Good morning one and all to another glorious day!
Major winter storm leads to cancellation of nearly 14,000 flights, causes widespread power outages
Massive winter storm strains US power grid as operators scramble to avoid blackouts
Shutdown odds grow as Senate Republicans won’t remove DHS funding after Pretti killing
The Democrats Have a New Playbook and It Centers on Taking Out Kristi Noem
Anti-ICE agitator allegedly bites off federal officer’s finger during Minneapolis attack
Revealed: Training Materials and Communications for Minneapolis Anti-ICE protestors
Appeals Court Denies DOJ’s Bid to Arrest More Minnesota Church Protesters
Trump says US deployed ‘discombobulator’ weapon in Maduro capture
Up To 30,000 Reportedly Dead After Iran’s Regime Cracks Down On Protestors
That’s all I got for today I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
If the second civil war starts in Minnesota in January does that make it a cold war? Mornin’ Banjos!
Do we have any upbeat news?
I did see a bunny rabbit hopping across the frozen tundra of my yard.
Pics?
I did not have time. It was pretty quick. And pitch dark. I will get a chance tomorrow.
Oh well.
I had rabbit tracks in the snow on the porch. Going after the plants my wife left in the boxes, I imagine.
We’re lousy with rabbits, really. My prediction of a growing coyote population hasn’t come to fruition, which is probably best.
“We’re lousy with rabbits, really.”
All you need is an air rifle, and a heavy pot, garlic, parsley, and white wine.
We’re lousy with rabbits, really. My prediction of a growing coyote population hasn’t come to fruition, which is probably best.
Hopefully you’ll be blessed with an abundant and well-fed population of hawks.
A federal shutdown doesn’t qualify as upbeat?
juris gets it
No, because nothing changes for me whether they’re open or closed. I still get taxed, my day to day is the same…
So, really, it’s abstract rather than upbeat.
School is canceled today … good for the wife and kids but not so much for me.
Yeah. Daughter is home today and has cabin fever.
Put them to work clearing snow.
I traveled with my hockey team this weekend. In my coaching debut I went 2-2. I guess not all Indiana coaches are perfect.
My concussion therapy has been reduced to 1x a week so that’s good news.
Congrats. You could have done worse, plus I’m glad to hear you’re healing.
The other coach also went 2-2.
.500 ain’t a bad battin’ average
Good that you’re on the mend
I feel like I turned a corner again. I know I would have been useful in those two losses, so that was tough to see. But everyone on the team is really supportive and telling me not to rush coming back, they want me around long term.
There’s no benefit in wrecking yourself for near term victories if it leaves you out of the future games when you would otherwise have recovered.
Congrats, Kevin.
Congrats TOK!
With a 2-2 record, you would be swamped with Head Coaching jobs in the NFL if you had just been smart enough to pull a Warren and claim that you were Black.
Doom, more doom, some people will die, cold, and doom.
On a good note, I made some bitchin’ crawfish etouffee yesterday. I thought about having some more for breakfast this morning.
New England is apparently discovering the value of fossil fuels for home heating.
In my corner of Sunny Minnesoda, you would have no idea that the New Insurrection is playing out in Minneapolis (12 miles away).
The gym is as packed with Somalis as ever. Running track is full of laundry piles* walking in circles while shouting loudly into their cell phones (and you can hear the replies too because I guess headphones must be haram).
I haven’t run into any restaurant that is closed yet. The local muslim grocery store looks as busy as ever.
I’m done storm clean-up for now. The snow has started up again. I’ll be cleaning up again tomorrow.
I like Duluth Trading Post’s lined cargo pants for working outside in the snow. Warm. They fit well except I feel like I’m channeling LBJ with the crotch being too small.
whaddup doh’
Heya Banjos- how YOU doin’ ?
“Two senior officials from Iran’s Ministry of Health told TIME Magazine that the government’s internal death count reached approximately 30,000 on Jan. 8 and 9 alone. The slaughter outpaced the state’s ability to handle the dead. Body bag supplies ran out, and 18-wheel trucks took over for ambulances, the officials said.”
Who knows? Although let me guess, the people called the Israel-Hamas war with 90,000 deaths over two years, a “genocide in 4K”, aren’t going to say anything about this.
Does Iran’s Ministry of Health work for the Mullahs, the Resistance, or The Hamas Ministry of Health?
Muslim-on-Muslim killings are whatever. Hell, anything that isn’t white people killing POCs is whatever.
Although they are lathered up about the white-on-white action in Minneapolis. I think they miscalculated, thinking that by now they’d have black rioters on the street for Trumpitler’s ICEstapo to kill. The thing is, it’s damn cold for looting, and black people aren’t pro-immigration. It is kind of interesting that you don’t see Somalis out there harassing ICE, though.
Every last Somali at an ICE rally would be facially scanned and potentially nabbed for deportation and they know it.
That is because this action has nothing to do with ICE or illegal immigration.
It has to do with “smash the system”. It’s the same crowd of commies that have shown up from Floyd to Gaza and now ICE.
Yeah, they’re only lathering up the young /middle aged AWFLs with this shit, and they were already onboard. Also, black people were already smart enough not to interject themselves into a confrontation with the police. They know the potential, where as these asshats think it’s a game they can magically remove themselves from when it gets uncomfortable. I didn’t believe in the concept of white privilege, but I’m seeing what happens to people that do believe they have it and then also find out, it’s a myth.
The AWFLs aren’t the only ones. There’s also the Boomers trying to relive their imaginary* youth.
*They were too young to do anything during the civil rights movement, and mostly too young even for the heyday of Vietnam War protesting.
I take all news about Iran with a grain of salt. That story requires a whole bag. Coincidentally, we just sent a carrier there to maybe bomb them some more.
Maybe if we bomb them, the killing will stop?
I don’t know what we should call it when Our Masters get into one of their kayfabe slapfights over government spending, but a “shutdown” its not.
““The appalling murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis must lead Republicans to join Democrats in overhauling ICE and CBP to protect the public,” he said. “People should be safe from abuse by their own government.””
How about ending the sanctuary bullshit and deranged rhetoric that got them killed?
Well no, that’s out of the question.
I’m not appalled.
They didn’t want to protest, they wanted to engage in combat.
I don’t remember how this shit ended circa 1969-70, but we don’t need a war to reinstate the draft.
Finger,
It did not end… it trailed into the 1970s and didn’t really finish until the early 1980s. Lots of bombings, shootings, etc. It became background noise to hear a pipe bomb went off at a recruiting center or such. The big mass marches ended the minute the draft did. Except there was nice round of riots in 1975.
No one rioted when Carter reinstated draft registration or Reagan threw refuseniks in prison (after campaigning to reverse Carter).
Fuck Gen Hershey.
Does a shut down include no more Fed money for MN welfare? So if a shutdown occurs I’m tax exempt during that period of time?
Will the Mpls schools open today? Not that it matters on the positive learning curve. Is Mpls destined to be the new Detroit?
“Independent journalist Cam Higby, on Saturday, blew the lid off the Minneapolis anti-ICE protests by revealing their training and communications methods, including some very interesting specifics.
Have a look:”
I hate these lazy articles that are bunch of Twitter links. Supposedly, you’re a journalist. You should know how to quote people.
At least it wasn’t a slideshow list.
AI’s are not journalists.
The domestic leftists have learned well from the GWOT.
I keep telling people to not underestimate them…
Yeah, the reporting on that Signal group they use is very interesting. They appear to have a pretty well developed network of lookouts, response teams, etc.
What I was (also) not expecting was that the Signal group is run out of the Governor’s office.
Insurgencies depend on agents-in-place in the government.
You can complain to the author of that article today, doesn’t he do the Monday 11am post around here?
Morning all. Snowmageddon has arrived. Work is closed, so I have fired up the work laptop ready to address any factory issues that may crop up, but with no one at the factory, I doubt we have any problems. I’m sure my boss will ping my Teams or email at some point just to make sure I’m “working.”
I haven’t left the house in four days and getting a little stir crazy. I bought a Toyota RAV4 with AWD last fall and really want to see how it handles the road conditions, but don’t have an excuse good enough to leave the house. My wife stocked up on essentials prior to the storm, so just riding it out.
Stay frosty, my friends.
I was sure I was gonna take my Jeep out in the snowpocalypse too. Decided I had no where to go and didn’t.
It did get me to work this morning, safe and sound with no drama on crappy roads.
All Wheel/Four Wheel Drive does not equal All Wheel/Four Wheel Stop.
Good point. Plus my tires are designed for pavement, not ice.
Yeah. Snow tires are of limited use when it’s ice. You need some of those newfangled plastic and wire chains sets. Which I still have not bought myself.
Or studded tires.
I just spent far too much on the Tracker Testarossa™, with 4 new BF Goodrich Trail T/A KO3.
They have the cute snowflake rating, but I havent gotten to try them out.
Studs work, but they seem very unpopular now.
I’m a stud. Kindly don’t enact my labor.
Just another Post in the Wall?
Chains on the front of your 4×4 are magic.
I purchased an old ammo box at a yard sale recently, and it had tire chains in it. I asked the seller if the chains were part of the deal and he said yes. I don’t know if they fit my car, maybe I should check.
Snow tires are of limited use when it’s ice.
My nonstudden Nokians do OK in the ice. Best snow and ice tires I’ve had.
However, they’re expensive. And while they do OK in ice, they have limits.
nonstudded.
“Discombobulator weapon”
Bullshit. Is that what they’re calling bribes now?
We throw money at military problems – either exceedingly expensive weapons, or some dollars under the table.
It works.
Wait till you see how much is spent on ‘education’ in the U.S. by
government.
OTOH, make your opponents wonder what sort of new weapons system you *do* have.
Exactly what they’re doing plus covers for the bribetakers.
Calvin and Hobbes running DARPA would add joy to my life.
Rick and Morty – and unfortunately they both work under Jerry.
Went all day with power, then it goes out at midnight well after the storm was over. Still not back. I’ll wait a while before hauling the generator out of the shed.
I’m sorry to hear that.
Stay warm.
Thanks. I’ll have to give wood stove a break midday to remove the ashes. Otherwise staying warm won’t be an issue.
Equivalent to killing 100,000 protestors in America. Didn’t OMB draw a line in the sand regarding Iran shooting protesters? He must have taken a page from Obama’s handbook on talking the talk but not walking the walk
I’m wondering if the “talking the talk” part increased the death toll by giving people hope of American intervention and thus upping the protest numbers.
Likely.
I hate the DHS and now I have to defend it or else we won’t have a border. Maybe a libertarian dream, if only we didn’t provide endless welfare and scam money for the useless people coming in.
(Not entirely useless – they reliably vote Dem even if they aren’t supposed to vote)
Open borders combined with social welfare is a suicide pact. Principles are good to have but there’s no reason to be stupid about it.
Unless you are a member of the stupid party.
Open borders without social welfare is a slower way to commit cultural suicide.
Trump should have went with the classic Gonculator.
“NJ man ‘sipping coffee’ as $5K robotic snow blower clears his driveway during Winter Storm Fern….
Tom Moloughney, a northern New Jersey resident and host of a popular YouTube channel focused on electric vehicles and charging tech, posted videos on X showing his autonomous Yarbo snow blower clearing his roughly 6,000-square-foot driveway during the storm.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/25/us-news/nj-man-sipping-coffee-as-5k-robotic-slow-blower-clears-his-driveway-during-monster-winter-storm-fern/
WCPGW?
I want the equivalent brush-hog / lawnmower for my yard and field.
I’ve seen those, and autonomous lawn mowers. Neither is ready for prime time. My experience with robot house vacuum cleaners taught me just how shitty something can be for a serious amount of cash.
You don’t want videos of your cats riding the autonomous lawn mower?
Idk, mine was a little over $100 and does a good job running around the first floor at night to keep the dog hair under control. It does occasionally get stuck and I did have to replace the battery after a year, but those are minor problems.
Curious how much the battery was? They’re frequently more expensive than the host product these days.
Under $20.
Are they supposed to replace a wife (or orphans)? Can a robot make me a sammich?
6000 ft^2 driveway, 30×200’
Crap I thought mine was big and I have a bunch of equipment, too poor to pave it though.
Unpopular opinion: I think Trump orders an attack on Iran. The USS Abraham Lincoln strike group just arrived in the area. Trump seems to like using carriers when he attacks things, that’s why they haven’t dropped any bombs yet.
Did you label it as “unpopular” because you think people would disagree with that being the probable course of action, or if the locals on this site would begin kvetching when it happens?
The first. Iran was out of the news for a while, and it looked like Trump had chased the laser pointer to the next thing.
As for the second option, I think there’s a split in opinion here about that and I find that interesting.
There’s always going to be a split here and basing any assessment of the popularity of a policy on the reactions here is deeply unwise because this is a group that self selected as extreme outliers in terms of beliefs. I mean we’re a tiny schismatic group from the libertarian group that makes up 1-2% of the public at best. We’re hard to please 🙂
Don’t accuse me of being libertarian, I’m nothing of the sort.
Ok, we’re a tiny group of schismatic libertarians and one hyper authoritarian crypto-monarchist.
That’s a strange way to describe yourself, Jar.
I’ve never claimed to be libertarian (or Libertarian for that matter) either. I don’t think I’m exactly alone here… conservative with libertarian leanings, really.
I am Bacon. -read that in Ralphie Wiggum’s voice
He’s hoping Iran drops a bomb on MPLS.
Certainly a possibility. That’s why that improbable sounding Time story just dropped.
Given the far bigger problems we have domestically, it’s stupid and a good way to lose the midterms. If we start losing Sailors or even ships, that will guarantee it.
Elected to handle shit at home, spends all his time doing bullshit overseas. The midterms are already gone. Maybe handle the fucking situation in Minnesota first?
That would be a much better use of time, energy, and resources.
Foreign adventures while a literal insurrection is taking place is not a good look.
Has he wanted to do anything timely it would have been B2’s within 24 hours. Return trips out of Diego Garcia quicker.
“People could soon live to 150 years as breakthroughs in biological clocks and rejuvenation research stretch human lifespans to new highs, one expert predicted.
Geneticist Steve Horvath told Time that living to 150 will someday be a reality — though he isn’t sure exactly when.
“I have no doubt it will happen,” Horvath said, pointing to rapid advances in measuring and potentially reversing the biological aging process.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/25/us-news/humans-will-soon-live-150-years-thanks-to-bio-clocks-expert/
I have plenty of doubt. No idea how society will afford people living 85 years past retirement.
110 is the new 65.
88 is not even the new 78
What a difference a day, week, month, year makes.
Well solve the social security problem now!
define soon
10 years.
shit that soon? I need to lower my whisky intake
MAID is made for this. The important people get to live to 150, the pensioners get gently ushered into the next world.
The important people think they’ll upload their neural patterns to a server “soon” anyway and then they can directly manage the AI agents that manage the robots that do the real work and they can get rid of the rest of us more quickly than MAID would.
(Yeah, I’m kidding with this… but not entirely and not as much as I used to on this front….)
Sounds miserable
I was thinking the reverse — what hell is it going to be when you can’t retire until 125.
A politician?
No children to turn into linemen.
All those 130 year old pipe fitters and maintenance techs.
“Armed Minneapolis anti-ICE protester Alex Pretti was carrying a popular handgun that has a history of unintentionally firing — leading some gun experts to suggest that the gun might have accidentally discharged after a Border Patrol agent grabbed it from him, causing another agent to open fire, killing him Saturday.
Pretti, 37, an ICU nurse angry at President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration in Minnesota, was carrying a loaded Sig Sauer P320 9mm pistol when he allegedly tried to stop federal agents from arresting a woman on the street.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/25/us-news/alex-prettis-sig-p320-may-have-gone-off-accidentally-experts-suggest/
I think that’s irrelevant. He shouldn’t have been trying to stop an arrest in the first place.
Would be ironic if that shitty P320 started a civil war by firing without a trigger pull.
Like a black fly in your Chardonnay
I’ll accept it Kinnath
Nobody in their right mind would be interfering in this stuff. These crazies are being trained as cannon fodder. It’s nuts.
How?
Yelling “gun” shouldn’t be a carte blanche to randomly start shooting people. You need to be able to correctly identify the target as a threat, regardless of who else in the crowd might have had a gun. Heck, while Fedboi was busy ventilating the non-threat, he could have been missing the other shooter that as far as he could tell was the actual threat.
Yelling ‘Gun!’ by itself, no. Combine that with a gunshot, yes. Not justification to randomly start shooting people, but justification to shoot the person who you’re grappling with who was in possession of the gun.
Use of deadly force in self defense doesn’t require perfect analysis. That’s why the ‘reasonable man’ test exists.
(Anyone who wants some high-level instruction in managing this kind of situation, should go take the Shivworks ECQC course. Three days of grappling with Simunitions against live roleplayers will really open one’s eyes.)
I seems to me that there needs to be some onus for identifying where the shot came from. In this case, the bullet catcher did NOT fire that shot, and he had been disarmed, potentially visibly so.
I’d be somewhat (but only somewhat) ok with not having the panic-shooter not legally liable, but it should absolutely be a disqualification from carrying a gun for a living. Alas that there is no such disqualification anywhere in the US.
No, he shouldn’t have, but ‘trying to stop an arrest’ is not by itself something that a police officer can use lethal force to prevent. So if a gun accidentally fired during a physical struggle, I would say that that is very relevant.
Depends on how he was attempting to stop the arrest. Was the gun visible as he approached officers? There’s a lot of variables in this, but one thing is certain, officers are not trained to stand down when confronted over an arrest. That’s exactly when escalation tactics come into play and as we see, it escalates quickly and unpredictably. These incidents are begging for and getting force, that will sometime escalate to deadly force.
Let’s say this has nothing to do with immigration, and an armed person who thinks drug laws are wrong, gets into a fight with the cops who are trying to arrest a drug dealer?
Yes, that’s why I said, “by itself.” Obviously if one tries to interfere with a legal arrest by shooting the arresting officer, then deadly force is immediately on the table.
Apparently he resisted arrest after injecting himself into a confrontation between an ICE and a protester, never said a word about carrying, and as soon as they saw the holstered gun, everything went to shit. I was not there, obviously, but this is precisly why we have juryies.
This is the best write up of it I have found:
https://x.com/TheBrancaShow/status/2015188635876766090?s=20
That is from a self-defense attorney, not your average mall ninja.
I suspect the scenario was something like this:
Yet another fraught, high-tension ICE op. This guy rolls up, does something to get himself arrested (not hard at all when you are sticking your nose into an active law enforcement operation). He resists arrest, the cops find the gun, yell “Gun!” as they are trained to do, manage to get it during the struggle and it goes off. At that point, you have cops who don’t know anything more than “Gun!” hear a gunshot and respond by putting rounds into the arrestee. The fact that he was being dogpiled doesn’t mean he can’t be pulling a trigger, after all.
Excellent question!
WSJ said he was restrained, searched, disarmed by ICE when something went bang and everybody started firing.
That all happened quickly, but it’s not looking good for ICE.
OTH, it was really a dumb thing to do… I don’t like anybody here.
Andrew Branca is not someone who’s opinion should be rated very highly. He has a terrible reputation among the more intelligent parts of the self-defense community.
That said, I’ve come to pretty much the same conclusion. If you’re in a hands-on fight, and someone yells, “Gun! Gun!” and then there’s a gunshot, your reasonable fear of a deadly threat has pretty much been satisfied.
This was an unfortunate shooting, but I’d rate it as more justified than the shooting of Good, if only because the shooter didn’t do anything stupid like firing into a moving vehicle.
Of course, DHS and DOJ have been fucking the PR into a cocked hat…
Also, the attempted arrest began by the federal agent committing assault on one of the harassers standing in a public street. It’s bullshit and clowns all the way down.
Some people watch too many old westerns on tv where sheriff, say Marshal Dillon, always waits until the baddie goes for his gun before he draws and shoots the baddie. Or maybe Law and Order or Blue Bloods where cops are always asking perp to drop the gun or knife rather than simply blasting away.
Another thing, what was this guy thinking when he decided to bring a gun? It seems there were two possibilities: 1) He never uses it. 2) He uses it against law enforcement.
When I was down at VCDL Rally Day last week, I carried a gun. So did damn near everyone else there.
Did MN go the route of NY and declare that protests are gun free zones?
Did MN go the route of NY and declare that protests are gun free zones?
No. MN allows an individual with a permit to carry to take a weapon to a protest/demonstration.
So, Pretti was legal.
Legal doesn’t mean it was a good idea. He knew where he was going.
Going armed to an action intended to interfere with the duties of armed officers seems flat out stupid to me.
I was somewhat hoping for the clusterfuck in which the Feds would use a MN law to justify themselves, where MN would deny that the feds had any jurisdiction over MN law, with potentially Walz/Frey/etc preemptively declaring the guy was innocent.
Packin’ heat to a peaceful protest is not a good idea. No knives, no baseball bats, no Fuck You signs. That is not a peaceful protest.
“He started it” may work with your mom though highly unlikely. It will never work against an LE guy.
Legal and alive may be two different things.
I carried guns at the Reopen NH protests I went to.
All were peaceful.
I like this guy’s take on AI and art:
https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/01/the-fine-arts-were-always-a-massive-grift-controversial-earthworm-jim-creator-goes-all-in-on-generative-ai
The only problem with his argument is that most of the AI generated films I have seen from independents appears to have been excreted from the same hole as bombing popular films.
Always is a long time.
There was a time, ages ago, when the people spending money on art had taste and were looking for something aesthetically pleasing to decorate with, rather than a money laundering scheme.
What did Hunter Biden ever do to you?
Nothing as tasteful as Epstein’s Clinton in a Blue Dress.
there are definitely grift elements
The bitching is coming from the same people who bitched about the horseless carriage.
It’s coming, people – deal with it.
Doug TenNapel got cancelled a while back when it came out he was Christian and not a fan of the QUILTBAG population:
What’s with the random capital in the middle of the last name?
hes an artist you wouldnt get it
To trick you thinking he was cool and hip instead of a Hitler bigot.
UCS:
Always the way I’ve seen it. I’m assuming something along the Scottish Mac or the Irish Mc (or O’).
People also ask
Where does the name TenNapel come from?
The surname “Ten Napel” is of Dutch origin. It is a topographic name, derived from the Middle Dutch words “ten” meaning “at the” and “apel” referring to an apple tree or orchard. Therefore, the name likely originated for someone who lived near an apple tree or orchard.
do with this information what you will.
He came out as an actual Christian. Before that he was pretty California.
Doug TenNaple Is an odd duck. Injad an opportunity to have a conversation with him after an event our college Christian group had where he spoke back 25 years or more ago. I think he’s a little less weird now but yeah. Odd.
WHAT IS ‘PANTSUIT DEPORTING’?
One problem with the ‘Politics of Deportation’ is that, especially in a more genteel European context, too vigorously expressed it can ‘Scare The Hoes’. Many Europeans subconsciously think about refugees and migrants in the same kind of sentimental, doting, mothering way that they would think about cats and dogs – and if emerging Right Wing politics is seen as being too ‘nasty’ that sentimental instinct can kick in and cause a kneejerk response that is often completely detached from real world policy outcomes. Women get the ick. “It sounds nasty and mean, you are evil” etc
In this way, it may not always be better to be ‘loud’ in your politics, especially if your rhetoric is strong and doubly so if you policies don’t live up to that rhetoric. (See the British Conservatives.) People like the cuddly European Social Democracy consensus, they don’t like thinking of themselves as bad people, they don’t like to ‘feel gross’. Many of the Countries that have had the most success with the ‘Immigration Problem’ like Denmark and now increasingly Sweden have done so by appearing moderate and presenting themselves as existing in continuity with that existing cuddly European Social Democracy sentiment
What does the ideal ‘Under-The-Radar’ sensible, pragmatic and technocratic cuddly European Social Democracy Minister for Remigration (this is a ‘Scary Name’ you can just call the Ministry the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) look like? Ideally a woman in their 40s maybe 50s. Attractive in a homely mummy-milkers way but best years behind her and not so attractive that she intimidates other women. Probably your dad likes her. (Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederickson is the platonic example.) She uses continuity progressive cuddly European Social Democracy language. She is a ‘Girlboss’. She talks about ‘compassion’, ‘duty of care’, ‘women’s rights’, ‘human rights’, ‘duty to the environment’ etc and everybody feels warm and cosy, the hoes are not scared by this unintimidating pantsuit-wearing HR woman, nobody gets the ick.
https://x.com/kunley_drukpa/status/1834593144161100045
It’s just great that western civilization is kicking off a civil war on the basis of “I’m a good person and you’re mean”.
I’ve been texting Tundra. He’s doing fine, but heartbroken over what is happening in MN.
Yesterday I read Walz sent out the national guard in orange vests and they’re giving coffee and donuts to “the resistance”. He just keeps escalating things, but the whole MN government is behind him. Can you imagine being in the MN national guard? “Put on this orange vest. Go give treats to Antifa, and be prepared to give your life to prevent illegal immigrant child molesters from being arrested.”
I’m surprised there aren’t skirmishes at this point.
To be honest I can no longer see any sort of working out differences possible… The sides are like scifi alien species at war with no ability to communicate.
That’s a good way to put it. Most Democrats I talk to fully believe all the provably false things they see on TV and social media. We have two groups living in completely different realities.
I don’t think so. This is mostly a replay of late sixties, early seventies Weathermen type stuff who watched The Wire and think they know street smarts. Normies might not like the overall picture, but when this shit starts effecting jobs and other artifacts of daily life, it will go down the drain and these idiots will be left holding the bag.
I thought it would be “affecting jobs” . Anyway not sure about the US but in Europe normies vote how they always voted and the politicians do whatever their agenda is without caring about the normies, and the normies rationalize things going down the drain until it is too late to fix, it seems. I cannot see thing being better in 20 years than now, but I can see them being much worse.
I’m still amazed that something approaching half the country has, within maybe a 15-year time span, been convinced that everyone in the world is entitled to live in the U.S. (perhaps even at the taxpayers’ expense) and the country should have no border. Virtually no one previously believed this.
I still don’t think many of their voters believe this but the Dems could put “killing puppies” at the top of their platform and they would garner the same number of votes as now.
People vote on inertia and looks and not much else.
I would bet Walz has as much control of MN gov’t as Biden did of the US gov’t
Deep state kabuki theatre.
You’ve seen the Walz’ hunting pictures. If you were an LE would you want him on the your team?
I know, I know, he was a NG Sergeant Major but would you want him on your team?
I wouldn’t want the vast majority of seargents majors on my team in general.
I’m wondering what the end-game is here for the lefties. They keep escalating. Are they hoping Trump just calls the whole thing off? What’s their Plan B if he doesn’t, and keeps escalating too? Pretty much his next step is the Insurrection Act. What’s their plan then? Do they really think there will be house-to-house fighting and they will win?
then end game is many people think ICE is mean and republicans lose badly in elections. they probably can hold on until then. This may be on purpose really, create situations that cannot be solved without some cruelty or at least things perceived as cruel by the masses. They are willing to have some martyrs to the cause. Probably many leftist like it when a few of them die as long as it is not someone close to them.
They need to keep the base riled up to ensure they steal 2026 “to fight the violence”
or to reference a tweet I posted above the end game is ‘Scare The Hoes’.
I agree with Pie, the end game is always to manipulate public opinion to win elections, and then do whatever they can to cement one-party rule. There is always a glaring lack of “what we can do to improve the lives of the average citizen.”
It’s the 2020 playbook. Cause chaos, paint the team as incapable of stopping it, and tell the public things will return to normal if you vote for them.
After winning bigly in the mid-terms, impeach the motherfucker. Again.
That’s the plan. Whether or not it will work is a separate question.
“create situations that cannot be solved without some cruelty or at least things perceived as cruel by the masses. ”
It worked for the Civil Rights marchers; no reason it wouldn’t work today. Trump is role of Bull Connor, martyred Freedom Riders, normies will get sick of it and vote the bastards out.
I’m doubtful that the normies are being swayed to vote for the side of violent rioters but I’ve been wrong about this sort of thing in the past so who knows.
The normies are being persuaded that the chaos will go away if they vote Dem. And they’re wrong.
“they’re giving coffee and donuts to “the resistance””
Who do they think they are? Don Lemon?
This place could use some Tundra. I get why people want to unplug, though.
I’d love to know more about those MN NatG troops. How many of them are from Greater MN and how many are from the Twin Cities area?
Walz isn’t loved outside of the 7 county metro area. I can’t believe that any MN NatG troops from there will be willing to fire on Fed troops from somewhere else.
I also agree that making them hand out donuts and coffee isn’t going to be popular with the troops. Or maybe it is. Maybe the troops hope that – being fellow Minnesodans – they can try de-escalating and getting thing back to semi-normal?
WHY I LOVE PANAMA – BASICALLY FINEISM WITH GIANT TAX HAVEN CHARACTERISTICS 🇵🇦
Spent some time in Panama – giant tax haven but to its credit a mostly competent giant tax haven. Have a certain admiration for a country (Panama isn’t really a country more a city state on top of a major shipping lane but still) that is prepared to say “yes we are going to make ourselves rich” and then actually follow up on that. A commitment to action you don’t see much anymore. And even if in Panama they don’t fully land it on the level of Dubai they still sort of land it, which is no small achievement – it is ‘fairly rich’. This kind of thing is impressive, especially in the context of Latin America. Have spent a lot of time in so-called ‘third world shitholes’ in recent years so have developed a very sophisticated ‘competence palate’ in the sense of I appreciate a lot more now countries which are in relative terms well-run and successful, even if that Basically Fine-dom was achieved by occasionally unsavoury methods.
Panama’s relative wealth is reflected in its high-income status and its having one of the highest GDPs per capita in Latin America (around $33,571 in asset wealth per capita as of 2024). This stems basically from the canal and its service economy, which together account for 80% of GDP. The canal itself generates nearly a third of government revenue through tolls and facilitating global trade and the country’s shipping registry (the world’s largest) adds to that maritime logistics income. Other drivers include a robust financial sector (bolstered by its giant tax haven features), the Colon Free Trade Zone (the 2nd-largest in the world) and real estate development. Panama also uses the US dollar to eliminate currency risk, support low inflation and attract foreign investment. This all contributing to sustained economic growth, read – sustained economic growth. Again, no small achievement
https://x.com/kunley_drukpa/status/2015440455731724294
The Colon-Free Trade Zone is where to go for all your ostomy supplies.
When I visited Panama, probably 20 years ago, I had the following impressions:
It’s basically at a second world level of development. I doubt that’s changed.
The people were just really pleasant and enjoyable.
It is freakin’ gorgeous.
Clicked too soon.
We were kinda thinking about expatting there, so we looked at some real estate. I will never forget one lot that we looked at outside of Boquete. It had a view of both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. There can’t be more than a few places in the world where that happens. We couldn’t afford it, or I might be living there now.
I have very positive memories of Panama, Ecuador, and Argentina.
Hope you did not accidentally evade some taxes while you were there.
“To all the girls I’ve loved before
Who traveled in and out my door
I’m glad they came along
I dedicate this song
To all the girls I’ve loved before.”
Another candidate for statehood.
Inside the Deep South’s Most Remote Region
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNYoIse6zGU
this looks kinds dismal tbh
They used a filter to make it look shadowed.
Still has a higher per capita GDP than Great Britain.
Live to 150? What a stupid idea. I’m already sick of you people.
You don’t pine for sex with a 140 year old woman?
I can’t wait for Q’s “Monday mammaries are reaching for the floor!” link.
No kink shaming!
I hate that I remembered this cartoon. Please forgive me.
Totally NSFW
“I’m gonna grind your pelvis into dust” becomes more than a pickup line.*
*I have seen it work at least once.
Is the 140 year old Elizabeth Hurley?
Yesterday I read Walz sent out the national guard in orange vests and they’re giving coffee and donuts to “the resistance”.
His prior statements about mobilizing the Guard were chock full of whimwham about “protecting the voices of all Minnesotans” or some such blather. He sure as Hell isn’t providing logistical support to ICE.
Does he really believe that he’ll cause a TACO?
Walz and Frey are pretty openly stating that they are on the side of Antifa here. I don’t recall such higher ups being so brazen about violating Federal law in my lifetime. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Governor George Wallace.
I was quite young, but I remember the segregationists.
Maybe ICE should use fire hoses to disperse the crowds. Added bonus of it being subzero in MN.
Don’t forget the dogs.
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It’s so cold, I saw a Somali with his hands in his own pockets!
*snork*
Hi yo!
What’s their plan then? Do they really think there will be house-to-house fighting and they will win?
I think they are counting on the Power of Love to save them. They’ll all join hands and sing, and the Evil Empire will crumble.
*and I am not referring to that crappy ’80s song
Exactly right. Cause enough trouble for Trump to withdraw troops is the goal. Or to turn enough public opinion to make Republicans lose the congressional elections.
It’s so cold, I saw a Somali with his hands in his own pockets!
Doubleplusgood.
The Federal government needs to end sanctuary city and state laws. I’ve mentioned it before, but states were pressured to end their 18 year old drinking laws in the 80’s by threatened loss of highway funds. Only Louisiana held out for a few years but ultimately caved. The same thing needs to happen here. In my fantasy world we would completely eliminate Homeland Security (God I even hate that frigging name) and bring back the INS.
For guns, too. All those 2A Sanctuary counties in VA need to have their funding cut off and their local governments taken over.
No.
Once
national reciprocityfederally mandated and regulated concealed carry is in place…Hey, if the feds can pressure states into ending one set of sanctuary laws, they can pressure states into ending another.
Like I keep saying, don’t sell your enemies the rope they’re gonna lynch you with.
Immigration is a pure Fed sphere of power. 2A is an enumerated right.
There should be zero sanctuary cities, not for one, not for the other, as there should be no need for them. Remove all funding for both in the name of insurrection, and send the ATF after any state that has enacted anti-2A laws, and send ICE to all sanctuary cities.
Longer answer after kids drop off: Ideally those wouldn’t be needed if the 2nd was properly respected and SC decisions adhered to. In some ways, yes, it is wise to keep up guardrails. I don’t support ending the filibuster for exactly that reason. But in this case I don’t think there were guardrails there to begin with as it clearly has been done not just in the way I mentioned but in a number of others. When the Dems get back into power they are going to attempt another huge inflow anyway.
Yes yes and yes.
The Federal government needs to end sanctuary city and state laws.
I don’t explicitly disagree, but I am extremely wary of letting the federal government have that sort of top down power, for reasons which should be all too obvious.
Somebody mentioned it above, merely yanking highway funds made states change the driving age to 21. Find an equivalent for this.
President Whitmer salivates at the chance to fuck over Red States that don’t comply with her demands on emissions, guns, QUILTBAG education, etc.
Yes. Meanwhile I am fairly sure Trump tried to withdraw funds from non compliant states on several occasions and was blocked.
End sanctuary laws.
Let states, counties, precincts, individual property owners secede or change state/county/precinct affiliation.
If only the Feds can enforce immigration law, then I think it’s legitimate to end the sanctuary laws.
Absolutely . I think this situation is fairly analogous to the Feds stepping in to end Jim Crow when states were refusing.
The monument to Joseph Stalin in Yerevan was unveiled on October 29, 1950. It was one of the largest monuments to Stalin in the USSR, reaching a total height of 50 meters including the pedestal.
In 1962, the sculpture of Stalin was removed from the pedestal, and in 1967, the “Mother Armenia” sculpture was installed in its place.
https://x.com/pancaucasus/status/2015783539254403156
Would.
She’s my kinda lady.
I finally got around to watching K-Pop Demon Hunter.
My verdict: Good. Cute, fun wholesome. I’d lump it in with The Lion King, Frozen and The Lego Movie.
And the climax from the “Idol” song on to where they magically speed up time nine hours is straight-up operatic.
The critical drinker gave it a positive review.
That’s why I gave it a try. I was obviously not the target demo.
It’s going to be some kid’s favorite childhood movie.
My wife made it about 5min.
She hates anime style characters, likes Miazaki storytelling enough to give him a pass.
Trump wants to be great, writes @BDSixsmith
, but he does not have what Aristotle called “Greatness of soul”
https://x.com/TheCriticMag/status/2015107327133970524
Saying critical things about the character of Donald Trump is like saying critical things about the filmography of Steven Seagal. There is no one to surprise, and it is hard to say anything original.
Few Europeans can have admired the character of Donald Trump. Quite apart from his politics, he represents everything about America that Europeans disdain: the coarseness, the tastelessness, the arrogance et cetera. (I remember snickering at caricatures of Trump in Doonesbury before he had even entered politics.)
Some of us have had a lingering sense of anti-anti-Trumpism pretty much directly in response to this. European leaders who speak eloquently and behave civilly while still relying on American power to underwrite their cultural and regulatory boondoggles seem repulsively pathetic. Right-wingers who wallow in aesthetics of conservatism while flinching from any sort of political action are exhaustingly tedious. If Trump can at least shake up a complacent system in which such people prosper, some of us have thought, he will at least have accomplished something.
Yet it looks increasingly plausible that Trump’s aggressive obnoxiousness will actually embolden them. There’s no clever-clever way of getting around it: the man has as much honour in his bulky frame as a jellyfish has bones. Anyone in his vicinity is going to suffer by association.
“the man has as much honour in his bulky frame as a jellyfish has bones”
I read the article too. TDS is so tedious.
And no it won’t embolden them. Because they need US cash to keep the grift going.
Truth in advertising
https://x.com/raminnasibov/status/2015479497194082632
Perfect
I’ve seen that before.
It’s beautiful and deserves to be seen more than once.
Ye issues an apology for his antisemitic comments
“I regret and am deeply mortified by my actions in that state, and am committed to accountability, treatment, and meaningful change. It does not excuse what I did though… I am not a Nazi or an antisemite. I love Jewish people… To the black community – which held me down through all of the highs and lows and the darkest of times. The black community is, unquestionably, the foundation of who I am. I am so sorry to have let you down. I love us.
In early 2025, I fell into a four-month long manic episode of psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior that destroyed my life. As the situation became increasingly unsustainable, there were times I didn’t want to be here anymore.
… ”
https://x.com/FearedBuck/status/2015784919402750190
I guess it took Fuentes and Clavicular to make ye come to his senses.
Fuentes and Clavicular are retarded and gay.
The Democrats Have a New Playbook and It Centers on Taking Out Kristi Noem
And just after I read that a post popped up on my social media feed about that. Added bonus that the AWFL making the post described Noem as stupid, something that AWFL shouldn’t be throwing arount.
Of course Noem is stupid. I mean she doesn’t even wear those thick plastic rimmed glasses like the smart people do.
I’ve got a spiral of annoyance going on that I need to break.
I’m annoyed at my shoulder for being hurt. Because it’s hurt, I’ve been taking the shovelling in smaller segements.
While I was resting the shoulder between segments, somebody with a snow blower came along and cleared that part of my sidewalk I hadn’t gotten to yet.
I actually got annoyed at the Help because, Dammit, I was getting to it! But really, my pride was wounded, and I’m annoyed at my behavior and reaction to it all.
🙁
I overbought my snowblower when I moved to my house. I’m going to regret it when it needs repairing, but for now it’s good to have.
I have nowhere to store one when not in use. Else I’d have bought one years ago.
Keep it in the living room as a conversation piece.
I’ve got big motor small width. Wanted more maneuverability with enough power not to stall out.
Still hate maintaining it, however.
Snowblowers are not known as great conversationalists.
End table.
Parked next to the Knucklehead.
merely yanking highway funds made states change the driving age to 21. Find an equivalent for this.
Do you seriously expect Congress to extort individual states into making us freer?
No, it would be blocked. Trump already tried on more than one occasion to do that.
The highway funding stuff is directly tied via the NHTSA and roadway safety, dubious or not there’s at least a logical link. Refusing to distribute, say, federal education grants in states that refused to comply would’ve been a no go from the courts. Same applies here.
The NTHSA is a joke.
The fire latches on my 69 Chevy Suburban are are stronger than the ones on my 2018 Pickup.
Door. Damnit.
I am not a Nazi or an antisemite. I love Jewish people…
They make great sammiches.
I could totally go for a Jewish sandwich, if you know what I mean… *salacious wink*
And then afterwards we could go get a Reuben.
It’s hard to beat a well made Reuben.
How can you tell when a jewish girl orgasms?
She drops her nail file.
/be here all week
Reuben uber alles.
And the jokes! Oh the jokes…
“”I won the Election in a Historic Landslide, and Republicans won Majorities in both the House and Senate, in large part, because we pledged to SEAL THE BORDER, which we have done, and launch the largest Mass Deportation of Illegal Alien Criminals in American History,” Trump declared. “This Deportation effort is underway, and in Republican run Cities and States, these operations are going peacefully and smoothly, because Local Law Enforcement Officers are allowed to work with their Federal counterparts.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/just-trump-goes-demands-tim-walz-jacob-frey/
-Trump GOES OFF
Oh snap!
Talk is cheap you orange wuss.
What do you want him to do? Go out and shoot everyone who disagrees with him?
No but stop talking like Clint Eastwood and then slinking away. Maybe lean on Walz and Co. more substantially, maybe go after the funding of the orgs that are putting people on the streets. There are plenty of ways to handle this that don’t involve gunning people down that are better than barking like a toothless dog.
🙄
“A former nurse made a plea agreement, pleading no contest after a slew of child abuse charges were brought against her.
Erin Strotman, 27, worked in the neonatal intensive care unit at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital, where from 2022 through 2024, she allegedly inflicted harm on nine children, adding up to 20 charges.
Judge Richard Wallerstein Jr. accepted the plea deal, which includes a maximum sentence of three years in prison despite such heinous crimes.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/neonatal-nurse-pleads-no-contest-9-charges-abusing/
Deport her and the judge to Uganda.
Stockade for a month.
Then walk her over to the scaffold.
““People, including children, have been seized from their homes, workplaces, and the street by masked federal agents. Peaceful protestors and citizen exercising their constitutional right to observe and document law enforcement have been arrested, beaten, teargassed, and most searingly, in the cases of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, shot and killed,” Clinton said,”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/bill-clinton-throws-gasoline-fire-attacks-trump-administration/
CWAA
“observe”
Stop lying, leftists.
Thank God nothing bad happened during Clinton’s presidency.
In other dick news:
Is your penis really an indicator of longevity? Bryan Johnson thinks so — the real experts weigh in
He’s the same age as I am.
If i spent even an hour working out a couple times a month i would look better than he does and would put money that outside of a car crash I’ll outlive him. Just the fact that I get some sun and red meat makes my skin look better than his.
“Woke woman who wants to abolish prisons says she didn’t report her rapist to police because it would make her feel ‘silly and strange’
Krauthamer, a self-proclaimed ‘staunch prison abolition activist’, said she did not report the assault because she wished it had never happened and believed imprisoning the abusers would do nothing for her.
‘The prospect of being a participant in other peoples’ incarceration is as alien to me as anything could be,’ she wrote.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15498367/Anna-Krauthamer-rape-essay-prison-abolitionist.html
Or it never happened.
You really can’t fix stupid, can you.
This makes Steve Smith happy to hear.
We had frost on the roof yesterday morning. I don’t think it got above 50 all day. It was pretty rough.
We got above 0 yesterday. Not great, but better than Minnesota.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
“We’ve got Dinner!”
In Communist China, pussy grab you!
Skier mauled by snow leopard after getting too close for a picture
Good kitty!
Something to warm Tonio’s bear-loving heart.
https://x.com/Gbastidas/status/2015530805628412378
A lefty friend who I have good discussions with sent this.
https://www.wisconsinrightnow.com/alex-pretti-shooting-justified-force/?fsp_sid=8495&=1
It incorporates lots of the discussion upthread in one place.
Too Local Daily Ray of Sunshine: The little female stray/feral cat who comes around our house to eat (and flirt with our neutered toms through the screen door in warmer weather) is reportedly in the little hidey-hole that TT set up for her on our back patio.
I was really worried about her. We got more than a foot of snow, and it’s currently 14 degrees F (“feels like 0”) here in SW OH. Don’t know if she’s been there the whole time or mushed her way over the frozen tundra, but at least she’s here!
What do you want him to do? Go out and shoot everyone who disagrees with him?
He needs to up his dictator game. He could start by reading the Ayatollah’s book on “How to Deal With Dissidents”.
The choices at hand are not make noise and do little as opposed to shooting people in the streets or even roughing them up. There’s plenty of things that can be done but they require political will and competence.
The last thing I’d do is publicize those actions to the entire country. Set the trap, spring the trap, then talk about it.
If there was anything to gain by pointing out the hypocrisy of the Dems, this order by a Fed judge to not destroy evidence related to the recent shooting should be given the full Louis Lerner treatment. “Sorry all our hard drives failed and there are no backups”.
The spin in this article from the local paper is so severe it might cause more Climate Change
To be fair, it does cover some really retarded comments that Noem and Bovino made right after the shooting. Those two didn’t cover themselves in glory.
For the most part, though, it is entirely splitting hairs and arguing about what the definition of “is” is.
Speaking of which… The MN Department of Corrections has leapt into the fray and accused the DHS of being a bunch of liars
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that our vibrant neighbor has been in trouble somewhere else in the states and that is where the DHS got their info. So the MN DOC is technically correct (the best kind).
We are really in a dark place when the staties are in favor of violating federal law simply because Orange Hitler.
Apocalypse porn
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) believes the Trump administration’s deployment of federal immigration personnel to cities nationwide is part of a quest to “take control” of the midterm elections.
“It has always been, I think, the fear, and now I think closer to the reality that the Trump administration is creating this mayhem, particularly in cities in swing states, in order to take control of the election, to say, ‘Oh, the city’s out of control, the state’s out of control, you can’t trust the state government, we just need to run the election in November,’” Murphy told host Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Murphy’s remarks come less than 24 hours after a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent fatally shot 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an American citizen, in Minneapolis. The administration has sent thousands of CBP and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel to Minneapolis, amid a federal probe into fraud within Minnesota’s social services programs.
He’s going to burn the Reichstag!
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) believes
without evidence
Where is the class action suit against the Minneapolis mayor on behalf of law abiding non-insane Minneapolis residents?