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Relatively meaningless sidenote.

I have been catching some of the Olympics. Curling is frustrating to watch. The USA women’s team was 4-1 going into their match against Italy. From watching them play I assumed their 4 wins were against hockey players or accountants.

They kept doing this weird shit of putting a rock just over the green line as if they were blocking. BUT IS WAS THEIR FIRST ROCK OF THE END (round)! There was nothing to block. The Italians on the other hand spend each round scoring points! Those crazy Italians, right?

Anyhoo, I’m sure the Americans were trying to force some kind of strategy to work for them. They failed and ended up so far behind they conceded wthout playing the final end.

And speaking of conceding…

Once again the nutless, witless GOP snatches defeat from the jaws of victory. They are handling the Minnesota situation exactly the opposite from the way they should.

First, somebody got to Trump and stroked him. Here’s what we do, MR. PRESIDENT! We pull people out of Minnesota for a promise by them to cooperate with ICE. Then everyone will love you! Yay!

Tom Homan then falls into line and helps to sell the idea. He’s a good soldier, not terribly bright, and rather tired of all the media crap. Now Republican politicians and not a few talking heads are all barking about how brilliant the move is and how it will help ICE with its mission.

No, no, no, NO!!! This is a terrible idea, and I’ll tell you why.

When someone on the right says something to offend the perpetually offended on the Left, or even somebody on the Left says something that isn’t utterly in line with the prevailing Dem talking points and required worldview, that person is excoriated. Well meaning “helpers” encourage the “offender” to apologize. The “offenders” do.

And at that point the Left triples down on the offender, expecting him to drag his nuts through broken glass, continuing to rip at his flesh until the next shiney object is assigned to the perpetually offended to protest. It takes months or even years, if ever, for the terrible person who might have said “tranny” or questioned “defund the police” or whatever, to come back to full throttle in society or their profession.

And so it will go with Minneapolis. The GOP has bent the knee to people who will now kick them in the head. They are doing this PRIMARILY in an effort to get the media to say nice things about them. Rush taught us 20 years ago that this is never going to happen. And the last thing conservatives should attempt, through their decision making, is an effort to get the media to like them. That is truer now than it was the first time Rush said it.

The best we can expect from the likes of Frey and Ellison and Tampon will be a few criminals being turned over to ICE by police. The political whores will claim hero status for doing it, while clutching their pearls over what might happen to the poor murderers or rapists they are turning over.

Then judges will jump back in the game and order the local police to stop cooperating. At that point (after seeking out that judge to get that very order) the political whores will throw their hands in the air and say well, we tried. Darn the bad luck!

In the meantime we have tens of thousands of illegals in Minnesota who are already under final deportation orders from a judge, regardless of other crimes they may have committed here.

All we’ll get from this is a few hundred scumbags at best. Not even a scratch in the finish of the illegal immigration problem, especially in Minnesota where illegals have made the political whores their bitches.

So, for backing down, we’ll get jack shit and Minnesota gets to keep their illegal voters. And the media will triple down on it’s bashing of Trump and ICE and everything else that stands against their chaos and their idiotic nonsense.

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But wait! There’s more!

The paid AstroTurf “protesters” and the goons they send into the streets aren’t going away. They will do one of three things:

* Find a new “problem” for the idiots to protest against.

* Go to another town and create the same stupid problems they caused in Minneapolis, including throwing rocks at agents, burning cars, attacking those who disagree with them, etc. The main idea will be to get more of the goons killed.

* Stay in Minneapolis for a bit. They are well coordinated. The government, state and local, will continue to inform them about ICE/DHS. They’ll continue to clash with even more vigor, since it’s working so far.

Do you get it yet? The whole idea of the pretend protests, whether it’s about Gaza or ICE or BLM or whatever else these shitbirds make up, it’s about creating conflict where there is none. They are creating contrived optics and a false narrative. Are YOU stupid enough to buy into it all?

What the Right should have done! What an adult would have them do. We have few adults available in DC.

I’ve talked about this before. I’ll do so again.

DHS should not have begged and cajoled locals to cooperate while repeatedly getting shot down. As soon as the fake protesters showed up they should have given local authorities an A/B choice…no C. Locals set up a perimeter around every ICE op, or we WILL bring in enough National Guard from nearby Red states to set one up…EVERY DAY. And everyday we’ll remind your people YOU didn’t do it. So traffic hassles and store closings will be your fault. If locals do it, they’ll know how to protect the op with minimal impact.

Any lack of cooperation from them should have IMMEDIATELY resulted in NO cooperation from the federal government. All funding should have been cut off until a pattern of cooperation was established by locals.

ICE is not put on the ground as crowd control. They have a specific job to do. Allowing professional agitators and their goons to get too close to a working ICE op is inherently dangerous to the agents, the suspects AND the goons. If local cops WILL NOT provide crowd control, as they would for a fucking football game, ICE/DHS are obliged to find the people qualified to do it. And that would be the Guard. And the Guard can employ personnel in sufficient numbers to make establishing and expanding perimeters easy.

The ICE work would be efficiently and easily performed. The goons would look stupid yelling at the guard (that’s all they’d be able to do). And future cities where ICE will be operating would not have anything to gain with the Guard and ICE working hand in glove.

Our messaging sucks!

As they did with “affordability”, a stupid, vapid notion by any measure, too many of the nutless, witless GOP have jumped on board with the people talking about ICE “killing” people. The two people killed in altercations with ICE were fully responsible for their own deaths.

Keep in mind as I say this, I am not certain the Pretti shoot was a good one. That remians to be seen. The Good shoot was without doubt a good shoot. I don’t care what the naive Left says about it, you don’t point you car, especially after reversing a bit for a good lineup, at a member of law emforcement and accelerate - EVER. Pretti was in the second fight HE managed to start with ICE in a week and brought a gun to a violent situation of HIS making.

Both situations could have been avoided if the lead magnets involved didn’t decide to confront ICE, while agents were doing their jobs, acting as if they gave half a drizzly shit about illegals. They didn’t. They were inserting themselves into a false narrative. AND THEY KNEW IT! The result was two dead goons sent in by the paid AstroTurf organizers.

To believe otherwise, one would have to assume ICE agents left the barn every morning steepling their fingers and twisting their evil mustaches as they planned to go forth and kill innocents. And there are more than a few disingenuous Lefties on the Hill and across the country who would tell you to believe that. But any honest person over the age of 7 knows that is not the case. If the agents were so motivated we’d have had 50 shootings a day.

ICE and DHS officials (NOT TRUMP, FOR CHRISSAKE!) should have made this argument every single day. To warn off the next stupid people and make clear who caused their own demise and how they did so. State clearly that such miscalculations on the part of people interfering with police business CANNOT and SHOULD NOT be the basis for decision making going forward.

The panty-clad would immediately raise a hue and cry about how heartless this is and how the DHS wants to MURDER people. Stick to your guns. The panty-clad are in the minority. The only reason the public at large is now wavering is because weak ass Republicans have pretended to believe the silly shit in an effort to get the media to like them. (see Rush’s admonishment above).

It is at this point you announce the use of the National Guard to create a safe zone between the AstroTurf demonstrators and DHS perconnel. You make it crystal clear that anyone who breaches the perimeter will be endagering themselves, the criminlas being rolled up, National Guard troops and law enforcement. You make it equally clear this CANNOT and will not be tolerated. Violators WILL face arrest and charges, with very high bail requested.

Local police and Sheriff’s departments to create the buffers. But they must commit to being serious about crowd control.

Normal people, this excludes the shitbirds throwing rocks at DHS vehicles, respect a clear message and serious execution of an announced plan. Over 80% of Am...