"but the consensus among people here is that people of color are inherently at risk regardless of status"
Oh noes.....
The anti-ICE leftists are doing exactly what they claim ICE is doing:
Profiling people, harassing them, demanding that you identify yourself, etc.
What you're seeing now was the goal of letting all these illegals in. As disgusting as Ds have been for years you have to give it to them for setting up conditions of chaos as a political weapon.
The violence was the goal. And then label anyone who is a law abiding citizen, who pushes back, as a bigot or racist.
Actually, they would have been disappointed not to have had a major drama like the Renee Good shooting. Same as the George Floyd situation. These unfortunate events add fuel to the fire for the leftwing activists in a way that looks like the fault of the authorities; they can pretend to justify their pushback through raising one of their own to martyrdom status. They have zero compassion for the person involved -- just another welcome tool they can weaponize for their cause.
George Floyd’s murder was much more than an “unfortunate event” and it most certainly was “the fault of the authorities” that Floyd died. If it wasn’t for Darnella Frazier continuously recording video for 10 minutes showing that Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck for over 9 minutes straight the later false claim by police that Floyd died due to a medical issue would have been believed.
As for protestors having “zero compassion for the person involved” — that is completely false. Millions of Americans as well as many others are sympathetic to the plight of victims of state violence in the United States.
Tactics such as these can also be found described in the recent PhD thesis of Dr. Karen Mitchell of Australia. Her topic was the Dark Triad Personalities of High-functioning Human Predators.
Matt and Walter should do some homework and read it.
Everything goes back to the mother...or, in the case of the father, his mother...keep walking it back to the beginning of the dysfunctional chain...everything goes back to the mother...the nurturer...
The femlib movement of the 60/70s....People +/- 50 are first generation of the femlibbers....the 25+ are second generation...the worst movement for this country...why you see activists acting as though it is the 50s....
Well....Considering that I identify humans as belonging to the animal species with the same attributes, I will surely find it repetitive or supportive of my observations of the human species.
It is very human, actually. Animals do not behave the same way. When a human being lives at the hyper-Id end of the psychological spectrum (see Freud's Id/Ego/Superego), this is what you will witness.
Actually, if you lived in multiple animal households, you will see similar behavior, as well as with wild animals...There is always the aplha dog (or cat or whatever)...and a pecking order...fights ensue over territory and mating...ever see birds fight? To the pecking death....
I don't believe that, pushed to our basic instincts, we are any different. In fact was a study 20/30/40 years ago about how a well-dressed impeccably mannered person, pushed into a corner, would drop the cultured facade and become the animal that he/she really was deep inside.
She is an academic who studies the field of Cluster-B Personality Disorders, Machiavellians, and other predatory types. In other words, she studies aspects of human evil and the predictable patterns of persons who regularly engage in it.
Yeah, this is such a silly accusation. If ICE is looking for a Venezuelan or Salvadorian illegal alien, they will look for someone who looks like a Venezuelan or Salvadorian native. Highly unlikely that they would be looking for blond, blue-eyed, Nordic Lutheran person.
Ford gives the impression he’s not entirely neutral. And I’m skeptical that Minnesotans are as united in their opposition to the American government enforcing an overwhelmingly popular mandate to repatriate illegals as he implies. Maybe it’s because he’s sampling mostly lunatics with whistles, but it seems unlikely the entire state is as crazy as the protesters. Perhaps the normies as staying inside for fear of the mostly peaceful protesters, having prior experience with the species.
Could it be also that his job, his career, his everyday work environment, depends entirely on his being able to be close to the protesters? That if he is very cognizant of the fact that if he develops any sort of an identity as one who is in any form critical of anything they do, that he will be an easy target, because he's right there? We've seen how these mobs behave, what they are capable of. If FF is identified as being "on the other side" not "one of them", then his profession, his career, is over.
Sure - my point is that he appears to me to have a clear financial motivation to be sympathetic to the protesters, to be very careful that anything he says cannot be interpreted by them as his being opposed to anything they do, despite his attempts to behave as if he is neutral.
Fair enough. I don't agree with the "neutral" stance he is taking, it appears to be biased...and that is where my comment comes from.
I fall back to Andy Ngo. I don't agree with everything he says, by a longshot, but he doesn't pull punches with his reporting and bases it around norms and the law. And he has suffered for it. We need more Andy's out there.
I agree with your assessment, Art. Minnesota is simply being Minnesota. The Black Lives Matter riots have morphed into lunacy on display. And look at who they elect as their leaders.
Keep dreaming. Federal oversight is precisely the point. Body cams are a window into miscreant behavior by criminals. So I'll give those to you. But we all know about the 'peaceful protests' of BLM. And the grift created by the Marxist BLM leaders. But of course, you don't want to discuss that, do you?
Ford is by no means neutral! His description of having to leave dinner for "another shooting" leaves out the fact that during a targeted stop(targeted as in court order) the person fled, ran into his domicile, where he and 2 others came out to attack with shovels and a broom handle. The "targeted" person was shot in the leg by the FBI/LEO. He also leaves out that the vehicle was torn apart by the "mostly peaceful" rioters , paperwork and a gun locker was stolen.
The "popular mandate" was billed by the Trump administration as going after the worst of the worst — not students, construction workers, janitors, stay-at-home moms, etc. But ICE is going after just such immigrants who have committed no crimes (not to mention black and brown American citizens). It's not surprising that many Minnesotans are opposed to these actions by ICE.
Ford is on the ground where these protests are happening and his observation that he sees different people, rather than the same people, at all the protests indicates that the protestors are not paid and are rather local folks who emerge from their homes when they receive an alert on their phones or hear whistles indicating that ICE is nearby.
You are mistaken. We voted to remove ALL illegals. And that's what he promised.
If you don’t like the current situation then you can thank autopen for letting in 11 mil illegals...in order to set up the circumstances you're now seeing.
Anyone in the country illegally, has committed a crime. Working without a "green card" is a violation of the law.
Trump said he'd remove the illegal aliens and that's what he's doing now.
Another way to stop this madness is to go after the employers who are paying the people who are working without authorization. I'm certain we'll discover lots of ID theft.
Nope. On the DHS website at https://www.dhs.gov/making-america-safe-again it says “the hardworking men and women of DHS are fulfilling President Trump’s promise to Make America Safe Again by removing violent criminal illegal aliens.” It does not say “all illegals” as you claim.
Mostly the street-level protestors get "mutual aid" donations from like-minded people across the country, but at a higher level, somebody's paying for the professional signage and whatnot.
Estimates are that some 10 million people illegally entered the US as a result of the active abrogation of responsibility by the OBiden administration.
Correcting this egregious flouting of immigration law will require extraordinary measures.
Sadly, it is almost certain that some mistakes will occur. There is no human activity, certainly at this scale and with this level of urgency, that wouldn't involve errors.
But just stating without reference "the child who was detained and driven off in a van in front of his own home" is neither useful nor pertinent.
What child? Where? Who took this child? Where did they take the child? How do you know of this incident?
And, even assuming you've mentioned something that actually occurred, what percentage does this represent as regards the interactions and efforts by ICE?
Name-calling further deprecates the value of your comment.
What occurred under the OBiden administration was a national crime. A crime against the nation. It was conducted actively and represents one of the most, if not the most, cynical and callous attack on the integrity of the United States in history.
Any correction of this travesty has to be at scale and because of the scale of the OBiden illegal immigration invasion, it's going to be a mess.
But it was a mess created purposefully by the OBiden administration.
I think "sick" applies to the people who created this disaster more than anyone.
The event occurred in the video and was mentioned in the article. That’s why I referenced it. And I’m sorry, but it is sick to dehumanize people just for leaving deplorable conditions and moving hoping to find a better life.
It’s also sick to have no concern for the systematic rights violations and harassment of ordinary people that is happening and of necessity will happen if the goal is to roundup every last undocumented person.
We can debate the competing values of openness to outsiders and social cohesion. We can debate the proper number of visas or asylum to grant. What we cannot do, and what I have been shouting endlessly, is disregard our sacred constitutional rights to not carry papers, to not be subject to warrantless searches. THAT is what I’m outraged about. Not immigration enforcement.1
Do you believe that when a local police department discovers that a person they have arrested is illegally in the country they should turn that person over to federal immigration authorities? Most of this nonsense would end if they would.
I hope I'm not repeating myself (at least not too much) but the situation is extreme because of the previous administration which created a massive problem that cannot be ignored and must be addressed.
Okay, then what to do?
Clearly, the government has to move quickly or otherwise people who are the subject of the apprehension will get advance notice and take evasive action. Swift action by the government will almost certainly result in non-camera friendly footage.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, I went to grad school in Minnesota and lived in various locations in the Twin Cities. Protesting is a self-fulfilling end for that culture. The "issue" is irrelevant, the "issue" is merely an excuse to have a "protest". I watched it for years and it resulted in my no longer identifying as a liberal (despite still holding what I think are many traditional liberal beliefs).
The point here is that virtue-signaling of the "protesters" [sic] only confounds the matter and really brings no useful value. It is theater and I do not respect it. I observed these antics for too long to give them credibility.
They are endangering themselves -- tragically, as in the case of Renee Good -- and of the officers who are executing laws passed by democratically elected representatives to Congress.
The warrantless search issue is tricky, I'll grant you that. I'm not an attorney nor a legal expert, but I believe police actions do not require a warrant when a crime is in progress. If someone is harboring (or employing or whatever) illegal immigrants, that's a crime in progress.
The matter of "carrying papers" seems to be getting blown way out of proportion. I'm in Chicago where there were large-scale ICE operations (which also garnered the photo-hound protest shenanigans) and I also happen to know lots of Mexican Americans. Not one has ever expressed to me any concern for need to "carry papers".
The tragic edge cases also include those people brought to this country (illegally) as children who have never known any other country. That is a vexing problem to which I do not have an answer. But the simple truth is that the person is not here legally.
The abuse of our immigration system by the OBiden administration was nothing short of criminal. I seriously do not think this was done out of compassion or out of any concern for the well-being of any of the illegal immigrants...and certainly without any concern as to how it would effect the country. It was callous, cynical and entirely calculated.
Correcting that enormous breach of law (i.e., as written in the Constitution) is an incredibly difficult task, both in terms of scale and individual detail.
These so-called protesters are simply making a very difficult situation much worse with their selfish, self-centered, street-theater antics. Their antics only put more pressure on immigration enforcement which, I would claim, only makes the likelihood of "negative outcomes" greater.
But this problem has to be addressed. I wish there had been this much outcry when the crime was being committed by the OBiden administration so that we might have avoided having to correct matters afterward.
But I respect your concerns. I just think we've got a colossal mess that we have to address and it's not going to be pleasant even with extreme care taken.
Yes. An arrest by law enforcement, although extremely inconvenient, is not an illegal siezure. SCOTUS in Graham v. Connor — 1989. And it was a unanimous decision.
Watch the video and draw your own conclusions. If standing outside your own home and not having ID is grounds for arrest, then we live in a police state
The Alien Registration Act, passed in 1940, requires aliens to be registered. Since April of this year, a Trump executive order requires that aliens carry their green cards/visas on their persons at all time.
While I think that's perhaps excessive, what I think doesn't change the law. And to the extent it is excessive, that's a reaction to four years of Biden intentionally not enforcing laws.
Okay but that doesn’t apply to citizens. And if you think that law means everyone, including citizens has to provide ID or risk arrest at all times, you do not believe in the founding ideals of America my friend.
> I have absolutely seen vehicles left on the street in a way that inadvertently has this effect [of blocking agents]
Wait, how does Ford Fischer know whether leaving the vehicles was intentional or "inadvertent"?
Did he interview the empty cars, or is he making an assumption?
Is Ford reporting facts, or just sharing his opinion? The *fact* is the vehicles were abandoned; the absent drivers' motivations are guessed at by Ford.
And strictly speaking, of course it's not inadvertent: every vehicle left blocking the street was left because the driver parked it there and got out, not because some act of God teleported the driver away.
The cars were left, either to intentionally block the street, or...
...because the driver felt rushing to the protest was more important than finding a safe and legal place to park.
Which is the arrogance of the Left that's behind all of this: the Left thinks that laws can be flouted in the name of "Social Justice". According to the law-nullification Left, "undocumented migrants" can illegally enter the United States, because that's the greater good, Federal law enforcement can be impeded or even attacked, because illegal immigrants shouldn't be deported, and so of course cars can be parked blocking streets in order to not waste protest time finding parking. Or, to block law enforcement.
The protesters think they're above the law, because they believe their cause is just, even as they flout the laws supported by a majority of Americans and passed by a democratically elected Congress.
It's pure tantrum-throwing arrogance: "I'm a protester on a holy mission, I can abandon my car anywhere that's convenient!"
"FF: From my perspective, this week has further entrenched my view that “paid protesters” is, for the most part, an absurd fantasy. Having watched the Signal chats used to track the activities of ICE, these are formed by people joining and volunteering as they can, most of whom don’t even appear to know each other, and the work is done out of sheer commitment.
I will caveat this by saying that of course, some demonstrations are led by coalitions that have non-profits attached to them, and so donations are clearly used for things like signage. However, their calls to demonstrate attract the public with absolutely zero, zilch, nada evidence that the participants are somehow financially incentivized to participate.
In 10 years of documenting activism, I’ve very rarely run into even a crumb of evidence of “paid protesters,” but I’ve heard the accusation thrown around constantly without evidence to discredit them."
LOL, absurd fantasy until they need "signage" or um, whatever. Yeah, this is credible.
Matt, is this the type of journalism that is now going to be had on Racket? I read enough douchebags everywhere else, please tell me it is a "NO!"
there's been a lot of things since Trump was elected in 2016 that sounded utterly absurd, but turned out to be true.
i don't watch Fox, but there was a protestor she interviewed, and she asked if she had a job. the protestor replied, "yes, i'm getting paid to protest"...in so many words.
i think what's more interesting is that you don't see any "people of color" who are actual citizens out there protesting. and i doubt any somalians or tren de aragua thugs held any midnight vigils for Renee Good....
instead, it's the most dangerous demographic in western civilization:
angry white liberal females.
i hate to even call them liberal as I am a classical liberal....whatever happened to them?
"Illiberal" really does seem to nail it. They're not "liberal" in any sense that I remember.
I went to grad school in Minnesota. Land of the Protest-Industrial Complex.
I arrived quite liberal (in the traditional sense) but left pretty conservative.
I still hold many traditional liberal views: I'd love to have a great educational system that provided a solid, quality education for "free" [sic: nothing is "free" of course, someone pays for it] as the social benefits are significant.
But the obsessive, self-hating is unhealthy.
While in Minnesota, I came up with a theory as to the source of the self-loathing.
Namely, I grew up in Chicago where the city's immigrant and industrial history were palpable.
When I got to Minnesota in the 1980's, the city was still very racially homogeneous and prosperous. But most of the people (young people in particular) had no connection to the source of this comfort. Most had never worked in a factory nor ever would and never worked on a farm or mill or mine nor ever would.
I'm no Marxist -- certainly in terms of economic theory -- but Marx was an insightful analyst.
Specifically, I think his theory of alienation can be used to explain a lot of what we see:
Namely, these "kids" have no idea where their comfort comes from, no idea as to the source or history that resulted in their comfortable existence.
Then, they are "told" about all the evils of "whiteness", "capitalism" and every other catch-all category and, being young and lazy and excitable (which many are, I'm certainly imperfect), they fall for this, wanting to be "cool" and part of the "in crowd".
So these forces have worked to create the modern illiberal.
There are plenty of receipts out there from numerous sources showing these people are being paid. The absurd part is this "reporter" said he "had not seen it" and then goes on to say it is "signage." It makes it the most riduculous that he says it is something that is meant to be seen.
Her actual words to Laura Ingraham were "Yes, I'm getting paid right now". So the 'fantasy' of these people NOT getting paid is purely laughable. This 'journalist' reporting for Matt is, in fact, laughable as well.
You are probably one of the few who believe that comment was sarcastic. These fools aren't intelligent enough to be sarcastic. But they are hysterical...in more ways than one.
Check out the videos from the Sunday church service disruption. Lots of people of color. Main organizer woman was with BLM and used to be the local president of the NAACP.
Agreed! I am doing the same. My subscription just ended , going MTM for now. Matt thinks his bias doesn't show but it does( IMO) he also doesn't do thorough research , vetting of topics. I feel like I am hearing a MSNOW story.
For now I will be here for Walter and see how it goes.
FF "For protesters and agents, this is a chaotic environment, but one they’ve elected to end up in."
Interesting use of the words "elected to end up in"
The ICE agents are there because they have a job to do. They cannot do it if they are not there. The protesters on the other hand do not have to be there. They choose to be there. I get it that FF and Matt want to be as neutral as possible. To not take a side in this dispute. But that can be done while still being more honest about who is acting and who is reacting, without say who they believe is right or wrong. It should be allowable, without taking a side, for both Matt and FF to clarify that one group is enforcing federal law and one group is interfering with the execution of federal law. They seem to both go to extremes to avoid this important fact.
It seems your report differs markedly from others I have seen on the ground. You don’t even mention the protesters breaking into the church and you barely touched on Frey calling people to go out and put their bodies on the line. Further, the city is crawling with radical left wing organizations and experienced, professional activists like BLM. The twin cities have been completely taken over by revolutionaries. That is the reality.
Good grief. Nobody "broke into the church." The protestors walked into the church during a service when it was open to the public. Frey is not asking "people to go out and put their bodies on the line." Frey specifically said folks who choose to protest should remain peaceful and request Minneapolis police to intervene if they witness ICE officers breaking the law. As for what the city is "crawling with" — it's crawling with ICE and Border Patrol agents. That is the reality.
Don Lemon went with these terrorists and he is being looked at for violations of several laws. Just because the doors weren't locked doesn't mean you have the right to walk in and take over. Can you go to a bar and grab the mic from the band and do your own thing? Can you go in a restaurant and enter the kitchen and mess with cooks??
I think Mr. Fischer has gotten in front of his headlights. Protesters financial arrangements are not observable, and where they exist they are likely not readily disclosed in interviews.
As I write this (4:30 pm, 1/17/26) the air temperature in Minneapolis is 2 degrees F with windchill of -15 degrees F. Anyone out protesting is getting paid.
A benign view of the protest activities no? Calling them watchers? Where are they watching from? A lot of crowd control semi-violent defensive tactics by ICE repeatedly noted. What’s prompting that? Not my experience that law enforcement over reaches in the physicality department. The absence of any mention of weaponized chaos by the “watchers”? it’s evident that Ford is trying hard to come across as an unbiased observer. But he slips up far too many times in this one article alone to leave any doubt he’s anything but unbiased. Reading all the comments it’s also apparent he’s not fooling anyone.
I see that perspective about Matt. It’s not easy for some seeing the effects of strictly enforcing immigration laws left unenforced for years but I think the welfare of the country absolutely has to come first. Period. It’s come to that. This is the result of unfettered mass migration of maybe 8 million people or more over the past 4 years or more and absolutely no cooperation by local law enforcement which results in the only strategy available to the feds. Go out into the neighborhoods in force. And maybe they are going after anyone they can find now. I doubt that but even if true, the country is at stake here. It has to come first. Blaming the feds for the chaos involved in that and in long time undocumented aliens getting picked up makes no sense to me.
The very extreme long-term damage caused by all the post-war years of "liberal progressiveness" was meant to destroy the West. And it has come very close.
So now....it is going to take extreme measures to correct it. And I do not find this work by ICE agents as extreme as it could become. They are showing admirable restraint in what could easily be pushed into was-zone scenarios.
I knew personally of activist organizers in Canadian cities over the past 20 years or so rounding up the local homeless and offering them $50 and a hot meal for pretending to be a protestor. It was common knowledge. The homeless guy who would regularly hit you up for "spare change" on the way to work would be the same guy you would see holding the "sign of the day" the next week in whatever protest came around.
I don't buy the perspective in this article on that point. I find Matt is leaning too far leftwing.
Speaking of leftwing activism, I suppose it goes without saying that the crazed masses of Pro-Hamas supporters were nowhere to be seen when Iranians took to the streets with amazing courage to throw out the Ayatollahs and the Revolutionary Guard.
Silence from all of the "But it's GENOCIDE!" people. Neither did the mobs of Western feminists speak up. It they hadn't given themselves away already about their true motivations, the Iranian Uprising and the ensuing Western leftwing complacency certainly did it.
Oops....the protesting Iranians had the wrong narrative, it seems. It was never actually about human rights.
The Western Left can only be roused when their narrative has an opening for a white-savior protagonist, where the heroic white ally helps the poor brown oppressed defeat those OTHER evil whites on their road to justice and liberation.
BLM, Hamas, migrants etc all follow this template: the innocent BIPOC is menaced by a white colonialist oppressor, who must be defeated by a coalition led by white allies blessed with superior levels of empathy and "critical consciousness". It is entirely an intra-Western performance designed to "raise awareness" of the activist class, who have no sense of identity or life purpose except BEING SEEN cosplaying the role of either the Underground Railroad, French Resistance or Civil Rights marcher.
If a country or event is a civil dispute between POCs or other people with high oppression scores, there's no place for their script and starring role and thus they have no interest. The narrative is so crucial that they even had to invent a "white" Israel, while the real Israel is multiracial and at least half Sephardic, not to mention the thousands of Ethiopians and 20% Arab citizentry.
But why let reality interfere with such a rich, fulfilling fantasy life?
Mamdani’s new equity czar had some interesting comments regarding white liberal women and their special type of racism.
“ Atta-Mensah appeared to take notice and hid her own social media past — which included retweeting or replying to at least three separate posts complaining about liberal white women, including one where she responded to somebody who wrote “we don’t talk about white liberal racism enough.”
“Facts! It would need to be a series of loooooonnnnnnnggggg conversations” Atta-Mensah replied.
She also reposted part of a thread from a post reading,”Who’s not police but FEELS like police to you?
“white women at nonprofit organizations,” read a reply Atta-Mensah reposted in September 2024”
My mother would have sneered that liberal women yell and carry on like Fishwives. Which was her way of saying that this is very low and vulgar behaviour.
But what she leaves out is how this is like S&M for AWFLs and how much they get off on being lashed with the whip of racial retribution by a black woman—especially by one named Afua Atta-Mensah, that's just a delicious cherry on top.
This crusade by guilt-ridden Western bourgeois women is meant to perform atonement, seek redemption and display how much more righteous they are than their political enemies. If they have to be verbally abused by a POC, it only provides a frisson of radical joy.
Their entire project is a post-religious psychodrama to find all the meaning, community and confessions of sin/guilt that religions provide. The Church of Social Justice is Christianity with Jesus replaced by a rotating cast of victimized POCs, who each get their turn on the cross. And the pews are packed!
Paid protestors - provide them with organization, food, signs. You don't need to stick a $20 in someone's pocket if you're amping them up to blame everyone else for all of their problems. Just keep filling their heads with Trump fascist no one is illegal sloganeering and make 'em a sandwich. These automatons will do the rest.
Oh, and pay no attention to the theft occurring in your own community. The stupidity of rioters can never been overstated.
Only half of those people have “… elected to end up in…”, as federal officials shouldn’t expect to be attacked by trained antagonists who commit crimes by their obstruction… which by all accounts they are paid. Provoking a response is safer when journalists seem to provide cover so seamlessly
This entire situation could end if the mayor & governor would allow ICE into the jails to transfer custody of persons under arrest who are found to be illegal aliens.
I don't give a damn if the goofball mayor and Gov. Elmer Fudd don't like the law. Too damned bad if they don't like the law.
As another commenter ("Art") said, I'm skeptical that there's widespread support for the anti-government demonstrations.
The recent church invasion is absolutely beyond belief. I could only think of my elderly father, sitting at Mass, while the church was invaded by these obnoxious people. Not to mention the little kids huddled with their parents.
And Don Lemon? He's as much a grifter as the fraudsters.
So Mr. Fischer thinks all these demonstrators are acting out of "sheer commitment"...
I guess one can have a sheer commitment to making sure violent illegals aren't arrested, or a commitment to anarchy in general.
I'm not totally on board with everything ICE is doing. They should be focused on those who have committed criminal acts, not children in driveways or illegal entrants to this country who are otherwise compliant with laws (and that includes complying with our laws against driving while intoxicated). But protestors, whether acting out of "sheer commitment" or not, should not be encouraged to hold phones in the faces of federal law enforcement or otherwise obstruct them. Criminal enforcement operations are a fraught environment, and bad things can ensue when one gets in the middle of these operations.
"but the consensus among people here is that people of color are inherently at risk regardless of status"
Oh noes.....
The anti-ICE leftists are doing exactly what they claim ICE is doing:
Profiling people, harassing them, demanding that you identify yourself, etc.
What you're seeing now was the goal of letting all these illegals in. As disgusting as Ds have been for years you have to give it to them for setting up conditions of chaos as a political weapon.
The violence was the goal. And then label anyone who is a law abiding citizen, who pushes back, as a bigot or racist.
So friggin' obvious.
Actually, they would have been disappointed not to have had a major drama like the Renee Good shooting. Same as the George Floyd situation. These unfortunate events add fuel to the fire for the leftwing activists in a way that looks like the fault of the authorities; they can pretend to justify their pushback through raising one of their own to martyrdom status. They have zero compassion for the person involved -- just another welcome tool they can weaponize for their cause.
Let no crisis (real or ginned up) go to waste
George Floyd’s murder was much more than an “unfortunate event” and it most certainly was “the fault of the authorities” that Floyd died. If it wasn’t for Darnella Frazier continuously recording video for 10 minutes showing that Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck for over 9 minutes straight the later false claim by police that Floyd died due to a medical issue would have been believed.
As for protestors having “zero compassion for the person involved” — that is completely false. Millions of Americans as well as many others are sympathetic to the plight of victims of state violence in the United States.
五毛 Alert!
You know, if Floyd hadn't resisted, the day would have ended with him going home that evening. He turned it into the death-by-cop FUBAR.
Drug induced fubar
And his disdain for the law.
Tactics similar to these were given in detail in the 1971 leftwing classic, "Rules for Radicals" by Saul Alinksy.
You mean Obama's bible?
Tactics such as these can also be found described in the recent PhD thesis of Dr. Karen Mitchell of Australia. Her topic was the Dark Triad Personalities of High-functioning Human Predators.
Matt and Walter should do some homework and read it.
https://kalmor.com.au/media
Everything goes back to the mother...or, in the case of the father, his mother...keep walking it back to the beginning of the dysfunctional chain...everything goes back to the mother...the nurturer...
It goes back to inter-generational unprocessed trauma in the family system. Perhaps added to in the current affected generation.
The femlib movement of the 60/70s....People +/- 50 are first generation of the femlibbers....the 25+ are second generation...the worst movement for this country...why you see activists acting as though it is the 50s....
Well....Considering that I identify humans as belonging to the animal species with the same attributes, I will surely find it repetitive or supportive of my observations of the human species.
It is very human, actually. Animals do not behave the same way. When a human being lives at the hyper-Id end of the psychological spectrum (see Freud's Id/Ego/Superego), this is what you will witness.
Actually, if you lived in multiple animal households, you will see similar behavior, as well as with wild animals...There is always the aplha dog (or cat or whatever)...and a pecking order...fights ensue over territory and mating...ever see birds fight? To the pecking death....
I don't believe that, pushed to our basic instincts, we are any different. In fact was a study 20/30/40 years ago about how a well-dressed impeccably mannered person, pushed into a corner, would drop the cultured facade and become the animal that he/she really was deep inside.
"Karen Mitchell..." aptly named, of course. Does she change lightbulbs, and zap herself into drooling rage?
She is an academic who studies the field of Cluster-B Personality Disorders, Machiavellians, and other predatory types. In other words, she studies aspects of human evil and the predictable patterns of persons who regularly engage in it.
Yeah, this is such a silly accusation. If ICE is looking for a Venezuelan or Salvadorian illegal alien, they will look for someone who looks like a Venezuelan or Salvadorian native. Highly unlikely that they would be looking for blond, blue-eyed, Nordic Lutheran person.
Yes, something about breaking a few eggs to make an omelet. Many of these folks are mere useful idiots to the extreme leftists some Ds have become.
Ford gives the impression he’s not entirely neutral. And I’m skeptical that Minnesotans are as united in their opposition to the American government enforcing an overwhelmingly popular mandate to repatriate illegals as he implies. Maybe it’s because he’s sampling mostly lunatics with whistles, but it seems unlikely the entire state is as crazy as the protesters. Perhaps the normies as staying inside for fear of the mostly peaceful protesters, having prior experience with the species.
Could it be also that his job, his career, his everyday work environment, depends entirely on his being able to be close to the protesters? That if he is very cognizant of the fact that if he develops any sort of an identity as one who is in any form critical of anything they do, that he will be an easy target, because he's right there? We've seen how these mobs behave, what they are capable of. If FF is identified as being "on the other side" not "one of them", then his profession, his career, is over.
So he should report BS because he needs a job?
Not what I said
Ok. Can you please clarify?
Sure - my point is that he appears to me to have a clear financial motivation to be sympathetic to the protesters, to be very careful that anything he says cannot be interpreted by them as his being opposed to anything they do, despite his attempts to behave as if he is neutral.
Fair enough. I don't agree with the "neutral" stance he is taking, it appears to be biased...and that is where my comment comes from.
I fall back to Andy Ngo. I don't agree with everything he says, by a longshot, but he doesn't pull punches with his reporting and bases it around norms and the law. And he has suffered for it. We need more Andy's out there.
This sounds like the excuse of every hack reporter ever.
The world overflows with pr friendly influencers.
And potentially his personal safety
IMO That would still make him not neutral. Safer. Saner. But not neutral
I agree with your assessment, Art. Minnesota is simply being Minnesota. The Black Lives Matter riots have morphed into lunacy on display. And look at who they elect as their leaders.
The BLM movement resulted in real change such as:
1) Use of force restrictions — chokeholds banned, de-escalation mandated
2) Body camera requirements — video evidence is now available
3) Duty to intervene — officers must intervene when colleagues use excessive force
4) Records transparency — police disciplinary records are no longer private
5) Increased oversight — federal oversight in problematic cities such as Ferguson, Louisville, Memphis, Minneapolis and New Orleans.
It also resulted in many family businesses bankrupted and mansions for BLM leaders
Keep dreaming. Federal oversight is precisely the point. Body cams are a window into miscreant behavior by criminals. So I'll give those to you. But we all know about the 'peaceful protests' of BLM. And the grift created by the Marxist BLM leaders. But of course, you don't want to discuss that, do you?
It's typically a small percent of ignoramuses behaving this way while the rest of the people just want them to shut up and leave.
Ford is by no means neutral! His description of having to leave dinner for "another shooting" leaves out the fact that during a targeted stop(targeted as in court order) the person fled, ran into his domicile, where he and 2 others came out to attack with shovels and a broom handle. The "targeted" person was shot in the leg by the FBI/LEO. He also leaves out that the vehicle was torn apart by the "mostly peaceful" rioters , paperwork and a gun locker was stolen.
Only state not to vote for Reagan in 1984? Minnesota.
Perhaps Ford is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome in part.
The "popular mandate" was billed by the Trump administration as going after the worst of the worst — not students, construction workers, janitors, stay-at-home moms, etc. But ICE is going after just such immigrants who have committed no crimes (not to mention black and brown American citizens). It's not surprising that many Minnesotans are opposed to these actions by ICE.
Ford is on the ground where these protests are happening and his observation that he sees different people, rather than the same people, at all the protests indicates that the protestors are not paid and are rather local folks who emerge from their homes when they receive an alert on their phones or hear whistles indicating that ICE is nearby.
You are mistaken. We voted to remove ALL illegals. And that's what he promised.
If you don’t like the current situation then you can thank autopen for letting in 11 mil illegals...in order to set up the circumstances you're now seeing.
Anyone in the country illegally, has committed a crime. Working without a "green card" is a violation of the law.
Trump said he'd remove the illegal aliens and that's what he's doing now.
Another way to stop this madness is to go after the employers who are paying the people who are working without authorization. I'm certain we'll discover lots of ID theft.
Nope. On the DHS website at https://www.dhs.gov/making-america-safe-again it says “the hardworking men and women of DHS are fulfilling President Trump’s promise to Make America Safe Again by removing violent criminal illegal aliens.” It does not say “all illegals” as you claim.
Dude, that's political rhetoric. Of course he says that for a reason.
Plus it just makes sense to go after the violent ones first. That's what they're doing. Few eggs.....sorry. man up and live with it..
I’d like to see actual documentation of those misdeeds. Also I’ve seen plenty of protestors bragging on video that they get paid
normal life in the western suburbs. most people rolling their eyes at the crazy
Mostly the street-level protestors get "mutual aid" donations from like-minded people across the country, but at a higher level, somebody's paying for the professional signage and whatnot.
One company, "Crowds on Demand" (their actual name!!!) said they would not work with ICE Watch, the activist group that Renee Good belonged to:
https://crowdsondemand.com/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/red-flags-expose-paid-agitators-violent-anti-ice-riots-ceo-says
https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/01/the-problem-isnt-ice-its-ice-watch/
Oh they are well-financed for sure. NYC is next - and is preparing now: https://open.substack.com/pub/andmagazine/p/they-are-getting-ready-to-burn-new?r=1o2l6&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
It’s real simple. Respect the laws of your own country.
Don’t defend fraud.
Was the child who was detained and driven off in a van in front of his own home respecting the laws of his country? You people are sick
Estimates are that some 10 million people illegally entered the US as a result of the active abrogation of responsibility by the OBiden administration.
Correcting this egregious flouting of immigration law will require extraordinary measures.
Sadly, it is almost certain that some mistakes will occur. There is no human activity, certainly at this scale and with this level of urgency, that wouldn't involve errors.
But just stating without reference "the child who was detained and driven off in a van in front of his own home" is neither useful nor pertinent.
What child? Where? Who took this child? Where did they take the child? How do you know of this incident?
And, even assuming you've mentioned something that actually occurred, what percentage does this represent as regards the interactions and efforts by ICE?
Name-calling further deprecates the value of your comment.
What occurred under the OBiden administration was a national crime. A crime against the nation. It was conducted actively and represents one of the most, if not the most, cynical and callous attack on the integrity of the United States in history.
Any correction of this travesty has to be at scale and because of the scale of the OBiden illegal immigration invasion, it's going to be a mess.
But it was a mess created purposefully by the OBiden administration.
I think "sick" applies to the people who created this disaster more than anyone.
The event occurred in the video and was mentioned in the article. That’s why I referenced it. And I’m sorry, but it is sick to dehumanize people just for leaving deplorable conditions and moving hoping to find a better life.
It’s also sick to have no concern for the systematic rights violations and harassment of ordinary people that is happening and of necessity will happen if the goal is to roundup every last undocumented person.
We can debate the competing values of openness to outsiders and social cohesion. We can debate the proper number of visas or asylum to grant. What we cannot do, and what I have been shouting endlessly, is disregard our sacred constitutional rights to not carry papers, to not be subject to warrantless searches. THAT is what I’m outraged about. Not immigration enforcement.1
Do you believe that when a local police department discovers that a person they have arrested is illegally in the country they should turn that person over to federal immigration authorities? Most of this nonsense would end if they would.
Fair enough -- thank you for your reply.
I hope I'm not repeating myself (at least not too much) but the situation is extreme because of the previous administration which created a massive problem that cannot be ignored and must be addressed.
Okay, then what to do?
Clearly, the government has to move quickly or otherwise people who are the subject of the apprehension will get advance notice and take evasive action. Swift action by the government will almost certainly result in non-camera friendly footage.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, I went to grad school in Minnesota and lived in various locations in the Twin Cities. Protesting is a self-fulfilling end for that culture. The "issue" is irrelevant, the "issue" is merely an excuse to have a "protest". I watched it for years and it resulted in my no longer identifying as a liberal (despite still holding what I think are many traditional liberal beliefs).
The point here is that virtue-signaling of the "protesters" [sic] only confounds the matter and really brings no useful value. It is theater and I do not respect it. I observed these antics for too long to give them credibility.
They are endangering themselves -- tragically, as in the case of Renee Good -- and of the officers who are executing laws passed by democratically elected representatives to Congress.
The warrantless search issue is tricky, I'll grant you that. I'm not an attorney nor a legal expert, but I believe police actions do not require a warrant when a crime is in progress. If someone is harboring (or employing or whatever) illegal immigrants, that's a crime in progress.
The matter of "carrying papers" seems to be getting blown way out of proportion. I'm in Chicago where there were large-scale ICE operations (which also garnered the photo-hound protest shenanigans) and I also happen to know lots of Mexican Americans. Not one has ever expressed to me any concern for need to "carry papers".
The tragic edge cases also include those people brought to this country (illegally) as children who have never known any other country. That is a vexing problem to which I do not have an answer. But the simple truth is that the person is not here legally.
The abuse of our immigration system by the OBiden administration was nothing short of criminal. I seriously do not think this was done out of compassion or out of any concern for the well-being of any of the illegal immigrants...and certainly without any concern as to how it would effect the country. It was callous, cynical and entirely calculated.
Correcting that enormous breach of law (i.e., as written in the Constitution) is an incredibly difficult task, both in terms of scale and individual detail.
These so-called protesters are simply making a very difficult situation much worse with their selfish, self-centered, street-theater antics. Their antics only put more pressure on immigration enforcement which, I would claim, only makes the likelihood of "negative outcomes" greater.
But this problem has to be addressed. I wish there had been this much outcry when the crime was being committed by the OBiden administration so that we might have avoided having to correct matters afterward.
But I respect your concerns. I just think we've got a colossal mess that we have to address and it's not going to be pleasant even with extreme care taken.
We'd have to know what the child's country is, before we can tell if he's respecting its laws. 😉
And that's exactly what the ICE officers were asking him! Sounds like you agree with them!
Yes. An arrest by law enforcement, although extremely inconvenient, is not an illegal siezure. SCOTUS in Graham v. Connor — 1989. And it was a unanimous decision.
Was it a legal arrest or detention? If it was, then it is immaterial what you pretend to think about it.
Watch the video and draw your own conclusions. If standing outside your own home and not having ID is grounds for arrest, then we live in a police state
The Alien Registration Act, passed in 1940, requires aliens to be registered. Since April of this year, a Trump executive order requires that aliens carry their green cards/visas on their persons at all time.
While I think that's perhaps excessive, what I think doesn't change the law. And to the extent it is excessive, that's a reaction to four years of Biden intentionally not enforcing laws.
Okay but that doesn’t apply to citizens. And if you think that law means everyone, including citizens has to provide ID or risk arrest at all times, you do not believe in the founding ideals of America my friend.
What video?
My friend, you are commenting on a post that is a video. What do you mean what video?
> I have absolutely seen vehicles left on the street in a way that inadvertently has this effect [of blocking agents]
Wait, how does Ford Fischer know whether leaving the vehicles was intentional or "inadvertent"?
Did he interview the empty cars, or is he making an assumption?
Is Ford reporting facts, or just sharing his opinion? The *fact* is the vehicles were abandoned; the absent drivers' motivations are guessed at by Ford.
And strictly speaking, of course it's not inadvertent: every vehicle left blocking the street was left because the driver parked it there and got out, not because some act of God teleported the driver away.
The cars were left, either to intentionally block the street, or...
...because the driver felt rushing to the protest was more important than finding a safe and legal place to park.
Which is the arrogance of the Left that's behind all of this: the Left thinks that laws can be flouted in the name of "Social Justice". According to the law-nullification Left, "undocumented migrants" can illegally enter the United States, because that's the greater good, Federal law enforcement can be impeded or even attacked, because illegal immigrants shouldn't be deported, and so of course cars can be parked blocking streets in order to not waste protest time finding parking. Or, to block law enforcement.
The protesters think they're above the law, because they believe their cause is just, even as they flout the laws supported by a majority of Americans and passed by a democratically elected Congress.
It's pure tantrum-throwing arrogance: "I'm a protester on a holy mission, I can abandon my car anywhere that's convenient!"
"FF: From my perspective, this week has further entrenched my view that “paid protesters” is, for the most part, an absurd fantasy. Having watched the Signal chats used to track the activities of ICE, these are formed by people joining and volunteering as they can, most of whom don’t even appear to know each other, and the work is done out of sheer commitment.
I will caveat this by saying that of course, some demonstrations are led by coalitions that have non-profits attached to them, and so donations are clearly used for things like signage. However, their calls to demonstrate attract the public with absolutely zero, zilch, nada evidence that the participants are somehow financially incentivized to participate.
In 10 years of documenting activism, I’ve very rarely run into even a crumb of evidence of “paid protesters,” but I’ve heard the accusation thrown around constantly without evidence to discredit them."
LOL, absurd fantasy until they need "signage" or um, whatever. Yeah, this is credible.
Matt, is this the type of journalism that is now going to be had on Racket? I read enough douchebags everywhere else, please tell me it is a "NO!"
there's been a lot of things since Trump was elected in 2016 that sounded utterly absurd, but turned out to be true.
i don't watch Fox, but there was a protestor she interviewed, and she asked if she had a job. the protestor replied, "yes, i'm getting paid to protest"...in so many words.
i think what's more interesting is that you don't see any "people of color" who are actual citizens out there protesting. and i doubt any somalians or tren de aragua thugs held any midnight vigils for Renee Good....
instead, it's the most dangerous demographic in western civilization:
angry white liberal females.
i hate to even call them liberal as I am a classical liberal....whatever happened to them?
Right!
"Illiberal" really does seem to nail it. They're not "liberal" in any sense that I remember.
I went to grad school in Minnesota. Land of the Protest-Industrial Complex.
I arrived quite liberal (in the traditional sense) but left pretty conservative.
I still hold many traditional liberal views: I'd love to have a great educational system that provided a solid, quality education for "free" [sic: nothing is "free" of course, someone pays for it] as the social benefits are significant.
But the obsessive, self-hating is unhealthy.
While in Minnesota, I came up with a theory as to the source of the self-loathing.
Namely, I grew up in Chicago where the city's immigrant and industrial history were palpable.
When I got to Minnesota in the 1980's, the city was still very racially homogeneous and prosperous. But most of the people (young people in particular) had no connection to the source of this comfort. Most had never worked in a factory nor ever would and never worked on a farm or mill or mine nor ever would.
I'm no Marxist -- certainly in terms of economic theory -- but Marx was an insightful analyst.
Specifically, I think his theory of alienation can be used to explain a lot of what we see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
Namely, these "kids" have no idea where their comfort comes from, no idea as to the source or history that resulted in their comfortable existence.
Then, they are "told" about all the evils of "whiteness", "capitalism" and every other catch-all category and, being young and lazy and excitable (which many are, I'm certainly imperfect), they fall for this, wanting to be "cool" and part of the "in crowd".
So these forces have worked to create the modern illiberal.
Thank you for this post. Spot on
There are plenty of receipts out there from numerous sources showing these people are being paid. The absurd part is this "reporter" said he "had not seen it" and then goes on to say it is "signage." It makes it the most riduculous that he says it is something that is meant to be seen.
yes, exactly. it would be a lot more work to chase down that thread than ask people on the ground.
Where are these "receipts out there"? Post links to the "numerous sources" you claim exist.
They will be found, and you will look like a fool. But that's your MO anyway.
Her actual words to Laura Ingraham were "Yes, I'm getting paid right now". So the 'fantasy' of these people NOT getting paid is purely laughable. This 'journalist' reporting for Matt is, in fact, laughable as well.
Another consideration to the whole " paid" argument is the coordination , efficiency and "training" that seems to be evident.
Hysterical! Did it ever occur to you that the protestor was being sarcastic?
You are probably one of the few who believe that comment was sarcastic. These fools aren't intelligent enough to be sarcastic. But they are hysterical...in more ways than one.
Check out the videos from the Sunday church service disruption. Lots of people of color. Main organizer woman was with BLM and used to be the local president of the NAACP.
Yup. I saw that. Sorta what I was alluding to in my first comment.
Projection and irony are tightly correlated....Indeed....
As long as you don't refer to them as "ladies" because "ladies" they are not....
Good distinction.
The left becomes the roaming gang of Nazis they warned about, again.
"This and other retarded news at 5."
I’m keeping subscription for now to hear Walter. But for Matt, I am probably in minority, so who cares.
Agreed! I am doing the same. My subscription just ended , going MTM for now. Matt thinks his bias doesn't show but it does( IMO) he also doesn't do thorough research , vetting of topics. I feel like I am hearing a MSNOW story.
For now I will be here for Walter and see how it goes.
I have posted much the same on other content...
But Matt didn't write this.
Yes but that’s his substack and mass media excuse.
I find that Matt has been slipping into the leftwing delusions too frequently. Things in Racket News stories are becoming too slanted for my taste.
"Too slanted for my taste"? You mean not slanted to the right enough.
FF "For protesters and agents, this is a chaotic environment, but one they’ve elected to end up in."
Interesting use of the words "elected to end up in"
The ICE agents are there because they have a job to do. They cannot do it if they are not there. The protesters on the other hand do not have to be there. They choose to be there. I get it that FF and Matt want to be as neutral as possible. To not take a side in this dispute. But that can be done while still being more honest about who is acting and who is reacting, without say who they believe is right or wrong. It should be allowable, without taking a side, for both Matt and FF to clarify that one group is enforcing federal law and one group is interfering with the execution of federal law. They seem to both go to extremes to avoid this important fact.
They also choose to ignore the main point: the stupendous levels of fraud that has been committed by the same people that are being arrested.
And those criminals are now being defended by the protesters .
Neutrality to a degree of absurdity
It seems your report differs markedly from others I have seen on the ground. You don’t even mention the protesters breaking into the church and you barely touched on Frey calling people to go out and put their bodies on the line. Further, the city is crawling with radical left wing organizations and experienced, professional activists like BLM. The twin cities have been completely taken over by revolutionaries. That is the reality.
Good grief. Nobody "broke into the church." The protestors walked into the church during a service when it was open to the public. Frey is not asking "people to go out and put their bodies on the line." Frey specifically said folks who choose to protest should remain peaceful and request Minneapolis police to intervene if they witness ICE officers breaking the law. As for what the city is "crawling with" — it's crawling with ICE and Border Patrol agents. That is the reality.
Don Lemon went with these terrorists and he is being looked at for violations of several laws. Just because the doors weren't locked doesn't mean you have the right to walk in and take over. Can you go to a bar and grab the mic from the band and do your own thing? Can you go in a restaurant and enter the kitchen and mess with cooks??
I think Mr. Fischer has gotten in front of his headlights. Protesters financial arrangements are not observable, and where they exist they are likely not readily disclosed in interviews.
His comments suggest a point of view, not facts.
As I write this (4:30 pm, 1/17/26) the air temperature in Minneapolis is 2 degrees F with windchill of -15 degrees F. Anyone out protesting is getting paid.
A benign view of the protest activities no? Calling them watchers? Where are they watching from? A lot of crowd control semi-violent defensive tactics by ICE repeatedly noted. What’s prompting that? Not my experience that law enforcement over reaches in the physicality department. The absence of any mention of weaponized chaos by the “watchers”? it’s evident that Ford is trying hard to come across as an unbiased observer. But he slips up far too many times in this one article alone to leave any doubt he’s anything but unbiased. Reading all the comments it’s also apparent he’s not fooling anyone.
I find him totally biased for the left. And Matt is leaning too far in that direction these days also.
I see that perspective about Matt. It’s not easy for some seeing the effects of strictly enforcing immigration laws left unenforced for years but I think the welfare of the country absolutely has to come first. Period. It’s come to that. This is the result of unfettered mass migration of maybe 8 million people or more over the past 4 years or more and absolutely no cooperation by local law enforcement which results in the only strategy available to the feds. Go out into the neighborhoods in force. And maybe they are going after anyone they can find now. I doubt that but even if true, the country is at stake here. It has to come first. Blaming the feds for the chaos involved in that and in long time undocumented aliens getting picked up makes no sense to me.
The very extreme long-term damage caused by all the post-war years of "liberal progressiveness" was meant to destroy the West. And it has come very close.
So now....it is going to take extreme measures to correct it. And I do not find this work by ICE agents as extreme as it could become. They are showing admirable restraint in what could easily be pushed into was-zone scenarios.
If paid protestors is a fantasy, how does this company exist? https://crowdsondemand.com/protests-rallies-and-advocacy/
There are hundreds of them.
I knew personally of activist organizers in Canadian cities over the past 20 years or so rounding up the local homeless and offering them $50 and a hot meal for pretending to be a protestor. It was common knowledge. The homeless guy who would regularly hit you up for "spare change" on the way to work would be the same guy you would see holding the "sign of the day" the next week in whatever protest came around.
I don't buy the perspective in this article on that point. I find Matt is leaning too far leftwing.
Yes to your last statement...why I thought that he was in his 30s, not his 50s....
Speaking of leftwing activism, I suppose it goes without saying that the crazed masses of Pro-Hamas supporters were nowhere to be seen when Iranians took to the streets with amazing courage to throw out the Ayatollahs and the Revolutionary Guard.
Silence from all of the "But it's GENOCIDE!" people. Neither did the mobs of Western feminists speak up. It they hadn't given themselves away already about their true motivations, the Iranian Uprising and the ensuing Western leftwing complacency certainly did it.
Oops....the protesting Iranians had the wrong narrative, it seems. It was never actually about human rights.
The Western Left can only be roused when their narrative has an opening for a white-savior protagonist, where the heroic white ally helps the poor brown oppressed defeat those OTHER evil whites on their road to justice and liberation.
BLM, Hamas, migrants etc all follow this template: the innocent BIPOC is menaced by a white colonialist oppressor, who must be defeated by a coalition led by white allies blessed with superior levels of empathy and "critical consciousness". It is entirely an intra-Western performance designed to "raise awareness" of the activist class, who have no sense of identity or life purpose except BEING SEEN cosplaying the role of either the Underground Railroad, French Resistance or Civil Rights marcher.
If a country or event is a civil dispute between POCs or other people with high oppression scores, there's no place for their script and starring role and thus they have no interest. The narrative is so crucial that they even had to invent a "white" Israel, while the real Israel is multiracial and at least half Sephardic, not to mention the thousands of Ethiopians and 20% Arab citizentry.
But why let reality interfere with such a rich, fulfilling fantasy life?
Amen to that, CP. Well said.
Thanks!
Mamdani’s new equity czar had some interesting comments regarding white liberal women and their special type of racism.
“ Atta-Mensah appeared to take notice and hid her own social media past — which included retweeting or replying to at least three separate posts complaining about liberal white women, including one where she responded to somebody who wrote “we don’t talk about white liberal racism enough.”
“Facts! It would need to be a series of loooooonnnnnnnggggg conversations” Atta-Mensah replied.
She also reposted part of a thread from a post reading,”Who’s not police but FEELS like police to you?
“white women at nonprofit organizations,” read a reply Atta-Mensah reposted in September 2024”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/18/us-news/mamdani-chief-equity-officer-disparaged-liberal-white-women-in-now-deleted-x-posts-tax-them-to-the-white-meat/
My mother would have sneered that liberal women yell and carry on like Fishwives. Which was her way of saying that this is very low and vulgar behaviour.
I have to agree with her there.
But what she leaves out is how this is like S&M for AWFLs and how much they get off on being lashed with the whip of racial retribution by a black woman—especially by one named Afua Atta-Mensah, that's just a delicious cherry on top.
This crusade by guilt-ridden Western bourgeois women is meant to perform atonement, seek redemption and display how much more righteous they are than their political enemies. If they have to be verbally abused by a POC, it only provides a frisson of radical joy.
Their entire project is a post-religious psychodrama to find all the meaning, community and confessions of sin/guilt that religions provide. The Church of Social Justice is Christianity with Jesus replaced by a rotating cast of victimized POCs, who each get their turn on the cross. And the pews are packed!
NIMBY racism.......
Paid protestors - provide them with organization, food, signs. You don't need to stick a $20 in someone's pocket if you're amping them up to blame everyone else for all of their problems. Just keep filling their heads with Trump fascist no one is illegal sloganeering and make 'em a sandwich. These automatons will do the rest.
Oh, and pay no attention to the theft occurring in your own community. The stupidity of rioters can never been overstated.
Only half of those people have “… elected to end up in…”, as federal officials shouldn’t expect to be attacked by trained antagonists who commit crimes by their obstruction… which by all accounts they are paid. Provoking a response is safer when journalists seem to provide cover so seamlessly
This entire situation could end if the mayor & governor would allow ICE into the jails to transfer custody of persons under arrest who are found to be illegal aliens.
I don't give a damn if the goofball mayor and Gov. Elmer Fudd don't like the law. Too damned bad if they don't like the law.
As another commenter ("Art") said, I'm skeptical that there's widespread support for the anti-government demonstrations.
The recent church invasion is absolutely beyond belief. I could only think of my elderly father, sitting at Mass, while the church was invaded by these obnoxious people. Not to mention the little kids huddled with their parents.
And Don Lemon? He's as much a grifter as the fraudsters.
So Mr. Fischer thinks all these demonstrators are acting out of "sheer commitment"...
I guess one can have a sheer commitment to making sure violent illegals aren't arrested, or a commitment to anarchy in general.
I'm not totally on board with everything ICE is doing. They should be focused on those who have committed criminal acts, not children in driveways or illegal entrants to this country who are otherwise compliant with laws (and that includes complying with our laws against driving while intoxicated). But protestors, whether acting out of "sheer commitment" or not, should not be encouraged to hold phones in the faces of federal law enforcement or otherwise obstruct them. Criminal enforcement operations are a fraught environment, and bad things can ensue when one gets in the middle of these operations.