Making one of the most brain-dead statements of the many uttered in Minnesota by irresponsible elected officials, Minneapolis’s insurrectionist Mayor Frey actually said out loud—he really did, I wouldn’t lie to you!—this:
“Imagine if your city or town was invaded by thousands of federal agents that do not share the values that you hold dear.”
Or, in the alternative, imagine if your country was invaded by millions of individuals raised in toxic, undemocratic, unethical cultures that are directly adverse to core American values!
Even in his own framework, Frey is suggesting that the culture of his city and state is adverse to the values of abiding by the law and respecting the authority of the elected national government.
Ethics Alarms 
Federal agents can’t “invade” their own country. Their jurisdiction extends coast to coast and supersedes state and local, especially on issues like immigration, which the Democratic party fought very hard to KEEP under Federal jurisdiction, no ifs, ands, or buts, under Obama, when some of the states thought he wasn’t doing enough. They don’t get to now demand the approach change because they aren’t in power in the Federal government.
Who do they think they are fooling? The Democratic party, and the left generally, are not principled. The only thing they stand for, even when they mask, is them getting more power, keeping it, and making it easier for them to get it and keep it. They don’t particularly love illegal immigrants or think they help this country. They see them as a way to create a new population beholden to them that will vote for them every time without a second thought.
Before this a lot of the Chamber of Commerce Republicans looked the other way for a long time because illegal aliens were a source of very cheap labor, which helped their bottom line. However, it’s no longer a matter of them also benefiting from it. The Democratic party wants to take from that bottom line to finance subsidizing illegals so they don’t have to become cheap labor…or any labor, just keep voting for whoever keeps the free stuff coming.
They used the rage approach in 2020, and it largely worked, because of a bunch of factors that we don’t need to rehash. Those factors aren’t there now, and they can’t hide behind a pandemic or create the belief that the nation is spinning out of control. Trump is not going to hold back. The states and the cities cannot stop him or tell the Federal authorities to leave. This was all decided in 1865, as they love pointing out when they are in power. Those who defy lawful Federal action now, just because they don’t agree with it, are disrespecting the process, the statute, and the results of the last election, the same thing they accused the other side of after 300 dummies tried to stir up trouble at the Capitol.
At this point the president is getting to the point where he’s going to have no realistic alternative to using the Insurrection Act, which is going to put a bunch of Democratic leaders at a crossroads. It’s also going to put the United States’ Army’s 34th infantry division, which is based in Minnesota and forms part of the Minnesota National Guard, at a crossroads. Do they fire upon their neighbors, or do they fire upon their comrades in arms? For that matter, are our active-duty troops more willing to fire on insurrectionists or on their own commander? Just how far is everyone willing to go before they say, “this is getting ridiculous, no more?”
Just how far is everyone willing to go before they say, “this is getting ridiculous, no more?”
Well, judging from the general level of ridiculous in the current reality show (Your Favorite President (TM), season 1), ridiculous is not a bug, it’s a feature! So full speed ahead!
According to DAG Todd Blanche, the administration aims to stop the “terrorism” (recall that the dead Good is a “domestic terrorist” whose death was “caused” by her wife — naturally also a domestic terrorist) …
“by whatever means necessary… it’s a promise”
Note that he didn’t promise by whatever legal means necessary — why tie one’s hands with these technicalities?
This measured and thoughtful policy was, of course, announced via official channels i.e. on social media, no doubt after “careful consideration and sober consultation”
Might everyone agree to use paintball guns?
Let the administration send in 50,000 soldiers (National Guard or otherwise) to Minnesota, declare martial law, and arrest and intern everybody who does not comply with orders so they cannot interfere with ICE operations. During the duration of the martial law deport anyone in Minnesota who is there illegally and deport them on the first plane. This type of insurrection can only be dealt with by laying down the law and demonstrating who is the boss in the USA according to the Supremacy clause in the Constitution.
I think the values he’s referring to are “Minnesota Nice.” Or the people of Lake Woebegon: Where “all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and the children are all above average” It’s that superior, churchy, Lutheran, passive-aggressive, moral superiority, with a little Unitarianism thrown in for good measure.