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TriTorch's avatar

Everything occurring in Minnesota is carefully engineered divide and conquer 101, it is the oldest playbook that exists, and it is designed to burn America to the ground in a blaze of hatred of us against each other, so that the enlightenment model Constitution can be disintegrated and nothing will stand in the way of the globalists to implement global technocratic tyranny. We cannot let them get away with this:

Ten Ways the 1% - Who Owns Nearly All Media And Has Radicalized Both the Right and Left - Are Manipulating Us Right Now to Walk into the Incinerator:

1) The first manipulation is the illusion of choice. You think you have two parties representing different visions for America but both parties are funded by the same billionaires, vote for the same surveillance bills, approve the same defense budgets, and serve the same corporate interests. The choice you are given is which color tie the puppet wears, not who controls the strings.

2) The second manipulation is emotional hijacking. The news does not inform you, it activates you. Every story is framed to trigger fear or anger or disgust because those emotions bypass your rational thinking and make you easier to control. You are not watching journalism. You are being subjected to psychological operations designed to keep you in a constant state of agitation.

3) The third manipulation is tribal sorting. The algorithm learns what makes you angry and feeds you more of it until your entire worldview is shaped by outrage at the other side. You are sorted into a tribe not because you chose it but because keeping you tribal keeps you predictable and profitable.

4) The fourth manipulation is false scarcity. You are told resources are limited and the other tribe is taking what belongs to you. Immigrants are stealing your jobs. Welfare recipients are draining your taxes. The other party is destroying your healthcare. Meanwhile the billionaire class has more wealth than any humans in history and could solve most of these problems tomorrow if they wanted to.

5) The fifth manipulation is memory holing. Stories that threaten powerful interests get buried or forgotten within days. Exposed crimes result in no consequences. Historical context that would help you understand the present is never taught. You are kept in a perpetual present with no past to learn from and no future to plan for.

6) The sixth manipulation is controlled opposition. The voices you think are fighting for you are often funded by the same interests they pretend to oppose. The outrage merchant on your side of the aisle is playing a character designed to keep you engaged and angry and tuned in while nothing ever actually changes.

7) The seventh manipulation is the Overton window. The range of acceptable opinion is artificially narrowed so that anything outside it seems extreme. Ideas that were mainstream fifty years ago are now treated as radical. Ideas that serve elite interests are treated as moderate common sense. You are not choosing your beliefs from the full range of human thought. You are choosing from a menu they wrote.

8) The eighth manipulation is learned helplessness. You are shown so many problems with no solutions that you eventually give up and accept that nothing can change. This is intentional. A population that believes resistance is futile does not resist. They scroll and complain and feel superior for understanding how bad things are while doing absolutely nothing about it.

9) The ninth manipulation is identity capture. Your political affiliation becomes your identity, and any attack on your party feels like an attack on you personally. This makes you defend politicians and policies that harm you because admitting they are wrong would mean admitting you were wrong, and your ego will not allow that.

10) The tenth manipulation is the most insidious of all: you are manipulated into believing you are too smart to be manipulated. Every person reading this thinks the manipulations I described apply to other people, the stupid people, the brainwashed people on the other side. That certainty is itself a manipulation. The moment you believe you are immune is the moment you become most vulnerable

Neural Foundry's avatar

Brillaint breakdown on how the para-govenrment actually operates. The point about using mobs to overawe law enforcement being historically fascist is kinda mind-blowing when these same groups claim to be the anti-fascist ones. Saw something similiar play out at a local council meeting last year where activist groups basically tried to intimidate elected officials into ignoring standard procedures.

D Trahan's avatar

I find it amusing when a mayor or governor claims some sort of sovereignty over the federal government's actions in their geography. The mayor of New York says he will arrest federal officers if they attempt to detain illegal aliens inside the city limits. How do we think that would play out?

At the federal level, federal police power sits on top of state and local authority because of the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause. In plain terms, when Congress passes a valid federal law, and federal officers are enforcing it within their legal authority, state and local governments cannot override, block, or cancel that action. Local and state police answer to mayors and governors, but federal officers answer to federal law. That does not mean federal police “control” local police day-to-day; it means that when the two collide, federal law prevails.

If local or state officials try to interfere directly by ordering arrests of federal officers who are lawfully doing their jobs, that crosses a bright legal line. At that point, the issue is no longer policy disagreement or non-cooperation; it becomes unlawful interference with federal authority. Local officers involved could face federal charges for obstructing or assaulting federal officers, and city or state officials who ordered the action could also face criminal and civil liability. Acting under local orders would not protect them. Courts have been very clear that you cannot use local police power to nullify federal law.

If the interference escalated to the use of force, the consequences would become even more serious. The law would deem the local action unlawful, and federal officers would be authorized to use reasonable force to protect themselves and complete their mission. Any injuries or damage would be examined closely, but the starting point would be that the local side initiated illegal resistance. Federal authorities would likely respond quickly with arrests, court orders, and additional federal resources. Historically and legally, these situations end with federal authority being reaffirmed and significant legal fallout for the local officials who crossed that line.

These are the facts as provided in the current law. They would prefer to use a local mob-rule approach to disregard the law rather than go to the polls to change it.

Rod D. Martin's avatar

And the minute they win the White House they completely reverse field. Obama actually sued a county sheriff in Arizona to prevent him from enforcing immigration law, and won based on the supremacy clause. But when Trump is president, the federal government has no authority whatsoever. Odd.

D Trahan's avatar

Yes. Sheriff Arpaio was a lightning rod for liberals who wanted to allow illegal aliens in his district. He countersued Obama but chose to take the direction that his department was being harmed by the repeat offenders who were there illegally. He ultimately failed in this approach. It might have been a better approach if he had taken the action in federal court, arguing that Obama lacked constitutional authority to ignore or suspend deportations. A blanket refusal to enforce federal law would violate his constitutional duty. The courts have consistently held that the executive branch must enforce the law as written, even if it disagrees with the policy behind it. Of course that never stopped Obama on several issues.

Noah Otte's avatar

An excellent piece by Daniel McCarthy that made many important and insightful points! Thank you, Dr. Martin for publishing it! Mr. McCarthy tells a lot of truth here. These radical leftist mobs think anything is justified in the name of their cause. That includes obstructing, getting in the face of, assaulting, provoking, doxxing, and shooting at, ICE agents. They are not helping to de-escalate the situation at all, their just pouring fuel on the fire. Obstructing law enforcement or stepping into their line of sight is a really bad idea that helps no one and accomplished nothing other than to get one arrested or killed. Whatever you think of Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s deaths, they shouldn’t have interfered with law enforcement.

Both of them used very poor judgment. Democrats, Never Trump Republicans and Libertarians tacitly support them as all parties want to stick it to Trump and ICE. They don’t think about the harassment networks and mobs these folks have that target ICE agents and their families. They yell, scream, use noise makers, bang on pots and pans, and play loud music as a form of torture essentially. They want to drive ICE agents insane. They shine lasers in ICE agent’s eyes to damage their sight. They do everything they can to block them. They blow whistles to alert illegal immigrants and help them get away as well again, as a form of torture. They follow ICE agents wherever they go. They spit on them, get in there face with a camera or their phone and play the “I’m not touching you” game to try and provoke them. They call them names, threaten their lives, compare them to Nazis and the Gestapo, and so on and so forth.

Recently, radical leftists attacked a Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis housing ICE agents. They vandalized the hotel, threatened the staff and attacked an employee and caused him to bleed from the head. Is this kind of behavior acceptable in America? No. What would one call tactics like that? Fascism. The Brownshirts did exactly that kind of stuff in Nazi Germany to political opponents. Opponents of ICE need to protest peacefully, hold rallies, register to vote, call or write their elected officials, and lobby on Capitol Hill to change immigration law. Those are constructive ways they can help illegal immigrants. Terrorize ICE agents and their families will never make the country a better place or do anything to help the very people they claim to care so much about. They are assisted by the left-wing Minnesota state and local Minneapolis government under Tim Walz and Jacob Frey. They essentially serve as their foot soldiers. They do all the grunt work while Walz, Frey and their bureaucratic allies do all they can to demonize and undermine ICE and the federal government. They work together in tandem. They are a two headed monster that needs to be stopped. The only silver lining of all this is that Tim Walz said he’ll never run for elected office ever again. Hallelujah!

Darwin's avatar

Agree 100%. Many of young people have been brainwashed over the years and parents had no idea. Many have no appreciation for our country and embrace evil beliefs and wicked politicians. Oh, and they have become wicked in kind. Anyway, this is going to get nastier before better, and I'm quite okay with that to save our country. I relish the idea of the ruthless defeat of the Dems, Starmer, Macron, Carney, and all the rest of wicked globalist, socialist, Islamic loving, Christian hating, cabal. Armies of darkness and lies falling to Armies of light and truth.