Many of us are trying to understand why Trump has been doing the things he’s been doing lately – because they seem to be destructive things, as regards the political palatability (and so, viability) of MAGA.
It was weird – and a little appalling – when Trump suddenly sicced the military on Venezuelan speedboats, blowing not just them but also their helpless occupants into oblivion. The justification – drugs – seemed equally weird given the drugs Trump complains about generally come from Mexico, not Venezuela. It also made many of us feel a little sick to watch people bobbing in the water being obliterated. That sort of thing – the execution of helpless people who are no longer capable of shooting back – got people court-martialed once upon a time.
Then Trump sent in the Hut! Hut! Hut! crew to literally kidnap a foreign head of state. Whatever you think about Maduro, he was the president of Venezuela. Where did Trump get the authority to just remove a foreign head of state? And – why? Venezuela has lots of oil, it is said – and that is true. But it’s going to be tough to get that oil – and get it to the United States, as every serious analyst agrees. American companies being reluctant to invest hugely in an iffy foreign country that could easily become a very difficult place to do business in.
Then there’s Greenland. All of a sudden it is a strategic – and existential – necessity for America to annex it. Never mind that there is already an American base there and it’s not 1945 anymore, anyhow. No Lend Lease convoys are heading for Europe from America. And Russian hypersonic missiles are too fast to be stopped by countermeasures installed on Greenland anyhow.
So – again – why?
Most recently, Trump has made public anti-gun utterances after his FBI director made similar utterances. It has understandably alarmed many of Trump’s increasingly uncomfortable Second Amendment-supporting supporters, who thought they were voting for a man (and an administration) that wasn’t gun-grabby. (Yes, I know. Trump has not actually grabbed any guns – yet. But it is reasonable to worry he might grab them going forward, given what he and Patel, the FBI director, have said. Which indicates what they think.)
The above all happened after a man got shot to death in the street in the course and context of what many people see as a purposely inflammatory display of federal goonery. Ten million illegals aren’t going to be rounded up by ICE and deported. It is a logistical improbability – shy of martial law and neighborhood-by-neighborhood sweeps. Which may be coming.
It is not popular, however. Every poll shows Trump has lost the power of the immigration issue he rode back into office. Most Americans were not happy with the open border and wanted something done to close it and something done to deal with the very real problem of the 10 million-plus strange and exotic people who are demographically and so politically threatening to change America forever. They would probably welcome and even cheer cutting off the Free Shit and siccing the FBI on state/local officials who refuse to comply. But they are understandably uneasy about what certainly looks like a metastasizing police state that they fear – also understandably – might wheel around and police them, going forward.
There is also the Epstein Thing – driven off the radar by all of the things just ticked off. But lots of people haven’t forgotten about it and are unhappy about what is clearly an attempt to get them to forget about it.
Now it appears we are on the cusp of a war with Iran that could easily trigger horrendous consequences for Americans, who have no dog in this fight. Israel does. But how – and why – have Israel’s interests become more important than America’s?
It is generally agreed that if the 2026 congressional elections were held right now, Republicans would lose bigly. That is purely speculative, of course – and much can change over the next ten months. But – right now – the thing does not look good.
So, why? What is going on with Trump? There are arguably three main possibilities.
The first is that he’s being ill-advised. This is what many of his defenders said about the inexplicable things he did last time, such as allowing Dr. Fauci to run the country and doing absolutely nothing to prevent what everyone could see was coming when Election Day was turned into Election Months and millions of unvetted absentee ballots were counted – because “COVID.”
More finely, because of the “emergency” declared by Trump that he did not end – when he could have done so long before the 2020 election happened.
Well, has he learned nothing from that? Why did he pick bad advisors this time? And why is he still listening to them? Why did he surround himself with the likes of Hegseth and Miller rather than MacGregor and Ritter?
The second possibility is that he is not right in the head. This is a possibility that edges toward probability when we reflect on his public outbursts, especially as regards not getting the Peace Prize he covets. The man is almost 80 and not in good health (obesity is not good health). It is reasonable to question his mental health at this point, if only on account of his age. People almost 80 are not unlikely to be slipping a little. Everyone knows this. MAGA people were – rightly – very much agitated over the state of “Joe Biden’s” brain.
The third possibility is the one that’s hard to consider. It is that all of this deliberate. That it is literally the plan we were told to trust. Only we were not told the plan is very much different than the one that we were led to believe would put America – and Americans – first.
The actual plan might be to foment chaos, to impose order – a new order. One in which we all had better do as we’re told, because if we do not, those who control this new order will turn off our programmable money and we won’t be able to buy food or gas (or anything else). It could be the birth pangs of the Technate that has been bruited about – quietly – in certain circles, for many years. It would account for the incorporation of Greenland (and soon, Cuba?) into the New Order, a regional hegemony controlled from Tel Aviv via Washington.
Let’s hope not. But hope can be a dangerous narcotic.
Ask anyone who voted for Trump.
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Eric,
If you want to be fair, please put up a picture of the blue haired leftists asking for Papers Please! It grinds my gears that all your funny pictures only critique the right!
ala https://notthebee.com/article/minneapolis-ice-protesters-set-up-road-blocks-inspect-out-of-state-vehicles-check-drivers-papers-because-they–oppose-borders
except they aren’t private citizens when they are “on the job”, funded by our government last years ?
Morning, Steve!
I’ve posted scores of them; see my Diaper Reports!
Mostly 2 plus 1 especially on the Israeli front, but there is another thing to consider. The leftist gargabe spewing from your mouth is not represetative of the situation, and you have lost a lot of respect from a long time reader. You’re plumbing new depths and it’s irredemable. Sad enough I’ll probablly ship your christmas present this month(premeditated vehicular homicide against a federal immigration officer playset sold seperatly). Keep getting your news from CNN, or go to INFOWARS.COM to learn the TRUTH. Pretty was a scumbag, you’re taking the gun comments (that others may be running with) out of context, you’re sold on the Epstein thing even though Trump is the one who dropped the dime on Him, you’re not thinking on the right scale when it comes to geo-politics except where israel is concerned, and you’re missing the point on Venesuala – the reasons why we should and did do it anyway and the boats. It seems whenever the mainstream media wants to take you for a ride you hop along, and are sad for the humanitarian concerns of drug traffickers and paid protesters interfering with obama level deportations. You shitpost pictures of MAGAs looking like bootlickers yet are oblivious to the fact that you also sound like a complete dipstick, and the only people willing to go here now are leftists and bots and the odd irate conservative leaning libertarian who’s on board with Trump, the id running it without a plan, and the only argument you have is 2+2=Q. I really wish Alex would give you a piece of the Truth, but you’re in turncoat Knight’s orbit so I doubt it. Your bias against with more money than you having self interest is a communistical thing, not libertarian. I don’t blame you for shitting on Trump or Musk given the things you’ve been led to believe, I’m just sorry you’ve gone the way of Jessie Ventura in his old age. That’s what happens when you listen to the 52% of all comments on the internet I reccon are bots, steering you in a dopamine cycle of leftism which isnt liberal, and boldface gaslighting lies. Tune in to Infowars some time dude, Alex is on point and at least Trump watches his clips, he’s try to do something about it, and isn’t blackpilled with “Trump’s in on it and Elon is the mega globalist” rethoric. Don’t buy the lie that people hate ICE doing their JOB, and that they’re coming for you. Unless you’re an illegal and then you can FAFO. Keep an eye on the bottom 95% of all agencies not controlled by the executive branch, and the half of those that may have turncoats at the top lying to us and the President. DOGE was real change and that’s why it got shitcanned. All the protests now were funded by the government under biden, and you add to the smear campaign against the only real president, now past his prime, trying to save the country without wrecking the economy. Again I don’t blame you for your conclusions, given the programming you’ve gotten, but calling Trump a pedophile protector is misguided at best. The real point is CIA+ operative protector against a blackmail ring that charges cannot be brought against due to statute of limitations, the out of control and captured judiciary, and the damage it would do to the economy (at least in his mind it shouldn’t happen to the “business elite”). And make no mistake, the blackmail is the barnuts while they get down to the business of money laundering and corruption, and TRUMP got Epstein arrested. There’s nothing to do except disclose, and that is happening. Including the hoax that is the spiked “file” which is what the dems left to be found, SDNY horsecrap against Trump, like publicly avalible photos that have been blurred, ect. Alex Jones got Trump to clarify his statement on that, and Trump said it’ not a hoax, the fact that lies were deliberetly added into evidence by comey’s daughter in te SDNY part of the operation that held those files during biden. But alas, the well has been poisoned, and now we have to suffer everything you write is being put thru the lens of you hate Trump because he’s a pedo who works for Israel (more like government capture and that’s a bigger problem, and yes they have no place in steering our politics, but you can go along with their plans if it’s in our own interests some of the time without being a controlled quack). He’s 80 years old and has had nothing but lies printed about him for 10 years and has to deal with this BS, and on record this time just gets madder and madder and frightens the holdover WH leftist operatives working against him, while he’s actually trying to save the country. That’s not a CIA talking point, not 2+2=Q, just a rant from a now occasional long time reader. Do your worst bots, convince Eric that hes a good leftist and the Orange Man is bad.
Here’s one for ya: https://twitter.com/i/status/2017785008753160285
Not that I trust the DOJ, but I notice how Eric doubles down or changes the subject everytime something good happens, like files being released.
Steve,
Some of the “files” have been released – belatedly, weeks after they were supposed to have been, per the law. We’ll see what happens next.
Hi Steve,
I would like to support Trump – I voted for Trump – but the things he’s been doing are (for me) insupportable because I am someone who does not like police state tactics, technocracy, or double talk.
I mentioned the fact that Trump imposed a bumpstock ban and you ignored it. I mentioned his (and his FBI director’s) alarmingly anti First and Second Amendment statements and you ignore that also. I mentioned the fact that Trump made a big deal about disclosing the Epstein Stuff and then said it was all a hoax and viciously attacked people who asked – what the fuck?
I have pointed out – fairly, I think – that there are better (more effective) ways to deal with the problem of illegals, such as cutting off all benefits. That – logistically – ICE is not going to deport 10 million people. So why send masked goons without ID to cities? The visuals are terrible, the precedent worse.
I have never denied Pretti was an annoying leftist. I have stated that he did not deserve to be shot to death, because it was ICE that over-escalated the situation and – at best – handled it with grotesque incompetence. The man was on his hands and knees when he was shot in the back. It is disgusting. I don’t want to be treated like scum by a thug scrum for bucking the Authoritah of the state. As happened during “COVID,” you’ll recall. That is why I don’t support treating anyone like scum for bucking the Authoritah of the state. Much less summarily executing them while pretending they were a “threat” to “officer safety.”
Trump’s tariffs are both unconstitutional and disastrous; they do not address the compliance problem (the cost of regulations) and so serve no other purpose than to increase costs.
His dismissal of the “affordability” crisis is contemptible and also delusional.
Trump did not run on a promise to regime change Venezuela or annex Greenland – much less attack Iran. If he had, I would not have voted for him. Would you have? Have you forgotten his promise to end the war in Ukraine “with one phone call” on “day one”? What day is it, today?
What is it with Trump’s affection for Israel and AIPAC? Does that appeal to you?
How does the above make me a TDS suffering Leftist? Do facts matter less than hewing to un questioning worship of The Leader? Isn’t that what Leftists do?
Of course, I got the same abuse back during the George W. Bush era, too – from “conservatives” who seem to think that being a “conservative” means supporting things like the Patriot Act, the War on Terror and a “Homeland.” Maybe so. But I am a freedom loving American – and that often puts me as much at odds with “conservatives” as it does Leftists.
Finally, you will note that I have stated facts. I have not abused you personally. I am just trying to understand why you defend what – to me – is indefensible.
Don’t even waste your time on that guy, Eric- He’s obviously about personalities, not principles.
This is exactly correct.
How to know you are in a cult 101…
“Dont talk to others that are not like us” is a common refrain.
You don’t understand what Arthur said, do you?
I do and my opinion of you just dropped. What did he say that I missed? Enlighten me.
I do not think he said anything of merit.
Allen Stevo’s piece over at LRC is in the same vein as Steve’s comments.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/01/allan-stevo/its-time-to-make-up-your-mind-on-illegal-immigration-because-things-will-get-worse-before-they-get-better/
Is OF really cleaning up the leftists? These guys seem to think so. Rogan too, it seems, with his recent “color revolution” comments noted in a piece over at 0hedge today.
Good afternoon Eric, In no particular order due to scrolling limitations:
“I mentioned the fact that Trump imposed a bumpstock ban and you ignored it”
No, you didn’t. That’s a middle of the road issue and the ATF on balance.
“I mentioned his (and his FBI director’s) alarmingly anti First and Second Amendment statements and you ignore that also”
As I plainly stated to your article, the id is running things at this point. What can’t be excused is the FBI directors comments, and I defer to Kyle Seraphin on that prick. It’s a completely captured agency, and is replacing this guy going to do anything at all? – any of these captured agency heads more than talking heads which make no difference and hence are not worth the press of replacing – could be the subject of an article.
“I have pointed out – fairly, I think – that there are better (more effective) ways to deal with the problem of illegals, such as cutting off all benefits.”
You’re rabiddly anti-Elon and DOGE was the best bet at doing that your way. Blocked by Judge too. And government shutdown by dems over that too.
“That – logistically – ICE is not going to deport 10 million people.”
Correct, unless deportations ramp up. Right now is the same precedent as Obama.
” So why send masked goons without ID to cities? The visuals are terrible, the precedent worse. ”
Because they are trying to follow through with deporting as many as possible – something I voted for. Why masked you ask? Because of monies laudered to NGOs from the government pre-paid under the biden years, paid protesters and the media are encouraging people to dox the shit out of these men doing their job. Threatening their families – for enforcement levels not uncommon. Bad optics – extremely if this was under the Bush or anyone sure. It’s going to be bad optics when the paid protesters bring their baby to attack an ice facility at 1am and its zero out and they wonder why ICE tear gasses babies – because they use them as literal human shields. Letting them get away with this (interfering with police operations vs. filming from a reasonable distance) is the bad precident here. After all going to these cities and deporting people for whom they have court orders to find and remove is what I voted for – and it would be easier if the jails notified ICE that wanted illegals are being released from jail back onto the streets – another worse precident. So I think you are being unfair on immigration – something for which the executive branch IS in control as opposed to just picking the talking head for the agency.
Also why – this: https://www.infowars.com/posts/immigration-agents-have-located-more-than-145000-illegal-alien-children-lost-under-biden-admin
“Trump did not run on a promise to regime change Venezuela or annex Greenland – much less attack Iran.”
Trump ran on stopping WWIII. That means maintaining the balance of power in our hemisphere – keeping the russians from influence campaigns in south america likewise the chinese in africa. A golden dome he definitely promised – which is where greenland is, that’s where the missiles will come from is OTH over the poll. As far as ukraine it was a promise he’d try and probablly succeed – a total falure here. Zelinsky is a dictator who only pretends to want peace, and the same can be said about the russians, who like us, have a military industrial complex and need a meatgrinder or an arms race to keep from collapsing. I gave it 80/20 odds hed have that one within a year but no. We did just leave NATO, which is our war with the russians.
“What day is it, today?”
Sunday, dipstick.
“What is it with Trump’s affection for Israel and AIPAC? Does that appeal to you?”
No, obviously not. But to be fair he did run on that, and we both voted anyway. You know as well as I do that AIPAC funds both sides of the uniparty, and without it, nobody gets appointed, nothing gets through congress. Nobody that you want anyway, which is why a lot of the Dream Team is like the 3rd best person to head these agencies that are captured anyway. (we shouldnt have gotten Thune as senate majority leader either)(Trump tells DOT head to legalize small trucks- get it done however you need – how do you think that is going?) How much do you really expect to change from a president? The fact that he is trying in earnest is night and day compared to a Bush v Obama uniparty swamp creature.
“His dismissal of the “affordability” crisis is contemptible and also delusional.”
Yup. That one is definitely sore. Don’t tell people the problem is fixed, tell them that you rightly are working toward that end and have made xyz progress. Alex Jones got the message to the wh to correct that messaging, as well as the Epstein messaging. A hoax indeed is what the dems and the media were leading him into, not the fact that Epstein and the blackmail ring exists. He did clarify. Then disavow. Then backtrack, and now has released 6 million odd documents that were retracted per law, abeit a bit late. That volume is reasonable to expect that deadline was never going to be met IRL. I believe I know why he did it – because he cut a deal and got doublecrossed. That’s not a Q conspiracy, that’s because his CIA director TOLD him to not pursue releasing the files. Which was only a campaign promise as said as a maybe on a podcast interview once during the whole campaign. Protecting elite businessmen and CIA assets from reputational damage – not anything that could be tried given the statutes of limitations – was the trade off. Believe what you want – and you do. The captured DOJ isn’t going after anyone, especially with Trumps golden lawyer who got him off the documents case – which he was allowed to have. ED Martin tanked the DOJ’s internal investigation into Alex Jones case. Trump appointed a guy to investigate the DOJ going after Jones and others, and as soon as he said preserve your records to other DOJ offices, ed martin shut down the newly appointed anti-corruption investigation.
“Of course, I got the same abuse back during the George W. Bush era, too – from “conservatives” who seem to think that being a “conservative” means supporting things like the Patriot Act, the War on Terror and a “Homeland.” Maybe so. But I am a freedom loving American – and that often puts me as much at odds with “conservatives” as it does Leftists.”
We’ve had this conversation. During the Bush era I was a liberal. Then when Obama got in and the left overnight loved the police state I woke up. Libertarian is what I’ve been – leaning toward conservative, but not libertarian party libertarian. Their idea of libertarian is freedom to all 100 genders in any bathroom and basically allign with hillary clinton on everything else by default.
“Trump’s tariffs are both unconstitutional and disastrous; they do not address the compliance problem (the cost of regulations) and so serve no other purpose than to increase costs.”
Totally wrong. He’s 100% within his lane and the constitution to levy tarriffs. Well established precedent, prices are the same, and it’s funding the government in a small way. The function of tarriffs is not to raise prices, its to not allow our enemies to dump cheap products on our markets, so given the choice, an american made product costs the same as a foreign one, and then I get to keep my damn job. The economy hasn’t tanked, and hyperinflation hasn’t set off since Trump got in, and I’m in the business of building plants, and plants and loading docks are going up all the hell over richmond va greater area, so someone is planning on doing a hell of a lot of new business, soon! One thing there is a shortage of is CDL drivers, and I’m glad Trump is going after the ones that can’t even read english. More jobs here for people that belong here! The economy hasn’t tanked yet, dispite the FED’s best efforts. Dispite we didn’t get the DOGE cuts and are still lighting cash on fire inflation hasn’t taken off, the brakes have been put on. It was biden that killed all the animals on his way out, and everything RFK jr himself has done has been great. New food pyramid and 72 shots in the kids or no public school is down to like 12 optional ones now or working on it. Trump took the bait with fauci, and despite RFK jr trying to get the DOJ to prosecute, they won’t follow criminal referrals.
“what makes you a TDS leftist?”
I’ll answer that with a question. What’s our president’s, and for shits and giggles the administration as a whole’s, report card? Compare to Bush and Obama.
Pres Admin
Bush F F
Obama F F-
Trump 1 A D+
Biden F- – F-
Trump2 B+ C+
You seem impossible to please by any metric, the buyers remorse began before he got in. To me, Trump has been the first president in my lifetime that was worth voting for. Where it made a difference who you voted for, where he is not actively trying to destroy the country, get our troops killed, and have them clamp down on the citizenry, dispite the optics.
Or to put a third way, what doesn’t make you a TDS leftist? What you don’t give credit for the president to do something right?- because that is his job and that is what is expected of him?… BE HONEST. WHAT IS EXPECTED OF A PRESIDENT IS FOR THEM TO BE ACTIVELY DESTROYING THE COUNTRY WHEN THEY ARE NOT SHITTING THEMSELVES AS PUPPETS. What a double standard. We have a once in a lifetime real person behind the wheel who isn’t trying to kill us. It’s good as opposed to less bad. That’s why I give him a B.
Saving the best for last, I haven’t bothered to watch over and over pretti get shot, but I did watch what pretti acted like on the 13th. He was in the signal groups, interfering with ICE. On the 13th he kicked their tail light after spitting on them and didn’t get arrested. We’ve watched enough cop encounter videos to know you don’t reach for a gun in a confrontation with police. What was he doing the day before, the afternoon of, that made them chase him down? And when that happens do you run? If you do it’s murder. It’s not a pretty situation, but having a rabid leftist who has been attacking them freak in a confrontation where he’s armed presents a reasonable doubt that the officers would get scared.
The media and the uniparty/democrats podesta plan states, and they have said – that they need to get their people killed. First was the antifa lady who was no good, and that guy was run into (where her wife said go run them down and she takes off at him) then this ugly situation.
Be practical for a second. Don’t you realise that it’s a miracle so far there have only been these few, and not a hundred (not innocent) people gunned down in confrontations who didn’t need to be but regretably were? (such as when a bodycam catches someone getting executed who flees a traffic stop or freaks and the cop magdumps when he feels threatened?)
The podesta plan is in motion, and Trump has made a withdrawl from minneapolis before a truck bomb goes off and gets blamed on ICE to start the civil war. Good on this administration for executing my mandate to the best of it’s ability. Apparently cutting off benfits is not possible, because a judge said so. I wish Trump would bring ICE to richmond, VA because there are no damn jobs here. I would be a mechanic except I would have to paid nothing and worth $1,000 an hour, to compete with the illegals who can change an engine in 30 minutes by having 6 of them manhandle it into place with their hands for $600. Illegals everywhere. And even if it’s targeted only to the criminal ones, that needs to happen because spanberger said even the state dicks will no longer honor ice detainers, not that they did.
So there you have some more of my thoughts Eric. It grinds my gears that whenever something good happens that never makes it to the website here, you’re usually off on some other jag, with pics of MAGA hats eating boots. Try puting up a picture of a foul leftist screaming at ICE for once dude!
You have said a lot and all biases aside, I thank you for your time and candor.
We are not “journalists” by trade who get to spend every waking hour thinking about what we are going to write next and more importantly how what we say will change other people’s minds.
My favorite moment with a journalist happened in Austin, TX. I did not even mean to tear him apart as I did but honesty can be brutal.
My flight home was canceled due to a flood. The only way out was to drive. As I am in line the car rental counter, a man in front is expressing displeasure he has to drive home and he is going to miss his son’s birthday party because of it. Then it comes out by his admission that he was only in town to get a “journalism award”.
I could tell he thought he, like a New Yorker, is better than everyone else because he was a “journalist”. When I said “you dont get these moments back” referring to him missing his son’s birthday just to get a faggy award, he turned pale, turned around, and I never saw his face again.
Gosh, I just don’t know what to say with the very lengthy response. You may have some decent points in there, but I just don’t have the time to read it. Can you give us a summary?
No, if it is TL:DR. You are a lazy bum. Like Shadow said to me, I dont have have time for you anymore.
Crazy Train. That’s the ride we are on. Lotsa haters & dealers in death and destruction all around.
It seems. there ain’t nothin’ nobody can say or do to stop The Crazy Train.
Too many crazy eyes want it to keep rolling.
…Same as it ever was.
When they write the history books about this era, today will stand in infamy, Trump is a complete fake:
https://stateofthenation.info/?p=49298#more-49298
10 HUGE REASONS WHY……
Posted on January 30, 2026 by State of the Nation
The extremely grim reality for the American people is this: Trump has always been MIGA first and never about MAGA. Therefore, anything that the POTUS does which appears to be MAGA is NEVER about helping the American people; rather, those fake MAGA initiatives are all about stealthily:
(i) implementing the Khazarian-directed New World Order agenda and upcoming Great Taking phase followed by the Great Reset,
(ii) funding the Ashkenazi bankster-owned and operated Military Industrial Complex and Central Banking Cartel as well as perpetuating their forever wars,
(iii) empowering the Talmudic predatory capitalists and their major cartels such as Big Tech & Big Media, Big Pharma & Big Medical, Big Ag & Big Food,
(iv) enriching the numerous Jewish billionaire oligarchs via state financing of their tyrannical technocracy and totalitarian control grid,
(v) protecting Israeli interests around the globe especially in the Mideast war zone using entities such as the U.S. military and fake constructs like the ‘Board of Peace’ (See: Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is really a “Board of Predators”),
(vi) supporting all Chabadnik enterprises globally and particularly their covert schemes which compromise and subvert governmental administrations worldwide,
(vii) safeguarding the Epstein blackmail and bribery operation that controls governments and manipulates heads of state,
(viii) prosecuting all Neocon-promoted wars and their exploitative rebuilding endeavors of disaster capitalism across the planet,
(ix) facilitating the overt Judaic takeover of the United States of America and simultaneous collapse of the American Republic,
(x) and advancing the the Zionist’s Greater Israel project toward the establishment of a One World Government with Jerusalem as the capital.
~~~ End of Story ~~~
———————
DO WE GET IT NOW? MAGA WAS A PSYOP ON US.
Trump is not playing 3 dimensional chess, Trump played us for fools while he implemented their satanic agenda, completely selling us out while pretending to be a patriot.
History books write fairy tales. They’ll be naming schools, roads and monuments after The Orange Prick, just as they still do till this very for that murderous criminal Lincoln. They’ll make movies about what a “hero” Fauci was, for “saving the world from a pandemic” (We’ll be portrayed as the evil villains, for resisting the masks and “wonderful drugs”), and The Chimp will be honored “for keeping America safe”.
Just look at what they currently say about creeps like Lincoln, FDR, LBJ, etc. Look at how they currently portray the murderous, communist, terrorist Nelson Mandela as if he were the incarnation of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, already, though the grape Kool-ade and ripple has barely had time to cease flowing from his veins.
Well, I do not think anything will be named Trump anytime soon unless orange
man does it himself.
However my home state has shit named for Cynthia McKinney and Hank Johnson. Yes “Guam is gonna tip over” Hank Johnson.
Lincoln, FDR, LBJ, all had the press in their pocket. In Lincoln’s case, it was by force. I fail to see where Orange Hitler is shutting down The Predator (Whoopi who steals a jewish last name Goldberg) on the View who is critical of him.
History today is yet to be written.
Morning, J1
Have you been following MTG’s latest public utterances? She is saying – and I agree – that MAGA is a lie, insofar as Trump. It is about Trump. Any deviation from total, abject support for everything Trump says and does is “treason,” Trump’s own accusation in re her (and I think Massie as well).Trump seems to think he is the Sun King. The state is himself, in other words.
The depraved clown show in WARshington DC takes an unexpected turn:
‘The Senate’s race to avert a shutdown hit the skids late Thursday night as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) placed a hold on the government funding package, forcing leaders to punt the vote.
‘Senators had been hoping to vote on the so-called minibus after leaders struck a deal earlier in the day and President Trump endorsed it. Under the agreement, the Senate was set to vote on a package of five full-year funding bills and a stopgap measure funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for two weeks.
‘But as lawmakers awaited word on the vote late Thursday, a fired-up Graham emerged from Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-S.D.) office and declared, “We’re not voting tonight.”
‘Graham pointed to language in the bill that would repeal a provision allowing senators to sue if their phone records were collected as part of former special counsel Jack Smith’s probe.
‘The so-called Arctic Frost provision, championed by Graham, passed as part of the bill to end the historic government shutdown last year — and prompted anger in the House. The provision did not apply to House members. The lower chamber stuck in the repeal item in the DHS funding bill, and it is slated to remain in the two-week continuing resolution to keep the department’s lights on until Feb. 13.’
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5714316-senate-government-funding-shutdown/
What ever happened to ‘equal protection of the law’? Senators gave themselves the right to sue and collect damages if their phone records were invaded — but not lowly House members, much less creeping dung beetles like the US citizenry.
I’m beyond caring. But there will be entertainment value, watching the fireworks as Donnie Demento tears into the old alcoholic poofter who until yesterday was his best butthole buddy. Rome’s latter days look positively dignified by comparison.
Did you see, Jim, that the Demon-Rats and some Republicons are trying to slip in amnesty for illegals (supposedly the “non-criminal” ones) into the funding bill? Pathetic…
‘The actual plan might be to foment chaos, to impose order – a new order.’ — eric
Andrew Anglin says the same:
‘The issue of establishing a police state needs to be more directly connected to the Silicon Valley agenda and the Jewish-Israel agenda.
I’ve already said it but you can’t say it enough: ICE is not about immigration. It should never be talked about as if it is. ICE is already linked to Palantir, and is being used to establish a digital police state alongside the physical, militarized police state, and this is going to be used against American citizens, primarily white Christians, who do not want to do what these people in power want them to do.
It is impossible for a Republican to get elected after this Trump debacle and people need to really start thinking about whether they are going to support a group of Zionists around Trump attempting to establish a dictatorship.
This whole thing with talking about the midterms is just absurd. Obviously, whether rigged or not, the Republicans are going to be crushed. While doing wars all over the place and instituting a police state in America, Trump has let the economy go to hell.
https://www.unz.com/aanglin/jews-deliver-a-gay-and-retarded-new-world-order-for-fat-people-and-women/
The sad thing is, voters will swing to the extreme left, kick out the Republicans, and re-elect the Demon-Rat Communists. As if that is going to change anything. We can look at the “bright side”: The Demon-Rats will destroy this country much faster than the Republicans ever could. So for those who just want this whole thing (Civil War 2.0, economy crashing, what have you) to be done and over with, I think one may get their wish.
I don’t know, Shadow, I think the Republicans are doing a pretty damn good job of implementing destruction much faster than anything the Asses have ever done.
I know I said it many times over the years, but this is part of The Rockefeller Center’s playbook from 2010. It doesn’t matter whom votes for whom the future has already been settled. Short of a universal shift (some would call it an Act of God) the playbook has already provided us the end game. Trump was selected (not elected) to destroy globalization. He is doing that. The continued implementation of data centers, the TPTB dreams of digital currency and block chains, Big Brother’s constant roving eye it will all fail. Why? Because, they already told us it will. They know it, but they will try to drain every last dollar of wealth from the Middle and Lower classes before the system explodes.
You are right, RG. Both political parties are merely two wings of the same, evil bird. But convince “voters” that there is a difference, are none the wiser, not realizing nothing changes with having either party in power. Voting does not matter, because if it did, it would have been outlawed long ago. Just look at our own, “beloved” Lisa Murkowski: A RINO Republican that had to implement rank choice voting to keep her job. Now, we have Mary Pelota running, and God help us if she gets elected! Not that her “rival” Sullivan is doing any better. Having “Republicans” in power make it easier for both sides to implement their end-goal agenda, as voters tend to go back to sleep once the R’s are “in power”. Not realizing that, in the end, both sides are destroying the rest of us. Some have wondered if we would be better off under Russian control? You know we have been Fed-Ex’ed to hell when you have to pose that kind of question.
‘Republicans are … implementing destruction much faster than anything the Asses have ever done.’ — RaiderGirl
I concur, though I held the opposite opinion in my foolish youth.
What would forever put this debate to bed, is if Donnie Fubar gratuitously rains destruction on Iran … again. As Andrew Anglin asserts:
‘When there is a stated goal of “stopping weapons of mass destruction,” you then have decades of shaming those who lied about the weapons of mass destruction.
‘[But] when the stated goal is “we’re trying to steal their resources,” the shame will only be that Donald Trump’s people are likely to have a great deal of difficulty in actually making money off of Venezuelan oil.
‘The point is: if there is no pretense, anything can happen for any reason.’
Which is the definition of nihilism — anything goes and nothing matters. It’s the de facto service mark of the R-party. 🙁
Hi Jim,
I held the same perceived notion until Dubya and Friends implemented the Patriot Act which Congressional Elephants continue to pass every time it comes up for a vote. Now, I just dislike both sides equally.
I do have to hand it Trump, if the goal is to put the USSA out of its misery, he is succeeding splendidly. I have never seen such rapid fire decline.
And the S&P 500 just hit 7,000 this week! But the peeps aren’t feeling it. Seems like years since I got a stimmy check. 🙁
Morning, RG!
I feel the same way. Either he is a delusional man or he is some other kind of man. Just last night I watched him – at a rally – mock “affordability.” In front of a crowd of supporters. He is either tone deaf or contemptuous of what regular people are dealing with. Of course, he never has to deal with such things, being a billionaire. This is a real problem, I think. How does a billionaire relate to people who make $120k (or $60k) a year? Same issue with the people who run the big car companies. I have touched on this before. Mary Barra and Jim Farley are paid something like 30 million in one year. That’s generational wealth in six months. How can anyone who is paid $30 million in one year relate to the situation of a person who makes $60k per year? It is an impossibility, almost. Even with the best of intentions.
Yep. How many of the filthily-gotten-rich bastards in the US Congress care what a gallon of gas costs? Or food? Or medical care? Or anything else that we peons have to struggle to obtain — or do without?
I’m watching low class houses here in the QCA, so very many property owners/flippers are asking DOUBLE from just last year.
This is what Trump wants?
“uh-yeah, dumb-ass, he does”.
Apparently you can no longer search “epstein” on tiktok “without being in violation of our community standards” now that Israel first Ellison owns it instead of China.
https://vaticancatholic.com/proof-israel-completely-controls-tiktok-video/
Never heard of Kim Iverson b4, but she has an interesting take on why let rich foreigners in to this country who only want to buy our politicians to serve their foreign country (Here’s a recruitment slogan: “Join the US Army. We’ve been dying for Israel since 2001”).
https://vaticancatholic.com/israelis-brag-about-buying-u-s-politicians-video/
Trump on the other hand wants these pedophile blackmailers, spies, narco terrorists, etc. in the country: “Trump Gold Card. For a $15,000 DHS processing fee* and, after background approval, a contribution of $1 million, receive U.S. residency in record time with the Trump Gold Card.” *Additional small fees to the U.S. Department of State may apply depending on the applicant.
“Platinum Card. Coming Soon* Foreign nationals can sign up now and secure their places on the waiting list for the Trump Platinum Card. When launched, and upon receipt of a $15,000 DHS processing fee and $5 million contribution, they will have the ability to spend up to 270 days in the United States without being subject to U.S. taxes on non-U.S. income.*Those who have ever been subject to U.S. tax on non-U.S. income (e.g., U.S. citizens and resident aliens) are not eligible to apply for the Trump Platinum Card. Additional small fees to the U.S. Department of State may apply depending on the applicant.
https://trumpcard.gov/
Do you think he ever plans on leaving office?
https://www.irs.gov/trumpaccounts
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-account-update-eligibility-taxes-money-kids-11431700
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-accounts-for-kids-jpmorgan-chase-bank-of-america-1000/
https://trumprx.gov/
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/health/2026/01/07/what-is-trumprx-what-medications-could-be-included-on-government-site/88034212007/
‘Trump-class’ battleships
https://theweek.com/politics/list-everything-trump-named-himself
Is that card for real? Why, with a $1 million “gift” per immigrant, Trump could get the country’s $32 trillion debt paid off by welcoming only another 32 million people to the US. Beautiful!
Hey, maybe some of that $15,000 DHS processing fee could be used for Kristi Noem’s legal fees in her malpractice lawsuit against her plastic surgeon?
On the eve of WW3, I found this YT channel that looks interesting to keep up with the war:
Daniel Davis / Deep Dive
Unintimidated + Uncompromised In-depth analysis of War, Nat’l Security, Politics & foreign policy. We take you beyond the headlines & issues shaping our world w/expert commentary and analysis.
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive/videos
He says he’s located in Leesburg Virginia, wherever that is. I’ve listened to him a few times and I get a good vibe off of him, I feel he’s honest … but of course I don’t really know.
BTW I used to like Nick Fuentes, then after CK got assassinated he went haywire with his narratives. There is this rule, any poltical commentator still on YT in 2026 can not be trusted.
One thing no one talks about is that China can dump US Treasury bonds to collapse the USA. China may have dumped half, but the other half is still huge. The USA is heavily in debt, debtors don’t make the rules.
Iran is a huge trading partner with Iran, we just cut China off from Venezuela oil. So is China going to allow us to cut off Iran oil also? I doubt that.
What about China’s belt and road initiative? Tehran is a major node. So is China going to allow us to collapse the Iranian government when Iran is a major partner? Not a chance.
https://www.usfunds.com/media/images/investor-alert/_2018/2018-08-31/comm-mapping-the-belt-and-road-initiatives-progress-08312018.png
That’s not usually how China likes to play though.
They would lose a lot of money that way.
They’ll do that if they have to, but as long as they can make money while holding that threat over our head, they would very much rather do that.
If they get tired of playing that game, or think that has permanently outlived its usefulness to them, or whatever, they will slowly/gradually sell off their holdings. Crashing the dollar is pretty much the nuclear option, and you only get to do that once. But you can threaten it over and over and over again…
If they do crash the dollar, it will be because they have a pretty good idea they can for certain do that and successfully make the Yuan take its place as the one true reserve currency.
In other words, trade one position that they can work to their advantage, for an even better position.
Yeah, he’s good. He has a very good stable of guests.
What I’ve never heard addressed by him or any of his is why Russia was justified in attacking Ukraine because they were killing ethnic Russians, even though it is killing a crapton of civilians. Yet change “Russia” for “Israel”, and “Ukraine” for “Gaza”, and it’s completely different. I’m sure there’s some principle involved, but it’s never been stated.
This is to YJ: Per 1/28/26 DD show w/LJ part of the “ceasefire” to the “12 day war”* was that Iran could sell oil to China.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-says-china-can-continue-purchase-oil-iran-2025-06-24/
To Steve: Yeah, it’s the principle of self determination–(supposably) why we’re going to bomb Iran to help those poor Iranian (Mossad, MEK, ISIS, Kurd) protestors by killing Khamenie and any other leader in Iran who might not support the Shah’s son taking over after 47 years of exile or more likely their country being Balkanized because the Zionists who are so sm art and so rich and so this and so that can’t compete with a country of 90 million. It’s why the UN declared two states in Palestine: one for the Arabs and one for the Jews–so both populations could have self determination, Israel a Zionist “Jewish” state, and the Arabs who’d lived there for thousands of years, an Arab state. DD believes Palestinians are not “terrorists” but have the right under international law to fight for their right to self determination and their property/land. The US should be assisting them instead of vetoing statehood resolution in UN, engaging in genocide and destroying Arab countries due to Israeli blackmail/donations from Zionists.
https://www.972mag.com/gaza-wet-tent-syndrome/
Re: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, DD believes Russia had no choice in the matter. Ukraine is a buffer zone for Russian security from Europe. Warsaw pact disbanded but NATO did not. When Russia agreed to German reunification it was assured NATO would not expand eastward.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_One_Inch
The assurance was verbal and NATO didn’t honor it. Just as US doesn’t want communist countries in Latin America or Canada allying with China, Russia has a right to be secure. That is the way to prevent wars.
AI: “At the 2008 Bucharest Summit, NATO did not allow Ukraine to join but declared that it, along with Georgia, “will become a member of NATO” in the future.” In 2014, US helped overthrow the government of Ukraine that was friendly to Russia. Putin invaded because of 8 years of bullying of the Russians in Ukraine and because of NATO expansion. When Russia and Ukraine were to make peace in 2022, US scuttled it because: “The peace deal aimed to establish Ukraine as a permanently neutral and non-nuclear state that would not join military alliances like NATO or host foreign military bases.”
https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/09/12/biden-harris-official-admits-they-blocked-a-ukraine-russia-peace-deal/
https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/comments/tg9zwp/what_evidence_exists_for_or_against_the_assertion/
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/the-cia-is-behind-protests-in-georgia/
US and Europe are fighting a proxy war against Russia dying to the last Ukrainian. Like Gaza, it is a war crime.
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1769956089183846548?lang=en
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/67774
It’s why the UN declared two states in Palestine: one for the Arabs and one for the Jews–so both populations could have self determination, Israel a Zionist “Jewish” state, and the Arabs who’d lived there for thousands of years, an Arab state. DD believes Palestinians are not “terrorists” but have the right under international law to fight for their right to self determination and their property/land.”
Yes, and Israel went along with it. They forcibly removed Jewish settlers from the Arab lands, including disinterring Jewish graves, to rebury the remains in Israel. And the Gazan’s elected Hamas to be their government. Which spent the foreign aid not on feeding Gazans, but buying and building weapons. That’s why international agencies had to get involved, to keep the aid going to the people instead of being pawned to arms dealers.
And which came to a head Oct 7.
The Gazans could have had Gazastan, but they desired the destruction of Israel more.
This skips an awful lot of history
You gotta start somewhere.
Camp David Accords would be a logical starting point, what with the Arabs having blown their wad and Israel still standing, and still holding all the war gains except the Sinai, which it returned to Egypt in exchange for peace. Then the musloids assassinated Sadat, and that ended.
Or the Oslo Accords. Which were on shaky ground from the start because when push came to shove, Arafat didn’t want to put terrorism aside, and the nutjob right-wingers hated Rabin for the Land for Peace deal so much that they assassinated him, and that ended by mutual agreement.
They are all crazy over there. Just back away and leave them be.
The nutjob right wingers are the ones running Israel right now. DD had a program today featuring a speech by Netanyahu in Hebrew where he declares there NEVER will be a Palestinian state and credits himself for preventing it thus far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP3NNFCv834
You say they’re all crazy and leave them be, but you say nothing when Trump is going to bomb Iran for shooting “protestors.” Why doesn’t Trump bomb Israel instead of supplying the bombs for them to murder 800k Palestinians (2.1 million 10/7/23; 1.3 million freezing in tents today)? Why does Trump put sanctions on Iranian Ministers for repressing Iranian people who have been protesting for 47 years according to him, but sanctions the ICJ and ICC and the UN when they indict Israeli ministers for war crimes (brutal repression of Palestinians who have been protesting for 78 years)? Did you say anything when US murdered 500k Iraqis and destroyed their country? How ’bout the 911 coverup that killed 3000 Americans or the 25 years of war that has cost trillions and left thousands of US citizens dead/maimed? How ’bout when Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 (that’s what started Hezbollah–fighting to end occupation of their own country)?
Israel is famous for fake peace agreements that they never keep–after it was imposed on them (they agreed to it in the ceasefire) they’re finally going to partially reopen (to foot traffic–no aid trucks will enter) the Rafah crossing w/Israelis controlling it to ensure more Palestinians leave than enter.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/rafah-crossing-reopening-was-imposed-on-israel-by-gaza-mediators-us-arab-officials
Arafat is a terrorist, but the Israelis that blew up the King David Hotel and assassinated UN rep Folke Bernadotte (did you see that in “Exodus?”) were “freedom fighters.” Israeli settlers burn olive groves and run over Americans with steam shovels. They raid and burn Arab villages. Israel sodomizes, terrorizes and detains without charge Palestinians (over 10,000 currently). Israelis funded Hamas so wouldn’t have to negotiate with Arafat. Israelis are the terrorists and I’m not backing away or leaving them be until (1) they get the hell out of the West Bank and Gaza, (2) they destroy their own country with all their war making, or (3) they cause Armageddon.
Hi Jack,
I used to live near Leesburg; it’s about ten miles south of the part of Loudoun County where I once lived. It’s a relatively small (well, it was) quaint little “southern” town that people go to – or used to go to – to antique shop and such.
Here’s something else being implemented under the Trump 2.0 administration that is concerning. Even if Democrats take control of the House and/or the Senate later this year, I doubt THEY will do anything substantive to stop it.
https://www.technocracy.news/you-already-have-some-form-of-digital-id-whether-you-know-it-or-not/
Both sides on in on the Zionist agenda at some level, but they will impeach Trump for sure if the war goes sour. Only 9 months to the midterms. IMO Trump will not be able to cancel the elections – unless the USA is being bombed – and that is unlikely.
Morning, Jack!
I think Trump might try. He could send his Hut! Hut! Hut! crews to states that object. Naturally, this will lead to violence and chaos not seen in this country since 1861. Which I increasingly am persuaded is what the creatures want.
I’ve been thinking about that film “The Thirteenth Floor” the past few days. I’ve always avoided looking into Is Real and Palace Time. Now that I have been looking into it, I feel like the protagonist in that film when he came up to the limits of his enclosure. There are endless topics we can discuss and are encouraged to discuss like the culture wars, regulatory creep, hypocritical politicians, etc., and we feel as though we are engaged, aware, awake. We can spend our whole lives doing that and never face repercussions.
That’s not the limit or even close to it, but I feel that I’ve ran up against it and it’s an uncanny feeling of dread. The whole internet is a Hah knee pot, and as another user has said repeatedly here, we are all G zams. I think a couple few hundred pounds of tacticool beating protestors into the ground before shooting them will be just the good old days, after the endlessly growing unsated and hungry beast our country has been feeding comes home to show us all it has learned and how much it has grown. It’s easy and comforting not to think about it while the beast is busy in the “3rd world”.
AI is about chatbots like drones are about taking pictures of homes for sale. Soon it will be time to make America safe for democracy and I’m not looking forward to it a bit.
As for Trump, of course he’s phony. The man has been on television for almost 40 years. The way was prepared for him long ago and our pliable tractable minds conformed.
This is concerning. If ICE gets away with breaking into peoples’ home without a warrant from a judge, what’s to stop the next Democrat president from sending ICE goons to break into the homes of people who own guns, drive a gas vehicle, eat REAL food such as meat, refuse the latest “vaccine” made by Pfizer or Moderna, or something else?
https://rumble.com/v74rwxu-no-warrants-needed-ice-agents-told-to-break-into-peoples-homes.html?e9s=src_v1_cmd%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
Not a damn thing.
Hi Mark,
You may like this. Fmr President Barack Obama recently tweeted heartbreak about ICE’s shooting of Alex Pretti, but comedian Kurt Metzger posted on X about all the brutality & thuggish behavior that went on under Obama’s administration….people who think such behavior from government goons just started with President Trump are DUMB.
https://rumble.com/v74xx4g-obama-heartbroken-about-ice-brutality-he-supported.html?e9s=src_v1_cmd%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
You are a couple weeks late. The USSC upheld the “exigent circumstances” ploy 9-0 on the 14th of January. Cops don’t need a warrant anymore. They don’t need probable cause or even reasonable suspicion. All they need now is an “objectively reasonable basis for believing” that someone inside might be injured or in imminent danger. Case v. Montana.
I give it six months before it’s a commonplace workaround.
Hi Steve: The exigent circumstances exception to obtaining a warrant has been in place for some time now. Although I think there is an argument that this “exception” to obtaining a warrant before entering one’s home is a violation of the 4th Amendment (i.e. in the age of the internet why can’t they just get a goddamn warrant after all), but I see this particular case as a nothing burger. Here’s Sotomayor’s summary for context:
“In Brigham City v. Stuart, 547 U. S. 398, 400 (2006), this Court held that police officers may enter a home without a warrant if they have an “objectively reasonable basis for believing” that someone inside needs emergency assistance. The question presented is whether that standard means that officers must have “probable cause” for the intrusion, as they typically would when investigating a crime. We hold it does not. The probable-cause requirement is rooted in, and derives its meaning from, the criminal context, and we decline to transplant it to this different one. Brigham City’s reasonableness standard means just what it says, with no further gloss. And here it was satisfied because the police had “an objectively reasonable basis for believing” that a homeowner intended to take his own life and, indeed, may already have shot himself.”
Full case link: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-624_b07d.pdf
As much as I hate to admit it, there appears to SOME validity to this exception. Imagine if a person inside a home is screaming from a beating or gunshots are heard. Should the cops really be prevented from rushing inside and rendering aid? In the case of suicide (as in this S. Ct. case) perhaps not, but if it’s violence being perpetrated on another, I think so. With that said though, it’s probably still unconstitutional and any evidence that they collect should probably be suppressed as unconstitutionally obtained.
I don’t think this court holding merits the doom and gloom you’ve expressed.
I understand that. The background to Case, though, includes the undisputed fact that these cops were so deeply concerned that Mr. Case was either injured so badly or was in imminent danger of being so that they took 40 minutes to put on all their GI Joe gear. If he were bleeding out, he’d have been gone by the time they went in.
Not a true “exigent circumstances”. A rather clear FU to the 4th. The correct answer, of course, would have been “exigent means exigent”. If you have 40 minutes to waste, you have time to get a warrant.
Here are some exigent circumstances (but really more a “hot pursuant” case). I’m glad he didn’t wait to get a warrant.
https://x.com/Thefactsdude/status/2016555724684328961
Key distinction. Exigent must logically have a time component, e.g. expediency. There is always a judge on call 24/7/365 for a warrant rubber stamp.
If they have time to “gear up” they have time to go through the warrant kabuki dance. If you hear someone in obvious distress you rush into that burning building to save them. It’s usually the opposite that occurs, you have to hold back someone who really wants to help from endangering themselves. It’s kind of what determines an actual hero from a make believe one. Firefighters and EMTs are running in with tools to assist while the cops are running out to put on more body armor. One is thinking of others, the other is thinking of one.
But things like understanding Constitutionality, reason, logic and consistency are no longer key job requirements of a Justice.
Yes, cops should not be permitted to use bogus claims of exigent circumstances as a pretext to arrest somebody or to investigate a crime where they do not have sufficient probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation of reasonable suspicion that a crime has occurred within a particular place or by a particular person within such place.
Judges and justices should be cognizant of this (although I suspect KJB is intellectually incapable of such consideration).
Trump and his ICE goons are setting the precedent for just that. Are Trump supports in for a surprise when said actions get turned onto them sometime in the future.
If the government under Trump isn’t afraid of killing Venezuelans to steal their oil — or aggressively pursuing Greenland to steal their rare earths — what might the government do to American citizens in order to get their silver, which is sorely needed to complete the buildout of the AI-enabled digital gulag?
I liked this article and give it a thumbs up – apropo as our collective consciousness comes to grip with this orange caligula mad emperor. Trump is a bigger liar and deceiver than you think. Look up David Goldberg material, Project Zephyr and Project Pogo. It is way worse than you think.
I see Trump as a slavish Zionist whore – willingly doing the bidding of a foreign state of Israhell. Trump is very conscious that what he is doing is unpopular with his base, yet he does it anyways willfully breaking campaign promises, etc. So to fool his base, Trump is the king of dog whistles, he constantly says things to ease the fears of what he is really doing. Trump is the snake in that snake poem he read.
So if you watch the pattern, Trump throws bones to his base, he says outloud what you want to hear, then goes ahead with the Zionist plan anyways. He does this every single time. Trump loves the spotlight and the attention, so he strives for an image opposite of what he is actually doing.
Trump is currently saying Iran must agree to the deal, that his mind is not made up yet, he even says he doesn’t even know what he may do next. All lies. He is an actor following a script, Trump is the psyop, ‘trust the plan’ is a meme written in Tel Aviv, Qanon is fueling false hope while the Ziobeast rolls the nation into a Jewish run Bolshevik terror camp.
IMO the plan to attack Iran is set in stone. The recent protests turned Mossad actor riots and Iran coup failed, so the attack was called off and greater forces are being positioned for a bigger attack.
I think we should be objective observers of who he appoints, what legislation he signs, who he endorses, who he funds, who he wants defeated – and never trust a world he says. Satanyahu visited Trump 5-6 times in 2025, that is all you need to know where we are headed – straight to hell.
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See my over the top comments on Unz, and my latest one on these demon preachers who support demonic Israel, got some great graphics put up, always pushing the overton window with the unz mods, lol
https://www.unz.com/comments/all/?commenterfilter=Yukon+Jack
Excellent rant. I have been catching some shit here in the last couple days for criticizing the way true believers regard others who do not share their beliefs but what it does is confirm that for many the programming is just too deep. My mom had a copy of The Late Great Planet Earth, watched the Billy Graham crusades and went looking for a “truer” church of the kind that rented out space at the YMCA to hold “services” not to mention going to Wednesday Bible studies. Trust me, be around that shit LEAVES SCARS. She actually moderated somewhat later but I have a hardcore Pentecostal cousin and his wife their whole LIVES revolve around that insanity it is seriously incomprehensible. I feel sorry for their 13 year old daughter but it looks like she buys into it where as at her age I already had SERIOUS problems with what I was told. And of course these people go on and on about “cults” when they are in the biggest cult of all.
The Orange Turd understands this and skilled con man that he is has cultivated what he knows are the easiest marks. I don’t have any real sympathy for anyone that gullible but I unfortunately I have to care as their love of the genocidal apartheid state in the Middle East may result in my getting vaporized in a mushroom cloud. It is madness, to put it mildly.
You’ll like this one:
https://www.unz.com/article/ted-cruz-the-gaza-war-and-the-scofield-bible/#comment-7484088
Morning, MC!
As a kid, my sister and I used to watch and laugh at Ernest Angley, who would tell viewers to pt their hands on the TeeVeee to get saved. I’m pretty immune to any sort of religious mania on the principle that manias are generally unsound. Reflecting on life’s purpose and whether there’s more to existence than what we can see and establish as objectively true is I think necessary to the health of any human mind. But I – like you, I suspect – get creeped out by expressions of certainty about anything that cannot be demonstrably established as fact or at least probably fact.
@ MetalQueen
“My mom had a copy of The Late Great Planet Earth, watched the Billy Graham crusades and went looking for a “truer” church of the kind that rented out space at the YMCA to hold “services” not to mention going to Wednesday Bible studies. Trust me, be around that shit LEAVES SCARS.”
Yes, I very much agree, religion is psychic mind abuse that leaves scars. The internet is full of recovering Catholics, Mormons, Evangelicals, Baptists, etc.
When I was at university way back in the 1970s I was handed a copy of The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey. At the time, I liked that book because I could see our society going to hell, yet I’ve never been a Bible believer, not even when I was forced to attend Catholic school for 12 long years. I was that guy who hated it every step of the way.
Later in life, I became an internet writer after the 911 event. 911 was the wake up call, because I could remember the day JFK died, as a wee lad I knew things were horribly wrong, but had no idea what was really going on. Well after 911, I learned that Israel killed our beloved sitting president JFK and also did 9112001 not to mention the attack on the USS Liberty – which is symbolic of the supremacist Jews attacking our liberty.
Now it is all out in the open”
IT’S THE JEWS! It’s their supremacist religion. And we were cucked to it with Bible indoctrination. The kike holy book is the downfall of western civilization, absolutely no doubt about it. Time for us to wake up and save our race by shit canning the holy babble.
I bet no one on this forum now doubts that Israel is trying to control us every way they can, including taking our guns and canceling the first amendment. Trump is about to destroy Amerika by kowtowing to Jews and Israel. But even that is a misnomer, Trump is a willing actor for Israel, IOW a god damned traitor.
But I digress, I also became a writer on Veteran’s Today for a short while and wrote some revealing essays on Billy Graham and Hal Lindsey, which you may find interesting if not liberating:
http://web.archive.org/web/20131008172040/http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/08/04/billy-graham-possessed-by-the-memes/
http://web.archive.org/web/20131005181516/http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/08/02/why-alex-jones-bashes-the-nazis/
My first essay on Veteran’s Today was about the charlatan evangelist hal lindsey:
https://www.jewworldorder.org/guess-who-killed-america-hal-lindsey-say-it-isnt-so/
“Israel is unique because it is a nation based on a belief that God promised the Jews some land. Never mind the fact that the Jews wrote the book concerning this claim. No god means no Israel. Think about that, and think no American believers also means no Israel, so one can surmise that Israel only exists because of what Americans believe. It isn’t just weapons and bank loans, it is a belief that floats Israel and unfortunately for Americans, who are not religious, they also suffer what Eustace Mullins correctly labels a parasite.
The parasite must control the host in order for the parasite to exist. Israel needs America, America doesn’t need Israel. That’s why Israel MUST sell itself via the preachers. Christianity is the bedrock of Israel, without preachers like Hal Lindsey herding large segments of Christianity could Israel even exist? The vast majority of Zionists are Christians, not Jews. Is it an accident that Jewish owned and controlled television has a slew of pro-Israel televangelists spewing hatred of Muslims and whipping America into non stop support of Israel?”
If I have an ideological enemy on this god damned hell hole planet it is internet writer Michael Synder. Here he is talking about how Hal Lindsey’s book changed his life:
Hal Lindsey Has Died – Michael Snyder Shares How Hal Had A Dramatic Impact On His Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1n-eFGBwbI
Michael Synder must not be very intelligent, because first of all The Late Great Planet Earth predictions not only failed, Hal Lindsey just made it all up. These dipshit Dispensationalists got so wrapped up in Bible fiction they connected OT verse with NT verse and created out of thin air their whole end times times lines.
You can not predict the future when your original source material is completely made up fiction, and the basic premises of the Holy Bible are false.
Bible premise – god loves and cares about us. Tell that to the Palestinians.
Bible premise – the Bible is true because the Bible says it’s true.
Bible premise – god chose one tribe written by the tribe god chose.
Bible premise – you have to get saved because the fable of god cursing Adam and Eve in the Garden is literal.
Bible premise – you are damned because of your sins, yet no such thing as sin exists. Sin is only a theological construct to make you feel guilty so the priest can control you.
Hi Jack,
It’s a shame people (most people) can’t or won’t just live – and let live. Br reasonable. Be tolerant of different views/ways of life (so long as no one’s being harmed, etc.)
I am an admirer of the Stoic emperor, Marcus Aurelius (and also Epictetus).
Thanks, Jack!
Likewise, I like what you’ve written here and don’t disagree with any of the points you’ve made. Trump is indeed a dog whistler. He oozes contempt for the fools (as he regards them) who lap up what he says while he does just the opposite, almost literally shitting in their faces.
I read somewhere recently that argued there is MAGA and there is Trump. Trump is not MAGA, he is Trumpian.
He is given to changing his mind, several times a day it seems. I believe this stems from his lack of a set of principles. He does what he thinks will benefit him most at the time.
That doesn’t make him an outlier, but it does make him unreliable. A directionless leader. Where will we end up as the captain helms the ship without a map, heading for the next shiniest thing on the horizon?
We’ve had a couple centuries of predictable, reliable politicians. How has that been working out?
I have said it before, and you can listen to what I say…. you CANNOT listen to what Trump says.
He says everything because it puts people off and in doing so, he is better informed. He recently said some anti-2A remarks. It is not the first time he has done so and then protected the 2A with ACTION.
The pres recently did something pro freedom in the cannabis arena but everyone here is too busy screaming about the Orange Chimp to notice.
Hi J,
Action? Wasn’t it Trump who oversaw the bumpstock ban? Hi actions with regard to regime-changing and poodling for Israel have been pretty clearcut as well. Am I wrong – on the facts, I mean?
Unfortunately, it WAS Trump who oversaw the bump stock ban. Everyone was fretting that it would be Obama (the greatest gun salesman ever!) or Biden that would implement gun control, and in the end, it was “one of their own” that did just that! Trump was NEVER a “conservative”. Whatever that means these days. Trump being re-elected means “conservatives” and his supporters will go back to sleep, thinking all is well. While they are asleep, he will help destroy the country far faster (and with less push-back) than Diapered Biden or Cackling Kamala.
Unfortunately, we’re also seeing what appears to be the technocratic agenda being implemented under the 2nd Trump administration, and we could be seeing a Vance v Newsom race in 2028; Vance having connections to Technocrats Peter Thiel, and Gavin Newsom with his connections to the WEF.
That’s my worry as well, Shadow –
The badge-licking (and flag humping) thing has always appalled me. I do not understand “conservatives” who say they do not like – do not trust – “big government” who at the same time put all their trust in government enforcers.
Wait… what? Liberals like you want to put white suprmacist bootlickers like me under the bus. Yeah, i am fucking tired of being insulted, especially by my own race.
Yeah, keep ad hominem attacking. The TDS continues to grow stronger. The sad part at this point is that Eric wants to die on the Pretti hill. That is not the hill to die on. All we can do is try to pull him back, but at this point, Eric is a casualty.
Am I asking Eric to tow my line? Not at all. Am I asking Eric to be obejective like he used to be, absolutely. Is he? Not at all.
Hi J,
If I am a “liberal” for being appalled by armed/masked goons on the streets of American cities and the cowardly/brutal murder of a man who was not armed and not a “threat” to the “safety” of said armed/masked goons, then perhaps it is an honorable title. It was one Jefferson proudly touted.
An unfortunate situation, agreed, he did. The whole Vegas shooting leading up to it was also suspect.
One loss out of a lot of 2A victories, I will take it.
I suspect bumpstocks will be legal again. It will just take time. In the meantime, just use your belt loop to achieve the same effect.
Again, no matter what, it is just sour grapes here.
Morning, J!
The “sour grapes” – speaking just for me – are the fruit of disappointment with Trump, who did not promise to be a regime-changer (among other things). He is behaving oddly, in a manner that is I think legitimately concerning – e.g., his weird statements about the peace prize and Norway. That latter – by itself – is not something that would concern me that much. But there are so many other things lately that do concern me very much. Including his attacks on Massie and MTG – who he styles “traitors” merely because they have disagreed with him on a few (important) issues, such as not putting Israel Uber Alles. As by threatening to attack Iran – again. How does attacking Iran benefit Americans?
It is very frustrating for people like me who had hoped Trump would prove to be better than he has proved to be so far.
Sorry, but is the Orange Hitler supppose to return a dictator? No kings!
Venezueala will never be fully exposed to us lay people, but standing back, it was a show of force by every standard.
Sonic and EMP weapons were used and the US walked right on in and took a dictator from a military base without a single casualty on the American side.
Gangster across the board. Like it or not. Totally sent a message to the rest of the world.
I did not vote for regime change but it appears that behind the scenes, it had to happen.
So, going by Eric’s current logic, we should send the dictator back?
This is not Eric’s logic at all. Eric’s logic is that the US government should never have invaded Venezuela and killed a bunch of people in the first place in order to kidnap a foreign leader. This is an act of war, committed against a country that never attacked the US and was absolutely no threat to the US.
Trump lied through his teeth, claiming that this was about illegal drugs coming from Venezuela, even though only a tiny fraction of drugs entering the US come through Venezuela. He labeled Maduro a narco-terrorist, even though one of the largest drug runners in the world is none other than the CIA. Maduro is being charged with having machine guns, as though Venezuela is bound by US laws and under US jurisdiction.
The actual reason for the invasion was to force Venezuela to sell its oil in dollars rather than yuan, in order to prop up the dying dollar, which will continue on its path to oblivion anyway due to the continued debasement of the dollar and the US government’s unpayable debt.
Regarding the fact that Maduro is a dictator, this is completely irrelevant as far as US foreign policy. There is a long list of dictators all over the world that the US government has supported and continues to support. The US government doesn’t give a damn about the liberty of any foreign citizens who are ruled by dictators. All it cares about are that the dictators are friendly to the US. It is now supporting a terrorist dictator in Syria who is a former leader of Al Queda/ISIS.
Thanks for the back-up, Martin!
What you’ve written is inarguable. I’d only add that it is absurd for Trump to rant about “drugs” when his besties – guys like Bourla – are the real drug pushers. Bourla and company have done far more harm to America and Americans than the “narco terrorists” he talks about. But Bourla will never be indicted for anything – much less snatched out of bed and dragged to prison.
Hi J,
The Venezuela action was – among other things – completely arbitrary and also unjustified in the sense that Maduro was no more a “threat” to the United States than the current leaders of many countries, including Ukraine. What about that “dictator,” by the way? He’s also a thug and implicated n various real crimes. Yet instead of snatching him like Maduro, Trump treats him as if he were a “president.” There is also the odious “Netanyahu” – who has been indicted for war crimes. Yet he is also treated as a respected leader.
I am simply trying to hew to principles – standards – rather than overlook them when it is perhaps situationally convenient.
J:
Well, I’m here and I couldn’t care less about bump stocks (except as how it might be an insight into 2A attitudes of those wanting a ban).
Why do you feel the need to bellyache about the “sour grapes here” or that “everyone here is too busy screaming about the Orange Chimp?” This particular article is a critique of Trump and commenters are commenting about the article critiquing Trump. What else should they do regarding an article critiquing Trump?
If you think folks “here” are missing something or you have a different opinion, that’s great. Tell everybody. However, I never understand why people voluntarily insert themselves into a group and then start bellyaching about the group to the group. Unless, the goal is to undermine or sow dissention amongst the group.
By the way, do tell about what Trump did with regard to cannabis that was pro freedom. I don’t know what it was.
‘On December 18, 2025 President Trump issued an executive order instructing the attorney general to expedite the process of rescheduling marijuana [sic] already underway.’
https://tinyurl.com/n9ykc86h
*takes another toke of ‘sour grapes’ liquid resin* 🙂
Ok, I’ concede that in the freedom to tyranny to continuum this is a step toward freedom, but it still allows for the criminalization of a plant (i.e. a thing created by God).
To borrow a line from the Wolf in Pulp Fiction, let’s not start sucking each others c**ks about Trump just yet.
It is not just about cannabis. This is a “yuge” 2A victory as there is a question on the Form 4473 that with a reschedule changes everything.
But no, let us die on the bumpstock hill.
Hi J,
Here’s the trouble as I see it: If you support the bumpstock ban, then how do you oppose banning “high capacity” magazines and “assault weapons”? Trump has given clear evidence that he does not support the principle that merely owning certain firearms and accessories constitutes some kind of nascent criminal act that must be illegalized. My point being essentially the same as that I have made bwfor regarding taxes. If it is accepted that government can force you to hand over a penny then it can force you to hand over every cent you’ve got. In other words, what you are allowed to keep is just that. And for only as long as you are allowed.
Puff puff pass. Post of the day. What a really creative way to turn the tables.
Anyone who lived through the “champagne and caviar” 1980’s probably knows Trump is all hot air and spray paint. He basically created flipping properties as a legitimate way to earn a living.
The tackiest lobby wins!
So when he fails to deliver, maybe we should be happy he hasn’t done worse.
To paraphrase Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion, For every action there is an UNequal and opposite GovCo OVERreaction.
Sanctuary Cities, as they’re styled, choose to not turn over violent felons to ICE when they have them in custody for the crimes they’ve committed. This has resulted in many “catch and release” illegals to go on their merry way to assault and harm the citizenry.
What is Federal GovCo’s reaction? They act like they’re repeating the siege of Fallujah.
And, it’s what BOTH sides want.
Those of us that are politically homeless are left to shake our heads at these cartoonish buffoons despite the deadly consequences.
Judge Napolitano nails it again today on LRC: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/01/andrew-p-napolitano/american-gestapo-american-psycho/
As did Ryan McMaken, in another essay at Lew Rockwell’s site today:
‘Each new administration will prompt out-of-power groups to resist federal power, and this will be followed by ratcheting up federal power to ensure that “America” remains “united.”
‘The result will be exactly what we have witnessed over the past century: an ever larger federal government in which the pursuit of “unity” justifies an ever tighter federal grip on the nation.
‘There will be no escape from this until Americans finally abandon their romantic and naive view of unity and begin to demand disunity, division, secession, and the dissolution of the American state.’
*sigh*
We could have sorted this all out 165 years ago. Lord knows we tried …
R-party on the ropes:
‘Senate Democrats and a few Republicans on Thursday blocked a major government funding package that needs to pass by midnight Saturday to avoid a government shutdown.
‘A motion to advance the bill failed by a vote of 45-55.
‘Eight Republicans joined all Democrats in voting against it, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.). Thune was a late “no” vote and immediately entered a motion to reconsider the package to give him flexibility to bring it back to the floor soon.
‘Democrats blocked the funding package, which includes six bills, because it includes funding for the Department of Homeland Security.’
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5712883-senate-funding-vote-government-shutdown/
Repukes are in a jam. The House-passed minibus bill, which adds $10 billion to ICE funding, can no longer get passed again if the Senate modifies it. That’s because the death of Alex Pretti changed the political calculus.
So Repukes are hoist on their own petard, writhing like helpless little bitches, as I gleefully fling feces at them from the peanut gallery.
Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) and seven Republican senators voted against the measure:
Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Ted Budd (R-N.C.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ashley Moody (R-Fla.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.).
Senator Thunetang (R-SD), who supports the minibus, cast a strategic ‘no’ vote, so that he can move for reconsideration of the vote under Senate rules.
But Jim!
It’s the best economy ever… it’s huge. (Like the load in his pants.)
I voted for Trump all three times he won, but I NEVER signed on to the cult of personality. I never believed that Trump (of all people) could singlehandedly “Make America Great Again.” Feminism, gluttony and obesity, debt, stupidity, arrogance, sodomy, Jewish power, military imperialism, millions of illegals — these have been problems for several decades and are deeply woven into the debased American culture. In order for Trump to REALLY turn that stuff around, he’s actually have to be the “fascist” he is being accused of. And he’s not.
I voted for Trump as 1) as a tactical matter, for him to throw a monkey wrench into the gears of the Leftist machine, and 2) for entertainment value, because NOBODY else had the balls to call out Hillary as “crooked” to her face or call out the media as “fake news.”
I am deeply disappointed in Trump’s subservience to Israel, and his fetishes for Greenland and Venezuela are just plain stupid. I think he is blowing an opportunity to make a real dent in the Leftist machine that has been in place for almost a century.
But if all Trump does is buy me some more time, I’ll take it. I’m not going to live forever, and every minute I do not live with the high heel of the shrieking Karens on my throat is a blessing.
Perhaps the greatest contribution that Trump has made to the body politic is that he has ripped aside the curtain and revealed the Left for who they REALLY are. The Left does not believe in elections, and they do not believe in free speech, they do not believe in defending the border. They will weaponize the criminal justice system against political opponents. They completely ignore the Constitution when it suits them. They HATE white people and want them replaced with Third World brown people. They HATE white men in particular and want us dead. They actually think chicks can have dicks and shaved headed lesbians in flannel shirts and work boots are “pregnant men.” They are fucking DERANGED — not a single day goes by when come insane bitch does not make the news for saying how she wants to kill MAGA people, kill Trump, or kill ICE officers.
Just the other day in Virginia a hospital nurse got canned for saying that medical professionals should inject ICE officers with paralyzing drugs. This is supposedly someone who is “educated” and “professional,” just like the deceased Mr. Pretti.
They are violent, crazed fucking communists and Trump has enraged them to the point where they no longer even try to hide it.
That clarifies the situation A LOT. If Trump serves no other useful purpose, he has enabled us white men to have advance warning of exactly who it is we are up against.
Take heed.
MWPNPA.
Amen.
61% of the US is ‘non-hispanic’ white. 73% of senior citizens are NHW; 47.5 of 18 and under are NHW. Deporting every illegal will not change that. You blame leftists for what we ALL did giving up religion/family/children/discipline/sobriety for freedom/money/self gratification/dissoluteness. Even if you got machine guns and death camps, you have no white population so the vacuum would refill. As you say you’re on your way out and so now you boomers are taking the constitution, Bill of Rights, and rule of law with you. Pretti and Goode were both NHW citizens exercising their constitutional rights. MWPMPA means nothing without the constitution and bill of rights.
https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1qo389f/jon_on_alex_prettis_killing_dhs_vs_video_evidence/
Of course this article on ZeroHedge may show his next target:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-officials-held-secret-meetings-prominent-canadian-group-seeking-secede
Either way I doubt we are amused but it’s not like GovCo and its Reps care what we think.
That’s what we might call a dilemma…..or even perhaps a Hobbesian choice. The western Canadian folks, like those in eastern WA and OR, would benefit from removing themselves from the control in Ottawah, Portland and Seattle, but joining the sinking ship of the U.S. would only give control of their resources to actors like Trump et al. Hey, in another sphere, in Canada, as I understand it, one must submit to the clot shot in order to take the government’s MAID program….(I’ll take euthanasia for $400 Alex). You can’t make this shit up.
Forget what people say about Alberta being “Canada’s Texas”. That’s dumb anyway, since Texas is purple.
We don’t want Alberta and its for life 7 “RINO” congressmen and two senators.
There is at least one 4th possibility.
“I’ve got news for you, pal. They’re gonna nail us no matter what we do, so we might as well have a good time.”
— “Otter” (I think) Animal House
Y’all lay supinely when the Hammonds were prosecuted on terrorism charges for setting backfires to protect their land from being burned once again by feds pulling a “controlled burn”.
Y’all turned your bellies up when LaVoy Finicum was shot under what looked much more like an execution than either Good or Pretti.
I’ve been lurking a long time and don’t remember any timely articles at all about the Bundys.
What is it that y’all only get cranked up when it’s commies getting shot? Where’s this “principle” thing y’all claim to be acting on?
Who’s this “Y’all” you speak of, Kemosabe?
Of course, the problem with your logic is that you could have simply left comments in an article about the Hammonds, Bundys or Finicum with: “Where were Y’all when Randy Weaver’s wife was killed? Where were Y’all when Waco was set a blaze. . .” And what if timely articles were written on each of them (Eric may have), would those articles have prevented Trump’s actions today?
I don’t get your point?
So where was all this angst when the Supremes (sic) just this month gutted the 4th Amendment in Case v. Montana? 9-0. January 14, 2026. Or don’t libertarians give a damn about the 4th Amendment? This one even involved a hut, hut, hut, an officer who misperceived what the hutee was holding, and so naturally shot him. Every essential element to get at least one mention, at least by the standards of Good/Pretti, with one exception — he was in his home at the time, the cops busted in and shot him.
I’m not saying you are commies. I think you are just lazy, only objecting when the mainstream media tells you to be outraged. Since the media didn’t cover it, crickets.
So you posted here on January 14 to alert us to this development, right?
Of course not. There was no relevant article, and I abhor the very idea of hijacking discussion from the topic at hand.
Yeah, Jim H, you lazy bastard! 🙂
Be more like Steve from now on. When events aren’t reported in the media, he employs osmosis to be aware of them and then faithfully and forcefully pushes back against the tyranny.
All you need to do is get your nose out of the Zionist-controlled media once in a while. This is the story they’ve been pushing, what they want us discussing, and we are.
*Slow clap.*
Steve: When I grow up, I want to be just like you.
I wholly agree that much of the media is controlled by Zionists, what media source do you suggest?
I am under the belief that the media source you follow is EPAutos
It does seem the topics and discussion threads here follow predictable outrage indicators. I don’t think the author or the commenters are controlled at all. The opposite actually, I think it’s one of the few places that you get unfiltered honesty. I just think it’s armchair quarterbacks and keyboard warriors. Lots of complaining. When push comes to shove, nothing. Like as you watch the state burn around you but won’t move to a more free state. That’s fine, but if you want to stake your claim and save then spilling ink to a small number in an echo chamber isn’t doing anything. I saw the writing on the wall, picked up and moved from CA a bit more than 20 years ago. I was a 3rd generation. I found TX suitable but even here is showing signs of failing. I’m at the point I have to decide to move again or what. I’m not a politicians but maybe it’s my time to throw a hat in the ring. All I know is sitting around telling a few other anonymous libertarians and monitoring FBI agents how bad it is doesn’t change anything.
What’s to be done then? Where do you go? What do you do?
Reading Eric’s articles and the excellent comments here, as well as commenting myself, helps my get my thoughts straight. I work things out here and then I can evangelize IRL about freedom, liberty and truth. Perhaps it’s an echo chamber (although I don’t think so), but it’s largely a propaganda-free zone, which is hard to come by in this Bernays-ian world. That was never more clear during than the “pandemic” when just about every media outlet lost its mind except this one.
This site has lots of value to me.
Hi Killroy,
I share your frustration; what to do? Well, for my part, I do what I am equipped to do – which is to write about these things and (hopefully) in a productive way. When I was a kid, I came across the writings of Mencken and Leonard Read and Spooner (among others). These greatly influenced my thinking and – I hope – my acting. It is my hope that, perhaps, my writing mnay do the same for others. For whatever that’s worth.
I love all the old classics, but it sort of highlights my point. When’s the last time the pen stopped anything? The pamphlets of the American Revolution were probably highly effective as moving the needle positively. Much published since seems to only have benefits the collectivists.
I tend to think that when they say the pen is mightier than the sword they left out that you have to actually have something to say and offer.
Pointing out the absurdity is fine as far as it goes. You must then suggest real alternatives and solutions. Upton Sinclair in The Jungle showed the reality and there was a brief period of improvement. But a century later the meatpacking industry is no different other than appearing more sanitary on at a superficial layer.
The people who heard the message didn’t wait for the system to reform itself, they removed themselves from the system as best as they could.
What that means, I don’t know. All I can say is there is no one solution. Staying put and fighting is one option, retreating to a position of strength is another. It’s a thin line between real reasons and vain excuses, though. Just because you have a history of a place isn’t a solid reason to stay. It’s arbitrary, just a place. In 1625 pilgrims who left had a chance to survive, those who did not fared worse. They had two options, both with high risk but one the success or failure hinged on things they could control.
The point I’m laboring to make is I’d choose to stay if my pocket of resistance has a realistic chance of being the spark that ignites a prairie fire. If you know and trust your neighbors, family and larger community then that’s a good place.
If you’re an outlier pocket where it seems things will trend against you then I would leave.
I was proven right I think during COVID. My sisters both still lived in CA then and had all the masked shrieking Karens. One of them is kind of a Karen herself, she’ll go down with the ship out there. My other sister is pragmatic. She recently moved to Arizona.
Me on the other hand, COVID wasn’t a big deal. There were true believers but the majority of my little west Texas burg mostly ignored the bull. I might have donned a mask a few times and when I did it was a bandana.
So, yes, where you’re at makes a difference. When you looked around during COVID did it seem like a place you could trust each other when SHTF or not?
Hi Killroy,
Yes, I agree. And it’s why I like where I am. Yes, it’s Virginia. But it’s also rural SW VA and a small county, where I know lots of people and they also know me. My neighbors are good people. I have good friends minutes away. The kinds of friends I can call at 2 in the morning and summon for help in an emergency – and they’s be here. The shoot, shovel and shut up kind of friends. That is not something to take lightly or give up on easily.
Hi Eric, I hear ya on the good neighbor/friends aspect. Unfortunately I lost those “neighbors”after the father had a stroke and could not work anymore. They lost their home and moved away. We still keep in touch and they are doing ok now. However, if they were still there next door I probably would be too.
I really get that aspect because after they had left, new crappy neighbors moved in, my home did not feel like home anymore. It was a house that I traveled long distances daily just to be outside the city and have a view of the Blue Ridge. It was still a great place to be, but the magic seemed to disappear after losing a great neighbor.
“Don’t know what you’ve got, til it’s gone” – Cinderella
Well-said, J –
One of my oldest friends – we’ve known each other since we were idiot teenagers – lives just down the road from me. He and his son came over the other day to give me a hand with the Trans-Am (I needed someone to keep the engine from turning over while I torqued down the new flywheel). Another good friend from the same era lives not much farther down the same road. I know pretty much everyone who lives on my road. This gives a sense of “home” as much as the home, itself. That said, with the Pants Suited Fuhrer and her minions now running the state, it could become intolerable, quickly. Roanoke – about 30 miles distant – is a nest of Blue Hairs (the real ones) and that is a little too close for my comfort. I ponder West Va sometimes. I just don’t know whether it’d be better enough to make it worth the move…
“I might have donned a mask a few times and when I did it was a bandana.” -Killroy
Ok, then you complied with and perpetuated the tyranny. Congrats. Eric and many here, including me, never masked up and did not comply with any of the stupid mandate nonsense. I prided myself in acting as an example of freedom to others. I got many nasty stares and comments (bring ’em on), but occasionally a frightened person would come to me, take off the mask and talk to me about how awful the tyranny and social pressure was to don that dirty rag. I’d have a friendly conversation and encourage them to act like a free human being. Most times he or she would then muster the courage to walk away without masking up again knowing there was some support out there. I also decided to impose a cost on everybody trying to impose mandates on me, which became very successful, as I fatigued them out. After the second or third time, they would just give up on me, and soon others. The little efforts of the assholes like me started to create a cumulative effect which helped end all of the shit.
When’s the last time the pen stopped anything? Eric’s digital pen, along with a core group of commenters all came together here in 2020 (it may have been one of about 10 places on earth and the internet) to remain free and which fueled our dedication to freedom, which in turn caused us to defy all of the bullshit and evangelize the same to others. It was very important. Eric would drive to his local hospital and share footage showing virtually zero patients at the “overwhelmed” ER. This caused me to drive to my local hospital where I witnessed the same. This site helped us all realize in very short order it was all a lie -every goddamn bit of it. I used to say on this site that I learned to enjoy the fight because it helped me exercise my fuck you muscle. I like to think I had a positive effect on others here.
The pen causes ideas to spread, which in turn influences people. That has a huge positive effect. Discounting this with a demand that he or anybody “must then suggest real alternatives and solutions” is entirely unreasonable.
You might decide to cut and run because you can’t win, but others might not be so pessimistic, or perhaps they’ll just ignore the rules, live freely anyway to one extent or another and/or fight back. How can a reform occur if every liberty-minded individual decides to get out of town? The King followed the Pilgrims to North America and imposed tyranny, yet their progeny didn’t cut and run, they fought and won (don’t get me wrong, the Pilgrims were anything but freedom-loving libertarians). If I don’t like where I live I’ll leave, but if not, I’m perfectly happy staying and saying fuck you. During the “COVID tyranny, I would be asked how long I could go on fighting it all. My answer: I can do this forever!
I learned “during COVID” that I can’t trust anybody anywhere, not even (and perhaps especially) family members. Once you realize you’re ultimately alone in this world, a certain peace comes over you and you can then act accordingly.
While there are many who might think I am new here, back during the scamdemic, Eric postulated that he would let his hair grow out rather than subit to sickness kabuki at the barbershop.
I agreed. Not because Eric said it, but because when I went to the barbershop, the kabuki was huge and the wait times long.
The barber saw me and waved through the window as I was a regular. I smiled and waved back. I did not return for 2 years. When I did, it was to visit his new female barber to clean my head up because I knew she could handle my long hair and the needs men with long hair have that women do not. (Example being clean and tidy sideburns and neck hairs cleaned up.)
The scamdemic changed a lot of things. I was a vehement anti-masker, but also had to be employed. Bills do not pay themselves. Living in a conservative state, it was pretty easy to avoid the diaper madness. Having the major city liberal controlled though, you eventually cannot escape the madness. What I found was that most people did not care. The people to give me the worst crap and did while I was at work and NOT in a position to represent my employer in a poor manner, were black, anti-white racists whom had found a new power. Except one. A fat fuck of a liberal at Trader Joe’s. I never wanted to deck someone so bad, but no, unlike Pretti, I behave when I am packing. At no point can you be seen as “starting it” if a situation goes down. It was a quick job so I just complied instead of pulling my usual “Im complying but finding every possible way to break the ‘rule'” normal behavior. I did my job professionally but the asshole lost all the Southern hospitality that I would have given in the performance of my job, and the store never saw another dollar of my cash. When I say the store, I really mean, the chain never saw another dollar of my cash.
During all of this, I was able to see it as a practice for what comes next. Am I in the best spot? Probably not, but I have my best bro and long time friend here and I am no longer around the entitled golden (read black) hordes that will push out in search of their survival during the next event whom are hating “whitey” at an all time high right now.
What are you gonna do when the BlacKKK comes for you? Don Lemon just got arrested for violatimg the KKK act (or at least I am lead to believe by the media).
I bet I couldn’t sell a 10 foot pole right now.
It does hit hard.
Convincing others to ditch the mask IRL was a great feeling. Also, in the early days, seeing another person like yourself, and talking to them was priceless. Got to see who in my town was a pussy and who wasn’t. Also had my granddaughter and daughter live with us for about 10 months. That was a great time as we got to show them, not just tell, how to not live in fear
By the way, I’d also make the point that everywhere early on was chaotic, so it’s the middle and long term reaction.
Look at Florida. They were bat shit crazy just like everywhere but their reaction to COVID resulted in a more positive trend than California.
So now, looking at the two, if they tried to repeat the playbook it seems obvious how the two places would go.
Respect given, respect earned. A place at its fundamental is just a chunk of dirt, it’s the people around you that make the difference. Both positively and negatively. Even if I don’t agree with everyone they’ve proven themselves to generally respect and left each other alone. People who agreed with me didn’t go around yelling at people who disagreed.
That’s all I mean. The cops here sometimes have tattoos but they wear regular uniforms and look like cops, not displaced operators. It’s a tough balance for them since we’re close to a major north-south drug trafficking route but we’re a pretty conservative (in a social way) community, we border a dry county in fact.
So they get to bust chops and kick in doors but it’s not tough for them it seems to flip the local-vs-drug mule switch. They’re still most likely going to get you a cab home instead of a DUI if you’re not stumbling drunk dickhead.
It’s sort of like the ICE thing up north. What is the right balance to dealing with illegal aliens and respecting rights? It’s tough because civil rights have been trampled on for so long that no one remembers what respect looks like. So dealing with one problem invariably results in over reaction. I don’t want ICE to exactly stop what they’re doing. I want them to be more American about it, put on an actual uniform, badge and name tape. Then knock on the door and be civil instead of cosplay spec-ops.
How about this for Florida? Gov. Desantis flew to Israel with the genocidal maniac Rep Randy Fine to sign the bill. https://cairflorida.org/press/cair-fl-repeats-call-for-censure-of-rep-randy-fine-after-gaza-must-be-destroyed-comment/
Still worth staying?
1.015 Antisemitism.—
(1) It is the intent of the Legislature to adopt the working definition developed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) of the term “antisemitism” to assist in the monitoring and reporting of antisemitic hate crimes and discrimination and to make residents aware of and to combat such incidents in this state.
(2) As adopted by the IHRA on May 26, 2016, and as used in these statutes, the term “antisemitism” means a certain perception of Jewish individuals which may be expressed as hatred toward such individuals. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish and non-Jewish individuals and their property and toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.
(3) Contemporary examples of antisemitism include, but are not limited to, all of the following:
(a) Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jewish individuals.
(b) Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jewish individuals as such or the power of Jewish people as a collective, such as the myth of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy or of Jewish individuals controlling the media, economy, government, or other societal institutions.
(c) Accusing Jewish people as a collective of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group or for acts committed by non-Jewish individuals.
(d) Denying the fact, scope, and mechanisms, such as gas chambers, or the intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of Nazi Germany and its supporters and accomplices during the Holocaust.
(e) Accusing Jewish people as a collective, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust.
(f) Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jewish individuals worldwide, than to the interests of their respective nations.
(g) Denying Jewish people their right to self-determination, such as claiming that the existence of the State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
(h) Applying double standards by requiring of the Jewish State of Israel a standard of behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.
(i) Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism, such as blood libel, to characterize Israel or Israelis.
(j) Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
(k) Holding Jewish individuals collectively responsible for actions of the State of Israel.
(4) The term “antisemitism” does not include criticism of Israel that is similar to criticism of any other country.
(5) This section may not be construed to diminish or infringe upon any right protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution or to conflict with federal or state
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/congress-gaza-starvation/
The Fourms do still exist. Eric’s email address is right at the bottom of every page. If there’s anything newsworthy that you think Eric might want to know, there are ways of contacting him.
But I wouldn’t start spamming his email though.
I’ve come to the conclusion that Trump is an actor playing a role with a script written by his oligarch handlers. I don’t know why he would agree to do this, other than he’s a megalomaniac that will agree to anything (i.e. sell his sole to the devil) so long as he is portrayed as the most powerful man on earth.
I keep getting fooled by these people because I’m just not able to think in a sociopathic/psychopathic way like they do. As hard as I try, I just can’t. Morality, and good will seem to get in my way.
All the world’s indeed a stage,
And we are merely players-
Performers and portrayers-
Each another’s audience
Also, if you sell your sole to the devil, do you have to filet it first?
If you find yourself understanding sociopaths, you have become one.
Doh. Soul.
Dude … that’s the way Emilia Bassano wrote it:
‘William Shakespeare was a “black Jewish woman” whose work was stolen by a semi-literate businessman, a controversial new book has claimed.
‘Feminist historian Irene Coslet argues the real genius behind the world’s most famous plays was Emilia Bassano, a Tudor court poet who used “Shakespeare” as a pen name.
‘According to The Real Shakespeare, written by the LSE graduate, Bassano’s true authorship was covered up in favour of William Shakespeare, an “uneducated interloper” from Stratford-upon-Avon.’
https://tinyurl.com/2bz588rj
Emilia cooked ‘sole food’ in her spare time, when she wasn’t scribbling plays. 🙂
There is probably some sort of Elizabethan pun there involving spear shakers and spear chuckers, but I am far too genteel to go there…
Meanwhile if Al Bundy ever gets God’s Shoes to market, will they have immortal soles?
Indeed. They are all actors playing their scripted part. The story is designed to tug on bleeding heart strings of the suicidally empathetic and those who can be swayed in that direction. Ultimately leading to the United States becoming a Democracy of da peoples. Jmo, but if these communists are not terminated, most of America becomes a backwater shithole, full of starving people, stumbling around in a brain fog.
Its designed to distract us from the unimaginable theft of the treasury going on right under our noses. If the truth ever comes out, it wouldn’t be surprising to find some Soros goon fired a pistol in the air from a nearby ally or rooftop, causing all the trigger happy goons to shoot. Something tells me many of them like to shoot. But thats another story for another time. Wouldn’t be the first time the color revolutionaries used such a tactic to get the desired outcome.
it’s sad so many people still fall for it. Every single time. Just like Chevrolet, voting. and foolzball. Someone really ought to take that bitch Lucy out back of the stadium and put a bullet in her brain pan.
Are we worse off with Trump in office than we would have been with Commie Lawhorish and Timmy Cumguzzler Walz? Are we worse off than we were with the “Biden” figurehead’s cabal doing whatever they wanted behind the scenes? If we vote for none of the above, and actually get it, will there be no ambitious evil men seizing power (immediately) in the resultant vacuum?
Hate on Trump, but keep your eyes open. For all his many faults, he’s putting dents and cracks in the monolithic D/R system. Hopefully he declares himself emperor of the Americas and ends all the embedded Marxist/maoist/proggy interference by judges and governors. He’s an old man and as emperor his reign won’t last more than 10 years. And it would just be acknowledging the real situation anyway.
Would you rather live under UN or Chinese rule, or under American? I’d rather rule myself, and do so as much as possible, but political power is a force of nature, and just like watching for rattlesnakes and predators in the wild, one takes steps to avoid run ins with political power.
But the easy answer is to not vote. Easy answers are usually wrong.
Durrrr….what a retard.
Well, you certainly argue persuasively. That’s Mr Retread to you buddy.
Trump is better than Kamala, but there are 3 years to go, so who knows yet.
But he is far short of his promises. That’s on him.
People voted for him either as a defense against the cackler or because he promoted peace and prosperity, acknowledging the regular working class people. Discounting that he led the charge into the money printing that brought us the current prices, he did an about face.
How many of us wanted continued money going to Ukraine? Israel? We wanted those wars to stop. How many were chomping at the bit to invade Venezuela, bomb civilian boats, or grab Greenland? Kick out illegals? Sure. They undercut our jobs, stress services, steal tax money. But did we want this done using commie block tactics?
This is not what he ran on and looks like a large number feel deceived.
Yes, we are.
Since Trump got selected, White Southern boys have started joining the army again. Something they stopped doing under Creepy Joe and would have accelerated under Heels Up.
Furthermore, under Heels Up, the Panopticon would have given us Idiocracy instead of the ruthless efficiency of 1984 with Palantir.
I have a new prediction. Just as Miriam Adelson is currently the real president, the next real president will be Peter Thiel. That means unless he ditches Vance, Vance will be selected in 2028.
The USA is israel-occupied territory. Actions by ICE are PROOF of israeli involvement.
ICE is merely following the dictates of its zionist jewish masters by using israeli military tactics. It would be interesting to find out how many former and present IDF and mossad personnel are embedded within these USA government agencies. DHS was already “outed” on “X” it’s headquarters location being in Tel Aviv israel.
You can bet that all USA government “law enforcement” agencies have israeli jewish handlers to assure that they follow IDF policies on the approved murder of civilians.
According to ICE, “proper procedures were followed”. Yeah, right.
USA police departments routinely send “trainers” on free trips to israel to “see how it’s done”. We are all Palestinians, now.
In both incidents, the ICE shooters committed MURDER, not unlike what is going on in Gaza and the West Bank on a daily basis as we speak.
USA “law enforcement” receives free “training” in torture methods in israel to learn how to handle us Palestinians (oops, I mean USA citizens and others who come in contact with USA law enforcement). The DHS, CBP, FBI, DEA, IRS and other agencies have all received training in israeli military tactics.
The jewish military is already on USA soil…
Has anyone noticed that ICE uniforms are identical to uniforms worn by the IDF in Gaza and the West Bank?
Not only do USA cops receive training in israeli methods to “see how it’s done”, a large number of foreign IOF soldiers are already a part of ICE and CBP.
The fox is already in the chicken house…
We are all Palestinians, now…
P. S: As a somewhat refreshing note, many police departments are critical of the israeli-created tactics used by ICE. The Minnesota National Guard has been activated but is being used to provide the protesters with food and snacks, a totally appropriate used of resources which is a slap in the face to ICE and the rest of the fed goons.
Nonsense anarchyst ,
ICE is very well trained. Many hours of Call of Duty and TV shows.
This 80 year old seems pretty sharp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJfbrtoGfcA
Just a small correction…..I had the honor of attending Ron Paul’s 90th birthday celebration last year. As an interesting story, I had a customer come in and when I asked where his area code was from, he said Lake Jackson, TX and asked if I had heard of that…..when I told him that I had gone to Ron’s celebration, he told me that Ron Paul had delivered him… Ron Paul was the only honorable individual to run for President at least in my lifetime, and America blew it on that one.
The video is from 10 years ago. He was 80 then. I should have been more clear, but I wanted a “Ron at 80” video to compare with Trump today.
…” America blew it on that one.”
Sure sums it.
What’s that say about the populace?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rVXekzwkz10
Great stuff, Horst!
Carlin was an American – by which I mean he wasn’t an ideological fanatic wedded to the Blue or the Red. He called ’em as he saw ’em. I respect that.
I read a thoughtful analysis that said by going full authoritarian Hut! Hut! Hut! on immigration it destroyed any ability to actually institute any constructive solution while the Orange Turd is still office.
What is truly awful is that instead of the DOGE charade, the administration’s first order of business was a national eVerify audit targeting the largest offenders first – Big Ag, Big Food, Big Construction and Big Hospitality. Which unfortunately was never going to happen because his donors would never allow, and Trump own businesses are among the worst offenders.
The corruption is now so extreme that there is likely less than zero chance of fixing it, only making things worse.
RE: “The corruption is now so extreme that there is likely less than zero chance of fixing it, only making things worse.”
Yah. That’s, ‘The Plan’.
If that whole head-fake, “DOGE” didn’t wake people up, nothing will.
Trump says he wants an ‘honorable and honest’ investigation into Pretti’s ‘very sad’ killing. — AP News headline
These are the sentiments of an eight-year-old boy. A man died, and it’s ‘very sad.’
Likewise, the big boy got BIG MAD at the mean prime minister of Norway, who refused to give him the
spelling bee Nobel prize trophy he deserved and worked so hard for.BLOTUS is brain-damaged. Sixty years ago, a bipartisan group of adults passed Amendment XXV, providing for someone to take over from an incapacitated president. They never foresaw that ‘partisan football’ would preclude its use, both for the dementia-crippled ‘Joe Biden’ and now for the crazed midnight ranter Trump.
America is in the ash can, governed by crooks, flakes and (above all) foreign agents. And it’s very sad. 🙁
Yeah, we need a blue ribbon panel to investigate the matter that we can all see with out own eyes. The gun was only touched by an ICE officer in the altercation, it was safely removed from Pretti’s possession, yet he was shot and killed anyway. Whoops. Then the MAGA bootlickers try to sully Pretti post mortem by showing his angry conduct days before. They also call him a leftist and an agitator. He came “ready for action with a loaded weapon.” In other words, he was a piece of shit and deserved to die anyway, even if he didn’t pull or touch his constitutionally and legally possessed gun. Let’s just move on. USA! USA! USA!
It doesn’t matter if he was the most despicable human on earth (and he may very well have been for all I know). Nothing he did in the altercation justifies him being summarily executed. The bootlickers did the same thing with George Floyd. By all accounts Floyd was a despicable piece of shit, but he was only accused of passing off a counterfeit bill to by some cigs. But, but, but he was on fentanyl. Officer Chauvin didn’t kill him. Floyd deserved to die for not complying! Well, I saw him complying (albeit one could argue with passive resistance) and I also say a stupid cop with his knee on Floyd’s neck. If you take a human into custody and then physically abuse him by placing your knee on his neck and he dies in the process, I’m perfectly fine putting that cop in jail for 20 years.
Pretti didn’t die because he was a POS, or because he was a leftist agitator. He died because he did several things stupid and his luck ran out.
If you take chances while rock climbing or skydiving, your chances of getting maimed or killed go up. If you’re going to fight governments, doing so halfway is just taking stupid chances.
What’s going on in Minneapolis isnt protest, it is riot. The hard left running Communisota are fomenting rebellion, hoping to create incidents like this where well meaning fools get themselves hurt or killed to create martyrs for their commie cause. And going to a riot with a weapon or 4 is smart, but deliberately going to a riot with weapons is becoming a combatant.
But he didn’t use his lawfully-carried weapon. Agreed Pretti was fucking stupid. I learned a long time ago that when you do stupid things with stupid people in stupid places you put yourself at great risk of harm or death. No doubt Pretti did all three. Nonetheless, he was murdered and he did not deserve to be summarily executed.
I think we agree, then. Though what kind of murder, certainly not premeditated, is an open question. In my country, every cop who kills, batters, or assaults should be held to strictest standards, and should automatically prosecuted for his actions and have to satisfy a jury. Not his pal the DA, not his acquaintance the judge, not his brothers on the force, and not some trumped up review board which is always slanted towards government.
Agreed Ernie,
Unfortunately for any of that to happen this “qualified immunity” BS – which was completely made up, no “law” passed – needs to be shitcanned.
The gun does not matter. It’s all about his actions. Did he interfere with the officer? Yes. Did he lay hands on the officer? Again, yes. Just committed a federal felony. The only legit response now is to fight it out in court, which I think he probably would have won. It sure looks to me as if Officer Pepper Spray over-reacted and escalated matters.
Amen, bro. Carrying a weapon adds several duties that do not apply to people not packing. In Minnesota, first and foremost is a duty to retreat. Regardless of his intent, stepping into the middle of things was not retreating.
Did he deserve to die for it? Of course not. Don’t be silly. But was the agent who fired the first shot acting responsibly, based on information he had at that split second? Dunno. If he lost sight of the gun, it’s probably going to be reasonable to assume there’s a good chance the gun owner is currently holding it. That’s the standard that applies to you, me and everyone else including AGWs.
I should add that the shots while he was down probably make it manslaughter at least. Once the perceived threat is over, so is the justification for lethal response. Just like what happened when, um, Van Dyke(?) emptied his magazine into Laquan McDonald. Even if the first shot was justified, which I don’t think it was, all the shots after he was down were not, and the officer was rightly convicted.
The “duty to retreat” is legalistic hogwash for subjects. You are correct that it’s MN law. There is a world of difference between avoiding a fight and retreating from an attacker/thief/rapist. But I suspect we would agree on that. The MN law is to allow persecution of gun owners and encourage submission to commie rulers.
I agree, but aren’t we talking about whether this constitutes murder? A justiciable controversy? I agree in a better world, there would be no duty to retreat, but in this world, in these circumstances, there is.
So change the law. Since I don’t live there, I can’t really do anything about it. But even if you do live there, the only way you can do anything to change the law is by voting.
I think it’s murder, but that’s up to a jury.
Absolutely use your vote, for what good it does. Or just ignore the illegitimate law and hope for a jury to do its duty, not necessarily what the judge tells it.
How does the latter make a better world for your grandkids?
How has voting made a better world for your grandkids? Isn’t voting what got us here?
I don’t think there’s a point to voting in national elections. Maybe in a few swing states, but not in general. But state and local races may be different. Case by case basis.
FWIW, I haven’t had a case where it would have made sense since I voted for Jesse Ventura in, what, ’92?
There’s problems with both approaches. Active participation in politics is a huge time sink, and after a while you realize the pig really likes being in that s#!t.
Fighting it out in court should be the way yo go but that system is so corrupt and the jury pool so brainwashed that your chances are low.
The third option is to be a complete outlaw and have a gang with its own power, like Crips, Bloods, cops, or Sons of Silence.
Note that none of these approaches excludes the others.
If you would enjoy any freedom in your time on this planet you simply have to take it yourself
Duty to retreat only applies if you’re not the aggressor.
As an aggressor you don’t get to choose when the engagement ends. The victim of your aggression can decide to give you an opportunity to back down but they’re under no obligation to do that.
But like it or not we live in a world of a government, laws, police and courts. The victim has every right to self defense. We are not vigilantes. We don’t get to impose frontier justice with a posse. Once you are again safe, the individual threat is eliminated. That’s true no matter if the person is dead or just ran away.
This is the libertarian’s dilemma. We want anarchy, no government, but that requires 100% moral and ethical people who agree on the ground rules.
This guy Petti ran into ICE a couple of weeks before his fatal encounter. He was carrying again. He was provoking them, actually broke the tail lights on their SUV. The wrestled and it was serious enough to break his rib. In the videos his gun got exposed but they must not have seen it. Why is anyone’s guess. He was lucky though.
Of course the cops and agents have pushed the limits. They’re basically occupiers at this point. But even if we had some mythical perfectly limited government that operated in a world of completely moral citizens you’d still be in the wrong to attack someone else, cop or not.
I agree, United –
The whole thing’s a needless mess. Emphasis on needless. There are better ways to handle the illegal problem. The way it is being handled serves only to inflame and incite people on both sides. I do not think reasonable people want a police state – or people being shot in the street.
Agreed. I was just responding based on the general sentiment that Pretti was not the aggressor. Even if he was not the aggressor, he was still in the wrong here.
Branca is a bright self-defense attorney, and I can’t think of the last time he was wrong. He doesn’t even include the caveats I do in saying it was a good shoot.
Thanks for your appeal to authority, Steve. I’m convinced. If Branca [whoever this is] says “it was a good shoot” [although it was actually 10 shots], then we needn’t discuss this anymore. It was a good shoot then. 🙂
I’m not an expert in the matter, so I seek out people with a proven track record.
https://lawofselfdefense.com/
How many self-defense cases have you won? If you have been racking up as an impressive set of wins as he has, I’ll defer to your opinion, too.
Nah. If it matters, defer to nobody’s opinion. Develop your own using primary sources.
Impossible. No one has the time to develop an informed opinion on everything, and even if you did, selecting which primary sources are relevant out of the near infinite number of primary sources is not.
How many people who would like to disable the new kill switch have the ability to hack the ECU (presumably) so it will ignore the demand but not also send out an error message?
I have a different take on George I think Chauvin did indeed kill Floyd, probably shot him up with fentanyl.
Remember that they both worked at that sketchy nightclub which was the hub of that counterfeiting ring. Floyd was Stacks Edwards and Chauvin was Tommy Desimmone.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-VkPfmdRheM