"The Trump administration has tried to paint the anti-ICE activists as hard-left agitators, 'blue-haired' domestic terrorists bent on stirring up mayhem. But I found they looked a lot more like a woman I met named Hillary Oppmann, a blonde, 50-something solar energy consultant who lives in South Minneapolis. I stumbled upon Oppmann on a frigid morning last week, when I rolled up on a corner near a high school in South Minneapolis.... A few minutes before I had come upon her, Oppmann had heard the sound of whistles like the one that she wears around her neck, and hustled to the spot.... Oppmann had gotten involved as a volunteer in this group through a parents’ group at the local high school.... She told me she wasn’t surprised at how quickly her neighbors had sprung into action. The community groups that formed in the wake of the murder of George Floyd quickly reactivated, she told me, making it much easier to organize a response. The killing of Renee Good was a horrific shock, but it has not deterred the volunteer observers — if anything, Oppmann said, their ranks have swelled. 'Minnesotans are really good at chipping away at ice,' she dryly noted...."
Writes Lydia Polgreen, in
"In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War" (NYT).
I remember when "blue-haired" was used in descriptions of little old ladies, nice grandmas, who got their white hair tinted slightly blue to keep it from tending toward yellow. Oppmann is portrayed as someone like that even as she is contrasted to "hard-left agitators, 'blue-haired' domestic terrorists." That's a different blueness, an aggressively intentional unnatural look. The little old lady blueness was a byproduct of gentle dithering over the appearance of age.
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You don't end up stuck with terrible mayors and governors without a majority of dumb voters. Democracy!
I do not believe that Lydia Polgreen "stumbled upon" Hillary Oppman.
Yes, yes ... keep fighting. Keep driving vehicles at ICE agents to try to murder them.
Yes. Yes. Give us all the reasons in the world to crack your fucking heads open.
If you met them on the street in these times, they may not include people of a certain mindset, often described as sane, peaceful, and law abiding. There must be at least a few, right?
It's not a Civil War, by the way ... its a Guerilla War that the Democrat Party is executing against the United States of America and Donald J. Trump had better get off his ass and put down this Insurrection.
He needs to send in the US Army. Just like other Presidents had to do to allow black people to go to American schools.
It's time to bust some fucking heads open and let some people know who the Sheriff in this town is.
Insurrection Act, anyone?
The fundamental lever that propaganda uses is to make the target fear that if they don't buy the narrative, that they will risk membership in their group. Women are especially vulnerable to this. Some people say that propaganda works on women because they are stupider than men, but men also can be made to abandon reason, if you threaten their group identity, just not as easily, because they don't value their group identity quite as deeply.
The whole concept of the story boils down to this: propaganda works, and we have been propagandizing this woman for weeks, and look how well it worked!
In cities all across the nation ICE is allowed to do it's job. In those places criminals are being removed from the communities peacefully and efficiently. No coverage. Why do people in Minneapolis not want peaceful removal of criminals? It's the same reason they voted for dangerous, selfish politicians there who purposefully put their citizens at unnecessary risk. They are dumb. Change my mind.
Freud's Totem and Taboo was similar to the Michelson Morley experiment on light speed, it didn't produce a correct new theory, though it did produce a wrong one, about "ether," but the MM experiment showed that the old theories were wrong and there was no going back.
Totem and Taboo showed that groups are not rational, and that political decisions by crowds are not made rationally. Freud's theories as to why were wrong, but not his observation or his dissection of the psychological mechanisms at play.
Did anyone else notice that this 'typical Minnesotan' that the reporter found works in the solar energy field (in Minnesota!)? She's just as involved in some woketard fraud as a second shift Somali daycare worked Deeply stupid.
Obviously Minnesota is a corrupt shit hole, and it would be an existential risk to the Democratic Party to admit it.
But I found they looked a lot more like a woman I met named Hillary Oppmann, a blonde, 50-something solar energy consultant who lives in South Minneapolis.
Solar Energy consultant means she makes money off of green energy subsidies.
She makes nothing of value that anyone wants.
We could ship her to Somalia and nobody would notice except the people who don’t have to pay as many taxes.
This NYT article is an attempt to put a kindly grandma face on the organized street thuggery that is taking place.
She doesn’t even install or maintain worthless solar panels.
She consults.
Just another bullshit job created for a woman who should have raised children and made a sandwiches for the men that at least installed the solar panels.
Inag's Nazi party base.
Being a "solar energy consultant" is prima facie indication of hard left politics.
in MN - the corrupt left's racialized base do as they are told.
"Hillary Oppmann, a blonde, 50-something solar energy consultant"
i wish they'd also interviewed her wife
Some people say that propaganda works on women because they are stupider than men
I wonder who those people are. What I've read is that, irrespective of sex, it's easier to convince the educated of propaganda because they're accustomed to (often unconsciously) creating ex post facto rationalizing for their opinions. Something that should keep us all on our guard, it seems to me.
Why do people in Minneapolis not want peaceful removal of criminals? It's the same reason they voted for dangerous, selfish politicians there who purposefully put their citizens at unnecessary risk. They are dumb. Change my mind.
I probably won't change your mind with this, but ... my husband and I were talking about this last night. He was bemoaning the same thing - that we, our side, should be working harder to get the word out that ICE is doing its job without fanfare all over the country, and chaos only reigns where local authorities have decided that it should.
My counter to that was that in those places, they've worked really hard to convince themselves and their populace that ICE's entire mission is immoral and therefore that they themselves are on the side of the angels. So if you point out that, say, in Texas, ICE doesn't have to contend with interference and obstruction, the response would just be, "Well, of course not! Those people are all Nazis!"
Yesterday on X I saw someone trying to draw a distinction between Memphis and Minneapolis, pointing out that Memphis is also a blue city. The comments? Most of the anti-ICE ones just said that the problem there was that Memphis is a blue city in a sea of red, and therefore did not have the support of the surrounding areas or the governor. They were just overwhelmed, you see, by the Nazis.
So my response would be that they're not dumb - there's a difference between "dumb" and "cozened." They're propagandized. See the first part of my comment.
Look her up on linkedin. She's an activist.
I bet this woman got paid more to sit in an air conditioned office and make power points than the men who installed and maintained the solar panels.
They had to close that wage gap somehow.
This highlights the true power struggle going on right now. She is just another woman who demanded “equal pay” but didn’t want to do work that needed to be done. She wanted equal pay to make power points and go to conferences.
All of the fraud and bureaucracy that is going to be shut down is going to unemploy a lot of white college educated women who got bullshit jobs.
That is why these protests feature the two groups causing most of the problems in our country: immigrants and overeducated women.
Losers, thugs, paid agitators, ICE Watch Nazis
last year given the choice between meeting "a bear",
or a (presumably white) man.. Women chose "the bear".
This year, given the choice between supporting ICE,
or a (presumably muslim) sex offender.. Women chose the sex offender.
What is wrong with women?
I've got some theories, but would like to hear yours
Recall prolife protesters were arrested for marching near abortion clinics. In some cases, just praying.
Commie- Dems say hold our beers. Let invade churches!!
Of course, those independent observers who perhaps indeed saw "the anti-ICE activists as hard-left agitators" weren't given the opportunity to express their conclusions on the pages of the NY Times.
"resist and fight back" Against federal enforcement of federal law. So, insurrection.
I often hear people (mostly women in positions of power) say "Imagine how much better it would be if the world was run by women!".
I think that question has been answered as we watch who is front and center of most of this chaos!
Put them down. Hard. Now.
so, WHO IS Hillary Oppmann?
let's FIND OUT!
Hillary Oppmann - Community Organizer | LinkedIn
she works for Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light
"Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light believes the active care of creation is integral to spiritual life and social justice"
Hillary Oppmann wears a costume referencing "The Handmaids Tale" during a vigil held by UnRestrict Minnesota
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/hillary-oppmann-wears-a-costume-referencing-u201cthe-news-photo/1404966305
Jamie said...
Some people say that propaganda works on women because they are stupider than men
I wonder who those people are. What I've read is that, irrespective of sex, it's easier to convince the educated of propaganda because they're accustomed to (often unconsciously) creating ex post facto rationalizing for their opinions. Something that should keep us all on our guard, it seems to me.
1. Women biologically are more susceptible to manipulation as a generalized population because their brain chemistry is more attuned to group acceptance and they must rely on non-physical mechanisms to maintain social status.
But that isn’t the core problem here. The core problem is that women have created a tribal spoils system that creates bullshit jobs.
Universities, DEI, Human Resources, Consulting and Marketing, Education, government bureaucracy are all industries that are festooned with overeducated women who make nothing anyone wants and they get paid more than plumbers and electricians to do it.
They need these stories now to make the activists seem like normal people. Too many videos of them surrounding and harassing regular people (men), thinking they are ICE. Or even ones who are simply not loudly anti-ICE.
We supposed to think ‘paid agitator’ is a derogatory moniker for a small handfull of grassroots radicals but since nobody is really looking we have no idea of the depth of the corruption, or MN share of it as a state. There does seem to be since covid about an extra trillion of Treasury largesse that has evaporated into the fog of NGOs and social programs with little or nothing to show for it except for a well funded and organized, swarming political response to any and every constructive effort from the Trump administration. Also Malibu real estate appears to be bouncing back quite nicely thank you…
Why didn’t Lydia Polgreen interview women who are not at the protests? Answering my own question - fear of reprisals might be one reason. But it would be nice if a reporter (who could be trusted enough that women could be sure they would remain anonymous) could do a story about the women who don’t go to the protests. Maybe they’re all radical. I have no idea. But it would be nice to know what they’re thinking.
Re the people who blow whistles to warn of approaching law enforcement.
How is this different from serving as a lookout for a drug deal?
Why are these people not being arrested?
It would only take a few to discourage the others.
So she found herself an AWFUL.
Let me just add: questions she should have asked anyone she interviewed - were they paid to be there? did they attend protest workshops?
As far as I can tell she interviewed 4 people. She didn’t say she interviews many and this was a representative sample. So I don’t really know if this article had anything to add to what we already know.
Seething Minnesota… Reeling Minnesota… Squarehead Squalor… Mental Munchkins… Scared Skinny…
Shit for brains, the lot of ‘em!
The core problem is that women have created a tribal spoils system that creates bullshit jobs.
No argument from me! I was just pushing back at the idea that it was women's intelligence, or lack thereof, that made them vulnerable to propaganda.
I do in fact agree that the evolutionary pressures on women have led them (us) to be more "agreeable" and then, which I would interpret as more desirous of consensus, which I would further interpret as feeling a lot more pressure to go along. Certainly this has been my personal experience as a fairly "disagreeable" woman - I'm still more likely to go along in a group of women, or for that matter in a group of men, than the man next to me who expresses an opinion not shared by the group.
But it is apparently also true that, as I said, irrespective of sex, the educated, the intellectuals, so to speak, are more vulnerable than the uneducated, because they have spent so much time explaining their opinions in terms of facts or rationality (which, like statistics, can be a step further than damned lies when [im]properly used).
She's Pro-Thoughtless.
bagoh20 said...
If you met them on the street in these times, they may not include people of a certain mindset, often described as sane, peaceful, and law abiding. There must be at least a few, right?
Actually more than a few. But we don't want to be on television and then get doxxed. Outside of the Twin Cities proper, there isn't much support for the street theater and self-congratulatory thuggishness going on. We saw a bunch of leftists invade a Baptist church service yesterday because they believe the minister is pro-ICE. Straight up violation of federal law. The dopey right-wing influencer who came to town on Saturday got the crap kicked out of him. The police department in Minneapolis is way down in numbers because of the aftermath of George Floyd and, now that Walz has set up his family leave program that lets people take up to 20 weeks off for basically any reason at all, estimates I've seen is that up to 100 of the 600 remaining cops are hors de combat.
Despite all that, Minnesota is a big state and the stupidity is mostly confined to portions of the metro area. If the NYT reporter went to Sleepy Eye or Thief River Falls or even one of the northern suburbs, she would be hard pressed to find anyone who agrees with Hillary Oppmann. The whole thing is Julien Benda's "La Trahison des Clercs" writ large.
"solar energy consultant" been out in the Sun too long…
Sunstroke Sadie.
Oppmann is portrayed as someone like that even as she is contrasted to "hard-left agitators, 'blue-haired' domestic terrorists."
By whom?
She is portrayed as what she is--the greatest current threat to civil society--AWFUL.
The writer has the terminology correct, IMO. It is a civil war. It has been going on for years now, at least since James Hodgkinson's attack on the Republican congressmen in 2017. Btw, try finding his name in a search. It did not show up until the 6th page of my Brave search to get the date.
The tactics may be different from 1861, but when cities and states are actively defying federal law enforcement, what else is it besides civil war? Civil dis-union? It's been obvious for years that the "riots" are prearranged, with the printed signboards and all the back-up materials like cinderblock delivered with great efficiency to often paid "protestors."
I couldn't get past the NYT paywall, but it's clear this author is trying to propagandize for the rebels. Even so she is admitting what the situation is, civil war.
Philadelphia's DA and Sheriff are threatening to arrest ICE agents for "criminal acts." So the Democrats are broadening this out willfully and they do not care about a future of U.S. of A. unless they are in control of it. The sooner President Trump takes clear action, as Eisenhower did with the 101st Airborne in Little Rock, the better. The rebellion seems unlikely to slow down, the blues are loving it too much and their machinery is cranked up. A "victim" for them to exploit even more pathetic than George Floyd.
Trump, Vance, and others need to repeat the case for legal enforcement. But the media will never show that. Only lawful arrests and prosecutions will stop the Democratic revolt against the union.
The description of her sounds exactly like a hard-left activist.
She is representative of the small but very vocal and self-righteous Minnesotan whose religion is leftist politics practiced through Minnesota’s Democrat-Farmer-Labor party.
From what I’ve seen, ICE is still able to conduct its mission. The surrounding hullabaloo impacts local residents with noise and harassment more than ICE in areas that vote almost entirely Democrat. I’m fine with that.
Solar energy consultant = grifter
What is happening in the Twin Cities could happen in any number of other places where the same conditions obtain: Portland, Seattle, Denver, etc. There is nothing particularly Minnesotan about it, except possibly the huge sanctimony, but you find that in those other places, too.
Again, the NYT will never write an article like this, on the ground talking to people, about the victims abused/murdered/raped by illegals or the actual people being rounded up, even though their rap sheets are released by DHS every day. No, we get the sympathetic treatment for people actively trying to gin up a civil war. They want it so bad they pit their desire in the headline: "I Glimpsed a Civil War."
How quaint. Have they stopped calling the J6 grannies terrorists yet?
"I was just pushing back at the idea that it was women's intelligence, or lack thereof, that made them vulnerable to propaganda."
Well, my point was that intelligence is not really relevant to suscepabiity to propaganda, and that agreeableness is everything, and that it's child's play for propagandists to use the deeply embedded need for group identity to override the situationally useful, and more recently added, evolutionarily, rational intelligence.
Yes, Althouse, the New York Times is precisely the even-handed, unbiased news source I would turn to for a balanced evaluation of the situation in Minneapolis and the entire state of Minnesota. Yup. Absolutely.
The community groups that formed in the wake of the murder of George Floyd quickly reactivated, she told me, making it much easier to organize a response.
Well that, at least, has the ring of truth. I’ll bet it’s fun burning things down and beating up people who are just trying to go about their daily lives. “Oh, you were just wearing camo and upu don’t work for ICE? Sorry ‘bout that.”
It’s fun, it’s lots and lots of fun. Until someone shoots back.
The grift plays a part, but there are also lots and lots of women not benefiting from the grift who are all in on "camps for brown American citizens is the next step" thinking, I know, because I hear it from people around me who are not at all involved in the grift.
"But I found they looked a lot more like a woman I met named Hillary Oppmann, a blonde, 50-something solar energy consultant who lives in South Minneapolis."
I don't give a fuck what they look like. Stop interfering with the police when they're doing their jobs.
As soon as they touch ground in MN those ICE agents are just as Minnesotan as every farmer gouing back generations, just as Minnesotan as that democrat who worked for Walz and shot all those people last year, as Minnesotan as that Somali no-go zone in south St Paul. Yes, ICE is pure Minnesota now that they've touched the ground.
Just like all those richly demographical immigrants. No difference at all.
Getting physical with the authorities is not practical, because they have an infinitely greater capacity for violence: armed troops, tanks, bombers. Mahatma Gandhi figured this out years ago and the lesson was learned by Martin Luther King, whose day we celebrate today. Both led successful movements against powerful regimes with non-violent means.
lots of women not benefiting from the grift who are all in on "camps for brown American citizens is the next step" thinking
Yup. Where's Tina Trent when we need her? I want to know what's going on when there are men, especially men who wouldn't come across as particularly sympathetic to the American middle, who want to be in the front lines of these protests. You know they exist. Do the organizers tell them, "We appreciate your passion, but the right guy for this job is a white middle-aged woman"?
“ As soon as they touch ground in MN those ICE agents are just as Minnesotan as every farmer gouing back generations, just as Minnesotan as that democrat who worked for Walz and shot all those people last year, as Minnesotan as that Somali no-go zone in south St Paul. Yes, ICE is pure Minnesota now that they've touched the ground.”
Residency for voting in MN is twenty days.
Tcrosse: Gandhi and King "led successful movements against powerful regimes with non-violent means."
But the powerful regimes had heavy consciences and internal factions that were easily manipulated.
Gandhi would've been screwed if the Japanese had taken India. King wouldn't have had any success in the antebellum South or the pre-TV Jim Crow South. He succeeded when he did because liberal Northerners could see the dogs and hoses and bodies over dinner. And because a lot of white elite Southerners were looking for an excuse to streamline their economies (costs too much to build 2 of everything) and depress wages (why do you think whites didn't want to open 'their' jobs to competition?).
Today's rioters are about to find out that neither their violence nor their nonviolence convinces anyone anymore. CC, JSM
The ICE agents are just as Minnesotan as the Minnesota boys in blue coats who marched hundreds of miles to preserve the Union and free the slaves. Because that's basically what they're doing now. CC, JSM
"Hillary Oppmann, a blonde, 50-something"
I mentioned the other day that the rioters are mostly Nordic-descended Minnesotans. If the Right had really good PR, it would emphasize how mostly Aryan women are beating on mostly Hispanic ICE personnel. CC, JSM
---- Getting physical with the authorities is not practical, [tcrosse]
Hence the smokescreen of riots to destroy federal properties and hopefully create another victim or two, followed by the moralistic handwringing and other propagandizing meant to bring more terrorists like Hodgkinson, Crooks and Routh out of the woodwork. It only takes one bullet to kill Lincoln.
THe Berlin Times 1933:
The Brititish papers has tried to paint the anti-Communist activists as nazis, 'blue-haired' domestic terrorists bent on stirring up mayhem. But I found they looked a lot more like a woman I met named Hillary Oppmann, a 50 year old woman who raises puppies and likes rainbows.
tcrosse said...
What is happening in the Twin Cities could happen in any number of other places where the same conditions obtain: Portland, Seattle, Denver, etc. There is nothing particularly Minnesotan about it, except possibly the huge sanctimony, but you find that in those other places, too.
Sanctimony is a growth industry here. Always has been.
She's a human rites activist. A publisher of handmade tales.
The NYT's Propaganda is off the charts. Antifa is violent and anti-American. They don't respect the law and they hate everyone who disagrees with them.
And even twitter covers for them. I just saw someabout a conservative activist who beaten and put in the hospital by Antifa, and the Tweeter "news" story said he was "injured in a violent clash at a protest". No, he was ATTACKED by Antifa.
The MSM has been doing this for 10 years. Everytime Antifa attacks someone its described as "Violence breaks out" or "Antifa and Police clash - several injured". They're always trying to lie and cover up for Antifa.
Another woman with an "Email Job."
All this happens because of the lack of Leadership by the DC Republicans. The assholes will get upset at the their own voters (cf: J6ers should have shot in the head - Lindsey Graham) and get angry at Trump. Never do they get upset at the violence done by the Left. Never do they show any real passion or anger at them.
They perfectly happy with giving the D's veto power over legislation.
Other constantly going of Overseas Junkets, wailing at the wall, and trying to spend money (and put some in their own pockets) they do nothing.
Mr. D -
thanks for that.
what you described is all part of the brownshirt Mob-Walz leftwing intimidation goal.
Make anyone who isn't on board with the left feel like they are not allowed to speak out.
Another weird hair color trend among YOUNG women 10 years ago was to dye their youthful hair silvery gray. Skip that entire menstrual-mating-childcare phase of life and jump straight into being a quirky granny?
https://fashiontrendseeker.com/2015/02/12/2015-spring-summer-hair-color-trends-silver-hair/
With hindsight, this may have foreshadowed the sudden rise in female transgenderism on the left (as extremely rare before smartphones led to mental health issues).
You can probably find some propaganda textbook that explains the technique the NYT's is using. I bet it even has a name. "Hey we Japanese aren't so bad, sure we just bombed pearl harbor, but look at Mrs. Yamamoto she has two cute kids and look at her kitten!"
It was so cold in Minneapolis, the protesters invaded a church to warm up.
I just came across this quote from Solzhenitsyn:
The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives.
Whoa. It was in a Substack essay about Renee Good, the American Left, and how they can't seem to imagine that the other side will ever break the way they themselves do.
A very sarcastic X-post I saw on the actual likelihood Trump's support is wavering because of this:
@magills_
3 time Trump voter here. I’ve been okay with the tariffs, bombing middle eastern countries, stealing Greenland, abducting South American leaders in midnight raids, etc, but if he continues to deport rapists and murderers in the manner he is he will have lost my support.
In most of the USA illegals, uh, invaders, are being rounded up and deported with no problem. There have been several large scale raids in upstate NY in the last year. The MSM has tried to convince people it's bad. As has Dictator Hochul. But- manufacturing plants have been operating with illegal laborers, never advertising employment to locals. What locals are asking is- why aren't the employers being prosecuted? They are also lawbreakers. And each invader employed is a separate crime.
When I call someone "dumb", I don't necessarily mean low IQ or uneducated. I basically mean highly susceptible to lame-ass propaganda that's adverse to their own interests. Dumb is not being able to discern that more criminals in your community is bad no matter what crap they cover it with.
MAGA authoritarians thought Minnesotans would cheer ICE like liberators. They fundamentally do not understand human decency.
Alternatively, they figured threats of violence would cow everyone into staying home, silent—letting it happen instead of recording it and fighting back.
Hillary Oppmann, a blonde, 50-something solar energy consultant who lives in South Minneapolis
A "solar energy consultant" in Minnesota? That screams tax subsidy farmer, not someone doing useful work
@Jamie: No argument from me! I was just pushing back at the idea that it was women's intelligence, or lack thereof, that made them vulnerable to propaganda.
Regardless of intelligence, women are emotionally incontinent herd animals.
I think the word to describe people rising up and attacking federal agents who are enforcing the law isn't "Resistance" its "Insurrection" and "Rebellion".
You can find out all kinds of things about people online nowadays. You can find a picture of Hillary Oppmann protesting for abortion in a "Handmaid's Tale" costume. You can find pictures of her and friends in Welcome Corps, a US government program that linked refugees with local sponsors around the country. I didn't even know there was a federally-funded Welcome Corps program (started by Blinken, suspended by Trump). Community organizer Oppmann has only been a "solar energy consultant" for a few months, and her employer Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light sounds more like a lobbying and paper-shuffling outfit than anything more significant.
Hasnt learned a thing
After four nights without police presence, neighborhoods protect themselves https://share.google/XYhYCahTpke2do3Rr
I remember when "blue-haired" was used in descriptions of little old ladies, nice grandmas, who got their white hair tinted slightly blue to keep it from tending toward yellow.
I use "purple-haired" instead of "blue-haired" in my anti-leftist invective to avoid this ambiguity.
MAGA authoritarians thought Minnesotans would cheer ICE like liberators.
No we didn't. We know what kind of enemy communist scum there are up in that frozen shithole, and figured this would be the response.
They fundamentally do not understand human decency.
Don't throw your shoulder patting yourself on the back there, Kak. Most people think fighting to keep murderers, drug dealers, rapists, and child molesters on our streets is the most despicable kind of evil, and the farthest thing imaginable from your smug "decency".
RCOCEAN II said...
All this happens because of the lack of Leadership by the DC Republicans.
Betrayal is not the same as lack of leadership.
If you a CCW carrier in a church in Minnesota and a bunch of crazed Don Lemon-like lunatics start taking hostages and demanding stuff, do us all a favor and SHOOT THEM.
https://x.com/kristenmag/status/2013117309079228748
Yeah right, interrupting church services is just normal American behavior!
You people calling these addled hysterical catastrophizing blue haired peri and post menopausal females terrorists are by definition, pussies sissies wimps simps etc.
And how many of these brave warriors are there, these ones getting all the salutary coverage? Do they represent a majority of Minnesotans? Does that majority agree? Or are they suffering silently, waiting to see what part of their city starts burning first? What happens when they decide to stop suffering silently? Are church invasions for sport and publicity going to become the norm?
The biggest problem with this insurrection is that none of these partygoers has suffered defeat yet, just a seemingly endless reserve of indulgence and official support. They're all high on it. And by 'defeat', I'm not talking about the kind where you wonder if you'll miss dinner, I'm talking about the kind where you wonder if you'll ever see another 'dinner'.
Interfaith powet and light (with more brawndo)
We have loads and loads of video showcasing the left's neo-Nazi brownshirt thuggery, Howard.
Those who wonder what is wrong with women should check out Helen Andrews on YouTube. Came across her last night. Her speech at the National Conservatism conference is quite good.
X
@Ikennect
"Two democrat run cities. Memphis and Minneapolis.
ICE went to both
In Memphis, the mayor asked the police to cooperate with ICE. The result was-ICE was in and out of Memphis in a matter of days.
The mayor admitted, they did a good job and his city was safer.
Why is Minneapolis a different story??
Is it because the fraud and crimes happening there involved the elected government?
Who is paying the rioters? "
we have questions.
Its just like 'peaceful' gaza city, billy
The point of the article seems to be to show just how normal the anti-ICE protestors are -- they're just like your neighbors. The takeaway, though, is that your neighbors may be really crazy and annoying people.
Minnesota has a lot of the moralistic Puritan New England strain, but while that was moderated in New England by the arrival of immigrants from Ireland and Southern and Eastern Europe, in Minnesota it was increased by the arrival of moralistic, dour Scandinavians. It's taken the Somalis to convince Minnesotans to begin to be less trustful and more cynical about politics.
So were the zombies in the body snatchers
The difference between Memphis and Minneapolis?
AWFL White people?
MasonG @10:37AM…YES!!!
’…a blonde, 50-something solar energy consultant’
Well, she is a blonde.
But shes no yvonne strahovski
Don Lemon has been given the all-clear to do terrorist operations with the other domestic terrorists who invaded a church in Minneapolis and held the church-goers "to account" this past weekend.
Trump has announced, through his US Attorney Harmeet Dillon, that Lemon will NOT BE ARRESTED and he can continue invading people's private spaces to terrorize them into supporting open borders.
Thanks Trump, asshole.
It’s a combination of “hard left agitators” and their useful idiots. Trump’s people know that and so do the asshats a NYT.
Lazarus said...
The point of the article seems to be to show just how normal the anti-ICE protestors are -- they're just like your neighbors. The takeaway, though, is that your neighbors may be really crazy and annoying people.
Another aspect might be how unusual this provocative political revenge assault is.
From narciso's link at https://share.google/XYhYCahTpke2do3Rr
"Although police and the National Guard greatly outnumbered peaceful protesters on Saturday, that wasn't always the case, and in neighborhoods across the Twin Cities, residents did everything they could to protect their own."
In Longfellow, Hillary Oppmann watched vandals loot the corner Walgreens for three straight nights without interference before arsonists finally lit it on fire last night. Firefighters didn't make it to the scene for more than 7 hours.
"We can't lose anymore community assets, like our libraries, pharmacies and post office," said Oppmann, who lives three doors down from Lake Street. "They were simply left to burn."
So a "solar energy consultant" is not a hard left agitator. I wonder who she consults for. I'll bet she's not selling solar systems to consumers.
The change in the meaning of blue haired ladies has arrested my attention a few times as I read novelists of the previous century. Where I was a young adult we had both kinds - the elderly who wanted a better appearance and the college students who wanted a worse one.
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We have not had a single murder this month in DC.
First time since 2013.
Trump’s federal takeover and surge of federal law enforcement have saved black lives in violent DC neighborhoods.
This makes Democrats angry.
Because they do not actually believe black lives matter.
It’s interesting to see the commenters who have come out as “black-pillers”.
Interesting and, in some cases, disheartening.
@RJWard: “Provocative political revenge assault?” Revenge on whom? Washed up Tim Walz? LOL! If we didn’t know Ward was close kin to the Mad Hatter, we might not recognize this as psychological projection. These loons are destroying satire along with so much else.
Hmmmm. The anti-ICE “activists” are using whistles to alert each other (and illegal aliens) to the presence of ICE in an area. ICE should deploy whistles all over Minneapolis and make whistle blowing useless.
There must be objectively measurable psychological traits that correlate highly with obsessive leftism. It would be useful for employers to familiarize themselves with those traits, test for them, and make appropriate decisions.
Benny Johnson on X: "BREAKING: DOJ Says Federal Prosecutors Are Touching Down Any Minute In Minnesota To Pursue Charges Against Don Lemon and Left Wing Marxists Who Illegally Stormed a Christian Church: “We sent federal prosecutors last night from my office in DC to Minnesota. They should be landing https://t.co/m0JOW50Irf" / X https://share.google/dmZ9N8m4wI4hyBKKk
It's not about ICE, not about immigration. It's about unfulfilled feminist promises. When I see women protestors, I remember that Randy Newman song, "I Just Want You to Hurt Like I Do."
’Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives.’
I’ve described the lefties as thin glass tubes that shatter with the slightest pressure. Normies are like rubber bands. We stretch and stretch and stretch, but when we finally snap back it’s gonna leave a mark.
If you are interviewing a person who claims to be a solar energy consultant who lives in South Minneapolis, you might suspect they’re pulling your leg.
’Another aspect might be how unusual this provocative political revenge assault is.’
Odd how the same ‘provocative political revenge assault’ conducted in blue Memphis and New Orleans hasn’t caused any issues. Perhaps it’s not a provocative political revenge assault after all…
I wonder who she consults for. I'll bet she's not selling solar systems to consumers.
I'm interested in buying a solar system, but I don't think I could afford the only one (the one we live in) that interests me. I don't see any point in buying one that's too far to travel to. And, what if you spent all that money only to find out there's squatters who take affront to your owning their solar system?
Kak: “MAGA authoritarians thought Minnesotans would cheer ICE like liberators. They fundamentally do not understand human decency.” Human decency = Obstructing and assaulting federal officers and blocking traffic on behalf of illegal alien criminals. This is what I mean about these morons destroying satire along with the law and public peace.
A conscientious Congress would be addressing this lawlessness on the streets and in the courts. Once again, Trump and normal, law abiding people are in it without them.
Did anyone else see the X post from The Bulwark betas with the photo of ICE agents and the caption: ‘1 piece of chicken, 1 piece of broccoli, a tortilla wrap, and one other thing…how long until these guys mutiny?’
What a bunch of pussies.
"I'm interested in buying a solar system, but I don't think I could afford the only one (the one we live in) that interests me."
Are you sure? Sounds a lot like colonialism to me.
The bulwinkle only a larf
The ceti alpha or the tau ceti
Apparently the car used in this strong arm robbery in Minneapolis was registered to an "autism center."
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2013029764773065021
They are learing
Goldenpause: " ICE should deploy whistles all over Minneapolis and make whistle blowing useless."
Frey would hold a press conference to whine about the sonic assault in minutes. And the MSM would do human-interest stories about Somali schoolkids who can't focus on their learing at the learing center....CC, JSM
Howard said...
You people calling these addled hysterical catastrophizing blue haired peri and post menopausal females terrorists are by definition, pussies sissies wimps simps etc.
I am not calling them terrorists.
I am calling them rent seeking mediocrities who produce nothing of value and will not be missed.
They can can go to jail or they can go to Somalia.
They do not get to act this way in our country. Nobody needs them or wants them here:
Bob B said...
If you are interviewing a person who claims to be a solar energy consultant who lives in South Minneapolis, you might suspect they’re pulling your leg.
That isn’t how this works.
The NYT news room needed an article to push a narrative. They were put in contact with a protester who made up a story for them.
The story is propaganda from start to finish. Everything about it is fake. Everyone involved in writing and producing this story belongs in Somalia.
Kak (11:13): “[MAGA] fundamentally do not understand human decency.” Right, douchenozzle, “decency” which among your ilk includes storming a church and disrupting Sunday service.
Among Minneapolis bien pendants it is indecent to be mean to those who commit crimes if they are from marginalized communities. Imagine Noel Coward singing "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Somalis". But if any community in Minneapolis is marginalized it is not the Somalis.
The Minnesotans I met on the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul...
...during the week, when I wasn't likely to run into any of them with normal jobs. Also, I looked for people with whistles around their necks, as they tended to be professional referees or protesters.
The referenced X post in my 12:33 pm comment was made by The Lincoln Project not The Bulwark. In fairness to myself, there’s really no difference other than little boys pants half off…
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Visualize former AG Merrick Garland’s response if anti- immigrant protesters invaded a Samali mosque. Biden’s aides would be calling out the Marines. The FBI would be tracking cell phone data.
Trump’s response? Hey let’s investigate.
"The killing of Renee Good was a horrific shock, but it has not deterred the volunteer observers..."
People who interfere with the police in an effort to prevent them from doing their jobs are not "volunteer observers".
Libtards are now storming into Churches - while the service is on-going - and screaming at the congregation that they are "fake christians" and "white supremists".
I'm waiting for the wimpy, cucked response. Imagine if someone had done this to a mosque or synagogue. LOL. But Christians are the loser religion.
"The Trump administration has tried to paint the anti-ICE activists as hard-left agitators, 'blue-haired' domestic terrorists bent on stirring up mayhem. But I found they looked a lot more like a woman I met named Hillary Oppmann, a blonde, 50-something solar energy consultant who lives in South Minneapolis.
50-something blonde "solar energy consultant". Yeah, that would be the Platonic ideal of an AWFL.
She's slightly older than the blue-haired freak, but they are both domestic terrorists
Kakistocracy said...
MAGA authoritarians … fundamentally do not understand human decency.
If I ever meet up with a member of the Minnesota DFL who is a decent human being, I’ll be sure to take notes.
Beast @ 12:25: Memphis and New Orleans for one are blue cities in red states so we don’t see the pushback from state leaders as they are obviously door mats for Trump. But then, what Republican isn’t?
There also wasn’t the expressed hatred of ethnic groups and desire for revenge for Walz that Trump made no secrets of.
And then there’s the reality they operated in mostly in smaller, quieter, targeted arrests, sometimes intertwined with local law enforcement vehicle stops rather than large, dramatic raids.
Of course, controversial shootings, scooping up U.S. born citizens, beating them, and doing gangster style dumping in crosstown parking lots generally doesn’t set well with the villagers.
I started to not even respond as I totally understand what you’re doing but wanted to clear that up for those who read along but might not know.
In Minnesota the Dems and Republicans used to be fairly equally divided. But then 90,000 Somalis were imported who all vote as they're told and they are told to vote for the Democrats. These Somalis will always swing the vote to the Dem side espcially since vote harvesting bcame acceptable. So the Dems have no fear of the other side coming in. They run people like Tim Walz with no fear of the consequences. They let people with bags of money go through the airport with no fear of the consequences. They destroy the state finances - no fear. And other communities which have had illegals dropped into them will soon see the same vast corruption coming out of this "diversity."
They don't have a lot of people being crazy there in Minnesota and they don't need them as long as the mainstream pretends they have a lot of support. It's all pretence. The idea is to make provocations till Trump sends in the soldiers and then to stone the soldiers till they shoot and then to say Trump is behaving like Iran. There weren't a lot of people at that attack on the church. It was outrageous but it wasn't done by many people. Same with the ICE Watch. I've seen videos of the encounter and there weren't a lot of cars. But how many does it take to jam up a street - just one. Minneapolis is being taken over by ICE - this is an unpopular cause not supported by mainstream NGOs who don't want to go out to flyover and protest when the temp is 10 degrees and who don't want to support a white woman anyhow. And also they think that Minneapolis was taken over by ice a long time ago and the fascists can have it. Not that they say that but you don't see hordes flocking north. Journalists? One NYT reporter met one protestor and talked to her quickly accepting everything she was told and darted back to the airport for a flight out as if she was catching the last plane out of Saigon. This is as much like George Floyd as Starfleet Academy is like Star Trek.
PS I've been watching Starfleet Academy in tiny increments because it is interesting to see something so bad put out by a major studio. I'm trying to understand but all I can see is that women cannot do a military movie. I think this movie will be shown to show just why women should not be in the military.
Hillary is the literal version of the dog in the burning house meme
Half the city burned and she drew no lesson
Well thats a hilarious exercise i thought section 31 was the bottom of the barrel
I think kate mulgrew did a pretty good job, but that was more the 25 years ago
Perhaps someone should advise and let these Democrat protesters know that fat, unkempt, odorous, hive-minded and Godless is no way to go through life in the USA.
’Memphis and New Orleans for one are blue cities in red states so we don’t see the pushback from state leaders…’
It would have been more accurate and honest for you to have said we don’t see the red state leaders encouraging lawlessness, unlike like the blue state leaders. Hope this helps!!
Does anyone outside the Twin Cities really care about this? We saw where it led after George Floyd but times are a tad different these days. Legally, the Fed is in the right on this. Optically, it looks bad, but only if those who voted for this even remotely give a damn. I mean, I feel for my fellow citizens up there who are innocent and just want some peace, but they themselves voted in all the leadership that have enabled things to get out of hand so they are getting it gooder and harder (to use and Insty paraphrase). I think if ICE can just keep up their attempts as best they can while the rest of the deplorables (and other centrist normies) just go on about their business, this will eventually wither on the vine and die ignominiously. Prof… you are in the state next door but a little more purply than blue MN and is it impactful on you at all? Heck, even if the Trump claimed Insurrection!! and called in the Alaskan troops, I still don’t give a flip. I voted for deportations and I’m getting deportations. Work some more on the economy for me and let whatever blue hairs (the young kind, my bride will be a good blue hair in a matter of years) think will make them happy continue to do so at their peril.
"Hillary Oppmann, a blonde, 50-something solar energy consultant who lives in South Minneapolis."
Sounds legit.
Beast @ 3:02; “It would have been more accurate and honest for you to have said we don’t see the red state leaders encouraging lawlessness, unlike like the blue state leaders. Hope this helps!!”
Perhaps if pinpoint this encouragement of lawlessness from blue state leaders, I could might respond to it.
As opinion columnist Lydia Polgreen put it;
”Minnesota is under siege. It might not yet be a civil war, but what the White House has dubbed “Operation Metro Surge” is definitely not just — or even primarily — an immigration enforcement operation. It is an occupation designed to punish and terrorize anyone who dares defy this incursion and, by extension, Donald Trump’s power to wield limitless force against any enemy he wishes.
Thousands of masked, heavily armed agents, some with minimal training, have been unleashed on the streets of an American state. They have been promised near-total legal immunity by the president, effectively unshackled from any constitutional constraints.
They have been given limitless license to abduct anyone — not just the undocumented immigrants, but American citizens who happen to look foreign, whatever that might mean. Even Native Americans, whose ancestors lived here long before anyone else, have been detained on the absurd suspicion that they are undocumented immigrants. They have roughed up local lawmakers, detained and jailed legal observers without charges, tear-gassed high school students, smashed in car windows of bewildered drivers unlucky enough to cross their path. Anyone who gets in their way — by protesting, filming their actions or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time — is presumed to be a domestic terrorist.
From every thing I’ve read and seen other than on propaganda driven sites, that’s reasonably accurate. What you’re doing is consistent with the Trump turd polishers who’ve been convinced that these particular American citizens are your enemy. You were groomed of that long before Trump initiated his admitted revenge operation on the city.
Really not worth all the trouble and danger . Best bet, back off, quick nighttime raids. Has become less about deporting and more about fighting protestors. But, no way to back off, or it will seem physical protesting has won the battle.
Briefly saw that mayor on the news. Immediate inpression, he loves being recognized nationally, will run for higher office.
Time to send in the troops re-establish dominance.
LOL!! Can't get more stupid than this.
“Operation Metro Surge” is definitely not just — or even primarily — an immigration enforcement operation. It is an occupation designed to punish and terrorize anyone who dares defy this incursion and, by extension, Donald Trump’s power to wield limitless force against any enemy he wishes.
Memphis already has a criminal underclass that votes 100% Democrat, and they don't need any competition from immigrant grifters.
OOPS, Iwas wrong at 3:54. Stupidity continues.
"They have been given limitless license to abduct anyone — not just the undocumented immigrants, but American citizens who happen to look foreign, whatever that might mean. Even Native Americans, whose ancestors lived here long before anyone else, have been detained on the absurd suspicion that they are undocumented immigrants.
Remember, Peter Jackson left out the real ending of the LORD OF THE RING, The Battle of the Shire. The Shire must be cleansed for there to be peace.
Althouse, this is in your state and a lot more worthy of commentary and attention than the little dust up in Minneapolis. Had a slight bit of blood boiling reading this but sounds like this WILL outfit has things in hand.
https://nypost.com/2026/01/16/us-news/wisconsin-school-sent-cops-to-home-of-mom-who-posted-tiktok-of-disabled-daughter-being-set-aside-at-concert/
"OOPS, Iwas wrong at 3:54. Stupidity continues."
I wouldn't expect it to stop anytime soon- look who you're quoting.
Well, if simply rebutting with “that’s stupid” or “you’re stupid” is a sign of intelligence, Achilles must be akin to Einstein and has taught his students well.
Big Mike said…
“If I ever meet up with a member of the Minnesota DFL who is a decent human being, I’ll be sure to take notes.”
It will require multiple specimens and a detailed write up in a scientific publication (peer reviewed, of course).
“It will require multiple specimens and a detailed write up in a scientific publication”
Modern Psychotic Simian, published quarterly, would be quite appropriate.
Voight kampf test
Saw this posted elsewhere...
"In 2015, Barack Obama awarded Tom Homan the the Presidential Award for Service for Making America Safer at ICE...
10 years later Liberals want Tom Homan killed. It's the same Tom but a different Democrat Party!"
https://x.com/patriot_savvy/status/2012886820627845452?s=20
"... he loves being recognized nationally, will run for higher office."
With that goal, you can understand why it might be worth sending a few of your own supporters to jail or the morgue, and burning down your city. Then these people will vote for a guy who used them as cannon fodder for his own ambitions, and still think they are the smart ones.
Alternatively, they figured threats of violence would cow everyone into staying home, silent—letting it happen instead of recording it and fighting back.
See, this, and all of Ward's fulminating, are what I was saying: they are so convinced of their moral rightness (about everything, not just this) that of course ICE and everyone who supports the lawful exercise of their carrying out federal law must be amoral at best, but more likely actually Nazi. "Threats of violence" indeed.
Ward keeps going on about polishing that turd; I'll encourage him and his ilk to keep smelling those farts, a la the famous South Park episode. Hubris does tend to catch up to people.
’From every thing I’ve read and seen other than on propaganda driven sites, that’s reasonably accurate. What you’re doing is consistent with the Trump turd polishers who’ve been convinced that these particular American citizens are your enemy. You were groomed off that long before Trump initiated his admitted revenge operation on the city.’
You’re quoting a propaganda piece, written by a former HuffPo editor, while accusing others of the same. And if it were a ‘revenge operation’ then why isn’t it revenge in Memphis and New Orleans? You can’t reconcile the difference because you’re afraid to admit the distinction is state endorsed lawlessness in Minnesota.
And while those particular American citizens aren’t my enemy at the moment, they’re certainly an enemy of the duly enacted laws of our country. And they should be treated accordingly.
Ronald J. Ward said...
There also wasn’t the expressed hatred of ethnic groups and desire for revenge for Walz that Trump made no secrets of.
So ethnic groups are only hated if they're in Democrat states... Interesting take you have there.
Then these people will vote for a guy who used them as cannon fodder for his own ambitions, and still think they are the smart ones.
They'll think they are the good ones. Every one of them a freedom fighter. A few, martyrs. The fact that they are on the wrong side of the law from the get-go* doesn't matter - they've been convicted, in religious parlance, and have no option but to convict others.
* From the get-go, not from the moment that they themselves break the law. It is certainly possible to protest legally while being on the wrong side of the law; that's what the Skokie Nazis were doing. Having an opinion that the law is wrong and should be changed is perfectly copacetic, and if they stopped there (or took it to the public at the ballot box), I'd have no issue with them. But instead, they've decided that the law is wrong and that the legal process of changing the law is just so slow and unsatisfying, so they move from legal protest to illegal action and expect to be lauded for it.
Which the press and people like our lefties are happy to do, both of those groups also being high on their own farts.
Sheesh. This is exhausting and I'm boring myself.
Okay, all you leftists here spewing forth about "legal observers" or "volunteer observers".
Give us a definition, where they're defined in law, and what their rights are compared to, let's say, any other person in the United States.
Can right wingers (defined as anyone to the right of Lenin, obviously) be "legal observers" or does it apply only to leftists. Can actual law enforcement personnel ON THE SCENE be "legal observers, or are they (in your idiot opinion) biased observers incapable of being truthful? Because all of them that observed an idiot leftist female getting shot observed that it was a "good shoot" in self defense in legal terms.
For starters Beast, I clearly stated it was “an opinion columnist” who I happen to agree with. There’s very little if any that can be factuality disputed which I take as a win because all I’m seeing is attacks on the message and messenger.
I’ve already addressed our Memphis and N.O. point and gave 3 different examples of why they don’t compare. You’re not confronting those points but rather insist that your argument must stand.
Gospace, I’ve laid out my argument multiple times of Trump explicitly verbally attacking Minnesota, exasperate fraud cases, and expressing his disdain towards Walz and yes, the “ethnic group” there. It’s well documented.
Iman: "Modern Psychotic Simian, published quarterly,"
Is that a callback to RSM's Psychotic Apes With Godlike Powers? CC, JSM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15477915/americans-flee-donald-trump-netherland-refugee-camp.html
’There’s very little if any that can be factuality disputed…’
- She called it an occupation, which it is not.
- She said it was designed to punish and terrorize anyone who defies it, which it is not.
- She said Trump has power to wield limitless force against any enemy he wishes, which is also false.
Own goals don’t count as a win, Ronald.
RJW: " Donald Trump’s power to wield limitless force against any enemy he wishes."
And?
At least since Janet Reno, and really going back to Ike and JFK, the fedgov has demonstrated its ability to bring overwhelming force against domestic enemies. It's especially important for Trump to make such a showing, since the enemy hopes there are 'adults' or 'professionals' (translation: bad appointee picks or Deep Staters) who will thwart him from the inside.
Especially since Trump has been treated to lawfare and actual kinetic warfare, it's really important for him to show that stuff won't fly anymore.
So any enforcement action kind of has two purposes: the immediate mission at hand, and showing the awesome power he has available for anyone else trying to subvert the USG. CC, JSM
The lillian hellman test 'everything is a lie, including the ans &)
Ciso - good one. This one is even weirder:
Exposed: The failed American asylum seeker Britain won't deport | The Daily T
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQq5bxXSqMY
CC, JSM
https://x.com/ChuckRossDC/status/2013321566738649259
Ransom of red chief,
’I’ve already addressed our Memphis and N.O. point and gave 3 different examples of why they don’t compare.’
We agree that they don’t compare, and they don’t compare only because the government officials in Minnesota are actively opposing the proper enforcement of the law. And that’s my point. If they complied with enforcement none of this would be happening. It’s quite simple.
They really should put down the brown acid
MN - it just keeps getting more clown world.
What the hell is wrong with white leftists - esp white female leftists named don Lemon.
By highlighting the extensive participation of White women in these riots, and emphasizing their roles as mothers and wives, the NY Times is manipulating their readers' reactions to the protests. These aren't patriarchy defiant feminists and sexual deviants. Nope! These are nice ladies and they're not crazy or violent!
She called it an occupation, which it is not.
You’re cherry-picking terminology.
- She said it was designed to punish and terrorize anyone who defies it, which it is not.
I disagree and have argued otherwise. Trump has all but admitted it verbatim.
- She said Trump has power to wield limitless force against any enemy he wishes, which is also false.
Of course he does. He owns the DOJ and is all but the de facto AG, has a drunken toady yes man in charge of the military, and has a heeled Congress ready to ask how high to jump.
Polish it man, polish it.
"We can't lose anymore community assets, like our libraries, pharmacies and post office," said Oppmann, who lives three doors down from Lake Street. "They were simply left to burn."
Tough. Shit.
They are stark raving mad, like the tiktok dancers
Good grief, Ronald, she chose the terminology, not me. And I eagerly await a cite for his use of ‘terrorize’ in this context.
Your last rebuttal is too absurd to fisk, especially about the heeled Congress. Try harder…
everyone who supports the lawful exercise of their carrying out federal law must be amoral at best, but more likely actually Nazi.
Which is exactly what Inga's been spewing the last couple days.
RJW: "sometimes intertwined with local law enforcement vehicle stops"
Ding ding ding ding! And that made all the difference. The real treasure is the friends we made along the way. In this case, local LEOs. Exactly what Walz and Frey are denying ICE in MN.
We should start calling you O'Brien.
CC, JSM
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama advocated for the deportation of illegal alien criminals and Democrats didn't lose their shit.
What changed?
All of this has nothing to do with ICE. ICE is just a convenient boogeyman. The real reason is that Large Democrat urban areas in blue states are losing population and young Americans are having fewer kids. If these trends continues, the Democrat party will lose political power. That’s the real issue. There is literally no way to enforce immigration laws that would make Democrats happy.
"The real reason is..."
There's also an awful lot of fraud that's occurred, that Democrats would prefer not be talked about.
Well Mosby, no.
Minnesota law enforcement was shut out of planning and decision-making, then left to deal with the community consequences. That’s been one of the major complaints all along but I get it that EpochTimes failed to mention it.
Quite frankly, this just making up whatever bullshit as you go is getting boring. Sadly, I naively thought I could get some challenging rebuttals here. Should’ve known better.
Mason G says; "The real reason is..."
There's also an awful lot of fraud that's occurred, that Democrats would prefer not be talked about.
Well, no. It’s been talked about plenty of times. That talking point defeats itself on multiple fronts but, perhaps you didn’t hear.
Wanta talk about how Trump has pardoned real fraudsters with abandon?
From narciso's link at 5:01;
"Ashe Wilde, 40, fled Massachusetts after being physically and verbally attacked in her community. She was dubbed a 'pedo and a groomer' and applied for asylum in the Netherlands last October"
We're not sending our best.
Kakistocracy said...
MAGA authoritarians thought Minnesotans would cheer ICE like liberators. They fundamentally do not understand human decency.
No, we understand human decency. Decent humans who are American citizens understand they owe a moral duty to their fellow Americans that is great than any duty owed to foreigners. and "Foreigners" includes ALL non-US citizens, most certainly including illegal aliens who happen to be in the US.
So we know the decent human beings: they're the ones cheering on ICE as it removes illegal aliens from the US.
Alternatively, they figured threats of violence would cow everyone into staying home, silent—letting it happen instead of recording it and fighting back.
Now do the J6 protesters, and how you Dems treated them.
Anyone interfering with ICE agents is a criminal. They are at least as much of an "insurrectionist" as was any J6 protester. So yes, ICE is going to deport the illegals, and they're going to arrest anyone who gets in the way of doing that.
You don't like that? Tough shit. it's legal, and it's Constitutional, and we won, so we get to do it.
And only an insurrectionist domestic terrorist and enemy of democracy would try to stop us
Yo leftists
It's not your place to "fight back" against legal actions by law enforcement. That's an insurrection. a real one.
Illegal law enforcement = Walzian local police who have not quit in disgust.
Walzian mob orders. = mob
RJW: “ Minnesota law enforcement was shut out of planning and decision-making, then left to deal with the community consequences”
Ah, that explains why Frey said “look, just meet with my police chief, and we’ll send marked cars to help make sure your raids go smoothly.”
Instead of “get the fuck out of Minneapolis.” CC, JSM
The blue-haired girls better watch out for purple-haired goth wifu Amelia. She was created so people could hate her, but the opposite is happening.
Ronald J. Ward said...
Well Mosby, no.
Minnesota law enforcement was shut out of planning and decision-making, then left to deal with the community consequences. That’s been one of the major complaints all along but I get it that EpochTimes failed to mention it.
It will be fun to watch the trials of the state police leadership that told officers not to cooperate with and not defend federal officers from the mob.
Quite frankly, this just making up whatever bullshit as you go is getting boring. Sadly, I naively thought I could get some challenging rebuttals here. Should’ve known better.
The only question we have right now is who hates Christians more, Democrats like you and Don Lemon or your Somali Muslim allies.
Protesting for the right to be robbed like a fool.
Jupiter at 3:29 pm said
" "Hillary Oppmann, a blonde, 50-something solar energy consultant who lives in South Minneapolis."
Sounds legit."
I typed her name into the search bar. She is active in many community-oriented activities. Solar energy might have been in there but she is quoted in the news for many things. I suspect the reporters know her personally and seek her out for quotes.
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