I never thought I’d feel afraid while receiving medical care.
But during infusions, repeatedly, in the same setting, politics enter the room.
Here’s what that actually looks like.
When you sit in an infusion chair, you are completely dependent.
A registered nurse retrieves medication that will go directly into your bloodstream.
They access a vein with a peripheral IV, secure it, connect the tubing, and control the rate at which the drug enters your body.
You don’t touch the controls.
You don’t set the speed.
You don’t get to leave.
I’ve had infusion rates turned up too fast, suddenly.
My heart started racing.
I got head rushes and palpitations.
I had to ask for it to be slowed down because my body was reacting.
And there are times when vein access itself becomes an issue.
I understand that nurses are human and mistakes happen.
But after years of treatment with the same staff, when you leave with your arms gauzed and bandaged in multiple places, repeatedly, because veins suddenly can’t be found, it stops feeling random.
In the recent past, when names were being called in a crowded waiting room, instead of my name, I was called back as “MAGA.” Out loud. In front of other patients.
The room went quiet for a split second, then parts of it laughed.
Some people snickered.
Others stared.
A man, another patient, looked directly at me and said I was on the wrong side of history.
I remember sitting there, outnumbered, already vulnerable, already needing care, feeling defeated in a way that’s hard to explain.
You’re sick.
You’re waiting to be treated.
And suddenly you’re labeled, publicly, in a space where you are supposed to be safe.
What makes that fear sharper is this, when this center is closed on holidays, I receive the same treatment at a different, public infusion center.
Different nurses.
Different setting.
No issues.
My veins are accessed without difficulty.
Same body.
Same veins.
Different environment.
That option isn’t available to me consistently, it’s only possible when the primary center is closed.
Then you start to understand the power imbalance.
You’re still sitting there, dependent on the same understaffed center you have to return to.
You rely on that care for your health, for stability, for your life continuing to function.
So you don’t complain.
You don’t push back.
You stay quiet.
People think patients can always advocate for themselves.
They think professionalism always protects you.
They think this can’t happen in healthcare.
It already is.
As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.
What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.
Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.
This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.
The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.
I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.
Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.
We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.
Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.
Meet Erik Martindale, a registered Florida nurse.
He says he won’t give anesthesia for Republicans undergoing surgery and believes that’s his right and is ethical.
He needs to be fired and stripped of his license immediately. @FLNursingBoard
The case to replace Pam Bondi by Glenn Beck
- Epstein
- Russia Collusion
- Mar-a-Lago raid
- (2020) election fraud
- DOGE findings
- Weaponization by Biden
- Twitter files
- Autopen scandal
- Perjury by Capitol police
- FBI agts on J6
- Soros
- Covid
She's just not cut out for this, we don't need strongly worded letters, we voted for accountability... and she's not delivering it
@DataRepublican@camhigby This is nothing short of seditious conspiracy, and it appears to have been organized by the Lieutenant Governor herself, Peggy Flanagan.
It's time to RICO this whole operation.
Total chaos broke out today at the city council meeting in San Antonio. The triggered crowd would not allow me to speak for 2 minutes. I was out numbered hundreds to one.
They are the real fascist for trying to censor me from speaking. They are the true Nazi which stands for national socialism a democratic ideology.
@catturd2 I'm officially worried. Its not the snow or ice...its the power outages. We've prepped a lot but we in the south are not set up for this and people will perish. I hope folks bring pets in and check on neighbors!!