From: punditster@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/29/2026 5:32 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >   
   > David French   
   > January 29, 2026   
   >   
   > The Trump administration’s lies have a purpose   
   >   
   > It’s important to know exactly what is happening in our country.   
   > President Trump suffered a setback in Minneapolis. His larger project   
   > proceeds apace, however, and it’s creating a parallel MAGA reality   
   > that is laying the foundation for a further escalation of state   
   > violence.   
   >   
   Finally, something interesting to discuss! Trump. Thanks.   
      
   It's like Deja Vu, all over again!   
      
   The eerie feeling that a new situation is strangely familiar, as if   
   you've lived through it before, even though you know you haven't.   
      
   Apparently, it's a common memory glitch, likely caused by a brief timing   
   error in the brain where the feeling of familiarity fires before the   
   memory system can verify the experience, creating the illusion of a past   
   event in a new moment.   
      
   Democrats still, to this day, fighting to keep their slave labor!   
      
   Just for the record, the Jan 6 protestors received jail and prison time.   
      
   You just can't make this stuff up!   
    >   
   > Here’s how the process works. First, federal officers (mainly from ICE   
   > and the Border Patrol) engage in extraordinarily aggressive and   
   > lawless conduct, including initiating physical contact with protesters   
   > or members of the public.   
   >   
   > And they’re not limiting their aggression to criminal illegal   
   > immigrants, the “worst of the worst.” They’re detaining people who   
   > have been granted lawful status, they’ve swept up citizens in the   
   > dragnet and they’re claiming the authority to enter people’s homes   
   > without judicial warrants granting them a right to search.   
   >   
   > Second, as many people (including me) have noted, when a confrontation   
   > occurs, the administration and its allies in Congress immediately   
   > release statements blaming the victims, often using the strongest   
   > possible language — calling them “domestic terrorists” or   
   > “seditionists.”   
   >   
   > Think of the dreadful things they’ve said about Renee Good and Alex   
   > Pretti, two Minnesota residents who were gunned down by federal agents   
   > on the streets of Minneapolis. Kristi Noem accused Good of committing   
   > an act of “domestic terrorism.” Vice President JD Vance called her   
   > actions “classic terrorism.” President Trump said she “violently,   
   > willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer.”   
   >   
   > None of those statements are remotely supported by the available   
   > evidence.   
   >   
   > The administration’s slander of Pretti may have been even worse.   
   > Gregory Bovino, then still serving in Minnesota in his capacity as   
   > Border Patrol commander at large, said Pretti (who had a valid   
   > firearms permit and was carrying a gun but did not appear to touch it,   
   > much less brandish it) looked like he was attempting “to do maximum   
   > damage and massacre law enforcement.” Noem accused him, too, of   
   > “domestic terrorism,” and Stephen Miller called him “an assassin” who   
   > “tried to murder federal agents.” Vance reposted Miller’s slanderous   
   > accusation.   
   >   
   > Again, none of those claims were supported by any meaningful evidence.   
   >   
   > The administration makes these statements before there’s any   
   > investigation and sometimes before they’ve even had an opportunity to   
   > review all the publicly available evidence, including cellphone   
   > videos. If the encounter isn’t fatal, they’ll often file criminal   
   > charges and put out news releases trumpeting their prosecution.   
   >   
   > You get the feeling that if they could charge the dead with crimes,   
   > they’d do so, with glee.   
   >   
   > Third, when members of the media try to carefully report the facts and   
   > call into question the administration’s account, then that’s a fresh   
   > outrage. To MAGA, contrary media accounts are yet another example of   
   > the activist legacy media lying and spinning.   
   >   
   > Finally, when the criminal cases come before the court, the   
   > administration often can’t support its claims, and the cases are   
   > dismissed again and again. Adverse legal rulings anger MAGA even more   
   > — now the judges are also engaged in a form of “legal insurrection” or   
   > nullification of federal law.   
   >   
   > Protests make MAGA mad. Journalism makes MAGA mad. Accountability   
   > makes MAGA mad. And the anger keeps building until a single sentence   
   > starts to spread across the length and breadth of Trump’s base:   
   > “Invoke the Insurrection Act.”   
   >   
   > Viewed through one prism, this pattern is a form of political suicide.   
   > As the polling demonstrates, many Americans who thought they were   
   > voting for better border controls and tougher immigration restrictions   
   > are unhappy with Trump’s aggression.   
   >   
   > Voters don’t like the sight of masked officers dragging people out of   
   > homes and stores and cars. They don’t like the hype videos on social   
   > media in which ICE and the Border Patrol cosplay as low-rent versions   
   > of SEAL Team 6.   
   >   
   > They don’t like it when the administration lies and slanders the very   
   > people that it hurts and kills, and they get especially angry when   
   > cellphone video immediately debunks the administration’s spin.   
   >   
   > And to the extent that they pay attention to court proceedings, they   
   > definitely don’t like it when the administration is caught lying and   
   > defies court orders.   
   >   
   > For example, on Wednesday, Patrick Schiltz, the chief judge for the   
   > U.S. District Court of Minnesota, issued a remarkable order that   
   > cataloged a total of 96 court orders that he said ICE had violated in   
   > 74 different cases. “ICE has likely violated more court orders in   
   > January 2026,” the judge wrote, “than some federal agencies have   
   > violated in their entire existence.”   
   >   
   > Schiltz’s order came on the heels of yet another scathing ruling from   
   > a federal court. Earlier this month, after the fatal shooting of Renee   
   > Good, I wrote about U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis’s 233-page   
   > opinion that meticulously and carefully exposed a host of lies from   
   > the Trump administration — lies it was using to justify its tactics on   
   > the streets of Chicago.   
   >   
   > At each and every step along the way, the administration is   
   > squandering whatever good will it had and increasing the chances of a   
   > blue wave in the midterms.   
   >   
   > The problem, however, is that the administration is playing a   
   > different game. It’s not trying to win hearts and minds, but rather   
   > impose its will.   
   >   
   > In September 2020, I published a book that argued that American   
   > divisions were growing so profound that we risked our national union.   
   > I did not think a national divorce was imminent, nor did I think we   
      
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