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The DUmpster / Re: I've been at a vigil for Alex Pretti.
« Last post by Ralph Wiggum on January 26, 2026, 05:56:24 PM »
Do normal people go to "vigils" for people they've never met? I really don't understand that phenomenon. Must be a leftist thing.
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General Discussion / Re: "It's nicer over here."
« Last post by SSG Snuggle Bunny on January 26, 2026, 05:24:55 PM »
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General Discussion / Re: Lefty civil war watch
« Last post by SSG Snuggle Bunny on January 26, 2026, 03:59:30 PM »
Mexico is a hostile government actively running ops against the US.



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WOW 🚨 Peter Schweizer exposes Mexico runs 53 consulates in the United States, and THEY'RE ORGANIZING ICE PROTESTS

The Mexican consulates in America ARE MEETING WITH THE DEMOCRAT PARTY and organizing protests. There‘s a consulate in Minneapolis

“Mexico has 53 consulates, and I started looking at what Mexico was doing with those consulates. I found out that they're organizing protests, they're still organizing some of these anti-ICE protests. They've got a consulate up in the Twin Cities right now that's neck deep in what's going on in Minneapolis.

But I also found that they were meddling in our politics. They were literally meeting with Democratic Party activists in 2024 saying, how are we going to stop Trump? We got to stop Trump. We turned California from red to blue. We turned Arizona from red to blue. We've got to stop”

A top Mexico Senator on the Mexican National Defense Committee says, Quote, “Mexicans are in our territories. California, Nevada, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Wyoming. We're going to take back the territory that was stolen from us — We already know that the Mexican population in the United States reaches 39.2 million. We Mexicans are reclaiming our territory”

The Democrats Party is helping Mexico take over America for votes and power


https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2014815420570865683
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General Discussion / Re: Lefty civil war watch
« Last post by SSG Snuggle Bunny on January 26, 2026, 03:58:19 PM »
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Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops--both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations--I've seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.

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.

Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction--or worse.

This isn't spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace "ICE agents" with "occupying coalition forces" and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.

The most sobering part? It's domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they're trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers--complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that's already turned lethal--you're no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You're facing a distributed resistance that's learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.

I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.

Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don't de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they're winning the information war.

We either recognize what we're actually looking at--or we pretend it's still just "activism" until the structures harden and spread.

Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn't January 2026 politics anymore. It's phase one of something we've spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.
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1. A Q for those who carry, when out in public, do you ordinarily carry loaded spare magazines? It's not illegal, but it seems a sign of Alex Pretti's intention that he did. Maybe I'm reading too much into his choice out of lack of knowledge?

2. I have not knowingly gone out of my house/apartment without, at least, my driver's license since I was 16 or 17. Am I weird, or was this another indicator of Alex Pretti's intent to mix it up with officers enforcing immigration law?

Speaking of lies-by-omission, has any video been released yet that captures things said by the CBP officers? I do not think they were silent or soft-spoken from when "protesters" got into their faces through the shots being fired. In particular, maybe I watch too much of the wrong TV (I'm sarcastic, I don't watch crime-drama TV, other than "Worst Cooks ..." and "Crime Scene Kitchen"), but I would expect the first officer to see Alex Pretti's gun to have called out a warning to the other officers.

 I was working armed security for awhile and I always had spare magazines for my pistol with me when I could. I say that because at first, I couldn't find any spare mages locally for my used S&W 469 9mm pistol. I had plenty for my S&W 1911A1 though. The one night when I needed spare magazines turned out when some guy shot his daughters ex-boyfriend three times in the back at work outside of the building I was working at. Turns out that even after we get him into custody and searched him, he had three spare magazines for his gun and I only had the one in my 9mm. If he had decided to shoot it out things would have been different. So yeah, carry spare mags with you.
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How freaking pathetic is it that indie journalists like Nick Shirley and Cam Higby are doing the work "professional" journalists are not and probably would not, because of the "professionals'" political views?!

There's a thread in the Breaking News forum in which the OP article lists out a bunch of government officials and Minnesota Public Radio and NPR people involved in the Signal Chat groups.
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25 years ago, my wife and I visited Germany. One Sunday, rather than attending a church service we would not understand, we toured Dachau. It was eerie, because it is surrounded by a tree-lined green belt that is beautiful. The mental contrast between that beauty and the evil done there was horrifying. The former camp area is now empty, except for a couple of restoration barracks (tracing the camp's stages from WW1 factory worker camp through post WW2 refugee camp). The original administration building is a museum with exhibits about the concentration camp system, torture, etc.. Painting with a broad brush, there were lots of work camps all over Germany (where many died), Dachau, which was for political opponents (there may have been similar political-prisoner camps; again many died there), and extermination camps like Auschwitz.

There is nothing in the US even slightly like any sort of Nazi concentration camp - not even FDR's internment camps. Any DU-member who has visited Dachau or Auschwitz or some other concentration camp knows this. Any DU-member who has visited an actual Nazi concentration camp and still claims Trump is doing the same is knowingly and grossly lying.
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The DUmpster / Re: I've been at a vigil for Alex Pretti.
« Last post by SVPete on January 26, 2026, 01:59:21 PM »
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Is the Lt. Governor of Minnesota, the hijab wearing Peggy Flanagan, one of the ringleaders of the insurrection in Minneapolis? Signal Chat information released by Cam Higby indicates that Flanagan might be one of the signal administrators in the organized effort to impede ICE in their work. Hopefully an investigation into this matter will resolve whether or not she is guilty of insurrectionist activities. Keep in mind that Flanagan is currently a candidate for U.S. Senator from the Somali flag state of Minnesota.

https://rumble.com/v74vwqy-did-cam-higbys-signal-chat-infiltration-expose-mn-lt.-governor-as-ringleade.html
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 1/26
« Last post by SVPete on January 26, 2026, 01:46:52 PM »
How Hollywood Confuses Attention With Authority

https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/01/26/how-hollywood-confuses-attention-with-authority-n4948755

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A man routinely walks out on a balcony because the people below keep clapping. Before too long, he began to believe applause meant wisdom.

That's been Hollywood the past few decades, mistaking their noise and attention for authority.

The Celebrity Microphone Problem
Combine a microphone and a famous face, and you'll get an opinion, polished by confidence living in their bubble instead of experience.

An actor's career is spent memorizing lines written by others; in other words, other people write the words that come out of their mouths.

It's hard to pinpoint the exact beginning of this trend, but the habit hardened during the tenure of President George W. Bush, when red carpet outrage became a shortcut to relevance. That's when political complexity gave way to emotional performance, and celebrity commentary became its own genre.
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Actress Kristen Stewart recently described life under President Donald Trump as oppressive and unrecognizable.

IMO, celebs started using their fame as some sort of moral authority back in the 1970s, e.g. Hanoi Jane's antics in North Viet Nam and her "China Syndrome" anti-nuclear power movie (BTW, the nuclear plant she was trying to prevent starting operation is now having its retirement postponed).
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