The reason for recent events in Minnesota is that it is the location of, by far, the largest financial fraud in the history of America. Everyone is in on it. The governor, state officials, mayors, local officials, and judges, all the way down to municipal judges. They also have key allies in the universities and the professions. The Biden administration was also in on it. Don't believe me? Try going through an airport with $1 million in cash and properly declare it with the feds, like the Somali couriers did. Better yet, organize some friends to participate and have your group take $1 million in cash through an airport every single day for two straight years, again all properly declared. Try it. Let's just say that you won't have the same outcome that the Somali couriers had.

The people organizing the assaults on ICE have ties to those corrupt government officials and to allies in key institutions. Lots of money is at stake. The people funding the attacks on ICE are the usual billionaires and foundations whose dual goals are the destruction of Western civilization and making America a majority non-white country. They'll fund anything that furthers those goals, especially violence. And unfortunately, the government is also funding these outrageous actions through NGOs and likely providing operational support, though not as openly as under Biden and Trump I. The important takeaway is that none of this is organic. Everyone on the ground participating has been recruited to do so and provided both instructions on what to do and supplies. And there is big money behind it.

Bessent is following the money, and it doesn't look like this will end well for those officials in Minnesota. And we'll see how well protected those billionaires and foundations are, though I'm not optimistic. So far, no one's laid a glove on them.

@MentORPHEUS When he started the process of shooting, he was in front of the car and was a fraction of a second from being hit by it. Her partner egged her on into trying to run him over, and she obliged. She also wasn't a protester. She went to "training" put on by a group funded by rich leftists that taught her how to disrupt ICE agents when they are making arrests. She'd spent her day following them around and harassing them. She's a typical stupid female who's never been held accountable for anything and thought assaulting ICE agents is some kind of game. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Here's a question for you: why are obscenely rich people funding assaults on ICE agents? Why is this issue so important to them that they engage in blatantly criminal conduct and spend significant sums of money to create civil unrest? Answer that question and you eviscerate the arguments you've made, but consider it anyway.

@SwarmShawarma He's training for meets. Arching the back is allowed and shortens the distance that the bar has to travel. Most competitive lifters use some amount of arch, though the extreme arches are mostly lighter bodyweight lifters and females. If you are focusing on bodybuilding and not absolute strength, training with a flat or relatively flat back is a good idea. In the routine I've been doing, most weeks there'll be a bench day where I do "Larson" bench presses, which just means extending your legs straight out and keeping back flat on the bench. It takes away leg drive and is a bit harder than a regular bench press.

I'm not sure what he was going to do if he had had problems on the squat. He must have been confident he'd get the lift. I don't recall any safety bars but maybe there were. If he had gotten stuck, he wouldn't have needed much help to complete the lift, so the chick behind him likely could have helped enough to get him upright and be able to rack it. When I had a training partner, we'd spot each other from the back and never had issues. If we were going for a new max, we'd get side spotters, but that wasn't frequent.

Wearing the belt up high during deadlifts is new to me. I don't remember any lifters doing that until recently. They believe that wearing the belt high allows them to increase abdominal pressure and thereby get a solid "brace" for the lift. I don't know if it makes a difference or not, but some evidently think it does.