One of the advantages of reading the Financial Times besides camouflage from the algorithms for "us guys" is that it telegraphs, usually from Ed Luce, a deranged loon who makes that Shapiro character seem sane and healthy, the upcoming strategy.
What has been telegraphed is a nothing more than Civil War. Its coming. Be prepared. In the column titled "Trumps ominous ICE Security State" Luce pretty much demands violent, bloody protests targeting ICE and Border Patrol agents to force the Supreme Court to remove Trump and Vance and install Harris or Hakeem Jeffries I suppose (that part is not completed). The Left rightly thinks the 2020 Summer of Love was successful, and if they create enough total violence they can cause the Trump Administration to collapse. Another Color Revolution.
It would seem outwardly stupid to stage a Color Revolution and all the risk that entails, as "globalize the intifada" is now cementing Jewish Wall Street leaders into the Trump coalition, along with the Military Industrial Complex (not soon embracing "peace") and other groups that that are hostile or at best indifferent to mass Third World Immigration. However, Democrat/Left success depends on illegal aliens, and ever more illegals.
This article by Daniel Greenfield points out the stakes for Democrats and the Left:
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Indeed, California is a prime example of a state where political power is built around illegal aliens. Whether or not the illegals actually vote in any number matters less than whether they’re counted for ‘ghost’ districts filled with non-citizens. California’s millions of illegal aliens represent local, statewide and congressional seats that give the Democrats a total lock on power.
The state lost a congressional seat because its population only grew from 37.3 million to 39.5 million. How many congressional seats would California lose without its illegal alien population?
Subtract even the most liberal number of illegal aliens and California would lose 4 seats (in addition to the one it already lost) bringing its congressional delegation down to 48 seats. That would be bad news for efforts by the Democrats to retake the House, but it would also cut California’s power in the electoral college and would make it harder for the Dems to win presidential elections. That is why they’re willing to risk civil war for illegals.
The tens of millions of illegal aliens around the country inflate Democrat political power much as the number of slaves once did before the Civil War. If America’s illegals were to be deported, Democrats could lose as many as 15 electoral college votes and close elections would naturally trend toward Republicans. The political map would change. Democrats would cease to be competitive in national elections without fundamentally reorienting their message.
And that is why the Democrats are willing to risk civil war to fight for illegal aliens in California.
So this is why LA Mayor Karen Bass confronted ICE agents in Westlake / MacArthur Park, during a sweep. The place has been notorious for the last 30+ years as being controlled by rival illegal alien gangs, from MS-13 to various Cartel affiliated gangs, with frequent gang shootouts, open selling of drugs, etc. And yes its the place where the cake was left out in the rain, and the singer will never have that recipe again. In the 1960s when the song was composed, it was a lovely place. One of the things we lost.
Without illegal aliens, Republicans would control the country. They would be the dominant party nationally and regionally, with Democrats controlling only a few states here and there. For them, it is existential.
Trump has played "demotivate the base" again with suggestions that there would be amnesty, soon walked back, and "exemptions" for some farm workers and some hospitality workers. I don’t like this, but some smaller compromises to maintain unity are the price of politics. The vast majority of illegal aliens are not found in Iowa or in hotels in Miami Beach. They are found in California, Illinois, New York State, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Texas, and other big states with big welfare benefits.
California gives free health care to illegal aliens. The state also provides interest free grants to buy houses to illegal aliens. Illinois has a rental assistance program that not only provides $9,000 in funds for furniture, but housing assistance to cover the first six months of rent for illegals. Citizens of course need not apply.
The Vice Mayor of Cudahy, has called on gang members to fight ICE enforcement:
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A candidate for office in San Antonio Texas, Matthew Guana, has called for violence against ICE enforcement:
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A man in McAllen Texas was killed in a shootout with the Border Patrol there:
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McAllen police got a call reporting shots heard in the area of the Border Patrol McAllen Station at around 5:53 a.m., the FBI said in a statement. The police department alerted the FBI's San Antonio division and responded to the scene.
The city of McAllen identified the suspect as Ryan Louis Mosqueda. His last known address was in Michigan, and he is about 27 years old, McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez said at a news briefing Monday afternoon.
There have been ten people arrested already in a shootout at an ICE detention facility in Alvarodo Texas on July 4.
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The incident occurred at the Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas, on Friday, according to Nancy Larson, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
At approximately 10:37 p.m., 10 to 12 individuals dressed in black, military-style clothing began shooting fireworks and engaging in acts of vandalism at the facility, Larson said during a press conference.
Larson said the incident "was a planned ambush with the intent to kill ICE corrections officers."
Some individuals drew correction officers out of the facility using the fireworks while others damaged vehicles and vandalized the facility with graffiti, Larson said.
When an Alvarado police officer arrived on the scene, one of the individuals shot him in the neck. Another individual shot 20 to 30 rounds at the facility correction officers, according to Larson.
All assailants fled the scene, though all have since been apprehended, the U.S. attorney said.
Bradford Morris, who goes by Megan, was one of the suspects that allegedly fled the scene, according to court records. He was stopped a short while later, with a magazine clip and Kevlar vests.
Law enforcement found 12 sets of body armor, spray paint, a flag saying "resist fascism, fight oligarchy," flyers saying "fight ice terror with class war free all political prisoners," more fireworks, weapons and cell phones across multiple searches over the weekend.
Police also found two AR-15s nearby, according to court records.
Not mentioned is that about five of these individuals appear to be trans. So you have trantifa, always dangerous, because they are always deranged, active and on the offensive.
What comes next?
Democrats get media attention and likes for agitating for violence. So as they each race to be either the Presidential nominee or cabinet member as Kamala Harris fades into the bushes like Homer Simpson:
The incentives are for some incident to "get it on."
Karen Bass, unhinged, stupid, and believing her female / lesbian basketball-American background protects her, is likely to be the biggest mover to order the LAPD to violently confront ICE and the Border Patrol. The Chief of the LAPD, Jim McDonnell, may ignore her demands, or slow walk them, or he might give in. He certainly delayed the response initially to ICE requests for backup as their downtown LA facility was besieged for hours, as Bass demanded. How far he will go in that remains unknown, but he is widely viewed as just another weak LAPD chief in about half a century of yes men on the job.
Fatso Illinois Governor Pritzker, is likely to order state troopers and perhaps the Illinois National Guard to fight ICE at some point, is my guess, in the stakes to be a big time Democratic player. He’ll cool off if he perceives risk, but so far no one in State or Local government has gone to jail.
Trantifa and the other deranged, bio-Leninism lunatics who are likely to be targeting ICE and Border Patrol families (soft targets, beloved of Cartel tactics) are not the issue. While there are a bunch of them, they are poorly organized, not well disciplined, and have no thought of what comes after an action.
Rather, it is state and possibly big city mayors who can get well trained men under arms to go fight and kill federal officers arresting illegal aliens. That is where this is headed. Clearly, some are itching for this: Bass, various local mayors.
Per the Greenfield article:
Mayor Arturo Flores of Huntington Park, California had his own Sumter moment when he ordered police to confront ICE personnel taking illegal alien criminals into custody.
“This is not immigration enforcement. This is state-sanctioned intimidation,” Flores declared. “I am calling for the immediate cessation of these raids and for the Huntington Park Police Department to begin verifying the identities and authority of any individuals conducting such operations within city limits.”
So it is a matter of where, and when. It won’t be exactly Fort Sumter, because we are not that nation anymore. But it will be like it – local forces demanding to keep their servile, low cost, cheap labor for political and economic purposes firing upon and overwhelming more limited federal forces.
Luce clearly thinks along with the Democratic / Left party people that "enough" violence of this type will force the Supreme Court to step in and remove Trump. His article ends with that call.
However, this is not 2020. People have had a good fill with Obama’s Third Term of what Democrats are like in power. They are not Bill Clinton anymore, but Mao’s Red Guards on Red Bull. Women WILL have trannies waving their ying-yangs at their faces in their locker rooms and bathrooms. Their kids WILL get transed. They WILL "own nothing and have no privacy." They WILL EAT THE BUGZ. And more. There are no illusions, and as noted above, the Military Industrial Complex, the Wall Street bigshots, plus Auto Makers, auto worker unions, are all in. Trump is not isolated as he was in 2020. He has significant elite support including critically not just enlisted and officers but the military suppliers. It is always wise to have the men with guns and those who supply the guns on your side.
In this battle of blood, with states and cities fighting and killing federal officers (eventually, that is where it will get to quickly) to stop raids, the legal profession, judges, lawyers, the media, Hollywood, and various trantifa people will be all in on the fight. Against them will be Wall Street and the Military Industrial Complex. The latter of which understands that mass immigration means Brazil’s Military Industrial Complex. Most of them will go from luxury offices to driving for Uber against some Somalian.
The various antics of Obama judges over-ruling Congress discredit the Judiciary not just with the people but with critical players (a district Judge has ruled that Planned Parenthood cannot be defunded by an Act of Congress, signed by the President, and funding MUST continue, because reasons!)
As Wall Street already knows with Trump that Judges simply make stuff up to take their stuff, they are not likely to bow to the supreme moral authority of a district court judge, or even the Supremes. The Military Industrial Complex knows that the legal profession and judges in particular want their stuff; their power, their salaries, their position. As the Judges make a play to be the supreme ruling class, over all others, they are going to run right up against both Wall Street and the Military Complex. Which is more than just a Marine General, its General Dynamics. And Boeing, Lockheed, Martin Marietta, and a lot more. Most of them big, employing hundreds of thousands, as the MiC is the last refuge of White guys mostly. These are people who spent a life in first the military, as officers, and then transitioned into Military Procurement and such. They are not Bill Gates who can just jet off to New Zealand and have that PM order up some underage girls or what have you, allegedly of course.
So this promises to be a long, bloody affair that is decided by both will and attrition. The federal government CAN if it wishes turn off the fed funds spigot, what will be determinant is if it has the stones to ignore district court judges and the Supremes.
For the latter, its interesting how Justice Jumanji has burned her bridges to even Sonia Sotomayor, who has upbraided her in the latest opinion for being essentially a stupid person incapable of even minor understanding of law and processes.
“Farm workers amnesty” is just a bone. They’re only about 1% of the total, and most of them are here legally, under contract. They’re also a shrinking factor as very few crops are still hand-picked (fragile fruit like strawberries. Even tomatoes are now machine-picked.)
What’s important is cutting “benefits” as absent the various handouts, most couldn’t afford to live in the U.S. If we want a real drop in total illegals, we need to get most of them to self-deport, because it’s just not practical to round up tens of millions of people.
Bring it on. I’ve wanted us to finally have it out for years. There is nothing that can possibly measure the disdain I have for these leftist creatures. I fully support an authoritarian solution of rounding them up and permanently disposing of them without any mercy or quarter given.