They often call ICE "wannabe tough guys." But ICE agents are out in freezing temperatures arresting violent illegal alien criminals while leftists harass and fight them.
I don't think regular people are actually against ICE. Polling on these kind of events is always odd. I don't live in an echo chamber, I actually talk to people from all over the place with different views. Most of the “I know what normies think, therefore read my article crowd” don't actually talk to people outside of like 6 cities. NYC , DC and LA are neither normal nor representative of the country. Scott tends to have a better pulse on things.
I live in a swing district, people are happy with the ICE deportations but are unhappy with it being political ( I think that is incoherent, but it is what I gather). People don't like responsibility. The Anti-Ice people want to try to get something going, but people just don't care enough to do the Summer of Love again outside of a few areas. These areas don't speak for the country.
Compared to the Summer of Love, the deaths of Good and Pretti have certainly not spurred the same type of organized reaction outside of Minneapolis. And even Minneapolis hasn’t seen any widespread rioting. Given that the temperatures are around 0 over there and that neither person was black, that explains things.
I like in a conservative county in a key swing district in Michigan. George Floyd’s death spurred a big protest in my town. There have been some “no kings” protests with modestly high turnout but nothing at the level of 2020, and no major protests over ICE.
Reminds me of an old comment someone once made about Richard Spencer: "If he's not being a contrarian, he will die." I think this applies to a lot of the Online Right.
Like many people in the modern world are fundamentally irrational, emotional beings. Their support for deportations probably didn’t go beyond aesthetic distaste for certain kinds of immigrants. But, since ICE is le scary they, like an animal, turn on the people trying to fulfill what they ostensibly want.
Saw a lot of this in relation to the Venezuela stuff. Suddenly we're supposed to side with a Brown drug dealer and a bunch of commies because of fictive international law? Really?
> "You can log on to X and find people with Third Reich iconography shriek over Trump, cry over ICE, hate America, insist on subservience towards international law, demand socialism, worship crappy third world governments, and salivate at the chance to vote for Democrats. Only their veneration of Adolf Hitler differentiates them from the average leftist."
I actually don't find this unusual. The National Socialists (usually) are aligned with the neoliberal, Ramaswamian idea of the US as lacking an ethnos, being only an economic zone. The only difference is they think it's a bad thing. In their estimation, the US is just the ZOG and anything it does is in furtherance of Jewish power at the expense of the hapless white man, which leads to them making common cause with Venezuelan Socialists and Iranian Islamists.
That would be the theory behind it. But it's really just extreme disagreeableness manifesting in their apparent politics. They primarily like these crappy governments because they think it shocks normies and indulges their fantasies of getting back at regular people. The rationalizations follow from that.
In other words, what really unites the Online Right is hatred of Jews (anti-Semitism), whereas actual issues of race and immigration are kind of a moot point for them, and surprisingly not a high priority.
“In real-world politics, a vote for Democrats is a vote for liberalism. It doesn’t matter whether it was to punish Republicans for failing to restore the Habsburg monarchy.”
Not always the case. The Ohio GOP coronated an anchor baby scammer off the rip to be their gubernatorial candidate.
I ain’t putting up with that. I’m voting against the great replacement. And that means I’m voting for the libtard woman.
That doesn’t make any sense. I get not wanting to vote for Ramaswamy (i wouldn’t either), but how does voting for the libtard woman stop the great replacement? If elected, she’ll just make it worse.
The Ohio legislature is red and will block anything dumb she does. It won’t be much different than what we have now. The current governor is a libtard goblin that happens to have an R next to his name.
Plus it’s the only way to piss back in their faces for trying to piss in ours. Sinking Vivek is paramount.
Yes. Lots of people are losing their nerve bc the left is very good at dominating the beginning of the news cycle. They will come back around after the next cycle back to dems and that will be driven by bloodshed.
Tbh I see l little actual opposition to immigration raids among the base.
If you tune out the mainstream adjacent “conservatives” who always are just angling for a Fox News broadcast anyways, the mood is more of a grim determination to get shit done.
I’m tired, boss
They often call ICE "wannabe tough guys." But ICE agents are out in freezing temperatures arresting violent illegal alien criminals while leftists harass and fight them.
I don't think regular people are actually against ICE. Polling on these kind of events is always odd. I don't live in an echo chamber, I actually talk to people from all over the place with different views. Most of the “I know what normies think, therefore read my article crowd” don't actually talk to people outside of like 6 cities. NYC , DC and LA are neither normal nor representative of the country. Scott tends to have a better pulse on things.
I live in a swing district, people are happy with the ICE deportations but are unhappy with it being political ( I think that is incoherent, but it is what I gather). People don't like responsibility. The Anti-Ice people want to try to get something going, but people just don't care enough to do the Summer of Love again outside of a few areas. These areas don't speak for the country.
Compared to the Summer of Love, the deaths of Good and Pretti have certainly not spurred the same type of organized reaction outside of Minneapolis. And even Minneapolis hasn’t seen any widespread rioting. Given that the temperatures are around 0 over there and that neither person was black, that explains things.
I like in a conservative county in a key swing district in Michigan. George Floyd’s death spurred a big protest in my town. There have been some “no kings” protests with modestly high turnout but nothing at the level of 2020, and no major protests over ICE.
Reminds me of an old comment someone once made about Richard Spencer: "If he's not being a contrarian, he will die." I think this applies to a lot of the Online Right.
way too make fake tough based guys online. Online right is mostly fake
Like many people in the modern world are fundamentally irrational, emotional beings. Their support for deportations probably didn’t go beyond aesthetic distaste for certain kinds of immigrants. But, since ICE is le scary they, like an animal, turn on the people trying to fulfill what they ostensibly want.
Saw a lot of this in relation to the Venezuela stuff. Suddenly we're supposed to side with a Brown drug dealer and a bunch of commies because of fictive international law? Really?
A succinct, well written and necessary column. Thank you.
The more that comes out regarding Pretti, the more the public will become neutral to the incident. https://nypost.com/2026/01/26/us-news/the-far-left-network-that-helped-put-alex-pretti-in-harms-way/
If Trump cucks out over two dead faggots, I swear to god I’m so goddamn done with him.
> "You can log on to X and find people with Third Reich iconography shriek over Trump, cry over ICE, hate America, insist on subservience towards international law, demand socialism, worship crappy third world governments, and salivate at the chance to vote for Democrats. Only their veneration of Adolf Hitler differentiates them from the average leftist."
I actually don't find this unusual. The National Socialists (usually) are aligned with the neoliberal, Ramaswamian idea of the US as lacking an ethnos, being only an economic zone. The only difference is they think it's a bad thing. In their estimation, the US is just the ZOG and anything it does is in furtherance of Jewish power at the expense of the hapless white man, which leads to them making common cause with Venezuelan Socialists and Iranian Islamists.
That would be the theory behind it. But it's really just extreme disagreeableness manifesting in their apparent politics. They primarily like these crappy governments because they think it shocks normies and indulges their fantasies of getting back at regular people. The rationalizations follow from that.
That’s what they say, but it’s post hoc rationalization
Looking forward to so-called Monarchists denouncing the return of the Shah.
In other words, what really unites the Online Right is hatred of Jews (anti-Semitism), whereas actual issues of race and immigration are kind of a moot point for them, and surprisingly not a high priority.
“In real-world politics, a vote for Democrats is a vote for liberalism. It doesn’t matter whether it was to punish Republicans for failing to restore the Habsburg monarchy.”
Not always the case. The Ohio GOP coronated an anchor baby scammer off the rip to be their gubernatorial candidate.
I ain’t putting up with that. I’m voting against the great replacement. And that means I’m voting for the libtard woman.
That doesn’t make any sense. I get not wanting to vote for Ramaswamy (i wouldn’t either), but how does voting for the libtard woman stop the great replacement? If elected, she’ll just make it worse.
The Ohio legislature is red and will block anything dumb she does. It won’t be much different than what we have now. The current governor is a libtard goblin that happens to have an R next to his name.
Plus it’s the only way to piss back in their faces for trying to piss in ours. Sinking Vivek is paramount.
Yes. Lots of people are losing their nerve bc the left is very good at dominating the beginning of the news cycle. They will come back around after the next cycle back to dems and that will be driven by bloodshed.
Anyone going squishy on this should never be trusted with anything ever again. This is legitimately a do or die issue.
Tbh I see l little actual opposition to immigration raids among the base.
If you tune out the mainstream adjacent “conservatives” who always are just angling for a Fox News broadcast anyways, the mood is more of a grim determination to get shit done.