Alan Elrod

Nonpolitical Media Has Been Flooded With Outrage at Alex Pretti's Murder Anatomy of a turning point.

Necessary reading.

Rittenhouse had a rifle which he brandished, Pretti had a pistol he kept holstered. Rittenhouse shot and killed two people while Pretti didn’t shoot anyone. For that, Rittenhouse became a cause celebre on the right, meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, speaking at TPUSA events, and raising big money.

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Oh I’m not surprised. I’m just trying to drive home that I don’t think this is the big win people are making it out to be. And I think the danger of taking it as such is very high.

Bovino is not out for his little SS cosplay. He’s not out for killing American citizens. He or someone like him will be back doing immigration actions around the country sooner than later.

They just have to wait for the mood to level set and the press to move on.

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Bovino is not out for his little SS cosplay. He’s not out for killing American citizens. He or someone like him will be back doing immigration actions around the country sooner than later.

They just have to wait for the mood to level set and the press to move on.

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I don’t want people to think I’m just being a doomer. I just don’t buy TACO as a frame for reading Trump, and I am not convinced this is a full retreat

I would guess he hadn’t seen it either just based on timeline. But I think Trump likes violence and enjoys seeing it

Yes! He wanted to do all this stuff in Trump 1. He had to be talked out of the Insurrection Act and Greenland stuff by the “adults” during Trump 45.

So he built an admin full of maximalists this time around. Of course Miller has his own agenda and influence. But Trump is plenty evil by himself.

Something something TACO

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Clergy standing in a hallway praying and singing as part of a protest.

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*It may have just ended — the video cuts as police arrived. www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...

It’s crazy-making stuff. He didn’t retract or apologize for a single thing he said! And no enterprising reporter bothered to ask him if he did? Wtf are we doing here? How is our allegedly savvy elite political press still falling for this predictable and transparent charade a decade in?

Exactly. Everyone wants to take refuge in the idea that Trump is a dopey egotist who is bad but wouldn’t be as bad if not for shadowy villains like Bovino and Miller.

I agree with the moral assessments of people like Bovino and Miller. But Trump is his own font of wickedness and autocracy.

I agree he’s impulsive but I absolutely don’t think he actually cared that she called Pretti a domestic terrorist

“Donald Trump was displeased with Noem’s response”

What are you talking about? They’re just putting some retroactive heat on Noem after video evidence made it impossible to maintain their lies.

I’m honestly baffled by all the credulous reporting that Trump was upset about Noem, Miller, and Bovino’s posts and comments about the the Pretti killing. I mean, his own post after the murder was insane.

A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.

The biggest issue is choking off ICE’s insane budget, but all of these reforms would help.

Of course, Dems should still abolish ICE and disestablish DHS the first chance they get.

The devil will be in the details here, of course, but this is a good start. It’s not everything. ICE is still out of control. This doesn’t change that.

But you start somewhere. Take the points, build on the momentum, keep up the pressure.

Don’t forget those who sacrificed to get us here.

Great work per usual by Greg here. 👇🏾

I would add 6th: assemble for Congressional review a database of ICE agents (names publicly withheld, sure) hired since 1/20/25, including age, race, gender, occupational history, legal history, group affiliations, social media records.

You know why…

Also from this interview:

"In the past, Republicans have waited us out because they thought we would break. This would be a dangerous moment for us to do that because of the specific moral question being put to the nation: Does the president of the United States get to murder American citizens?"

basically a collection of weiss's friends and pet projects

The guy genuinely gave a shit.

And the empathy vampires murdered him for it.

TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”

"In the past, Republicans have just waited us out because they thought we would break. This would be a very dangerous moment for us to do that because of the specific moral question being put to the nation: Does the president of the United States get to murder American citizens?"

Nonpolitical Media Has Been Flooded With Outrage at Alex Pretti's Murder Anatomy of a turning point.

Nonpolitical Media Has Been Flooded With Outrage at Alex Pretti's Murder

Anatomy of a turning point.

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