Perhaps the best rejoinder to anyone who wants to condemn an acquaintance for voting for Evil Donald Trump is to gently (or not so gently) remind said fool that the alternative was to put Minnesota Tim “Knucklehead” Walz a heartbeat from the White House. Showing the impeccable judgment he displayed on the campaign trail, this incompetent allowed massive fraud to take needed funds from law-abiding Minnesotans, admitted that he did nothing about it because he didn’t want to upset the Somali voting block most responsible for it, decided to end his quest for re-election because he knows he’s going to eventually have to face the metaphorical music, and now is trying to go out with a bang by inciting deranged Minnesotans to fight Federal officers in defense of illegal immigrant criminals, among others.

Good plan!

Yesterday, some commentators observed, Walz may have “crossed the line.” Gee, ya think?

He began, “What’s happening in Minnesota right now defies belief.” It sure does, beginning with his behavior and that of the mayor of Minneapolis. Both are egging on Minnesota citizens to break the law, interfere with law enforcement, and put their lives at risk as naive, radicalized Renee Good did.

“News reports simply don’t do justice to the level of chaos and disruption and trauma the federal government is raining down upon our communities.” This is a lie. The chaos and disruption is 100% the result of the unethical and lawless “sanctuary” movement in support of open borders. In states where I.C.E. is allowed to do its job, there is no chaos, just the messy measures necessary because the Biden administration decided not to enforce immigration laws.

 “Two-thousand to 3,000 armed agents of the federal government have been deployed to Minnesota.” Of course they are armed. Walz is playing to the anti-gun nuts in his party, but if nothing else, the behavior of protesters makes it clear as Saran Wrap that I.C.E. agents have to be armed to avoid ending up maimed or dead.

“Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live. They’re pulling over people indiscriminately, including U.S. citizens, and demanding to see their papers. And at grocery stores, at bus stops, even at our schools they’re breaking windows, dragging pregnant women down the street, just plain grabbing Minnesotans and shoving them into unmarked vans, kidnapping innocent people with no warning and no due process.” This is Big Lie territory, designed to cause fear and to incite violence. The misrepresentation of the process could not be more deceitful. Oh, I know it’s frustrating for Democrats to realize that what they thought was a fait accompli (“Ha ha! The illegals are embedded in the population now, and you don’t dare try to find them!”) isn’t, because President Trump has the guts to do the right thing even when it will give the emotion-besotted and the weenies among us the vapors.

 “Let’s be very, very clear: this long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it’s a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.” That’s arebuttable presumption if there ever was one. See what happens if the state starts cooperating with lawful Federal law enforcement. “Organized brutality.” Seriously?

Walz proceeded to pluck the Renee Good heartstrings (if anyone got her killed other than herself, it was Democratic demagogues like Walz), and then claims that President Trump is “threatening” Minnesota because its voters didn’t vote for him. Does anyone without a closed head injury believe that?

 “All across Minnesota people are stepping up to help their neighbors who are being unjustly and unlawfully targeted.” If their neighbors are illegal immigrants, they are not being unlawfully targeted. This isn’t hard.

“They’re distributing care packages and walking kids to school and raising their voices in peaceful protest, even though doing so has made many of our fellow Minnesotans targets for violent retribution. Folks, I know it’s scary, and I know it’s absurd that we all have to defend law and order, justice and humanity while also caring for our families and trying to do our jobs.” What’s scary is that a state would elect an anarchist like Walz to two terms as governor and keep an irresponsible mayor like Jacob Fry, who joined the “defund the police” crazies after the George Floyd Freakout, in office.

 “So tonight, let me say once again to Donald Trump and Kristi Noem: End this occupation. You’ve done enough.” Occupation. Nice. These irresponsible Leftists who call I.C.E. the Gestapo are deliberately using poisoned rhetoric to foster hate, panic and violence. Trump and Noem haven’t done anything they are not duty-bound to do. Walz, Frey, and “the resistance” have done and so far gotten away with too much, including Walz’s incendiary speech.

 “First, Donald Trump wants this chaos. He wants confusion, and yes, he wants more violence on our streets. We cannot give him what he wants.” Obviously it is Democrats who want violence in the streets, because they think it will help their chances in the mid-terms. Are Americans that stupid? Based on my reading of the arts, legal, and middle-aged white female communities, they just might be.

 “We can, we must protest loudly, urgently, but also peacefully. Indeed, as hard as we will fight in the courts and at the ballot box, we cannot and will not let violence prevail.” Are you going to believe your governor or your own lying eyes? Whose “violence” is it?

 “You’re angry. I’m angry. Angry is not a strong enough word, but we must remain peaceful.” 1) It’s too late to “remain” peaceful. 2) Walz just told Minnesotans they were being occupied by a force his party is comparing to Hitler’s Gestapo. If that were even vaguely accurate, it would be an American duty not to “remain peaceful.”

 “Second, you are not powerless, you are not helpless, and you are certainly not alone. All across Minnesota, people are learning about opportunities not just to resist, but to help people who are in danger.” Yes, shortly after Walz’s speech, two non-helpless Minnesotan tried to hide an illegal alien criminal, and attacked the areesting I.C.E. agent with a shovel. Those “opportunities” Walz’s people are “learning” (or “learing”) about are called “crimes.”

 “Thousands upon thousands of our fellow Minnesotans are going to be relying on mutual aid in the days and weeks to come, and they need our support.” Walz is inciting criminal interference with law enforcement.

“Tonight I wanna share another way you can help: witness. Help us establish a record of exactly what’s happening in our communities. You have an absolute right to peacefully film ICE agents as they conduct these activities, so carry your phone with you at all times, and if you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record. Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans, not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution.” Walz was, again, misleading his audience.The state can’t prosecute Federal officers. I’d say “and he knows it,” but who can tell with a dolt like this?

“The third thing I want to say to you tonight is we will not have to live like this forever. Accountability is coming at the voting booth and in court.” Walz could end it himself, by directing police forces to protect I.C.E., and telling his citizens that they should stop behaving like assholes, or, to be more precise, like the racists who opposed racial integration in the Fifties and Sixties.

“We will reclaim our communities from Donald Trump. We will reestablish a sense of safety for our neighbors, and we will bring an end to this moment of chaos, confusion and trauma.”

This is code for insurrection or civil war, using Trump Derangement as an fuse, and not very subtle code either

“Victory Girls” says, amusingly but not inaccurately, “What the absolute hell does this schmuckface think he is doing with this speech? It’s like he’s goading the federal government AND giving the protesters in the street ammunition at the same time.”

Why yes, I think that’s exactly what he’s doing. Good choice, Kamala!

After the illegal Venezuelan alien who attempted to flee from a federal law enforcement officer in Minneapolis was shot in the leg and two other people, perhaps inspired by their governor, joined the attack, the incident prompted another outburst from Frey, who said in part that his city is trying to “find a way forward to keep people safe, to protect our neighbors, to maintain order.”

The way would be to have police protect the I.C.E agents. Astoundingly, Frey then said, “We’re in a position right now where we have residents that are asking the very limited number of police officers that we have to fight ICE agents on the street. We cannot be at a place right now in America where we have two governmental entities that are literally fighting one another.”

I understand why President Trump is reluctant to use the Insurrection Act even though the rhetoric of Walz and Frey warrants it. He is in ethics and political zugzwang: doing nothing allows open rebellion to become normalized, but if Trump send in troops, the Axis narrative will be, “See? We told you he was a Nazi!”

The Democrats really seem to think forcing a showdown is a winning strategy for November and they are counting on the biased news media to keep the false and dangerous narrative front and center. Republicans face an ethics conflict: insist on the rule of law, or let unlawful interference continue so as not to put Congress back in the control of the woke totalitarians. As with the inflated cost of living, the Biden Presidency is entirely responsible for this crisis, but the President is expected to fix the problem.

It’s almost as if Democrats planned it this way….