Posted on 01/16/2026 11:36:47 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Brutal honesty: This ICE situation in Minnesota may be a defining moment for how the next 10 years look. Any weakness means fueling the worst domestic extremists.
Here’s what should be done:
• Invoke the insurrection act • Military arrests rioters and politicians • ICE triples presence and deports maximum # of illegals while DHS denaturalizes anyone who committed immigration fraud and deports them too • Not one apology from the right for anything
This must be put down so thoroughly that the far left extremists can’t effectively recruit people in other left wing cities to replicate the chaos and criminal behavior. Draw a clear line. Now.
One of two things is going to be normalized:
1. Rioting and criminality at the behest of the Democrats who run blue states/cities.
Or
2. Law & order, compliance with ICE and clear lines we have in our country about crime.
For moderates who may feel uncomfortable by my prescribed course of action, consider that this is a binary choice because extremists only understand the language of power. Either you use it to draw lines or they will seize it and use it to hurt you.
Moderation in these moments isn’t possible. It’s only weakness masquerading as moral supremacy. You must be strong if you want a country worth a damn. You must be strong if you want order. You must be strong if you want peace.
This is reality. We have a binary choice: Strength or weakness. Crime or safety. Borders or open borders. Sanity or insanity.
I know what I choose.
🚨Pics from North Minneapolis last night where rioters destroyed federal vehicles and stole firearms, ammunition and sensitive documents inside. All captured on livestreams. --Liz Collin✓ @lizcollin
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Start with arresting Hillary. /s
There’s going to be a Ft. Sumter event. This may be it, or something bigger may be in the planning stage.
I am in total agreement!
Either the government does this, or vigilante groups will, and they will be much worse.
My Mom told me about a ditty they heard in their childhood regarding Germany and France:
(sung to tune of “jack and Jill”)
“Kaiser Bill went up the hill to take a look at France.
Kaiser Bill went down the hill with bullets in his pants.”
Venezuela and the communist cabal that is funding all this insurrection have come up the hill to take a look at the US. They need to go down the hill with bullets in their pants.
Now.
We can crush this while we still can or face a slow death (like the long-time citizens of the UK are doing) when the Leftists return to power.
I could have predicted this the first time “students”
took over a college building in the 1960s !
It wasn’t dealt with then and here we are !
And Schwartz Gyorgy.
Agreed. Was thinking last night about this coming summer, and the violence they’re planning to foment. For the first time, their attacks on our civilization are being met, and they don’t like it one bit. They will keep this ball rolling right into June, one way or another, and then ramp up the lunatics into attacking.
RIGHT now.
The Strawberry Statement from my freshman year comes to mind.
Minneapolis seems to be substantially crazy.
/Captain Obvious
Any weakness means fueling the worst domestic extremists.
That is as clear as it gets all the enemy’s faces are showing.
That is our nation now. Aint it wonderful? What is needed are “Town Tamers” who are given free reign to tame any town that erupts in violence no questions asked. But of course that will never happen. So we are stuck with violent criminals making life miserable foor everyone because the left enable their violencr and criminal activities while arresting anyone who either stands up yo them or is a victim and tries to escape their mobs like nick whatshisnname was arrested for fleeing a mob tgreatening, and actuz..y carrying out gheir threats to murder him
Trump, Bondi and Patel are choosing not to put a stop to it. I mean, if they are going to allow a major American city burn and be taken over by anarchists, screw them. You may not like the people that now reside there, but that city was built by real Americans over the course of a century. Defend it or just give up.
Words of wisdom.
No different from 1966 when rioter met enforcers.
Reminds me of an old Al Capp Li’l Abner cartoon strip from the mid 1960s when the Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything (S.W.I.N.E) attacked the Enforcer’s brass knuckles, leading with their teeth. I still get a thrill remembering the huge sparks that flew, from brass and teeth kissing each other!
Robby, you are right on. Time to let it fly is now. Do it now and get it over with. It will be stopped in its tracks.
Regardless of how hard we fight, the USA will be a socialist country in 20 years. We’re vastly outnumbered and they have the media and schools. What are we to do?
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