The Anarcho-Commies Set Up DIY Anti-ICE Roadblocks in Minneapolis

Sorry...I meant: anarcho-retards.

At Insty's.

LOL @ Billie Eilish & co.

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What a bunch of retards

Billie Eilish at the Grammys: "Nobody is illegal on stolen land. We need to keep fighting and speaking up. Our voices do matter...f*ck ICE."

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— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 2, 2026

Supercut of Spanberger's DEI Czar

Behold, what passes for a moderate Democrat in 2026.

The Left's Fantasy World: OD Edition: "Affordable"/"Renewable" Energy

Dems wasted no time getting down to business...wrecking the OD.

This offshore wind farm nonsense is a testament to their unshakable faith in their ideologically-generated fantasy world.

   It's not affordable...by any estimate. And anyone who thought it would lower prices is a fool--or vastly ignorant. The cheap sources of energy are in the ground. You might not like it, but that's the fact. If you think we're all going to die from (scary voice) cliiIiIiIimaaaate chaAaaAaAange, and, somehow, you think that a wind farm off Virginia will do anything to mitigate that...well...you're clueless...but perhaps not stupid... But thinking it'll be cheaper...there's just no excuse for that.

   Look, this shit isn't even "renewable." The source of the energy is, of course: the wind will keep blowing. But the means of collecting that energy isn't. Turbines are expensive. Offshore turbines are really expensive. They have to survive a salt-water environment...I haven't even seen anyone discussing this, and I can tell you right now, this boondoggle will end up costing a helluvalot more even than predictions. In 20 years...soon after the thing comes online...we'll be paying gazillions of dollars to dismantle it. Though we'll probably be able to get federal $$...and pass the cost of our prof-left folly on to our countrymen in other states...

   So it is predicted...so will it be...

   The left derives its descriptive worldview from its normative worldview. It thinks "renewable" energy would be good/cool...so it must work! And not only be cleaner but--magically!--cheaper too!

   This also helps explain how they can be so wrong about everything--and some such explanation is needed. 

YtG: Still More Moonbat Mega-Madness

Hoo boy.

They may even be getting crazier...which I didn't think was possible...

Peter Suderman: Stephen Miller's Hardline Immigration Tactics are Backfiring

Not very good, IMO, but possibly right...and we like hearing the voice of the opposition here at the 'Raptor...

   I do think Stephen Miller would be more of an asset if he toned it down a bit when he himself speaks about immigration. However, that's not to say he's wrong...he's actually kinda too right...

   More to my point: everybody who hates Trump and/or disagrees with his immigration policies claims that they're backfiring--generally citing lefty polls making such claims But those are mostly just attempts to get Trump to change his policies. Lefty polls--like lefty everything else--aim at effecting lefty goals--not at finding the truth...something the left generally doesn't believe in anyway... Say that Trump's policies are backfiring, hey, you might get him to change them. Or you might get red-team types to panic and start agitating to change them. Who knows?

   Now, there's an equal and more-or-less-opposite movement on the right claiming that Hispanics are even more on-board with Trump's immigration policies now...I don't believe that shit either.

   The libertarians are basically lefties on immigration. They really can't be trusted on the topic.

   

Don Leh-Mohn Arrested for (a) Covering or (b) Taking Part in...Church Invasion

I haven't been following this story closely, but:

prima facie, Lemon shouldn't be arrested nor charged.

Prima facie he was covering the church invasion, not taking part in it.

If he was taking part in the invasion, that should be easy enough to prove.

Who should be arrested and charged are the shit-bag moonbat assholes who did the invading...

...but lefty judges have already ruled that invading private buildings and refusing to let people in those buildings leave is permissible...if the left does it.

   I can tell you right now that, if I'm in a building and anybody tries to prohibit me from leaving, he'll be a small bump on my road out--and he/she/they/xe will have to limp out on his/her/their/xir way out later.

   I'm not a Christian, and I don't put up with such shit.

   That shit is kidnapping.

   But, even if it were legal, I wouldn't abide it.

   Instructions: (a) bust up chair; (b) secure leg of same; (c) lay about you with it; (d) walk out, over the bodies of your enemies if necessary.

   Or, y'know, just punch 'em.

Dan McLaughlin: New Jersey and Seattle Take Further Steps Toward Open State Insurrection

Sieg Heil.

I keed...but imagine someone got a pic of a red-team type analogous to that one of Sherrill. Reddit and BlueSky would be in Total Meltdown mode instantaneously.

Jeffrey Blehar: Bleats of Minneapolis

Ugh.

The quoted lyrics were more than enough for me.

I haven't listened to the song, and don't plan to.

But, man, I still remember the first time I heard Born to Run...damn...

THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN ON TRUMP

AGAIN

or...

STILL

or...

WHATEVER...

NR: Dems' Demand for Judicial Warrants for Immigration Arrests: Bad

Seems plausible.

[link corrected. SHUT UP MYSTIC

For the record, those K1 ice cleats kick ass.]

The Soul Snatcher

Ouch.

Gotta try it!

Alex Pretti Was Shot by CBP, not ICE

I was wrong about that like many others.

Actual Justice Warrior set me straight.

Sasha Stone: Oh, Hillary. Empathy? Please.

Well, I think this is exactly right.

I couldn't bring myself to watch all the stories of lefty madness, nor finish the illegal alien rape van story (yes, turns out that's real). I couldn't look at more than one or two of the moonbat anti-Charlie-Kirk memes.

Look, there's heinous stuff on the right, too.

Don't forget that.

Again, though, it's the mainstreaming of the crazy lefty fringe that's so alarming. Most political movements will have a lunatic fringe. IMO it's only when the fringe becomes extra-loony, or when it becomes mainstream, that it's surprising and notable. Both of those things have happened with the left's lunatic fringe...

HRC: Trump's War on Empathy

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Ok, I'll try to read this some day.

   But that day is not this day...

I started off skeptical given the title (obvs)...immediately it was like hitting a wall of molasses...I felt myself rapidly losing momentum...Pretti shooting was like the parable of the good Samaritan...well, no, not really so much...quoting Adam Serwer..."the cruelty is the point"...oh...the very dumbest of many dumb Adam Serwer points, then...not what you'd call a good sign...violating the Constitution...??? how's that?...

   Anyway.

   Maybe you're a better person than I am and can make it through that thing.

   Maybe I'll be such a person some day...

   Jeez, I voted for her in 2016...

Bomb Iran

Hey you crazy cats and kids, here's a blast from the past--high school to be more precise--relevant again...:

Crackpot Illegal Alien Policy Idea

I've already said this, but:

I wonder whether it'd be feasible to:

[1] Let blue states do what they want with respect to illegal aliens.

[2] Have some provision for red states to sue blue state is illegal aliens cross over into them.

This would the advantage of protecting states' rights--the blues would be free to have all the illegals they want--while still protecting red states and their citizens.

   Not that I think this would work (nor that it's that good of an idea) because I don't.

   But...for it to even be considered, we'd have to change the rules on Congressional apportionment. Illegal aliens shouldn't count.

"Bombshell" Pretti Video "Nukes the Lib Narrative" (???)

I don't see what implications this video from like 10 days before Pretti was shot is supposed to have. I mean...dude is a nutty moonbat...but that does nothing to justify his shooting...despite what many wingnuts seem to be thinking.

Colion Noir on the ICE/Pretti Shooting

Yeah...I'm sorry to say, I think CN may well be right about this. And the analysis of the video he posts incudes still more considerations left out of previous analyses...perhaps most notably that the agent who first shot Pretti had been turned away, watching the other scrum, and fires his weapon within 5 seconds of turning around...despite the fact that the had a clear view of Pretti's empty holster and another agent removing the Sig from the scuffle.

One of the things that's puzzled and concerned me about the video is the long pause between the initial shots and the last 5 or 6ish shots. And this video seems to make it clear that, when those shots are fired, Pretti is laying motionless on the ground.

It's already prima facie a bad shooting. I've been trying to find some rationale for it...but...it's mostly looking less justified rather than more to me.

Nate the Lawyer: Alex Pretti: Murder or Justified Use of Force

I'm a big fan of Nate. This is eminently reasonable, as usual...though, of course, I'm not a lawyer, so I can't say whether he's got all the legal avenues covered. Every analysis I've seen of this footage thus far leaves something out or leaves something underexamined. I'd say this one is no exception. Seems to me that he moves through the crucial final seconds a bit too fast...but, overall, as usual, I'd say he makes a reasonable case for his conclusions.

   I hadn't seen video of the minute or so leading up to the incident. It's become SOP on the left to cut out the part where rioters/activists provoke agents into reacting and, honestly, I just assumed Pretti and the women had done something to warrant the officer's behavior...

   But not so.

   After seeing all this, I'd say the fault lies just about 100% with the rogue BPE (? ICE?) agent who started it all by unjustifiably shoving the women and then attacking Pretti when he interposed himself:

Congresswoman Omar Sprayed with Unknown Liquid in Attack

Crazy sonofabitch.

Completely unacceptable.

I'd say throw him in jail...but I'll bet he's legit crazy.

So: throw him in an asylum.

I hope Omar is ok, and whatever was sprayed on her wasn't too dangerous or disgusting.

Trump's comments, as is common, were stupid and borderline-incoherent.

I also read somewhere that he later said that Omar had set this up herself.

What a dumbass.

NR: An Unprecedented Drop in Murder Rates (and a Historic Low?)

No mention of an obvious factor: rolling back progressive-left madness like "depolicing" and "decarceration,"expanding conservative tough-on-crime policies, getting rid of some of the Soros prosecutors...in effect, further eroding the Ferguson effet and the penumbra of crackpot policies that surroundit.

   (Don't forget: the left is still pretending that it was the pandemic that caused the spike in crime...an obvious falsehood.)

   Violent offenders can be roaming the streets or they can be in prison. Those are our only two real options. Some few can be rehabilitated. But most just have to be separated from sane society--at least until they hit 40 or so.

   This is one of the many topics about which the progressive left is just nuts, and its pet theories are simply false. Utopian. Panglossian. Stupid. Brandon Johnson spoke for the left when he said that imprisoning criminals is "racist" and has been "proven" not to work. Bullshit. One hundred percent bullshit. That's the progressive left in yet another nutshell: boilerplate whimpering about bigotry + an outright, undeniable, laughable falsehood.

   So long as the left is gripped by political correctness, they must be opposed at every turn. The willingness to say that 2+2=5 is the most pernicious force in contemporary politics--and it is rampant on the left. There's always a certain amount of it in every faction. But the left has elevated it to their most sacred principle. Trump's habitual bullshitting is awful--but it's nothing compared to the institutionalized commitment to patently counterfactual theories we find on the left.

Geraghty: Trump Isn't the Only One Changing Course in Minnesota

Well, I guess I'm not as optimistic as Geraghty.

I worry about allowing the left to have (as KD put it to me recently) a veto over policies/laws.

If they win this--or even think they won it...or even think they kind of won it--they're going to keep doing such things. I think we're fighting a battle and a meta-battle. The battle is over enforcing immigration laws. The meta-battle is over enforcing laws at all... The left now thinks it gets to determine pretty much everything that happens in the country--what we can say, what we can do, what we can own, what we can think, who can be President, what laws can be enforced... They are enraged when people say or do or even think thinks they don't think people should say or think. If they come to think that they can basically nullify laws by getting out in the street and threatening and abusing and pushing and shoving and shrieking and blowing whistles at cops, we are right and truly screwed...

NR: Trump At Year One

It was the best of terms, it was the worst of terms...

I agree with this...but more so.

Trump is driving me fucking crazy. Trump fatigue has turned into Trump dread. I fear the internet and fear the news because I don't want to know what idiotic thing he's said or done most recently...

And yet...I still think he's plausibly--perhaps probably--the best President of the 21st Century...and perhaps a great President in many ways. I consider political correctness / woketarianism the greatest threat to America and the West at least since the USSR...and maybe even since WWII. It's a plague of madness that is rotting the country from the inside. And Trump is the most important opposition figure. He seems to do hard things well and easy things terribly. If we were to look only at the positive side of the leger--or even if we just ignored his unforced errors--he would likely be a great President. (Note: not all Presidents would be great even by that permissive standard...Biden, for example...)

   The turnaround on illegal immigration--just to take one example--has been phenomenal. And Americans support his policies. But...he can't seem to get the bullshit marketing strategy right. All he needs is a point man who doesn't come off like Darth Vader's little brother...that is, somebody not like Stephen Miller. But he can't manage it. He plays right into the insane left's strategy of weaponizing feels. He comes off as mean and vindictive...which he kind of is...but also kind of isn't..

   Consider Ukraine: Trump's approach, shitty and chaotic though it's been, has been the most humane: stop the slaughter. The Euro-shitheads are milling about randomly saying things like Sacre bleu! and American blue-team types are saying things like (one has said exactly this to me) We should be willing to fight to the last Ukrainian... 

   Anyway...sorry...back to open borders: he may lose this battle yet.

   And if he does, we are right and truly screwed.

   Of course he's done many things by executive action...and as the Spamburgler has shown, the next crazy Democrat (but I repeat myself) to hold the office will likely just undo it all...

   Compare Trump's Iraq strategy to Obama's. Good Lord. Night and day...

   Well, I'm just repeating myself here.

   But, yeah...Trump has been the mixedest of bags to occupy the office in my lifetime. And, really, if he could just keep his big fat mouth shut, he might save Western civilization...

...but, of course, he can't do that.

Not to save his life...nor even to save Western Civilization...

AJW on the ICE/Pretti Shooting

I had heard Noem's comments about the shooting, but wasn't paying close attention. I remember being annoyed by her inaccurate, propagandistic description, but Sean is right: it's really bad. In fact, now that I've paid attention to it, it pisses me off more than it seems to piss him off. Noem's description is the moral equivalent of a lie.

   She needs to go.

   Like, yesterday.

   You can be incompetent. Or you can be dishonest. But both is just too much.

   And Trump needs to stop hiring people for their looks.

   AJW also reveals--and I had no idea this was part of the story--that Pretti was carrying a Sig P320...and it seems to have suffered an unintentional discharge just after the agent relieved Pretti of the firearm. The slo-mo video seems to show the slide going back immediately after the first shot is heard. The agent with possession of the firearm is moving away from the scrum, and doesn't seem to have his finger on the trigger--it would be crazy if he did, of course.

   I'm sure I don't have to tell you that the P320 is notorious for unintentional discharges.

   So, after the agents discover Pretti's firearm, and you hear someone say "gun, gun, gun," and the firearm is being taken away from the fight, the Sig goes off...and then a second agent mag dumps Pretti.

   I was skeptical about this shooting...but if that's the true timeline...it certainly seems defensible. The obvious explanation is that the second agent, hearing "gun, gun, gun" and a shot, and likely not realizing that Pretti had been disarmed, thought he (Pretti) had fired the shot at ICE.

   If that's what happened, it's tragic.

   Sean also shows footage of Pretti, in his capacity as a nurse, reading a very respectful statement about a veteran who had passed away. A reminder to righties that they didn't know this man, and he's not likely to be the America-hating moonbat of their imaginations...

   

Record High Gun Ownership, Record Low Homicide Rate, Media Silent

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Brittany Bernstein: Media Inflame Anti-ICE Tension With False Kidnapping Claims

Well, they basically just lie about everything.

Jim Geraghty: The Administration's Crazy Claims About Firearms Re: The Pretti/MN Shooting; Noem Needs To Go

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   The anti-Second-Amendment rhetoric from the administration (esp. Noem and Patel) is nuts. Pretti was an idiot, but not a domestic terrorist. And carrying without proper ID is dumb, but not some kind of grounds for getting shot.

   Now, I think it's dumb to carry when you think you might get into a scuffle with the cops...especially when your side is in the wrong...and it's the side that always initiates the confrontations... If we were actually in a shooting war, things would be different, of course. But we aren't. So far, anyway...

   The administration and ICE are generally in the right. They're fighting a well-oiled anarchy-and-propaganda machine that wants to undermine the rule of law...but they're so obviously wrong that they're unlikely to win...unless the good guys help them out. Fatal mistakes by ICE and dumbass comments by the administration are exactly the help the crazies need.

Also see the story on the Chinese general at the bottom of the Geraghty piece.

Kenin M. Spivak: The Campaign Against ICE Is All About Open Borders

Correct.

Well, I still think that it is ultimately about open borders--that's what the academic/activist vanguard of the left wants. But it becomes about feelz when it is repackaged for consumption by shitlibs.

Also one might say: actually ultimately, it's about the destruction of the USA and the West. Open borders is really a means to an end... But I think that's a genuine dispute on the vanguard of the left. So you can go either way on that.

NR: The ICE/Pretti Minneapolis Shooting Deserves a Credible Investigation

I couldn't agree more.

I didn't realize any other option was on the table.

The Good shooting also deserves a credible investigation, in case that doesn't go without saying.

At any rate, here's something we learned from Derek Chauvin being railroaded by the corrupt MN AG: 

Credible means: don't let those people anywhere near it.

   But then that seems to leave the DoJ...which has long been politicized by the Dems...and now seems to have been thoroughly politicized by Trump. At least, in the Before Time, they tried to hide it at least a little bit...

   At any rate: a credible investigation doesn't mean: a foregone conviction.

  Unless Keith Ellison and that MN bunch get involved, of course. Then that's exactly what it means.

   I could pontificate about how I think we got here. But you've heard it all before.

   I suppose we might hope that, now that both sides have declared total lawfare and full politicization of the process, maybe voters will be disgusted enough to vote against such repulsive bullshit.

   I certainly didn't vote for this. I understand why Trump is doing it. Maybe I'm being naive, but I'm not on board with it. I'm ok with giving people tastes of their own medicine. But I don't think Trump had to go this far.

More From the New New Age Star Trek

Apparently, "diversity" is the Federation's strength, too...or something.

Also apparently: the Klingon's name is Jay-Den.

He has an eyebrow ring.

Not even making that up.