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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Pretti was part of an organized group of insurgents. He was not an innocent "protester". And he had already had a confrontation with ICE where he suffered a broken rib, but he was released. If the Minneapolis PD did their job this wouldn't have happened, but they are under stand-down orders from Frey and Walz. This whole insurgency runs far deeper, and is funded in part by foreign entities.

Mtone's avatar

He was also carrying a loaded weapon and two extra clips while not carrying identification and his carry permit as required by state law.

Willie Gillie's avatar

Dems are just covering up their crimes … again and again. Ask a dem if it bothers them that the Somalis stole 15 billion from Minnesotans. They always pull the race card. Well we’ve seen through that and tge rest of the deception they have been up to.

Smacko9's avatar

TrumpClinton / DemoRub DemoUSA

https://youtu.be/qPK7uStv6zA

Escape The ZioDemoRub!

;-)

Smacko9's avatar

The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we

call the reality-based community,' which he

defined as people who 'believe that solutions

emerge from your judicious study of discernible

reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world

really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an

empire now, and when we act, we create our own

reality. And while you're studying that

reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act

again, creating other new realities, which you can

study too, and that's how things will sort out.

We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will

be left to just study what we do'

from Ron Suskind Article - Oct. 17, 2004

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-and-the-presidency-of-george-w-bush.html

Stephen Kirtland's avatar

Yeah, creating your own reality, right. Quantum manifesting? We used to call that fantasizing, daydreaming, or wool gathering. Let me know how that works out for you.

Smacko9's avatar

Please stop misdirecting / misrepresenting!

please note: (from Ron Suskind Article - Oct. 17, 2004)

dyingfordistractions is the problem, not the solution!

;-)

TriTorch's avatar

This has many of the hallmarks of what Yuri Bezmonov warned about how the Soviet Union overthrew countries and expanded their empire. The four stages were (we appear to be in between stages 2 & 3 and gunning for 3):

1) Demoralization, "educate" an entire generation on the "proper" idealogy (15 to 20 years)

2) Destabilization, target country’s foreign relations, defense, and economy (ship all manufactoring to China, etc)

3) Crisis, 6-18 weeks of chaos as a climatic turning point.

4) Normalization, status quo and Overton Widown dramatically shifted, expectations permanently gutted, military occupation standard.

Another way to say it: this is contrived, a formula, a script, it is not organic. We are being directed like puppets from a worn-out playbook at the merriment of psychopaths who own and control the media (what we see and hear) along with both wings of our vulture government.

The police hate the protestors and vice-versa, this did not happen by happy accident. In actuality it isn't us vs ICE, it's:

ALL of us vs the 1%. That’s always how its been. Every single red and blue voter on the planet has way more in common with each other, and shares way more of the same values with one another, than both of them combined versus the 1% who view us as cattle. They are our predators. We work to enrich them. They feast on our efforts and divide and spread hate among us, while sparing no expense to replace us with AI, and raining down scorn.

United we stand. Divided we fall. They know this which is why we are being mercilessly divided.

"We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools". —MLK Jr.

Elusive1's avatar

Just goes to show what too many of the masses are, as they drag the rest of us along to our destruction. 😥

TriTorch's avatar

Yep Elusive1, it goes right back to this:

It would seem that mankind is doomed to repeat the same mistakes of inaction over and over. Always hoping against hope that we can comply our out of tyranny, even when the wolf is at our neighbor's door.

The predators encroach, and we do nothing. The predators advance, and we do little. The predators take off their sheep masks, drop all pretense, bare their teeth, and halt the charade that they are not out to consume us - and we go on pretending that they are still sheep and not the ravenous wolves they’ve exposed themselves to be.

"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour."

And all during this dance between predator & prey - between their revelation of what they are and our rejection of it - our liberties and securities are corroded, eroded, dissolved, and disintegrated.

"They comply so that it will end. It is because they comply that it will never end."

And thus all of the above - that dance that has been danced time and time again down the corridors of history where mankind refuses to acknowledge the pack of snarling wolves encircling him for what they truly are (perhaps because the trauma of such a reality is too overbearing to confront) - raises an important question. Is mankind just a herd of sheep that can be led to the slaughter at the whims of the tiny parasite class at the top - lacking any agency, awareness, or willpower to revolt and seek greener pastures?

Elusive1's avatar

Am I wrong to think that this is an American problem?

We've been dumbed down, are more and more self absorbed and selfish. There's no self awareness, no wisdom.

TriTorch's avatar

Funny you should mention that, I found and re-published the following yesterday. It is about digital ID but in the video Jim Breuer compares his experience in Ireland to the US: https://substack.com/@tritorch/note/c-206238157

Conclusion, I think you might be right... Although the Europeans have their own problems with their notions of freedom and what the government is actually for. Alas, it ain't necessarily enlightenment level thinking (US Constitution).

Ray Horvath, "The Source" :)'s avatar

I don't particularly care for Bezmenov for reasons described below.

In the US, the "National Humiliation Project" has been ensuring that the little self-respect people used to have before they were muzzled was further deteriorating, creating an even more malleable populace out of a nation of "conformist psychopaths":

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-start-of-the-national-humiliation

Apologies, but the Soviet Union seems to have already been a globalist experiment with various governments:

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-whole-world-is-a-game

People were offered to take sides, while none of them is real, but their "smart" choices further divide the people. And they'll even have heroes and enemies, while none of the two exist:

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-boogeyman-trap-combining-bait

TriTorch's avatar
2hEdited

Ray brother, when do you sleep? Do you even own a bed or are you researching amd writing 24\7

Ray Horvath, "The Source" :)'s avatar

Oh, well. My wife and I live in our one-bedroom house, and we would be in trouble, if we didn't own the place and I didn't have homestead on it, which reduces the tax from $440 to $90.

And yes, we snore. :)

I live in this world of my creation. She often finds details, and I add my thoughts, usually combining two or more other events/phenomena. Of course, I also read.

Much of my writing comes from a lifetime history of reading. As a child, I was probably mildly autistic (school bored me to hell, even at the university level), and for some reason, I remember details decades back and can connect them to each other and to new ones. Still, I don't think I'm ever right, because, well, I know. :)

TriTorch's avatar

Awesome. Best wishes to you both.

Ray Horvath, "The Source" :)'s avatar

You and I will keep in touch. :)

al jenkins's avatar

NOT Agreeing w this std wisdom i.e, 'We must learn to live together' - Nooooo we must champion what's right - Dems/Libs unapologetically coddle & excuse Every Activity under the sun that's non virtuous i.e. criminal conduct, irresponsibility, addiction, perversion, intentional annoyance, ad infinitum - they say it's a 'lack of love', or not making an effort to 'understand' on the part of FUNCTIONING America that 'drives' the Non-Success of this element of Society - and just to Prove we Dems/Libs are correct in our thinking,,,, why we'll import 70,000 dis-functional Somalians into Minnesota until this most compassionate and generous and patient group of Swedish Americans develop a good case of STOCKHOLM SYNDROME and then we'll label the rest of America who disagree as 'RACIST NAZI LOVERS' - well just put a sock in it - and as the famous Sharona Bishop of the hit TV Show MONK tells the mayor's 'fixer', Sheldon, when refusing his 'offer' ....she eloquently says "Bite me" - and so we who actually make things work (bc we're still sane) well, we just say to the non compos mentis on the left ....Bite Me, i'm busy, we've got a Country to run. ......... ....... blessings everyone

TriTorch's avatar

They’ve been brainwashed. So has the right, althoigh the left is quite a bit worse. Both sides only see the others’ sins amplified while their own bad conduct has been hidden or glorified as right and good and true. Here is how they did this, and if we keep failing to see it for the base level divide and conquer manipulation it is, the USA and the enlightenment model (US Constitution) will be torn asunder, and nothing will he left to stand in their way of total technocratic tyranny:

Ten Ways the 1% - Who Own Almost All Media - Are Manipulating Us Right Now to Walk in Lockstep Into Incinerator, by Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

al jenkins's avatar

.....everyone i know says, " Just put your finger in the dike and don't worry about it - Help is on the way ". - - blessings everyone

Mtone's avatar
3hEdited

Someone in state government has given the agitators access to state license plate data and also the names of people who rented cars.

Definitely not organic, rather well organized and funded by communist billionaires like the American citizen living in luxury in Shanghai with the blessing of the communist chinese government.

Also being ignored is the nurse who lost his life had a broken rib he earned in a violent confrontation with BCP a week earlier.

He was also a participant in the ICE confrontation signal watch group.

Chris's avatar

#7, Steven Smith. An old quotation said, "It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you're an idiot, than open it and prove it." This guy is dumber than dirt. A protester brings a semi-automatic pistol and 2 full magazines to a riot and expects to be treated with kid gloves.

How dumb can you be to not expect to get the crap beaten out of you? Unless you have been in a gun fight, you have no idea as to the physiology of what goes on. I'm surprised more ICE Agents didn't pile on. These folks are so darn brave being on the front line of this bought and paid for riot. They don't know what the false rioters may have under their heavy winter clothing. One of them could very well be a walking time bomb ready to explode. Please pray for their safety and that they may return safely to their homes and families. And could someone, for God's sake, get some workable brain matter in the skull of Smith?

Bruce Cain's avatar

Beyond Minnesota what concerns me most is the Red/Green (Communist, Socialist/Muslim) alliance that has now been building since at least the Women's March in January 2017. All these events are really about a color revolution against the US Constitution and American mores (morays). As I've been writing in my recent essays there must be a Global De-Islamification movement to neutralize the Muslim Brotherhood and all groups associated with it.

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Please share widely as I was permanently suspended from FB (01/06/26) after 20 years. I obviously touched a nerve. De-Islamification must be used to neutralize the Unenlightened Jihadists, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, and the woke leftists that support them. De-Islamification, like De-Nazification after WWII, is primarily about denying Political Islam any more oxygen by removing all “special privileges” we have unwisely allowed them. The essay also discusses the "brain explosion" -- 100,000 years ago -- and how that led to complex speech, writing, music and the first religion Animism. Let us celebrate what we have in common rather than quibble about what tares us apart.

The Urgent Need for Global De-Islamification: Part 5

Eradicate the Muslim Brotherhood: the head of the Unenlightened Jihadist Snake

https://brucecain.substack.com/p/the-urgent-need-for-global-de-islamification-838

Ray Horvath, "The Source" :)'s avatar

The Somalians are good targets from the rulers' point of view, because few Americans will shed tears over Muslims from extremely-incompatible cultures being removed from the country.

The real culprits are then ones who imported them. Any follow-up on that?

Other than that, orchestrated riots and "assassinations" have been around since the summer of 2020.

It doesn't matter if any of those events were real or not: what matters is what comes out of them.

People coaxed into joining or believing in an armed insurrection (aka. "civil war") that would do the favor to the rulers by Americans wiping out each other?

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/authors-are-calling-for-an-armed

Disarming Americans by re-introducing the draft?

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/show-me-your-war-face

Either way, the militarization in public scenes by brutal masked forces wearing no name tags or insignia (would it matter, if they did?) is closing in on every American. It's time to unmask the masked:

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/unmasking-the-masked

Völva's avatar

Few people seem to get that ICE agents are human beings. In Minnesota they are under extreme pressure and in constant danger. If you’ve viewed footage from there, including from James O’Keefe, you know that they are constantly harassed , with constant piercing sounds from whistles, having hard objects thrown at them etc etc. The people in the streets are acting like absolute lunatics. How are the agents expected to not at some point overreact, or react correctly, in order to stay alive and unharmed? They have been beaten and threatened, one has been dragged by a car, one has had a finger bitten off, etc.

I don’t give a damn about “optics”. I care about the law, and rounding up, in accordance with the law, people trespassing in this country illegally and harming its citizens. What’s happening in Minnesota is 100% the fault of the violent activists.

Clayton Emmer, OFS's avatar

He’s a bit slow to the draw…

AMV's avatar

These communists are using the disorder as an intentional distraction from their thievery. Investigate all of them!

mtman2's avatar

ALL pd. mercs+clowns ="useful idiots"

Bonnie's avatar

If the protesters would just mind their own business and let federal officers do their jobs, everyone would still be alive.

SaHiB's avatar

Obvious solution: embargo Minnesota, block all grant payments, as well as border crossings other than refugee applications. Let 'em stew in their own juices!

Virrago Veritas's avatar

The Jordan Cover-up

Jordan is a "bedroom" community of Minneapolis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04Re44-4rDs

Tuxi's avatar

Fuck Democrats!

Synickel's avatar

That Penn DA is going to track down all the ice agents. If the administration that is in charge now wasn't phony, and was really MAA, the DA would have to be tracking them down from a prison cell, starting tomorrow.

The left behave like criminals in their peaceful protests–nothing happens. One gets shot unlawfully impeding and resisting law enforcement– all hell breaks out.

Dems are unquestionably revealed unleashing conspiratorial lawlessness against their enemies–nothing happens.

Dem pols call for violence and rebellion. Nothing happens. Dem pols get caught scamming billions of dollars–nothing happens.

A foreign president does something that upsets the prez, and we know nothing of what it really is–he is kidnapped. Does it sound like MAGA won to you? These are just the tip of the iceberg.