It's what they want.
Their plans for civil war were postponed four years when the successfully stole 2020.
Posted on 01/31/2026 3:06:46 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Minnesota’s standoff with the Trump administration amid its immigration crackdown in the state has made a political tinderbox of the Twin Cities, as devolving clashes between protesters and federal agents stoke fears of a bigger brewing conflict.
Local officials have deemed the surge of immigration enforcement officers a “federal invasion,” doubling down in the courts and in public remarks as federal confrontations with Minnesota residents turned violent, then deadly.
The fatal shooting of 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti brought the standoff to a cliff edge — and both President Trump and the state seem to have changed course.
But as the federal government goes toe-to-toe with Democratic state leaders, experts warn of a pressure cooker for civil war.
“The problem is, these crises are like street cars — there’s one coming along every five minutes,” said Steve Saideman, a professor at Canada’s Carleton University who studies civil-military relations. “And while we might be able to avoid severe violence once, twice, three times, at some point we’re gonna stop, okay, and something may happen.”
‘Fort Sumter moment’ or not
Thousands of immigration enforcement officers descended on Minneapolis and St. Paul’s streets amid the administration’s so-called Operation Metro Surge, spurred by a sprawling welfare fraud scandal involving the local Somali community.
Pretti’s fatal shooting followed the killing of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mom who was shot dead in her car after an apparent confrontation with ICE officers. The tragedies stoked fears of a worsening conflict with federal authorities.
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It's what they want.
Their plans for civil war were postponed four years when the successfully stole 2020.
Hopes of civil war. Correction.
If that did break out, it would be the shortest Civil war in the history of mankind.
They made a predictive-programming movie about a civil war to prepare their minions for what to do when the time came.
Pretty flippin’ COLD in Minnesota this time of year!
The ‘war’ they want will have to wait for warmer weather. ;)
This “Civil War” needs to be handled one state at a time. The world is very small, now. I would prefer that failed states lose their statehood.
Several more “coincidental” uses of the threat of civil war have been made by Dem politicians and news people.
Someone gave them the order to start saying it.
Along with phrases such as “threat to democracy” “working families” “undocumented immigrants” and the rest. All coincidental, of course. /S
The “Civil War” discussion totally missed the point.
What we have are Democrat state and local leaders seeking to nullify federal law and conduct an insurrection.
Those leaders need to be seized and put in prison for insurrection.
If that does not happen then any governor or mayor in the future will have the right to nullify any federal law they don’t like—and face no consequences.
Don’t come down my street. I don’t suffer commies.
If Charlie Manson could smile he would.
The Dems attempt to erase from history the fact that MANY instances of Presidents bringing National Guar or Army troops into cities to control urban unrest have happened for decades. NOT a NEW Trump “fascist” idea of his.
On July 28, 1932, President Herbert Hoover ordered U.S. Army troops under General Douglas MacArthur and Gen. Patton to break up the 15-20,000 veteran tent camps in DC. Troops used tear gas and bayonets. Women and children were in the camps.
Veterans had been denied promised money as they returned from WWI overseas fighting.
Eisenhower to stop massive resistance to integration of schools.
LBJ to tamp down extreme violence and burning of buildings in LA and then the next year in Detroit in 1967.
EVERY photo I see of protests against ICE in Minnesota are well-fed, elderly, white, mostly female, libs.
These people are not going spark a civil war.
American blacks avoid this like the plague (which reveals their thinking), but I’m surprised to not see any Somalis, Arabs or Latinos either.
Let those asshoes attach a federal building and experience FAFO on a whole nuther level.
So cheesy. Expected better.
Streaming-style tropes, in fact it read left-to-right like Garland's attempt to save his own career, and Dunst realizing her career is finished.
Garland, who is a truly unpleasant atheist doucebag, has been pathetically reduced to make small coin off his 28 Days 'franchise', now a quarter-century long in the tooth.
What Would Lincoln Do?”, pointed to the exchange as an example of the “deeply rooted debate” over whether the federal government can direct state and local officials to enforce its laws, stemming from the 10th Amendment’s anti-commandeering doctrine. >>> Communist media phrases the issue incorrectly. This is the way they propagandize. Biden has created a nation of millions of illegal immigrants. Planned i’m sure. The states just need to allow the feds to do a job that should have been done at the border.
Who will fight for these leftists? All those AWFULs who post tiktok videos have watched too many “you go boss girl” movies and TV shows where a middle age skinny woman can beat up heavily armed 250lb body builders. They have this bazaar belief that holding a phone in front of someone provides some magical force field. They will be very disappointed at the results of their violent revolution.
No bag limit on libtards.
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