What, not New York? California? Oregon? Washington? Oh, they are all in the race too: “failed states” we might call them if they were foreign countries. But lately the enormity of how badly Minnesota residents have exercised their voting rights has been throbbingly obvious.
Of course we already know that the state has Keith Ellison (EA dossier here) as its Attorney General. It also has a criminal and anti-Semitic House member, Rep. Omar, who committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother and lying about it, who has stated that her loyalties are to a foreign nation (Somalia) first, and who has, among other outrages, attempted to minimize the international crimes committed on 9/11/2001 (“some people did something”). But look at the clowns— figuratively, not literally, but it’s a close call [Added: but see below] —Minnesota has elected as its governor and lieutenant governor.
Minnesota’s lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan, a Catholic, wore a hijab to express solidarity with Somalis in a local TV appearance. Massive fraud in the Somali community has stolen taxpayer funds to the tune of at least $9 billion. “I know that things are scary right now,” said Flanagan, alluding to the fact that ICE is correctly cracking down on a deliberately unassimilated community rife with members who have broken the law to get here, and then broke the law some more.
It was exactly Flanagan’s kind of pandering that appears to have led Democratic politicians like her to avoid interfering with the Somali scammers, because it is such a large voting bloc. Eh, so they are taking money that was supposed to help struggling, law abiding citizens. Corruption is a tradition in Somalia! Multiculturalism!
It’s not exactly news or surprising when Minnesota Governor Tim “Knucklehead” Walz says something stupid, but he was in rare form this week while his second-in-command was playing Muslim for a Day. At a press conference Walz accused the Trump administration and Vice President JD Vance of pushing “white supremacy” by trying to enforce laws being broken by Somali criminals and asserting, as Vance did in a recent speech, that white Americans should not be ashamed of their skin color.
“This is what happens when your own federal government wages war against you,” he fumed. “This is what happens when they target communities for their own benefit… when they scapegoat… when they no longer hide the idea of white supremacy…When you hear the Vice President of the United States talk about how white people ‘won’t have to apologize for being white,’ that has never happened once in my whole damn life!”
For context, here is what Vance said at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in Phoenix:
“We don’t treat anybody different because of their race or their sex. So we have relegated D.E.I. to the dustbin of history, which is exactly where it belongs. In the United States of America, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore. And if you’re an Asian, you don’t have to talk around your skin color when you’re applying for college. Because we judge people based on who they are, not on ethnicity and things they can’t control. We don’t persecute you for being male, for being straight, for being gay, for being anything. The only thing that we demand is that you be a great American patriot. And if you’re that, you’re very much on our team.”
To be fair, Vance was being a bit hyperbolic: D.E.I. is not in “the ash bin of history,” and will not be as long as unprincipled hacks like Walz and the Democratic party see an advantage in dividing Americans by group and promising special benefits based on group membership. As long as that’s their game, the oblivious and unethical like the majority in Minnesota will keep voting for them.
What really keeps me awake at night as that this despicable boob was almost a heartbeat from the Presidency, and that most of my friends voted for someone who selected him for that job.
[Confession: since I added “artificial intelligence” to the tags here (does anyone use the tags?) I have been tempted to add it to every post concerning Walz or Kamala Harris…]
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Added: After I posted the essay with the note about clowns, I saw this in the weekly Powerline collection of memes, and had to append it:
Ethics Alarms 
How can the Somalis be a voting bloc? Are they citizens?
Nine BILLION? Nine thousand million dollars? Using an estimate of 75,000 Somalis in the state, that’s 120,000 per every Somali man, woman and child. Tax free!
What I find ironic (perhaps not the best word choice) is that the types most likely to inveigh against the USA’s “history of colonialism” are perfectly fine with what appears (to me, at least) as literal colonization of our country by third world refugees.
To further abet the fraud, they work their way into local, state, and federal government to buttress their power. And any “legacy Americans” in politics who want to retain their dwindling power have to sing, and even sometimes dance, for their supper (see: Minneapolis’ cringe inducing mayor, Jacob Frey) to appease their masters.
We’ve not only imported people who should not be here under any circumstances, but we’ve also imported their civil wars.
Does this point of view make me “racist”. I couldn’t care in the least.
I have read the word “colonizer” in discussions about illegal immigration.
It is as if they view illegal aliens as victims or colonized people, who are entitle to live in the “colonizer’s” lands, and are excused from following the “colonizer’s” laws.
That read is definitely consistent with how they view the world.
SIDE NOTE: either I made a mistake or WordPress made the editorial decision to cut part of my comment.
I had an additional sentence or two about how Jacob Frey narrowly won his election against his Somali challenger (I forget his name; just think “I’m the Mayor now”) by exploiting the internecine clan wars within the Somali community. Thus, the comment about how we’ve imported their civil wars (which doesn’t make much sense without context.)
How would you describe they view the world?
And what policies are based on their worldview?
“Why do you have a government job?”
“That’s where they keep the money.”