The president does not have a single ally in the Twin Cities including a federal judge he appointed who once clerked for Antonin Scalia. Why continue to take all the risk with little reward?
As usual, Congressional Repubs start melting at MSM calling them out. Theoretically, putting resources to better use makes a lot of sense. But pulling out of Minneapolis now would give a win to the anarchists and will just embolden them and no doubt many will be off to the next city to continue their mayhem.
What Pres. Trump should do is call his buddy Carney in Canada and make a simple trade deal. Give them Minnesota and we'll take Alberta. Simple solution to all the problems
There is an upside and a downside to either decision. I am sure there are citizens of MN who want the President’s promise of deporting all immigrants, but it can be last on the list as long as it can’t behave. The President should advise Walz that the requirements for MN will be full compliance.due to the many other states requesting ICE’s assistance. They are now at the end in 2028. Yet that leaves the other states open to fleeing felons.
Julie, in a way this is sounds like great idea, however, this would set a terrible precedent and all Blue states would follow this strategy. The murderers, rapist, drug dealers, thieves and pedos would filter into Red states. Arrest all of them regardless of the location.
If Trump let's them get away with this Insurrection, because that is what it is, with no litigation, no justice, Trump will lose a huge amount of credibility and the remaining Blue states will follow suit. So much for the rule of law. He's already on thin ice with his disaster of an AG.
I hear this response often and certainly appreciate it. However, the president and his team need to be well prepared next time if that's the case. IMO, he should have invoked the Insurrection Act quickly and had the DOJ file charges against Walz, Frey, and all of the agitators. But too much time passed--and since I wrote this article, Schlitz has filed another unhinged partisan rant. The system is woefully rigged there--better to go elsewhere.
I agree, Trump cannot retreat & set a terrible precedent that bad, violent behavior is a winning strategy to other blue, sanctuary states & cities. Wouldn’t leftist run cities see this atrocious Minnesota seditious behavior as acceptable? And use that blueprint in their cities? This is not an organic protest in Minneapolis- many of these hoodlums are bused in & under direction of an organized seditious group & funding. A win in their minds would only embolden them I fear. I don’t believe the Trump MAGA “ base” wants a retreat. Hopefully Trump will find a winning way out of this mess. Sometimes he tweets d’etant then lowers the hammer.
Frey has already indicated he will not cooperate and abide by the president's terms. Walz' cooperation will be short lived. The chief judge is threatening to impose sanctions against the acting director of ICE. Other MN judges are releasing illegals based on the thinnest of legal arguments. The citizens are not standing up to defend the administration. What does winning look like--that continues to be my unanswered question.
It is a classic insurgent effort, the democrats in Minnesota are part of an insurgency which at the moment is contained in several blue states for the most part. Leave now. But return at a time and place of your choosing. The left has gone insurgent and asymmetric, ICE and the Trump administration are fighting a zero sum game, they should look to Vietnam and Afghanistan if they want to figure out how to combat the insurgency. Stop this war of attrition. It’s not helping and ot winning. So leave, cut off federal funding anywhere and everywhere possible, starve the insurgent movement of cash. Use other arms of government to run down such things as tax evasion and fraud. Then start to plan how to box out the informants in the local police and federal agencies in Minnesota, or in DC. We know the FBI still has thousands of loyal anti Trump employees. Silo the operation, come and go at the targets of illegals in sporadic and “raid” like fashion. The whistle blowing mega phone blaring left wing agitators will have little to do, their pay will dry up. Make it hard for the enemy (make no mistake we are in a warm civil war) to know when and where your operation will land next. Leave days and weeks between each “raid”. Surgical and precise. In and out four or five bad guys at a time. At some point run some false flags up the spout and see who is squealing the intelligence inside your outfit. Arrest them and throw the book at them after you fire them with cause. Get to the money and dry it up.
Trump and his administration are planning cricket against an armed enemy. Time to get better and smarter. Throw sand in the their eyes and fight low and dirty. Otherwise this is a waste of time and treasure.
Thanks for this. Given the extensive evidence of Medicaid fraud and now an organized insurrection in MN, the administration should spend time and resources investigating, charging, and prosecuting both of those scandals rather than fight these death wish lunatics in the streets.
This writer is fairly positive that if someone in DHS gave a jingle to the Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, NC, that a couple of the Senior NCO’s and Company Grade Officers could give some prudent advice on how to handle the current insurgency, whether in Minnesota, Maine, California, etc. Say a two hour class with flash cards instead of a power point deck. The insurgents are extremely well organized, financed and willing to die for the “cause.” (Whatever it might be) In Vietnam it was about rice and rice paddies, meaning food, the NVA and Viet Cong needed food, rice and rice paddies provided same. They terrorized the local villages into working for them, the counter insurgency aka Army Special Forces and US Marine CAP units denied the VC access to same and stabilized the rural populations. Regular Army leadership led by that genius William Westmoreland, hated both, they didn’t fit into the standard package. Fast forward to Afghanistan, it was about poppy fields, poppies and heron. Huge cash crop. Starve the body, the head will follow. Same story. August of 2021 and the Taliban return. If Washington wanted to stop this mess they could. Let’s see if the DOJ can get off the dime and do something. It is astounding isn’t it, that the FBI almost immediately, had all the data they needed to arrest, charge, convict and imprison J6 protesters, but Kash Patel and his Famous But Incompetent organization can’t find it’s ass in a dark closet with a high beam flash light, grab up the leadership of the insurgency, and get them off the street. Hmmm. Sell crazy somewhere else, we are full up at this position.
In my view this is the problem with leaving Minneapolis to its own devices: The level of coordination we're now learning about in the anti-ICE insurrection suggest strongly that someone(s) with deep pockets is helping fund and organize it. And the timing of it all along has suggested it's aimed not so much at disrupting ICE, but distracting from and derailing the investigation of the Somali fraud, which appears breathtaking in its scope.
So if temporarily suspending/drawing down ICE activities is done for the strategic aim of speeding up the Somali fraud investigation, I would be for that. But taking a hands-off approach to the whole place, including the Somali fraud, would set a horrible precedent. A state within a state; our own version of the moslem no-go zones where European police dare not tread.
Of course the next problem is securing Somali fraud indictments in the Minnesota federal courts. Maybe there's a judge and/or grand jury in Brainerd or Duluth who isn't co-opted. Yet.
I agree. Prioritize the $20 billion or so in Medicaid fraud--which undoubtedly will lead to the very elected officials now sabotaging the president--as well as the organized insurrection. Continuing this battle to remove a few dozen illegals (and quickly released by judges) is diminishing returns given the bigger picture.
There is one reason: all the fed money going to businesses and people that don't exist. Minnesota will never end the gravy train until they are forced to do so because it's not their money, it other people's money.
It’s MY money. And I want it back. Either a general tax strike, make up a deduction for fraudulent use of tax dollars, or class action suit against the State of Minnesota for knowing, aiding and abetting tax fraud.
In my fantasy world I would like each Minnesotan to have an assessment to collect all the money they owe the rest of us. This is what Minnesotans would pay because they elected complete idiots to run their state. I know this won't happen, but it would make me feel better.
I would give them back the 3500 or so criminal miscreants that were arrested. Truck them to Walz’s governor mansion and set them free in front of it and let him and his officials deal with them.
I am not sure what winning looks like, Steve, although as you know I respect your opinion! This pattern is happening in other jurisdictions--CA, Chicago, DC--so how much money are we supposed to waste trying to save these cities from themselves? There is a financial consideration as well as political and policy. The DOJ is already overwhelmed with litigation across the country, why keep them busy in cities and states that don't want to enforce the law?
Winning...agree that I don't know what it looks like. But that's what Trump is a master of.
I was convinced Trump was first going after Chicago, then switched to MN, when the Somali fraud gave him a twofer there. The point is to make an example of someone with an all-out, take-no-prisoners effort, so the other "blue zones" would give up.
The incredible organized domestic insurgency in MN presents another interesting angle, making a win there both more dificult, but also a bigger payoff.
Your X's / points on the corrupt judiciary in MN (everywhere, really) are so well taken and not reported on enough by the MSM. Please keep beating that drum. You have sat in so many of those courtrooms!
Agree, 100%. I had similar thoughts myself. If Minnesota wants become a hell hole of the third world, let them, but we should withdrawal all possible federal support. If they're going to live outside of the federal law, they don't deserve to receive Federal support. Let them commit suicide. And we're not gonna come and save them. I thought, what would Lincoln do but the situations are a bit different. They are succeeding in a different way though not entirely different.
I do not want to be alarmist, but the judiciary being actively involved in the "resistance" is making our national situation much more dangerous. You could be put in the DC Gulag for glancing at the Capital on Jan 6 and snapping a selfie. On the other hand you can assault federal law enforcement, commit mayhem, invade a church, ram your car into law enforcement, take out a hit on law enforcement, comitt billions in fraud and the judge and jury just say please go on your way. We are in trouble.
If Trump gives up and pulls out the leftists behind this will score a victory and move on to the next city/state. This is a war that must be fought and won! This is our version of Gaza. Trump’s peace commission wants to declare victory over Hamas and claim there will be peace. Hamas, etc will be the ones who declare victory and go on killing Jews and preparing for the Oct 7. These are in fact the same people: Hamas and antifa
Charlie Kirk's political assassination emboldened Democrats to continue their violent freak show against Trump and America, because no one made Democrats' lives hell. The DOJ continues to be understaffed, because Republicans honor Democrat blue slips. These RINOs should be shamed and shunned.
Here's an X post from J6er Tim Hale:
"This is Karen P. Seifert. She was my prosecutor at my January 6 trial. She tried to frame me as a terrorist. She's an evil c@nt and still working for the Department of Justice."
He needs to be better prepared in other states. There does not appear to be a comprehensive strategy--he's deployed National Guard and had higher courts including SCOTUS reverse him. He's cut off funding only to have it restored by hyperpartisan judges. He has no support in Congress.
Solid thinking, JK... No less than Saul Alinsky once pointed out that an op that drags on too long becomes a drag. And now, mid-Jan, this thing is becoming a drag.
Up to now... the Rest of the Country has seen what the organized Left can do. And MN has long been quirky in a Lefty kind of way (Democrat Farmer Labor... been a Lefty party for 75 yrs or more). But no, the visuals of Feds fighting Karens & Todds in the street are not how Trump ought to spend political capital.
That said... Consider the current Battle of Minneapolis as a Reconnaissance in Force... Trump admin sent in ICE & other Feds, to do their job, and then encountered unprecedented "Resistance"... And what a Resistance it is!! Gotta give 'em serious credit... These people are pretty good... Highly organized, w military-grade efforts, excellent comms, Signal-networks, SALUTE-system training, extensive networks of watchers & informants, access to secure systems like license plate ID (hmm...), money, housing, even donuts served up by MN National Guard. Plus astonishingly friendly media, up to & including the suckers at WSJ level (which is NOT the newspaper it used to be). And as you note, even local & federal courts that don't want to play ball w the Trump Federals.
In many ways, this all resembles the well-organized insurgency in Iraq in early 2000s, which higher ups didn't want to call an "insurgency" cuz... bad optics. They claimed "bitter-enders" and just drove on down the roads lined w IEDs. Figuratively & literally. Ignored Confucius, who counseled on how important it is to call things by the correct name.
Clearly, there's a widespread, underground, subversive organization here, to include hostile local & state govt; and apparent help from abroad... Canadian fundraising cutouts & bankers, w likely CCP backup. This is not just a bunch of Minnesota Church Ladies all lathered over their immigrant neighbors being sent home due to the fraud & dodgy daycare centers.
Okay, if Feds have done even a little bit of intelligence-collection, they now have "counted the guns" of the opposition, so to speak. No need for further kinetic actions just now... I hope they've been recording the Signals, tracing the money flows, ID'ing the central perps, noting the hot spots (eg, the late Mr Pretti died directly in front of a building that is home to >140 "health care" businesses.)
Rather than fight the opponents in the streets, better to fight them in the banks and money laundries. De-bank people (sound familiar?). IRS audits of NGOs. Stop money flows to all of these daycares & "medical" outlets. Etc... And surely, people have crossed state lines here... RICO, Interstate movement to commit crimes... Find friendlier jurisdictions. (Did someone board an airplane in Texas to go to Minnesota? Well... Voila.)
Trump admin should declare victory and redeploy ICE to other jurisdictions, where there are doubtless many more bad actors to deport.
“Highly organized, w military-grade efforts, excellent comms, Signal-networks, SALUTE-system training, extensive networks of watchers & informants, access to secure systems like license plate ID (hmm...), money, housing“… George Floyd was the jv tryouts. This is the pro team. Ignore at our peril.
Yes there are several accounts on X exposing how deep and wide this operation is. This is where we need to direct our resources, not continuing to remove illegals in a city completely hostile to the efforts. Thanks for this!
I appreciate your analysis of this insurrection ongoing in Minneapolis, Julie, but I don't share your optimism that this violent and deadly situation can be solved simply by President Trump removing ICE from the city. And, of course, the Inside-the-Beltway-Establishment-Statists-RINOS are always ready-willing-and-able to capitulate at the drop of hat, so they must be ignored. I have believed for several months now that the situation in Minnesota and other sanctuary states/cities is reminiscent of Georgia and Alabama in 1856. These sanctuary states/cities for years have declared that Federal law doesn't apply inside their borders (but, of course, they still clamor for continued federal money flowing into their states' coffers). If President Trump continues to delay to deploy the military to put down this insurrection, or if he decides not to do so, it will only embolden the Marxist-Demo-Party and their antifa thugs to take over more cities. In my opinion, there isn't a dimes bit of difference between this uprising and the secession sentiment boiling over in Atlanta in 1856. Some decisive action must be taken soon or this most certainly will devolve into something this country hasn't witnessed 160 years.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments as always. But Congress has the power of the purse and refuses to use it. Cut off all funding to sanctuary states and cities--even if judges attempt to restore it--and keep hammering. Republicans refuse. Trump is the only one with guts and has no support in Congress or in the judiciary (mostly) including his own appointees. Look at what Congress is planning---a huge raise for the federal judiciary!
I agree with you 100%, Julie! I have had that opinion of de-funding sanctuary states/cities for years because they are absolutely unconstitutional. To ignore how they violate the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution does nothing more than encourage more lawlessness! At the risk of being redundant, what they are doing is precisely what the Confederacy did in Georgia, Alabama, etc. in the decade prior to the firing on Ft. Sumter. The only way to defeat it is to stop sending federal money to them...
Stay in until the fraud is uncovered! I hope DOJ, HHS, CMS, USDA have excellent intel. Ask datarepublican (small r) if help is needed. She has lots of info!
"This level of engineered chaos is unique ro Minneapolis.It is the direct consequence of far left agitators working with local authorities."-JD vance,1/24.
Minneapolis is ground zero for a color revolution, precisely because Trump has no allies there as you have pointed out. Rachel Sayre, Minneapolis Emergency Management Director previously worked for USAID, running regime change in Syria,Ukraine,,Yemen,Iraq,Haiti. She is running regime change tactics in MN just as she did abroad. President Trump and Pete Hegseth just last week stated the we are no longer taking part in the old globalism. The globalists are fighting back and this is what and who is behind what's happening in MN
Yep. So let's focus on investigating, charging, and prosecuting the Minneapolis insurrection not risking the lives of officers, wasting tax dollars, and expending necessary resources at DOJ, DHS for that place.
Totally agree; then expose Chicago where i live. These blue city states are all the same with the same agenda as Minneapolis and all the same funding,- among others, NED funding, supported by republicans, bottomless corruption
No, we won't. We're intelligent enough to read the fine print and understand what's going on here. We ( I speak as a typical MAGA voter), do not live by our emotions, but by our brains and reasoning abilities.
As usual, Congressional Repubs start melting at MSM calling them out. Theoretically, putting resources to better use makes a lot of sense. But pulling out of Minneapolis now would give a win to the anarchists and will just embolden them and no doubt many will be off to the next city to continue their mayhem.
What Pres. Trump should do is call his buddy Carney in Canada and make a simple trade deal. Give them Minnesota and we'll take Alberta. Simple solution to all the problems
And WHERE ARE THE WATER CANNONS?
Haha Mike, I love the idea. Too bad the crazies represent a state otherwise filled with good people. Sort of like Illinois!
I think we could throw in Illinois also...although you'd have to move to FL permanently
There is an upside and a downside to either decision. I am sure there are citizens of MN who want the President’s promise of deporting all immigrants, but it can be last on the list as long as it can’t behave. The President should advise Walz that the requirements for MN will be full compliance.due to the many other states requesting ICE’s assistance. They are now at the end in 2028. Yet that leaves the other states open to fleeing felons.
good idea. the right people, and a few barrels of shale to boot!
That’s not happening.
Sadly, you are correct.
Julie, in a way this is sounds like great idea, however, this would set a terrible precedent and all Blue states would follow this strategy. The murderers, rapist, drug dealers, thieves and pedos would filter into Red states. Arrest all of them regardless of the location.
If Trump let's them get away with this Insurrection, because that is what it is, with no litigation, no justice, Trump will lose a huge amount of credibility and the remaining Blue states will follow suit. So much for the rule of law. He's already on thin ice with his disaster of an AG.
I hear this response often and certainly appreciate it. However, the president and his team need to be well prepared next time if that's the case. IMO, he should have invoked the Insurrection Act quickly and had the DOJ file charges against Walz, Frey, and all of the agitators. But too much time passed--and since I wrote this article, Schlitz has filed another unhinged partisan rant. The system is woefully rigged there--better to go elsewhere.
I agree, Trump cannot retreat & set a terrible precedent that bad, violent behavior is a winning strategy to other blue, sanctuary states & cities. Wouldn’t leftist run cities see this atrocious Minnesota seditious behavior as acceptable? And use that blueprint in their cities? This is not an organic protest in Minneapolis- many of these hoodlums are bused in & under direction of an organized seditious group & funding. A win in their minds would only embolden them I fear. I don’t believe the Trump MAGA “ base” wants a retreat. Hopefully Trump will find a winning way out of this mess. Sometimes he tweets d’etant then lowers the hammer.
Frey has already indicated he will not cooperate and abide by the president's terms. Walz' cooperation will be short lived. The chief judge is threatening to impose sanctions against the acting director of ICE. Other MN judges are releasing illegals based on the thinnest of legal arguments. The citizens are not standing up to defend the administration. What does winning look like--that continues to be my unanswered question.
Thank you Julie!
Totally agree!
It is a classic insurgent effort, the democrats in Minnesota are part of an insurgency which at the moment is contained in several blue states for the most part. Leave now. But return at a time and place of your choosing. The left has gone insurgent and asymmetric, ICE and the Trump administration are fighting a zero sum game, they should look to Vietnam and Afghanistan if they want to figure out how to combat the insurgency. Stop this war of attrition. It’s not helping and ot winning. So leave, cut off federal funding anywhere and everywhere possible, starve the insurgent movement of cash. Use other arms of government to run down such things as tax evasion and fraud. Then start to plan how to box out the informants in the local police and federal agencies in Minnesota, or in DC. We know the FBI still has thousands of loyal anti Trump employees. Silo the operation, come and go at the targets of illegals in sporadic and “raid” like fashion. The whistle blowing mega phone blaring left wing agitators will have little to do, their pay will dry up. Make it hard for the enemy (make no mistake we are in a warm civil war) to know when and where your operation will land next. Leave days and weeks between each “raid”. Surgical and precise. In and out four or five bad guys at a time. At some point run some false flags up the spout and see who is squealing the intelligence inside your outfit. Arrest them and throw the book at them after you fire them with cause. Get to the money and dry it up.
Trump and his administration are planning cricket against an armed enemy. Time to get better and smarter. Throw sand in the their eyes and fight low and dirty. Otherwise this is a waste of time and treasure.
Thanks for this. Given the extensive evidence of Medicaid fraud and now an organized insurrection in MN, the administration should spend time and resources investigating, charging, and prosecuting both of those scandals rather than fight these death wish lunatics in the streets.
This writer is fairly positive that if someone in DHS gave a jingle to the Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, NC, that a couple of the Senior NCO’s and Company Grade Officers could give some prudent advice on how to handle the current insurgency, whether in Minnesota, Maine, California, etc. Say a two hour class with flash cards instead of a power point deck. The insurgents are extremely well organized, financed and willing to die for the “cause.” (Whatever it might be) In Vietnam it was about rice and rice paddies, meaning food, the NVA and Viet Cong needed food, rice and rice paddies provided same. They terrorized the local villages into working for them, the counter insurgency aka Army Special Forces and US Marine CAP units denied the VC access to same and stabilized the rural populations. Regular Army leadership led by that genius William Westmoreland, hated both, they didn’t fit into the standard package. Fast forward to Afghanistan, it was about poppy fields, poppies and heron. Huge cash crop. Starve the body, the head will follow. Same story. August of 2021 and the Taliban return. If Washington wanted to stop this mess they could. Let’s see if the DOJ can get off the dime and do something. It is astounding isn’t it, that the FBI almost immediately, had all the data they needed to arrest, charge, convict and imprison J6 protesters, but Kash Patel and his Famous But Incompetent organization can’t find it’s ass in a dark closet with a high beam flash light, grab up the leadership of the insurgency, and get them off the street. Hmmm. Sell crazy somewhere else, we are full up at this position.
Excellent
Good idea. Keep ‘em guessing. Short quick raids will cut off CCP $, and Soros’s too.
In my view this is the problem with leaving Minneapolis to its own devices: The level of coordination we're now learning about in the anti-ICE insurrection suggest strongly that someone(s) with deep pockets is helping fund and organize it. And the timing of it all along has suggested it's aimed not so much at disrupting ICE, but distracting from and derailing the investigation of the Somali fraud, which appears breathtaking in its scope.
So if temporarily suspending/drawing down ICE activities is done for the strategic aim of speeding up the Somali fraud investigation, I would be for that. But taking a hands-off approach to the whole place, including the Somali fraud, would set a horrible precedent. A state within a state; our own version of the moslem no-go zones where European police dare not tread.
Of course the next problem is securing Somali fraud indictments in the Minnesota federal courts. Maybe there's a judge and/or grand jury in Brainerd or Duluth who isn't co-opted. Yet.
I agree. Prioritize the $20 billion or so in Medicaid fraud--which undoubtedly will lead to the very elected officials now sabotaging the president--as well as the organized insurrection. Continuing this battle to remove a few dozen illegals (and quickly released by judges) is diminishing returns given the bigger picture.
This
There is one reason: all the fed money going to businesses and people that don't exist. Minnesota will never end the gravy train until they are forced to do so because it's not their money, it other people's money.
It’s MY money. And I want it back. Either a general tax strike, make up a deduction for fraudulent use of tax dollars, or class action suit against the State of Minnesota for knowing, aiding and abetting tax fraud.
In my fantasy world I would like each Minnesotan to have an assessment to collect all the money they owe the rest of us. This is what Minnesotans would pay because they elected complete idiots to run their state. I know this won't happen, but it would make me feel better.
I would give them back the 3500 or so criminal miscreants that were arrested. Truck them to Walz’s governor mansion and set them free in front of it and let him and his officials deal with them.
And put Minnesota as the destination in removal orders in other states!
If Trump bails from MN, his MAGA base will desert him, and then it's all over.
Give Trump a chance to find a win here. He always does. He knows he is up against a gang of losers.
I am not sure what winning looks like, Steve, although as you know I respect your opinion! This pattern is happening in other jurisdictions--CA, Chicago, DC--so how much money are we supposed to waste trying to save these cities from themselves? There is a financial consideration as well as political and policy. The DOJ is already overwhelmed with litigation across the country, why keep them busy in cities and states that don't want to enforce the law?
Winning...agree that I don't know what it looks like. But that's what Trump is a master of.
I was convinced Trump was first going after Chicago, then switched to MN, when the Somali fraud gave him a twofer there. The point is to make an example of someone with an all-out, take-no-prisoners effort, so the other "blue zones" would give up.
The incredible organized domestic insurgency in MN presents another interesting angle, making a win there both more dificult, but also a bigger payoff.
Your X's / points on the corrupt judiciary in MN (everywhere, really) are so well taken and not reported on enough by the MSM. Please keep beating that drum. You have sat in so many of those courtrooms!
I have to say I would not dessert Trump. He will win this battle.
Agree, 100%. I had similar thoughts myself. If Minnesota wants become a hell hole of the third world, let them, but we should withdrawal all possible federal support. If they're going to live outside of the federal law, they don't deserve to receive Federal support. Let them commit suicide. And we're not gonna come and save them. I thought, what would Lincoln do but the situations are a bit different. They are succeeding in a different way though not entirely different.
I do not want to be alarmist, but the judiciary being actively involved in the "resistance" is making our national situation much more dangerous. You could be put in the DC Gulag for glancing at the Capital on Jan 6 and snapping a selfie. On the other hand you can assault federal law enforcement, commit mayhem, invade a church, ram your car into law enforcement, take out a hit on law enforcement, comitt billions in fraud and the judge and jury just say please go on your way. We are in trouble.
Great point. The double standard is infurating.
If Trump gives up and pulls out the leftists behind this will score a victory and move on to the next city/state. This is a war that must be fought and won! This is our version of Gaza. Trump’s peace commission wants to declare victory over Hamas and claim there will be peace. Hamas, etc will be the ones who declare victory and go on killing Jews and preparing for the Oct 7. These are in fact the same people: Hamas and antifa
Charlie Kirk's political assassination emboldened Democrats to continue their violent freak show against Trump and America, because no one made Democrats' lives hell. The DOJ continues to be understaffed, because Republicans honor Democrat blue slips. These RINOs should be shamed and shunned.
Here's an X post from J6er Tim Hale:
"This is Karen P. Seifert. She was my prosecutor at my January 6 trial. She tried to frame me as a terrorist. She's an evil c@nt and still working for the Department of Justice."
https://x.com/LouisofMonmouth/status/2015840899465458101
He needs to be better prepared in other states. There does not appear to be a comprehensive strategy--he's deployed National Guard and had higher courts including SCOTUS reverse him. He's cut off funding only to have it restored by hyperpartisan judges. He has no support in Congress.
Although I do think they need to stick around for the fraud investigations of the somalian money.
Solid thinking, JK... No less than Saul Alinsky once pointed out that an op that drags on too long becomes a drag. And now, mid-Jan, this thing is becoming a drag.
Up to now... the Rest of the Country has seen what the organized Left can do. And MN has long been quirky in a Lefty kind of way (Democrat Farmer Labor... been a Lefty party for 75 yrs or more). But no, the visuals of Feds fighting Karens & Todds in the street are not how Trump ought to spend political capital.
That said... Consider the current Battle of Minneapolis as a Reconnaissance in Force... Trump admin sent in ICE & other Feds, to do their job, and then encountered unprecedented "Resistance"... And what a Resistance it is!! Gotta give 'em serious credit... These people are pretty good... Highly organized, w military-grade efforts, excellent comms, Signal-networks, SALUTE-system training, extensive networks of watchers & informants, access to secure systems like license plate ID (hmm...), money, housing, even donuts served up by MN National Guard. Plus astonishingly friendly media, up to & including the suckers at WSJ level (which is NOT the newspaper it used to be). And as you note, even local & federal courts that don't want to play ball w the Trump Federals.
In many ways, this all resembles the well-organized insurgency in Iraq in early 2000s, which higher ups didn't want to call an "insurgency" cuz... bad optics. They claimed "bitter-enders" and just drove on down the roads lined w IEDs. Figuratively & literally. Ignored Confucius, who counseled on how important it is to call things by the correct name.
Clearly, there's a widespread, underground, subversive organization here, to include hostile local & state govt; and apparent help from abroad... Canadian fundraising cutouts & bankers, w likely CCP backup. This is not just a bunch of Minnesota Church Ladies all lathered over their immigrant neighbors being sent home due to the fraud & dodgy daycare centers.
Okay, if Feds have done even a little bit of intelligence-collection, they now have "counted the guns" of the opposition, so to speak. No need for further kinetic actions just now... I hope they've been recording the Signals, tracing the money flows, ID'ing the central perps, noting the hot spots (eg, the late Mr Pretti died directly in front of a building that is home to >140 "health care" businesses.)
Rather than fight the opponents in the streets, better to fight them in the banks and money laundries. De-bank people (sound familiar?). IRS audits of NGOs. Stop money flows to all of these daycares & "medical" outlets. Etc... And surely, people have crossed state lines here... RICO, Interstate movement to commit crimes... Find friendlier jurisdictions. (Did someone board an airplane in Texas to go to Minnesota? Well... Voila.)
Trump admin should declare victory and redeploy ICE to other jurisdictions, where there are doubtless many more bad actors to deport.
“Highly organized, w military-grade efforts, excellent comms, Signal-networks, SALUTE-system training, extensive networks of watchers & informants, access to secure systems like license plate ID (hmm...), money, housing“… George Floyd was the jv tryouts. This is the pro team. Ignore at our peril.
Yes there are several accounts on X exposing how deep and wide this operation is. This is where we need to direct our resources, not continuing to remove illegals in a city completely hostile to the efforts. Thanks for this!
I appreciate your analysis of this insurrection ongoing in Minneapolis, Julie, but I don't share your optimism that this violent and deadly situation can be solved simply by President Trump removing ICE from the city. And, of course, the Inside-the-Beltway-Establishment-Statists-RINOS are always ready-willing-and-able to capitulate at the drop of hat, so they must be ignored. I have believed for several months now that the situation in Minnesota and other sanctuary states/cities is reminiscent of Georgia and Alabama in 1856. These sanctuary states/cities for years have declared that Federal law doesn't apply inside their borders (but, of course, they still clamor for continued federal money flowing into their states' coffers). If President Trump continues to delay to deploy the military to put down this insurrection, or if he decides not to do so, it will only embolden the Marxist-Demo-Party and their antifa thugs to take over more cities. In my opinion, there isn't a dimes bit of difference between this uprising and the secession sentiment boiling over in Atlanta in 1856. Some decisive action must be taken soon or this most certainly will devolve into something this country hasn't witnessed 160 years.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments as always. But Congress has the power of the purse and refuses to use it. Cut off all funding to sanctuary states and cities--even if judges attempt to restore it--and keep hammering. Republicans refuse. Trump is the only one with guts and has no support in Congress or in the judiciary (mostly) including his own appointees. Look at what Congress is planning---a huge raise for the federal judiciary!
I agree with you 100%, Julie! I have had that opinion of de-funding sanctuary states/cities for years because they are absolutely unconstitutional. To ignore how they violate the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution does nothing more than encourage more lawlessness! At the risk of being redundant, what they are doing is precisely what the Confederacy did in Georgia, Alabama, etc. in the decade prior to the firing on Ft. Sumter. The only way to defeat it is to stop sending federal money to them...
Agree. The country is heading for a rupture of the union.
This is an opinion worth reading: https://x.com/schwalm5132/status/2015938345491218662?s=61
And we all will lose the mid terms and probably 2028 as well
Stay in until the fraud is uncovered! I hope DOJ, HHS, CMS, USDA have excellent intel. Ask datarepublican (small r) if help is needed. She has lots of info!
"This level of engineered chaos is unique ro Minneapolis.It is the direct consequence of far left agitators working with local authorities."-JD vance,1/24.
Minneapolis is ground zero for a color revolution, precisely because Trump has no allies there as you have pointed out. Rachel Sayre, Minneapolis Emergency Management Director previously worked for USAID, running regime change in Syria,Ukraine,,Yemen,Iraq,Haiti. She is running regime change tactics in MN just as she did abroad. President Trump and Pete Hegseth just last week stated the we are no longer taking part in the old globalism. The globalists are fighting back and this is what and who is behind what's happening in MN
Yep. So let's focus on investigating, charging, and prosecuting the Minneapolis insurrection not risking the lives of officers, wasting tax dollars, and expending necessary resources at DOJ, DHS for that place.
Totally agree; then expose Chicago where i live. These blue city states are all the same with the same agenda as Minneapolis and all the same funding,- among others, NED funding, supported by republicans, bottomless corruption
No, we won't. We're intelligent enough to read the fine print and understand what's going on here. We ( I speak as a typical MAGA voter), do not live by our emotions, but by our brains and reasoning abilities.