Chances are much greater than zero that DHS and the FBI are mapping the signals and network of agitators coordinating the riots. The sad part will be that the Minnesota government including the city are helping to coordinate the agitator response to ICE. It appears that Minnesota government is rotten to the core. The local jurists are in on the graft as well. Looks like a RICO case is warranted and will happen soon.
I just wish one or two Minnesota counties said eff this sanctuary pablum and contacted ICE and told them we've got # illegals in our hoosegow, please come and get them and once it was done, the county sheriff announce it to the world and dare the Tamponmaster to do something about it. Pull out a couple of bricks and hopefully the rest of the bricks that make up their counties will fall over too.
Perhaps I am being a Pollyanna but when I read chief O'Hara's statement it sounded like he was "protecting the citizen protesters from the mean ICE men" but actually helping ICE to keep violent protesters from interfering with the ICE activities.
The Chief is beginning to realize that this is getting beyond his ability to control the narrative. It will take awhile for the feds to get the governor and mayor indicted on corruption charges. Having grown up in Illinois, I know that takes time. But I am guessing word on the ground there is that the big guys are in trouble, best not to be too linked to the regime who may all end up in jail. And I know we laugh about their side never facing consequences. In Illinois, the feds were equal opportunity in putting governors of each party in jail. So it can happen.
Isn't he the one standing behind Walz and lifting his right eyebrow practically to the ceiling when Walz started egging on local law enforcement to go against ICE?
There is so much more going on beneath the surface and behind the curtain in this state. It is corrupt through and through, from top to bottom.
Cam Higby has been undercover with the leftwing thugs and infiltrated their use of the Signal program. The local and state governments and police departments are all in on it. Walz's former assistant campaign manager heads the operation! The Somalis are only the tip of the corruption and it has been a way of life in Minnesota for over 20 years. The Democrats are desperate not only of what is being exposed, but that their entire way of life fraudulent gravy train is crashing down on them. And this goes to all the other protest centers as well such as Seattle, Portland, Chicago, etc.
The link to Cam Higby’s X account gives details of the Signal chats. Lt Gov of MN Flanagan, along with a close former Waltz aid, are reportedly directing these “chats” which are quite sophisticated with specific “emojis” to indicate actions to take.
FWIW, apparently the Leftist/Communist Neville Roy Singham (resident of Shanghai) is funding much of the “action”
You are correct. Muhammed Ali used the rope-a-dope against George Foreman and essentially wore him down by using his own body as a punching bag for Foreman to hit. He won the fight but the beating he took played itself out on him big time over the years.
I understand Don's strategy of patience, but I don't think it is fair to continue asking our ICE and BP agents to keep putting themselves in danger like this without some overwhelming hard-hitting reinforcements and support. They need our help!
Exactly! Thank you!! (I keep saying this at the radio.) After you debank them, charge them! Cut off the source of this communist chaos and the street activists will fade away. Does the government not have techies who can track these people down? Does Elon Musk’s DOGE workers need to be brought in?
The evidence against Walz and his people is coming in. The Lt Gov is the host of the Signal Chat over which the rebellion is being organized. When it's time we'll arrest and all this become normal LE action.
01/26/26: I am heartened because Noem & Company haven't budged an inch. Down the road, they will crush this Rebellion. And that will be wonderful thing to watch. In the meantime, read about Algeria (1950s-60s) in Paul Johnson's Modern Times (revised edition 1991). What the Algerian mass murderers wanted they got. And the exact same scenario is unfolding here, only, we're not the French and we will not surrender.
01/26/26: Used copies are quite affordable. Don't be put off by its length. I tackle it a chapter at a time, once every two weeks or so. And you can pick it up anywhere at the start of any chapter for good reading.
Not owning the paperback edition, I can't vouch for its type size. The type size of my hardcover is quite acceptable (U.S. publisher. Paul Johnson RIP was English, or a "UKish," if you prefer, please don't; a "UKnish" would be an English Jew, I suppose).
So is its ink density. Many book publishers simply can't wait for their horrible authors to ruin their books and preemptively murder their products with illegible type sizes and ink densities.
(An example, one of thousands: See as proof --- and for god's sake don't buy --- the paperback editions of the Chips Channon Diaries.)
01/27/26: Excellent. Let's hope that the paper is good enough for phosphorous high-lighting (not bleeding through the pages). The Library of America editions (A.J. Liebling; anthology of WWII writers) are the undisputed champs in this respect (also with good ink density).
I own a Schuyler Bible that has very thin paper but the ink doesn't bleed through because of the trees that they use that are only found in France. It is then printed and bound in Holland.
Wow! I should have guessed but didn’t that Chauvin and Floyd were part of the same Mexican-style mob fraud the Democrats are running in the U.S. Thanks for linking that article/info.
01/26/26: Yes, but don't bind these two names together in the sense that you have --- Chauvin was the policeman wronged and is still in jail for simply doing his duty.
One important factor to this is the number of federal judges in states like Minnesota and quite frankly, across the nation who are supporting the rebellion. Any case put before them will be dismissed or sandbagged to ensure the left can continue the corruption.
How do you weed them out? By flooding the courts with cases for lesser figures. These unjust judges won't fall on their swords for mere foot soldiers, but higher scum like woke farmer and others involved in the church attack are another matter.
Enough house cleaning needs to be done to ensure that Walz, Flannigan Frey etc stand trial in front of judges who will be impartial and not obstructionists.
We are in year ten of their insurrection, year 18 of the attempted overthrow of the Constitution and we aren't fighting back.
If we did at this point, we'd be branded as terrorists by the media and the leftists in the DOJ would railroad us.
People are reluctant to join together and those seeking to organize are viewed with suspicion.
Look at the Michigan militia fiasco and you get the picture.
Going back further, we now see evidence that the OKC bombing was initiated by the ATF and botched resulting in all the deaths and mayhem.
Be careful! But be ready to defend yourself and your family and friends.
I just yesterday came to realize that there is no constitutionally-protected "right to protest". The final clause of the First Amendment says:
" . . . the right of the people peaceably to assemble, to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
That's not what these "protesters" are doing. They're not not even protesting. They are interfering with the police in the lawful execution of their duties.
The real tragedy of Minneapolis is the number of deranged citizens who risk their lives for a cause not worthy of their sacrifice. These same citizens I’m sure were Harris voters, believe in anthropogenic climate change, have TDS, and think that people can be born in the “wrong” body. In short, democrats. The President needs to stay the course!
01/26/26: He will. The silver lining of his Hell Years, 2021-2024 is that he knows that he faces an implacable (and thank god, incompetent) enemy, and that there is absolutely no substitute for victory.
The citizens of MN voted for this twice. Walz was governor during the George Floyd affair where a thug who killed himself by ingesting deadly drugs was made out to be martyr by the cowardly government and sent three innocent cops to prison to placate the BLM mobs.
Interesting that the shooting took place in front of a building where >140 “health care” business are registered. Lotsa $$ in play here. Follow the $$.
Only an idiot or an outlaw would take a gun to a riot zone and aggressively confront half a dozen feds. This Darwin Award Winner doubled down on FAFO and won his stupid prize.
That’s the direction he got the Signal message from, presumably, that woman who is on Walz’s staff. Her reasoning is that would confuse the situation and stall for time for more violent anarchists to descend on the scene. It’s specifically against MN law (that China Tim signed) to conceal carry without your ID.
The following opinions are part of my solution to so many problems we face now.
Solution #1:
These “protesters” are proof of my theory that we do way too much to protect the stupid. Decades of silliness: Signs on lawnmowers not to put your fingers under the deck while the mower is running (always a fav), warning labels to not give babies plastic bags to play with, my new charcoal grill with a 4 page insert telling me not to use it as a heater inside my house, in six languages no less. I would estimate we all come across stuff like this 10+ times a day. Lets just stop all that and let Darwin take over. Stop protecting the stupid and eventually they will fade away.
Solution #2:
Eliminate all federal and state welfare “aid” programs. All of them. Stop paying people to not work, stop paying their medical bills, and stop feeding those who will not do what’s necessary to survive. No one gets Social Security or Medicare unless you paid in. Return charity to the churches and the wealthy, stop taking our money and spending it on deadbeats who download children for checks.
Harsh??? Damn right it’s harsh. If we didn’t protect the stupid and the non-producers wouldn’t the world be a better place.
As proof positive of your point about stupid, nearly every single one of the “warnings” that come with the items you mentioned, (amongst a plethora of others, like “don’t use your blow dryer while in the bathtub”), can be traced back to an actual event where someone has done the very thing now being warned about, and even tried to sue the manufacturer for the damage and harm! Those warnings are on advice of lawyers to protect those manufacturers from actual lawsuits brought on by the stupid.
Yes, McDonald's had to pay a very stupid woman $1 million because they hadn't warned her to not put a styrofoam cup of scolding hot coffee between her thighs when she was driving a car! She squeezed the cup accidentally and received 3rd degree burns. So McDonald's has to pay and then put a warning on their cups of hot coffee to be cautious because the contents were hot! Natural selection definitely hasn't been doing its prescribed function!
She was 79, she spilled it on her lap, causing severe third-degree burns requiring skin grafts. It was bought in the drive-through so one can imagine that the chances of spilling is greater than at sit-down. McDonald's was serving coffee at 180-190 (why is there no key for the degree sign?) which is hot enough to cause that type of burn in seconds and is higher than most other restaurants use. McDonald's had received hundreds of prior complaints of similar burns and admitted that customers were't aware of the severe risk.
While the case became a symbol of "frivolous lawsuits" it also spurred changes, leading McDonald's to lower its coffee temperature and improve warnings.
This was from an AI Overview composite response to my query to refresh my memory.
As I have said on another comment on this subject, the skin gets thinner with age and can bruise and tear more easily. I suspect that women's skin gets thinner than men's but I could be wrong or it could just be individual until one is in, perhaps, their 90s+.
The jury found McDonald's liable awarding $2.7M in punitive damages (equal to about 2 days coffee sales) and $200K compensatory. This was all reduced by the judge after the punitive damages were reduced to $480K....settled reportedly to under $500K.
As I recall, the woman was very elderly (the skin becomes thinner as one ages) and that store admitted in court that they had the temperature higher than corporate designated....
The theocratic laws in Israel taught that if you bring bogus charges against the innocent and found to be lying the penalty for that lie will be the judgment the guilty would have received had they been found guilty. False claims against wrong doing were rare in Biblical cultures. Obama was right, we do not live in a Christian nation.
Re Solution #1: Well, the manufacturers had to do that because they were being sued and losing until judges finally went to percentage of fault on the part of the user vs the manufacturer. Even pet toys have a warning that the wrapping is not part of the toy. I agree with Darwin solution, including for those who walk in parking lots on their cell phones, oblivious to cars backing up and driving....and it is not just the young...older people who were raised by parents who told them how to cross a street do it....
Re Solution #2: Generally, I agree with it and, to be honest, as I recall, Clinton tried to do that, making welfare recipients work x number of hours, but he got over-ruled by those who were more communistically inclined. I am not certain whether the situation which we are in was part of the plan all along or evolved into what it is. But I do blame the 60/70s femlib movement, the CPS crazies at that time when child abuse was coming out of the closet, and Dr. Spock advocated not spanking your child, that it would teach them violence as though the human animal lacks that to begin with. I go with "spare the rod, spoil the child"....children were raised to have no fear, including fear of consequences, and so....here we are....spoiled children....
You mean there was another newer book of that name?
My copy of Nanny State (just dug out of a bookcase I need to clear out anyway, thanks) was published in 2007; the writer was David Harsanyi.
It had an entertaining subtitle: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and Other Boneheaded Bureaucrats Are Turning America into a Nation of Children.
Of course this guy ain't seen nothin at the time... the Wuhan Flu was just a twinkle in Fauci's eye...
I think that my response was misplaced...it belonged with someone else's comment about a book...I looked up more than one book on B&N but had to search for a publication date...yes, yours with a more complete title was published in 2007. Now I have to look for the comment to which I was actually referencing...lol
This is harsh but reality is harsh. The Bible plainly teaches: no workie- no eatie. As Americans we have the God given right to pursue happiness...nowhere does it state you are due happiness through the government using other peoples money.
Cynical Publius also pointed out, at some length, that we need to take control of our "conversations" with the Left. It really doesn't matter what they say, but what we say can frame discourse. He recommends we ask this question every time we can:
"Why do you oppose the lawful enforcement of America's long-standing, bipartisan immigration laws?"
And it doesn't matter what they answer, or if they answer at all. Post that question everywhere to frame the conversation and bring attention back to where it should be. Let them say whatever they want, once that question is asked it changes everything.
One of my favorite reframing cartoons shows a leftist non-believer ranting that anything religious is stupid because "After all, this is the year 2026!"
Minneapolis is the hill the left has chosen on which to die. It’s reported that 40,000 have been bused in from across the country. The logistics must run in the tens of millions? It’s unlikely that the left will be able to duplicate this effort in Portland and other leftists strongholds.
I think there is always another Hill after they leave their dying on the last Hill. The totalitarians never give up. There is always another Hill and they are always willing to sacrifice their slaves.
Exactly. And you see the thug punks like Walz, Frey, Kimble, and scores of other morons all extolling OTHERs to go and put their faces into the faces of ICE agents and to provoke violent responses from them. Yeah, they say "You go girl!" from the safety and comfort from their penthouse studios. And their stupid minions yell "let's go!"
I just finished re-watching "In The Line of Fire" with Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich....John's character came from Minneapolis...I broke up laughing at the line about "what's wrong with Minneapolis?"....
Picking out anachronisms in movies could be a substack on its own.
There's a whole crew doing it over at IMDB - I love reading the Goofs section. Sometimes, rarely, I can get one in before someone else does.
I think the last one I tried to submit was in the recent movie about Bob Dylan. They showed him in a very early scene using a capo on his guitar that I'm pretty sure didn't exist in the day, or if it did in any form, could never have been afforded by a struggling artist. He would've had the cheap fabric one with the orange stripes...
Well....I learned to avoid movies about military, Navy types....while there is always some Navy Chief listed as the advisor, I suspect that he was mostly having a good time....precedence of ribbons, uniform no-nos, particularly with women....love the pearl earrings with Dress Blues...
What are the motives behind the chaos in Minnesota one may ask. I suspect they are a mixed bag. As to certain democrats who are under investigation for assorted criminal activities like the Clintons, Walz, Frey and Omar, their interests are served by distracting from their situations in hopes that they maight escape public notice or at least dilute it to their advantage politically and financially. The rest of the democrats are piling on beause they think it increases their chances of regaining power. If they do, a number of things will happen: first, all the current variety of violent "protests" will stop but any counter-efforts by conservatives will result in a repeat of the "January 6" playbook against any counter-protesters; second, every republican politician and republican supporter will come under legal attack, including more impeachment efforts; third, there will be a resumption of open borders and elimination of efforts to deport invading migrants in order to facilitate the replacement of traditional Americans with third world invaders; next comes a return of draconian limits on energy production and resumption of "green" policies to break the back of the middle class along with more burdensome taxation in order to redistribute wealth from earners to "favored groups" of supporters. And so much more, all of which can be foreseen by simply recalling what transpired during the obama-biden regime or observing what has been going on England. It is the goal of the democrat party apparatchiks to eliminate the possibility of ever losing power again. They seek to emulate their idols, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Un and the rest of the Marxist utopia-fantasists. Every democrat is the enemy of America and should be regarded as such by those of us who seek to retain our fair republic.
Add to your list of what the Dems would do: the financial fraud (on the backs and bank accounts of Amercan citizens/taxpayers) would return and multiply, further decimating the middle class. Not to mention the continuation of election fraud to keep them in power.
Well...that's the point....decimate the middle class...that's what communism is all about....and that is what this is all about....did no one listen to the latest Davos meeting? Has everyone forgotten what the goal was, which originally was considered to be a conspiracy theory until they outed themselves during covid when it looked as though it would be a reality? Where is McCarthy (the other one) when you need him? He had the wrong list...imho...
This sounds like a campaign commercial for Democrats who seem to be the dumbest lifeforms to have ever walked upright on the planet. They can generate, and live through complete chaos, be saved from that, and then adamantly scream and demand to have their previous misery returned to them. The entire herd of them should have been culled long ago. Now they have their idiocracy and are planning to cull US from the herd.
Be patient. Cynical Publius noted, correctly, I think, that the President has three priorities:
1) MAGA
2) Get Vance elected in 2028
3) Win the mid-terms
Trump, unlike so many others, always keeps the Main Thing the Main Thing, and is not distracted. I think this is one of the things that drives the Left nuts. Invoking the Insurrection Act now would work against all three priorities.
I am hoping that he holds the line and imitates the Dems who never back down...MN is going to be the example for other sanctuary states like mine...do it there....exert federal supremacy over immigration....
People on our side are always afraid of the fight and always try to find ways to avoid one. That is how the left has incrementally achieved just about every one of their goals. They scream, we give. Rinse and repeat endlessly. We're always so worried about the freaking optics! Why, the media will never give us a fair shake and show honest optics so why concern ourselves with them?
I would feel much better about what Trump’s plan may be and how this all fleshes out if I felt we had an Attorney General who was up to the task. I don’t, and until that changes in one way or another, I feel this country is being utterly trampled by the Left’s subversion and will continue apace.
In fairness to Bondi, however, we also have a thoroughly corrupt judicial branch that has gone totally rogue.
Congress is the only branch who has the power to do something about that, and there is no sign of any willingness on their part to lift a finger to do so.
We have big problems with the Left, yes, but we have even bigger problems within our own ranks, which is far more serious as it could drag us right back to square one - and worse - if we tank in the midterms.
Just note many of the recent votes in Congress by Republicans undoing much of what we’d already accomplished, along with many of the squishy comments coming from them over the recent violence in MN.
They do not inspire confidence.
My hope will remain solely with God, in His mercy, and His will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
It's hard to win a contest if you aren't even willing to enter it. I'm not sure what good Republicans are or what exactly they do. Cardboard cutouts could perform their jobs just as well and for much less cost.
The 'wonderful' Republicans are working hard on amnesty - hoping the ICE/Riots conflict will make this a palpable solution. A group with support of Lindsey 'pussie' Graham, a man Trump endorsed not long ago, are the real enemies of MAGA.
MAGA should stop giving the Repubs their support for the backstabbing they do to us. Why is MAGA republican?
I hadn't heard about an amnesty push! For crying out loud. I shook my head over the last several weeks to hear how the midterms were in the bag for Republicans. I wondered if they were talking about the same Republicans I was observing because I see nothing at all as a reason for anyone to vote for them. And I don't think they actually care. Trump will never give up or abandon his mission, but I let my lack of optimism cause me consternation. I wish I could get in the fight myself because other than Trump I don't see many people carrying the flag.
It's not a direct push but Lindsey "Grahamnesty" stays cozied up to the Tillis/Murkowski flank as they start demanding 'investigations' into the ICE behavior in Minnesota. They want to reversal of the ICE push. I don't trust any of them, Graham the least among them. He always pretends to be a Trumper, but is anything but.
I thought your column this morning would be about the revelation of the Signals app being used to coordinate Minnesota government and the demonstrators to identify , dox and attack Federal law enforcement. Much bigger news.
Idiot shows up with gun to demonstrate is like wearing a snickers bar necklace to hunt bears.
SignalGate (as Cam Higby calls it) broke pretty late last night.
In fact until the very moment I saw it I was beginning to think the insurrection act might be the only path.
This morning I came here and Don's column brought me to my senses.
Of course now I think, again, firing Bondi is the best path to get rid of the obstruction, especially since sometime in the last few days she sent the signal that her office is where things go to die: a STRONGLY WORDED LETTER to Walz.
Thanks for the link. When something doesn’t make sense, an another agenda is at play. The more things change the more they remain the same. Loved the line “How this can be corrected is anybody’s guess.” Minneapolis is just the tip.
Sundance is very good at turning the rocks over and exposing the incredible corruption that has been ubiquitous in blue areas for at least two decades. Fraud and grift is SOP for Democrats and is their way of life! They are going insane now that it is being exposed and brought out into the clear light. It is going to get even worse than it is now because this is obviously the hill they've chosen to die on. And people on our side like James Comer think we should surrender it to them and let them be. Who needs Democrats when you have linguini-spined Republicans in abundance.
Thankfully, gradually, and recently more quickly, the sand has been receding.
Keeping one's head there is becoming less and less of an option.
But it's _very_ deep and there's always another layer underneath.
I'm now wondering whether the outed Lt. Guv for Walz is the one who hired Melissa Portman's murderer. She has now been seen not to mind getting her hands bloody.
I wouldn't say that....most people are just busy living their lives, totally unaware that other people are nefariously inclined and have other plans for their lives. Look what is going on in the UK. Look at Van der Crazy in the EU. Does it not remind you of, maybe, Spectre, the James Bond movie? Do you suppose some of these people have actually been inspired by movies? Is that the real "Life imitates art"? Nutcases imitate nutcases?
Waiting for the fighter to punch himself out?
It’s a strategy but you absorb a lot of blows in the process.
When your parents warn you not to do something stupid and you go beyond stupid and wind up dead… that’s on you.
What should Trump do? Get to the people funding this mess and debank them.
Chances are much greater than zero that DHS and the FBI are mapping the signals and network of agitators coordinating the riots. The sad part will be that the Minnesota government including the city are helping to coordinate the agitator response to ICE. It appears that Minnesota government is rotten to the core. The local jurists are in on the graft as well. Looks like a RICO case is warranted and will happen soon.
I just wish one or two Minnesota counties said eff this sanctuary pablum and contacted ICE and told them we've got # illegals in our hoosegow, please come and get them and once it was done, the county sheriff announce it to the world and dare the Tamponmaster to do something about it. Pull out a couple of bricks and hopefully the rest of the bricks that make up their counties will fall over too.
Perhaps I am being a Pollyanna but when I read chief O'Hara's statement it sounded like he was "protecting the citizen protesters from the mean ICE men" but actually helping ICE to keep violent protesters from interfering with the ICE activities.
The Chief is beginning to realize that this is getting beyond his ability to control the narrative. It will take awhile for the feds to get the governor and mayor indicted on corruption charges. Having grown up in Illinois, I know that takes time. But I am guessing word on the ground there is that the big guys are in trouble, best not to be too linked to the regime who may all end up in jail. And I know we laugh about their side never facing consequences. In Illinois, the feds were equal opportunity in putting governors of each party in jail. So it can happen.
Isn't he the one standing behind Walz and lifting his right eyebrow practically to the ceiling when Walz started egging on local law enforcement to go against ICE?
FR would you run for office?
There is so much more going on beneath the surface and behind the curtain in this state. It is corrupt through and through, from top to bottom.
Cam Higby has been undercover with the leftwing thugs and infiltrated their use of the Signal program. The local and state governments and police departments are all in on it. Walz's former assistant campaign manager heads the operation! The Somalis are only the tip of the corruption and it has been a way of life in Minnesota for over 20 years. The Democrats are desperate not only of what is being exposed, but that their entire way of life fraudulent gravy train is crashing down on them. And this goes to all the other protest centers as well such as Seattle, Portland, Chicago, etc.
Too right Sam. I linked to Higby’s X account above for those interested in more detail.
I wish I had your confidence. The Appeasement Now crowd is getting louder.
The Donald eats the Appeasement Now crowd for breakfast. He doesn't back down, he attacks from a different direction.
I’ll be thrilled to be wrong.
You are seeing the Art of War in real time.
A master class.
May I gently suggest ingesting less AmeriPavda (and I include Faux in that crew).
It leads to heartburn, soulburn, and an ebbing of confidence in general.
If I really need to know what crap they're pushing any day, all I have to do is grit my teeth and watch Bannon's lengthy "cold open" show segment.
Yes a lot of RINOs, including Gov Stitt of OK and the inane Sen Cassidy of LA.
Well Jake, that's the best way to prosed, but do you expect Pam Bondi to get off her duff and do it? She hasn't done ANYTHING on ANYTHING YET.
The link to Cam Higby’s X account gives details of the Signal chats. Lt Gov of MN Flanagan, along with a close former Waltz aid, are reportedly directing these “chats” which are quite sophisticated with specific “emojis” to indicate actions to take.
FWIW, apparently the Leftist/Communist Neville Roy Singham (resident of Shanghai) is funding much of the “action”
https://x.com/camhigby
Another good piece here:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/far-left-network-helped-put-alex-pretti-harms-way-made-him-martyr
But isn't that a conspiracy theory? ...lol...lol
I'd say confiscate their funds & put them behind bars for funding riots.
You are correct. Muhammed Ali used the rope-a-dope against George Foreman and essentially wore him down by using his own body as a punching bag for Foreman to hit. He won the fight but the beating he took played itself out on him big time over the years.
I understand Don's strategy of patience, but I don't think it is fair to continue asking our ICE and BP agents to keep putting themselves in danger like this without some overwhelming hard-hitting reinforcements and support. They need our help!
I like tall oaks and short ropes better.
Exactly! Thank you!! (I keep saying this at the radio.) After you debank them, charge them! Cut off the source of this communist chaos and the street activists will fade away. Does the government not have techies who can track these people down? Does Elon Musk’s DOGE workers need to be brought in?
The evidence against Walz and his people is coming in. The Lt Gov is the host of the Signal Chat over which the rebellion is being organized. When it's time we'll arrest and all this become normal LE action.
And I believe the judge that dismissed charges against the group that invaded church donated to anti-ice groups. No conflict there right???
IIRC, his wife works for Ellison. Again, no conflict.
01/26/26: I am heartened because Noem & Company haven't budged an inch. Down the road, they will crush this Rebellion. And that will be wonderful thing to watch. In the meantime, read about Algeria (1950s-60s) in Paul Johnson's Modern Times (revised edition 1991). What the Algerian mass murderers wanted they got. And the exact same scenario is unfolding here, only, we're not the French and we will not surrender.
Please mail me that book when you are done. lol
01/26/26: Used copies are quite affordable. Don't be put off by its length. I tackle it a chapter at a time, once every two weeks or so. And you can pick it up anywhere at the start of any chapter for good reading.
Not owning the paperback edition, I can't vouch for its type size. The type size of my hardcover is quite acceptable (U.S. publisher. Paul Johnson RIP was English, or a "UKish," if you prefer, please don't; a "UKnish" would be an English Jew, I suppose).
So is its ink density. Many book publishers simply can't wait for their horrible authors to ruin their books and preemptively murder their products with illegible type sizes and ink densities.
(An example, one of thousands: See as proof --- and for god's sake don't buy --- the paperback editions of the Chips Channon Diaries.)
AbeBooks:
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?ds=20&kn=modern%20times%20paul%20johnson&ref_=ds_ac_d_25&sts=t
I ordered a used copy of the latest addition for 7 bucks.
01/27/26: Excellent. Let's hope that the paper is good enough for phosphorous high-lighting (not bleeding through the pages). The Library of America editions (A.J. Liebling; anthology of WWII writers) are the undisputed champs in this respect (also with good ink density).
I own a Schuyler Bible that has very thin paper but the ink doesn't bleed through because of the trees that they use that are only found in France. It is then printed and bound in Holland.
01/26/26: FYI https://www.malone.news/p/minnesota-governor-on-ice?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=583200&post_id=185770667&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=10j5hz&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Wow! I should have guessed but didn’t that Chauvin and Floyd were part of the same Mexican-style mob fraud the Democrats are running in the U.S. Thanks for linking that article/info.
01/26/26: Yes, but don't bind these two names together in the sense that you have --- Chauvin was the policeman wronged and is still in jail for simply doing his duty.
One important factor to this is the number of federal judges in states like Minnesota and quite frankly, across the nation who are supporting the rebellion. Any case put before them will be dismissed or sandbagged to ensure the left can continue the corruption.
How do you weed them out? By flooding the courts with cases for lesser figures. These unjust judges won't fall on their swords for mere foot soldiers, but higher scum like woke farmer and others involved in the church attack are another matter.
Enough house cleaning needs to be done to ensure that Walz, Flannigan Frey etc stand trial in front of judges who will be impartial and not obstructionists.
We are in year ten of their insurrection, year 18 of the attempted overthrow of the Constitution and we aren't fighting back.
If we did at this point, we'd be branded as terrorists by the media and the leftists in the DOJ would railroad us.
People are reluctant to join together and those seeking to organize are viewed with suspicion.
Look at the Michigan militia fiasco and you get the picture.
Going back further, we now see evidence that the OKC bombing was initiated by the ATF and botched resulting in all the deaths and mayhem.
Be careful! But be ready to defend yourself and your family and friends.
Maybe this is year 34?
Brings new meaning to 'freedom isn't free.'
We've lost a lot because we didn't fight for it.
Agree. What is that?
That would be a fine outcome to see play out. I think we’re all sick and tired of the out of control mob
Good luck with that
I just yesterday came to realize that there is no constitutionally-protected "right to protest". The final clause of the First Amendment says:
" . . . the right of the people peaceably to assemble, to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
That's not what these "protesters" are doing. They're not not even protesting. They are interfering with the police in the lawful execution of their duties.
Like so many words, the left has screwed with the language to make "protest" their cover word for "riot."
The real tragedy of Minneapolis is the number of deranged citizens who risk their lives for a cause not worthy of their sacrifice. These same citizens I’m sure were Harris voters, believe in anthropogenic climate change, have TDS, and think that people can be born in the “wrong” body. In short, democrats. The President needs to stay the course!
01/26/26: He will. The silver lining of his Hell Years, 2021-2024 is that he knows that he faces an implacable (and thank god, incompetent) enemy, and that there is absolutely no substitute for victory.
The citizens of MN voted for this twice. Walz was governor during the George Floyd affair where a thug who killed himself by ingesting deadly drugs was made out to be martyr by the cowardly government and sent three innocent cops to prison to placate the BLM mobs.
But _did_ they vote for it?
All the sanctuary "gummints" in blue states have election fraud routines thoroughly entrenched.
It's true that MN is probably 50% compromised/corrupted as of today, but was it always that way? I don't know the state well, just askin'.
I finding more and more that cultures throughout history have been infected with this disease. I call it CCD or clueless citizens disorder.
Interesting that the shooting took place in front of a building where >140 “health care” business are registered. Lotsa $$ in play here. Follow the $$.
Amen to this B.K. , very interesting dive into one building.
Is that the one Dr.Oz identified (I thought he said 400 businesses), or yet another one?
Only an idiot or an outlaw would take a gun to a riot zone and aggressively confront half a dozen feds. This Darwin Award Winner doubled down on FAFO and won his stupid prize.
He had no ID on him so I go with the idea suggested that he had plans which included getting rid of a lot of ICE officers....
I always carry 63 spare rounds of ammunition with me wherever I go. Doesn't everybody?
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That's only two mags and a few extras for my AR with the chainsaw bayonet.
That’s the direction he got the Signal message from, presumably, that woman who is on Walz’s staff. Her reasoning is that would confuse the situation and stall for time for more violent anarchists to descend on the scene. It’s specifically against MN law (that China Tim signed) to conceal carry without your ID.
Wow, missed that connection.
Subscribing to Don S. is worth every penny!
My thought exactly !!
The following opinions are part of my solution to so many problems we face now.
Solution #1:
These “protesters” are proof of my theory that we do way too much to protect the stupid. Decades of silliness: Signs on lawnmowers not to put your fingers under the deck while the mower is running (always a fav), warning labels to not give babies plastic bags to play with, my new charcoal grill with a 4 page insert telling me not to use it as a heater inside my house, in six languages no less. I would estimate we all come across stuff like this 10+ times a day. Lets just stop all that and let Darwin take over. Stop protecting the stupid and eventually they will fade away.
Solution #2:
Eliminate all federal and state welfare “aid” programs. All of them. Stop paying people to not work, stop paying their medical bills, and stop feeding those who will not do what’s necessary to survive. No one gets Social Security or Medicare unless you paid in. Return charity to the churches and the wealthy, stop taking our money and spending it on deadbeats who download children for checks.
Harsh??? Damn right it’s harsh. If we didn’t protect the stupid and the non-producers wouldn’t the world be a better place.
As proof positive of your point about stupid, nearly every single one of the “warnings” that come with the items you mentioned, (amongst a plethora of others, like “don’t use your blow dryer while in the bathtub”), can be traced back to an actual event where someone has done the very thing now being warned about, and even tried to sue the manufacturer for the damage and harm! Those warnings are on advice of lawyers to protect those manufacturers from actual lawsuits brought on by the stupid.
The stupid you will have with you always.
Yes, McDonald's had to pay a very stupid woman $1 million because they hadn't warned her to not put a styrofoam cup of scolding hot coffee between her thighs when she was driving a car! She squeezed the cup accidentally and received 3rd degree burns. So McDonald's has to pay and then put a warning on their cups of hot coffee to be cautious because the contents were hot! Natural selection definitely hasn't been doing its prescribed function!
Well only if she lost the ability to reproduce because of the burns.
But I suspect she already squandered that through many other choices...
See my comment above about the age of the woman and the temperature that that store had used for its coffee.
Yeah, the suit was justified, you're right. Burns are wrong.
But I still opine that she wasn't the smartest knife in the drawer. I'm elderly and never would dream of putting hot coffee in such a place.
She was 79, she spilled it on her lap, causing severe third-degree burns requiring skin grafts. It was bought in the drive-through so one can imagine that the chances of spilling is greater than at sit-down. McDonald's was serving coffee at 180-190 (why is there no key for the degree sign?) which is hot enough to cause that type of burn in seconds and is higher than most other restaurants use. McDonald's had received hundreds of prior complaints of similar burns and admitted that customers were't aware of the severe risk.
While the case became a symbol of "frivolous lawsuits" it also spurred changes, leading McDonald's to lower its coffee temperature and improve warnings.
This was from an AI Overview composite response to my query to refresh my memory.
As I have said on another comment on this subject, the skin gets thinner with age and can bruise and tear more easily. I suspect that women's skin gets thinner than men's but I could be wrong or it could just be individual until one is in, perhaps, their 90s+.
The jury found McDonald's liable awarding $2.7M in punitive damages (equal to about 2 days coffee sales) and $200K compensatory. This was all reduced by the judge after the punitive damages were reduced to $480K....settled reportedly to under $500K.
As I recall, the woman was very elderly (the skin becomes thinner as one ages) and that store admitted in court that they had the temperature higher than corporate designated....
The theocratic laws in Israel taught that if you bring bogus charges against the innocent and found to be lying the penalty for that lie will be the judgment the guilty would have received had they been found guilty. False claims against wrong doing were rare in Biblical cultures. Obama was right, we do not live in a Christian nation.
Re Solution #1: Well, the manufacturers had to do that because they were being sued and losing until judges finally went to percentage of fault on the part of the user vs the manufacturer. Even pet toys have a warning that the wrapping is not part of the toy. I agree with Darwin solution, including for those who walk in parking lots on their cell phones, oblivious to cars backing up and driving....and it is not just the young...older people who were raised by parents who told them how to cross a street do it....
Re Solution #2: Generally, I agree with it and, to be honest, as I recall, Clinton tried to do that, making welfare recipients work x number of hours, but he got over-ruled by those who were more communistically inclined. I am not certain whether the situation which we are in was part of the plan all along or evolved into what it is. But I do blame the 60/70s femlib movement, the CPS crazies at that time when child abuse was coming out of the closet, and Dr. Spock advocated not spanking your child, that it would teach them violence as though the human animal lacks that to begin with. I go with "spare the rod, spoil the child"....children were raised to have no fear, including fear of consequences, and so....here we are....spoiled children....
There was a book called Nanny State that went into all this in detail.
It also keeps lawyers on the gravy train.
I hope that the latest report re pulling back some ICE agents in MN is merely a punt on Trump’s part and that Walz is about to be played…
I heard he added the condition that Walz would have to let ICE into all the jails to take away the illegals incarcerated currently.
Same offer always made to every “sanctuary” city.
Of course Panda Walz won’t.
It was published in 2024…
You mean there was another newer book of that name?
My copy of Nanny State (just dug out of a bookcase I need to clear out anyway, thanks) was published in 2007; the writer was David Harsanyi.
It had an entertaining subtitle: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and Other Boneheaded Bureaucrats Are Turning America into a Nation of Children.
Of course this guy ain't seen nothin at the time... the Wuhan Flu was just a twinkle in Fauci's eye...
I think that my response was misplaced...it belonged with someone else's comment about a book...I looked up more than one book on B&N but had to search for a publication date...yes, yours with a more complete title was published in 2007. Now I have to look for the comment to which I was actually referencing...lol
No biggie - like I said, that bookcase needs a good going over. Evidence: I just found Mitt Romney campaign lit in there. Eew!!
This is harsh but reality is harsh. The Bible plainly teaches: no workie- no eatie. As Americans we have the God given right to pursue happiness...nowhere does it state you are due happiness through the government using other peoples money.
Cynical Publius also pointed out, at some length, that we need to take control of our "conversations" with the Left. It really doesn't matter what they say, but what we say can frame discourse. He recommends we ask this question every time we can:
"Why do you oppose the lawful enforcement of America's long-standing, bipartisan immigration laws?"
And it doesn't matter what they answer, or if they answer at all. Post that question everywhere to frame the conversation and bring attention back to where it should be. Let them say whatever they want, once that question is asked it changes everything.
Framing is everything
So right!
One of my favorite reframing cartoons shows a leftist non-believer ranting that anything religious is stupid because "After all, this is the year 2026!"
The responder asks "2026 years since what?"
Minneapolis is the hill the left has chosen on which to die. It’s reported that 40,000 have been bused in from across the country. The logistics must run in the tens of millions? It’s unlikely that the left will be able to duplicate this effort in Portland and other leftists strongholds.
I think there is always another Hill after they leave their dying on the last Hill. The totalitarians never give up. There is always another Hill and they are always willing to sacrifice their slaves.
Exactly. And you see the thug punks like Walz, Frey, Kimble, and scores of other morons all extolling OTHERs to go and put their faces into the faces of ICE agents and to provoke violent responses from them. Yeah, they say "You go girl!" from the safety and comfort from their penthouse studios. And their stupid minions yell "let's go!"
I just finished re-watching "In The Line of Fire" with Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich....John's character came from Minneapolis...I broke up laughing at the line about "what's wrong with Minneapolis?"....
Me too! It was unintentionally hilarious.
I am always rewatching movies, and always noticing little things now ironically relevant to what we're going through now.
RE ,watching old movies I rile my wife by pointing out the nicely BALED hay in the westerns.
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Picking out anachronisms in movies could be a substack on its own.
There's a whole crew doing it over at IMDB - I love reading the Goofs section. Sometimes, rarely, I can get one in before someone else does.
I think the last one I tried to submit was in the recent movie about Bob Dylan. They showed him in a very early scene using a capo on his guitar that I'm pretty sure didn't exist in the day, or if it did in any form, could never have been afforded by a struggling artist. He would've had the cheap fabric one with the orange stripes...
Well....I learned to avoid movies about military, Navy types....while there is always some Navy Chief listed as the advisor, I suspect that he was mostly having a good time....precedence of ribbons, uniform no-nos, particularly with women....love the pearl earrings with Dress Blues...
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What are the motives behind the chaos in Minnesota one may ask. I suspect they are a mixed bag. As to certain democrats who are under investigation for assorted criminal activities like the Clintons, Walz, Frey and Omar, their interests are served by distracting from their situations in hopes that they maight escape public notice or at least dilute it to their advantage politically and financially. The rest of the democrats are piling on beause they think it increases their chances of regaining power. If they do, a number of things will happen: first, all the current variety of violent "protests" will stop but any counter-efforts by conservatives will result in a repeat of the "January 6" playbook against any counter-protesters; second, every republican politician and republican supporter will come under legal attack, including more impeachment efforts; third, there will be a resumption of open borders and elimination of efforts to deport invading migrants in order to facilitate the replacement of traditional Americans with third world invaders; next comes a return of draconian limits on energy production and resumption of "green" policies to break the back of the middle class along with more burdensome taxation in order to redistribute wealth from earners to "favored groups" of supporters. And so much more, all of which can be foreseen by simply recalling what transpired during the obama-biden regime or observing what has been going on England. It is the goal of the democrat party apparatchiks to eliminate the possibility of ever losing power again. They seek to emulate their idols, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Un and the rest of the Marxist utopia-fantasists. Every democrat is the enemy of America and should be regarded as such by those of us who seek to retain our fair republic.
Add to your list of what the Dems would do: the financial fraud (on the backs and bank accounts of Amercan citizens/taxpayers) would return and multiply, further decimating the middle class. Not to mention the continuation of election fraud to keep them in power.
Well...that's the point....decimate the middle class...that's what communism is all about....and that is what this is all about....did no one listen to the latest Davos meeting? Has everyone forgotten what the goal was, which originally was considered to be a conspiracy theory until they outed themselves during covid when it looked as though it would be a reality? Where is McCarthy (the other one) when you need him? He had the wrong list...imho...
This sounds like a campaign commercial for Democrats who seem to be the dumbest lifeforms to have ever walked upright on the planet. They can generate, and live through complete chaos, be saved from that, and then adamantly scream and demand to have their previous misery returned to them. The entire herd of them should have been culled long ago. Now they have their idiocracy and are planning to cull US from the herd.
Steve, do you believe metaphysics plays any roll in these affairs?
If your definition of metaphysics includes actual demonic activity, yes.
Be patient. Cynical Publius noted, correctly, I think, that the President has three priorities:
1) MAGA
2) Get Vance elected in 2028
3) Win the mid-terms
Trump, unlike so many others, always keeps the Main Thing the Main Thing, and is not distracted. I think this is one of the things that drives the Left nuts. Invoking the Insurrection Act now would work against all three priorities.
Trump is Toranaga, from the book Shogun.
I am hoping that he holds the line and imitates the Dems who never back down...MN is going to be the example for other sanctuary states like mine...do it there....exert federal supremacy over immigration....
You know if Trump invoked the IA, ALL the Lib Governors would fly to MN (in the Spring) to rally & show support for the sly&conniving TimWaltz ….
Makes it easier to arrest them all in one swoop! Heh 😏
People on our side are always afraid of the fight and always try to find ways to avoid one. That is how the left has incrementally achieved just about every one of their goals. They scream, we give. Rinse and repeat endlessly. We're always so worried about the freaking optics! Why, the media will never give us a fair shake and show honest optics so why concern ourselves with them?
PDJT has never been afraid.
I would feel much better about what Trump’s plan may be and how this all fleshes out if I felt we had an Attorney General who was up to the task. I don’t, and until that changes in one way or another, I feel this country is being utterly trampled by the Left’s subversion and will continue apace.
In fairness to Bondi, however, we also have a thoroughly corrupt judicial branch that has gone totally rogue.
Congress is the only branch who has the power to do something about that, and there is no sign of any willingness on their part to lift a finger to do so.
We have big problems with the Left, yes, but we have even bigger problems within our own ranks, which is far more serious as it could drag us right back to square one - and worse - if we tank in the midterms.
Just note many of the recent votes in Congress by Republicans undoing much of what we’d already accomplished, along with many of the squishy comments coming from them over the recent violence in MN.
They do not inspire confidence.
My hope will remain solely with God, in His mercy, and His will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Meanwhile, I will buckle up.
It's hard to win a contest if you aren't even willing to enter it. I'm not sure what good Republicans are or what exactly they do. Cardboard cutouts could perform their jobs just as well and for much less cost.
The 'wonderful' Republicans are working hard on amnesty - hoping the ICE/Riots conflict will make this a palpable solution. A group with support of Lindsey 'pussie' Graham, a man Trump endorsed not long ago, are the real enemies of MAGA.
MAGA should stop giving the Repubs their support for the backstabbing they do to us. Why is MAGA republican?
I hadn't heard about an amnesty push! For crying out loud. I shook my head over the last several weeks to hear how the midterms were in the bag for Republicans. I wondered if they were talking about the same Republicans I was observing because I see nothing at all as a reason for anyone to vote for them. And I don't think they actually care. Trump will never give up or abandon his mission, but I let my lack of optimism cause me consternation. I wish I could get in the fight myself because other than Trump I don't see many people carrying the flag.
It's not a direct push but Lindsey "Grahamnesty" stays cozied up to the Tillis/Murkowski flank as they start demanding 'investigations' into the ICE behavior in Minnesota. They want to reversal of the ICE push. I don't trust any of them, Graham the least among them. He always pretends to be a Trumper, but is anything but.
If a dog bit the finger off of a LEO, or anyone else for that matter, by law, it would be put down immediately. Just sayin’…..
No kidding...
Bondi will ask the perp if he wants any mustard or diced onions to go with his finger food.
Now that there is funny.
I thought your column this morning would be about the revelation of the Signals app being used to coordinate Minnesota government and the demonstrators to identify , dox and attack Federal law enforcement. Much bigger news.
Idiot shows up with gun to demonstrate is like wearing a snickers bar necklace to hunt bears.
SignalGate (as Cam Higby calls it) broke pretty late last night.
In fact until the very moment I saw it I was beginning to think the insurrection act might be the only path.
This morning I came here and Don's column brought me to my senses.
Of course now I think, again, firing Bondi is the best path to get rid of the obstruction, especially since sometime in the last few days she sent the signal that her office is where things go to die: a STRONGLY WORDED LETTER to Walz.
Give Marco the job!
Couple of things:
1) Before the libs ask - Yes, this is what I voted for. It's just not fast enough or hard enough.
2) The real question is why local officials, right up to Governor Tampon Tim, are siding with the criminals. Here might be that answer:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/jd-vance-notes-something-very-important-about-minneapolis-chaos
Thanks for the link. When something doesn’t make sense, an another agenda is at play. The more things change the more they remain the same. Loved the line “How this can be corrected is anybody’s guess.” Minneapolis is just the tip.
That's sundance's article.
I think the first time I saw it at ZeroHedge it may not have had the credit line at the top for sundance, but it does now.
It seemed eerily familiar when I read it!
I'm glad it's getting wider exposure.
Sundance is very good at turning the rocks over and exposing the incredible corruption that has been ubiquitous in blue areas for at least two decades. Fraud and grift is SOP for Democrats and is their way of life! They are going insane now that it is being exposed and brought out into the clear light. It is going to get even worse than it is now because this is obviously the hill they've chosen to die on. And people on our side like James Comer think we should surrender it to them and let them be. Who needs Democrats when you have linguini-spined Republicans in abundance.
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Yikes!
It seems we’re all like a bunch of ostriches with our heads in the sand and sadly have been for a very long time
Thankfully, gradually, and recently more quickly, the sand has been receding.
Keeping one's head there is becoming less and less of an option.
But it's _very_ deep and there's always another layer underneath.
I'm now wondering whether the outed Lt. Guv for Walz is the one who hired Melissa Portman's murderer. She has now been seen not to mind getting her hands bloody.
especially when she sports her muslim headwear
I wouldn't say that....most people are just busy living their lives, totally unaware that other people are nefariously inclined and have other plans for their lives. Look what is going on in the UK. Look at Van der Crazy in the EU. Does it not remind you of, maybe, Spectre, the James Bond movie? Do you suppose some of these people have actually been inspired by movies? Is that the real "Life imitates art"? Nutcases imitate nutcases?
I opened that link and shared it on a Locals channel....good points....it's always "what is going on behind that curtain?"
Wow. The pic of the counterfeit currency from 2020 is quite the eye opener. Recall that Floyd was initially arrested for passing a counterfeit bill.
So the gilets jaunes of MN are not seeking freedom from tyranny, but supporting insanity..
I well remember the French yellow vests. I even remember an artist's rendering of PDJT wearing one.
One of these things is _not_ like the other.