"No, these people are in these cities for a singular purpose: to spread terror. This is Donald Trump’s own personal Schutzstaffel (SS), a police force answerable only to him who’s principal job is to terrify communities and crush dissent."
For what purpose?
I believe I have the answer. By spreading out this militia early on, what will stop these thugs from plucking and kicking people out from voting lines in the midterms? I've had this feeling from the beginning that their existence is all about intimidating voters at the polls. This explains why this administration is acting like they're going to be in power forever...and it's terrifying....
Minneapolis is just a training ground… testing the waters for public and judiciary responses. When nothing happens, all systems GO. It will spread like cancer imho.
All people in the US, whether citizens or not, must not find fault with the powers that be. We are brainless beasts and must kowtow to the masters. That’s all they want. How dare anyone speak out against their masters! Know your place, slaves!
“Section 1. Antifa as a Terrorist Threat. Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law. It uses illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide to accomplish these goals. This campaign involves coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws through armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violent assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement officers, and routine doxing of and other threats against political figures and activists.”…
“The Trump administration appears to be using the memo to investigate nonprofits and donors who hold political beliefs and support causes disfavored by the president, according to reports from Reuters and the Wall Street Journal.”
I believe that ICE now has the mission to investigate and detain individual dissenters. ICE is becoming the US equivalent of the Schutzstaffel (SS).
• Definition: The SS was a paramilitary organization within the Nazi Party that evolved into an elite force and a major instrument of repression and terror under Heinrich Himmler's leadership.
• Origin and Purpose: Initially formed as Hitler's personal bodyguard unit in 1925, the SS expanded its scope to include various political, police, and military functions. It aimed to be the racial elite and ideological backbone of the Nazi regime.
• Key Roles and Activities:
• Political and Ideological Enforcement: The SS enforced Nazi ideology and suppressed political and racial enemies of the regime.
• Control of Police and Security Forces: Himmler, as head of the SS and Chief of German Police, controlled all German police forces, including the Gestapo and criminal police.
• Concentration and Extermination Camps: The SS played a central role in establishing, administering, and operating the concentration and extermination camps, being responsible for the mass murder of millions during the Holocaust.
Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS ("Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS"), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS. The SD was tasked with the detection of actual or potential enemies of the Nazi leadership and the neutralization of such opposition, whether internal or external. To fulfill this task, the SD developed an organization of agents and informants throughout the Reich and later throughout the occupied territories, all part of the development of an extensive SS state and a totalitarian regime without parallel.[46] The organization consisted of a few hundred full-time agents and several thousand informants.
With the internet and tools like Pegasus, ICE may have little or no need for informants
2. However, FLASH --NYT. President Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell protests in Minneapolis after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent killed a woman in the city last week. The president, who has previously threatened to invoke the 1807 act, said he would do so “if the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E.”
3. Thom -- "This isn’t bluster or rhetoric. It’s a direct threat to use wartime powers inside the United States to override local government, suppress dissent, and place raw federal violence above the rule of law, something he appears to want so badly he can taste it.
4. Me. To a reasobable degree of probability, Trump can see the handwiting on the wall and knows he is close to having to defend himself from impeacment. This is a means to try to cancel the 2026 elections. Invoke unitary executive theory. Pre=empt Congress.
Finally we are in accord Daniel. Only it is more than just cancelling the 2026 Election, it is that too, but also this is a training exercise for Trump's own GESTAPO, and a conditioning exercise to accustom the citizenry to a GESTAPO going door to door as in Germany, rounding up dissenters classified as antifa and sending them to Stephen Millers concentration camps.https://bootcampmilitaryfitnessinstitute.com/2022/04/28/what-was-rex-84/
Remember 9/11? Do people remember how the country reacted to the 9/11 attack? Donald Trump, creepy Stephen Miller, silly looking ICE Barbie who all live under Federal protection, are like the arsonists encouraging people to throw gasoline on the fire they are trying to start.
Trying to start….
Most and I repeat Most Americans are just getting angry watching what ICE is doing - just as America was outraged by 9/11.
Trump’s talk of making Greenland part of the United States whether they want to be or not is rapist talk. Sexual Predator talk. Donald Trump was found guilty in a New York court of sexual assault against E Jean Carrol. We are STILL waiting on the Epstein files. All Stephen Miller’s bravado ignores the fact that the American people have the government OUTGUNNED.
All the “Kings horses and all the Kings men” cannot out gun the Second Amendment citizens of the United States who want their Constitution to be respected.
The clock is ticking on the patience of the American people. Whistles against guns right now. Stop the abuse by ICE.
216 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted in favor of the "Epstein Files Transparency Act" to compel the release of the files, with only one Republican (Rep. Clay Higgins) voting against it. The bill later passed the Senate unanimously, and was signed into law by Trump.
Less than 1% of the total documents have been released, prompting calls for an internal audit or a court-appointed monitor to ensure compliance. .Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie have sought leave to appear as amici curiae (friends of the court) in Ghislaine Maxwell's case to urge U.S. District Court Judge Paul Engelmayer to appoint a special master and independent monitor to oversee the DOJ's document production. The motion argues the DOJ has violated the law by failing to meet the December 19, 2025 deadline and releasing less than 1% of the files so far. Judge Engelmayer has ordered prosecutors to respond to the motion and address whether the court has the authority to rule on the DOJ's compliance with the Act.
IMHO all of the "flood the zone" tactics are a pretext - a distraction - to get off topic.
If the Congress passes the budget of ICE and not defund them, then Congress has declared war on the people. God will then put them all in jail and throw away the key. There be dragons. Last warning. Elected officials may not want to stand up but if they do not, they are not worthy of the position.
Trump is the Republican congress peoples' gravy train, so even though they claim to be threatened with being primaried or endangered, you have to follow the money. Yes, a few have stood up (a little) to Trump, but individually, they are toast. If they had the spine (and/or the integrity) to stand together, we would have a better outcome.
Most Americans are clueless about US hostility toward immigrants. The Statue of Liberty is actually a giant green middle finger in the air, and has been for at least a century. My Bulgarian spouse moved in with me in 2000 on a student visa, finished a degree in computer science, first in his class, and was immediately hired by an anti-virus company in Bethesda, which got him an H1B visa. Over time, each year when we visited his folks back home, ICE began to harass him by putting him in detention for an hour or two. One of them even told us it was to discourage immigration.
Finally, SCOTUS made same-gender marriage legal. Upon return stateside after burying his parents, my spouse mentioned his intention to marry during his welcoming ICE interrogation. He was put on the next flight home because of fraudulent intent to enter. Who knew? He was told to apply for a "Fiancé Visa." I had to fly to Sofia, meet with US embassy staff, and pay for a new visa. He was still put in harassment detention for half an hour before being welcomed to America. The next morning, we went to the county seat and got married. We then went to the Orlando INS office and applied for legal residency. Three years later, we finally got a US passport and lived happilyeverafter a brutal 16 years of ICE harassment and legal fees for lawyers and visas.
If you arrived in America as a penniless refugee with little education, you might not even know about all this anti-immigrant crap. You could not pay lawyers to get visas and eventually citizenship. You just got a job so you could eat and rent an apartment.
Today, one nation, under Trump, there is no liberty and justice for anybody - especially immigrants. Residents of 75 nations may not even apply for an immigrant visa. Who cares about an old rusting statue in New York Harbor anyway? Trump is remaking America in his Nazi image of greatness. Get your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free out of America and back to the shithole countries where you belong - unless you're white & rich, and give Trump 1million dollars.
Here's a scary little factoid. Does everybody remember learning about Reconstruction in high school or college US History classes? It turns out there are more ICE thugs in Minneapolis than Union troops in any (very few exceptions) of the major cities of the former Confederacy at the end of 1866.
Telling the truth and telling it loudly to these fascistic flunkies is probably the most fun some folks have had for a while. It is a pleasure to see the inventive nature of the participants.
Our forefathers dressed-up and bravely spilled some tea---250 years later we do not have to wonder what modern Americans would have done. The "consent of the governed" has been withdrawn. Making TRump and his psychos and sickos look bad is working.
Giving us the stories and statistics is working too. Thanks Thom. We need to remember there was a better way. TRump and his regime are the ones that are CRAZY. Two fingers back at TRump on behalf of TJ and Renee. See you in the streets.
ICE is now going door to door, as the GESTAPO did, hunting Jews. This is a training and conditioning exercise,. Training for ICE and Federal Agents, conditioning the public to treat this as normal.
The ground work has been laid: Rex84bravo, and exercises like Garden Plot, in which I was involved, and Jade Helm which had the right wing apoplectic. With ICE's huge budget they are building concentration camps, not to hold immigrants but to hold dissenters. https://bootcampmilitaryfitnessinstitute.com/2022/04/28/what-was-rex-84/
The frog is being boiled. And we are kvetching, afraid to give Trump an excuse to declare martial law, the noose is being tightened around our necks anyway, without a mass revolt.
The Iranians have more guts than Americans, maybe because we are too fat and lazy., and believe, contrary to all evidence, that the Constitution and law will save us, whereas the evidence is that they are being used to slowly enslave us.
I read in my daily Just Security newsletter of more Temporary Injunctions. Key word TEMPORARY, over ruled by district court, and if not then by Supreme Court, and if Trump disagrees he ignores the court anyway.
I have no arguments and am not saying that this is a good consequence, but I assume that these tactics will keep many people from even thinking about coming here legally or illegally.
"No, these people are in these cities for a singular purpose: to spread terror. This is Donald Trump’s own personal Schutzstaffel (SS), a police force answerable only to him who’s principal job is to terrify communities and crush dissent."
For what purpose?
I believe I have the answer. By spreading out this militia early on, what will stop these thugs from plucking and kicking people out from voting lines in the midterms? I've had this feeling from the beginning that their existence is all about intimidating voters at the polls. This explains why this administration is acting like they're going to be in power forever...and it's terrifying....
Minneapolis is just a training ground… testing the waters for public and judiciary responses. When nothing happens, all systems GO. It will spread like cancer imho.
All people in the US, whether citizens or not, must not find fault with the powers that be. We are brainless beasts and must kowtow to the masters. That’s all they want. How dare anyone speak out against their masters! Know your place, slaves!
https://fb.watch/DfFYOOZ2M0/?fs=e
https://www.facebook.com/reel/602509316221368/?fs=e&fs=e
Of course ICE is the first to have government-approved use of Pegasus or an equivalent to use in surveillance of immigrants and protestors/dissenters.
The Dept of State authority to determine who is a “terrorist” and current WH and GOP messaging about Antifa (new pronunciation an-tee’-fah) protestors has set the stage for ICE to begin “Antifa” surveillance and detention. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/
“Section 1. Antifa as a Terrorist Threat. Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law. It uses illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide to accomplish these goals. This campaign involves coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws through armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violent assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement officers, and routine doxing of and other threats against political figures and activists.”…
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/doj-terrorism-charges-trump-antifa-executive-order/
“The Trump administration appears to be using the memo to investigate nonprofits and donors who hold political beliefs and support causes disfavored by the president, according to reports from Reuters and the Wall Street Journal.”
I believe that ICE now has the mission to investigate and detain individual dissenters. ICE is becoming the US equivalent of the Schutzstaffel (SS).
• Definition: The SS was a paramilitary organization within the Nazi Party that evolved into an elite force and a major instrument of repression and terror under Heinrich Himmler's leadership.
• Origin and Purpose: Initially formed as Hitler's personal bodyguard unit in 1925, the SS expanded its scope to include various political, police, and military functions. It aimed to be the racial elite and ideological backbone of the Nazi regime.
• Key Roles and Activities:
• Political and Ideological Enforcement: The SS enforced Nazi ideology and suppressed political and racial enemies of the regime.
• Control of Police and Security Forces: Himmler, as head of the SS and Chief of German Police, controlled all German police forces, including the Gestapo and criminal police.
• Concentration and Extermination Camps: The SS played a central role in establishing, administering, and operating the concentration and extermination camps, being responsible for the mass murder of millions during the Holocaust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicherheitsdienst
Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS ("Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS"), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS. The SD was tasked with the detection of actual or potential enemies of the Nazi leadership and the neutralization of such opposition, whether internal or external. To fulfill this task, the SD developed an organization of agents and informants throughout the Reich and later throughout the occupied territories, all part of the development of an extensive SS state and a totalitarian regime without parallel.[46] The organization consisted of a few hundred full-time agents and several thousand informants.
With the internet and tools like Pegasus, ICE may have little or no need for informants
1. I am banned -- cannot open -- Facebook.
2. However, FLASH --NYT. President Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell protests in Minneapolis after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent killed a woman in the city last week. The president, who has previously threatened to invoke the 1807 act, said he would do so “if the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E.”
3. Thom -- "This isn’t bluster or rhetoric. It’s a direct threat to use wartime powers inside the United States to override local government, suppress dissent, and place raw federal violence above the rule of law, something he appears to want so badly he can taste it.
4. Me. To a reasobable degree of probability, Trump can see the handwiting on the wall and knows he is close to having to defend himself from impeacment. This is a means to try to cancel the 2026 elections. Invoke unitary executive theory. Pre=empt Congress.
Finally we are in accord Daniel. Only it is more than just cancelling the 2026 Election, it is that too, but also this is a training exercise for Trump's own GESTAPO, and a conditioning exercise to accustom the citizenry to a GESTAPO going door to door as in Germany, rounding up dissenters classified as antifa and sending them to Stephen Millers concentration camps.https://bootcampmilitaryfitnessinstitute.com/2022/04/28/what-was-rex-84/
I note that your "like" button must be broken.
Only for you, Works fine for others. Are you one of those poor saps, that depends on the opinions of other for their self esteem.
Remember 9/11? Do people remember how the country reacted to the 9/11 attack? Donald Trump, creepy Stephen Miller, silly looking ICE Barbie who all live under Federal protection, are like the arsonists encouraging people to throw gasoline on the fire they are trying to start.
Trying to start….
Most and I repeat Most Americans are just getting angry watching what ICE is doing - just as America was outraged by 9/11.
Trump’s talk of making Greenland part of the United States whether they want to be or not is rapist talk. Sexual Predator talk. Donald Trump was found guilty in a New York court of sexual assault against E Jean Carrol. We are STILL waiting on the Epstein files. All Stephen Miller’s bravado ignores the fact that the American people have the government OUTGUNNED.
All the “Kings horses and all the Kings men” cannot out gun the Second Amendment citizens of the United States who want their Constitution to be respected.
The clock is ticking on the patience of the American people. Whistles against guns right now. Stop the abuse by ICE.
We want the Epstein files.
216 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted in favor of the "Epstein Files Transparency Act" to compel the release of the files, with only one Republican (Rep. Clay Higgins) voting against it. The bill later passed the Senate unanimously, and was signed into law by Trump.
Less than 1% of the total documents have been released, prompting calls for an internal audit or a court-appointed monitor to ensure compliance. .Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie have sought leave to appear as amici curiae (friends of the court) in Ghislaine Maxwell's case to urge U.S. District Court Judge Paul Engelmayer to appoint a special master and independent monitor to oversee the DOJ's document production. The motion argues the DOJ has violated the law by failing to meet the December 19, 2025 deadline and releasing less than 1% of the files so far. Judge Engelmayer has ordered prosecutors to respond to the motion and address whether the court has the authority to rule on the DOJ's compliance with the Act.
IMHO all of the "flood the zone" tactics are a pretext - a distraction - to get off topic.
If the Congress passes the budget of ICE and not defund them, then Congress has declared war on the people. God will then put them all in jail and throw away the key. There be dragons. Last warning. Elected officials may not want to stand up but if they do not, they are not worthy of the position.
Trump is the Republican congress peoples' gravy train, so even though they claim to be threatened with being primaried or endangered, you have to follow the money. Yes, a few have stood up (a little) to Trump, but individually, they are toast. If they had the spine (and/or the integrity) to stand together, we would have a better outcome.
Most Americans are clueless about US hostility toward immigrants. The Statue of Liberty is actually a giant green middle finger in the air, and has been for at least a century. My Bulgarian spouse moved in with me in 2000 on a student visa, finished a degree in computer science, first in his class, and was immediately hired by an anti-virus company in Bethesda, which got him an H1B visa. Over time, each year when we visited his folks back home, ICE began to harass him by putting him in detention for an hour or two. One of them even told us it was to discourage immigration.
Finally, SCOTUS made same-gender marriage legal. Upon return stateside after burying his parents, my spouse mentioned his intention to marry during his welcoming ICE interrogation. He was put on the next flight home because of fraudulent intent to enter. Who knew? He was told to apply for a "Fiancé Visa." I had to fly to Sofia, meet with US embassy staff, and pay for a new visa. He was still put in harassment detention for half an hour before being welcomed to America. The next morning, we went to the county seat and got married. We then went to the Orlando INS office and applied for legal residency. Three years later, we finally got a US passport and lived happilyeverafter a brutal 16 years of ICE harassment and legal fees for lawyers and visas.
If you arrived in America as a penniless refugee with little education, you might not even know about all this anti-immigrant crap. You could not pay lawyers to get visas and eventually citizenship. You just got a job so you could eat and rent an apartment.
Today, one nation, under Trump, there is no liberty and justice for anybody - especially immigrants. Residents of 75 nations may not even apply for an immigrant visa. Who cares about an old rusting statue in New York Harbor anyway? Trump is remaking America in his Nazi image of greatness. Get your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free out of America and back to the shithole countries where you belong - unless you're white & rich, and give Trump 1million dollars.
Here's a scary little factoid. Does everybody remember learning about Reconstruction in high school or college US History classes? It turns out there are more ICE thugs in Minneapolis than Union troops in any (very few exceptions) of the major cities of the former Confederacy at the end of 1866.
So the Serial Kiddie Rapist aka PPK [Putin's Puppet Krasnov] has granted his GOONS the double-O [e.g., 007] status to:
a.) KILL
Also to:
b.) BLIND
Next up?
c.) R-A-P-E.
Yes, soon the Feds will be able to RAPE you. Be you, Child, Man, or Woman.
Vote, DON'T get violent.
We have a new national pastime.....
Telling the truth and telling it loudly to these fascistic flunkies is probably the most fun some folks have had for a while. It is a pleasure to see the inventive nature of the participants.
Our forefathers dressed-up and bravely spilled some tea---250 years later we do not have to wonder what modern Americans would have done. The "consent of the governed" has been withdrawn. Making TRump and his psychos and sickos look bad is working.
Giving us the stories and statistics is working too. Thanks Thom. We need to remember there was a better way. TRump and his regime are the ones that are CRAZY. Two fingers back at TRump on behalf of TJ and Renee. See you in the streets.
We're all hostages of this madhouse Nazi regime, and we're all subject to their remorseless wrath. This stain will be on them forever.
ICE is now going door to door, as the GESTAPO did, hunting Jews. This is a training and conditioning exercise,. Training for ICE and Federal Agents, conditioning the public to treat this as normal.
The ground work has been laid: Rex84bravo, and exercises like Garden Plot, in which I was involved, and Jade Helm which had the right wing apoplectic. With ICE's huge budget they are building concentration camps, not to hold immigrants but to hold dissenters. https://bootcampmilitaryfitnessinstitute.com/2022/04/28/what-was-rex-84/
The frog is being boiled. And we are kvetching, afraid to give Trump an excuse to declare martial law, the noose is being tightened around our necks anyway, without a mass revolt.
The Iranians have more guts than Americans, maybe because we are too fat and lazy., and believe, contrary to all evidence, that the Constitution and law will save us, whereas the evidence is that they are being used to slowly enslave us.
I read in my daily Just Security newsletter of more Temporary Injunctions. Key word TEMPORARY, over ruled by district court, and if not then by Supreme Court, and if Trump disagrees he ignores the court anyway.
Thank you Thom for supplying the numbers and factual information regarding the FFOTUS'S so called immigration enforcement!
Nearly every action carried out in Nazi Germany was done under the thin veneer of "the law".
I have no arguments and am not saying that this is a good consequence, but I assume that these tactics will keep many people from even thinking about coming here legally or illegally.
Create chaos and then use that as excuse to clamp down on the populace. Who didn't see that coming?