Industrial scale fraud isn’t just confined to Minnesota.
Here is a report on a $50 million dollar day-care fraud ring in Ohio, which calls the perps involved not just fraudsters but “enemy combatants,” reporting that 60% of the money they stole was sent out of the country to fund terrorist groups.*
So many of these reports are popping up, that it looks like this industrial level fraud has been occurring everywhere across our nation.
Just how much of the billions–cumulatively perhaps trillions of dollars–which the Federal and other governments have poured out over the last several years into various social welfare programs has simply been stolen?
Ten percent, 20%, 30%–when it’s all added up, when all is said and done–more than 50%?
Looking at the growing quantity of these various reports, if it’s close to 50%, I wouldn’t be surprised.
You’ve got to add in all of those homegrown perps who have gone on the Internet, bragging about staying home unemployed, and collecting many thousands of dollars each month from various sometimes over generous social welfare programs–Section 8, cash assistance, SSDI, SNAP, unemployment, disability comp., etc. etc.
Then, as well, there are the major medical players, some of whom reports say have bilked Medicaid of tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars by submitting bills for services that they’ve never performed.
We just have too much money to throw around, and supervision which is way too lax, or even essentially absent, and budgets so large that when hundreds of millions, billions, or more are being stolen, we hardly notice it.
Add all of this fraud up, and it may just possibly approach a fraud rate of 50% and, if so, this whole social welfare system is corrupt, and needs to be completely reworked.
I agree with the second comment above — we have too much money to throw around. A common approach for a Congresscritter — of either party, really — is to throw money at any problem that comes to their attention. That’s how you show your concern, even if it changes nothing. “I did what I could!” he or she can say when someone points out that students are failing or health care is too expensive.
It’s not that we need more taxes — we need less spending.
It’s been reported that people figured out the identity of the ICE officer who shot Renee Good, because Kristi Noem revealed that he had previously been hit and dragged by an illegal alien. Loose lips sink ships.
More on the Venezuela mission. It was a lot hairier than initial indications
What to Do If You’re Shot 3X During Maduro Operation? If You’re This Chinook Pilot, You Finish Mission
No U.S. troops were killed, nor was any of our military hardware captured or destroyed.
But that doesn’t mean there weren’t multiple deaths among the Venezuelans and their protectors, the Cubans, and it doesn’t mean there were no injuries on the American team. In fact, one helicopter pilot, who was the team leader and one of the planners of the mission, was hit three times.
That didn’t stop him, according to multiple reports:
He landed the copter and delivered the American soldiers. Then later took off and returned to the IWo Jima carrier.
A brave tough warrior.
Too much spending, period. Too much spending on welfare. There used to be a stigma attached to taking a handout. Nowadays many people think “it’s free, so just take it.”
The Democrats of the Tri-Cities had their performative protest this afternoon; 100 yards of sidewalk signs along the main shopping thouroughfare; ICE are gestapo (absolute historical illiteracy), Honour your oath (get court marshalled), Resist ICE (FAFO), etc.
Flipped ’em off as I drove by.
AWFLs, their cucks, and their heads full of mush.
I had something useful to do for others, donating platelets, them? Not so much.
What is the half life of leftist martyrs?
Saint Pancake (Rachael Corrie of the West Bank (Judea or Samaria?)
Saint Skateboard (shot by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha)
Saint Seattle (unnamed woman trying to stop traffic on I-5 in Seattle at night during George Floyd stupidity)
Saint Sparkles of Minneapolis (Renee Good)
How long before Renee is forgotten, no longer useful?
Minneapolis Is Not Even A Close Call –A Lawsplainer On Officer-Involved Shootings
The only perspective that matters is the perspective of the Officer at the time he uses deadly force in response to a threat.
Shipwreckedcrew
Jan 10, 2026
To the chase – 4 video images from the last few seconds exonerate the ICE officer. Shipwreckedcrew lays out the case law, SCOTUS decisions that back him up.
Too much spending, period. Too much spending on welfare. There used to be a stigma attached to taking a handout. Nowadays many people think “it’s free, so just take it.”
==T
The large scale programs are local public schools, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Smaller scale programs and program sets include veterans’ benefits, SNAP, housing subsidies like Section 8, SSI, TANF, and disaster relief. The TANF rolls have declined by 85% since 1992. Social Security is one of earned eligibility; the most troublesome problem right now would be sketchy disability awards. Ditto Medicare. Medicaid benefits are illiquid. Veteran’s benefits are also programs of earned eligibility. Unemployment compensation require some history of earnings, demonstration one was not fired for cause, and are term-limited. SSI is limited to the disabled and the elderly and is quite modest; sketchy definitions of disability are an issue. Aside from TANF (which has about two million enrolled last I checked), the programs who best fit your description are SNAP and allied programs and housing subsidies. About 7.3 million live in households which receive Section eight vouchers, i.e. 2.2% of the population. About 41 million ( or 13% of the total) are in SNAP households; about 55% of those who qualify for SNAP do not sigh up for it.
What NC @3:49 pm said (though one might prefer to rephrase it slightly as “DPUSA has ALWAYS been at war with Hamas….”
Cf. second link, below…)
And so…might DPUSA’s rather abrupt about-face be related to the upcoming mid-term elections?
– Or to the no-longer-able-to-be-covered-up unholy mess (and non-stop lying) that the Democrats have been wreaking around the country (especially blue hell-holes)?
– Or to the epochal events in Mullah (et amis)-occupied Iran? (Including: Cf. first link below—“Reports that foreign islamic terrorists are fighting Iranian citizens right now – Iraqi, Afghan and Lebanese.
“Arabic chants are apparently audible, including “Ya Allah, Mashallah, Hezbollah”)
– All of the above?
https://instapundit.com/768529/
(Including:
“William A. Jacobson…
This is the least “bad” explanation for the rapid Dem shift – hopefully @FBIDirectorKash and @AGPamBondi are about to roll up the nationwide “Pro-Palestinian” terror supporting network and establishment Dems want to avoid the fallout”)
More on the technology used by United States armed forces on arrest of the illegitimate Venezuela dictator. Impressive
This account from a Venezuelan security guard loyal to Nicolás Maduro is absolutely chilling—and it explains a lot about why the tone across Latin America suddenly changed.
Security Guard: On the day of the operation, we didn’t hear anything coming. We were on guard, but suddenly all our radar systems shut down without any explanation. The next thing we saw were drones, a lot of drones, flying over our positions. We didn’t know how to react.
Interviewer: So what happened next? How was the main attack?
Security Guard: After those drones appeared, some helicopters arrived, but there were very few. I think barely eight helicopters. From those helicopters, soldiers came down, but a very small number. Maybe twenty men. But those men were technologically very advanced. They didn’t look like anything we’ve fought against before.
Interviewer: And then the battle began?
Security Guard: Yes, but it was a massacre. We were hundreds, but we had no chance. They were shooting with such precision and speed… it seemed like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute. We couldn’t do anything.
Interviewer: And your own weapons? Didn’t they help?
Security Guard: No help at all. Because it wasn’t just the weapons. At one point, they launched something—I don’t know how to describe it… it was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside. We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move.
Interviewer: And your comrades? Did they manage to resist?
Security Guard: No, not at all. Those twenty men, without a single casualty, killed hundreds of us. We had no way to compete with their technology, with their weapons. I swear, I’ve never seen anything like it. We couldn’t even stand up after that sonic weapon or whatever it was.
Interviewer: So do you think the rest of the region should think twice before confronting the Americans?
Security Guard: Without a doubt. I’m sending a warning to anyone who thinks they can fight the United States. They have no idea what they’re capable of. After what I saw, I never want to be on the other side of that again. They’re not to be messed with.
Interviewer: And now that Trump has said Mexico is on the list, do you think the situation will change in Latin America?
Security Guard: Definitely. Everyone is already talking about this. No one wants to go through what we went through. Now everyone thinks twice. What happened here is going to change a lot of things, not just in Venezuela but throughout the region.
I just recorded an eagle killing a wigeon drake here at DuckSpa. The high winds let the eagle basically hover over the duck until wham. He landed on it and drowned it. I think he used the house to screen his approach.
U Haul Growth Index – Texas #1, Florida #2, . . . Illinois #49, California #50 – Fascinating Information!
Thanks for the link, that article by Mark Pulliam is the best summary of the situation that I have seen, covering a number of facets that are all part of the problem.
My opinion: Democrats have rejected the soapbox, the ballot box, the impartial jury box (with biased jurors and partisan judges). So, for many on the right, the only thing left to protect our liberty and country is the cartridge box – and the Democrats really shouldn’t force us to go there.
(I have quit using The Left as distinguishable from The Democrats, as they are now becoming totally congruent, unless the LIV Democrat voters get their heads out of the ground and start rejecting what their Party leadership and many followers are promoting.)
Synopsis:
The recent (and ongoing) events in Minneapolis invoke historical parallels that are both instructive and alarming.
Thanks to Instapundit (here), Ace of Spades HQ (here and here), Real Clear Policy (here), Power Line, and the Michael Patrick Leahy Show (here)! [the “here” indicates a link]
The recent events in Minneapolis are remarkable. Last week, an ICE officer named Jonathan Ross shot and killed a deranged 37-year-old anti-ICE activist, Renee Nicole Good, who was interfering in ICE operations as part of a coordinated campaign of obstruction by Fifth Column provocateurs. The unfolding drama is more than a self-defense shooting by an ICE officer who was targeted by a speeding SUV; it is nothing less than an orchestrated insurrection—a rebellion—attempting to nullify the results of the 2024 election and to derail the enforcement of federal immigration laws.
The events were not spontaneous. They were planned, organized, and calculated to produce a violent incident (call it a “George Floyd moment”) that could be exploited by the propaganda press to turn public opinion against President Trump and his commitment to deport the millions of illegal aliens whom Joe Biden allowed to invade the country. Democrats are trying to incite a repeat of the “Summer of Love” in 2020–riots that burned down large portions of Minneapolis and other cities. What is going on in Minneapolis is an attempt to provoke Summer of Love 2.0.
A. Blue States Resist Enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws
(A good summary of current events.)
B. Federal Law Is Paramount to State Law
(Notes the insurrection in the North by abolitionists who disagreed with the Fugitive Slave Law and engaged in violence to force confrontation with the South – now we honor (some of) them, which encourages the current rebels (“The Resistance”), because they (aka the useful idiots) believe they are fighting against the enforcement of laws that are Wrong, rather than working patiently to change the statutes (which has been true for decades; the Democrats left the now-defied immigration laws on the books when they could have changed them numerous times; why?). The rebellion in the South was NOT discussed, possibly because it was genuinely Wrong, and more pervasive, thus more damaging to the political and social unity of the country, and eventually led to the Civil War, which we hope will continue to be just The, not The First.)
(Describes how Southern insurrection continued during Reconstruction and the Jim Crow defiance of school desegregation laws. Observes that Eisenhower and Kennedy both called out Federal troops to deal with anti-desegregation actions of Southern governors in the 1960s.)
C. De-Legitimizing Self-Defense is a Threat to the Rule of Law
(Several examples, including the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin, policeman-Michael Brown, and Kyle Rittenhouse-attackers incidents, and details on the Ross-Good case.
Other examples could be multiplied.)
D. Media Complicity as Propagandists
(Cites the case of Floyd & Chauvin, other cases where the facts are omitted or twisted to favor the Democrat position.)
E. Why Are Blue States Fomenting Rebellion?
It is all about control.
Blue state Democrats are trying to conceal the massive amounts of welfare fraud (and likely election fraud) that keeps Democrats in power. The revelation of longstanding fraud in daycare and child nutrition (Feeding Our Future) programs in Minnesota by the huge Somali community, on an epic scale, finally got national attention due to citizen-journalist Nick Shirley’s expose. Now, even the propaganda press has to cover the story. The amount of welfare fraud in Minnesota alone is estimated to be $8-9 billion! And that is just the tip of the iceberg.
States with larger populations than Minnesota, such as California, New York, and Illinois, surely have even greater amounts of fraud. Refugee populations from Third World countries have a much higher incidence of welfare usage than other groups, and—sadly—a greater proclivity for fraud. Some cultures, including Somalis, seem to be inherently prone to fraud. Democrat elected officials encourage (or ignore) fraud in exchange for campaign contributions from the plundered funds, and to maintain the “goodwill” of immigrant voting blocs. Welfare fraud is simply a cog in the Democrats’ political machine, just as it was in Boss Tweed’s corrupt Tammany Hall in 19th century New York City, the Pendergast Machine in early 20th century Kansas City, and the Democrat corruption that still characterizes cities such as Chicago.
The only difference is that the modern welfare state is much more generous—and subject to fraud—than it was in the past.
The reason why Democrats are so opposed to uncovering and correcting welfare fraud is that doing so would certainly expose the election fraud that operates in parallel with it. Voting fraud—bundling phony mail-in ballots, casting ballots by “ghost” voters who have died or moved, letting illegal aliens vote, or simply falsifying election results—is the quid pro quo for condoning welfare fraud. Cities with large immigrant populations present the greatest opportunity for both welfare fraud and election fraud.
Without election fraud (and the illegal immigration that enables it), Democrats would not be able to maintain political power in many states. Democrats favor illegal immigration, and therefore oppose the deportation of illegal aliens, because they believe their continued political power is at stake. Radical ideology plays a role, as does identity politics, as does the deranged Trump hatred by Angry (or Affluent) White Female Leftists (referred to as AWFLs)—all reinforced by college indoctrination, white liberal guilt, and media propaganda–but these “followers” are merely the foot soldiers or useful idiots empowering the corrupt political machines that govern most blue states and blue cities.
The reason Democrat officials in blue states and blue cities are willing to go to the brink of civil war in their opposition to Trump 2.0’s immigration policies is that mass deportation of illegal aliens would destroy their political hegemony. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey allowed rioters to burn down large swaths of Minneapolis–including a police station!—in 2020 because they place a higher priority on maintaining their political standing with immigrants and minorities than they do protecting the public at large or maintaining law and order.
To repeat: It is all about control.
F. Who Are the Resisters and What is Their Goal?
The Resistance is not organic. The anti-Trump lawfare, the conflict in Charlottesville in 2017, the staged J6 “insurrection,” the Antifa riots in 2020, and the anti-ICE protests since President Trump took office, were all manufactured by a cabal of Deep State operatives, left-wing media propagandists, and shadowy, behind-the-scenes groups funded by George Soros and other oligarchs who recruit, train, supply, and even transport “protesters” who are little more than paid agitators. The slain anti-ICE agitator in Minneapolis—who was coaxed into becoming a domestic terrorist–was recruited and trained by such a group.
Sadly, as the “No Kings” protests staged by the Soros-funded Indivisible group illustrate, mentally-ill AWFLs (many of them senior citizens channeling the 1960s) abound, as do disgruntled Gen Z misfits in Portland and elsewhere, gender-confused malcontents (Good became a lesbian after bearing three children in two heterosexual marriages), and lazy moochers from all ethnic backgrounds of the type who voted for Zohan Mamdani in NYC.
The funding of the network of NGOs who orchestrate and organize the anti-ICE subversion must be identified, thoroughly investigated, reviewed for legality, and publicly disclosed. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
G. How Will This End?
We are at an inflection point. The nation could end up in another civil war. The rhetoric of blue state officials such as Gov. Tim Walz suggests that is their goal. They are certainly encouraging mobs to swarm ICE and obstruct federal officers in the performance of their duties. If anyone is to blame for the shooting in Minneapolis, it is the Democrats who egged on the unstable group of agitators to engage in reckless and dangerous obstruction. Democrats seem intent on taking the nation to the brink of mass armed conflict.
Anti-ICE agitation is thuggery, and resistance to enforcement of federal immigration laws is insurrection. As legal commentator Josh Hammer stated, “The implicit threat of all so-called sanctuary jurisdictions, whose resistance to the federal government smacks of John C. Calhoun-style antebellum “nullification,” is to tell the feds not to operate and enforce federal law in a certain area — or else.
The result is crass lawlessness, Mafia-esque shakedown artistry and a fetid neo-confederate stench combined in one dystopian package.”
Inciting mobs to resist the enforcement of federal law never ends well, as the events in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama 60 years ago demonstrate. Riots are a political weapon of the Left. The “Summer of Love” was an example. Democrats seem intent on a sequel.
The events of the past week represent the greatest threat to the rule of law in my lifetime. If the Trump administration played by the same rules that Biden’s Justice Department did under the partisan hack Merrick Garland, the FBI would identify and arrest all of the anti-ICE agitators who interfere with their duties, J6 style. Interfering with federal law enforcement officers is a federal crime, more serious than briefly trespassing in the Capitol. Such mass arrests would be very polarizing, but there may be no alternative if Democrats’ radical rhetoric doesn’t abate.
Will ordinary Americans ignore the fog and din of the biased media and support the President they elected and the policies they voted for? Will public opinion sustain Trump 2.0’s MAGA policies?
I pray for the nation. I pray that Americans stand up for their President and the rule of law. I pray that the madness in Minneapolis ends without further violence and that we rid the country of the fraudsters, illegal aliens, and criminals who are trying to sabotage our republic on its 250th birthday.
Just how coincidental is the timing of massive insurrection in this particular year?
It doesn’t seem like something could be manipulated that precisely, over a stretch of several decades.
However, since the Controlling Source of the Democrats’ insane reaction to President Trump and the MAGA Republicans is a Master Manipulator, anything is possible.
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Industrial scale fraud isn’t just confined to Minnesota.
Here is a report on a $50 million dollar day-care fraud ring in Ohio, which calls the perps involved not just fraudsters but “enemy combatants,” reporting that 60% of the money they stole was sent out of the country to fund terrorist groups.*
So many of these reports are popping up, that it looks like this industrial level fraud has been occurring everywhere across our nation.
Just how much of the billions–cumulatively perhaps trillions of dollars–which the Federal and other governments have poured out over the last several years into various social welfare programs has simply been stolen?
Ten percent, 20%, 30%–when it’s all added up, when all is said and done–more than 50%?
Looking at the growing quantity of these various reports, if it’s close to 50%, I wouldn’t be surprised.
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixed-HCEBu8
P.S. It isn’t all just Somali fraudsters.
You’ve got to add in all of those homegrown perps who have gone on the Internet, bragging about staying home unemployed, and collecting many thousands of dollars each month from various sometimes over generous social welfare programs–Section 8, cash assistance, SSDI, SNAP, unemployment, disability comp., etc. etc.
Then, as well, there are the major medical players, some of whom reports say have bilked Medicaid of tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars by submitting bills for services that they’ve never performed.
We just have too much money to throw around, and supervision which is way too lax, or even essentially absent, and budgets so large that when hundreds of millions, billions, or more are being stolen, we hardly notice it.
Add all of this fraud up, and it may just possibly approach a fraud rate of 50% and, if so, this whole social welfare system is corrupt, and needs to be completely reworked.
I agree with the second comment above — we have too much money to throw around. A common approach for a Congresscritter — of either party, really — is to throw money at any problem that comes to their attention. That’s how you show your concern, even if it changes nothing. “I did what I could!” he or she can say when someone points out that students are failing or health care is too expensive.
It’s not that we need more taxes — we need less spending.
Portland police chief admits at news conference that car rammers were Tren de Aragua linked, then cries.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-police-chief-cries-admitting-dhs-right-tren-de-aragua-ties-cbp-shooting
It’s been reported that people figured out the identity of the ICE officer who shot Renee Good, because Kristi Noem revealed that he had previously been hit and dragged by an illegal alien. Loose lips sink ships.
More on the Venezuela mission. It was a lot hairier than initial indications
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/01/09/what-to-do-if-youre-shot-3x-during-maduro-operation-if-youre-this-chinook-pilot-you-finish-mission-n2197967
What to Do If You’re Shot 3X During Maduro Operation? If You’re This Chinook Pilot, You Finish Mission
No U.S. troops were killed, nor was any of our military hardware captured or destroyed.
But that doesn’t mean there weren’t multiple deaths among the Venezuelans and their protectors, the Cubans, and it doesn’t mean there were no injuries on the American team. In fact, one helicopter pilot, who was the team leader and one of the planners of the mission, was hit three times.
That didn’t stop him, according to multiple reports:
He landed the copter and delivered the American soldiers. Then later took off and returned to the IWo Jima carrier.
A brave tough warrior.
Too much spending, period. Too much spending on welfare. There used to be a stigma attached to taking a handout. Nowadays many people think “it’s free, so just take it.”
Memo has gone out to everyone in the Democratic Party that Hamas Has Always Been Bad.
Update your model accordingly.
The Democrats of the Tri-Cities had their performative protest this afternoon; 100 yards of sidewalk signs along the main shopping thouroughfare; ICE are gestapo (absolute historical illiteracy), Honour your oath (get court marshalled), Resist ICE (FAFO), etc.
Flipped ’em off as I drove by.
AWFLs, their cucks, and their heads full of mush.
I had something useful to do for others, donating platelets, them? Not so much.
What is the half life of leftist martyrs?
Saint Pancake (Rachael Corrie of the West Bank (Judea or Samaria?)
Saint Skateboard (shot by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha)
Saint Seattle (unnamed woman trying to stop traffic on I-5 in Seattle at night during George Floyd stupidity)
Saint Sparkles of Minneapolis (Renee Good)
How long before Renee is forgotten, no longer useful?
Minneapolis Is Not Even A Close Call –A Lawsplainer On Officer-Involved Shootings
https://shipwreckedcrew.substack.com/p/minneapolis-is-not-even-a-close-
H/T Instapundit
To the chase – 4 video images from the last few seconds exonerate the ICE officer. Shipwreckedcrew lays out the case law, SCOTUS decisions that back him up.
Too much spending, period. Too much spending on welfare. There used to be a stigma attached to taking a handout. Nowadays many people think “it’s free, so just take it.”
==T
The large scale programs are local public schools, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Smaller scale programs and program sets include veterans’ benefits, SNAP, housing subsidies like Section 8, SSI, TANF, and disaster relief. The TANF rolls have declined by 85% since 1992. Social Security is one of earned eligibility; the most troublesome problem right now would be sketchy disability awards. Ditto Medicare. Medicaid benefits are illiquid. Veteran’s benefits are also programs of earned eligibility. Unemployment compensation require some history of earnings, demonstration one was not fired for cause, and are term-limited. SSI is limited to the disabled and the elderly and is quite modest; sketchy definitions of disability are an issue. Aside from TANF (which has about two million enrolled last I checked), the programs who best fit your description are SNAP and allied programs and housing subsidies. About 7.3 million live in households which receive Section eight vouchers, i.e. 2.2% of the population. About 41 million ( or 13% of the total) are in SNAP households; about 55% of those who qualify for SNAP do not sigh up for it.
Dueling Jordans with Ami Kozak and Tyler Fischer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ncbXOC-TDI
What NC @3:49 pm said (though one might prefer to rephrase it slightly as “DPUSA has ALWAYS been at war with Hamas….”
Cf. second link, below…)
And so…might DPUSA’s rather abrupt about-face be related to the upcoming mid-term elections?
– Or to the no-longer-able-to-be-covered-up unholy mess (and non-stop lying) that the Democrats have been wreaking around the country (especially blue hell-holes)?
– Or to the epochal events in Mullah (et amis)-occupied Iran? (Including: Cf. first link below—“Reports that foreign islamic terrorists are fighting Iranian citizens right now – Iraqi, Afghan and Lebanese.
“Arabic chants are apparently audible, including “Ya Allah, Mashallah, Hezbollah”)
– All of the above?
https://instapundit.com/768539/
https://instapundit.com/768529/
(Including:
“William A. Jacobson…
This is the least “bad” explanation for the rapid Dem shift – hopefully @FBIDirectorKash and @AGPamBondi are about to roll up the nationwide “Pro-Palestinian” terror supporting network and establishment Dems want to avoid the fallout”)
More on the technology used by United States armed forces on arrest of the illegitimate Venezuela dictator. Impressive
This account from a Venezuelan security guard loyal to Nicolás Maduro is absolutely chilling—and it explains a lot about why the tone across Latin America suddenly changed.
Security Guard: On the day of the operation, we didn’t hear anything coming. We were on guard, but suddenly all our radar systems shut down without any explanation. The next thing we saw were drones, a lot of drones, flying over our positions. We didn’t know how to react.
Interviewer: So what happened next? How was the main attack?
Security Guard: After those drones appeared, some helicopters arrived, but there were very few. I think barely eight helicopters. From those helicopters, soldiers came down, but a very small number. Maybe twenty men. But those men were technologically very advanced. They didn’t look like anything we’ve fought against before.
Interviewer: And then the battle began?
Security Guard: Yes, but it was a massacre. We were hundreds, but we had no chance. They were shooting with such precision and speed… it seemed like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute. We couldn’t do anything.
Interviewer: And your own weapons? Didn’t they help?
Security Guard: No help at all. Because it wasn’t just the weapons. At one point, they launched something—I don’t know how to describe it… it was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside. We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move.
Interviewer: And your comrades? Did they manage to resist?
Security Guard: No, not at all. Those twenty men, without a single casualty, killed hundreds of us. We had no way to compete with their technology, with their weapons. I swear, I’ve never seen anything like it. We couldn’t even stand up after that sonic weapon or whatever it was.
Interviewer: So do you think the rest of the region should think twice before confronting the Americans?
Security Guard: Without a doubt. I’m sending a warning to anyone who thinks they can fight the United States. They have no idea what they’re capable of. After what I saw, I never want to be on the other side of that again. They’re not to be messed with.
Interviewer: And now that Trump has said Mexico is on the list, do you think the situation will change in Latin America?
Security Guard: Definitely. Everyone is already talking about this. No one wants to go through what we went through. Now everyone thinks twice. What happened here is going to change a lot of things, not just in Venezuela but throughout the region.
https://x.com/nettermike/status/2009843044028428714
I just recorded an eagle killing a wigeon drake here at DuckSpa. The high winds let the eagle basically hover over the duck until wham. He landed on it and drowned it. I think he used the house to screen his approach.
U Haul Growth Index – Texas #1, Florida #2, . . . Illinois #49, California #50 – Fascinating Information!
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/01/u-haul-growth-index-texas-1-florida-2.html
Pretty much says it all…
“Anatomy of an Insurrection;
“The recent (and ongoing) events in Minneapolis invoke historical parallels that are both instructive and alarming.”—
https://misruleoflaw.com/2026/01/11/anatomy-of-an-insurrection/
H/T Powerline blog.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/does-sweden-really-prefer-rapists-to-normal-men/
==
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/sweden-migration-agency-foreigners-clans-opaque-dealings/
@ Barry > ““Anatomy of an Insurrection”
Thanks for the link, that article by Mark Pulliam is the best summary of the situation that I have seen, covering a number of facets that are all part of the problem.
My opinion: Democrats have rejected the soapbox, the ballot box, the impartial jury box (with biased jurors and partisan judges). So, for many on the right, the only thing left to protect our liberty and country is the cartridge box – and the Democrats really shouldn’t force us to go there.
(I have quit using The Left as distinguishable from The Democrats, as they are now becoming totally congruent, unless the LIV Democrat voters get their heads out of the ground and start rejecting what their Party leadership and many followers are promoting.)
Synopsis:
A. Blue States Resist Enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws
(A good summary of current events.)
B. Federal Law Is Paramount to State Law
(Notes the insurrection in the North by abolitionists who disagreed with the Fugitive Slave Law and engaged in violence to force confrontation with the South – now we honor (some of) them, which encourages the current rebels (“The Resistance”), because they (aka the useful idiots) believe they are fighting against the enforcement of laws that are Wrong, rather than working patiently to change the statutes (which has been true for decades; the Democrats left the now-defied immigration laws on the books when they could have changed them numerous times; why?). The rebellion in the South was NOT discussed, possibly because it was genuinely Wrong, and more pervasive, thus more damaging to the political and social unity of the country, and eventually led to the Civil War, which we hope will continue to be just The, not The First.)
(Describes how Southern insurrection continued during Reconstruction and the Jim Crow defiance of school desegregation laws. Observes that Eisenhower and Kennedy both called out Federal troops to deal with anti-desegregation actions of Southern governors in the 1960s.)
C. De-Legitimizing Self-Defense is a Threat to the Rule of Law
(Several examples, including the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin, policeman-Michael Brown, and Kyle Rittenhouse-attackers incidents, and details on the Ross-Good case.
Other examples could be multiplied.)
D. Media Complicity as Propagandists
(Cites the case of Floyd & Chauvin, other cases where the facts are omitted or twisted to favor the Democrat position.)
E. Why Are Blue States Fomenting Rebellion?
Just how coincidental is the timing of massive insurrection in this particular year?
It doesn’t seem like something could be manipulated that precisely, over a stretch of several decades.
However, since the Controlling Source of the Democrats’ insane reaction to President Trump and the MAGA Republicans is a Master Manipulator, anything is possible.