at least $214 million through 2025, while the State Department determined that the payments continued from March to August 2025 under a purportedly reformed welfare system.

126
Sucks to be the PR guy for the Apple Cider Vinegar Council right now, huh?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Dunno, did it have "mother" in it? If so, they guy was doing her a favor!

127 Her winery has gone into the ether, along with her clitoris.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2026 11:39 AM (8zz6B)

If ether was part of their tasting notes, no wonder they went out of business!

128 Well reasoned. But should we put time, manner, and place restrictions. After all, a flaming leftist might create problems during high winds, drought, or where it might frighten animals and small children.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2026 11:26 AM (E4rtv)

Maybe they could do it in a stadium?

129 and the FBI is probably investigating the funding (including letters to funders about retaining documents).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 29, 2026 11:30 AM

Finally. The Top. Men. Are on. It. * hand chop *

130 119 The administration got Minneapolis to agree to the bare minimum adherence to federal immigration law.

That's it. Nothing more. Is it a "win" to get a city government to follow the law? Maybe? I think this isn't over. There are still plenty of agitators in the streets that this agreement does not apply to.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 29, 2026 11:38 AM (jtM2q)

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We went from "Pritti's death is going to mean a complete pullback of all immigration enforcement in America" to "Minneapolis is making it policy to do the thing on immigration that they swore they'd never do," in like 2 days.

131 Josh Shapiro is Jewish like George Soros is Jewish.

132 Maybe they could do it in a stadium?
Posted by: ...
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Well the Romans were practical that way.

133 Take the win.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 29, 2026 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

I'll wait and see what actually happens before I celebrate.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 29, 2026 11:38 AM (g8Ew

If the Minnesota Donks fail to deliver on the agreement, then Trump has probable cause to invoke the Insurrection Act.

134 How I wish for a Long March mentality to become pervasive for our side. We could learn from our enemy, but sadly we are too feckless.

Posted by: tubal at January 29, 2026 11:37 AM (pDt9x)

If Republicans had any feck at all, Democrats would not even be a pimple on a pig's dick.

135 >>> Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2026 11:39 AM (8zz6B)

1) ewww
2) Low-IQ Ilhan is (finally) going to learn about The Streisand Effect.

136 My "if true" was directed at whether these MN cocksuckers would actually do any of what agreed to do. I didn't doubt that Homan said what's being reported he said.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade


This!

137 133 If the Minnesota Donks fail to deliver on the agreement, then Trump has probable cause to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2026 11:41 AM (8zz6B)

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They just send in the DHS personnel again.

The 8 year veterans of HSI who shot Good and the veteran of the prison bureau who shot Pritti show back up.

138 The admin has beaten Minneapolis and Minnesota down. They've won.

Take the win."

This. All I can attest to is that my younger relatives have a better world. No bomb shelters, no mob run industries, no 19.5% interest on 1st new car, no gangs/groups causing injury nationwide (no SLA, no SDS, no People's temple)...

I'd say "things" in general are pretty damn good. Just don't f it up.

139 We went from "Pritti's death is going to mean a complete pullback of all immigration enforcement in America" to "Minneapolis is making it policy to do the thing on immigration that they swore they'd never do," in like 2 days.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Fedgov swings a mighty big stick.

140 >>> 127
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If ether was part of their tasting notes, no wonder they went out of business!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2026 11:40 AM (JwNbV)

I take it you missed YD's "Karen and Caryn" review of her winery (yesterday, let me see if I can find it)?

141 132 Maybe they could do it in a stadium?
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Well the Romans were practical that way.
Posted by: whig at January 29, 2026 11:40 AM (E4rtv)

The Romans were a very practical bunch. They had a few goals and were relentless in pursuing them. Hey they LOVED to build stuff, like roads and aueducts.

142 Hadrian the Seventh, prayers sent for the missus and the Big Dummy's safe travels.

143 He lifted it almost straight from Locke, who lifted it almost straight from ancient Greek philosophers.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 29, 2026 11:24 AM (iFTx/)

I haven't read Locke in a very long time, but what little I recall about happiness was more of an intellectual and emotional goal, rather than a proxy for freedom and liberty.

144 Her winery has gone into the ether, along with her clitoris.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

If ether was part of their tasting notes, no wonder they went out of business!
Posted by: Warai-otoko


ISWYDT!

145 There's a difference between "wait and see" and "we've lost."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 29, 2026 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

This is true.

146 A large mob of protestors surrounded a restaurant in Los Angeles after mistaking airport security workers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

The demonstrators gathered outside of Ten-Raku, a Korean BBQ spot in Lynwood, on Wednesday night after hearing reports that federal officers were allegedly inside.

In reality, they blared airhorns and whistles and shouted at off-duty TSA officers who were just trying to enjoy dinner, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office told the Daily Mail.

When confronted about mistaking the airport staff for ICE, one irate demonstrator gave the excuse that people get 'emotional' and make 'mistakes,' noting that ICE does the same when they arrest people.

147 >>> https://is.gd/snz4M3
@MarioNawfal
🇺🇸 Ilhan Omar's so called $5M winery vanishes without a trace...no license, no footprint, just gone.


It's honestly making me wonder if all the politicians that own wineries, like Pelosi and Newsom, and all the celebs that own "successful" wineries or alcohol companies, are just running a scam.

148 That's it. Nothing more. Is it a "win" to get a city government to follow the law? Maybe? I think this isn't over. There are still plenty of agitators in the streets that this agreement does not apply to.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

You start to run up against 1st Amendment there plus the 10th. States and their local governments are under no compulsion to carry out duties for the federal government. Ironically it was a case involving the Brady Bill an interim background checks that made that ruling.

If the feds allow, states and localities can help enforce federal law, they have concurrent powers over public safety as most have laws requiring protests to follow time, manner, and place restrictions, etc.

But realistically, that is all you can get. And btw, states cannot prohibit localities and their officials in MN from assisting federal officials even if the state does not. 8th Circuit precedent out of Missouri Firearms Constitutional Amendment case.

149 144 Her winery has gone into the ether, along with her clitoris.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

If ether was part of their tasting notes, no wonder they went out of business!
Posted by: Warai-otoko


ISWYDT!
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2026 11:44 AM (ASmqz)

Odds that the “winery” was a paper entity for the purpose of money laundering?

150 The old republic is dead. It's a tough thing to accept. But we need to be working to shape what comes after to maximize order and liberty.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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We should be putting in place mechanisms to divorce from these people while we have the power. I just don't see us beating this 10 - 30% of the population making up the hardcore left into submission. Let them have their own country and secular religion.

151 It's honestly making me wonder if all the politicians that own wineries, like Pelosi and Newsom, and all the celebs that own "successful" wineries or alcohol companies, are just running a scam.
Posted by: LizLem
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Yes. At the minimum, these are tax shelters. A few have made a real go of it, Ryan Reynolds mebbe?

152 Good synopsis, Mis Hum. I am with you.

153 I can be pretty cynical, but I'm honestly wondering how deep the rot goes. How much of this stuff is social media going viral? Think about it: In a nation of 350 million people, does a complete rando on Twitter represent even half of us?

154 Here we go (from the "I hope for her sake Ilhan didn't write a personal check like Jussie did" thread):

215 Karen: "you simply MUST try this new cab, Caryn... it's called 'Five Brides,' and it's from a Somali, woman-owned vintner...."

Caryn: "This tastes like it came out of a crankcase."

Karen: "...and that vintner is Ilhan Omar."

Caryn: "it does take just a minute to develop on the palate. It's quite good, actually. It has a robust, foetid earthiness, with overtones of sand, and... blood, I think. I will have Paolo drive Ken's QX60 down to Trader Joe's and tow back a trailer load of it."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 28, 2026 12:41 PM (BI5O2)

155 I don't like it all as a freestanding notion, unlinked to constraints. What if your pursuit of happiness means being a pedophile? But Jefferson must have linked it to constraints.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 29, 2026 11:30 AM (XvL8K)

It's interesting to me that the pursuit of happiness seems in direct contradiction to the abject misery fomented and spread by the Left.

The general idea to me is that it is in fact unconstrained in its nature, not by morals, which are safeguarded by law, but by the busybodies that would intend to keep you under their thumb.

156 It's honestly making me wonder if all the politicians that own wineries, like Pelosi and Newsom, and all the celebs that own "successful" wineries or alcohol companies, are just running a scam.
Posted by: LizLem at January 29, 2026 11:45 AM (gWBY1)

We will smell no crime before it's time.

Good observation!

157 >>The administration got Minneapolis to agree to the bare minimum adherence to federal immigration law.

That's it. Nothing more. Is it a "win" to get a city government to follow the law? Maybe? I think this isn't over. There are still plenty of agitators in the streets that this agreement does not apply to.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 29, 2026 11:38 AM (jtM2q)
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We went from "Pritti's death is going to mean a complete pullback of all immigration enforcement in America" to "Minneapolis is making it policy to do the thing on immigration that they swore they'd never do," in like 2 days.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 29, 2026 11:40 AM (GBKbO)
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I never thought Pritti's death was going to cause immigration law to be suspended or whatever. I figured it would be just one of several deaths. ICE wasn't about to leave. BPS would likely have been sent back into Minneapolis to provide "muscle" and bust some heads.

Whether the city government and state officials who certainly feel different about immigration follow through on this is debatable. The paid rioters are another story.

158 When confronted about mistaking the airport staff for ICE, one irate demonstrator gave the excuse that people get 'emotional' and make 'mistakes,' noting that ICE does the same when they arrest people.
Posted by: one hour sober


Ace's blog strikes again. Can't say what I want to say. Don't want to get Ace in trouble or me banned.

But it WAS pithy! Oh boy, was it pithy!

159 If ether was part of their tasting notes, no wonder they went out of business!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 29, 2026 11:40 AM

Ether > penguin poop > Omar's nethers

160 158

Ace's blog strikes again. Can't say what I want to say. Don't want to get Ace in trouble or me banned.

But it WAS pithy! Oh boy, was it pithy!
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2026 11:47 AM (ASmqz)

No need to get all pithy rick!

161 157 Whether the city government and state officials who certainly feel different about immigration follow through on this is debatable. The paid rioters are another story.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 29, 2026 11:47 AM (jtM2q)

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As long as the mobs aren't overwhelming the officers (which is what happened two weeks ago with Pritti), the agitators have a tendency of getting arrested, their cars impounded, and facing federal grand juries made up of people from all over Minnesota, not just Minneapolis.

The St. Paul hotel kerfuffle? It was like 20 people. I think there were more journalists than rioters.

162 Let them have their own country and secular religion.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

It doesn't work that way. Leftism is primarily an urban exercise, pinpoints of blue in a sea of red even in 'blue' states.

It would be easier to just create cities as separate reservations for indigenous leftists to reside with their own internal laws like we did for Native Americans.

163 But it WAS pithy! Oh boy, was it pithy!
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2026 11:47 AM


If.

164 162 It would be easier to just create cities as separate reservations for indigenous leftists to reside with their own internal laws like we did for Native Americans.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2026 11:49 AM (E4rtv)

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City-states with complete and total control within their borders and no say on anything outside of them, but the rest of the state gets to set the city-state's budget and funding levels.

165 162 Let them have their own country and secular religion.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

It doesn't work that way. Leftism is primarily an urban exercise, pinpoints of blue in a sea of red even in 'blue' states.

It would be easier to just create cities as separate reservations for indigenous leftists to reside with their own internal laws like we did for Native Americans.
Posted by: whig at January 29, 2026 11:49 AM (E4rtv)

What we need to implement are some good Cordon Sanitaires.

166 ancient Greek philosophers."

Epicurus, IIRC, linked what we might call happiness to basic needs.
Happiness meaning well ordered, peaceful, and without onerous influences...

Or not.

167 Really well said, Mis Hum. We miss you.

168 >>> 162 Let them have their own country and secular religion.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

It doesn't work that way. Leftism is primarily an urban exercise, pinpoints of blue in a sea of red even in 'blue' states.

It would be easier to just create cities as separate reservations for indigenous leftists to reside with their own internal laws like we did for Native Americans.
Posted by: whig at January 29, 2026 11:49 AM (E4rtv)

Can we place those in Ontario?

169 The St. Paul hotel kerfuffle? It was like 20 people. I think there were more journalists than rioters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 29, 2026 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

Those kinds of "journalists" need the hickory shampoo, too.

170 We should be putting in place mechanisms to divorce from these people while we have the power. I just don't see us beating this 10 - 30% of the population making up the hardcore left into submission. Let them have their own country and secular religion.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 29, 2026 11:46 AM (XvL8K)

It's a bit of a circular problem. That 10% of the population will always be with you. Get rid of the crazies, and in a generation you'll have a whole new batch of crazies with a whole new batch of fanciful grievances and windowlickery.

I don't know what the solution is, but "divorce" probably isn't it. If there were some real, fundamental dichotomy underlying it all, it would make sense. One faction wants to be a republic, the other wants to be a monarchy. One wants fiat currency, one wants a physical standard. Rational, debatable stuff.

"Fuck you i won't follow your laws, I'm in charge here, do what I say or people start dying" is too vague and mutable of a foundation on which to build any kind of rational, ordered separation.

171 But it WAS pithy! Oh boy, was it pithy!
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2026 11:47 AM

I'm pithy sometimes, as well.

172 What does it mean to be an American?
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Taking as much money as possible from US taxpayer funded programs for the benefit of my tribe here and back home.

173 Cities are essentially all versions of Bartertowns now.

174 Hadrian, Prayers and good wishes sent for Her Majesty, you, and the pup.

175 But it WAS pithy! Oh boy, was it pithy!"

Better to be pithed off than pithed off...

176 On, dammit. Autocucumber....

177 A large portion of America has become what any wealthy nation eventually becomes: entirely interested in its own comfort and continued wealth (and hedonism, too). And secure in the belief that they are rich because they are so great.

Only when we must struggle once again, will that large portion even think to return to the things which made us wealthy and great.

178 >>> 215 Karen: "you simply MUST try this new cab, Caryn... it's called 'Five Brides,' and it's from a Somali, woman-owned vintner...."

Wasatch brewery in Utah sold "Polygamy Porter" ... bet you can't just have one!

They got bought by the parent company that owns Monster energy drinks, and they supposedly closed their downtown SLC brewery. But I hope it's still around! I thought it was cheeky and fun.

179 If the Minnesota Donks fail to deliver on the agreement, then Trump has probable cause to invoke the Insurrection Act.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I don't think he even needs to do that even if they try to sabotage and renege. Amy Klobachar announced her run for governor of MN on the same day and I'd imagine that her political machine does not want the outgoing Walz administration to slime her attempts to be governor.

I also take that as an indicator that Klobachar wants to run for prezzie again perhaps or views the Senate as not being a place to exercise much power anymore.

180 @kausmickey
·
10h
.@LATimes
piece on dropping rents in LA actually does cite deportations as one cause. Progress.

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But what's Trump doing about the affordability crisis!

181 Only when we must struggle once again, will that large portion even think to return to the things which made us wealthy and great.
Posted by: GWB at January 29, 2026 11:54 AM

So then, much will be resolved in the Burning Time.

182 Lefties don't want their own land or religion. They want yours.

183 "I haven't even scratched the surface of the ways this union is broken."

It's worse than you know. Did you think the Corruption would sweep across America and leave us untouched? No. I'm a United States Marine, falsely accused of the dishonorable crime of Stolen Valor - and no one will help me. I asked the Instapundit community to stand up for me, write the perp a polite email asking to give me a fair hearing, review my DD214 (attached) and retract the lies she spread about my military service. The response? Several told me "no one cares, go kill yourself" and the rest of them looked away.

If you're wondering,YES -being betrayed so cruelly by the people I thought I was fighting for has killed anything in me that was good. The stigma associated with the accusation is driving me mad, turning me into a monster. To the point I've put myself in therapy to protect the perp's loved ones.

You don't like me, fine. There's a bigger picture. There was a time when a Marine didn't need to ask for help. That's been lost. It means Trump will fail. Even if he can restore the Republic it will just unravel again. Because the People no longer share the values necessary to maintain a Republic

184 We are no longer a people in search of opportunity. We are factions in search of idle luxury at someone else's expense.

185 You know who else got their own country and rained down their disease on everyone else they could? Russia and Pakistan. Almost as good an idea as term limits from California. Clean up your own personal act and marvel at the improvements.

186 Can we place those in Ontario?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

And have historians in the future label the Trail of Leftist Tears when they are forcibly moved to Canuckistan under Donald Andrew Jackson Trump?

187 Klobuchar’s line of Hair Pick cutlery must not be faring well, sounds like.

188 We should be putting in place mechanisms to divorce from these people while we have the power. I just don't see us beating this 10 - 30% of the population making up the hardcore left into submission. Let them have their own country and secular religion.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 29, 2026 11:46 AM (XvL8K)

There is no divorce. There is only Bosnia.

189 If ether was part of their tasting notes, no wonder they went out of business!
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Dear Lord, thank you so much for the fact I was not drinking anything when I read that.

190 Chuck Shumer showing you how to grill > Kathy Hochul showing you how to shovel snow.
Posted by: Auspex
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They're just ordinary folks!

191
GORILLA DICK SARGENT

192 186 Can we place those in Ontario?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

And have historians in the future label the Trail of Leftist Tears when they are forcibly moved to Canuckistan under Donald Andrew Jackson Trump?

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2026 11:57 AM (E4rtv)

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Forcibly deporting people to a place with single payer healthcare is something to cry about?

193 whig how does the ruling in that Missouri firearm case relate to things like SB57 in CA and what I think are laws in several states forbidding cooperation on immigration enforcement to all agencies in a state? Not aware the feds have brought suit, would seem it would be easy if that case covers this issue. Don't even recall how SB57 turned out, couldn't believe DOJ sued over it since my understanding was what you summarized, feds can't compel state activity in these matters.

194 What does it mean to be an American?

"Give me your tired, your poor, your hopelessly corrupt and retarded Marxists..."

195 It would be easier to just create cities as separate reservations for indigenous leftists to reside with their own internal laws like we did for Native Americans.
Posted by: whig at January 29, 2026 11:49 AM (E4rtv)

That's an idea I've had for quite some time. I would definitely invest in concertina wire manufacturers. Maybe put some money into landmines too.

196 Let them have their own country and secular religion.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

It doesn't work that way. Leftism is primarily an urban exercise, pinpoints of blue in a sea of red even in 'blue' states.

It would be easier to just create cities as separate reservations for indigenous leftists to reside with their own internal laws like we did for Native Americans.
Posted by: whig
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I certainly agree that it's not optimal, and mass migrations would follow. But the question is whether it's preferable to the path we're currently on. These people are irreconcilable, and I don't see that ending any time in the near, or distant, future.

197 Forcibly deporting people to a place with single payer healthcare is something to cry about?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 29, 2026 11:57 AM (GBKbO)

Entire troves of them buried under the abortion clinics...

Tragic.

198 Maybe put some money into landmines too."

Claymores. More fun.

199 It would be easier to just create cities as separate reservations for indigenous leftists to reside with their own internal laws like we did for Native Americans.
Posted by: whig

Isn't that more or less what we have now?

200 198 Maybe put some money into landmines too."

Claymores. More fun.

Posted by: man at January 29, 2026 12:00 PM (XuXeR)

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I have a real problem with claymores.

I never know which way to put them.

201 I have a real problem with claymores.

I never know which way to put them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 29, 2026 12:00 PM (GBKbO)
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Hmmm....Maybe you should finally learn how to read...

202 Brett Cooper had a good rundown on the mad bills that the VA legislature and executive branch is trying to shove through, on the unsuspecting Virginians who thought they were voting in moderate democrats. There is no such thing, spoiler alert!

Apparently a huge amount if bureaucrats rent out properties to the government. So we the taxpayers are paying their bills. Brett said a new bill in the VA legislature would allow Virginia bureaucrats to use taxpayer dollars to PURCHASE property.

So the VA legislators want to be able to buy property using our taxpayer money, and the rent it back to our government and get another check from Uncle Sam.

There are soooooooo many scams out there!! It's unbelievable.

203 Listening to PDT. Entertaining as always. Leads one to believe that the Wharton School of Business actually cranked out smart people.

204 I never know which way to put them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 29, 2026 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

You can grab the stabby end fine enough if you got decent gloves on. Good for the ol' mordhau.

Which is German for "El Kabong".

Which is Spanish for "The Kabong".

205 He lifted it almost straight from Locke, who lifted it almost straight from ancient Greek philosophers.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 29, 2026 11:24 AM (iFTx/)

I haven't read Locke in a very long time, but what little I recall about happiness was more of an intellectual and emotional goal, rather than a proxy for freedom and liberty.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 29, 2026 11:43 AM (Zv8bq)
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It was both, IIRC. Indeed, that was the big innovation that Locke (and the Greeks) were getting at: that pursuing "happiness" was not only a personal state of mind, but also a guidepost for freedom and liberty in general. People that were allowed to pursue happiness, unfucked by the government, were a free and liberated people.

206 I have a real problem with claymores.

I never know which way to put them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 29, 2026 12:00 PM

It's written right on th... oh yeah.

207 I'm gonna 3d print some Claymores that say "I Don't Get It" on the side that goes towards the enemy.

208 So Tulsi Gabbard was personally there directing the Fulton County election raid, and they got dozens of boxes of 2020 ballots. And DJT re-tweeted sworn testimony that the 2020 election was rigged on Obama's orders by Europeans. Perhaps Maduro is talking?

209
I have a real problem with claymores.

I never know which way to put them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 29, 2026 12:00 PM



Depends on how you want your enemy to die. Chewed into hamburger by a gazillion ball bearings or having one guy get a big hole thru his chest from the backing plate.

210 And I've resigned myself to that. If we can't bother to stand up for the people who risk their lives to keep us free? We don't deserve a Republic.

I've counted coup on the treachery and impotence of the GOPe. And much of that is because Ace opened my eyes to Failure Theater and Surrendering Gracefully. I owe him alot for that - I was on the path to become Establishment Drone for Romney. Geez what a horrible fate.

But maybe the David Frenches and Rick Wilsons are ahead of the curve and we are fools.

211 People that were allowed to pursue happiness, unfucked by the government, were a free and liberated people.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 29, 2026 12:03 PM (iFTx/)

I get that part, but I think Jefferson made the real connection to tangible things.

Regardless, it has survived 250 years.

212 City-states with complete and total control within their borders and no say on anything outside of them, but the rest of the state gets to set the city-state's budget and funding levels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I can see far worse solutions. Cities inevitably of the left because they tend to attract assholes/deviants to find like minded types. Daniel Elazar termed the type as individualistic instead of traditionalistic or moralistic political culture. Strong urban governments then coexist with anarchy in US cities while the voters just accept that is the way it is. Needless to say, voter fraud, looting of city government, poor services, etc. are the cost of residents letting their leftist freak flag fly without much hinderance.

213 206 207 A friend had a story, planting Claymores on a hot trail. And one guy said "Uh oh". Yep, two out of three.

214 "... this union is broken."

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That's the summary here. It is.

Many believe it can be repaired. Some don't believe that. I think that's our foundational disagreement now.

215 I have a real problem with claymores.

I never know which way to put them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 29, 2026 12:00 PM (GBKbO)
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Hmmm....Maybe you should finally learn how to read...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 29, 2026 12:01 PM (ESVrU)

LOL

216 I haven't read Locke in a very long time, but what little I recall about happiness was more of an intellectual and emotional goal, rather than a proxy for freedom and liberty.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Locke was a proponent of tabula rasa - we're all born as blank slates with no innate notions. Everything is a product of our five senses.

I do not hold with that.

217 I have a real problem with claymores.

I never know which way to put them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 29, 2026 12:00 PM

It's written right on th... oh yeah.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 29, 2026 12:03 PM (jc0TO)

And evidently some of our Vietnam brethren still got it wrong.

218 At their core, people are just no damned good. Why we need laws and government, like it or not.

219 This is the usual post for this kind of news, so I'll just copy/paste this here -

Jan 27 (Reuters) - Sales of fully ​electric cars surpassed those of petrol-only vehicles in the European Union for the first time in December, data from ‌the auto industry group ACEA showed on Tuesday, even as hybrids held onto the largest overall share of the market.
...
"It will still take around ​half a decade before pure electric cars genuinely overtake combustion-engine models across the region, but this is nonetheless a start,"
...
Fully electric vehicles made up 22.6% of cars registered in the EU last month, edging out petrol cars ‍on 22.5%. Gasoline-electric hybrids, including plug-in hybrids that can go limited distances on battery power alone, were the top group with 44%.

220 I was on the path to become Establishment Drone for Romney. Geez what a horrible fate.

A lot of the damage Obama did was in his second term (cancelling the law against the CIA propagandizing Americans, the whole censorship-industrial complex, etc). So Romney winning in 2012 would've still been a good thing, but we probably wouldn't have gotten Trump then.

221 I have a real problem with claymores.

I never know which way to put them."

Ah, pointy bits up?

222 have a real problem with claymores.

I never know which way to put them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 29, 2026 12:00 PM (GBKbO)
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Hmmm....Maybe you should finally learn how to read...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

He should try using the mines instead of the swords.

223
"It will still take around ​half a decade before pure electric cars genuinely overtake combustion-engine models across the region, but this is nonetheless a start,"

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A start at what?

224 I suppose it's important to make a certain distinction. We're dealing with saboteurs. We're dealing with enemy action. We're dealing with people who willfully despise and subvert the system. Coming up with some mythical "better system" will never fix that. It's a cultural issue. We need a culture that bitterly hates fraud. That bitterly hates deceit. We've been browbeaten into accepting the unacceptable, and even thinking it's actively perilous for anyone else to dare not accept it themselves lest that somehow cause problems for us indirectly.

It's no use consulting your owner's manual for your car when your neighbor is dumping sugar into your gas tank. The car is not the problem. Your neighbor is.

225 Jan 27 (Reuters) - Sales of fully ​electric cars surpassed those of petrol-only vehicles in the European Union for the first time in December...

And how many of those were cheap Chinese vehicles being dumped at or below cost so the manufacturer could scam the "carbon credits?"

226 221 I have a real problem with Claymores. Yep. Walmart won't sell them since the Old Man died.

227 I'm beginning to understand why all of these muslim women are so angry and abrasive all of the time.

Having a clitoridectomy has really got to be a traumatic experience.

228 this union is broken."

----

That's the summary here. It is.

Many believe it can be repaired. Some don't believe that. I think that's our foundational disagreement now.
Posted by: BurtTC


I don't think it can. Look at how unhinged the left is now. When they mistakenly protest TSA Agents and then say, "oh well, shit happens!", that's not repairable. They are mentally broken.

229 At their core, people are just no damned good. Why we need laws and government, like it or not.

Posted by: tubal

"Original Sin" is an astute observation of human nature.

230 208 So Tulsi Gabbard was personally there directing the Fulton County election raid, and they got dozens of boxes of 2020 ballots. And DJT re-tweeted sworn testimony that the 2020 election was rigged on Obama's orders by Europeans. Perhaps Maduro is talking?
Posted by: Ian S.
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Scytl Election Technologies S.L.U. (also stylized SCYTL), is a Spanish electronic voting system and election technology company.

Scytyl systems servers ran voting reporting totals to the media and SoS offices. It gets complicated but there were two feeds from the Dominion tabulation software in county election offices.

The first was to the media (Edison) and the second was to SoS offices.

Election Night Reporting by Scytl (via SOE Software) was used in seven states during the 2020 general election, with services extending to counties in nearly 20 states, covering more than 48 million voters. Specific states leveraging Scytl solutions in various capacities include Georgia, Colorado, Arkansas, Illinois, and Mississippi, where its BallotSafe system was available to overseas and military voters in 48 of 82 counties.

231 > have a real problem with claymores.
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Inert ones would make awesome lawn ornaments. Especially if you've got annoying neighbors.

232 I don't think it can. Look at how unhinged the left is now. When they mistakenly protest TSA Agents and then say, "oh well, shit happens!", that's not repairable. They are mentally broken.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2026 12:12 PM (ASmqz)

I'm in the same camp.

233 232 I don't think it can. Look at how unhinged the left is now. When they mistakenly protest TSA Agents and then say, "oh well, shit happens!", that's not repairable. They are mentally broken.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2026 12:12 PM (ASmqz)

I'm in the same camp.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 29, 2026 12:13 PM (dGCAG)

Maybe the hard lessons of reality will soak through over time. I dunno.

234 Noodage.

235 The problem with isolating the blues in their cities is reds (who used to go to cities for entertainment and shopping, but those scarcely matter any more) still need cities for their hospitals and the specialty care that's available there.

So you can't quite give the blues total control over the cities, unless you can figure out a way to move cancer centers and minimally invasive CABG procedures out to the rural areas.

236 Inert ones would make awesome lawn ornaments. Especially if you've got annoying neighbors.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 29, 2026 12:13 PM (jtM2q)

I remember during basic/AIT, we had dummy ones, and you were tested on going through the steps, including looking at the visual spark of light that indicated the device was functional.

You were supposed to say "I see the light" I think three times.

Of course, there was no light, these were dummy claymores.

The army made liars of all of us.

237 City-states with complete and total control within their borders and no say on anything outside of them, but the rest of the state gets to set the city-state's budget and funding levels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at January 29, 2026 11:51 AM (GBKbO)
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Throught our nations history, the people of the United States of America have fought wars and subdued rebellions to prevent that very thing from happening.

With respect, NO and HELL NO.

238 Ace up

239 The army made liars of all of us.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 29, 2026 12:16 PM (dGCAG)

Or gospel singers.

240 ALL of the cases you mention involve the Billion$ looted in Minnesota Health Care.

Boelter says Walz sent him out to shoot Democrats. He shot Hortman who cast the deciding vote against Illegals on Medicaid, removing them from HMOs which are overbilling in Billions with MN state government

Yusef looted millions in Minnesota

Mangione shot United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson--a Minnesota company

Starting to see the pattern?

241 He shot Hortman who cast the deciding vote against Illegals on Medicaid, removing them from HMOs which are overbilling in Billions with MN state government

Hortman also was making noise about investigating daycare fraud.

242 I don't think it can. Look at how unhinged the left is now. When they mistakenly protest TSA Agents and then say, "oh well, shit happens!", that's not repairable. They are mentally broken.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2026 12:12 PM (ASmqz)

I have to admit I'm conflicted here. It's the TSA. They're the ones that burned me out on flying. They are asshoe.

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The Morning Report — 1/29/26

Good morning kids. The focus yet again is on Minneapolis and two totally shocking stories. Not really. First, as a number of you noted in yesterday's comments the Emshpritzening of America's sweetheart, the de-clitorized criminal immigration fraudster and incest practitioner Bro-Fo Omar was likely a hack amateur-hour fake out.

But this incident reeks of inauthenticity. She appears to make eye contact with her attacker just before he gets up, as if she is signaling to him that the time for the attack had come. She walks toward him after he sprays the liquid on her, instead of running away, as any person undergoing an unexpected attack would be likely to do. And she calmly continues her speech, without any apparent concern for the possibility that the substance could be lethal and that she should go wash it off. . .Both leftists and Muslims in the U.S. have demonstrated a strong affinity for claiming victimhood . . . Omar’s spraying incident, as transparently fake as it is, is one of the clumsiest examples of this technique, but it’s understandable, after having been coddled for years, that Omar would assume that she could get away with anything, no matter how flimsy.

Next is this now deceased Alex Pretti stooge who, surprise surprise was predisposed to being a Democrat/Leftist stormtrooper.

Disturbing new footage shows Alex Pretti armed, spitting at federal immigration officers and smashing the taillights of their black SUV during a chaotic clash more than a week before he was fatally shot by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis. The video, which the BBC said it has verified, captured the ICU nurse yelling at agents while they were driving away during a heated Jan. 13 protest before booting the back of the car, prompting them to jump out and tackle him to the ground, according to footage from The News Movement.   The man — who was wearing similar clothing in the video to what Pretti had on when he was fatally shot last Saturday — was taken to the ground by at least five agents, who deployed tear gas into the whistle-blowing crowd during the wild confrontation.

With that, I ask the question are Alex Prettis and Renee Goods born or are they made?

“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than evil.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Bonhoeffer’s insight remains one of the most unsettling diagnoses of moral collapse ever written—not because it flatters our intelligence, but because it strips away comforting illusions. . .

. . . One of the defining features of ideological stupidity is its joyfulness. Evil often appears dour and grim in our imagination, but in reality it frequently presents itself as exuberant, righteous, even celebratory. Once responsibility is dissolved into a collective—“the movement,” “the cause,” “history”—guilt evaporates. The individual no longer bears moral weight. He obeys. And obedience feels liberating.

That is why crowds can chant with glee while calling for harm. That is why activists can smile while threatening federal officers. That is why vandalism is rebranded as “resistance” and intimidation as “speech.” The participants do not experience themselves as committing wrongdoing. They experience themselves as morally elevated.

Another aspect is that beyond Pretti's emotional state and rationale he knew that he also had the political and judicial cover that would shield him from any potential repercussions such as prison, and this attitude likely fed into his fatal delusion/illusion that he was in no mortal danger whatsoever and so could attack with impunity.

And when you consider the following, it's no wonder that he and Renee Good are now moldering in their graves.

A coalition of left-wing district attorneys largely funded by billionaire George Soros launched an initiative to prosecute federal immigration agents in their jurisdictions, setting the stage for a potential showdown with the Trump administration. Many of those same prosecutors oppose mandatory minimum prison sentences for violent crimes and have released murderers back on the streets.

The Project for the Fight Against Federal Overreach (FAFO), led by Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner and Minneapolis district attorney Mary Moriarty and launched on Wednesday, calls itself "an effort to hold federal officials accountable when they exceed their lawful authority." The nine-member coalition plans to convene next month "to share strategies for pushing back against the lawless actions of federal forces in states and cities around the country." Under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, federal agents are generally immune from state prosecution for acts carried out within the scope of their official duties.

Let this sink in for a moment: Soros DA's vow to hunt Ice Like Nazi War criminals – considering George Soros himself is an admitted and proud actual Nazi war criminal. He and his father worked for the Nazis during their occupation of Hungary by helping them identify and round up the Jews of Budapest and elsewhere, who were then loaded onto cattle trains and shipped directly to the gas chambers and crematoria of Birkenau. they were paid handsomely by the Nazis and allowed to expropriate the dispatched Jews' property/money which was the seed capital for Soros' financial empire that has fueled much of the anti-American and anti-Western subversion over the past 50 years or more.

The chutzpocrisy here is off the charts almost to the point of hilarity. While the torch has been passed to son Alex Soros, that George Soros has not been stripped of his citizenship and deported back to Hungary for being an admitted bona fide Nazi war criminal in violation of his immigration status is an infamy. I know that I and others almost from the moment Trump was sworn in for his first term were shrieking our lungs out for him to act on this and yet to this day, Soros remains untouched and his evil empire is feverishly working to destroy us from within.

The damage to our safety and liberty as individuals and as a society via the installation of pro-crime DAs and Secretaries of State to help grease the wheels of election fraud is incalculable. What we are witnessing in Minneapolis and elsewhere is in no small part fueled by Soros blood money.

Psaki-psircling back to that excellent piece highlighting the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, I now ask, did Alex Pretti and Renee Good get what they "deserved?" That's debatable, but one thing is for sure, America, the safety, security civil rights of the citizenry, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the rule of law got what it desperately needed when those two met their fate. Sad on many levels that it had to come to that, But that said, it's only a start. Those who set them and all the others like them up to be cannon fodder in service to the seizure of absolute power and the dissolution of our nation and society must be destroyed, peacefully and via the processes and rule of law that they themselves have set a match to if at all possible. But the anti-American Leftist political movement and the Democrat Party itself must be eradicated if America is to last past its 250th year if it even reaches that milestone six months from now.

Lurker extraordinaire Victor Davis Hanson is not the first to invoke what happened 165 years ago . . . It's an insurrection if they can keep it:

.Lincoln and the preservationists felt that they easily had the moral high ground of abolition versus the continuance of slavery. Nor did they want a North America of fragmenting, warring nations in the manner of Europe.
Something similar is emerging over Minnesota, the South Carolina of our age. . . Once sanctuary states, cities, and counties had established the precedent that, with impunity, they could nullify federal immigration law, then what followed was a logical and mounting descent into the current open defiance of the federal government. How odd that self-described progressives are now acting out the visions of prior kindred nullificationists and neo-Confederates from John C. Calhoun to George Wallace.
The reaction of the rest of the nation, especially its conservative half, to Minnesota resembles the 1861 disconnect in the North over the insurrectionary states.

Have a great day.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Victor Davis Hanson: Minnesota’s defiance of federal immigration law echoes pre–Fort Sumter nullification, forcing Trump to choose between enforcement and letting blue states slide toward open rebellion.
  Slouching Towards Fort Sumter?
  
• Bonhoeffer warned us.
  Stupidity or Evil: Which is More Dangerous?

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• Trump’s apparent capitulation in Minnesota will no doubt inspire other states to flout federal immigration law.
  Trump Has Failed His Nullification Crisis. Other States Will Follow Minnesota’s Example
  
• Just as it did one hundred and sixty-five years ago, the Democrat Party appears to be making war against the federal government.
  Democrats Turn Minneapolis into Fort Sumter
  
• Oooooh! A sudden flash of inspiration, as it’s been done before.
  Strip rogue states of their statehood status until they get in line

• Reeking of inauthenticity.
  Ilhan’s Spraying Incident

• Harrowing new footage shows Alex Pretti armed, spitting at federal immigration officers and smashing the taillights of their black SUV during a chaotic clash more than a week before he was fatally shot by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis. The video, which the BBC said it has verified, captured the ICU nurse yelling at agents while they were driving away during a heated Jan. 13 protest before booting the back of the car, prompting them to jump out and tackle him to the ground, according to footage from The News Movement.  

  Alex Pretti appears to spit at ICE, kick out tail light in previous Minneapolis confrontation before he was shot by Border Patrol
  

• The BBC—using facial recognition software—was reportedly able to confirm to a 97 percent level of accuracy that the man they filmed attacking federal agents was Alex Pretti.
  New Vid May Show Alex Pretti Assaulting ICE, While Armed, A Week Before His Death.

• “I am on the ground in Minneapolis today. Federal agents have arrested 16 Minnesota rioters for allegedly assaulting federal law enforcement — people who have been resisting and impeding our federal law enforcement agents,” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on X:
  Minnesota: DOJ Arrests 16 Anti-ICE Activists for Rioting, Including Viral ‘Bananas and Rice’ Somali Migrant
  
• Democrat Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson admitted Wednesday he was “in regular communication” with other mayors leading so-called “sanctuary cities” in efforts to impede enforcement of federal immigration laws. (conspiracy to commit insurrection/sedition - jjs)
  Brandon Johnson Says He’s Coordinating With Other Democrat Mayors To Thwart ICE
  
• The group's members have released murderers back onto the streets and opposed mandatory minimum sentences for violent crimes
  Soros-Backed DAs Launch Group To Prosecute Federal Immigration Agents: 'Hunt You Down the Way They Hunted Down Nazis'
  
• Krasner’s rhetoric has drawn criticism for its inflammatory nature.
  Dem DA Vows to ‘Hunt Down’ ICE Agents Like Nazi War Criminals.
  
• Cook has been reported to law enforcement, and her videos have been widely condemned online.
  Hospital Dismisses Nurse Who Encouraged People to Poison ICE Agents.

  "DEMOCRAT BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• The U.S. saw its slowest population growth since the pandemic, attributed largely to a historic decline in net international migration.
  Census Bureau Reports NEGATIVE Net Migration as DHS Claims 3 Million Illegals Have Left U.S.

• “I also made it clear that Minneapolis does not and will not enforce federal immigration laws, and that we will remain focused on keeping our neighbors and streets safe.”
  At Last: Lindsey Graham to Introduce Bill to Abolish Sanctuary Cities
  
• “[Democrats’] ability to continue winning (STEALING) elections is at stake without them [illegal aliens] and they’ll burn down the country to keep them here.”
  The Key Reason Democrats Stop at Nothing to Block Deportations
  
• Democrats have recognized that their very survival as a national political party rests upon importing millions of foreigners into the United States.
  Democrats Want To Keep Illegals In America To Rig The Census And Congressional Apportionment

  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• They want to be able to spend millions of dollars of taxpayer money, without having to explain where the money is going.
  The Somali Fraud In Minnesota Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg. This State Is Even Worse.

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• “At least 16,774 (and potentially as many as 39,362) deceased individuals were first enrolled and claimed by a provider after they died (i.e. they were deceased at the time of enrollment).”
  FCC: California, Texas, Oregon Took $5 Million in Reimbursements for Over 116K Dead People
  
• 1,000 companies got $5 billion in federal contracts based on their race or gender, but wouldn't show whether they actually did the work
  A Quarter Of ‘Minority Contracting’ Firms Banned After Refusing Anti-Fraud Check

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• When just TWO governors take Islamism in America seriously, we’ve got a massive problem.
  Muslim Brotherhood flies under the radar, securing a (greater) foothold in the US

• Can you guess what happened to one of them?
  In Sweden, Two Ex-Muslims Burned a Qur’an

• Only in the UK. (And then there's Mamdani and the Munich Massacre scion in California. Oy Gevalt, So to speak - jjs)
  Islamic Terrorist Convicted of Plot to Bomb British Consulate Runs for Office to “Unite” UK

  
  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• One person was taken into custody, according to a law enforcement source. (Swarthy, or all the way Sharptonian? - jjs)
  Car Repeatedly Slams into Chabad World Headquarters in Brooklyn

• How, exactly, do you defend the USA by attacking its strongest ally?
  Hating Jews More than Loving America

• While most people were focused on the modern version of ICE capades taking place in Minnesota or the path and severity of America’s recent megastorm, a notable First Amendment case was heard. The entire panel of the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on mandatory Ten Commandment display laws from Louisiana and Texas. And given the controversies earlier “church and state” cases have caused, it is likely to ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court.
  Time To Overturn Our Church And State Confusion

• Tucker goes all in.
  Tucker Carlson Thinks This Group, Not Muslims, is Responsible for the Jihad Against the U.S. Carlson is now the Father Coughlin of Henry Fords.

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The Federal Open Market Committee maintained the benchmark federal funds rate in a range of 3.5 percent to 3.75 percent, following three consecutive quarter-point cuts at the end of 2025. Governors Christopher Waller and Stephen Miran dissented, favoring a quarter-point reduction.
  Fed Holds Rates Steady as Unemployment Stabilizes
  
• The .67 percent hike is a national average, granted, and some states are seeing much greater hikes while others are seeing no rise in costs, while others are seeing prices falling. But compared to recent years, this is a significant drop over the 11.57 percent in 2023, the 17.13 percent in 2024, and 7.56 percent in 2025, Aftermarket Matters reported this month.
  Affordability: Auto Insurance Rates Flatten amid Trump’s Deportations
  
• A Trump Account opened with $1,000 in federal seed money in 2026 will reach $5,800 by age 18 and $18,100 by age 28. However, families who contribute the maximum $5,000 annually will see the accounts reach an estimated $303,800 by age 18 and $1,091,900 by age 28—assuming contributions continue through age 18 and the account is converted to an IRA.
  What Are ‘Trump Accounts,’ and How Will They Help?
  
• Funded as a two-year pilot under the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the program puts $1,000 into a new account for each child born in the four years 2025-’28, with provisions for parents, their employers and outside sponsors to add more.
  Trump Accounts are, for once, a REAL investment into the future of America

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• How local news became state media and why you’re paying for it.
  Your Local Paper is Taxpayer-Funded Government Propaganda
  
• Bari Weiss — the young, dynamic new head honcho at CBS News — is not at all interested in being accepted by the lefty communist collective clique that has had a stranglehold on American mainstream media seemingly forever. That's what makes her story so interesting, fun to watch, and important. 
  MSM Hacks Are Terrified of Bari Weiss Simply Because She's Objective and Tells the Truth

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Federal legislation is needed to expose this influence operation
  Qatar Is Pushing for ‘Social Justice’ Lessons and Arabic Classes in US K-12 Schools
  
• Activist organizations are developing curricula instructing teachers and students to be skeptical toward claims of antisemitism and sympathetic to pro-'Palestinian' causes, documents show.
  How Activists Use Curriculum And ‘Training’ To Embed Leftist Ideology In K–12 Schools
  
• “be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists”
  Columbia Student Who Fantasized About ‘Murdering Zionists’ Could be Readmitted This Fall
  
• Texas A&M didn’t ban Plato — it blocked ideological cherry-picking, reminding professors that academic freedom belongs to institutions, not to individual agendas.
  Who Has Academic Freedom?

• "As the Supreme Court has made clear, admission into our nation’s educational institutions cannot be based on discriminatory racial policies," Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a press release. "Today’s intervention is the Department of Justice’s latest effort to hold our universities accountable for unlawful policy — especially in the state of California."
  Trump Admin Joins Lawsuit Against UCLA Med School, Unveiling New Data on Race-Based Admissions

  THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH

• The FBI was reportedly looking to take custody of Fulton County election ballots from 2020.
  FBI Raids Fulton County Office As Part Of 2020 Election Interference Probe

  
  POLITICS

• It’s one thing for Trump to engage in a “tone shift” . . . But if he’s going to cave in any way on his mandate to deport the millions of foreigners who continue breaking the laws of this country, he might as well rename Kamala Harris the president’s border czar, with CNN’s wombat Brian Stelter second in command of immigration policy.
  Will Trump Once Again Let The Media Dictate The Rest Of His Agenda?
  
• On the facts, Trump is winning on every issue, but Democrats still control the narrative. Trump and Republicans need to speak out and fight back hard.
  Republicans Can Win, But Only If They Are Proactive

  
  IRAN ON the BRINK?!

• “Heroes fell”: Netanyahu says IDF soldiers died because of Biden’s arms embargo.
  Trump Tells Iran ‘Time is Running Out’ as U.S. Carrier Fleet Arrives in Gulf
  
• High Noon in the Middle East.
  Iran to Trump: Let’s Make a Deal

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS

• Deals with terrorists never get better. They only get worse.
  U.S. to ‘Buy Back’ Guns from Hamas

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• China’s Ministry of National Defense announced Saturday that Gen. Zhang Youxia, the highest-ranking uniformed deputy under President Xi Jinping, is under investigation for alleged misconduct.
  Xi Jinping continues purge of military officials, places top general under investigation for 'misconduct'

• Voters back revival of US influence in Latin America to counter Russian, Chinese energy moves.
  Americans Embrace Energy Basics Of President Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’: I&I/TIPP Poll
  
• Trump’s vision for the new world order is based on realism and geopolitics, but also on U.S. foundational ideals and goodwill in defending the West.
  The Exceptionality of Trump’s Pax Americana
  
• Without honor.
  Trump’s Betrayal of the Kurds
  
• The EU’s new mobility deal with India accelerates mass migration, risking national identity, public safety, and what critics warn is the rapid unraveling of Western civilization.
  The EU Just Murdered Western Civilization

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Dr. Mariano Barbacid, a pioneering Spanish cancer scientist, alongside his team have eliminated aggressive pancreatic tumours in mice using a triple-drug therapy targeting the KRAS pathway. While not yet a human cure, the breakthrough offers one of the most promising paths so far toward effective pancreatic cancer treatment.
  Spanish Scientist Leading The Most Promising Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough Yet

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Robert Zimmerman: "It increasingly appears that there are aspects of the universe we simply do not yet understand, which in turn make our theories of its birth and formation either incomplete or invalid. Those theories might be right in principle, but the data suggests they are wrong in detail."
  Webb finds another unexpected galaxy in the very early universe
  
• The uncertainty of science strikes again! Astronomers using both the Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory now think they have discovered a just-forming protocluster of galaxies only one billion years after the Big Bang, when such galaxy clusters should not yet exist.
  Astronomers discover a “surprisingly mature” cluster of galaxies in early universe

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• PUCE SHITSTAIN . . .
  Bruce Springsteen Releases Anti-ICE Protest Song ‘Streets Of Minneapolis’
  
• . . .receiving “hate” from leftists “actually motivates me to support him more.”
  Watch: Nicki Minaj — I’m Probably Trump’s ‘Number One Fan, and That’s Not Going to Change’
  
• Christian Toto: Veteran actor demands ICE supporters not watch his movies anymore
  Should Studios Keep Hiring John Leguizamo?
  
• New Yorkers have thought it fascist for more than half a century: ‘gemütlich Speer’
  There Has Always Been Politics at the Kennedy Center

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