from Google AI:
The "Red Wedding" refers to a shocking massacre in Game of Thrones where Robb Stark, his mother Catelyn, and his army were betrayed and slaughtered at a wedding feast by their supposed allies, the Freys and Boltons, orchestrated by Tywin Lannister, violating sacred guest right for revenge and to end the Stark rebellion. The term signifies any event where a celebration turns into bloody betrayal, referencing the "red" of blood spilled amidst supposed feasting and unity, and also has historical roots in real massacres like Scotland's "Black Dinner".
Key Aspects of the Red Wedding:
- The Betrayal: Lord Walder Frey, angered by Robb Stark breaking a marriage pact, orchestrated the attack with Roose Bolton and Tywin Lannister's backing.
- The Violation: It brutally broke "guest right," a sacred custom of hospitality, turning a wedding meant for unity into a scene of horrific slaughter.
- The Victims: Robb Stark, his mother Catelyn, his pregnant wife Talisa, and most of his Northern forces were killed.
- The Symbolism: The name "Red Wedding" symbolizes the shocking contrast between a wedding's joy and the ensuing bloodshed, with "red" representing blood.
Inspiration & Broader Meaning:
- Historical Basis: Author George R.R. Martin drew inspiration from real historical events, particularly the Black Dinner (1440) and the Massacre of Glencoe (1692) in Scotland.
- Figurative Use: The term is now used more broadly to describe any situation involving unexpected, brutal betrayal, carnage, or a massacre disguised as something festive or peaceful.
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Another night. Another confrontation. Another Tragic Outcome. Another life lost because someone decided to resist law enforcement instead of complying and living to fight their case in court. When will these people wake up and see what is really going on, and what is really the problem! And when will the people of Minnesota understand that ICE is getting RID of the “BAD” people the people who are Criminals, the people who are Murderers, and Rapists, and who are stealing from your stores, and selling Drugs to your citizens and are Killing them from the sale of these Drugs? The people from ICE are not your Enemies! They are doing their job, the Job to Protect you from the people that you are Protesting FOR! While the precise second-by-second details of the Minneapolis shooting are still being debated, one fact remains stubbornly unfashionable to say out loud: the perpetrator was not an innocent bystander. He chose to interfere, to resist, and to escalate a volatile situation involving armed officers operating in a city already teetering on the edge of chaos.
This wasn’t a peaceful misunderstanding. This was a conscious decision to challenge authority in the middle of an enforcement action. Actions have consequences, and pretending otherwise is how Minneapolis ended up here in the first place.
What we’re watching in Minneapolis isn’t organic outrage or spontaneous civic engagement. It’s a well-funded, well-coordinated insurrection against governmental authority, carried out under the warm rhetorical blanket of “social justice.” Activist networks, political operatives, and ideologically captured officials have combined to create a hostile operating environment where law enforcement is deliberately restrained
If leadership cannot or will not act decisively, then leadership must change. Attorney General Pam Bondi and a Justice Department that confuses optics with outcomes are worse than useless—they’re dangerous. FBI Director Kash Patel, more interested in media tours than institutional repair, signals to radicals that the adults have left the room.
Your Governor Tim Walz and your Mayor Jacob Frey didn’t just “fail” to control the streets. They actively constrained law enforcement while legitimizing street-level resistance. That combination is toxic. When police are told to stand down, and mobs are told to stand up, the result is predictable disorder. Your leaders have it backwards!
You don’t see this level of sustained chaos in states where laws are enforced, deportations are carried out, and officials don’t flirt with insurrectionary rhetoric
The majority of the left-wing, it is certainly a very loud and abusive.. To them LE is randomly attacking people because of how they look or their political affiliation. The fact is LE is doing their job and that includes ICE. Have mistakes been made yes law-enforcement, including immigration enforcement has been making mistakes since they’re founding It’s called human error. But overwhelmingly most are doing the job correct.
The men and women of law-enforcement are black, white, Latino , Christian, Muslim, Jewish you name it from all sorts of backgrounds. And they are being horribly mistreated by the media along with their Democrat politician supporters. This is what cost Democrats in 2024 ie the BLM mindset… the lies about police and lying about people being racist…. Having political agitators screaming at police officers and interfering with their legal investigations with blow horn and physically interfering with legal law-enforcement actions that go back decades.. Hoping to cause a problem and get media coverage.
The Minnesota ICE Watch group of which slain Minneapolis protester And this might not even be a majority of the left-wing, but it is certainly a very loud and abusive portion of them. To them LE is randomly attacking people because of how they look or their political affiliation. The fact is LE is doing their job and that includes ICE. Have mistakes been made yes law-enforcement, including immigration enforcement has been making mistakes since they’re founding It’s called human error. But overwhelmingly most are doing the job correct.
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