What’s the matter with Minnesota?

Most reasonable people think Minnesota's politics are a bit nuts. They are pissed to see federal dollars stolen by Somali and other fraud schemes due to mismanagement.

Do they want ICE to round up folks who aren't committing property or violent crimes? Of course not. Voldemort should throttle back the douchebaggery.

What’s the matter with Minnesota?

The state is at the epicenter of a self-serving and destructive revolution

By Jenna Stocker, The Spectator

Thursday, January 8, 2026

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.