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She's not wrong. The buck stops with the President.

The murder is obviously the biggest travesty, but I can't get around the constant lying and victim blaming Don't understand how any self-respecting person can trust or believe anything this government says going forward given how they lied through their teeth about Alex Pretti.

Given his heel turn, this is notable

It's totally surprising (in a completely "not surprising at all" kinda way) that our guy Holic cannot address how his parents woke up on a normal Saturday morning and, by the end of the day, had witnessed their son killed and his name slandered and dragged through the mud by this government. The silence kinda says it all One little repost from an organization whose board is stacked with people who owe their jobs to this administration doesn't change how horrific that is. Just as all the Mario Nawfal reposts on many other topics don't change anything either.

And he replaced them with his own cronies. Which is the point... So when they speak, they speak for him. Just as this government spoke for him everytime they have committed an act of violence on the streets of Minneapolis.

Nice as it is to see Bovino out of Minneapolis, it really can't stop with him. The big fish is Miller

Worth noting that Trump overhauled the board in Spring 2025 by firing all 12 of Biden's appointees and replaced them with cronies. So yeah, not clear to me whether they are really impartial on any of this

Greg Bovino may need to retire to Buenos Aires at this point lol

Well well well indeed...

The big thing about Grant is that he was constantly on *offense*.... certainly while he was in the western theater, but his presence in the eastern theater (previously led by leaders who were ineffective and/or political in nature and constantly reacting to events as opposed to shaping them) changed the tide of the war. It also again gives a moment to drop this quote of his that everyone should internalize about our current moment:

Trump I is long gone at this point.... it's like comparing apples and bananas.

Miller would be the real prize in all of this, because he's the one driving it all... but this stuff is toxic. And they all know it.

Even beyond the coordination of law enforcement, the Trump people have trouble coordinating any sort of major action with any level of success amongst themselves.

Weak

Liberation Day blew over, but the decline in approval rating remained. Same with the occupation of Los Angeles, which was the moment they went started losing approval on immigration. They believe a lot of things. They think a lot of things. But what they believe and, you know, actual reality are not necessarily the same thing.

I don't know what will happen, but I know that State/Local Police and National Guard have different constituencies and priorities than the feds. And those priorities are absolutely in tension with one another. If this continues, in Minneapolis or elsewhere, something will end up giving

Stephen Miller absolutely could wake up without a job due to political pressure, yes. Which would likely result in scenes like the one we saw yesterday in Minneapolis maybe not happening? I refuse to concede that nothing can change. And absolutely nothing is gained by conceding that things cannot change. And saying that nothing can or will change, logically, says that all of the demonstrations and resistance we see from every day people is pointless.

Just because they think something doesn't make it true. I personally don't care what they think. Certainly don't think that the folks demonstrating against this matter care what they think either.

If politics don't matter, if the consent of the majority is irrelevant and does not matter, then what is there to talk about really? Why are people in Minneapolis even bothering to show up? Might as well turn off the lights and pack it in guys, show's over. I believe the politics absolutely *do* matter. What is taking place in Minneapolis right now is not all that different to what MLK and the civil rights movement did when they faced off with the likes of Bull Connor. The whole point was to use non violence to demonstrate the cruelty of her local government. It worked then and I refuse to say that it is futile now. It's an insult to the people of Minneapolis and Minnesota and it is a disservice to the memory of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. I don't deny that things will get worse before they get better. But they *will* get better. And no, millions of people are not going to die. That's my point