This editor honestly doesn't understand why, except to avoid the cold temperatures, anti-ICE agitators are protesting inside Target stores. I asked Grok, which said that "Protesters accuse Target of allowing ICE agents to use store parking lots for staging operations, enter stores, or conduct enforcement actions on company property." I heard that they even let ICE agents use the restroom.
I go to Target a lot. I'm never sure if I'm supposed to be boycotting the store or not. Target was among the first to run afoul of the notorious bathroom wars and let men use women's dressing rooms. That meant Target was good. Then Target scaled back its Pride Month display, so Target was bad. Then Target started selling "tuck-friendly" children's bathing suits, and then liberals defended it again.
All I can say is, poor Target for having to put up with all of these sit-ins and sing-alongs and "let's buy salt and then immediately return it" schemes. I've covered a lot of Target protests; here's another one from Minnesota:
My jaw literally hit the floor when I watched this
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 3, 2026
Liberals occupy a target to sing “We are Somali” as a form of protest against ICE in Minnesota
There are no words to describe how far gone liberals are… pic.twitter.com/JzC1URW78z
Sung to the tune of communist Woodie Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" to boot.
Matt Van Swol doesn't work for Twitchy, but I llke to think of him as our North Carolina correspondent. He's on the ground for everything from Hurricane Helene to Operation Charlotte's Web.
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Van Swol reached his breaking point when a Target protest hit Asheville and went on a long, righteous rant that I wanted to share:
I've been holding this in, but I'm just gonna let loose here...
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) February 8, 2026
These Leftists here in Asheville NC took over a freaking Target to protest for illegal immigrants...
...WHILE LESS THAN 15 MILES FROM HERE, AN ILLEGAL WAS ARRESTED FOR R*PING THREE CHILDREN!!!!!
NO ONE IS… pic.twitter.com/cH2UK8Nc0j
The post continues:
… PROTESTING FOR THEM!!!
NO ONE CARES AT ALL!!!!
I am so sick of this fake, incoherent bullshit from the Left.
It is ALL FAKE, NONE OF IT IS REAL!!!!!!
THERE ARE TRUE VICTIMS IN MY TOWN THAT DESERVE JUSTICE AND PROTESTS!!!
And the Left doesn't give a GOOD DAMN about any of them...
I'm so sick of this.
Nothing they do is real, it's all performative and I cannot even imagine what the family of the victims of the children r*ped by the illegal immigrant here in Asheville must feel watching this video.
Something is seriously broken in the Left's moral compass and I'm having a hard time stomaching that no one actually cares about the real victims in my city.
I say it all the time, but these people don't want any illegal alien disturbed in any way. Just leave them all alone, regardless of their rap sheet. DHS does a good job on X posting about the violent criminals — the murderers, the rapists — that ICE has scooped up, but no one cares. All of these old white boomers are — I'm gonna say it again — victims of mass formation psychosis. ICE is bad, illegals are good, regardless. They just want to go back to the Biden administration when millions were pouring over the border unvetted.
Van Swol is right. None of these boomers cares about justice at all. They'd all go back to the days when "deporter-in-chief" Barack Obama was kicking millions out of the country, because they didn't have to think about it.
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