re: Border Patrol-involved shooting in Minneapolis; person shot was allegedly armed

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The “can” is not dealing with illegals. It is dealing with the people protecting them in cities like Minneapolis. What I’m saying is that there may be more value in dealing with that problem now than allowing it to fester for years while you pick off all the low hanging fruit. The high hanging fruit may be too big and too ripe / spoiled to pick by the time you get around to it.

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It means my response to you was on purpose and sarcasm

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I was under the assumption you picked up on that

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I've got a couple downvoters who apparently didn't.

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"I’ve seen organized resistance up close," special forces veteran Eric Schwalm posted on Sunday, and "from Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly."

"What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t 'protest',” he continued. "It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook."

"This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace 'ICE agents' with 'occupying coalition forces' and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s."

Schwalm also noted that "the most sobering part" is that what he's seen in Minneapolis isn't just a note-for-note replay of what he fought a war against in the Middle East; "It’s domestic."

…Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.

He concluded that "history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war."

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Policy decisions at the state and local level in Minnesota have successfully reduced the number of deportations and deportation rate over states like Texas. Even with 2,000-3,000 additional immigration enforcement agents in Minnesota the state has managed to keep the per capita deportation rate at under 30 per 100,000 residents (29.12). Meanwhile in Texas where the state and most localities (with the exception of Austin that continues to resist ICE cooperation) per capita deportations are at 58.26 per 100,000 residents. The most shocking statistic is the fact that Texas has deported 18,887 illegals and yet has almost no violent confrontations (only 2) as evidenced by the data and anecdotal evidence. On the other hand with just 1,710 deporations (less than 10% of Texas) Minnesota has had 21 violent confrontations and two deaths. The policy decisions of Gov Tim Walz and Mayor Frey 116 times more likely that a deportation encounter will be violent than in Texas.

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Being a person who has never supported Keith Ellison or valued what he has to say, I will say this has no impact on me. I imagine the only way this would mean something is if you or your audience was a big supporter of Keith Ellison, prior to that revelation.

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It would probably be received better

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