It's Nearing the End Game

Fortunately, Trump does understand games - very well, in fact.

What am I talking about? This.

It is NOT just about MN - most of us really don't care much about it's governance, considering the Progressive/Leftist history of that state, and the fact that Minnesotans did NOTHING to stop them before this point.

No, it's about losing a state, ending ANY enforcement of federal rules/laws, and opening the Leftists to embedding themselves into county and local government.

Once that's accomplished, we have NO ability to keep aliens from perverting the election process, representation in Congress, and stopping payments from the federal benefits to aliens.

It would be Game Over. Just waiting for the final call of Checkmate.

Powerline says it best:

"If/when the insurgents succeed in driving out the feds, they will next turn their attention to state and local authorities.

To be clear, the goal of the insurgents is not protecting illegal aliens from deportation. The goal is the overthrow of the existing civil authority."

The link is above.

Maybe THAT'S Why the Pretti Photo Was Altered

The BBC (The BEEB? - truly, the End Times have arrived, when even THEY are willing to commit actual journalism!) has verified the video of Alex Pretti spitting on ICE officers, yelling, and kicking the ICE vehicle with sufficient force to damage the taillight.

And, replacing that taillight will not be cheap - it can reach around $400 - $800. So, the idea that Pretti was just wandering around the attacks on ICE, minding his own business, and just HAPPENING to intervene, strictly out of humanitarianism, is completely horse hockey pucks.

Now, an odd aspect of this whole media frenzy is that there is another picture of Pretti that is circulating among the protester network and the media (but, I repeat myself).

The original photo was released by his employee union, showing him in his nursing scrubs (2nd photo) The altered picture is not just cosmetically changed, with a darker skin, but considerably altered - face length, nose length and shape, jaw angle altered, etc (1st photo).

Why?

It is SAID to be to make him 'better-looking' and a more appealing subject.

Uh-uh. Don't think so.

The extensive alternations to the photo, in the revelation of previous criminal activity, may be linked to efforts to keep his physical activist involvement hidden from the public. He has been portrayed as an 'innocent nurse, not doing anything wrong, targeted by BRUTAL ICE'.

Were the AI alterations intended to shield his reputation, and defeat facial recognition technology?

Reflections on Almost 25 Years

 ...since 9/11.

Europe, of course, is further down the line into Complete Takeover by Islamomanics.

Mark Steyn has a retrospective, and sad obervations, on the current EU fate.

There are a few bright spots Steyn hasn't mentioned.

• After many years of almost complete control, and dedication to enslaving the masses, Iran is facing serious opposition, by the people. No, not those psuedo freedom fighters on the Left, actual ordinary Iranians/Persians. The telling sign that they MAY win? Money and gold are heading out the back door at terminal velocity.
• Argentina is economically stable - which, given the natural resources and hard working populace, they SHOULD be - thanks to what you might call a Leftist Austerity Policy. Milei has taken a hatchet to the embedded Leftist bureaucracy, cut most of their programs, and reaped the rewards.
• Israel is holding on, despite a sizable community of homegrown Leftists fighting them every inch of the way. Israel is lucky Trump likes them.
• The surgical operation that took out Margot and the Mrs. was a nice start. I have doubts that the trial will not be corrupted by Leftist influence, but maybe I'm wrong.

The organized and planned takeover of the USA by foreign interests - governmental, commercial, and NGOs - is coming to light.

At heart, MOST OF IT is linked to the backers, who strive to implant Rule by the Few.

Its been a long fight to keep Americans out of the hands of the Elite. In the beginning, although much of national government was,in the hands of the educated classes, the federal role was small. The bureaucracies didn't exist.

True, certain families, the Adams, the Lees of VA, and others, were elected on a regular basis.

But, because the national budget was so small, it was often more important to exert influence at the state level.

Both Lincoln and Teddy R. - both Republicans - were the catalyst for changing that tradition.

They were followed by others who MAY not have grown the Federal Government, but they failed to chop down the size and breadth of it.

Enter Woodrow Wilson, the epitome of a man who believed in Rule by the Educated Few. And, by finagling us into WWI, managed to 

EXPLODE the reach and cost of national government.

While Coolidge managed to shrink the cost, he left the structures in place that could be expanded, and were, by FDR.

In Modern Times, there are largely unsung heroes.

Data Republican is one such person. This link takes you to car loads of information about the people who are PAYING for and DIRECTING the phony "Protests" against anti-collectivists in America.

The CRAZY Grows

 I'm just going to post some random examples:

• From Ace of Spades, another one of the crazy-eyed performative women. Note, as usual, she spews venom with those eyes doing their cray-cray thing, seemingly incapable of not dropping the F-bomb MANY times, and using those pinched fingers (what is WITH that?).
• The antics of the ICE protesters continue to endanger residents, ICE officers, and honest journalists. Consider some of these suggestions (I particularly like the one that has the red dye option).
• In ADDITION to the suggestion to focus on the Red states first, look to non-confrontational methods. 
• Check ALL federal benefit recipients for fake SS #s. Many of them will be here illegally. Remove ALL benefits from them. Force the states to pick up the cost. 
• Cross-check those SS numbers issued by Biden to illegal aliens. If they are receiving EBT, Medicaid, MEDICARE, Marketplace Plan  subsidies, housing subsidies, or SSI, block payments. Again, throw the cost and the responsibility, on the defiant states.
• And issue an IRS hold on refunds from the two preceding groups until the last 5 years of overpayments are collected. All benefits and subsidies count as overpayments. Warn the illegals that they will be prosecuted for tax fraud unless they set up a payment plan.
• This also involves the tax system. Have the Secretary of the Treasury mandate that ALL businesses taking a payroll expense for their employees (thereby reducing their net taxes) send the IRS names, addresses, phone numbers, and Social Security numbers in a separate file, labeled with the employer's EIN. Sic DOGE on identifying the illegals in those files. Failure to provide that information in ELECTRONIC form loses them their tax break.

A Question to ask at All Encounters with Legislators

 Who do you represent?

Were you elected by CITIZENS, or aliens?

A representative of "The People" should respond that the CITIZENS of The United States are their PRIMARY concern.

Not aliens*.

Not other countries, however close their ties, whether that country is where they or their parents were born, other countries whose citizens share a religion with them, or countries the USA may have treaties with.

OUR CITIZENS come FIRST.

Other country's citizens/subjects take a far distant second place to the interests of our countries CITIZENS.

By that standard, it's clear that NO alien, however protected from immediate deportation, or granted residency, can have their needs put ahead of CITIZENS.

Further, taking money from CITIZENS to benefit aliens is improper. It is even more pernicious when the aid is disguised by misleading language, or embedded in 'comprehensive bills.

If the legislator(s) believe aiding aliens is so just, they need to make their case with a SEPARATE bill, limited to that aid. Perhaps they are correct, that they can get other legislators to agree to give money to NON-CITIZENS/ALIENS.

Yeah.

That'll be a popular bill.

/sarc 

My OTHER Site on Substack

I started my Substack site after Blogger hiccuped, and made updates difficult for a while. I thought it would be useful to have an alternative, should one site go down.

I know many writers with multiple sites that mirror their posts. Both sites are duplicates. That always sounded like a lot of extra work.

Instead, when I remember, I download my archive, and otherwise post different things on each site.

Here is a link to my Substack.

Distrust of Those Not Like Us

 When I was growing up, our families, teachers, and community leaders worked very hard to both introduce us to other cultures, but also to promote the idea that, at heart, foreigners were very much like us.

We were encouraged to focus on the similarities, not the differences.

Later on, I had friends who married someone raised in different cultures. Sometimes, the marriages worked out well. Often, those were marriages where the cultural blending was relatively easy:

• Both were White Europeans, but from different language groups
• They shared the same religion, perhaps different denominations
• They both came from the same economic/social background
• They met in college, and shared many experiences

Sometimes, one partner made major adjustments, taking up an unfamiliar language or culture, sometimes converting to another religion. Who they had been became subsumed into another identity.

Sometimes, they were successful in casting off their old identity. Often, over time, that person found the effort could not be sustained. Sometimes, the marriage collapsed.

The closer the family connections were to their 'old self' the harder it was to change. If the newcomer had family that stayed in the Old Country, change was easier.

If that family or community surrounded them, cultural change is nearly impossible.

And, that is the situation with many immigrants, particularly the Somalia s and other recent immigrants. They don't leave their home, they bring it with them.

They don't assimilate. They don't integrate. They bring the home country with them. They stay in their ethnic enclaves.

This is not solely a characteristic of Africans. Many of the European colonizers of the past stayed within their own ethnic enclaves. They did not engage socially, explore the native culture, learn the language, or otherwise become a part of that country. They considered the natives beneath them.

Eventually, resentment grew in the native cultures, and they kicked the invaders out.

There is a lesson to be learned here.

For a different perspective on the migration of Non-Euro's into a foreign culture, you might want to read this person's Substack.