Posted on 10/21/2025 11:57:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
When I arrived in Minneapolis, the frost had just lifted, and gray clouds hung low over the horizon. I had come to make a pilgrimage to George Floyd Square, where the revolution of 2020 began. It has been more than five years since Floyd lost his life and became a patron saint of the Left, and I wanted to see what had happened here since then.
The square is situated in a run-down intersection that now features a statue of a clenched black fist in the central roundabout. On one corner stands a minimarket called Unity Foods—formerly Cup Foods—where George Floyd passed the counterfeit bill that set off the chain of events that culminated in his death. Across the street is an abandoned gas station that has been covered in graffiti and protest slogans since the initial unrest.
A group of vagrants had lit a bonfire in a metal drum beneath the gas station canopy. When I asked them about Floyd, they avoided the question; they weren’t interested in politics. They had chosen the spot to light fires, fence stolen goods, and smoke fentanyl, because it was peaceful and nobody bothered them.
In the frenzied year of 2020, politicians in Minneapolis and the Minnesota state government made grand promises about what George Floyd Square would become. They purchased property and pledged monuments. Then, as the years passed, their political will evaporated and everything ground to a halt. One city official told me the neighborhood wanted to reopen for business, while political leaders wanted to preserve the square as an ideological symbol. The result: nobody got what he wanted.
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These places, and these monuments should be left in place in perpetuity as a reminder to just how far the left will go to spread Marxism.
The left has overplayed their hand in many areas of American life and it has caught up to them politically, the Floyd theatre of the bizarre was a big part of what created the unity and momentum for this vast rollback of the left that we are in.
He did not lose his life, he gave it away with a drug overdose.
Saint George of Fentanyl, who died of a heart attack after ingesting meth, crack, weed and a large dose of fentanyl. It all started with Obama’s “Beer Summit,” then Travon Martin, Obama’s lost son, Ferguson, where Michael Brown, a big man who previously strong armed a mini-mart for cigar wrappers to make blunts for weed. He was shot and killed after trying disarm a policeman in the the policeman’s car, then rushed the officer when both were outside. The officer fired six shots, the last shot (kill shot) was in the top of Michael’s head when he charged the officer with his head down. Hands Up Don’t Shoot never happened. Prove me wrong.
IMO politicians let it burn thinking they’d “build back better”. $100M privately raised funds disappeared.. Few residents in the area received that assistance. Aptly named “The Detroitization of America”.
Drug-free for 5+ years, way to go Saint George of Floyd
They got what they wanted, break laws, do drugs and nobody (police) dare bother them, oh and it's a dirty scummy hell hole.
IIRC: THE LOCALS BURNED DOWN A NUMBER OF BUSINESSES-—93% OF WHICH WERE EMPLOYING BLACK PERSONS.
FEW DAYS LATER:
WHERE ARE WE GOING TO WORK NOW????????
Free Derrick Chauvin.
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If archaeologists dig up this ruin a thousand years from now they will reasonably conclude it was an artifact of an ancient religion.
And so it was!
It’s worked. The USS Chancellorsville is no more. Military bases lost names. Military heroes lost their honours. This was part of the Left’s cause celebre to be Mao and remove Civil War history. That is the success of George Floyd.
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