Links - 26th January 2026 (2 - Migrants: US)

MAZE on X - "No, this is not AI. 2011. President Obama goes to the border and touts his border security and immigration law enforcement efforts. He actually talked about building a fence along the border. He also talked about deportations.
Obama: As long as the laws are on the books, it's not just felons who are subject to removal. Sometimes it's families just trying to earn a living. But I can't stop enforcing the law. That's not how democracy works.
All of this changed during his second term. That's when the Democrat party decided that the enforcement of immigration law is optional."
Even if you want to pretend that open borders are now a good thing because the moral arc of the universe bends towards justice, this just then proves the "myth" of the slippery slope

Jason Rantz on Seattle Red on X - "Rep. @TarraSimmons5 (D-Bremerton) introduced the ICE Out Act of 2026, which bans all WA law enforcement agencies from hiring anyone hired as a sworn officer of ICE on or after January 20, 2025. Simmons is a convicted felon sentenced to 30 months in prison for theft and drug crimes. She routinely fights to effectively force people to hire people like her. She thinks being an ICE agent under Trump is deserving of discrimination, despite someone lawfully working a job with a stellar record. But felons like her? Hire away. She’s a fraud, a hypocrite, and an extremist."

C3 on X - "Wrap your head around this… The Democrats are mad ICE is using Medicaid data to arrest illegals after they told us illegals aren’t on Medicaid."

Meme - cody @codym1917: "Didn't some old dude and his wife get arrested 5 years ago for doing the same thing?" *McCloskeys*
Breaking911 @Breaking911: "Liberal man stands armed outside a home in St. Paul to protect his neighbors from ICE."
You're only allowed to stand outside with a gun if you support the left wing agenda

Meme - Johnny LaVar Vale...: "Dudes either support ice or can make a girl cum. I'm sorry I don't make the rules"
Given that liberals are less sexually satisfied and orgasm less during sex, this is hilarious. Left wing projection, once again

Donald Trump For President | Facebook - "🚨 “THEY’RE LEADING THEM HOME”: ICE Agents Outsmart Minneapolis Agitators 🚨
In a hilarious twist of "The Hunter Becomes the Hunted," reports are surfacing that ICE agents in Minneapolis have found a genius way to deal with the radical "whistle armies" following their vehicles. According to a real 911 call placed on Friday, January 16, 2026, the very people trying to harass federal agents are now panicking because those agents are reportedly leading the agitators right back to their own front doors. The "911" Panic Attack. The call, reportedly placed by a Civilian Commissioner for Police Oversight in Minneapolis, reveals a total meltdown within the anti-ICE leadership. Here is the full quote from the dispatch log:
"CALLER IS A CIVILIAN COMMISSIONER FOR POLICE OVERSIGHT IN MINNEAPOLIS ---- HAS BEEN RECEIVING INFO FROM SEVERAL PPL WHO HAVE BEEN RECORDING ICE AGENTS THAT WHEN THEY FOLLOW AGENTS THE AGENTS ARE LEADING THE FOLLOWERS TO THEIR PERSONAL HOMES....CLR BELIEVES FEDERAL AGENTS ARE RUNNING PLATES TO GATHER ADDRESSES (POSS NCIC MISUSE) AND FOLLOWERS ARE CONCERNED FOR THEIR OWN WELL BEING.....CLR HAS HOPES THAT MPD COULD RESPOND TO THE HOMES OF THE FOLLOWERS AS A DETERRENT AND TO SHOW SUPPORT TO THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS....CLR ADVD INFO WOULD BE GIVEN TO CAR 92 (S01 TOLD CLR THAT SOMEONE WOULD FOLLOW UP WITH HIM VIA PH TO ADV ON THE MATTER OR TO PROVIDE THEM WITH A NUMBER ON WHO TO SPEAK WITH REL TO THIS CONCERN/REQUEST)"
The Ultimate Reverse-Card. The commissioner alleges that agents are running plates to gather addresses—using the same high-tech tools like the ELITE app that the Left has been "melting down" over all week. For days, these agitators have used "Google Maps for Deportations" as a talking point to claim they are being "targeted". Now, they are discovering that if you follow a federal agent, they might just decide to show you they know exactly where you live. These are the same people who follow agents for hours, honking and harassing them, but the moment the "surveillance" turns back on them, they call 911 begging for Minneapolis Police protection."
If true, this is hilarious

Blue Lives Matter on X - "We're not saying that Blue Lives Matter was behind feeding false information to far-left, anti-ICE protestors. We're not saying we had teams comprised of HUNDREDS of off-duty cops and veterans volunteer to run decoy operations so far-left activists THOUGHT they were conducting ICE raids. We're not saying they were in fact they were just driving around in what appeared to be unmarked vehicles with tinted windows... drinking coffee and listening to Guns and Roses.... being chased down and surrounded by protestors. What we ARE saying is that if it DID happen.... it sure worked remarkably well in NINE DIFFERENT STATES, allowing ACTUAL raids to successfully take place unimpeded, helping support the capture of HUNDREDS of criminals. Combat veterans, off-duty officers and patriotic Americans have had enough of the radical left... and are being activated across the country to back our #lawenforcement. And they're smarter...more skilled... more driven... better trained than the left … and actually enjoy sitting in a deer stand for days on end just waiting. @DHSgov @ICEgov we’ve got you."

Meme - alex.nick.jungle: "MAGA: President Trump has already deported enough illegal aliens in Minnesota for the blue state to LOSE a Congressional seat. This is the plan guys. Trump plans to win by cheating. A LOT more than he did in 2024"
Left wingers stumbling upon the point but not recognising it

Meme - "SELF-OWN OF THE YEAR
Tim Walz told Minneapolis protesters to "carry your phone and hit record" to catch "atrocities." They did. And filmed Latin Kings career criminal Raul Gutierrez STEALING AN FBI RIFLE during the riots. Thanks for the assist, Tim Walz."

Meme - Sean Kelly @skenzyme: "Kaden Rummler attacked a federal officer. Itis only through the extraordinary restraint and professionalism of this one federal agent applying MINIMUM FORCE that Mr. Rummler's reckless rioting did not result in his death. Don't charge officers with bludgeons, kids!"

ICE ICE Baby - "For decades, open borders proponents in both parties contributed to where we are now, but Joe Biden­—or the cabal running the country during his presidential term—fired every gun from the Iowa class Democrat battleship in a broadside volley aimed at America...
There are laws (decades old) making crossing our borders without permission an illegal act.
Those laws were duly passed through Congress, signed by a president, and some laws have even been challenged in the judicial system and clarified (like which entity has the duty to formulate, execute, and enforce these laws).
No, a state may neither make their own immigration laws nor decide how the existing federal laws are enforced.
Yes, ICE has police powers. They come from the Immigration and Nationality Act (especially 8 U.S.C. § 1357).
ICE may arrest and detain a removable alien in public without a judicial warrant if the officer has probable cause to believe the person is in the U.S. illegally, and there’s a risk the person will escape before a warrant can be obtained.
ICE commonly uses administrative warrants rather than court-signed warrants for immigration arrests/detentions. These are issued internally by ICE or by an immigration judge, not a neutral magistrate, and allow ICE to take custody of someone for immigration proceedings.
While ICE may not enter a private space without consent or a judicial warrant, if they are invited in or suspect immediate threat, they can legally gain entrance.
No, ICE does not decide what laws to enforce. ICE enforces immigration law as defined by Congress — including arrest, detention, questioning, and removal of non-citizens.
No, calling illegal aliens “neighbors” or “Maryland Men” does not make them legal.
No, it doesn’t matter if an alien was let in, overstayed a visa, ignored deportation orders or simply was ignored.
No, it doesn’t matter how long they have been here. There is no automatic citizenship for evading capture for 10, 20 or 30 years.
No, it doesn’t matter if they have a job.
No, it doesn’t matter if they are 8 or 80. Age is not a disqualifier.
It doesn’t matter if they have a family because they can choose their dependents who were born here who will stay with a designated legal guardian or go with the deportees back to their home country.
No, citizens of another country do not have a right to come to America.
All the above are, or should be, well known to our elected officials and yet, some of these very officials are the ones using irresponsible and false rhetoric to enrage the mentally stunted emotional raw nerves who think they are manning the front lines of a new Civil War. Here’s is short list from just the past ten days or so...
It is due to statements and sentiments like these that ICE faces sufficient force that they must use equal or superior force in arrests and to block interference. It is Newton’s Third Law applied to law enforcement: every action is met by an equal and opposite reaction. So much of the “reporting” and discourse—especially when elected officials state accusations as fact when they are not or are not proven—serves only to inflame the minds of emotionally retarded people in opposition to legitimate and legal actions taken to remedy “the problem.”"

When Reason Dies - "no issue—large or small—is being approached through truth or reason anymore. Everything is filtered through raw emotion. We are watching a full-scale renunciation of reason by a significant portion of the population, including its political leadership. Worse still, much of that leadership is doing this by design. This did not happen by accident. A good deal of it traces back to intellectual arsonists who taught generations of students that language itself is a weapon and truth is merely a social construct. Jacques Derrida and his descendants may not have intended to light the house on fire, but they handed out plenty of matches. Once language is severed from reality, everything becomes negotiable. Illegal aliens become “our neighbors,” “our people,” “migrants,” or “undocumented persons”—terms that feel good while erasing the fact that these individuals are, by definition, in the country illegally. ICE is accused of “snatching people off the street who committed no crimes,” when in reality it is executing legally mandated removals of people whose very presence constitutes a violation of law—whether by illegal entry or visa overstay. Families are said to be “ripped apart,” yet no similar outrage is expressed when an American citizen is sentenced to prison and separated from his family as a consequence of criminal behavior. Emotion is selectively deployed, not consistently applied. I said recently that Minnesota has become the epicenter of the most successful brainwashing operation since Hitler consolidated power in Germany. If that sounded excessive a week ago, the intervening days should have erased any doubt. This is not fringe behavior. It runs from the top of the DFL straight down through the voters who keep rewarding it. Democrats are fond of calling Republicans Nazis, but the people who enabled Hitler were not jackbooted monsters—they were ordinary citizens who swallowed propaganda wholesale. The resemblance is uncomfortable, and it is real. So much of what the modern left believes—what it wants to believe—is simply false. What Democrats have assembled is a sprawling coalition of emotional raw nerves: criminal misfits, social outcasts, anarchists, militant racialists, and ideological zealots, united under slogans like the future is female, no human is illegal on stolen land, love is love, science is real, and kindness is everything. These phrases are not arguments. They are emotional incantations. And when you build politics on incantation rather than reason, you summon forces you cannot control. It is not coincidental that a large share of the most emotionally unhinged activism comes from women (both heterosexual and lesbian), the mentally unstable, gender ideologues, and self-styled social misfits—often reinforced by estrogen-soaked beta males and overwhelmingly white participants intoxicated by a white-savior complex. This is not so much a color revolution as a pasty white temper tantrum, driven by feminized rage and the belief that performative vulgarity is a substitute for toughness or courage. None of this should be surprising. These people are being carefully herded toward statism and collectivism—ideologies that tell them they are not responsible for their failures, that someone else is to blame: another race, another sex, another class, another country. They are told that how they feel about reality matters more than what reality is. Laws, morality, and even biology itself can be discarded if they produce discomfort. To be clear, this does not mean that all women, or all members of any of these groups, are irrational collectivists. But this pathology is overwhelmingly concentrated on the American left, whose intelligentsia has learned how to distill the population down to its most volatile components and deploy them as political shock troops. “If you believe it, it’s not a lie” is not a foundation for civilization. It was a joke delivered by George Costanza—a line meant to illustrate absurdity, not to serve as a governing principle. A society that abandons reason does not become compassionate or enlightened. It becomes ungovernable."

Federal agent shoots man in leg after Minneapolis shovel attack, officials say - "City police chief Brian O'Hara said his officers were hit by fireworks, ice and snowballs... "While the subject and law enforcement were in a struggle on the ground, two subjects came out of a nearby apartment and also attacked the law enforcement officer with a snow shovel and broom handle. "As the officer was being ambushed and attacked by the two individuals, the original subject got loose and began striking the officer with a shovel or broom stick.""
Damn fascism, shooting peaceful protesters!

Why is ICE in MN if it has <1% of illegal immigrants in the USA? FL & TX make up 26% : r/stupidquestions - "They’ve been hard at work in Texas and Florida, don’t worry.
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/texasregion/2025/11/03/data-shows-1-in-4-ice-arrests-happened-in-texas/87062239007/
You just don’t hear about it so much because there’s a lot more cooperation in those states, but they absolutely have had the most deportations"
This doesn't stop left wingers claiming that MAGATs don't care about facts. Every left wing accusation is a projection

Meme - "The same retards demanding the Second Amendment be repealed are now cheering calls to "take up arms" against ICE. It was never about gun violence. It was about who they want holding the gun."

Meme - "THAT FACE YOU MAKE WHEN DEMOCRATS CONSTANTLY REPEAT "NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW WHILE REFUSING TO ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAW"

Meme - Sridhar Ramesh @RadishHarmers: ""I'm ok with legal immigrants. I'm just against illegal immigrants." Ok, but why is it so important to classify immigration as illegal? We could legalize it and then problem solved. But your issue isn't really some neutral procedural "Laws are laws" concern."
LizzieZ @LizzieZ2024: "We are tired of going to the store and no one speaks English, no one even wears the normal clothes Americans wear, and everyone smells weird. It's like walking into a third world sh*t hole where the residendents have no concept of personal space and they all want to occupy the same space you occupy no matter where you stand. We are tired of going to the Hospital, and having to wait for hours due to the place being full of people speaking something other than English, coughing all over the place. Then finally getting to see a doctor whose English is so bad we have no idea what's he's said. We're tired of our children being pushed aside in classrooms so that teachers can spend ridiculous amounts of time teaching low IQ children English, while our children do mindless busy work alone. We're tired of hearing Americans in need being turned down for temporary help using resources from the tax money we fund while savages from third world hell holes rob us blind of those same resources. Get all the bastards out! Yesterday!"
Sridhar Ramesh @RadishHarmers: "You are deeply asocial and wortied about stuff that isn't real. You've convinced yourself that a bunch of stuff is happening that isn't actually happening, and you are using this paranoid fantasy to justify ruining not only other people's lives, but ultimately your own as well."
Left wingers desperately lying to manifest reality again

Wilfred Reilly on X - "So, Schermer - a guy with very solid quantitative skills - actually fed a specifically designed prompt into an AI and obtained a figure for what percentage of ICE detainees are properly arrested illegal aliens (as vs wrongfully seized citizens, etc). That figure? 99.8% to 99.95%. No system is perfect, but the real cause of all this noise is that the modern left opposes aliens being deported at all. Just say that."

Total NIMBY Death on X - "The NYTimes admits: The danger associated with deportations is mostly a result of blue state policies that prevent law enforcement from transferring criminal illegals to ICE custody, as a result ICE has to make "community arrests" which put citizens and legal immigrants at risk"

Meme - mahoneyconsorte: "How did Obama successfully remove 3 million non citizens humanely???? No ICE, no violence, no fanfare????? Asking for a friend,"
chino_rok: "Well, as someone who worked during that administration, it's simple. All the "sanctuary cities" including mine cooperated fully with ICE and Homeland. They gave lists of all the undocumented kids my agency had and then ICE came and got them. So this, in fact, is politicians' fault cause they pick and choose who they want to cooperate with and make things worse."

Old School Eddie on X - "Back in April 2000, under President Bill Clinton, federal agents stormed a home in Miami with guns drawn to seize six-year-old Elián González. They sent the boy back to Fidel Castro’s communist Cuba, all in the name of diplomacy and following the rules. In November 2014, President Obama said plainly that undocumented immigrants broke our immigration laws and must be held accountable, especially the dangerous ones. And in June 2009, Senator Chuck Schumer stated firmly that people who enter the United States illegally are “illegal aliens” and should not be treated the same as those who come here legally. These examples show how Democratic leaders once spoke plainly about enforcing our borders and laws, before their politics changed from focusing on America to everything but America."

MAZE on X - "October, 2010. Obama's Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announces the administration's record breaking immigration enforcement statistics for fiscal year 2010. ICE had deported almost 400,000 illegal aliens during fiscal year 2010, the majority of which had no criminal record. Napolitano also touted the administration's efforts to secure the border. At the end of this press conference Napolitano was asked if ICE was deferring action on deportations for any groups of people. She mentioned two groups, family members of active duty military and Haitian orphans. She then closed with this: "This department is about enforcing the law that we have." To put in perspective how far left (and how quickly) the Democrat party has moved on immigration, consider the following:
In 2019 many Democrat candidates for President came out in favor of decriminalizing crossing our border illegally.
In 2020 Joe Biden was promising to halt all deportations if he became President.
In 2021 the Biden Admin effectively opened our border.
ICE agents are now demonized by Democrat politicians and regularly attacked for simply trying to do their jobs."

Adam Jentleson on X - "I can’t emphasize enough that even as Trump’s numbers dive and ICE approval falls voters still trust Republicans on immigration and border security by WIDE margins. They just don’t think Dems take enforcement seriously."

Dr. Ben Braddock on X - "Border turnaways are not “deportations” as people understand that term. Actual deportations are internal arrests and removal, which are higher than at any point in recent history, a fact that is even more impressive when you consider that ICE funding wasn’t expanded until July."

Janet Elaine Parks | Facebook - "🇺🇸🚨 TRUTH CHECK: The Police Chief Said the Quiet Part Out Loud… And History Has Shown Us Real Parallels… While the internet tries to compare ICE enforcement to Anne Frank and the Holocaust…🙄 they ignore the real parallels happening right now:
Local leaders stirring resistance
Crowds escalating
Law enforcement becoming the enemy
Let’s start with what Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said …because this matters:
“They are engaging in unlawful acts.”
“They have thrown fireworks at police officers.”
And he urged people to go home ..because there’s already enough chaos happening.. That is not “peaceful protest.” That’s the Police Chief describing active violence…
✅ THE CITY’S OWN DOCUMENTATION CONFIRMS IT The City of Minneapolis documented:
• MPD declared an unlawful assembly
• multiple dispersal orders
• individuals were detained / cited / released
• and warned protesters they cannot throw objects, start fires, damage property, or use fireworks/weapons
Source: City of Minneapolis (official protest update)
So no ..this isn’t “made up.” It’s the city’s own words. And for the first time in a while… it feels like someone in Minnesota leadership actually gets it.
✅ WHAT MAYOR FREY SAID ON CAMERA (AND THIS IS WHY IT’S DANGEROUS) Mayor Jacob Frey publicly told ICE: 🗣️ “To ICE, get the f out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here.”* Source: CNN; WCCO CBS Minnesota And he called the federal narrative that the shooting was self-defense: 🗣️ “bulls.”* Source: CNN; WCCO CBS Minnesota Let’s stop pretending this is “neutral leadership.” That’s aggressive, inflammatory rhetoric aimed at federal law enforcement. And rhetoric has consequences.
🚨 THE REAL PARALLELS PEOPLE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT… We’ve seen this pattern in American history: When leaders encourage “resistance” to federal law, it doesn’t stay symbolic… It escalates.
📌 PARALLEL #1 — Nullification Crisis (1832–1833) South Carolina declared federal laws “invalid” and resisted enforcement. President Andrew Jackson treated it as a direct threat to national authority and made clear the federal government would enforce the law. That’s how national confrontations begin: when leadership normalizes defiance
📌 PARALLEL #2 — Little Rock (1957) Arkansas leadership defied federal authority. The streets turned hostile. And President Eisenhower ultimately sent federal troops to enforce order. When local government refuses to cooperate and the public turns violent… the federal government intervenes.
✅ THE FBI REWARD TELLS YOU THIS IS SERIOUS The FBI issued a $100,000 reward related to attacks/vandalism involving federal vehicles and stolen federal property during the unrest. Source: New York Post You don’t issue a federal reward like that over “nothing.” ✅ AND YES …THE PAPERWORK FOUND IS A BIG DEAL.. There has been reporting and viral footage showing paperwork described on camera as containing sensitive operational material and identifying details tied to federal enforcement. Source: New York Post; AP News (contextual reporting on protests/tactics) If protesters are looting federal vehicles and exposing information tied to agents… that is escalation. And it puts real families at risk.
🚨 BOTTOM LINE This is how crises start. Not with a “Civil War” headline… but with leadership normalizing defiance, crowds escalating, and law enforcement being treated like the enemy. When the Police Chief is telling you protesters are committing unlawful acts… and city leadership is still posturing like it’s just activism… That’s not leadership. That’s gasoline on a fire. Faith. Family. Freedom. 🇺🇸✝️"

Mohamad Safa on X - "USA is literally a nation of immigrants. Built by immigrants, for immigrants. Unless you're Indigenous, you're all immigrants. Without immigrants there would be no USA."
vittorio on X - "insane false equivalence. america was created by explorers and adventurers, not immigrants. settling a continent, building institutions from scratch, creating a legal and economic system that didn’t exist before and civilizing wilderness is not the same as moving to a civilization someone else built. builders move from better to worse places. immigrants move from worse to better places. the distinction matters"

Tiffany Savage 🇺🇸 on X - "In 2015, Barack Obama awarded Tom Homan the the Presidential Award for Service for Making America Safer at ICE... 10 years later Liberals want Tom Homan killed. It's the same Tom but a different Democrat Party!"

American Citizen 🇺🇸 on X - "I've never seen a country work so hard to get rid of a President but not illegal immigrants, drug dealers, or child traffickers."

Jamie Bonkiewicz on X - "Kristi Noem says U.S. citizens “should be prepared to provide proof” of citizenship. Straight up Nazi shit."
Mostly Peaceful Memes on X - "Just pretend it’s a Covid vaccine card."

Meme - Fred Wellman @FPWellman: "Never in the history of ever have the masked men demanding to see your papers been the good guys. They aren’t now either."
Kangmin Lee: "This you?"
Fred Wellman: "The idiots that refused the COVID vaccine disobeyed direct orders. This is disgusting."
Damn covidiot plague rats refusing to show the masked men their papers!

Trans Brick

Blogger sometimes deletes my posts, and IIRC they're all the Trans Mania posts (some others get put behind a warning). I've put most of them back up (breaking the content up so the keywords don't cluster, to reduce the risk of triggering filters), but "Links - 29th October 2024 (2 - Trans Mania)" is forever gone ("2024 Biology Textbooks / Trans Women Are / June Is..." was gone until I realised the photos were still in my ImageShack). To reduce the risk I will try posting the images one at a time now (since iFunny blocks them presumably Google might too):

"jessica.industries: I made a trans brick purse for Pride. It's literally a brick. Celebrating the first Pride and 2025.

That's cool because it looks like a poor excuse for a purse, but on the inside it'll never be one. Still just a brick. No irony here at the pride parade."

Links - 26th January 2026 (1 - Hamas Attack Oct 2023)

Man charged after allegedly chanting ‘I love October 7’ - "Mohammed Hassn, also known as Mohammed al-Mail, has been charged with intentionally causing racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress during a demonstration at Swiss Cottage, in north-west London, in September last year. This January, the Metropolitan Police launched an investigation after footage of the incident was shared online. Videos allegedly showed Mr Hassn saying “I love the 7th of October” and “I like an organisation that starts with H” during a pro-Palestinian protest. Speaking on the High Hand Authority, an Arabic-language podcast, Mr Hassn later claimed the “H” referred to the Home Office. In the same podcast he said: “Not every day is like October 7. If an opportunity arises, we must fully exploit it. If you strike, make it hurt.”... Mr Hassn, a Kuwaiti national who was given refugee status in 2017, is set to appear at Westminster magistrates’ court on Jan 19. He has denied expressing support for Hamas, saying that his statements criticising Israel “focus on its military and government policies, not on innocent civilians”. A statement on Mr Hassn’s behalf at the time said that “none of his statements target any protected group, including Jewish people, or promote violence”. The decision to charge him follows an apparent hardening of police attitudes to chanting at pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the wake of the Manchester synagogue attack and the Bondi Beach massacre of families celebrating the festival of Hanukkah. On Wednesday, both the Met and Greater Manchester Police said anyone chanting slogans such as “globalise the intifada” would face arrest. A Met source told The Telegraph that other chants such as “from the river to the sea” could also lead to an arrest as part of a more robust police approach. There has been widespread criticism of the police’s approach to pro-Palestinian marches, with claims that they have allowed protesters to chant clearly anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic slogans. Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, has previously insisted that hate crime legislation restricted the action his officers could take when policing such events."

We've appeased Islamism for too long – no wonder British Jews don't see a future in this country - "  Jews famously like to debate. “Two Jews, three opinions”, goes the saying. But that is not the case any more when the subject is extremism and enforcement. Our polling shows that British Jews are increasingly unanimous: two successive governments have abjectly failed us, our police forces are not protecting us, and British institutions are rotten with cowardice. The result is rampant radicalism. But that is not all.  For the first time, our polling has found that a majority of British Jews no longer see a future in this country, and 61 per cent have considered leaving in the past two years. A clear majority of British Jews are hiding their identity in public. Ninety-six per cent feel less safe since October 7.  Through our polling, British Jews name the twin problems: extremism and appeasement.  When asked which forms of extremism they fear, 96 per cent say Islamism, and 92 per cent also identify far-Left extremism. But a markedly reduced 64 per cent fear the old bête noir of the Jewish community: the far Right. Society has always had to confront extremists, but never in modern Britain on the current scale, amid such inertia from the authorities. It is no wonder British Jews are almost as unanimous in the criticism of the Government and criminal justice system. Sir Keir Starmer vowed upon succeeding Jeremy Corbyn that he would “tear anti-Semitism out by its roots”, but only six per cent of British Jews say that his Government has been doing enough to protect us; 93 per cent say it has not. Similarly, for all of the promises about “cohesion” from our police chiefs, 83 per cent of Jews say that they are not doing enough to protect us. This polling reflects a reality: sit at practically any Shabbat dinner table and people will bring up the latest act of hatred and question their future here. In the words of one Jewish grandfather who did not relish learning Hebrew: “Where should we move to? It’s no better anywhere else in the West.”  Indeed, the bullets on Bondi beach could just have easily been fired here. Police in London have just charged two men with membership of Hezbollah. Both are accused of attending terrorist training in Lebanon, while one is also charged with preparing an act of terrorism. As the Yom Kippur attack in Manchester reminds us, terrorists need only be lucky once; our police and security services do not have that luxury.  What confronts the Jewish community confronts us all, and politicians and police chiefs can no longer look the other way. The enemy is at the gate. Appeasement always reaps the same bitter harvest, and history tells us that often the Jews are the first to notice because we are a tiny community – easy pickings for the extremists. But the cowardice of this country’s institutions does not threaten us alone. Banning chants of “Globalise the intifada” is not the bold action that the moment demands. Indeed it is tragic. The law has not changed – police chiefs could have taken action all any time in the last two plus years. Thanks to their inaction, from Manchester to Sydney, the intifada is very much globalised.  Just as they could have banned the chants on October 8, they could also have banned the hate marches, using the same power that police recently used to ban a march through Tower Hamlets. They could sentence Islamists with the same fervour they mustered after Southport. At the stroke of a pen, our tough-talking Home Secretary could proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. These remedies require resolve, but are mostly obvious. As our polling shows, it is also obvious who is to blame for the current state of affairs. Politicians and police chiefs need to act now.  Soon, solutions that would work today will themselves be too little, too late."
Time to outlaw Reform and jail Nigel Farage to keep Jews safe

Adam Mossoff on X - "Average American: Where did all those university students learn to praise genocide of Jews and to commit crimes of vandalism and assault as "protest"?
Brown University Orientation for Admitted Students: We're pleased to introduce Professor Rasha Alawieh, who just returned from the funeral of Hezbellah terrorist leader, Hassan Nasrallah, whom she admired."

Casey Babb on X - "This video was filmed outside of Ottawa's Jewish Community Centre, which includes a facility to care for seniors with dementia — some of whom are Holocaust survivors. Where do people think this sort of behaviour leads? I'll tell you — to our own Bondi. Wake up."
Vivian Bercovici on X - "Hey @OttawaPolice Can you pls provide a translation of what this gentleman is yelling outside a Jewish senior’s home in Ottawa? I don’t speak Arabic but i do know what “jihad” means. What is he saying? Why do you allow his conduct?"

Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui on X - "If a pro-Israel Zionist synagogue in the U.K was attacked because of the genocide in Palestine then we shouldn’t be surprised or horrified. Firstly, synagogues have been found to not be some benign neutral places of worship. They are known to be used to not only indoctrinate Zionist ideology into young Jews who are radicalised into IOF recruitment, but they are also essentially used as corporate buildings with financial ties to Israel, where real estate events are routinely held for the illegal sales of illegal settlement properties in occupied Palestine. Secondly, Zionist Jews have spent 2 years convincing us that “Zionism and Judaism are the same”. I mean literally every single time I have respectfully delineated between Zionism and Judaism, I have been corrected that “95% of Jews worldwide support Israel” so if I’m criticising a Zionist I’m criticising all Jews. I am also continuously told by Zionists that ethnic cleansing Palestinians is essential to Jewish religious doctrine, Palestine was “promised to them by God”, and their “divine right on that land” makes them the only rightful inhabitants. I mean, if they want us to really believe in their “Jewish supremacy” and that 2 million indigenous people must be killed and starved for European Jews to feel more comfortable while they bathe on beaches that don’t belong to them, then I’m sorry, but any hate towards said Jews would be valid. We should be expecting more of these kinds of incidences, tbh. The moral world’s patience pressure valve has burst. Also. as expected, I’m seeing a lot of “I’m horrified…” statements coming out of the usual suspects - the “I condemn” crowd. So let me just remind you of what has actually been horrific. What has been horrific is watching children be set on fire, limbs torn apart, heads blown open, being devoured by street animals because rescue crews are shot if they even try to retrieve bodies - all this in the name of Jewishness. That’s what has been horrific. It’s really quite simple. If you want Jews to feel safe, stop allowing Zionist Jews to annihilate Palestinians in the name of their Jewishness. A far cry from being a safe haven for Jews, Israel is fully responsible for any and all hate that will naturally be directed towards Jews worldwide because Israel just can’t stop killing people and world leaders refuse to stop them."
David Bernstein on X - "This monster who thinks it's ok to murder Jews is a "postcolonial” "intersectional” "scholar” who is "directing one of Canada’s largest government-funded Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) initiatives at Colleges and Institutes Canada’s National EDI Knowledge."

New York Times Guest Essay Shredded Online After Claiming IDF Targets Gazan Children - "The New York Times opinion essay “65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza” from October 9 blew up over the weekend, as weapons and forensic ballistic experts debunked and questioned X-ray images featured in the piece claiming to be 5.56 caliber bullets inside the skulls of Gazan children. The actual impact of a 5.56 caliber bullet was nowhere close to what these images claimed to be. But this thread on X (formerly Twitter) gathers various inputs across the platform. With no exit wounds present, skull fractures or change in the shape of the bullets, the authenticity of these X-rays was concluded as being highly problematic. This suggests, in short, that the NY Times did not verify the information in the piece adequately before it was published – thereby allowing lies to be platformed to the public... these testimonies are not proof that these casualties are a result of IDF fire. Indeed, Hamas is also known to shoot their own people. But it’s the response of the article’s author, Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, that really puts a nail in the coffin of this piece’s legitimacy. To deny that Hamas use civilians as human shields and claim Israel does, as well as denying that “maximizing civilian deaths” is in Hamas’ interests is not only delusional, it is an intentional, blatant lie. There are countries, journalists and international bodies, the UN included, which have confirmed the use of human shields. Hamas leaders, like Yahya Sinwar, have even been outspoken on the role innocent civilians play in their strategy to defeat Israel. But more than that, the organization that sent these doctors into Gaza as volunteers, the Palestinian American Medical Association (PAMA), has a history entangled with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a U.S. organization that has been tied to terrorist groups. It appears that PAMA is no stranger to outright disinformation, and the proof is in the pudding for this NY Times piece as well."

Study reveals majority of Gaza war 'journalists' tied to terror groups : r/TheWorldReports - "As Israel is the reason Hamas exists..... Israel funded them, and supported them to be extremists, and to give the people of Gaza little choice"
"That's actually not true. Qatar funded them. See Israel was faced with a dilemma, Israel could as the pro Hamas would say, "withhold aid" to Gaza, or let Qatar give Hamas money... That's not Israel funding Hamas."
Of course, if Israel had blocked aid, the terrorism supporters would've screeched about that and claimed they were killing Gazans by doing so.

David Hollyoake on X - "Last year, Randa Abdel-Fattah hosted a kids event teaching them about 'Intifada' at Sydney University. 'Intifada' rhetoric is what led to the murder of 15 innocent souls at Bondi on 14th December. Why are we tolerating the brainwashing of Aussie children towards hatred and the potential to commit unspeakable violence on our communities. Abdel-Fattah is a national disgrace and should be investigated immediately!"
Kate🦋M© on X - "We have another one threatening the Australia for telling the truth. Pro-Palestinian activist Randa Abdel-Fattah is demanding $300,000 and an apology from The Australian after the newspaper revealed she organised a protest rally at which children were made to lead others in anti-Israel chants. The Australian has categorically rejected Dr Abdel-Fattah’s defamation claim, pointing out that she led children in chants that were widely understood to be anti-Semitic."
Francynancy on X - "QUT is refusing to hand over the video from their woke racism symposium where guest panellist, Randa Abdel-Fattah said she was not abiding by the conditions of her $870, 000 grant. She allegedly boasted she had refused an ARC requirement to stage a traditional academic conference. And she declared: "I refuse to cite anybody who has remained silent over Gaza, no matter how authoritative and big they are in their fields. They are deficient human beings.""
‘I don’t see them as terrorists’: Pro-Palestinian activist reluctant to call out Hamas - YouTube - "Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah said she “does not see Hamas as a terrorist organisation” following a heated debate with Ms Molan."
Controversy over pro-Palestinian advocate judging multicultural award - "Senator Dave Sharma called for Abdel-Fattah, a writer and Macquarie University academic to be removed from the panel of judges for the award, after she shared with with her 30,000 Instagram followers a link to a website that had doxed the some 600 Jewish creatives from a private WhatsApp group... Abdel-Fattah, who is a research fellow in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University, described those who did the doxxing as “heroes”, and said Zionists had “no claim or right to cultural safety” and people who supported Israel should be “shamed into discomfort and silence”"
The Human Rights Commission has handed down a report on racism at Australian universities. Here’s why it fails : Find an Expert : The University of Melbourne - "Just before universities closed for the year in 2024, the Australian Human Rights Commission released its Interim Report on Racism at Australian Universities... more media scrutiny was centred around Palestinian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah’s call for an end to the genocide against Palestinian people. Questions were raised around her worth as a scholar and recipient of a prestigious research fellowship. Her research was represented through racist stereotypes as a threat to the safety of students at her university."
Terrorism supporters always play the victim, like the terrorists they support
Naturally, she hates Auastralia too and wants it to fail (that doesn't stop her from getting money from it, of course), and is racist as well (mocking white women's tears after demanding empathy for Palestinian suffering)

BBC can't admit the ruddy obvious about the meaning of "Jihad" and "Intifada" : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "If the the chants and banners at the marches are meant to indicate "spiritual struggle" to achieve the peaceful serenity that comes from submission to Allah, I cannot imagine why they are being directed at the Dhimmi Jews of the so-called Zionist entity, rather than devout or lapsed Muslims. PURE SOPHISTRY = "Jihad on plackards doesn't mean a call to wage Holy War, Intifada in chants refers only to peaceful resistance" (and for clarity I use SOPHISTRY in the sense of "Making a seemingly plausible but really fallacious argument with the intent to mislead or deceive" and not the technically accurate but very rare pedantic usage "Sophisticated reasoning")."

Hamza Yusuf on X - "BBC, Sky News and ITV entered Gaza this month and witnessed the genocide up close. Yet told an entirely different story of a complex war to viewers. Clinging to Israeli propaganda even as the truth is front of them. My latest in @MiddleEastEye"
Andrew Fox on X - "This is beyond parody.
“Let journalists in”
Journalists go in… “Yeah, we’re not seeing a genocide, this was a complex war.”
“STOP REPORTING WRONG”
The jokes write themselves, but these ghouls’ thirst for dead Gazans remains obscene."

If we don’t defend our open society now, there will soon be nothing left to defend - "  So after two grim years of brazen racism, incitement, assault, vandalism and murder, the boys in blue are finally cracking down on the Gaza mob, arresting those who bellow for a global “intifada” and tightening restrictions on protests outside synagogues.  Well, I’ve got news for them. It’s going to take far more than that.  It is never comfortable to argue for further restrictions on freedoms of speech and assembly. But our old laws and attitudes are simply inadequate to deal with the catastrophe that has been brought upon society by generations of elites. Policing is a kind of magic trick, with just 146,000 bobbies responsible for a population of 70 million. A mass uprising would quickly call their bluff. To avoid anarchy, therefore, most people must behave peacefully most of the time, allowing officers to focus their efforts on the criminal minority. This depends upon the general embrace of social norms, civic duty and consideration for other citizens.  Sadly, these standards of behaviour have been diluted significantly in modern Britain. There are various reasons for this, including the decline of faith; the rise of social media; the inability to construct a decent replacement for the traditional way of life that was blown up in the Sixties; progressive experiments in education; and the lamentable growth of welfarism, which has encouraged people to feel entitled to live for free on the backs of their fellows without shame.  This has led to the growth of “antisocial behaviour”, widespread shoplifting and other criminality in pockets of the country. In addition, particularly when it comes to the importation of anti-Semitism from Pakistan and other Muslim lands, the deterioration of our social fabric can be ascribed to two further factors: mass immigration and the dogma that was imposed to enable it.  When Tony Blair entered Number 10 in 1997, annual net migration stood at 48,000. In the 25 years that followed, it added almost 100 times more people to the population than it had in the previous quarter-century, with almost a million newcomers arriving on these shores in 2023 alone.  The pace of the influx led to the mushrooming of subcultures, whose members felt little duty towards the mainstream. It also meant that British values – such as, for example, a distaste for the hatred of Jews – were unable to percolate into them.  Such rapid demographic and cultural transformation would not have been possible without pressuring existing citizens into accepting the doctrine of multiculturalism, under which everything foreign must be elevated and everything British despised.  This partly explains why so few people are willing to stand up for the Jews these days. Ours has become an atomised and etiolated population that has largely forgotten its peoplehood, history, values and sense of self.  Without the foundations of cultural unity, deep social bonds, shared values and love of country, the benign climate that supported light-touch policing has been fading away. Accordingly, whether on the streets or in Parliament, on university campuses or on social media, we are now seeing the mobilisation of radicals who are bent upon exploiting our freedoms in order to overturn them.  Let’s not mince our words: the Muslim Brotherhood is active in Britain, striving covertly to build a sharia state by increments. Progressive extremists, meanwhile, are doing all they can to subvert the West, whether by rallies, vandalism, sabotage, intifada or brainwashing. These problems, which successive governments brought upon themselves (not to mention the country), can only be addressed by way of a muscular clampdown. If we do not defend this open society then one day, there will be nothing left to defend."
Time to crackdown on the "far right" to save the country

Terrorists plotted to kill Jews in ‘worst attack in British history’ - "Two Islamic State-inspired terrorists have been found guilty of plotting “the worst terrorist act in British history” on Jewish communities.  Walid Saadaoui, 38, from Wigan, and Amar Hussein, 52, from Bolton, wanted to replicate the 2015 Paris terror attacks in revenge for Israeli assaults on Gaza... The pair bought assault rifles, handguns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in preparation for a marauding suicide gun attack in which they wanted to “kill as many members of the Jewish community as they could” and hoped to become “martyrs”... On the first day of his trial, he shouted from the dock: “Don’t talk s---. How many babies? How many children? Don’t talk s---. We defend ourselves.”  He refused to turn up for the rest of his trial but denied any involvement in the plot.  Asked if he was a supporter of IS, Hussein said: “Yes. They are Muslim, that’s it. They make Sharia. They are real Muslims. Islamic law for everything.”"
Clearly, this is a legitimate act of "anti-Zionist" political speech and the authorities are censoring "pro-Palestinian" "speech", because there's nothing wrong with killing "Zionists"
Of course, terrorist supporters blame the Jews for conflating criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism. So it's their fault they get murdered

 Aviva Klompas on X - "“She was wounded and taken to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. She was in agony and suffering. And then one of the doctors simply decided to end her life.” Utterly shattering. Former hostage Ori Megidish recounts how a Gazan doctor executed her best friend and fellow captive, Noa Marciano. 📽️ @uvda_tweet"

Hen Mazzig on X - "HORRIFYING: The family of former hostage Noa Marciano, z"l, revealed that they were sent a video of their daughter being executed by a doctor in a Gazan hospital. Her father still wakes up from nightmares about the video. The doctor injected air into her veins. Noa was murdered so that Hamas could lie about her being killed in an Israeli airstrike. May her memory be a blessing 💔"

Oxford student charged after chanting ‘put Zios in the ground’ at pro-Palestine protest - "A University of Oxford student has been charged with stirring up racial hatred after he was accused of leading chants for Gaza to “put the Zios in the ground”. Samuel Williams, a philosophy, politics and economics student at Balliol College, was acused of leading the chants at a demonstration in central London in October... The demonstration, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, took place despite news of a ceasefire coming into effect in Gaza."
Clearly, there's nothing wrong with threatening to kill people as long as it's supposedly for their political ideology

The British state has failed Jews - "It is beyond shameful that this situation has been allowed to go on for as long as it has. If the anti-Semitism on display on Britain’s streets had come from a source that the institutions of the British state were comfortable tackling, then perhaps it might have been addressed.   But the nature of the threat posted to British Jews has changed as the country has changed, and is now predominantly perceived as coming from the far-Left and the Islamist strands of British politics.   It is unsurprising that a British state uncomfortable with levelling the full force of its condemnation at targets outside of a narrowly defined range of people might struggle with this new evolution of the oldest hatred. It is no less shameful for being predictable, and no less horrific in its consequences."

Your Party members applaud speaker’s refusal to condemn Hamas - "A speaker who boasted about refusing to condemn Hamas was cheered during the launch of a Muslim group within the hard-left Your Party last month.  Michael Lavalette, a former independent parliamentary candidate in Preston, was met with applause when he said he refused to condemn Palestinian terrorism and “the horrors of October 7”."
Weird. Left wingers tell us that no one supports Hamas and everyone condemns October 7th

Hen Mazzig on X - "Never forget that the UN fired genocide expert Alice Nderitu for refusing to call the war in Gaza “genocide.” She did say, however, that Hamas’s October 7th massacre targeted Jews with genocidal intent. Fire the expert, protect the lie—that’s the UN."

BBC apologises after Jeremy Bowen entered Oct 7 survivors’ home without permission

‘He Took Everything From Me’: Israeli Hostage Details Sexual Abuse by Hamas ‘Nurse,’ Cameraman in Gaza : r/TheWorldReports - "a hostage getting raped —— pro Palestinians laugh about her and dismiss her
literally any news about Palestine———- pro Palestinians scream “WhEre is yOuR HuManItY.,.,.?!?!?!”"

Links - 25th January 2026 (2 - Migrants: US)

Stephen L. Miller on X - "So to catch you up on events:
- Protest group chased two innocent dudes out of a diner.
- Attacked an innocent guy on the street who was actually with them.
- Harassed an innocent guy with an SUV and demanded to see his ID.
- Blocked an innocent guy because of his rental car plates
- Have now stormed into church services.
And I haven't seen a single Minneapolis police officer in any of the previous week's video footage."
If you're against left wing mobs harassing and attacking people in the streets, that is literally fascism

Right Angle News Network on X - "BREAKING - Minneapolis police have completely turned over the city to leftists, as they are now forming groups to hunt down anyone who appears to support ICE, with this man being saved by the feds just moments before being beaten for simply wearing camo."
Patrick Casey on X - "ICE officers: arresting illegal immigrants, including many depraved criminals
Anti-ICE agitators: beating up random people walking down the street
Consider how much left-wing propaganda is necessary to convince people to side with the latter"

Alpha News on X - "EXCLUSIVE: Tech workers say they were mistaken for ICE agents, accosted by anti-ICE mob
What began as a casual lunch between five Twin Cities software engineers quickly escalated into a frightening encounter after the men were misidentified as undercover federal agents and protesters were alerted to the Minneapolis restaurant where they were dining. Alpha News obtained video and spoke with one of the men, Lee, a software engineer from Plymouth, who described how the situation unfolded. Lee said the group was eating lunch at Clancy’s Deli, near 38th Street and Grand Avenue South, when one of the men — who belongs to an anti-ICE Signal chat — received a message from a group labeled “SW Minneapolis Rapid Response” claiming that plainclothes ICE agents were dining at the restaurant. “My friend was shocked,” Lee said. “He’s on the [anti-ICE] side politically. He lives nearby. He’s eaten there before. And suddenly he’s seeing messages saying we’re ICE.” The software engineers — all white males dressed casually in sweatshirts and jackets — were soon confronted by protesters who surrounded the restaurant, shouting insults and blowing whistles in their ears as they attempted to leave, according to Lee. Lee emphasized to Alpha News that the group’s political views were mixed, but said the encounter left some of them reconsidering their positions. “One of us is pro-ICE, one anti-ICE, others on the fence,” he said. “After this, I think some of them are rethinking everything.”"
Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن on X - "Did you hear the part when, told they were mistaken about these men being ICE agents, the mob simply pivoted to "If you aren't with us, you're against us!" That's the signal that these people do not accept "innocent bystanders" as a category.
Mob: "How dare you work for ICE!?"
Techbros: "We're not ICE agenst. We're just software programmers having lunch and minding our own business."
Mob: "How dare mind your own business when ICE is in town!?""
Clearly, this is ICE's fault, and all decent and good people hate ICE. If you're not with them, you're against them

Hunter Ash on X - "“We will prosecute ICE if you ever lose power, and any random white men are presumptively ICE” They’re making things usefully clear."

Anti-ICE agitators storm St. Paul church during Sunday worship service - "A mob of anti-ICE agitators stormed a church Sunday in St. Paul, Minnesota, interrupting a worship service after protesters claimed a pastor inside was affiliated with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Video shows agitators chanting "Justice for Renee Good" inside the sanctuary at Cities Church as the service began, raising concerns among law enforcement and religious leaders about protesters targeting houses of worship amid escalating anti-ICE demonstrations across the Twin Cities. In one video circulating online, agitators can be heard chanting, "Justice for Renee Good," and "Who needs justice, we need justice," as they stood inside the church during the service... "Agitators aren’t just targeting our officers. Now they’re targeting churches, too," DHS said in the post. "They're going from hotel to hotel, church to church, hunting for federal law enforcement who are risking their lives to protect Americans.""
So this means storming a mosque looking for terrorists is good, right?

End Wokeness on X - "Don Lemon sees kids fleeing church: "It is traumatic for the people, and that's what protesting is about""
wanye on X - "This is a fairly straightforward description of leftist politics, the point of which is to be as annoying and disruptive and repulsive as possible, so that normal people who are just trying to get to work and church and school give in to your demands. They’ve encoded this inverted morality at the core of their political project and so they no longer respond to ordinary critiques about the legitimacy of their behavior. If being disruptive and destructive (maybe even violent) is the point, then it’s good when people call you disruptive and annoying."
"Direct action" is how left wingers ram the left wing agenda through when they lose at the ballot box. Commies hate democracy

Western Lensman on X - "Tim Walz was morally outraged over the holidays, warning that ICE would target church services. “Because that’s who they are." Surely Tim will be equally outraged by his far-left radicals storming a church service."

“We’re the Good Guys” and Other Dangerous Lies - "No doubt that one of the most astonishing events of the past few days was the Don Lemon–led invasion of a church in St. Paul by anti-ICE protesters, especially since this invasion took place just short of five months since a transgender shooter murdered kids sitting inside Church of the Annunciation in the Windom neighborhood of Minneapolis. In many ways, this event neatly captures a defining feature of what is happening in Minnesota right now: a complete inversion of reality. A group of self-described “activists” and “protesters” stormed a peaceful church service because they believed one of the pastors was cooperating with ICE—apparently on the basis that he has a military background. Instead of condemning the intrusion, Minnesota’s elected leadership excused it. In the words of Attorney General Keith Ellison, “Nobody can escape the public’s voice.” According to Don Lemon—the gay black man CNN insisted it could never fire until it did—the congregants were all white supremacists anyway, which means the ANTIFA-adjacent ICE-hunting mob is, of course, the morally superior party. They are not lawbreakers; they are heroes. They are simply fighting laws they don’t like and would prefer to ignore. “How dare you question our motives,” the Lemonite invaders say. “We’re the good guys.” That assumption is increasingly common. A wave of moral inversion has washed over roughly half the country, driven not by logic or reason but by pure emotion. If someone dislikes a law—no matter how it was passed or why—it becomes morally optional. Emotional “reasoning” is deployed to justify whatever action feels right in the moment. The operative principle is no longer whether a law is rational or just, but whether I personally dislike it. And once I decide something is bad, I no longer have to follow it... these protests are not aimed at changing immigration law. They are about ignoring it—specifically objecting to enforcement. That is why state and local officials withdrew cooperation with federal authorities rather than pursuing legislative reform. And this is where the claim to justice collapses: selective application of law. Their actions are not punished; yours are. The church invasion was plainly illegal. Yet unless the DOJ intervenes, Minnesota’s Attorney General will not defend the rights of the people gathered in that sanctuary. An ethos has been constructed within these “opposition” movements—one openly supported by state and local governments in places like Minnesota—that can be summarized as follows: I am good, you are bad, and that means I am permitted to do anything I want to you without consequence. It does not matter whether you are actually bad. This is not about reality; it is about feelings. How bad I believe you are defines the limits of how I am allowed to treat you—and you are simply expected to endure it. A curious byproduct of this worldview is the built-in escape hatch. Its adherents see themselves as brave warriors, courageously risking their bodies for a righteous cause. But the moment they are caught breaking the law, they instantly transform into “just a suburban mom with kids at home.” Consequences suddenly become unthinkable. “You can’t punish me,” they protest. “I have dinner to make.” The unspoken creed is simple: My cause is just; therefore, I am just; therefore, anything I do in the name of justice is permitted. But what if the cause is not just? Over the past half century, I have spent a fair amount of time studying the “revolutions” carried out by the Bolsheviks in Russia, the Maoists in China, and even the Jew-hunting Nazis in WWII era Germany, the more I reflect on what I learned, the more these insurrection-styled hunting parties roaming Minnesota begin to resemble them."

redpillbot on X - "Chris Hansen, host of 'To Catch a Predator', says every single time he sets up a sting to catch pedophiles, it’s an illegal. “It seems today that we can't do a sting, whether we're in the south or the Midwest or west coast or east coast, without catching somebody who's in this country illegally.”"
Weird. Left wingers tell us there're no illegal immigrants in the Epstein files, which proves that they're not preying on children

Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. on X - "Okay, I’ll just say it. I’ve seen enough videos of the faces of liberal white women in conflict with @ICE, to know what is up. Liberal men at this point (sorry) are disproportionately estrogenized, physically passive, submissive due to woke gender hectoring, or porn-addicted. White liberal women are disproportionately sexually frustrated. Policing others as in the pandemic was an outlet for them, but it was not nearly enough. The smiles you see on their faces now say it all: white women long for all out combat with ICE - who tend to be strong, physically confident, masculine men - because the conflict is a form of physical release for them. They long for actual kinetic battle and it will get even uglier."

Bill Melugin on X - "NEW: I’m told multiple ICE agents with rooms booked at the St. Paul Downtown Doubletree by Hilton received this notice today that their rooms are being cancelled & the hotel will temporarily close “due to heightened public safety concerns in St. Paul.” I called the hotel & checked online & they are indeed not taking any bookings right now. They referred me to other hotels. I'm told this also happened today at the Intercontinental St. Paul, with ICE agents with bookings there notified the hotel will be temporarily closing today due to the ongoing unrest in Minnesota. An agent who talked to the front desk manager there says he was told it was done to protect staff because they have been getting threats from unknown individuals for lodging DHS agents."
More 'peaceful protests'

Minnesota National Guard on X - "Members of the Minnesota National Guard are on standby, ready to assist local law enforcement and public safety agencies. If our members are activated, they will be wearing reflective vests, as pictured here, to help distinguish them from other agencies in similar uniforms."
Tony Kinnett on X - ""We're putting OUR troops in neon vests so you only attack federal law enforcement" is an insane thing to tweet."

Meme - "Here is the difference between Minneapolis Mayor Frey and Memphis Mayor Young, a Democrat too. Young invited Trump and Federal agents to Memphis. 4000 arrests which included 15 murderers. 629 illegal firearms confiscated, 1,800 arrest warrants cleared, 123 missing minors rescued! Murder down 39.47%. Sexual assault down 43.13% robbery down 59.58, vehicle theft down 69.63%! Mayor Young is for making Memphis safe; Walz and Frey are for fighting Trump using citizens as pawns & creating riots for political theatre!"

Willis Eschenbach on X - "Two cities, same federal agency, totally different levels of sanity. In Memphis, the mayor looked at the political circus, looked at the crime stats, and basically said, “If ICE is coming anyway, I want them chasing killers and gangbangers, not doing drive‑by paperwork checks.” The idea is straightforward, grown‑up thinking: plug ICE into multi‑agency task forces, point them at the worst violent offenders, and when someone dangerous is already sitting in jail, hand them over there—disarmed, controlled, surrounded by bars and cameras. Quiet custody transfers, maximum bad guys removed, minimum drama. Now spin the globe to Minneapolis, where the official line is closer to “Get the f— out.” The city has wrapped itself in “separation” rules—no participation in immigration enforcement, no using city lots and ramps, no staging on municipal property. This forced the feds to respond by sending in a small army of agents, and suddenly, ICE isn’t arresting child rapists in jails—they’re knocking on doors, getting blocked in by cars, and grabbing targets in parking lots and neighborhoods. That’s the key difference: you either let ICE arrest predators inside secure facilities, or you force them into the streets. And remember who many of these targets are. In the Houston area, in just six months, ICE picked up more than two hundred illegal aliens who had sexually abused children. Not theory, not slogans—actual child rapists in handcuffs. To get numbers like that, you need coordination: jail notifications, controlled pickups, federal–local task forces all rowing in roughly the same direction. Minneapolis has chosen the opposite. By walling off cooperation and banning ICE from city property, they haven’t abolished enforcement, they’ve just exported it into neighborhoods. That means every operation is more volatile, every arrest is closer to your kids, your grocery store, your bus stop. It also means that when jails don’t smoothly transfer custody, those same predators have more chances to walk free before ICE catches up—or doesn’t. So the question practically asks itself: if ICE is in town to put handcuffs on child rapists, what do you actually accomplish by tripping them, blinding them, and shoving them out into the street? WAKE UP, FOLKS! You don’t protect immigrants that way. YOU PROTECT PREDATORS. And you guarantee that the cost of your “sanctuary” will be paid, sooner or later, by somebody’s child getting raped. Sadly, w."

James Lindsay, anti-Communist on X - "Why so much propaganda and lying over there in Democrat Wokeland? Especially with some of the absolutely incredible things we're seeing in Minnesota, where people seem very detached from reality? A key part of the answer is George Soros's concept of "reflexivity." You'll want to understand this. Reflexivity is a property of social circumstances, Soros tells us in his 1992 book The Alchemy of Finance, where he develops the concept. It's what sets the social sciences apart from the physical sciences and is based on the fact that in social situations, the objects (people) affected by circumstances are also subjects and participants in creating circumstances. Soros explains that this means that "social sciences" are a misnomer, in fact. He suggests instead that they should be recognized as "social alchemy." He goes on to explain the relevance of this difference: "Scientific method seeks to understand things as they are, while alchemy seeks to bring about a desired state of affairs. To put it another way, the primary objective of science is truth, -- that of alchemy, operational success." Soros explains that reflexivity is a dialectic, like the dialectic of Hegel but less abstruse and like the dialectic of Marx but more open-ended. What that means is that it is "transformative" in its operation and goals. That is, it is designed to create specific, guided change, i.e., "operational success." Soros explains that reflexivity operates in a peculiar and specific space: in the gap between what people believe is true and what is actually true. That is, the reflexive dialectic refers to inducing and utilizing actionable beliefs that are wrong. Thus, all the propaganda. For his method to work, there must be a gap between what is actually true and what many, many people believe is true. For it to work, lots of people have to be dangerously wrong. He goes on to explain that reflexive campaigns propagate through something he calls "fertile fallacies," which are errors (or lies) that lead people to act upon them, including sharing and spreading their falsehoods with others (going viral). Thus, again, all the propaganda. Over time, people have to be primed to be this wrong, actionably. The way you get them there is by systematically misleading them about reality. Soros also explains that during normal situations, which he says are "near equilibrium" (or stable), significant or "historic" change is not possible. Big changes that fundamentally reorient the way a system works only occur in situations that are "far from equilibrium" (chaotic). During such times, people are desperate to regain stability and equilibrium, so, Soros says, they'll latch on to any "guideposts" that can lead them through the chaos. Thus, yet again, all the propaganda. The potential for chaos has to be arranged while getting a lot of people to believe something highly actionable that is mostly untrue, and then it has to be sparked, and then it has to be guided. That's how the "Soros Model" (reflexivity) works. In Minnesota right now, a huge reflexive campaign (direct action) has been launched, but it has also been building at least for many months (actually years, over a decade). The gap between what people believe and reality (or, the pertinent one among many) is that Trump is an illegitimate dictator (TDS) and his agencies, like ICE, are effectively a fascist Gestapo bringing something like Nazism to the United States, with lower officials either complicit or incapable of stopping it. That has been the tone and tenor of a lot of the propaganda for at least a decade, and certainly very specifically since Trump took office. (Trump's admin's comms team isn't helping itself here with a lot of its unnecessarily provocative shitpoasting from official accounts, btw.) Your average Leftist in Minnesota, agitators, organizers, provocateurs, etc., aside (with all of them playing their obvious roles) fully believes wildly untrue things about Trump, ICE, the law, what ICE is doing, why ICE is doing it, who ICE is removing from their communities, on what authority, and why, and more. They are extremely deranged and functionally psychotic. They're in a state that is far from equilibrium and loaded up with fertile fallacies, a state I refer to on the community-level as having high reflexive potential. Just a little propaganda of very specific types will set them off into mass (psychotic) direct action, as we see. Thus, so much of the propaganda, both chronically over the last year(s) and acutely, since ICE Floyd. What Democratic politicians and media apparatchiks are doing now in Minnesota, to say nothing of the agitators, provocateurs, organizers, etc., and their social media appendages, is putting down "guideposts" about how to deal with this far from equilibrium situation, pushing wildly deluded people into psychopathic action. THIS, guys, is the "Soros Model" in action (which has been widely adopted by institutional manipulators since the late 1980s when he taught it first to the CCP and then more widely). Fwiw, in The Alchemy of Finance, Soros explains that he likes to use this method because he "takes a certain malicious pleasure in shorting an institutional favorite." The United States and the American Experiment are the best bet in the world, though, a big, big, big "institutional favorite" I'm sure Soros and his acolytes would maliciously enjoy shorting this way. This is why so many Democratic politicians like Tim Walz and Jacob Frey and Ilhan Omar, and beyond Minnesota too, and their media and social media appendages all started screaming "ICE OUT" immediately after the triggering incident we can call ICE Floyd. They're shifting gears from building reflexive potential to releasing and guiding it. It's also why they put so much time and effort into steadily building the reflexive potential of raging TDS. You can see how immediately actionable it is (guided by opportunistic and evil politicians, media entities, and a highly coordinated network of professional organizers and social media personalities, many completely anonymous). They needed lots of people to have a wide gap between what they believe and what's true (reflexive gap) that they could take advantage of to suddenly create "historic change" under their guidance at the right moment. We need to understand that this is how Leftists work. All of this can be defused by targeting the building reflexive potential before the moment of explosion arrives, while they're building it. It can be dampened by increasing the number of people and voices who are savvy to the manipulations and lies and who are making the truth more visible to people who mostly haven't been paying attention until it has high immediacy. Reflexive campaigns can be dampened, fizzled, and stopped."

Is the phrase "One of ours, all of yours" an old Nazi slogan advocating for collective punishment? : r/AskHistorians - "This article says: "[Tom Morello] shared an Instagram post on Jan. 12 criticizing what he described as a “verbatim Nazi mass murder slogan” displayed on a podium behind DHS Secretary Kristi Noem during a recent news conference. The phrase, “One of ours, all of yours,” was visible as Noem addressed reporters." Furthermore, it notes that, "Historians have not publicly confirmed the exact origins of the slogan." So, y'all have a chance to be the first to make public comment. Where's that slogan from?"
"Several variants of this post are going around online, and the majority of them seem to attribute this supposed Nazi quotation to the Lidice massacre of 1942, which was committed by the German occupation authorities in the 'Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia' in response to the assassination of the deputy governor of the province, Reinhard Heydrich, by British-backed Czech commandos in Prague ("Operation Anthropoid") on 27 May 1942. Heydrich survived the initial attack, but later succumbed to his wounds on 4 June. The (unfounded) suspicion that Heydrich's assassins had been given shelter by the villagers of Lidice led to that village's siege and subsequent sack and destruction on 9 June 1942. All male villagers aged 15 and up were executed by German forces, whereas female villagers and underage boys were fed into the concentration camps, mainly the women's concentration camp at Ravensbrück. So this is where the "One of ours, all of yours" supposedly comes from: "[You kill] one of ours, [we kill (or capture)] all of yours". And that's where the history ends — because that phrase was never used by the German government... Additionally, while the English-language phrase "One of ours, all of yours" sounds coherent and linguistically sound with a fine internal melody due to the structure of its syllables, the German and Czech language equivalents "Einer von unseren, alle von euren" or "Jeden z nasich, cely tvuj" "Jeden z našich, všichni vaši" both make rather unmelodic phrases, so it is highly unlikely that this would have been the phrasing chosen even if the Nazis had decided to publicly justify their actions in Lidice. The Nazis certainly did use threats of reprisal violence in their propaganda, but they usually took the form of rather boring bilingual announcements (here: German–Polish), usually with legalistically explicit references to the death penalty, rather than catchy phrase work. In areas where "execution quotas" where in place, they would also list the names of executed civilians, such as in a Polish-language announcement for Radom 1944 on occasions that such reprisal mass executions took place. Such reprisal actions were also official policy in occupied Yugoslavia and advertised as such in another bilingual (this time German–Serbian) pamphlet. So no, the Germans did not advertise Lidice 1942 with the phrase "one of ours, all of yours"."
Is the phrase "One of ours, all of yours" an old Nazi slogan advocating for collective punishment? : r/AskHistorians - "the burden of proof would be on the accuser to show that the phrase "one of ours, all of yours" was already known (at least in English) as a fascist/Nazi phrase to the accused, and that the accused used that knowledge to make a wink-at-the-camera style dogwhistle. My digital library of 5,000+ books (most related to 20th century history) yields zero results for the phrase "one of ours, all of yours" in the three languages of interest, including English (though I'll admit my Czech-language literature is non-existent). Academic aggregators like Google Scholar and JSTOR similarly show no hits of interest. All my (admittedly superficial) web searches for that specific phrase have yielded results that are from the last few days (annoyingly, even specifying "before:2026" will yield 2026-related hits due to news sites' tickers on their old articles). I realize this is all anecdotal evidence, but it's hard for me to prove the negative, as well as it being improper. It is really on the accusers to prove the positive, i.e. that the phrase was in fact in use during the Nazi time, for which I have so far seen not a single piece of even somewhat convincing historical evidence. The only thing of interest was a Facebook page attributing the phrase to 1930s Spain rather than 1942 Lidice – though that too would be something that would need to be proven. 2026 is when the phrase became relevant because of its use by the people accused by their opponents of dogwhistling. Currently, it seems to be a case of the accusers attempting to imbue the phrase with a meaning that it did/does not have with the specific intention to associate the accused with the Nazis. I am perfectly willing to change my mind when presented with the respective historical evidence, but this phrase seems to be one of the first online myths/hoaxes/urban legends of 2026."

Is the phrase "One of ours, all of yours" an old Nazi slogan advocating for collective punishment? : r/AskHistorians - "Having done some more research on the fascist Spain lead, there are some assertions that the original Spanish phrase was "Uno de los nuestros vale por todos los vuestros" [="one of ours is worth [the same as] all of yours [combined]"], attributed to the Spanish falangist movement of the 1930s. It certainly feels like it could be authentic and seems to fit the political climate of 1930s Spain, though here too I have yet failed to actually find a good reference beyond an Instagram post."

Meme - "So if ICE are Nazis, that means that the Jews are breaking INTO the concentration camp this time?"

Meme - Obama: "Illegals should be deported, immigrants should assimilate" *happy Democrat Soyjak*
Trump: "Illegals should be deported, immigrants should assimilate" *raging Democrat Soyjak*

Meme - "If you're mad at ICE... Be mad at these two morons for letting 20 million unvetted illegals into the country! *Biden and Harris*"

Jan. 6 provocateur says he was stabbed at pro-ICE Minneapolis rally - "A right-wing provocateur who was pardoned for charges tied to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol said he was stabbed during a pro-ICE rally outside Minneapolis City Hall... “I just got stabbed...today in Minnesota,” Jake Lang said in a post on X, alleging he was attacked by a counterprotester... Lang, a 30-year-old conservative influencer who served four years in jail for alleged crimes in connection with the Jan. 6 attack, was hosting an anti-immigration demonstration with a small group of ICE supporters when hundreds of counterprotesters converged on the scene. The anti-ICE demonstrators and a group of reporters surrounded Lang and his associates, backing them in a recessed window along the City Hall building. Counterprotesters could also be seen hurling water balloons at Lang, leaving him soaked in water in the freezing cold. They also threw snowballs at other pro-ICE protesters, soaking them as temperatures dropped toward zero degrees Fahrenheit."
Left wingers were cheering this, of course (among other things, boasting that it wasn't water in the balloons). Naturally, if someone does this to anti-ICE protesters it will be fascism and proof Trump is trying to provoke a civil war

Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦 on X - "The utter depravity of MAGA pundits (not only Benny but @MrAndyNgo) passing off a pretty literal Nazi as a "conservative activist.""
Sunny on X - "You don’t get to do mob violence against Nazis either. You don’t get to waive “rule of law” around to support prosecuting people you don’t like, then shrug off mob violence because you can’t find a way to prosecute other people you don’t like."

Medi-Cal-Immigrant-Eligibility-FAQs - "Adults (19 and older) are currently eligible for full Medi-Cal coverage, regardless of immigration status."
This doesn't stop left wingers from continuing to lie that illegal immigrants don't get government healthcare coverage

Is the US a Nightmare for Poor People?

It is often said that the US is a nightmare for poor people.

Let us compare it to other developed countries. The G7 is a good benchmark, as it is supposed to be "seven major advanced economies".

When you look at the purchasing power parity equivalised disposable household income, which Eurostat defines as "the total income of a household, after tax and other deductions, that is available for spending or saving, divided by the number of household members converted into equalised adults" for the 1st income decile (i.e. the poorest 10% of the population) in the US vs CAN, DEU, GBR, JPN, FRA and ITA, the US is ahead of the pack (except for CAN) in 2020, the latest year for which data for all countries is available.

The poor in the US earn 3-50% more than in those other countries (except for CAN). So if the US is a nightmare for poor people, ITA must be the lowest circle of hell for them.

Perhaps you might say that out of pocket healthcare spending wipes out all of this relative wealth.

Ironically, in 2022, CHE actually had 18.5% more out of pocket spending on healthcare than the US, and other countries are closer to US out of pocket healthcare spending than you'd expect: CAN (66%), DEU (62%), GBR (46%), JPN (38%), FRA (38%) (there're no figures for ITA).

Maybe you want to say that poor people in the US spend more on healthcare as a proportion of their income than average.

I was unable to find numbers for the bottom decile, but the Center for Economic Policy and Research says that for working families in the bottom quintile of family income, 22.1 percent spend 10% or more of their income on healthcare. 

Let us be pessimistic and assume all households in the bottom decile spend 10% of their income on healthcare, and adjust all other nations similarly (assuming that the share their bottom decile spend on out of pocket healthcare spending has the same relationship to the US bottom decile as the average spending). For ITA I will generously assume it to be the same as FRA and JPN (which have the lowest out of pocket spending among the lot).

Even after this generous adjustment, the lowest decile in the other countries (excluding CAN) earn at best 2% more than in US (France) and at worst 47% less (ITA). 

So if US is a nightmare for poor people, it is also a nightmare for poor people in DEU, GBR, JPN, FRA and ITA.

Links - 25th January 2026 (1 - Left Wing Economics [including Argentina & Milei])

Thing Finder: Offbeat Humor - "More than 100 economists warn electing Milei would spell "devastation" for their credibility"
Trust the Experts! At least, who the left tell us are experts

Michael A. Arouet on X - "Argentina’s economy when Javier Milei became president vs. today: GDP growth: from -1.6% to +5.2% Inflation: from 211% to 31% Poverty rate: from 42% to 32% Sorry comrades “economists”, free market works, and it works fast."

ShellBanger on X - "Breaking 🚨🇦🇷 | Argentina Outgrows China: 5.8% Annual Growth Beats China’s 5.4% in First Quarter"
Students For Liberty on X - ">be Argentina >try all kinds of socialism
>become the first nation to stop being rich and go back to the 3rd world
>elect the crazy libertarian promising chainsaw public spending
> immediately start growing faster than China
>fenómeno barrial"

ShellBanger on X - "🚨BREAKING: Argentina’s Poverty Rate Drops from 54.8% to 31.7% in 18 Months Under Javier Milei"
Steve Loftus on X - "An awful lot of the "he is a mad man, he's going to crash the economy" people have been very quiet for a while now. It seems sound right-wing monetary policy works after all."

The remarkable triumph of Javier Milei - "It’s possible that no politician has defied the expectations of the chattering class as successfully as has Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei. Expected to remain in political obscurity, he rose to lead a political movement. Anticipated to lose a presidential election to a candidate from the country’s dominant authoritarian political party, he won. And predicted by a cabal of academic economists to lead Argentina to ruin with free-market policies, he instead turned around the long-suffering country, resulting in lower inflation and rapid economic growth.   Argentines have decades of experience with making bad choices and suffering their consequences, but this time they may have broken that unfortunate pattern by electing leadership that wants the state to take a back seat to individuals and private effort. Drawing on official data, Reuters reports that Argentina’s “economic activity rose 7.7 per cent in April compared with the same month last year.” That was higher than expected and a welcome addition to news that the economy had grown by 5.8 per cent during the full first quarter relative to the same quarter the previous year. Early numbers put Argentina’s second-quarter growth at 7.6 per cent... In equally encouraging news, Argentina’s “monthly inflation rate has fallen below two per cent for the first time in five years,” according to the Financial Times. That’s still high in North American terms, but Argentina’s governments have a history of wildly expanding the money supply to pay off debt and finance expenditures, resulting in inflation rates in the hundreds and even thousands per cent per year. Inflation slowed somewhat in recent years, but it was over 200 per cent in 2023 and Milei was elected on a promise to stabilize prices — even if it meant adopting the U.S. dollar as the country’s official currency.   Importantly, the poverty rate in Argentina fell to 38.1 per cent of the population by the end of 2024, down from 41.7 per cent when Milei took office. Again, that remains very high, but it’s an improvement in a country where politicians have long seemed committed to keeping people poor and dependent on the state. This wasn’t supposed to happen. In a November 2023 open letter, over 100 economists warned that Milei’s economic “proposals, rooted in the economy of laissez-faire and which include controversial ideas such as dollarization and significant reductions in public spending, are fraught with risks that make them potentially very harmful to the Argentine economy and people.”  The economists — including such academic luminaries as Thomas Piketty and Jayati Ghosh — warned of havoc if Milei implemented his free-market plans. Voters weren’t impressed by the forecast of doom; they chose the self-described “anarcho-capitalist” economist and his upstart political coalition over the standard-bearer of the dominant Justicialist Party. The Justicialists have been the strongest force in Argentine politics since their launch in the 1940s by Juan Peron. Peron served as a military observer in Europe and apparently combined the worst ideas he encountered into a peculiarly Argentine ideology he called “justicialism,” better known as Peronism. At its heart, the ideology drops the pretense of any practical difference between socialism and fascism and promotes a brutal mélange of statist economic schemes. This means that, while most property and business activity is in private hands, it’s subject to government dictates, distortions, and control.  From time to time, non-Justicialist officials — and Justicialist president Carlos Menem — sought to undo some damage done by statist policies, which fuel spending, debt, inflation, and cripple private efforts to generate prosperity. But, mostly, the country’s officials, through both democratic and military governments, presided over the decline of what was once one of the wealthiest nations on the planet. German broadcaster Deutsche Welle noted in 2020 that “rich like an Argentine” was a common saying at the end of the 19th century, but that “in an unprecedented fall, Argentina went from ranking among the world’s top economies to one at the very bottom of the list.”   Maybe that’s why Argentines were willing to take a chance on a wild-haired economist who cloned a beloved dog and promised to take a chainsaw to the country’s bloated government. After all, there’s only so long you can keep digging before you hit rock bottom.  Upon taking office, Milei cut tens of thousands of public employees from the payroll, consolidated government ministries, and privatized state-owned companies. That meant smaller government and a reduced burden for taxpayers.  The Milei administration also scrapped most price controls, including those restricting residential rent. In the capital of Buenos Aires, that brought hundreds of thousands of rental units back to the market. According to The Wall Street Journal, “many apartments long sat empty, with landlords preferring to keep them vacant, or lease them as vacation rentals, rather than comply with the government’s rent law.” The flood of apartments returning to the market did what price controls never could, achieving a “40 per cent decline in the real price of rental properties when adjusted for inflation.”... Surveys show that about three-quarters of Argentines want to stay on the free-market path chosen by Milei and his allies...  That’s not to say that Javier Milei’s efforts have reached their conclusion or that the tribulations of the people of Argentina are finished. The country’s unemployment rate has risen, foreign currency reserves are rising but remain low, and the same can be said of investment. Argentina spent decades accumulating self-inflicted wounds and will be a while healing.  But for the first time in a long time, Argentina appears to have a future, fuelled by renewed faith in free markets and personal liberty."
Clearly, Argentina only became poor because they didn't have enough left wing policies

Basil the Great on X - "🚨JAVIER MILEI STORMS TO VICTORY IN ARGENTINA The polls were lying The media were lying They said he would lose They said he would struggle He's won in a LANDSLIDE Argentina rejects communism ✊ AFUERA‼️"
From October

Rent control - "From Argentina we learn that my controversial views on Rent Control — that we should retire it, “with extreme prejudice,” and snuff it along with everything like it — is actually being tried by the government of the “dangerous” Javier Milei... I read (in John Loeber) what the terrible consequences of Milei’s reckless act has been. “Rent has dropped by 40 percent in real terms, and the supply of rental properties in Buenos Aires has increased by over 300 percent.”  The Argentine economy is meanwhile growing at around 8 percent. America’s will grow at 4 per cent, once Trumpery is fully engaged. Our Canadian economy is, of course, contracting.   It is true, I adore Trump, but only half as much as I love Javier Milei"

Milei has given Britain a serious economic lesson - "One country in an even deeper hole than the UK is Argentina. Once one of the world’s leading economies, successive popular despotisms and military coups down the decades led to rampant corruption and financial collapse... Far from turning his country against him, President Milei’s party La Libertad Avanza won a resounding victory in mid-term elections at the weekend, beating off a challenge from Peronists. He has shown that governments trying to get to grips with soaring welfare budgets are not automatically punished by voters, as our politicians appear to believe. Indeed, the Tories won a general election in 2015 against expectations after a period in which public spending rose more slowly after years of purported “austerity”. Mr Milei appeared on stage with a chainsaw to illustrate his seriousness about cuts. His government has managed to cut monthly inflation sharply, from 12.8 per cent before his inauguration in December 2023 to 2.1 per cent last month, while also securing a fiscal surplus.  He said as the votes were counted: “Argentines showed that they don’t want to return to the model of failure.” Milei is showing the way other nations will have to follow if they want to avoid bankruptcy."

How austerity proved to be a winning ticket for Javier Milei - "Barclays analyst Ivan Stambulsky noted that almost half of voters, on an admittedly low turnout, had opted for “macroeconomic prudence” over a return to the spendthrift Left-wing parties.  “In our view, this is another clear signal that voters remain wary of a return to large fiscal deficits and an economy riddled by administrative controls,” he said... holding the peso within a price band – and at an artificially high rate that stopped imports from triggering inflation – came at a cost. Argentina had to repeatedly use its central bank’s dollar reserves to buy pesos and stop the rate from falling.  This led markets to question whether the peg was sustainable – particularly as Argentina would need those reserves to help meet $45bn in debt repayments because of foreign creditors by the end of 2027, including $8bn by January next year.  Investors began selling off the peso and government bonds. This threatened a doom loop as Milei was forced to spend more of his reserves to support the currency. This could push Argentina back into the kind of debt default crisis that has chequered its history. Meanwhile, Milei was facing a series of political scandals and setbacks."

Jack Mintz: Argentina's election result is clearly Liberalization 1, Socialism 0 - "His party bested the socialist Peronist party by a wide margin: 41 to 34 per cent, relying on substantial support from low-income Argentinians fearing a return of the stagflationary Peronist economy. After the win, the Merval stock market giddily rose 22 per cent, while the peso was up four per cent against the U.S. dollar and the price of dollar-denominated government bonds maturing in 2046 rose 11 cents to 67 cents on the dollar... This was not an easy win for Milei, whose tough medicine led to an economic downturn last year. But the Peronist policy record was far worse. From 2012 to 2022, Argentina’s per capita real GDP fell almost seven per cent, while year-over-year inflation reached 250 per cent at the end of 2023. As the peso repeatedly fell, fear of a currency crisis drove so many people to cash in pesos for dollars that the central bank ran out of foreign currency. To reverse these trends, Milei cut spending sharply enough to produce a primary budget surplus — revenues net of non-interest expenditures — something not seen since 2010. Market-based policies encouraged investment, reduced labour rigidities and trimmed a bloated federal civil service. The personal income tax base was broadened and the cost of complying with corporate taxes reduced. Pension benefits were indexed for inflation. Product market regulations were removed and social assistance programs and energy subsidies better targeted. Some import tariffs were reduced though many remain: taxes on international trade account for 16 per cent of government revenues. The reforms have led to dramatic economic improvement. Poverty rates are down almost a quarter and last month inflation was “just” 32 per cent on an annual basis. That’s still too high but two-digit inflation is better than three. After declining three per cent last year, per capita GDP is expected to grow almost five per cent over the next two years."

What to make of Javier Milei's early successes - "My take is that Milei’s reforms are mostly good.  But I also want to wrestle this discourse under control before it fuels further populist nonsense. I don’t claim any great expertise on Argentine politics, but I think it’s important for everyone to understand the following:
Argentina has experienced a lot of individual quarters of solid economic growth during its 100-year experiment in structural economic decline — there’s a lot of game left to play.
Milei’s successful stabilization of the short-term macroeconomic situation is largely the result of a completely conventional mainstream Neo-Keynesian economics framework endorsed by the IMF and other boring institutions.
After talking nonstop about replacing Argentina’s peso with the US dollar during the campaign, Milei simply has not implemented his signature campaign initiative.
The most interesting lessons to learn here are about the relationship between the populist style of politics and the actual practice of policymaking... “Argentina needs spending cuts” was not some kind of outlier notion that defied conventional wisdom.  It’s true that the Guardian ran that letter from 100 economists. But there are a lot of economists in the world. The American Economic Association has 23,000 members, and most economists aren’t American. Thomas Piketty is famous, but he’s an outlier in the economics profession in both his methods and his views. The Guardian writeup of the letter also touted Branko Milanović and Jayati Ghosh as signatories. These are, again, smart people, but also self-conscious left-wing outliers in the field. It’s just not the case that the conventional wisdom among economists held that spending cuts were a bad idea for Argentina... Beyond the chainsaw stunts and populist atmospherics, Milei’s actual policymaking has been fairly conventional, albeit drastic. He has not tried to do what Massa was proposing and sugar-coated austerity with a lot of gradualism or elaborate efforts to shield the poor from hardship. Low-income Argentinians whose living standards had been ravaged by inflation ended up even worse off last year in the face of spending cuts. The unemployment rate rose.  In exchange for his decisiveness in this regard, he secured IMF support for a bailout/loan package, which has made it easier to continue financing the now-smaller budget deficit.  This austerity imposed very real costs on people, but also had a lot of benefits. The central bank is no longer printing money to cover the deficit. This has helped bring down inflation. It also means that since Argentina is no longer relying on funny money, the government has been able to relax currency controls and the use of dual exchange rates. Along with exchange rate liberalization, he’s also cut tariffs.  Argentina’s inflation is still incredibly high by American standards... Argentina suffered a massive depression from 1998-2002 because a prior political regime insisted on pegging the peso to the US dollar as an anti-inflation measure. The peg required constant balanced budgets regardless of the macroeconomic situation and, like the gold standard in 1929-1933, meant that a negative shock to aggregate demand turned into an endless downward spiral... while it’s great that Milei has shifted Argentina from an inappropriate to an appropriate macroeconomic regime, that’s happened twice already during my lifetime, and both times, it’s created a very real economic boom that eventually petered out. What neither Menem nor the Kirchners was able to do was consistently change macroeconomic postures in correct ways, or generate sustained long-term productivity growth. That earlier leaders failed doesn’t mean that Milei will. But he hasn’t yet succeeded where his predecessors have failed... The lesson of Argentina is that one of the richest countries in the world at the start of the 20th century lost that status thanks to generations of bad technical choices and has struggled to get itself back on track. This lesson deserves to be taken seriously."
Of course, left wingers claimed that what Milei was doing was radical and cruel, even though it was pretty standard economic theory

Ruth Geye on X - "everyone talking about how freezing rent on stabilized units is bad because it will disincentivize maintenance live in a completely different universe where landlords “do maintenance”"
Hunter📈🌈📊 on X - "We actually do have empirical studies on this, a lit review of 112 published studies found 110 in agreement that rent control reduced quality of housing."

Burnside on X - "In 2008 the GDP of the EU was 10% larger than that of the US, it is now 33% smaller. The EU's criticism of the US comes from a position of colossal, entrenched institutional failure. It can't defend itself, hasn't given birth to a meaningful new company in 30 years and has invited the third world to destroy its culture."

Michael A. Arouet on X - "„They've gone from 90% of the GDP of America to 65, that's not because America did anything bad to them, It's their own bureaucracy, their own cost.“ Says the CEO of the most important bank in the world, not a politician. Get your act together Europe."
Rohit Ahuja on X - "Dimon is 100% right on the bureaucracy cancer killing Europe, but he’s polite enough not to say the quiet part out loud: the EU’s regulatory state is now so suffocating that even its own companies (ASML, LVMH, Novo Nordisk) are begging for relief or moving investment elsewhere.  Europe went from 90% of US GDP to 65% in less than two decades while running lower deficits and debt-to-GDP.  That’s not “bad luck”—that’s self-inflicted regulatory suicide."

THE ISLANDER on X - "The Financial Times finally said the quiet part out loud: Germany is collapsing — and the EU helped push it off the clif Steel plants are closing. Car factories are shrinking. Business leaders are openly furious. The so-called “sick man of Europe” is sick again, but this time, the disease isn’t inefficiency. It’s economic suicide engineered by unelected EU elites and enforced by obedient puppets like Friedrich Merz. Merz wants €500 billion to rescue industry, but from what? From policies his party endorsed. German output is crashing. Energy prices are unlivable. Bureaucratic strangulation kills investment. And while Merz beats the drum for a forever war in Ukraine, what was Berlin’s lifeline... Nord Stream, blown up, sabotaged with a shrug while Brussels and NATO pleaded the fifth. The U.S. may have benefited, but the executioner stood in Brussels. Ursula von der Leyen and the Eurocrat caste led the charge: de-industrialize Germany, sanction Moscow, and send tanks to Ukraine while the German worker foots the bill. For what? Kiev was always going lose. Yet EU elites demand more tribute... more weapons, more factories shut, more pain.
And now? German steel production down 12% 2 million fewer cars made than in 2017 Green levies and gas rationing U.S. tariffs slap Germany while Berlin stays muzzled
The result: revolt. In NRW, a once CDU heartland, AfD now surges. Germans are waking up. They see who hollowed out their economy. It wasn’t Russia. It was their own leaders in Brussels and Berlin, marching to Davos drumbeats. Germany isn’t “testing Europe’s patience.” Europe’s elites tested Germany’s limits, and they snapped them."

THE ISLANDER on X - "Germany, the country that once engineered the EU's industrial rise, is now reduced to begging China to design its cars, buying American gas at four times the price, and watching its own flagship companies jump ship. And the elites in Berlin and Brussels? They’re too busy kneeling at the altar of Green ideology and Russophobic psychosis to notice the powder keg they've created. Germany’s ruling class sold the entire nation on a fantasy: that you can shut down nuclear plants, throttle your own industry with extortionist energy prices, sever your biggest trading partner, and still remain an economic power. It keeps getting darker, with Volkswagen cutting 35,000 jobs, Mercedes offering half-million-euro severance bribes, Bosch downsizing, Porsche shrinking, and the WELT report showing a 15.4% collapse in job openings, including a 39% wipeout in management roles. When German elite allowed the destination of Nord Stream with humiliating political cover, if not literally, it blew up its own economic model. Cheap Russian energy was the foundation. Remove that, and you remove everything. The “Green transition” didn’t replace it, it simply poured gasoline on the fire, and gave the demolition a moral vocabulary. Now, under the guise of saving the planet, Berlin is euthanizing its industrial base one factory at a time while pretending China’s 600 coal plants don’t exist. And inside this ideological fog, a darker truth hides, that Germany didn’t pivot away from Russia because it was rational. It commited seppuku because it was afraid.  Afraid of Washington. Afraid to admit that partnership with Moscow, not obedience to NATO, was the real key to its prosperity.  This is the psychosis at the heart of the German collapse, a political class that would rather destroy its own country than accept a multipolar world where Russia is not a caricature, but a sovereign Great Power. The same pathology that drove Berlin to cheerlead for a suicidal proxy war, sending Ukraine into the trenches to “weaken Russia”, is now accelerating the hollowing out the nation. Germany outsourced its courage to America and its reason to EU high priests. WELT’s latest reporting just confirm that, even R&D jobs have collapsed by a third. The very sectors meant to “build the future” are being gutted while Merz lectures the world about innovation. Volkswagen even admitted that China no longer needs Europe to design new models — the technological centre of gravity has officially shifted East.  This is where Europe ends up when virtue signaling replaces strategy: persecuting farmers, censoring dissent, arresting citizens for memes and waving rainbow flags over rusting factories. And Brussels isn’t governing, but administering a slow euthanasia. Leaving Germany, once the engine of Europe, being preserved like a historical relic while pretending it’s still relevant.  The great irony? The multipolar world isn’t killing Europe. Europe is killing Europe. Germany’s future was never threatened by Moscow. It was threatened by its own ruling class. An elite that worships ideology over industry, hysteria over prosperity, and Washington over Berlin. They sacrificed their automotive crown jewel on the altar of a Green religion run by the WEF, hedge funds, and lobbyists, a protection racket masquerading as salvation.  And now, as WELT quietly reports the historic colapse, a 15.4% contraction that exposes the lie of “green growth” — the same elites pretend nothing is wrong. They call the patient healthy as the vital signs flatline.  Europe thinks it’s punishing Russia. But Russia didn’t lose its industries. Russia didn’t lose its energy security. Russia didn’t outsource its future. Russia didn’t destroy its own prosperity to satisfy Washington’s neurosis.  Only Europe did that. Germany submitted to the humiliation. Germany wasn’t defeated by an external enemy, it was defeated by the very elites sworn to protect it, and history will remember that betrayal long after they’re gone."
Left wing ideology destroys the country

Meme - Devon Eriksen:"The wealth that billionaires have is the valuation of companies they built. It isn't taken from me. The money that that governments give to welfare bums is extorted from me and everyone else under threat of violence. I hope you have enjoyed this lesson in elementary economics for retarded ten-year-olds."
Secular Talk (KyleKulinskiShow@bsky.social): "8 men have more money than four billion people combined. A single parent on food stamps isn't the reason you're broke."

Jay Parsons on X - "The Washington Post editorial board just came out strongly against rent control. "Capping prices is a textbook policy failure that leaves renters in every community which tries it worse off than they would have been otherwise." 💯"
Moses Kagan on X - "Something I've had to come to grips with: Those pushing strict rent control don't actually care if rent control "works", in the sense of "accomplishes its aims in a net socially positive manner, after accounting for negative externalities and second- and third-order effects".
It's: "We want whatever we can get for ourselves, and f everyone else, including the future"."

Joe Rogan Podcast News on X - "Bernie Sanders: "City-sponsored grocery stores will save society money.""
Hunter Ash on X - "This attitude comes from never having a real job.  I was a socialist as a kid. I assumed insurance companies were greedy and evil, raking in profits. One of my first real jobs was for a car insurance company as an actuary. It was company policy that we targeted a 4% profit margin. If it was higher, people got yelled at because it meant our prices were too high, so we were uncompetitive.   Also, a huge amount of our overhead was dealing with regulators. Thousands of hours of highly-paid human time were spent haggling with each state’s insurance commission. Their goal was to make sure we didn’t gouge customers with rate increases. But we didn’t want to do that anyway! We wouldn’t have done that if we could, because it’s bad business. So all that time was a total waste. The insurance regulator’s salaries are 100% waste. They provide zero real value. And the time our employees spent talking to them was a waste.  I assume the same pattern holds across the entire economy. Trump asked why we can’t have 20% growth rates. This is why."