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2026-02-01 Home Front: Politix

Play Civil War Games, Win Civil War Prizes: Trump Draws a Red Line for the Blue Cities

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Posted by Besoeker 2026-02-01 02:55|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1815 views ] Top

1 Now we wait to see how many arrests or dead it takes to educate the smart phone generation to stop.

Posted by NN2N1 2026-02-01 03:51|| 2026-02-01 03:51|| Front Page Top

2 Tampon Tim & Stonewall Jackson?

Posted by Grom the Affective 2026-02-01 06:13|| 2026-02-01 06:13|| Front Page Top

3 So yesterday at least three tour buses of paid protesters rolled into Springfield, Ohio to drop their passengers at the hotels. The local Facebook and Reddit groups are lit up in anticipation. Three big liberal churches held anti-ice training sessions covered in the Springfield paper last week. Expect this will be a new hot spot.

Posted by Gloluns Turkeyneck4904 2026-02-01 07:38|| 2026-02-01 07:38|| Front Page Top

4 Trump vows not to help blue cities with riots, instructs ICE and Border Patrol to protect federal property

Posted by Skidmark 2026-02-01 07:44|| 2026-02-01 07:44|| Front Page Top

5 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson puts ICE ‘on notice’ with executive order seeking prosecution of agents

Posted by Skidmark 2026-02-01 07:47|| 2026-02-01 07:47|| Front Page Top

6 Alleged MS-13 gang member accused of 5 murders in home country nabbed in Virginia

Posted by Skidmark 2026-02-01 07:48|| 2026-02-01 07:48|| Front Page Top

7 OK my take: Trump got word that heavy riots were planned, designed to involve Feds maiming "innocent constitutionally-protected protesters". Rather than allowing the left to write and direct their MSM fiction, Trump decided not to play, except to protect Fed property and lives.

The downside is that it turns over the target cities to the mob, putting thousands of non-insurrectionists and their property at risk.

I can't support this move. The Feds are supposed to protect the country. Giving up large sections because it would mean being bad mouthed by the MSM and the insurrectionists is just the cost of doing the right thing.

Send the message that NO riots will be allowed and the Insurrection Act WILL be invoked and US troops WILL be deployed. If they still want to play, then game on.

Most of the "protesters" are LARPers who NEED to be told they can actually get hurt playing their fantasies out.

Posted by Mercutio 2026-02-01 09:53|| 2026-02-01 09:53|| Front Page Top

8 The first and foremost people supposed to protect the cities are the local, county and state governments and law enforcement. If they fail to do so or assist, then declare an insurrection, roll in the military and treat them like they deserve. THAT is what this move is. If the Dem's fail, like we know their will, this opens the door to wiping the slate clean there, paid thugs, mayors, governors etc. They can all enjoy their gallows or long terms in the federal pen.

Posted by Silentbrick 2026-02-01 10:14|| 2026-02-01 10:14|| Front Page Top

9 Having lived through desegregation in the Deep South, it's fascinating to see resistance tactics used by southern states and roundly (and correctly) condemned by northern states being recycled by some northern politicians today. As usual, it's OK when they do it.

Posted by Matt 2026-02-01 10:40|| 2026-02-01 10:40|| Front Page Top

10 this phase would have been anticipated. core blue cities have suffered from the flight of diferent thinkers and the concentraiton of like minded lunatics. we live in 2, or more, different amreicas wth your info source feeding you AI (which is monitoring the individual on all nodes of tech and listening) steered info. so you have real mmoral and financial support for large groups of deluded americans. I they are organized, where are the charges/arrests against the money men? why aren't bad guys id'd with the faciaal recog and signal handles they are using, put on a no fly and arrested when they try to fly? the fed controls the airways.

Posted by jefe101 2026-02-01 12:26|| 2026-02-01 12:26|| Front Page Top

11 I think the locals have had enough in Springfield. That area of Ohio is not affluent or liberal. I don’t think they will end up fighting ICE. It’s possible that this may attract a mixture of bikers and Appalachian folks. It’s close to Dayton so there are some college kids available. The demographics and jurisdiction seem wrong for what they are attempting unless they are looking for more dead Karen’s.

Posted by Super Hose 2026-02-01 13:27|| 2026-02-01 13:27|| Front Page Top

12 ^The Movement can find use for more martyrs.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2026-02-01 13:31|| 2026-02-01 13:31|| Front Page Top

13 Some key bits from the Daily Signal:

Go Big, Then Go Smart: Trump, ICE, and the Law. How to Skip the Left’s PR Trap.

So, what can ICE do differently in 2026?

More workplace enforcement and targeted arrests in unpredictable locations and times.

To help them, technology has advanced considerably since Trump’s first term, and AI is a force multiplier for routine investigations. ICE is spending “more than $300 million … for social-media monitoring tools, facial recognition software, license plate readers and services to find where people live and work,” according to Politico.

ICE is also investing millions in so-called skip tracing technology, which can more easily identify illegal aliens while leaving American citizens alone.

U.S. consulates overseas are using AI to screen the social media of visa applicants, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced a “new vetting center [that] will focus on powerful screening resources.” ICE should be able to access all that information, as well as that of other federal agencies, like the Social Security Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Citizens’ data is protected by privacy laws, but noncitizens, particularly those here illegally, have no right to expect that one part of the government will keep information from another.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-02-01 14:38|| 2026-02-01 14:38|| Front Page Top

14 Rumor has it that ICE is working to develop the same methods to track down illegals that colleges and universities use to track down alumni.

Posted by Chantry 2026-02-01 17:44|| 2026-02-01 17:44|| Front Page Top

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