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Posted on 01/08/2026 8:44:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Just when you thought Minnesota had hit rock bottom, the state achieves a new level of chaos. Once again it is the epicenter of a self-serving, destructive “revolution” at the behest of an incompetent, unhinged and rancorous city and state leadership, helmed by Governor Tim Walz.
According to local reports, “A 37-year-old woman was fatally shot by a federal agent on Wednesday, January 7, in south Minneapolis during an immigration enforcement operation. The shooting happened around 9:30 a.m. in the area of East 34th Street and Portland Avenue. The woman, later identified as Renee Nicole Good, died at the hospital.”
In a press conference following the incident, Governor Walz threatened “war with the federal government” by calling up the Minnesota National Guard. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are only here in the state because of the billions of dollars of welfare fraud scandals perpetrated under his administration’s nose. Emboldened by his rhetoric, activists have risen up and taken to the streets.
But this has been in the works for months, long before the recent surge of ICE agents in the state. Giving the commencement address at the University of Minnesota Law School last May, Walz compared ICE agents to World War Two-era Nazis, calling them “Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo. They’re in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons, no chance to mount a defense, not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye, just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans, and disappeared.”
This is a direct appeal to the radical leftist groups that have taken root in the Twin Cities against everything and anything that could restore law and order and common sense to what used to be a good and decent state. In his seven years in office, Walz has used fear-mongering and divisiveness to promote his petty tyranny agenda. I should know, having lived through his ultra-authoritarian Covid restrictions and lawless agenda in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in May 2020.
Walz promoted “snitch lines” and imposed restrictions on family gatherings, closed churches, schools and businesses, even going so far as to purchase Bix Produce Co.’s cold-storage warehouse for $6.9 million to be turned into a makeshift morgue. It was never used. I worked as an “essential worker” during that time, and I always knew when Walz would hold a press conference to extend Covid restrictions, because there would be a mad rush of people stocking up on whatever goods were left on the shelves.
Then came the riots. Instead of being a leader who responds to crisis with a steady, calm, reasoning voice, Walz has consistently used times of uncertainty as opportunities to assert his authoritarian tendencies and spiteful nature. He let Minneapolis burn, and rioters destroy lives and livelihoods. He refused to send reinforcements to a police force under attack, resulting in Minneapolis’s Third Precinct police station being burned to the ground.
This is exactly what we’ve come to expect from the Governor: lashing out at anyone who challenges his agenda, his rhetoric or his authority and aiming his vitriol at President Trump and Republicans rather than taking responsibility for his words, actions and failures. He even went so far as to attack US Attorney Joe Thompson – the lead federal prosecutor who has almost single-handedly exposed the multi-billion dollar fraud in the state and who oversaw the conviction of 57 of the criminals involved.
Sadly, this incompetence and failed “leadership” doesn’t end with Walz. Newly re-elected Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey (still atoning for his white-guilt sins of 2020) held a pathetic news conference of his own in which he practically encouraged people to confront ICE officers, telling federal authorities to “Get the fuck out. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt, families are being ripped apart.”
No one knows the true motivation of the ICE officer who pulled the trigger – or that of Renee Good. But it seems the Mayor’s motivation is to follow Walz’s lead and use this tragedy to grandstand against Trump – which only fuels more violence.
As long as Walz, Frey and state leaders keep up this bitter divisiveness as a way to raise their political status, they are putting lives in danger – both of federal, state and local law enforcement, and citizens who are being fed a constant and unnecessary diet of fear and anger. This latest, deadly confrontation illustrates how far the state has fallen and the tragic outcome when real tyrants are at the podium.
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I was expecting the article to be a deeper dive into the historical context of Minnesota’s unique brand of leftist bent.
I remember as a young’in, it making an impression on me for voting for Jesse Ventura (an Independent and former wrestler) as their Governor...
I am not saying that Minnesota has always been the land of weird,,,but remember Jesse Ventura, Harold Stassen, Al Franken, Paul Wellstone, Eugene McCarthy, Walter Mondale, Hubert Humphrey, and Ilhan Omar all have been elected there!
That's a fair trade.
We can even throw in Seattle.
Minnesota is two states, the Minneapolis/ St Paul Metro area d out state Minnesota. The Metro is the realm of crazed leftists like Walz and Frey. Outstate is where the sane people live, a region Tampon Tim disparaging calls nothing but rocks and cows. The Metro holds a slight edge in voters with the huge voting block of Somalis. State government is usually narrowly divided. Those of us in outstate are sick of Walz and Freys shenanigans and political theater and before this anti ICE mess we had hope of finally getting rid of Tampon Tim. We can only hope he and many of his cronies go down on federal charges.
OD’d on lutefisk?
That’s perceptive. They were even the one exception out of our 50 states that did not go for Ronald Reagan in the 2nd election.
The good people of MN can’t out-vote Sodom and Gomorrah (the Twin Cities).
It was close enough to challenge, but the Reagan team decided not to.
Minnesota has long been a hotbed of leftism at least since the 1930s when the radical farmer-Labor Party dominated the state. The last conservative Republican Senator from Minnesota was Frank Kellogg, who later became Calvin Coolidge’s Secretary of State.
Oh, well.
As for Minnesota, Light the fuse. Own the blast.
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/light-the-fuse-own-the-blast
That’s the sad truth.
One problem is that their governor is a psycho retard. Seriously.
Exposing election fraud should be a Trump priority. Liberal hell holes are the result of a one party take over which involves election fraud.
Same thing that’s wrong with Illinois and many other states. You have one concentration of population in an otherwise rural state and there is a concentration of liberal institutions like academia, media, and government in those centers that ends up giving them the power to run the state based on liberal values and governmental authority.
The better question might be “What’s the matter with US cities”?
Somali Muslim Ilhan Omar’s net worth reportedly increased significantly simultaneously with the rampant Somali govt fraud in Minnesota......her home state.
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2025 financial disclosure, filed in May 2025 and covering the 2024 calendar year, listed The Somali Muslim from Minnesota’s total net worth as being between $6 million and $30 million simultaneously with the rampant Somali govt fraud in Minnesota......her home state..
By contrast, the Somali Muslim from Minnesota’s business ownership stakes were valued at no more than $51,000 at the end of 2023.
The Somali Muslim Omar’s Source of Wealth: The dramatic increase, estimated at around 3,500%, is almost entirely attributed to the increased valuation of her husband’s businesses: a venture capital firm called Rose Lake Capital and a California winery called eStCru.
The Somali Muslim from Minnesota Omar has publicly stated she is “not a millionaire” and dismissed the claims. She has described herself as a “working mom” (of self-sufficient adult children) and says she still has “student loan debt”.
The Somali Muslim from Minnesota, Omar’s rapid wealth gain has drawn scrutiny from the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), calling for an investigation into potential fraud, particularly in light of a separate, unrelated fraud scandal in several of Minnesota’s govt programs.
The Somali Muslim from Minnesota’s asset values are based on official congressional financial disclosures, which are public documents.
You can review the Somali Muslim from Minnesota Omar’s official filings on the House.gov website.
A high concentration of citizens (or not) willing to cheat in order to win elections
What’s the matter?
Islam.
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