Minnesota

Open Thread

Mark Noonan11 Comments

Walz backed down, Frey is standing firm – both are idiots but my guess is that Walz knows a losing hand when he sees one…while Frey is probably so beholden to Minneapolis corruption that he knows he stands or falls with it. Bottom line is that if Minnesota allows mere federal law enforcement, then the jig is up for the Left in that State…they’ll lose their ability to steal money and elections.

Trump isn’t backing down. The various hand-wringers on the Right went into full Doom mode but were silenced when ICE was seen having beers and watching Minnesota cops clear out the rioters from their hotel. Nobody is leaving. Nobody is slowing down. The illegals are still going to go. All of them.

That this is all an op is shown by the RINOs who immediately jumped out with their pre-written amnesty plans…and the Democrats also came out with theirs. Both are absurd, neither has a chance of passage and if any get through Congress, they face a certain veto by Trump. The Democrats want to make ICE get a judicial warrant for each illegal and they can only get such if the illegals commit a federal crime beyond illegal entry…so, you know, no deportations once you get into the country. Nothing shows better that this whole effort is to keep up the fraud…because Democrats know they can’t win without it. And do keep in mind that if we lose in 2028, then that may be final…Democrats will pack the courts, open the gates and do everything they can to make sure they can’t lose a vote.

This is why the continued insistence on the Right with keeping the filibuster is just plain and simple stupid – there is no upside to keep it, no downside to dropping it. Keeping it just allows Democrats to slow us down in 2026 while dropping it doesn’t matter long term…Democrats will ditch it at their first opportunity. This isn’t the old America – we’re no longer living in a nation where everyone is a patriot. Democrats hate this country. They only see it as something to steal from – with the Leftwing fanatics additionally seeing it as something to kill as soon as possible.

But if we stand firm, we’re going to win. The economy is starting to go like a rocket. Trump is clearly enjoying himself, knowing that he has every advantage. He’s already on the stump for 2026 and he plus GOP have something like a billion dollars in the bank to campaign with. The Democrat policies are downright insane and nobody looking at them will figure they have the better path forward..and Trump will make sure everyone looks at them.

That vile Ilhan Omar was the “victim” of an alleged “attack”…someone sprayed some liquid on her. The pre-made MSM Narrative was her continuing her speech like the Brave Fighter for Justice she is…but, sorry, someone sprays some unknown liquid on my I’m going to immediately wash it off and get myself checked out. This is simple prudence…that she kept talking puts a huge amount of Smollet on this event. There’s nothing I want more than her being stripped of her “citizenship” and deported. She’s not one of my fellow Americans…she’s a mere Paperwork American and if we can find the slightest falsehood in there, out she goes.


Government Shut Down in Minnesota Enters Crisis Phase

Mark Noonan9 Comments

Seems that the liquor licenses are expiring – from Powerline:

Mark Dayton’s shutdown of Minnesota’s state government is now in its third week, and so far I’ve seen no sign of it. I mean that literally: if I hadn’t read about the shutdown in the newspapers, I would have no reason to be aware of it…

…This morning, however, the Strib pulled out the heavy artillery with the revelation that bars across the state of Minnesota are beginning to lose their ability to sell beer, wine and liquor:

Hundreds of bars, restaurants and stores across Minnesota are running out of beer and alcohol and others may soon run out of cigarettes — a subtle and largely unforeseen consequence of a state government shutdown.

The logical thing to do here is to make liquor licenses last longer – or make them automatically renewed during a period of government shut down.  Of course, we can also debate whether or not the State should even be regulating the sale of things as common to humanity, for thousands upon thousands of years, as beer and wine (an argument can be made about hard liquor as it is a relatively new development…no more than 500 or so years; such newfangled things even we conservatives can wish to see regulated until we’re really sure how it works out).  Beer and wine are really just a sort of food – as common on the human lunch and dinner table as bread and milk.  And you can perfectly well keep it out of the hands of the kids without licensing the sale of it.  Away with this Puritan legacy of regulated beer…

Of lesser importance than beer (and I really mean this) is the effect this government shut down is having on attitudes in Minnesota.  The government is shut down and yet people are managing to live – this is a body blow Big Government.  The world didn’t end – it will take liberalism a long time to recover from this.  Meanwhile, with liberalism in disarray, we have an excellent opportunity to turn beer and wine back over to the complete control of the people by eliminating all government responsibility for its production, distribution and sale.  High time that the adults of America got to decide how much beer to drink, and when.

UPDATE:  The Democrat governor caves in and agrees to the GOP budget.  Let that sink in a little bit – in a blue State, with the entirety of the Ruling Class and the MSM on his side, the Democrat had to surrender when the GOP stood firm.  This can be repeated nationally.