Making America Great Again - another innocent shot dead

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US federal law enforcement officers on Saturday fatally shot an American citizen in Minneapolis, the second such killing in the city in less than three weeks, as it reels from the Trump administration’s ramped-up immigration enforcement that has sparked escalating protests across the US.

The man, 37-year-old Alex Pretti, was an intensive care nurse with no criminal record and a legal permit to carry a firearm, according to the city’s police chief. Federal agents raced to portray Pretti, who was merely filming the officers on his phone during a protest against the president’s immigration crackdown in his city, as a violent “gunman”, who threatened to “massacre” law enforcement, despite video evidence that directly contradicts their account.
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We are experiencing in real time the greatest threat to our democracy since the Civil War. Walz has deployed the National Guard, and Trump is sending more federal agents to Minnesota. This means there will be lots of armed people in close proximity. That is never good.
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Dr. Sunstoned wrote:
Sun Jan 25, 2026 5:12 pm
We are experiencing in real time the greatest threat to our democracy since the Civil War. Walz has deployed the National Guard, and Trump is sending more federal agents to Minnesota. This means there will be lots of armed people in close proximity. That is never good.
In a country with more guns than people, what could possibly go wrong. 🤷🏼‍♂️
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Well. When you have an Administration openly and brazenly lying about reality, aided by Congress, it’s a matter of time before things go sideways quickly.
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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
Sun Jan 25, 2026 8:21 pm
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Well. When you have an Administration openly and brazenly lying about reality, aided by Congress, it’s a matter of time before things go sideways quickly.
The brazenness of the lies is truly stunning. Bongino and Noem were working the Sunday shows this morning, and in the face of the many recordings we have all seen, they lied AMA lied and lied and lied. This means, I think, that there will be more blood. ICE and CBP have been given the green light says anything goes, including cold blooded murder. And the feds will do nothing other than smear the victim.
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🚨 “GET YOUR AFFAIRS IN ORDER”: Radical Leftists Urge ‘Life-or-Death’ Confrontations with Federal Agents 🚨

The rhetoric on the left has shifted from political activism to a dark, unhinged obsession with martyrdom. In a disturbing new trend on TikTok, liberal influencers are now urging their followers to "get their affairs in order"—effectively preparing to die to protect illegal alien criminals from lawful federal enforcement. 🏛️🥀🚫

One TikTok user detailed a "hard conversation" with her spouse, admitted she is getting her affairs in order, and signaled she is ready to be shot by federal agents. This isn't a policy debate; it’s a radicalization pipeline that treats lawful immigration enforcement as a death sentence for "activists."

Woman on TikTok posted this: "I had to have a very hard conversation with my spouse this morning in light of another murder by ICE agents of an American citizen who was exercising his constitutional rights to observe and to legally carry defense on himself.

And I was basically like, hey, I think we need to make sure we’re on the same page for what we do if and when this comes to our community. He knows that I’ve been working on some other things, but I was like, I just, I want to make sure that we’re on the same page. And he asked me, he’s like, are you... if they come here, are you going to be out there?

And I said you know me, you know who you married, and you know I do not stay quiet when people in power abuse their power to harm others. You know that about me. You’ve seen it, you’ve seen me do that, and I don’t think I could live with myself if I didn’t.

And he was quiet for a while. And then he just said, I don’t want them to shoot you. I said I don’t really want that either, but I’ve got to do something good with this body I was born into in this one life, you know?

So I just think people, make sure you have your affairs in order. I’m going to work on getting mine in order. Let people know what they need to know. Because rights don’t exist in this country anymore for us citizens. If we don’t have an ICE uniform on, we’re not safe. And we’ve known this for a while, but it’s becoming more obvious how brash and brazen they are and how much they want to scare us into silence and complicity.

And that’s not who I am. So."

And we've already been promised partisan political prosecution for working for ICE, or even voting Republican. Democrat governors have said responding with lethal force is justified if the administration attempts to deport undocumented immigrants.

We need to cut off the federal funding. If Minnesota wants their illegal immigrants bad enough to die in an effort to prevent and obstruct deporting illegal immigrants, than they can pay for their fraud themselves without federal help. But that would require Democrats to give away their own money, rather than their preferred method of giving away other people's money. So even that would be a nonstarter to any possible peace negotiations.
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It’s psychologically fascinating that Ajax views the moral courage to stand against injustice and a brutal dictator as a dark obsession. Although I suppose that when your entire worldview is built on racism and bigotry, any act of human courage and decency would look like a threat.
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DAMN. Look at the extremely powerful video footage with the audio overlay in Dr. Razz's new video.

A Psychiatrist Explains Why Trump Thugs Murdered Alex Pretti: Not For His Gun But For His Kindness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pWwPrICLO0
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Q: WHERE is Mr. Pretti's own cell phone recording?
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Jersey Girl wrote:
Mon Jan 26, 2026 2:07 am
Q: WHERE is Mr. Pretti's own cell phone recording?
Probably with the Epstein files.
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