By Joseph. Rittenhouse
Sedona, AZ — America is drifting toward a moment that could change the country forever. Demonstrators and authorities are increasingly facing off in the streets. Violence is rising. Lives are being lost. The nation gets more divided by the week. America stands on the edge of irreversible chaos.
This did not have to happen.
If immigration enforcement had remained focused on violent criminals, rapists, traffickers, cartel operatives, there would not be the level of public outrage we see today.
Most Americans understand the need for law enforcement and border security. What they did not expect was militarized operations moving into neighborhoods, pulling hardworking families from their homes, separating parents from children, and creating images that resemble something closer to occupation than public safety.
That is what angered people. Not the concept of law enforcement but how it was carried out.
Trust has collapsed. Tear gas in residential streets. Videos of people being thrown to the ground. Raids that look like military deployments rather than police work. Once public confidence is lost at this scale, it is extraordinarily difficult to restore.
Then there is the possibility that there are those who may point their weapons at the authorities in retaliation.
The moment an ICE or Border Patrol agent is killed in a public confrontation, and it only takes one, the dam will break. Retaliation will escalate. Protesters will face overwhelming force. Bullets will fly. And once that threshold is crossed, America will enter a level of street violence it has not experienced since the Civil War.
History offers sobering examples. Nations do not fall into chaos all at once. They slide. Then a single incident ignites everything. Iran is one such example – mass unrest met with overwhelming state force, resulting in thousands of deaths and a broken country.
Could that happen here?
Yes. It absolutely could.
Crowds with signs and chants cannot stand against armored vehicles, heavy weaponry, and advanced crowd-control technology. When escalation begins, it will be fast, brutal, and irreversible. Nobody wins that scenario. Not protesters, not police, not the country.
So, the real question is not who is right or wrong in the protest itself. The real question is what outcome those in power truly want. Does the current political leadership understand the powder keg they are standing on? Or is chaos being tolerated, or even exploited, for political gain?
Meanwhile, the public sits glued to screens, watching each new incident unfold, waiting for the next spark.
Recent high-profile confrontations have been turned into symbols by both sides. But uncomfortable truth matters: bringing weapons into volatile demonstrations invites tragedy.
When armed individuals insert themselves into tense standoffs, fear takes over, mistakes multiply, and lives end..
If America continues down this path, the destination will not be reform or justice — it will be authoritarian reflex and street-level bloodshed.
When that line is crossed, there is no easy return.
We should be asking how to stop it before the first irreversible trigger is pulled.
Because once that moment arrives, America will never be the same.
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“When armed individuals insert themselves into tense standoffs, fear takes over, mistakes multiply, and lives end..”
Precisely Joseph! And MAGA loves bringing weapons to their political protest but not in the form of a registered legally carried Sig Arms sidearm with a STANDARD extra magazine of 9mm ammo. but with an armory of AR’s, AK weapons of WAR with dozens of rounds of 5.56 mm ammo in 30 round and larger high capacity magazines as they did at every MAGA protest ever, Alex Jones Inc Did when their armed illegal violent militia surrounded the Phoenix vote tabulation center, MAGA did on the Capitol as they beat and killed law enforcement officers.
I’m not firearms advocate but anyone can see the hypocrisy of 2nd Amendment distorting MAGA in this case. The man killed did not use good sense by bringing a sidearm to a civil disturbance but he committed NO crimes whatsoever that a normal human eye can see for themselves. We have no idea why he felt the need to carry a concealed weapon in a major city like most in MAGA do daily.
MAGA 2nd Amendment distortionist are on their heads over this case. They hate having to defend a fellow 2nd Amendment rights holder who was abiding by the law after defending a lawless nutjob carrying an illegal AR-15 into a protest and killing unarmed protesters with it. The cases are polar opposites of culpability and yet because a firearm is involved they are willing to contort themselves into defending a political opponent.
If the Law is the Law then MAGA needs to stop blocking investigations into their murders and permit the Law to take its course.
Americans have the right to peacefully protest whether they have a legal concealed handgun on them or not! The hypocrisy of the Trump Insurrectionist Administration who called White Supremacists marching upon Charlottesville that resulted in an innocent unarmed protester being killed by a white supremacist, “good people”, they called violent Jan 6th insurrectionist who assaulted and ultimately killed federal law enforcement officers, “hostages”! They called Kyle Rittenhouse a “2nd Amendment hero” after murdering unarmed protesters he sought to incite into violence when he illegally carted and illegal AR-15 and over 6 30 round magazines of ammunition into a peaceful protest. Carrying a concealed legal firearm in a protest is no different from MAGA supporters who actually “brandish” and “use” weapons when they protest against law enforcement except that one is out of legal self defense while the latter is meant as intimidation which is a crime! I’m all for making firearms illegal at any protest by anyone other than law enforcement. ICE is not Law Enforcement it is Border and Immigration Enforcement only so they have no business being at civil disturbances. If ICE was doing what it claims to be doing with “strategic strikes” there would be no protest because nobody would ever see them except the people they are arresting. They would not be walking and driving through neighborhoods picking and choosing who to ID and ultimately arrest, they’d have a list and follow it not wantonly add to it as they go along.There’d be no racial profiling and there most definitely wouldn’t be any dead unarmed peaceful protesters! DHS and ICE are being used as shock troops but they are poorly trained, poorly led shock troops who are out of control! They need to get their asses back on the border where they belong!
America is a country of cowboy wannabes. It’s been that way since it’s colonization. America is a gun culture that loves violence and ignorance because they claim it is their right to do as they damn well please! Americans love brutal police tactics, wars, war movies, driving like NASCAR drivers wherever they please, hunting with high powered war weapons with massive scopes that take away the skills of true hunters who try to give wildlife a fair chance. I thought Americans in general hated corrupt politicians but our last election proved me wrong as you elected a known sex offender, tax evader and insurrectionist. Just shows what path America is truly on and it is not a law abiding democratic one. America is a failed Democracy and a failed country in general. Yes you have the largest land mass and one of but not thee largest deadliest military on earth and you can bully your way about the world as you please, but it will never make you a country to be envied ever again! People from other countries know they are not welcome here and risk being killed if they chose to visit. So I think MAGA is going to get their isolationist wish and the rest of the civil democratic world will avoid you like the plague you have become and America will shrink and shrivel like a grape left on the vine way too long.
“… chaos being tolerated, or even exploited, for political gain?” it’s obvious this is the case. But it’s not just “political gain” trump & company are after. They want totalitarian control over our nation, our citizens. They want to crush values of democracy, justice and decency. They want us to bow to their ideology of racism and hate or die.
Yep! You it should be illegal to protest while carrying a firearm, bear spray, metal pipes, portable gallows and the like-
Protesters gather outside election centre in Phoenix as Biden’s Arizona ‘win’ challenged
https://youtu.be/qbA_Qla38Qs
Armed Trump supporters wield assault rifles and wave MAGA flags in growing protests supporting the President’s claim the election was ‘stolen’
https://share.google/AyBCDqVzUHacwp816
Pretty was not brandishing a weapon (there is zero evidence of it). He was not there intimidating Law Enforcement or Trump supporters. He was there video documenting an out of control border agency using uncontrolled violence upon members of the community in which he lives. He didn’t travel 50+ miles to jump into chaos to create more chaos and ultimately 3 deaths with a weapon of war in his hands like Kyle Rittenhouse their 2nd amendment hero very much did!
Yes he was indeed brandishing a firearm. Weeks before he attacked a ICE vehicle. Not listening to law enforcement will get you into trouble. He FAFO. Don’t cry over him or Goode. They knew what they were doing.
You should look up the definition of Brandishing a Weapon because there’s absolutely no correlation to the definition and Mr Pretty having a legally registered and legally concealed firearm in its holster located in his rear right inner waist band. Brandishing a weapon is where a bunch of White Supremacist with AR-15’s with hundreds of 5.56-6.5 mm rounds in 30 rd banana clips, Team Wendy Helmets and Body Armor (which is an automatic felony to wear in the commission of a crime involving a firearm) and their Army Surplus MILITARY BATTLE DRESS UNIFORMS (they have replaced their civilian attire with in order to appear as though they are tough guy patriots when in reality they are cowards and criminal insurrectionist) at the Maricopa vote tabulation center in 2020. Same with the same criminal jackasses who stood “armed guard” over STATE Election Boxes in order to menace and harass people of color and anyone else they wanted. Same with the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers moving their Armory of Insurrectionist firearms into DC during their failed attack upon the Capitol, Capitol and DC Police and our Democracy (which only a complete racist hate filled moron would say did not exist up until MAGA destroyed it out of racial animus and greed). Everyone knows that after the Civil Rights Act was passed and before the MAGA Insurrectionist that this country was referred to as “a shining beacon of Democracy”. Of course now it’s just an ugly hateful bloated bully turd in the crapper thanks to brainless idiots like the Hunter Biden character on here (BTW- I shared your posts with the USSS as someone pretending to be Hunter Biden which I believe is impersonation and a crime)?
****Ignorant Troll/Just Ignore ****
Just remember one side wants to tell you what to do, and obey.
The other wants people to enjoy who they are, who they love.
We may not understand? But we understand enough as long as no one hurts another person its all good.
Now maybe we go to far? Like healthcare for all is to much?
Law and order to much? Solidify SS for another generation? Care for the sick, the disabled, the poor, and elderly?
This aint complicated…Its more about ignorance and pointing out people who are different I guess?
Dont matter if your the wrong race, wrong religion, wrong color of skin. I guess they believe you dont belong here?
So the bigots can point and yell and scream. People will attack LGBT-Q people to feel better about their own insecurities.
Hey Nixon and Reagan did a great job of lighting this fuse intentionally!
The dog whistles are gone, and now its a in your fave ugliness!
To bad they cant look into a mirror?
“Too bad they cant look into a mirror?“
Too bad they ALL can’t face a Grand Jury for their crimes against humanity and the country and get the life sentences in a Supermax Isolation Cell like they ALL (The GOP/Tea Party/MAGA) clearly deserve- Watergate, Iran Contra, Insurrection, Grifting while in office, Sex Offenses etc. We allow the wealthy to get off far far too easily. Anyone in the middle or lower class does anything remotely similar and they get the longest stiffest sentences possible. Go ahead try it, break into your opponents political offices and start a few illegal military carpet bombings of countries we are not at war with, illegally record conversations, steal weapons from US Military Bases and sell them to Rebels and Terrorist enemies of the US, assault the Capitol Building and it’s occupants, interfere in the election process with armed violent criminals, pay off pornstars to ensure they remain silent about your extramarital affairs, cover up an International Pedophile Ring and your direct affiliation with the Pedo’s, ignore the rule of law and Constitution and see what happens!
There is a Two Tiered Justice System in America and it’s not what you think. It’s NOT where the innocent get penalized while the guilty go free or a “Deep State” justice system. Nope, it’s a system where if you have Bigly money you can delay, defer and bribe for your freedom while if poor you have No rights, No Voice and will get whatever a wealth led system determines you deserve while allowing their wealthy pals to walk Scot Free. It’s very much like King MightyASS’s Big Ignorant Tax Cuts for his wealthy Sycophantic Criminal Cronies. The uber wealthy pay pennies on each million dollars they bilk outta people while the lower and middle classes pay Bigly taxes on small salaries. When the majority of people on the globe wake up to this criminality and take what is rightfully theirs from those who stole it all the world will be a much better place for humanity which is precisely what the Uber wealthy lack- humanity! They know it’s coming which is why they’re so criminally desperate to keep their criminal grip over the masses.
No more Dark Money, No more Wealthy Politicians (the government is supposed to be of the people for the people not “of the wealthy for the wealthy”), No Political Immunity from CRIMES committed while in office, No more Pardoning of Criminals because they pay you a Bigly Donation, No more refusal to disclose Taxes and Business holdings for Criminals aspiring to destroy our government by becoming elected Criminal politicians, No more military interventions without Congressional approval and oversight.
This is why MAGA screams like banshees whenever their own are on trial for criminality. They are just defending their fellow Criminals in order to save their own criminal skins. Once MAGA is out of power and permanently dismantled and banned forever like open Nazism in Germany has been, they will all be screaming into the void as the masses laugh and lock their asses up. That’s the beauty of the Epstein File MAGA coverup, it has exposed precisely what kind of scumbag sleezebag people that the worlds wealthy ARE! And now every investigative eye in the world will be focused upon them, their past and present crimes! Should be quite amusing to watch them all squirm, whine and cry and demand their innocence to blind eyes and deaf ears who have seen and heard enough of their lies! History is full of examples of this phenomenon called Justice and Karma!
Top Democrats call for Gabbard to explain presence at Fulton County raid
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5714725-intelligence-democrats-gabbard-hearing/
Just shows to go ya which party is really implementing a Deep State. As usual they pointed fingers to cover their own corruption! She has zero arrest or investigation authority pertaining to US citizens or more importantly State Governments. The CIA are experts at evidence fabrication so I suspect that the “FBI” will find “new” evidence of election fraud even though there was zero evidence of systemic fraud found by numerous recounts and investigations in any state at anytime in the 2020 election. Trump runs the government like the National Enquirer, pumping out lies and propaganda to cover up his own crimes.
Ammon Bundy Is All Alone
The anti-government militia leader can’t make sense of his allies’ support for ICE violence.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/ammon-bundy-trump-ice/685849/
WOW! I rarely agree with the words of Right Wing Extremist Terrorist like Bundy or McVeigh but Bundy is spot on in his criticisms of King Ding Dong! This gives me hope for the country- kinda.
When the birthplace of Fascist/Fascism points out that America has become an unwanted Fascist presence in their own country it means America has become what the birthplace of Fascism has long attempted to purge from their Fascist History! Why? Because NOBODY but racist @unts who hide behind guns and masked gangs like Fascism. The world is moving on from the disaster that is America today under fascist MAGA and fascist Trump. Perhaps one day they will end up doing to this country what America did to theirs to rid the world of the evil that is racist fascist and ignorance that was destroying our world then and is again right here in the US of A holes.
Italians protest ICE’s presence at 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5717207-italy-protests-ice-winter-olympics/
Joseph,
I was wrong about the Flock camera photo you posted awhile back. Apologies, I was not aware of that specific technology and the photos and locations of the cameras look more like the system designed to change our traffic lights for emergency vehicles. I still think that it could have been a valid LE tool. There have been recent reports of Flock assisting in interstate murders as well as cases of missing children. Unfortunately the Trump Administration has used Flock to violate Constitutional rights and abused the tool to advance their unlawful purge of people of color. Law Enforcement needs to stay technologically advanced. Gangs (mostly White Supremacists) use drones and other technology to protect themselves from being busted. So it only makes sense for law enforcement to have advanced technology in their toolbox. However, those tools need to be strongly regulated with oversight, accountability and transparency. I’m glad Sedona rid itself of the Flock system. But good luck trying leaving town in a vehicle without being captured on Cottonwood’s or the States flock cameras. You cannot! We need sensible laws to regulate LE technology use just as we desperately need sensible gun reform in this country of violence loving gun hoarders. Sadly we will never see either.
Trump, Trump, Trump….. He lives in your head all the time, doesn’t he? Go get some air, J(oe) B(iden).
You lost, pops. Get over it.
Sure think my Brain Dead Troll. I’m heading down to Old Town Cottonwood why don’t you come join us with you dumb red hat on , we need a good laugh at your expense! I guess homophobia and threats of violence aka your stupid made up ACRONYM FAFO the favorite saying of Racist White Supremacist after “Fag” which is used to deflect from the fact that the majority of people who use it are closeted gays like crybaby Killer Kyle Rittenhouse and or wealthy white pedophiles just like was recently proven about Elonia Musk, Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and Howard Lutnik all MAGA Pedo’s! You must be so very proud of your criminal idols. Go stuff your face with Chipotle’s botulism you are irrelevant.
Trump doesn’t live in my head, he just unfortunately gets to live on my planet and breathe my oxygen. People know who and what you are and you’re fooling nobody with your tough guy talk. You’re all absolute cowards who hide behind gangs and guns. Without those you’re ALL sniveling crybaby COWARDS who would sellout their own mothers. Please keep on keeping on! Keep spewing ignorance and hate, keep wearing your hater hat and please please please maintain an online presence so we can all see and hear the ignorance you and MAGA are.
“Hottest most respected country in the world” mine arse!
Protests against the US administration’s latest moves in Denmark and Italy
https://www.euronews.com/2026/01/31/danish-and-italians-protest-agains-the-us-administrations-latest-moves
People world-wide would give their left arm to come live in the greatest country in the world.
Yet our own mentally ill countrymen on the left despise the US. What incomprehensible programming are they watching. Communist New Network, I’m sure.
Love or leave it, girls. I hear North Korea is beautiful this time of year. You should go and take the ILLEGALS you aim to protect with you. You can call yourselves non binary and paint each other’s toes while you trim your mustaches.
Take your own advice Putin sympathizer and crackhead (according to your moniker). I hear Snowden has a 2 bedroom flat in the Moscow slums! You and your Putin binky sucking Don Don could all be flat mates and tell lies to one another.
Wait until our government starts rounding up White Supremacist as they are anyone and everyone of color. What will you cry then big baby? That the government is “woke”? You had better believe our government after MAGA is going to be “woke”! People have awakened to the threat to the world that is MAGA and MAGA is destined to become the horrible footnote in history that Nazi Germany is. But don’t worry all those who supported MAGA will forever be remembered as the blight and scourge of humanity!
“Yet our own mentally ill countrymen on the left despise the US. What incomprehensible programming are they watching. Communist New Network, I’m sure”
Says the Royal Cun# who blindly supports Communist Putin over American Intelligence Officials. Why? Because he’s Putin’s Manchurian Candidate destroying America, NATO, UN, The World Court and anything else Putin despises. You and your party are going to be a bigger laughing stock than Benedict Arnold when the history books are written about each and everyone involved in aiding your Benedict Arnold POTUS achieve Putin’s demands. Wonder how much our Royal Majesty was promised from KGB Vladimir? Surely his soul went to the lowest bidder who convinced him he was getting “The Art of the Steal” deal!
Just ignore the wanker JB, he’s just trying to get noticed for his ignorance and hate which has been duly noted. He’ll crawl back under the runny cow pie he crawled out from under just to speak ignorantly about the fact that MAGA is a party of racist homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic criminals who will all ultimately be held responsible for their crime spree against humanity beginning with the midterms! And he says he still wears the little red hate hat so I’m sure he won’t be difficult to spot and call out publicly which will make him cry TBS! He FA and he is eventually going to FO when karma comes crashing down on his little red hate hat and hollow head!
“I hear North Korea is beautiful this time of year”
C’mon we all know you took Melanie’s place when rumpled orange foreskin went to see his other boyfriend Kim. How was your circle jerk with 3 micro penis’s at your DMZ love fest? Did you swallow or spit? Silly question huh? We all know you swallowed!