Tom Bilyeu
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There's no mass arson and looting like in 67 Detroit or 92 LA.
And there's no armed groups openly defying federal authority on a large scale.
You get people on the Internet holding very big, scary guns.
I get it.
But in terms of what's actually happening on the street, not so much.
The most concerning part for me right now is open hostility towards the federal government's authority just in general and ICE agents specifically that the governor, Tim Walz and A.G.
Keith Ellison are displaying.
So opening
openly protecting illegal immigrants, painting ICE operations as not being valid somehow, and historically consistent enforcement of immigration law, for instance, but they're just saying that it's unjust and unlawful, even though it's the kind of thing that we've seen many times before, including from Obama.
So despite all of that, invoking the act now would be seen by a mass swath of Americans as massive overreach and would for sure inflame tensions even further rather than calming them down, which should be on everyone's agenda.
Historical uses of the act were often last resorts after huge acute local failures.
Here, Minnesota is in new territory with community organizers and things like that, being able to use technology like apps to get whistles in everybody's hands, to explain to them certain code whistles and things that they can do to try and thwart law enforcement activities.
But the violence has been contained enough that I think Trump would put himself at risk of looking like he's doing more tyrannical acts if he were to invoke the act right now.
So be careful.
We must.
No, definitely not.
It'd be a huge mistake.
I think you were looking at something on your computer while I was doing that.
It is getting out of control.
And he's got to really give Minnesota a shot to like reign this in, to work with ICE.