Minneapolis is now the tinderbox that Boston was in the 1770’s. But George III wanted peace. Donald I wants violence so that he can invoke his inner GI Joe with the Insurrection Act to prove his macho creds to his blindly adoring base.
Minneapolis needs to hold its line with quiet grit and determination. We don’t need a Minneapolis Massacre. Renee Good was already a death much too far.
Folks on R/Minnesota were celebrating because the weather is finally getting Midwest cold on the ICE agents. So far while ICE has been there it's been unseasonably warm, in the 30s-40s. Today is the first day where the high is 18, low 10. Storm coming through this weekend has temperatures dropping again, Monday the high is going to be 2 degrees, the low is -2.
We have all been laughing at videos of the ICE agents slipping on ICE. Minnesotans are warning the ICE agents they have only just begun to slip.
Al, I don't know about that. Where do you think the J6ICEers will go when it is too cold for their tender bodies (think about their Kevlars freezing to their bodies)? To the nearest bar where they can get something to remind them of warmer climes, like Texas or Louisiana where they were call from to the frozen Northern Iatitudes, perhaps a Marguerita?.
My wife even mentioned that last night. Maybe the frigid temps will make ICE leave. First time I have ever said: bring the frigid temps! Make it be a long cold spell!
These crybabies are afraid of melting when/if water is sprayed on them. Stephen Miller has made it clear that ICE agents are granted immunity to dispense summary executions under these circumstances.
Visiting a friend in St. Paul in December a few years ago, temps were well below zero (F) for several days. One day I recall the daytime high was -13. Let's hope...
Stephen Miller and all mal-trained ICE & CBP officers are doing everything they can to deliberately provoke a Minneapolis Massacre. I don't want that to happen but, when it does, U.S. citizens - conservative and liberal - must stand up for their compatriots and our Constitution.
These over-aggressive, unapologetic tactics by ICE agents are astounding. It makes me wonder whether Stephen Miller has adopted another Nazi regimen - giving troops meth to give them the feeling of invincibility and delusions of grandeur, not to mention the belligerence. I would not put it past that evil piece of garbage.
But Miller would never would have been able to do so without Trump. And I’m quite certain Trump is in complete agreement with this aspect of the program even if it wasn’t entirely his idea.
"And yesterday, Stephen Miller encouraged ICE not to let little obstacles like city and state officials interfere with their work. ICE officers, he said, have “immunity to perform your duties,” and any official who interferes with those duties “will face justice.”"
If an ICE officer is seen physically assaulting a young woman at a peaceful protest, aren't the police officers there to protect her rights? To protect her from physical harm? Say they begin to question her, and she tells them she's an American citizen and they surround and begin to say nasty things that I can't type here because they are too foul. (I'm describing a situation I read on my facebook feed happening)
Why don't the Police charge these power drunk fools with assault, and assault while carrying deadly weapons? It is getting insane and someone else is going to get hurt or killed. The place is a boiling pot right now. If the heat doesn't get turned down, its going to overflow and I do not want to see that happen. I live in a blue city too, Pittsburgh. I imagine they'll get to us soon enough.
I've seen a couple different descriptions and videos on my Facebook feed on what is happening inside Minneapolis and it's jarring and scary how bold the maga nazis are, and they are stirring people up deliberately. They are being baited into a fight. We should NOT TAKE THE BAIT. This administration is not an American government, their lawless behavior will just continue on and on, people will get hurt, some will die and cowardly republicans will sit in congress doing nothing.
I'm not a lawyer, but there are Supremacy Clause issues at play and Walz has to make sure he doesn't take any action that would lead to Trump using the Insurrection Act. Because that's what Trump wants to do.
States retain the authority to prosecute federal agents for actions beyond the scope of their lawful federal duties. Where, as in this case, it appears that the federal agent's actions violated DHS policy (positioning himself in front of a vehicle, firing into a moving vehicle), there appears to be competent case for charging. This is precisely why, of course, local law enforcement is being frozen out of the investigation.
MPLS police are 600. That is about 400 short of where they once were. They are working overtime. Currently there are 2800 ICE. (out numbered and currently over burdened)
Because the police are part of the fraternity. ICE and police support each other. They are two sides of the same coin. Police will protect “law enforcement” not citizens.
Some are, some aren't. Watch this video of the Philly sheriff with her warning to ICE, and who says they will do their duty without fear or favor. The politicians are also with her in this video. Caveats, of course, about AI fakes - they are everywhere (to You Tube's shame). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEQzZAvqzY0
I would caution anyone to be wary of videos online depicting ICE- right or left leaning. There are some very good AI creators out there depicting things that never happened as clicbait.
I would caution to be wary of videos online- right or left leaning. There are som very good AI creators out there depicting things that never happened as clicbait.
They may want to prepare for the moment that their targets "do what they have to do". After all, not all of their targets will be women in cars trying to get out of the way.
“Stand your ground” is a right wing virtue . . . Until it’s decent Americans under attack who try it. And what about the “castle doctrine”? Opps, that’s for red hats only.
Careful, friend, that kind of talk could get you a knock on the door (or a ram through it) at midnight. If they are trying to punish Senators. Warner and Slotnik for saying what the law is, "do what you have to do" sounds a bit seditious to small minds like the Felon's.
He may be drunk on power, but what exactly will happen to him when the Trump administration leaves? He’ll probably get some cushy think tank job, or multiple well paid speaking and or lobbying gigs.
yes - several cabinet members are living in base housing... Miller claims it is because a neighbor was harassing them about being terrible people and didn't feel safe in the mcmanion anymore. So some military officer got booted to make room for them.
He knows he is despised. I think they all live on the same military base now, Hegseth, Miller, etc. They all moved there once trump started firing all the federal employees and shutting down oversight anywhere he saw it.
Let them cower in their houses, because ultimately American citizens will throw them out. I look forward to our version of the Nuremberg trials.
Personally speaking, Keith, I believe that those who declare themselves above the law have forfeited any moral and philosophical claim of protection under the law. And that's as far as I'll go in a public forum.
What happened in Germany after WW3 only happened because the totality of their loss and occupation. Compare between that and Germany after WW1. The circumstances here will not be the same.
Does the person who gets the White House position “stellvertretender Stabschef für Politik und Heimatschutzberater” NOT have to take an oath to the US Constitution? …asking for an outraged populace
He really is the worst of all of them, in my opinion. On any given day, the top 5 assholes in the admin can vary. Except for him. He's always at or near the top.
One wonders what happened to him in his childhood. He's clearly a sociopath.
But he's also a coward, just like his cult leader. Take away their "safety in number" and watch them frantically retreat. Some will take the Hitler way out.
I'm sorry, but there's no such thing as a "kid reporter" any more....young people are told (and sadly believe) they are going to be "leaders" upon graduating from college...and subscribe to the corollary if you haven't had an impact by the time you're 35 you're a loser. Then, on the other hand, we have 80 year olds who won't relinquish power despite their declining aptitudes. I don't want a surgeon who's 25 and I don't want one who's 80....Our social obsession with youth has created a missing middle of sane and experienced people...so that Nick Shirley and Karoline Leavitt...are what we get...too young and dumb to not know what they don't know. It takes competency to judge competency.
I see this more and more, and to be fair many of the brightest youth are ahead of were I was at their age in terms of what they had studied — earlier concept introduction, more AP classes, research, etc. But there is an attitude that there is nothing to learn, only hoops to be jumped through and hurdles crossed until the reach the bright sunny lands of a career fully fledged and not a young chick without any experience. I always saw education as a means of personal learning and development which is something that seems lacking from much of the youth embarking in their careers today.
>>> "The price Sabula paid for his heckling was being suspended from work. But he was not cowed. He told the Washington Post, 'As far as calling him out, definitely no regrets whatsoever,' adding, 'I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.'"
FYI - Sabula's Go Fund Me has raised upwards of $200K as of writing (9:45 AM, Wed, 1/14/26).
The irony that it takes a factory floor worker to tell Trump what he needs to hear and should have heard long ago. The political class should take note.
Your take on protecting young reporters from themselves is so true. I was the editor of my high school newspaper before going on to a long career in Chicago newspapering. At that HS paper, I wrote, edited, headlined, and published one screaming hot take after the next because there was nobody to say, "Yes, your story is technically true, but it's only half of what happened. You need to report this more to get the perspective this story needs." Nah, I went with the screaming hot take. Sure, it was only high school, but I look back on some of those stories with extreme embarrassment. Nobody was hurt by them, but the stories were cringe and only half true without that extra perspective.
Everybody needs an editor throughout their careers, and younglings need a really really good editor to save them from themselves.
I took medical terminology as a summer course at UT Austin over 20 years ago. Probably the most useful course I ever took. It was taught by the Classics Department, and it covered all the Greek and Latin roots used to construct medical terms.
Young men voted for Trump. Whose fault is this? One reason - all the algorithms of the AI social media feed them only two options to satisfy their desires- are they in need of absolute control in a world they no longer control (fascism content) or are they horny (pornography). That’s it.
I keep thinking its all these unhappy young men who are incels (Involuntary Celibate) and if only they got laid, they'd be much less angry at the world. Do they think it's beneath them to actually "try"? Because charm and funny goes a long way for women. Are they intimidated by today's young women who are accomplished and getting high paying jobs after college? Careers that they worked for?
I see many stay at home dads these days, (my neighborhood school bus stop has at least 3 out of the 9 of us standing there with our kids), so obviously some men are fine with women being equal partners instead of subservient wives.
Perhaps not wanting to compete financially is part of the chip on young maga men shoulders. Childish laziness? They want to be big shots making good money but doing what? Playing video games, commenting rudely and being the snarkiest on the right-wing forums doesn't pay anything. But, suddenly, because of trump, they are "allowed" to be racists, bigots, misogynists and some are expressing it. Sad, bleak times for America.
I heard Nick Shirley’s voice yesterday in an interview replayed by Adam Mockler on his podcast. Shirley plumbs new depths of “dumb”. He was like a painful caricature of stupid. If he is the future, then I will keep focused on “live for today”. We are in an alternate universe.
Great writing Andrew! You had a wonderful editor in JVL. I'm jealous but I've been blessed with wonderful mentors myself, so no complaints here.
But I honestly think Minneapolis was picked for different reasons: small size, few gun owners, far from the border and criminals who might fight back, Democratic Governor.
Plus the president has vilified Illan Omar since last term and the George Floyd killing and the burning of the police station was in Minneapolis so your average uninformed person will say "yeah that's a bad place. ICE should be there cleaning it out." They won't be as outraged by the video that has been coming out of that city.
So today we have JD and Marco meeting officials from Denmark and Greenland to "discuss" handing over Greenland to the U.S. Like the pre-WW2 fucking Nazis demanding Czechoslovakia and the Sudetenland or else. JFC, I detest what Trump has done to this country.
I blame the Republican Congress and the Supreme Court way more than the voters. So many people begged and begged to get Trump off the ballot, but they insisted on having everything their way, backed up with violence. Sure, the voters have some responsibility, but the people who swore the follow the Constitution and then told voters, Trump IS the Constitution. Those people get the deepest circle of Hell.
This is where we diverge, Kate. If the electorate was not shaken by 1M COVID deaths, an attempted coup, 34 felony convictions and being found civil liable for sexual, that tells me they are morally degraded. We are where we are because 77 million people wanted this.
Well, you're right about that - it is the electorate along with the Republican Party and Supreme Court. I cannot believe how stupid John Roberts is to have given a criminal as President freedom to break the law with abandon.
Maybe not guys like Trump, but guys like Roberts...that's who the immunity was protecting. That's what they were thinking. Life under the current president is just the price we pay for freedom...like mass shootings are the price we pay for 2nd Amendment freedoms.
Just a reference point and cogent detail from a recent NYT article, for which I am certain that Vance may be reminded by Denmark diplomats today:
“Buy Greenland? Take It? Why? An Old Pact Already Gives Trump a Free Hand”
According to the 2004 amendment, the United States is supposed to consult with Denmark and Greenland before it makes “any significant changes” in its military operations on the island. The 2004 amendment, which was signed by Gen. Colin L. Powell, who was then the secretary of state, explicitly recognizes Greenland as “an equal part of the Kingdom of Denmark.”
Peter Ernstved Rasmussen, a Danish defense analyst, said that in practice, if American forces made reasonable requests, “the U.S. would always get a yes.”
“It is a courtesy formula,” he said. “If the U.S. wanted to act without asking, it could simply inform Denmark that it is building a base, an airfield or a port.”
That’s what infuriates longtime Danish political experts. If Mr. Trump wanted to beef up Greenland’s security right now, he could. But there has been no such official American request, said Jens Adser Sorensen, a former senior official in Denmark’s parliament.
“Why don’t you use the mechanism of the defense agreement if you’re so worried about the security situation?” he said, adding, “The framework is there. It’s in place.”
But Greenland’s strategic location is not the only thing that’s attracted Mr. Trump’s inner circle. The enormous island has another draw: critical minerals, loads of them, buried under the ice. Here, too, analysts say, the United States doesn’t need to take over the island to get them.
Greenlanders have said they are open to doing business — with just about anyone.
Trump isn't happy with "Yes". He needs a "Yes sir, Mr. President, sir." They should find a knockout danish girl to give him the "Greenland Peace Prize", then we'd be BFF ...!
President Pedophile Protector. Thank you TJ Sabula, I think we have a new title for the current occupant of the Oval Office.
As for Joe Rogan, yes, "where are your papers" is what we have been reduced to, you would have seen this template with Arpaio in AZ if you had've been paying any attention, and this was entirely predictable should Trump, whom you were helping to elect, win the election. You will believe any conspiracy theory and will credulously promote it on your podcast to your millions of listeners but you just never could have seen this coming. Better late than never, except not really, because you have a lot to do with why we're here, and you have yet to admit this reality to yourself and the responsibility you bear. And when people like Sam Harris try to tell you how influential you are and what your obligations are with such a powerful platform, you petulantly shut them out and tell them to fuck off. You could have prevented this perhaps more than anyone.
In all the long years of T, this is the first time he's publicly flipped someone off. Might be he's a tad sensitive to Pedo Protector? Epstein Files are going to come back, no matter how many distractions he can produce in his factory of evil.
He doesn't like anyone questioning anything he does. This time it just happened to be "pedo protector." Next time it could be "no peace prize for you, war monger!"
Andrew Egger continues to bring it. I really appreciated what he wrote in yesterday's letter: "All this is coming at a pivotal moment, when some congressional Republicans—one year into Trump 2.0—are starting to reconsider the question of whether their bodies contain spines.". Didn't comment yesterday but I feel compelled to praise that a day late.
Is there no mechanism for taxing the rich now? They flee any taxes at any jurisdictional level; county, state, or federal. They are stateless plutocrats, sloshing around the globe, seeking the geographical vacuum of a low tax venue, and some entity is usually found to comply by whorishly creating a favorable tax haven.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out with the public and what they think about the uber wealthy. The tenor or the writing sounded like the Bulwark now frowns on California’s direct democracy via the ballot measure — the same direct democracy that counteracted Texas’ redistricting.
No matter what, how, or who, a lot of people think we should tax poor people and let billionaires take whatever they want. But here's the thing: no rich people move to Alabama unless they golf obsessively. Nobody moved out of Boston. Nobody's moving out of New York. Can we maybe stop believing billionaire propaganda, guys?
On the Billionaire's Tax: I get the opposition to it, and the likelihood they'd all just run to avoid it.
My question for the Never Trump former Republicans is this: Assuming an acknowledgement that there is an unhealthy accumulation of wealth in our country, what measures can be taken to address that? Or is it just too late?
I know what the answers would look like from the left, and I know all of them would be accused of being some degree of Socialism from the Right, even from people supposedly well-intentioned. I just don't know how it gets addressed any other way than some form of confiscation.
My guess is that any R’s will say, “What’s the problem with having so many billionaires? Isn’t that everyone’s goal? Why punish those who have succeeded? They are job creators.” Trickle down and some such.
They will say that. And I think the billionaires wouldn't notice the absence of the amount of money they would pay under that tax except for the principle of the thing. It's not like they have to sell one of their houses, yachts, private aircraft to pay for it.
Remember the Biden Administration efforts to work with other countries to establish a global minimum corporate tax?
Sigh. Of course, tRumpy negated all that as one of his first acts of corruption in 2021.
But that sort of minimum taxation rate across the country and world would be required in order to stop the uber-wealthy from packing up their cajillions of dollars and fleeing.
It really wouldn't. Offshore tax havens are used everywhere. Apple has many administrative functions in Ireland for tax purposes, but you don't see Apple execs moving to Ireland.
They don’t run away though. They’re all talk because at the end of the day, they know where the good places are to live. You notice how they don’t live in Haley Idaho or Jackson Hole despite literally dumping money there for vacation homes. They want to live in California. Call their bluff and I guarantee most stay and complain.
Minneapolis is now the tinderbox that Boston was in the 1770’s. But George III wanted peace. Donald I wants violence so that he can invoke his inner GI Joe with the Insurrection Act to prove his macho creds to his blindly adoring base.
Minneapolis needs to hold its line with quiet grit and determination. We don’t need a Minneapolis Massacre. Renee Good was already a death much too far.
Folks on R/Minnesota were celebrating because the weather is finally getting Midwest cold on the ICE agents. So far while ICE has been there it's been unseasonably warm, in the 30s-40s. Today is the first day where the high is 18, low 10. Storm coming through this weekend has temperatures dropping again, Monday the high is going to be 2 degrees, the low is -2.
We have all been laughing at videos of the ICE agents slipping on ICE. Minnesotans are warning the ICE agents they have only just begun to slip.
Cold weather seems to have a penchant for stopping fascists. Just ask Russia.
Or Germany in multiple wars
This ain't Margaritaville.
Al, I don't know about that. Where do you think the J6ICEers will go when it is too cold for their tender bodies (think about their Kevlars freezing to their bodies)? To the nearest bar where they can get something to remind them of warmer climes, like Texas or Louisiana where they were call from to the frozen Northern Iatitudes, perhaps a Marguerita?.
It was pretty cold and windy on J6. I remember seeing the crowd dissipate as the sun dropped in the horizon.
""Waistin away again in Margaritaville. Search for my large shaker of salt"..... *Jimmie Buffett
My wife even mentioned that last night. Maybe the frigid temps will make ICE leave. First time I have ever said: bring the frigid temps! Make it be a long cold spell!
Seems like water guns could be of use here….
Just make sure they don’t look like the real thing! Bright plastic in animal shapes!
These crybabies are afraid of melting when/if water is sprayed on them. Stephen Miller has made it clear that ICE agents are granted immunity to dispense summary executions under these circumstances.
Visiting a friend in St. Paul in December a few years ago, temps were well below zero (F) for several days. One day I recall the daytime high was -13. Let's hope...
Don', t give it to him Ghandi should be the model, not just as opposition to violence but because empirically that's what works.
Stephen Miller and all mal-trained ICE & CBP officers are doing everything they can to deliberately provoke a Minneapolis Massacre. I don't want that to happen but, when it does, U.S. citizens - conservative and liberal - must stand up for their compatriots and our Constitution.
These over-aggressive, unapologetic tactics by ICE agents are astounding. It makes me wonder whether Stephen Miller has adopted another Nazi regimen - giving troops meth to give them the feeling of invincibility and delusions of grandeur, not to mention the belligerence. I would not put it past that evil piece of garbage.
These guys probably don't need meth to be overly agressive assholes. Just a guin, a fantasy, and little or no actual training.
Probably more accurate to say that this is Stephen Miller's handiwork. It's both wildly authoritarian and lacking any serious thought.
But Miller would never would have been able to do so without Trump. And I’m quite certain Trump is in complete agreement with this aspect of the program even if it wasn’t entirely his idea.
Plus Trump certainly doesn’t oppose it.
"I choose violence".... *Cercei Lannister
"And yesterday, Stephen Miller encouraged ICE not to let little obstacles like city and state officials interfere with their work. ICE officers, he said, have “immunity to perform your duties,” and any official who interferes with those duties “will face justice.”"
This little fuck has gotten drunk on power.
If an ICE officer is seen physically assaulting a young woman at a peaceful protest, aren't the police officers there to protect her rights? To protect her from physical harm? Say they begin to question her, and she tells them she's an American citizen and they surround and begin to say nasty things that I can't type here because they are too foul. (I'm describing a situation I read on my facebook feed happening)
Why don't the Police charge these power drunk fools with assault, and assault while carrying deadly weapons? It is getting insane and someone else is going to get hurt or killed. The place is a boiling pot right now. If the heat doesn't get turned down, its going to overflow and I do not want to see that happen. I live in a blue city too, Pittsburgh. I imagine they'll get to us soon enough.
I've seen a couple different descriptions and videos on my Facebook feed on what is happening inside Minneapolis and it's jarring and scary how bold the maga nazis are, and they are stirring people up deliberately. They are being baited into a fight. We should NOT TAKE THE BAIT. This administration is not an American government, their lawless behavior will just continue on and on, people will get hurt, some will die and cowardly republicans will sit in congress doing nothing.
I'm not a lawyer, but there are Supremacy Clause issues at play and Walz has to make sure he doesn't take any action that would lead to Trump using the Insurrection Act. Because that's what Trump wants to do.
States retain the authority to prosecute federal agents for actions beyond the scope of their lawful federal duties. Where, as in this case, it appears that the federal agent's actions violated DHS policy (positioning himself in front of a vehicle, firing into a moving vehicle), there appears to be competent case for charging. This is precisely why, of course, local law enforcement is being frozen out of the investigation.
So much for "states rights".
MPLS police are 600. That is about 400 short of where they once were. They are working overtime. Currently there are 2800 ICE. (out numbered and currently over burdened)
Because the police are part of the fraternity. ICE and police support each other. They are two sides of the same coin. Police will protect “law enforcement” not citizens.
Some are, some aren't. Watch this video of the Philly sheriff with her warning to ICE, and who says they will do their duty without fear or favor. The politicians are also with her in this video. Caveats, of course, about AI fakes - they are everywhere (to You Tube's shame). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEQzZAvqzY0
I would caution anyone to be wary of videos online depicting ICE- right or left leaning. There are some very good AI creators out there depicting things that never happened as clicbait.
I would caution to be wary of videos online- right or left leaning. There are som very good AI creators out there depicting things that never happened as clicbait.
I’ve also heard that ICE thugs have been instructed “Do what you have to do”. They speak in code about the violence.
They may want to prepare for the moment that their targets "do what they have to do". After all, not all of their targets will be women in cars trying to get out of the way.
They work hard to make sure their targets are women and children.
and defenseless immigrants.
“Stand your ground” is a right wing virtue . . . Until it’s decent Americans under attack who try it. And what about the “castle doctrine”? Opps, that’s for red hats only.
Careful, friend, that kind of talk could get you a knock on the door (or a ram through it) at midnight. If they are trying to punish Senators. Warner and Slotnik for saying what the law is, "do what you have to do" sounds a bit seditious to small minds like the Felon's.
Aren't all Bulwark subscribers in potential trouble?
So did Sarah Palin's "second amendment solutions" comment, Dave. We have to play the game we're in.
Jon Ross once worked in SWAT. That is the attitude of ICE.
He may be drunk on power, but what exactly will happen to him when the Trump administration leaves? He’ll probably get some cushy think tank job, or multiple well paid speaking and or lobbying gigs.
He'll slither off to Hungary or the Emirates, some place where his disgusting lack of humanity is celebrated.
He's already hiding out on a military base, I've heard.
yes - several cabinet members are living in base housing... Miller claims it is because a neighbor was harassing them about being terrible people and didn't feel safe in the mcmanion anymore. So some military officer got booted to make room for them.
Poor widdle Stephen!
The punkass can't handle dissent,or the truth.
He likely can't take a punch, either.
He knows he is despised. I think they all live on the same military base now, Hegseth, Miller, etc. They all moved there once trump started firing all the federal employees and shutting down oversight anywhere he saw it.
Let them cower in their houses, because ultimately American citizens will throw them out. I look forward to our version of the Nuremberg trials.
At a minimum, you make sure he doesn't get the think tank job or gigs on the lecture circuit.
How? And I mean this seriously. And this goes for a number of them not just Miller.
Rick Wilson has described what should happen after Trump's term. He loosely bases it off what happened in post-WW II Germany. It is here:
https://www.againstallenemies.net/p/how-it-stops-how-it-ends?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1887091&post_id=184147160&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=7jcyj&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Personally speaking, Keith, I believe that those who declare themselves above the law have forfeited any moral and philosophical claim of protection under the law. And that's as far as I'll go in a public forum.
What happened in Germany after WW3 only happened because the totality of their loss and occupation. Compare between that and Germany after WW1. The circumstances here will not be the same.
WW2. WW3 is the one Trump is trying to start today.
Not yet, Keith.
Thanks for the link to the article. I really liked it and agree with most of what Rick is saying.
Rick Wilson has been ON FIRE this week!!! I subscribe to his newsletter.
Does the person who gets the White House position “stellvertretender Stabschef für Politik und Heimatschutzberater” NOT have to take an oath to the US Constitution? …asking for an outraged populace
Miller should consult with Kennedy on immunity.
We saw what you did there :)
No vaccinations for Miller! 😂
He really is the worst of all of them, in my opinion. On any given day, the top 5 assholes in the admin can vary. Except for him. He's always at or near the top.
One wonders what happened to him in his childhood. He's clearly a sociopath.
But he's also a coward, just like his cult leader. Take away their "safety in number" and watch them frantically retreat. Some will take the Hitler way out.
Indeed. What authority does he have to be spouting off about immunity?
When has actual authority ever stopped these pukes? They've done a pretty good job so far of making their own authority.
I'm sorry, but there's no such thing as a "kid reporter" any more....young people are told (and sadly believe) they are going to be "leaders" upon graduating from college...and subscribe to the corollary if you haven't had an impact by the time you're 35 you're a loser. Then, on the other hand, we have 80 year olds who won't relinquish power despite their declining aptitudes. I don't want a surgeon who's 25 and I don't want one who's 80....Our social obsession with youth has created a missing middle of sane and experienced people...so that Nick Shirley and Karoline Leavitt...are what we get...too young and dumb to not know what they don't know. It takes competency to judge competency.
It's not just they don't know what they don't know. It's that they don't care.
I see this more and more, and to be fair many of the brightest youth are ahead of were I was at their age in terms of what they had studied — earlier concept introduction, more AP classes, research, etc. But there is an attitude that there is nothing to learn, only hoops to be jumped through and hurdles crossed until the reach the bright sunny lands of a career fully fledged and not a young chick without any experience. I always saw education as a means of personal learning and development which is something that seems lacking from much of the youth embarking in their careers today.
>>> "The price Sabula paid for his heckling was being suspended from work. But he was not cowed. He told the Washington Post, 'As far as calling him out, definitely no regrets whatsoever,' adding, 'I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.'"
FYI - Sabula's Go Fund Me has raised upwards of $200K as of writing (9:45 AM, Wed, 1/14/26).
https://www.gofundme.com/f/tj-sabula-is-a-patriot
The irony that it takes a factory floor worker to tell Trump what he needs to hear and should have heard long ago. The political class should take note.
It was a mere child who called out the The Emperors New Clothes. Bless those with few inhibitions about speaking truth!
Why listen to cattle when you can just slaughter them ...?
I've got $10 burning a hole in my pocket. Thanks!
Now approaching $350k.
Now approaching $350k.
Your take on protecting young reporters from themselves is so true. I was the editor of my high school newspaper before going on to a long career in Chicago newspapering. At that HS paper, I wrote, edited, headlined, and published one screaming hot take after the next because there was nobody to say, "Yes, your story is technically true, but it's only half of what happened. You need to report this more to get the perspective this story needs." Nah, I went with the screaming hot take. Sure, it was only high school, but I look back on some of those stories with extreme embarrassment. Nobody was hurt by them, but the stories were cringe and only half true without that extra perspective.
Everybody needs an editor throughout their careers, and younglings need a really really good editor to save them from themselves.
Editing is more than just sentence structure, word choice and grammar.
It certainly is!
I'd like to suggest that readers check out the Student Press Law Center. Splc.org
I accidentally stumbled on their site when I entered splc.org instead of splcenter.org a few years ago. I now contribute to both.
When the Chair of the Fed becomes a folk hero, we are plowing fresh turf. I like it.
Yes! And I, for one, think that he's kinda sexy in that video.
I admit to feeling the same way. He's resolute, dignified, and has a great head of silver hair. 😅
>>> "... the more remarkable it is that the whole situation really got going thanks to one smooth-brained 23-year-old YouTuber ..."
But Andrew, how do you *really* feel?
This got an audible laugh at my cubicle this morning.
I wonder if Sam made Andrew replace "lissencephalic" with "smooth-brained."
No but I'm gonna start using "lissencephalic," that is great.
Somebodies thesaurus was within reach this morning. ;)
Better than hammering away on the strength of buzz words. Wink emoji. O Time, flat circle!
I took medical terminology as a summer course at UT Austin over 20 years ago. Probably the most useful course I ever took. It was taught by the Classics Department, and it covered all the Greek and Latin roots used to construct medical terms.
As we dumb down I wonder if that'll stay in the curriculum
Same here.
Young men voted for Trump. Whose fault is this? One reason - all the algorithms of the AI social media feed them only two options to satisfy their desires- are they in need of absolute control in a world they no longer control (fascism content) or are they horny (pornography). That’s it.
I keep thinking its all these unhappy young men who are incels (Involuntary Celibate) and if only they got laid, they'd be much less angry at the world. Do they think it's beneath them to actually "try"? Because charm and funny goes a long way for women. Are they intimidated by today's young women who are accomplished and getting high paying jobs after college? Careers that they worked for?
I see many stay at home dads these days, (my neighborhood school bus stop has at least 3 out of the 9 of us standing there with our kids), so obviously some men are fine with women being equal partners instead of subservient wives.
Perhaps not wanting to compete financially is part of the chip on young maga men shoulders. Childish laziness? They want to be big shots making good money but doing what? Playing video games, commenting rudely and being the snarkiest on the right-wing forums doesn't pay anything. But, suddenly, because of trump, they are "allowed" to be racists, bigots, misogynists and some are expressing it. Sad, bleak times for America.
We are where we are because of Big Tech after all...
When VCR's first came out the most sought after cassettes behind the Iron Curtain were the CBS Evening News (Uncle Walter!) aaaaand porn.
The typical adult male tongue weighs about 3.5 ounces.
The current spot price of silver is around $90 per troy ounce.
A troy ounce weighs roughly 10% more than a regular ounce.
Thus, JD Vance’s silver tongue is currently worth about $170.
Not much. Same as everything else that comes out of his mouth.
Funny! But imagining the weight of Vance’s tongue stole my appetite for breakfast.
Stomach churning here as well.
I heard Nick Shirley’s voice yesterday in an interview replayed by Adam Mockler on his podcast. Shirley plumbs new depths of “dumb”. He was like a painful caricature of stupid. If he is the future, then I will keep focused on “live for today”. We are in an alternate universe.
I hope I never hear it, but I'm curious - is he more Beavis or more Butthead?
Oh man; this assessment is beyond my level of expertise! But it was bad, on that level.
Great writing Andrew! You had a wonderful editor in JVL. I'm jealous but I've been blessed with wonderful mentors myself, so no complaints here.
But I honestly think Minneapolis was picked for different reasons: small size, few gun owners, far from the border and criminals who might fight back, Democratic Governor.
A small police force trained in de-escalation and now outnumbered by a better armed criminal gang 6-1.
Plus the president has vilified Illan Omar since last term and the George Floyd killing and the burning of the police station was in Minneapolis so your average uninformed person will say "yeah that's a bad place. ICE should be there cleaning it out." They won't be as outraged by the video that has been coming out of that city.
So today we have JD and Marco meeting officials from Denmark and Greenland to "discuss" handing over Greenland to the U.S. Like the pre-WW2 fucking Nazis demanding Czechoslovakia and the Sudetenland or else. JFC, I detest what Trump has done to this country.
Trump hasn't done anything, Gerald. The voters have. 77 million people voted for someone who mused about pulling out of NATO during the campaign.
I blame the Republican Congress and the Supreme Court way more than the voters. So many people begged and begged to get Trump off the ballot, but they insisted on having everything their way, backed up with violence. Sure, the voters have some responsibility, but the people who swore the follow the Constitution and then told voters, Trump IS the Constitution. Those people get the deepest circle of Hell.
Take it further back...no conviction on the impeachment on the J6 activity. That's where this all could have been prevented.
This is where we diverge, Kate. If the electorate was not shaken by 1M COVID deaths, an attempted coup, 34 felony convictions and being found civil liable for sexual, that tells me they are morally degraded. We are where we are because 77 million people wanted this.
Well, you're right about that - it is the electorate along with the Republican Party and Supreme Court. I cannot believe how stupid John Roberts is to have given a criminal as President freedom to break the law with abandon.
Or maybe this is the world John Roberts wants. He's not stupid. He just believes guys like Trump should be able to do what they want with impunity.
Exactly. He's not stupid: he believes might makes money and money makes right.
Maybe not guys like Trump, but guys like Roberts...that's who the immunity was protecting. That's what they were thinking. Life under the current president is just the price we pay for freedom...like mass shootings are the price we pay for 2nd Amendment freedoms.
We'll take the shackles, firm in the belief that someone should have done the right thing for us good citizens ...
Hasn't done anything (but threaten and diminish),
77 million (if you don't mind a rounding error),
And "musing" about NATO. The same NATO that has provided troops under Article 5 for every US action since 9/11?
This guy is not a good guy, and anyone who thinks otherwise, is paying for him with their soul ...
Just a reference point and cogent detail from a recent NYT article, for which I am certain that Vance may be reminded by Denmark diplomats today:
“Buy Greenland? Take It? Why? An Old Pact Already Gives Trump a Free Hand”
According to the 2004 amendment, the United States is supposed to consult with Denmark and Greenland before it makes “any significant changes” in its military operations on the island. The 2004 amendment, which was signed by Gen. Colin L. Powell, who was then the secretary of state, explicitly recognizes Greenland as “an equal part of the Kingdom of Denmark.”
Peter Ernstved Rasmussen, a Danish defense analyst, said that in practice, if American forces made reasonable requests, “the U.S. would always get a yes.”
“It is a courtesy formula,” he said. “If the U.S. wanted to act without asking, it could simply inform Denmark that it is building a base, an airfield or a port.”
That’s what infuriates longtime Danish political experts. If Mr. Trump wanted to beef up Greenland’s security right now, he could. But there has been no such official American request, said Jens Adser Sorensen, a former senior official in Denmark’s parliament.
“Why don’t you use the mechanism of the defense agreement if you’re so worried about the security situation?” he said, adding, “The framework is there. It’s in place.”
But Greenland’s strategic location is not the only thing that’s attracted Mr. Trump’s inner circle. The enormous island has another draw: critical minerals, loads of them, buried under the ice. Here, too, analysts say, the United States doesn’t need to take over the island to get them.
Greenlanders have said they are open to doing business — with just about anyone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/world/europe/trump-greenland-denmark-us-defense-pact.html
Trump isn't happy with "Yes". He needs a "Yes sir, Mr. President, sir." They should find a knockout danish girl to give him the "Greenland Peace Prize", then we'd be BFF ...!
President Pedophile Protector. Thank you TJ Sabula, I think we have a new title for the current occupant of the Oval Office.
As for Joe Rogan, yes, "where are your papers" is what we have been reduced to, you would have seen this template with Arpaio in AZ if you had've been paying any attention, and this was entirely predictable should Trump, whom you were helping to elect, win the election. You will believe any conspiracy theory and will credulously promote it on your podcast to your millions of listeners but you just never could have seen this coming. Better late than never, except not really, because you have a lot to do with why we're here, and you have yet to admit this reality to yourself and the responsibility you bear. And when people like Sam Harris try to tell you how influential you are and what your obligations are with such a powerful platform, you petulantly shut them out and tell them to fuck off. You could have prevented this perhaps more than anyone.
In all the long years of T, this is the first time he's publicly flipped someone off. Might be he's a tad sensitive to Pedo Protector? Epstein Files are going to come back, no matter how many distractions he can produce in his factory of evil.
Definitely touched a nerve, and I think he was absolutely expecting a safe space with a CBS interview in a Ford factory.
He doesn't like anyone questioning anything he does. This time it just happened to be "pedo protector." Next time it could be "no peace prize for you, war monger!"
Andrew Egger continues to bring it. I really appreciated what he wrote in yesterday's letter: "All this is coming at a pivotal moment, when some congressional Republicans—one year into Trump 2.0—are starting to reconsider the question of whether their bodies contain spines.". Didn't comment yesterday but I feel compelled to praise that a day late.
Is there no mechanism for taxing the rich now? They flee any taxes at any jurisdictional level; county, state, or federal. They are stateless plutocrats, sloshing around the globe, seeking the geographical vacuum of a low tax venue, and some entity is usually found to comply by whorishly creating a favorable tax haven.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out with the public and what they think about the uber wealthy. The tenor or the writing sounded like the Bulwark now frowns on California’s direct democracy via the ballot measure — the same direct democracy that counteracted Texas’ redistricting.
No matter what, how, or who, a lot of people think we should tax poor people and let billionaires take whatever they want. But here's the thing: no rich people move to Alabama unless they golf obsessively. Nobody moved out of Boston. Nobody's moving out of New York. Can we maybe stop believing billionaire propaganda, guys?
On the Billionaire's Tax: I get the opposition to it, and the likelihood they'd all just run to avoid it.
My question for the Never Trump former Republicans is this: Assuming an acknowledgement that there is an unhealthy accumulation of wealth in our country, what measures can be taken to address that? Or is it just too late?
I know what the answers would look like from the left, and I know all of them would be accused of being some degree of Socialism from the Right, even from people supposedly well-intentioned. I just don't know how it gets addressed any other way than some form of confiscation.
Tax reforms (that won't happen): (a) treat capital gains as ordinary income, (b) 0.1% transaction tax on all securities trades, (c) reimpose meaningful inheritance tax, (d) phase out deduction of mortgage interest, (e) eliminate carried interest loophole, (f) eliminate offshore incentives, (g) increase top marginal tax rates.
Sound about right. But are you a former R?
My guess is that any R’s will say, “What’s the problem with having so many billionaires? Isn’t that everyone’s goal? Why punish those who have succeeded? They are job creators.” Trickle down and some such.
They will say that. And I think the billionaires wouldn't notice the absence of the amount of money they would pay under that tax except for the principle of the thing. It's not like they have to sell one of their houses, yachts, private aircraft to pay for it.
Remember the Biden Administration efforts to work with other countries to establish a global minimum corporate tax?
Sigh. Of course, tRumpy negated all that as one of his first acts of corruption in 2021.
But that sort of minimum taxation rate across the country and world would be required in order to stop the uber-wealthy from packing up their cajillions of dollars and fleeing.
It really wouldn't. Offshore tax havens are used everywhere. Apple has many administrative functions in Ireland for tax purposes, but you don't see Apple execs moving to Ireland.
They don’t run away though. They’re all talk because at the end of the day, they know where the good places are to live. You notice how they don’t live in Haley Idaho or Jackson Hole despite literally dumping money there for vacation homes. They want to live in California. Call their bluff and I guarantee most stay and complain.