Schrödinger’s Government - "I think we are watching something in Minneapolis that is amazing and terrifying at the same time. It appears to me that a strange new form of governance is emerging in modern democracies, especially in America where the strongest protection of individual liberty exists. It is a governing system that exists in a state of perpetual contradiction and it has spread to Washington where Democrats recognize there are actual immigration laws they don’t like, but instead of attacking them and changing them, they want to defund the agency charged with the enforcement of the laws and the removal of those who broke them to stop the law from being enforced. They want to play another round of “Defund the Police” with national security and sovereignty in the balance. So, law exists but it doesn’t exist because it can’t be enforced. In this new system, the fundamental legitimacy of democratic processes, elections, legislation, and judicial rulings becomes conditional, subject to acceptance by those affected. If you (and an extreme minority composed of other chaos agents) disagree with an electoral outcome or dislike any passed law (whether newly passed or settled), you can simply declare it invalid, at least for yourself. The social contract that binds citizens to respect democratically enacted rules, even those they oppose, becomes entirely situational and voluntary. This rejection of authority operates parasitically within the very system it denounces. Those who refuse to accept certain laws simultaneously invoke other laws and constitutional protections as absolute shields. They weaponize rights to assembly, speech, and due process—protections they claim are inviolable—while coordinating sustained campaigns of civil disruption designed to make governance impossible. The asymmetry is deliberate: the system must respect procedural limits and individual rights even as those same individuals work to paralyze it. You can even use the system against itself, tying it in knots by using its own processes to delay judicial outcomes for weeks, months, and in some cases—years. The result is a kind of legal donut hole, a void where law simultaneously exists and doesn’t exist. Authorities face an impossible dilemma. To enforce laws against coordinated, prolonged disruption, they must often employ measures—curfews, dispersal orders, mass arrests, deployment of the National Guard—that themselves test constitutional boundaries. The chaos is calibrated precisely to this threshold: intense enough to demand response, but conducted under enough legal cover that any forceful reaction can be framed as “fascism” or tyranny. The protesters/activists/chaos agents become simultaneously lawbreaker and victim, revolutionary and rights-bearer in a scenario where they always carry the presumption of innocence and the stewards of the law always bear the presumption of guilt. This creates what might be called Schrödinger’s government—a system hovering between legitimacy and illegitimacy, authority and impotence, depending on who’s observing and from what angle. To its defenders, it remains a functioning democracy upholding civil liberties even under pressure. To its detractors, it has lost all moral authority and deserves only resistance. Both states coexist, neither fully collapsing into the other. What makes this situation particularly unstable is its self-reinforcing nature. When one faction successfully employs this strategy—rejecting laws while exploiting legal protections—it establishes a template others will follow. Each iteration further erodes the shared assumption that democratic processes, however imperfect, produce outcomes all must provisionally accept. The notion of loyal opposition, of respecting institutional legitimacy even when wielded by opponents, gives way to permanent contestation. This isn’t simple civil disobedience in the traditional sense, where protesters accept legal consequences to dramatize injustice. Nor is it revolutionary politics that openly seeks to overthrow existing structures. Instead, it occupies an ambiguous middle ground: using the system’s own rules and protections to create ungovernable situations, then claiming persecution when authorities respond. The quantum superposition of lawfulness and lawlessness persists until someone observes it—and even then, what they see depends entirely on where they stand."
When left wingers say that "nobody is above the law", they mean the selective application of certain laws to people they hate, i.e. anarcho-tyranny
Idiot protesters besieged Los Angeles restaurant after mistaking airport security workers for ICE - "A large mob of protestors surrounded a restaurant in Los Angeles after mistaking airport security workers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. The demonstrators gathered outside of Ten-Raku, a Korean BBQ spot in Lynwood, on Wednesday night after hearing reports that federal officers were allegedly inside. In reality, they blared airhorns and whistles and shouted at off-duty TSA officers who were just trying to enjoy dinner... When approached by Fox 11, a woman with long curly hair, who is believed to be one of the protest organizers, refused to comment because she doesn't 'trust Fox.'... The outlet also went to ask restaurant employees about the situation, but the woman told them not to speak with the station. She was seen holding a megaphone with one hand as she used her phone to record the scene in the other. 'Yeah sorry to you. Nobody's gonna talk to you,' she was heard telling reporters. Meanwhile, other protestors attempted to hide behind trees as they recorded the scene... After being told the authorities inside were TSA agents, the man told the reporter: 'You wouldn't understand. People get very emotional so they easily make mistakes... This is also not the first case of mistaken identity, as a group of software engineers were targeted in Minneapolis after protestors assumed they were ICE agents. The five men had been dining at Clancy's Deli when anti-ICE protesters gathered outside the restaurant's front windows and shouted obscenities at them a little over a week ago. 'Get out of our f***ing neighborhood,' one protester was heard yelling in a clip obtained by Alpha News. Another shouted: 'If you're not with us, you're against us.' One demonstrator even went as far as calling them pedophiles and another screamed 'I hope you die,' the news outlet reported. A victim, known as Lee, claimed the mob's ringleader said the group, who are not affiliated with ICE, deserved to be harassed because they were 'white privileged males.' He has alleged that the restaurant owner was responsible for the chaos by falsely claiming the group of software engineers were federal agents."
Protesters besieged Los Angeles restaurant after mistaking airport security workers for ICE : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "It's ironic that these mobs are profiling people then confronting them and asking for identification. lol"
Idisobey | Facebook - "WOW 🚨 American women went vial after she attended an event and it turned out to be a training event for ICE protesters It was held at the Center in Hampton, Virginia and they are training people to resist ICE and this is where all the whistles come from. the REAL REASON Democrats are trying to pass bills to stop ICE from wearing masks was discussed The reason reason Democrats want ICE to not wear masks because they are planning on documenting all of them and then prosecuting them when they get power “So she's trying to pass a bill to require ICE agents to identify themselves because they have committed civil rights violations in our state. — I am advocating for their identities to be documented so they can be held accountable in a court of law” “Today I found out where all the whistles come from for all the protests — So today we hopped in the car and went to Hampton, Virginia, to the LGBT Center for this meeting. Know your rights training on immigration.”"
Templar Mind | Facebook - "When men worth millions stand on red carpets, draped in designer fabrics, and call for "revolution," they're not speaking for the people. It's a casting call for the masses to play the role of "useful idiot" in their latest fantasy drama. At the Sundance Film Festival...that annual gathering where the elite absolve themselves through empty gestures and pat each other on the back...Giancarlo Esposito, the actor who portrayed Breaking Bad's drug lord, Gus Fring, stepped beyond performance and into provocation. He explicitly called for "a revolution," speculating that if millions stormed Washington, authorities "would only kill 500 or 50 million... but the rest of us would survive with a new world." Fifty million corpses. This is the human cost he finds acceptable for his vision. Notice his phrasing: "The rest of US would survive." Not you. Not your children. "US"...the protected and pampered caste, who will watch from safety while you provide the sacrifice for their ideological theater.
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We're witnessing a spiritual sickness dressed up as compassion and wrapped in platitudes. These actors live in such extravagant wealth that it would make Roman emperors green with envy. They are products and beneficiaries of the American economic engine that they claim to despise. They are precisely what Suzanne Collins depicted in The Hunger Games: Capitol citizens, painted and pampered, orchestrating violence from a safe and comfortable distance. They want you in the streets. They want your sons and daughters among the fifty million casualties... While they virtue signal from their mansions in the Hollywood Hills.
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They are animated by modern Marxist ideology that views America not as humanity's greatest experiment in order and liberty, but as a mistake requiring correction through violence. They align themselves with radical politicians who use identical inflammatory rhetoric. They speak of "burning it down" because they have never built anything beyond fictional narratives. a revolution would devour the very luxury they depend on. When systems collapse, film festivals disappear and residual checks stop. But arrogance shields them from this reality. Do not let comfortable elites incite you to violence in the streets. They project their spiritual emptiness onto the nation and expect you to fill the void. Their revolution is theater; your suffering would be real.
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The United States was forged through ordered liberty, covenant faith, and constitutional law...not the chaotic fantasies of actors who think real life is just another screenplay. Let them cosplay as ungrateful revolutionaries. We have a civilization to defend, a faith to preserve, and a future to build for our children. Deus Vult."
"This is all very planned. They know what works. It's like a war out there." - "For weeks, the media have claimed that the protests against federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis and other cities are peaceful and that protesters are not interfering with law enforcement operations. Hailey West, an independent journalist covering the protests, found something different. “Interference is constant,” she told Public. “It’s like a badge of honor out there.” She described the “physical pushing of officers” by protesters who are “trying to break through a [police] line. They’ll send people who are mentally ill or disabled in a wheelchair to the front of the line.”... West described a situation of rising violence. In one instance, protesters threw tear gas at ICE agents, but hit the van that she and other reporters were sitting in instead. “You have this massive group of protestors following all the vehicles,” she said. “They were throwing tear gas canisters, and one of them ended up being thrown on top of our vehicle, bounced off, went underneath the vehicle, and started filling the car up with tear gas.”... West said that the protesters are “instructed to cause as much chaos so they can.”"
Nightingale Associates on X - "Apartment landlords are feeling the strain placed on their portfolios by the Trump administration's immigration enforcement actions. Ariel Lopez owns 300 apartments in Miami-Dade County that are operating at a 30% vacancy rate. Typically, that rate is closer to 2%. “Not only did a lot of my tenants disappear, but slow paying became more of a norm, because people are living month to month trying to figure out if they're going to be here or not,” said Ariel Lopez, owner of South Florida-based multifamily landlord The Lopez Cos. “It's created a lot of havoc for the multifamily sector.” -Bisnow #CommercialRealEstate"
Weird. Left wingers keep mockingly asking how illegal immigrants being deported has improved people's lives
Meme - Lord Farquaad: "DEMOCRATPARTY: GO AND FIGHT FEDERAL AGENTS. SOME OF YOU MAY DIE, BUT ITS A SACRIFICE I AM WILLING TO MAKE"
Meme - Masked Democratic Party prodding MTF, Balaclava-clad Antifa with rifle and Antifa with black beanie and red mask: "C'mon, they're fascists..."
Meme - "The irony of Tim Walz encouraging people to protest ICE while standing behind his fortified walled mansion is a perfect picture of the left"
Meme - "BOOM: ICE just flipped the script in Minneapolis - agents are now photographing the harassers, logging faces, and sending evidence up the chain for criminal charges. The stalkers thought intimidation was free. Turns out it comes with paperwork, case files, and consequences."
Meme - "AY MATE, TRUMP IS HOLDING MIGRANTS IN CAMPS LIKE A NAZI
America vs Australia
Birthright citizenship vs No birthright citizenship
Detention centers. Some allowed in until court date vs Zero tolerance policy, held in offshore detention centers
Path to citizenship through DACA and IRCA vs No path to citizenship
Sanctuary cities vs No sanctuary cities
Deportation requires due process even for criminals vs No due process required for deportation, criminals can have citizenship revoked"
Meme - CynicalPublius: "One shows the illegal internment of lawful residents. (Democrat run.) The other shows the lawful internment of illegal residents. (GOP run.) It's actually a useful contrast."
Not Your Average Liberal: "When History Repeats Itself... Japanese internment camp, 1942. Alligator Alcatraz, 2025"
Will Ricciardella on X - "Where in immigration law does it say you can enter illegally and stay, so as long as you don’t commit a violent crime? Who voted for that rule? Which member can be voted out for it? No one did. Yet that’s now the baseline for how much of the law Americans are supposed to ignore. Convenient."
Sunny on X - "“We can’t enforce federal law because criminals and their supporters will get violent if we do” is a mainstream left-wing position that would have been universally considered insane like 5 years ago."
Meme - "The last line in the speech at the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, October 28, 1886
"There is room in America and brotherhood for all who will support our institutions and aid in our development. But those who come to disturb our peace and dethrone our laws are aliens and enemies forever." Armin Navabi"
Common Sense Extremists on X - "“We need a less mean way to deport people!!!” There already is. The Trump administration literally offers $1,000 and a free plane ticket to anyone who voluntarily self deports. Anyone still here illegally is asking for it at this point."
johnny maga on X - "Illegal convinces immigration agents to let her daughter say bye to her husband, facilitates in his escape from custody. This is why I don’t feel bad about the “ICE arrested a 5-year-old” hoax."
The Impact of Sanctuary Policies on Immigration Law - "Immigration policy is not a local preference. It is not a city ordinance. It is not a state experiment. Under the Constitution and federal statute, immigration law is national law under Article I, Section 8, Clause 4. It is written by Congress, enforced by the executive branch, and applied uniformly across the country. City councils and statehouses do not get to decide immigration policy for the rest of the nation. Congress does. That distinction matters, because much of what now defines the immigration debate is not coming from Congress. It is coming from municipalities and state governments attempting to carve out “sanctuary” regimes that limit cooperation with federal enforcement, restrict information sharing, and in some cases actively obstruct federal immigration operations. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not a private agency. It is an enforcement arm of the federal government. Entering the U.S. without inspection is a federal offense. Overstaying a visa is a civil violation. In both cases, the legal remedy established by Congress is removal from the country. Cities and states are free to advocate changes to that law. They are not free to nullify it. Yet across the country, local governments have adopted policies that do exactly that. They refuse to honor immigration detainers. They prohibit local law enforcement from notifying ICE when individuals in custody are subject to removal. They decline to transfer individuals already arrested for separate crimes into federal custody. These choices do not repeal federal law. They do not stop federal enforcement. They simply change where and how it occurs. When local governments block cooperation inside jails and court systems — where arrests can occur smoothly and without danger to the public — enforcement does not vanish. It moves outward. It moves to homes, workplaces, parking lots, and streets. It forces federal agents to conduct arrests in public spaces that would otherwise mostly occur in controlled environments. That shift is not accidental. It is the direct operational result of non-cooperation policies. The consequences are predictable. There are more visible confrontations. There are more chaotic encounters. There are more bystanders. There are more opportunities for escalation. And more individuals are swept up who would never have been part of an enforcement action, had local authorities transferred custody in the first place. When ICE executes operations and encounters multiple individuals unlawfully present, federal agents are not granted discretion to ignore the law because of bad optics. They are sworn to enforce the statutes Congress passed. They will carry out removal proceedings as the law requires. This is the contradiction that sanctuary policies create. Local leaders publicly condemn enforcement while structurally forcing it into more disruptive forms. They restrict jail cooperation, then express outrage when arrests occur in neighborhoods. They refuse transfers, then criticize the outcomes that refusal produces. The system is not de-escalated. It is displaced. Another consequence follows. When enforcement shifts to broad field operations, non-violent individuals who might never have entered the system through jail transfers are more likely to be encountered through association. This widens the scope of enforcement while simultaneously fueling the very images and narratives local officials claim to oppose. The next question is not rhetorical. It is political. Why are Democratic city and state governments increasingly willing to ignore or obstruct federal immigration law rather than work to change it? The answer does not appear to lie in legislative realism. Congress remains the only body empowered to rewrite immigration law. Yet coordinated municipal non-compliance creates national consequences without national debate. It allows elected officials to signal moral positioning while avoiding the burden of passing enforceable federal reform. It shifts accountability away from Congress and onto frontline officers, local police departments, school systems, hospital networks, and taxpayers who must absorb the operational effects. Media dynamics amplify this approach. Enforcement carried out quietly through custodial transfers inside jails rarely generates headlines. Enforcement carried out in neighborhoods does. Images move voters. Confrontations move polls. Family separations on television produce far more political utility than statutory rewrites in committee rooms. This is not a new tactic. Americans saw it during the Elián González case in 2000, when federal agents forcibly removed a Cuban child from relatives in Florida to return him to his father in Cuba. Many Democrats then defended federal authority and enforcement. Many Republicans condemned the images. Today, the alignments have reversed. The playbook has not changed. What has changed is the scale. The current posture of many city and state governments is not simply humanitarian concern. It is an attempt to unilaterally relax immigration law through obstruction rather than legislation, while positioning future electoral advantage over present legal reality. None of this alters the fact that immigration policy remains federal. None of it changes the laws already on the books. And none of it removes the consequences from the communities forced to live inside the governance gap. The alternative now being pursued is not reform. It is fragmentation. A patchwork of municipal resistance that weakens national coherence while creating the very enforcement conditions it claims to oppose. City councils do not govern the border. Governors do not set immigration codes. Immigration policy belongs to Congress because immigration is not a local issue. It is a national one. If the law is wrong, change it. If the system is broken, rebuild it. But stop pretending that obstruction is compassion, and stop forcing federal law into the streets while denying responsibility for the results. The Constitution already gave us the tool."
Left wingers have very poor civics knowledge
Nobody is above the law - unless it hurts the left wing agenda
Meme - C3: "Ok so hear me out... If ICE is the "American Gestapo" and Barack Obama awarded ICE and Tom Homan then wouldn't that make... Obama literally Hitler?!"
Stephen King: "ICE is the American Gestapo."
"Barack Obama commended ICE and specifically honored Tom Homan"
Tom Homan warns left-wing groups funding attacks on ICE: 'Justice is coming' - "Border czar Tom Homan vowed Thursday that far-left groups funding and coordinating attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and operations will face consequences. “About the organization and the funding of the attacks on ICE, I’m not going to answer a lot about that because I’m not going to show our hand, but they’ll be held accountable. Justice is coming,” the border czar declared during a press conference in Minneapolis. Homan also decried the harsh rhetoric coming from Minnesota and across the country directed at ICE and other immigration law enforcement officers, pleading with everyone to tone it down. “I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March — if the rhetoric doesn’t stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn’t right. I don’t want to see anybody die,” Homan said. The border czar, whom President Trump dispatched to Minnesota earlier this week, explained that if there was less hostility towards the feds, then the Trump administration would be able to draw down its presence in Minneapolis by an even larger amount than it is currently planning... “Based on the discussions I’ve had with the governor and the AG, we can start drawing down those resources,” Homan said, noting that the feds will likely now be able to target criminal illegal immigrants “in a jail with much less people.” “So the drawdown is going to happen based on these agreements, but the drawdown could happen even more if the hateful rhetoric and impediments stop.” The border honcho had long called for access to local jails in Minnesota as a condition for reducing personnel on the ground. Homan did not specify how large the drawdown will be, but caveated that it will be “dependent upon cooperation” from local authorities and that there will be redeployment if cooperation stops... Homan, who vowed to stay “until the problem’s gone,” crowed that “we’ve made a lot of progress” since Trump sent him to the beleaguered city earlier this week."
What a Nazi. The person who employed him must be held accountable for pushing fascism in the US!
Meme - "With 20,000 agents conducting operations out of 400 offices across all 50 states... why is the only state with people getting shot by ICE a sanctuary state with a blue Governor calling them gestapo and calling for resistance by residents?"
The cope is that this proves that Trump is vindictive and attacking his political opponents. Specifically someone who ran against him
Meme - *Bike fall meme*
"The Left"
"Interfering with law enforcement"
"FASCISM!"
Britain's obsession with ICE killings shows we have learnt nothing from George Floyd - "This is not America. This was the mantra that was said to progressive activists in Britain after their importation of American politics in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in 2020. The 2020 “awokening” globalised the BLM style: activists around the world adopted and regurgitated American talking points on race and police brutality that didn’t map well onto their own particular countries. Real problems were substituted for, to slightly paraphrase Alex Hochuli, “mediatised representations of someone else’s problems”. Fads and terms that got their start in American academia migrated across the Atlantic like “Bipoc” (“black, indigenous people of colour”) and “white supremacy” as a mystical power of world-history. Almost six years later, we’re still binge-watching American politics to the exclusion of Britain, Europe and the rest of the world... Many Britons, on both the Left and Right, are attracted to this delirium. It seems, to them, like that there really is a duel between two properly polarised ideological world-views for conquest of the American republic; and that they are part of it. It’s why every mid-term and presidential election are billed as the most important elections of our life. The fate of humanity depends on it!"
