What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.
Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.
to us about, or don't bother to find out before they start telling us what to think.
The BBC confirmed the authenticity of the video in their 10 p.m. GMT news broadcast. Reporter Ros Atkins said the man in the video “has the same coat, facial hair and gait as Alex Pretti and a facial recognition tool suggests a 97% match. We see him shouting abuse at the agents.” Separately, a spokesperson for the BBC confirmed to Mediaite that they reviewed the footage and verified its team did use facial recognition technology on the video.
Gee, it's like he's been another leftist agitator who's been working hard to make serous trouble for a while, and not just a pure angel in the wrong place...
and is being used to kick them in the ass. Hard.
People saw a perfect accidental parody of how the establishment treats ordinary dissent:
If you question orthodoxy, you’re not wrong — you’re dangerous.
If you wave a Union Jack, you’re not patriotic — you’re extreme.
If you ask questions, you need monitoring.
So people did what the internet always does when power looks stupid:
They laughed.
They memed.
They stripped the moral panic naked.
Now we’re told there’s a “highly coordinated hate network” behind it all.
Sure. Or maybe — stay with me —
people are done being lectured by institutions that despise them.
And, taking the lesson, there are people in other countries doing the same thing.
And Amelia isn’t limited to the British. Creators from other nations are already generating their own variants. Germany has “Maria, Brazil has Ana, France has Jeanne, and just today The Netherlands gained Emma. Different aesthetics, same function — a feminine symbol of national continuity in a culture that insists such continuity is either imaginary or dangerous.
and a lot of the screaming over- well, anything ICE does.
If you get a bunch of people to mess up legal operations, there will be troubles.
If you take this to the point of assaulting cops(and their 'de-arresting' advice involves exactly that), you're actually demanding people get hurt.
You blow whistles in people's faces and blow horns to complicate and cause more problems, multiply the previous.
You go to one of these armed, and it blows up in your face, you took part in causing the damned mess, and it's stupid to blame everyone else but yourself and your friends for any part in it.
The True Believers, which includes the idiots who bring kids to riots, especially in winter, won't care about anything, including the death of this guy, he's just a Martyr to the Cause and that's the only thing they care about. So is the fact that they're often working to protect rapists and child molesters and murderers from being deported; they don't actually give a damn about them as humans, but as fodder to Advance the Revolution, for that purpose they care. No matter how that looks to so many others in this country.
Throw in that they're actually counting on the cops, and the politicians in question, not being the bastards they keep calling them; the vast majority of the 'revolutionaries', if they actually believed Trump and the cops were the consciousless sorts they call them, would be hiding in their homes because they'd be scared to death of them cutting loose. And lots of other people realize that. Doesn't work well with normies, any more than blocking roads and such to keep people from work/friends/hospitals/schools makes them sympathetic. But the leftists don't care.
You make a point of giving support to Hamas and the Iranian regime and not giving a damn about all those they murder, that doesn't exactly make you look caring and all. Especially when some of you say things that make you seem approving of their murders and tortures.
This is a bloody mess, and it was created as such by idiots who want to use it for politics. And it won't ease off or - preferably- end until a bunch of the people in charge pay a real price.
Two things: "Oh, this is so important I need my kid to see it!"
combined with the standard leftist thing: "This isn't important, the IMPORTANT thing is the revolution!" And they're willing to put their kids at risk for it.
if this were a regular thing here(happily, it's not) or if I had to move someplace where it was, I'd have a snowblower. I can't do this shovel & sweep it the way I used to.
Hands especially. The shoulder was giving me some crap, but the hands, this is the first time of this since my arthritis got this bad, and they really hated it. In part because the weather before this was nice enough there was enough residual heat in the pavement that the snow in contact was melting a bit. Which meant whether I was using the broom to push some or the shovel to lift and move, it kept freezing on them and I'd have to shake/beat them off. That got old real fast.
So this morning everything that had some slight melting when the sun came out yesterday refroze, and it's like a skating rink out there on the streets. I'd go out for an emergency, but that's it. It's supposed to get to the low 20's today, and that and traffic will help.
Now the anti-gun idiots are saying that the 2A is irrelevant because gun owners won’t rise up and fight the very policies they voted for.
Americans who own the 400,000,000 guns in order to protect the rest of us from governmental tyranny, it’s your time to shine!!! https://t.co/0yCUA5D5y8
Hypothetical Liberal "Ally" Who Lives in the Suburbs Which Aren't On Fire - "Hey, gun owners! Here is some civil unrest! Why won't you come and help us?"
Snort. Fuck off.
"Pussies! Why not?"
Well, every single gun nut in America has spent their entire adult life being continually mocked, insulted, and belittled by the left. You've done nothing but paint us as the bad guys.
In Hollywood, we're always evil, stupid, violent, malicious, redneck, racist, murderers. That's so ingrained in the liberal religion that when "ally" Harvey Weinstein was trying to get out of being a sleazy rapist, his repentance consisted of promising to make more movies about how the NRA is bad.
In the news, everything is always our fault. If there is a mass murder, we can always count on the vultures to swoop in and blame America's gun culture. They flog it for weeks on end, 24/7 coverage, hoping for gun control. And if the identity of the shooter doesn't fit the narrative, it drops off the news in mere hours.
And then at the local, state, and federal level, legally speaking, the left fucks us at every opportunity. You ban everything you can get away with. You ban things that literally make no sense. You ban shit just out of spite.
When we fight back against gun control laws, you declare we are stupid because only the police should have guns (hey, aren't those the guys you are protesting right now?)
"Stupid racist rednecks! We live in a civilized society! Don't you realize the police will protect us?" until when your democrat cities are on fire, and you call 911 and the operator tells you sorry, the police can't come to your house right now, please try not to get murdered... How is that strict gun control working out for you?
Then you did everything in your power to chase gun owners out of your sainted liberal strongholds. You passed laws. You banned everything we like. Forced all the shooting ranges to close. Forced most of the gun stores to close. And just generally let us know that our kind is not welcome there.
But now you've started some shit, YOU want US to go into democrat cities, with democrat mayors, and democrat police chiefs enforcing democrat policies which cause strife among democrats, in order to get into gun fights on your behalf?
How fucking gullible do you think we are? Like holy shit. Damn dude!
Because we all know that literally 30 seconds after a gun nut blows away a government employee on your behalf, then all the national media coverage of the riots will instantly cease (sorta like the Corona Virus coverage did) and it'll be back to the news breathlessly reporting about right wing extremist gun nuts, and all you useless fucks would go back to whining for more dumb ass gun control.
You've already thrown the black community under the bus, cheering as their neighborhoods get burned and yours are safe. Seriously, white liberals are the shittiest "allies" in history, and your moral foundation has the consistency of Play-Doh. Your moral compass is a wind sock.
*When you're trying to burn buidings with people inside, sometimes blocking the doors first, you're trying to commit mass murder by arson, and you damn well are a rioter asking to be shot, not just arrested and turned loose by idiot prosecutors and other politicians.
Speaking of the weather, it says 'snow showers' today with a couple of inches possible. Ok. Tonight 'snow showers' with 3-7 inches possible. Some showers, huh? Tomorrow: 'snow showers then chance of snow showers', 2-4 inches possible. Again, pretty heavy showers. You ever get the feeling of the forecast being "We don't know, just guess"?
The stuff above I wrote this morning, and forgot to load before I left. Now home: Yes, more snow fell, but no freezing rain. Snow can be a pain, frankly freezing rain can scare hell out of me. It can lead to days with no power and other stuff. Some places are getting enough of that, I hate to think about it.
As is, they're saying several more inches of snow are possible here tonight and tomorrow, and I've been informed not to come to work tomorrow. It got busier than I expected(it's Oklahoma, people will go through a lot to get to the range or to buy something), but if it's this busy tomorrow I'll be flat amazed. And right now I'll be quite glad to forego those hours of pay.
And yes, the shoulders are getting better. The right's just a bit sore depending on what I do, the left is still a pain to do a number of things, but it is improving. The back from the pulled muscle is a lot better. I think the pressure changes as well as the cold are bothering the shoulders, but I'll get through it.*
'Anybody else find it funny that after decades of regular people getting screamed at by environmentalists about how we shouldn't drive cars, eat meat, or have air conditioning in order to SAVE THE PLANET all of a sudden those same bossy assholes are strangely supportive of some megacorporations building a bunch of AI data centers, each of which sucks up the power equivalent to a small country?
Weird how that shakes out.' from Correia.
What daughter once told me: Ever heard of 'Captain Planet'? Supposed Savior of Mother Gaia, with a bunch of kids who helped him smash company owners and factories and whatever else. Shit cartoon, it was pure indoctrination("We can't just make more efficient air conditioning, we need to get rid of it!")
I'd worked a late shift and was getting some sleep, she was watching tv and that thing came on. She said I came stumbling out of the bedroom, with my eyes closed, changed channels, and went back to bed.
I have no memory of this, but I was glad I gave up a minutes precious sleep to turn that crap off.
Short version: "We won't leave you troublemaking commoners any way to make things we disapprove of! And if it screws business, that's a price we're willing to pay!"
'Buyback' my ass. As it stands now, the Canadian government calls their national confiscation plan a gun buyback, but of course they don’t guarantee any Canadian dollars for anyone who participates and actually turns in their arms.
“Please note that submitting a declaration does not guarantee you will receive compensation,” one of the government’s websites actually states.
"Give us your stuff, or else, that's it!"
Canada’s Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, who has been overseeing the new gun-ban program, has a habit of not watching his mouth.
At a news conference last week, Anandasangaree warned the public that “the compensation program is voluntary, but compliance with the law is not.”
However, during a radio interview just four months ago, Anandasangaree told a friend that he “shouldn’t worry about being arrested for refusing to turn in a banned firearm because municipal police have few resources to devote to such matters.”
The minister quickly sent out a press release, which described his own comments as “misguided.”
Canadian gun owners are somewhat optimistic because their government’s gun ban plan is so complex and confusing.
One pro-gun Canadian website— TheGunBlog.ca—believes they may be in the clear, and that the gun ban may not even happen.
“After more than five years of work, all they have is a website,” the site published. Yeah, hoping these control freaks give up on this, or will dream up any reason they can to screw you for not following every detail of a program they can't set up, is not a plan.
Just the kind of crap the leftists would love to do here.
passed in some states to keep black people from being treated like full citizens was a good justification for Hawaii having some similar laws to restrict the 2nd Amendment. Which is freaking insane.
Going to borrow this on the subject: ...I understand a lot of people like to cite the black codes who promote gun restrictions, who would -otherwise, they would be garlic in front of a vampire in front of them. But, here, they -they like them, they embrace them. And I'm really interested in why.
I'm sure he knows why, so do I: they hate the commoners having arms without some kind of government permission slip, and they'll use anything they can think of to restrict that.
That link has some real interesting commentary, which includes people claiming "Well, THIS part of the Black Codes were not racist!"
I repeat, they'll use any argument they think they can get away with to try to get rid of as much of the 2nd as they can.
Why would anyone be surprised? The Mayor is a communist, of course he's supporting other communists who hate the US.
Mr. Steyn has thoughts:
Twenty years ago, my eventual book-length argument was summarised in the Toronto Globe and Mail by the eminent “political scientist” William Christian as “quite possibly the most crass and vulgar book about the West’s relationship with the Islamic world I have ever encountered“. Professor Christian has evidently led a sheltered life: he was born in the Queen Charlotte Islands, which are now officially known as “Haida Gwaii”, a bollocks name invented in hopes of appeasing “the Haida nation”; it turns out that these days nowhere is really that sheltered, don’t you find?
But just because something is “crass and vulgar” doesn’t mean it’s not correct. It’s certainly straightforward. The western world is going out of business because it’s given up having babies. The mid-twentieth-century welfare state, with its hitherto unknown concepts such as spending the first third of your life in “education” and the last third in “retirement”, was carelessly premised on mid-twentieth-century fertility rates, and, as they collapsed, the west turned to “migrants” to be the children they couldn’t be bothered having themselves. The condition of your maternity ward may be “crass and vulgar”, but it’s not a speculative prediction.
That particular part of my current problem was caused by something I'd heard of be never done: I've been having some sneezing fits, and one night, on about the fourth sneeze, I turned a bit- tissue being out of reach- and pulled a muscle in my back.
Hurt like a sonofabitch, and still has every time I sneeze, or cough.
Due to the various problems I did talk to the doc, who gave me the usual 'cold and hot' advice(thanks for the suggestion, guys, but I have had injuries before) and a prescription for a muscle relaxant. Which makes me feel tired, but it has been helping. The shoulder- a different cause that's also hurt like hell at times- it hasn't made any difference I can tell, but cold & hot combined with being easy on it for a few days, has helped. Still going to have to take it easy for a while.
Taking it easy including making multiple trips to get stuff. Which I hate doing at times.
Totally off subject, the Post Awful is useless on tracking packages. "It was shipped today!" being followed by days of "We're waiting to receive it", followed by 'En Route' for days. Next time I order something, I'll pay more for "We'll actually update the tracking" and "We won't take as long as the Post Awful to get your stuff to you".
In their latest e-circular, received yesterday, SG Ammo, my favorite suppliers, had this to say:
We have seen a sharp increase in consumer demand for bulk ammo orders over the past 8 days. Daily sales volume initially rose 25% to 35%, and now 35% to 45% over the past 3 days when compared to the daily averages of the first week of this month. This also represents an even larger increase from demand in December. While some of this should be expected, as the busy season for selling ammo is generally November to April with a peak in March as income tax refunds get spent, we feel that the elevated demand signals a widespread urge by the consumer to stock up on ammo. In my opinion, it would be wise to stock up now if you need ammo while depressed market pricing lingers from 2025 and before 2026 price increases from the factories begin to force widespread increases in the retail market.
Having worked part-time at a store, I watched people come in during the 'Mostly Peaceful Protest' years and the Virus Panic time who'd buy a box, shoot all or most of it, then buy another next time they came in; but now it was
"I need a box of nine/.45/.38/whatever." "We're out." Followed by watching the panicked look on their face. This being especially true when, watching the riot videos, they realized they had little or nothing of actual defensive type for their boomstick.
This was followed by, when we got some, having it sell out in minutes, whether defensive or practice ammo and at whatever price(because, under that pressure, the prices went up fast too).
Considering the insanity in a few places, it might well happen again. So you might consider- if you don't already have some- getting some 'just in case' ammo set back.
He's moved on to claiming the 1st Amendment give him and his clowns the right to, at the least, trespassing and- if they kept people from leaving and such- quite possibly kidnapping.
No, it doesn't, asshole. And you and the others should be prosecuted.
This is more of the left playing "Whatever we do is free speech!" games to excuse what they do, including their violent acts. And planning to kill people. And excusing those already dead.
