I’ve been promised there won’t be any more snow until at least Sunday. Of course, I still have about ten hours of snow removal on the lower driveway so that kind of stinks. But thank heavens for small mercies. So, I’m more or less free until Monday and I look around at the world and see goofusses in every direction. Now goofus is a technical term and I may be applying it to critters that technically are other things; dumbasses, mopes, mooks and just plain knuckleheads. But as a generic term it’s a good stand in.
I saw a video of a woman at one of the anti-ICE riots who picked up a flash-bang explosive to throw back at the police and had it blow off some of her fingers. This is not normal. Women don’t typically become rioters. This is a special brand of stupidity. It’s like some kind of modernist version of the “Children’s Crusade.” Let’s nickname it the “Grown Children’s Crusade.” The guy who got himself shot last week was an ICU nurse. I’m going to guess he wasn’t an antifa regular. Someone must have told him that attacking ICE agents while carrying a hand gun was a risk-free exercise. I’m guessing that was an antifa regular.
So, what you have is the Minnesota true-believers who cheered for the George Floyd riots to change the world have followed a new crusade to make Minnesota safe for illegal aliens. In their atheist-adjacent LGBTQ-friendly churches they gather to egg each other on and then they head over to the local NGO where the city and state contacts provide whatever support the local antifa chapter needs to harass ICE without any accountability. And that’s the difference between antifa and the useful idiots they are surrounded with now. They have no idea what they are doing. They remember Frey and Walz forcing the city and state police to stand down while antifa and BLM ran amok. So, they think that’s how this works. Idiots like Good and Pretti think they’re immune from harm because Walz and Frey tell them they’re doing the Lord’s work.
I read today that Walz has called in the state troopers to break up the protestors. Is this a capitulation or just a tactic? There is a story going around that the state and city leaders were involved in the planning of the interference with the ICE operations. Perhaps Walz is worried about his culpability under federal law. So many stories, so little knowledge.
The only question is will Trump stick to his guns or not. If he caves to Minnesota then the same thing will happen in all the blue states. And after that all the good that Trump is trying to do will be undermined. And that’s the whole struggle writ small. Stand up to the antifa mobs and if necessary, put them down when they threaten to riot and defy law and order. I don’t have a clue as to what he will do. So that’s enough for now.