Trump Pines For Greenland; Minnesota Fights Back | MR Live
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Takeaways
- ❖Trump's desire to acquire Greenland is reportedly tied to his Nobel Peace Prize snub, leading to a bizarre letter to Norway.
- ❖The EU and Canada are re-evaluating their relationships with the US, with Canada signing a major EV deal with China.
- ❖Germany advised institutes to transfer data from US servers due to concerns about potential US service cutoffs.
- ❖The Trump DOJ refuses to investigate the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minnesota, despite questions about self-defense.
- ❖A general strike is planned in Minnesota on January 23rd, with broad union support, protesting ICE actions.
- ❖Protesters disrupted a church service where the pastor also serves as an ICE field office director, leading to potential charges.
- ❖Representative Keith Self (R-TX) equated live-streaming protests with terrorism, drawing comparisons to Hamas.
- ❖Community members in Minnesota are using tactics like water balloons (in freezing weather), car alarms, and hotel cancellations to disrupt ICE operations.
- ❖ICE tactics are described as a form of 'ethnic cleansing' and 'Gustapo' targeting people based on perceived ethnic character, not just immigration status.
Insights
1Trump's Greenland Ambition Tied to Nobel Snub
Donald Trump's aggressive push to acquire Greenland is reportedly a direct response to not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. A leaked email to Norway's Prime Minister stated, 'Considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped eight wars plus, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace.' He argued the US should own Greenland because Denmark cannot protect it from Russia or China, and that Denmark's ownership is based on a boat landing 'hundreds of years ago' without 'written documents'.
BBC report on Trump's email to Norway's Prime Minister, read aloud by hosts.
2DOJ Refuses Investigation into ICE Fatal Shooting
The Trump administration's Department of Justice (DOJ), led by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch (formerly Trump's defense attorney), explicitly stated they would not investigate the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minnesota. Blanch claimed officers are 'forced to defend himself against somebody or putting his life in danger' and that the DOJ only investigates 'when it's appropriate,' which is 'not the case here.' The hosts dispute this, citing frame-by-frame analysis suggesting the agent was not in self-defense during the second and third shots, and questioning why the agent was videotaping the car in violation of ICE policy.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch's public statement and host analysis of the incident.
3Erosion of US Alliances and Rise of Alternative Partnerships
Trump's actions, including threats of 10% European tariffs and a 200% tariff on French wine, are causing a 'permanent break' with the EU and weakening NATO. Canada has already signed a significant EV deal with China, and European leftists advocate for less reliance on the US for security and economic ties. Germany is advising institutions to move data from US servers, anticipating potential cutoffs. The hosts argue that Europe is 'neutered' and that the US is no longer a reliable partner.
EU chief warnings, Canada's deal with China, German data transfer advisories, host commentary.
4Community-Led Resistance Against ICE Operations
In response to aggressive ICE actions in Minnesota, communities are organizing and employing various tactics to disrupt operations. These include a planned general strike, protesting a pastor who is also an ICE field director, and practical measures like throwing water balloons at ICE officials in freezing weather, setting off car alarms to alert neighborhoods, and hotels cancelling reservations for ICE agents. These actions aim to make ICE's job 'more and more difficult' through attrition.
Reports of Minnesota general strike, church protest, Don Lemon's interviews with community members, Double Tree hotel letter.
5Labeling Protest as Terrorism to Suppress Dissent
The Trump administration is attempting to label protests outside religious places as 'terrorism,' particularly if perceived as 'anti-Christian.' Representative Keith Self (R-TX) explicitly stated that live-streaming protests 'cause terror in the population' and compared them to Hamas's October 7th attack. The hosts argue this is a deliberate strategy to suppress dissent and criminalize forms of protest, even when non-violent.
Representative Keith Self's statement, host commentary on NSPM7.
Bottom Line
The US's declining reliability as an ally, driven by unpredictable presidential actions, is accelerating a global realignment where countries like Canada seek economic partnerships with China, potentially isolating the US.
This shift could fundamentally alter global trade dynamics and geopolitical power structures, diminishing US influence and fostering a multipolar world order.
Other nations could capitalize on this by strengthening independent economic and security blocs, reducing dependence on the US, and forging new alliances.
The explicit refusal of the DOJ to investigate federal agent misconduct, combined with the administration's rhetoric, creates a climate where law enforcement may feel emboldened to act with impunity, especially against marginalized communities.
This erodes public trust in justice institutions, exacerbates social unrest, and could lead to further abuses of power without accountability.
Grassroots organizations and local governments can step up to fill the void of federal oversight, implementing community-led accountability mechanisms and sanctuary policies to protect residents.
Lessons
- Support local community defense projects and 'ICE watch' groups to monitor and disrupt ICE operations (iicerrt.com).
- Educate yourself and your community on your rights when encountering federal agents: do not speak, show ID, sign anything, or open your door without a signed judicial warrant.
- Participate in or support general strikes and protests against perceived government overreach and human rights abuses, as seen in Minnesota.
- Consider how to apply creative, non-violent disruption tactics (e.g., public alerts, strategic information sharing) to make it more difficult for agents of state repression to operate in your community.
- Advocate for political candidates who commit to holding federal agencies accountable and protecting civil liberties, especially when the mainstream opposition party is perceived as weak.
Quotes
"Considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped eight wars plus, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace."
"The world is not secure unless we have complete and total control all caps of Greenland. That's the name of my new book. Complete and total control of Greenland."
"We've cut Medicaid from them. We've cut housing assistance from them. We've cut the ACA subsidies from them. We've made AI come for their jobs. The question is can we offer put solutions on the table that improve the lives of these workingclass people? And every day I think there's opportunities. As you see a Tyson plant closure in Lexington, Nebraska right now. 5% of American beef production going away. Instead of going after Greenland and running Greenland, how about you go and run a Tyson's plan?"
"How dare you claim to be a pastor of God and you are involved in evil in our community?"
"When you live stream something, you want it to be uh you want it to cause terror in the population. That's the definition of terror, to cause fear amongst the population. So when they live streamed it, I compare them to Hamas who live streamed the attack in Israel that killed uh thousands of hundreds of people uh especially in that one festival. So that's what they want to do. They want to instill terror."
"It's just it doesn't feel right, man. I Yeah, I don't How do you It's It I don't even want to entertain an argument, you know? It's just like you think about these kind of two-way fetish people. Here's your moment. This isn't small government. I know that. So, um it's just hard to stomach, that's all."
"The second amendment has been very clearly just about uh scared men and the right the freedom to be able to lynch somebody uh if you want to and not the freedom to or or power to protect yourself from the government."
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