Posted on 01/27/2026 8:34:12 AM PST by re_tail20
The protesting in Minneapolis is not a great thing for anyone, contrary to what some might think. Alex Pretti's death was just the latest incident where someone who was involved ended up being killed by federal agents, though it's the less clear-cut case of a justifiable shooting.
What's clear, though, is that this is a very organized effort. The Signal chat that was used for coordination was exposed as involving none other than the LT. Governor of Minnesota, among others, and it illustrated just how coordinated it was.
For most of us, this is a little concerning, but not the end of the world.
Yet for some, it's pretty clear that what we're dealing with is something that should scare you even more.
Eric Schwalm is a retired Special Forces warrant officer, and what he sees is a level of coordination that is typical not for protests, but for insurgencies.
Now, where things go from here could be overstated. This could somehow de-escalate on its own, and this could be the anomaly.
But I wouldn't bet money on that one if my life depended on it, and it kind of does.
For a long time, many of us thought that if things got extra spicy here in the Land of the Free, if the Tree of Liberty needed rewatering, it would be because of gun confiscation. We drew our line in the sand, and we made it clear that it would be the spark that would flip the switch.
Author Larry Correia, though, noted that the right and the left are different when it comes to violence. The right is, in fact, a switch. It's all or nothing, really.
The left is a dial, where it slowly ramps up until they're full-on communist revolution or something of that sort. A...
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Simple solution———let them do their jobs.
It was important for the Democrats to use Jan 6 to show what would happen to people who oppose THEM.
We could quit this nonsense of calling what is going on in Minnesota as “protests”. These are not protests. These are coordinated and purposeful obstructions of justice.
The right needs to learn not to adopt the language the left uses to cover their wrongful activities.
If the azho, Pretti boi, had minded his own business, he could have gotten up and went to work this morning. Unfortunately, the boy must have been pretty low I.Q. Stay out of government business! IDIOTS! You had no reason to be there. Especially showing up with a gun. That’s idiot stuff. He sacrificed his life for an illegal alien toilet scrubber. Not very bright.
That MSNow photoshopped Pretti’s photograph while Nicole Wallace said only they could be a trusted source?
That now all the memes and mocking of MSNow takes the focus off ICE controversy and puts it on the lying Democrat media?
To me, the scary part is that this Pretti is likely representative of thousands of “nurses” out there that people foolishly (choicelessly) put their trust in.
Exactly. These are organized insurrections.
That's the absolute truth. It wasn't about a protest that broke two windows and damaged a door - it was a lesson: that if conservatives protest there will be severe consequences. It was commie directed totalitarianism ....
Good point. Maybe it's time to call this a commie directed coup...
“Keep your Heads on a Swivel, Folks”
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Bottom line
While showing us that their BrownShirts cannot be stopped.
I agree.
Also, we need to stop calling them 'liberals'. They are COMMUNISTS, pure and simple.
The lesson to be learned is that the only response to a lost election is armed insurrection.
Sure, but they won’t do that.
So DHS needs to get a lot smarter - like it would be if Hegseth was running the operation.
For one thing, they should bring in the RF jammers whenever an operation is in progress. It wouldn’t affect the advance planning but would make it impossible for anyone on the ground to use cellphones or walkie-talkies for comms.
Everything I’ve seen looks amateurish and poorly coordinated, with agents in random positions and not acting as a unit. Take the confrontation with Good - should there not be a standard protocol for removing a vehicle that is blocking the road? Like putting spike strips against all wheels right off, so the driver knows their tires will be ruined if they try to leave. Why not just have a wrecker on standby and hook them up if they refuse to leave voluntarily?
It just looks like they other side is well coordinated and playing to win and DHS is the Keystone Kops.
The commies need blue government collusion to succeed. In MN Putz encouraged mob rule and insurrection. The cold civil war has turned hot.
“I’m going to go down and help the thieving Somalis who are stealing from hard working American Taxpayers because they give some of the stolen money to dirty Democrat politicians!”
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Former Green Beret : "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."
X ^Â | 01/25/2026 | Eric Schwalm
It's not scary, it' problamatic that most people do not realize that it is an attempt to take this country away, and it's not to improve this nation. Just the opposite is the ttrue, and people had better wake up to that reality.
As for it being less clear-cut justifiable death.
This too is nonsense, as death occurring in the commision of a crime, the death becomes the fault and is attributed to the criminals who were also participating in the crime of impeding law enforcement legally doing their legal duty.
The Governor of Minnesota, and the Mayor of Minneapolis, are also complicit of participitation in that crime and committing another crime of icniting violence.
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