We are currently in a cycle of perpetual outrage in Minnesota, being told by the media that the gentry are rising in a collective show of resistance against an invading government force. We know by now that much of this display is more manufactured than a pre-fab mobile home erected in an afternoon in Central Florida, as veiled Soros money and other activist groups gin up these protests.
These defiance merchants are in the process of undermining their own messaging, so it seemed a good time to analyze their stunted efforts. We, as conservatives, are often flummoxed by these agents of outrage. Frequently, those of us on the Right sit back in skull-swaying bemusement at the displays, failing to grasp the intent of the chanting, the dance lines, and the uproars downtown. And I have yet to grasp the messaging of those arriving in inflatable animal attire. So a case study seems appropriate.
The first reality is that these leftist agitators have one advantage over those of us who are conservative: Free Time. Any day of the week, any time of day, they can cobble together a mob, and they will be massed in shrieking hoards before the lunch rush. And local leadership encourages them. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have boldly told others to go out and battle ICE on their behalf. Walz, after all, is occupied with shuffling money around ahead of fraud investigators, and Frey is too busy producing performative hostage videos at Somali restaurants.
Those of us with jobs and families possess no such availability. Note the few times when you manage to see conservative demonstrations - such as The March for Life, or the Tea Party - they are held on the weekend. And even those are so infrequent due to scheduling issues. (“Say, any shot you could move it up to Sunday? The kids have a soccer tournament on that date.”)
Minneapolis, however, managed to explode into opposition forces on the street almost as soon as President Trump announced ICE agents would be rolling into town. Some might think that the winter conditions would tamp down the numbers, but these are people who choose to live in Minnesota, after all. The only mystery about the frigid locale is why so many from temperate Somalia have dug roots into the sub-tundra of the Twin Cities. I guess when you are bleeding the government for billions, that’ll buy you enough North Face goose down jackets and heating oil.
But to be honest, the messaging from these folks has not been the kind to foster sympathy. Why are they against the removal of illegals? Why, as seen recently, are they weeping at the concept of having sexual predators removed from their neighborhood? As always, opposing Trump at all costs usually also entails opposing common sense.
How else do we explain the demonstration seen when activists flooded into stores to purchase… salt? The idea was for them to buy a two-pound package of Morton’s and then promptly queue up at the Customer Service desk for an hour to return the item, in protest of ICE activities in some bizarre form of sodium civil disobedience. If this makes a salt lick of sense to anyone, please help out.
This past weekend saw former CNN provocateur Don Lemon lead a group of Black Lives Matter protesters into a church, disrupting the service. You know, because history’s impression of those who storm religious centers always sees them coming out with burnished reputations.
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How does this look good in any fashion?! They clearly went after a soft target that has zero impact on the immigration roundups in town. Once you consider this was a black activist group, targeting a predominantly white church, in the name of… opposing immigration efforts, taking place elsewhere in town, you begin to see that making sense is not nearly as important as making noise on camera.
Another component to the complaints from the locals is that they oppose the way agents are demanding papers and ID from citizens - “just like the Gestapo!” (I was recently out restocking my bourbon supplies, and I had to present my documents to the Stasi working the register, it appears.) It turns out that what these folks oppose specifically is ICE demanding documents. They, meanwhile, are comfortable combing the parking lots at Target stores and demanding that people loading winter supplies into their SUVs prove they are not minions of Kristi Noem.
The entitlement of these people is insane.
— Kerry Slone(Stilettos&Shotguns) (@thereal_SnS) January 16, 2026
Minneapolis protesters demand a man in a rented SUV prove he’s not an ICE agent
They tell him
“You can rent something else”
Is it just me, or are they profiling people?
pic.twitter.com/gq21i1s0m5
Also oblivious was the display seen from a gaggle of harridans who were caught on camera barking at one ICE agent seated in a car. These are clearly middle-aged gals, the embodiment of the wine-mom leftist set, raging at a black ICE agent and telling him HE is racist. Just try to imagine what the media reaction would be if anyone who is on the starboard side of the political center called any POC individual a traitor to their race. The accusations of intolerance would race all the way up to the White House, yet these wine box addicts hopped up on their cardboard-deux and yelping at an agent get no scorn from the press.
Group of white liberal women scream at a black ICE agent, call him a race traitor.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 20, 2026
"How does it feel to be a race traitor?"
"You guys tried to detain your own person."
"You have the reading level of a f*cking 8th grader."
Yikes!pic.twitter.com/ZFLD18GJGw
And on a similar tack of obliviousness with this topic, the New York Times has come out with a dose of social scorn that these women are being labeled in an intolerant fashion. The ladies who are prone to azure follicles and bovine rings in their snotbox are rather accurately referred to as Affluent White Female Urban Liberals, but the Times writers have their knickers in a crease over this label, making up the acronym AWFUL. Again, the accuracy is on point, but the paper sees things as offensive. This is the same paper that frequently refers to President Trump as a “Nazi,” but how dare anyone use abbreviations towards these feminist Chardonnay-sayers?
In what has to be the most chortle-inducing display from one of these AWFULS (I feel positively sanguine using that hateful term), there was this bold warrior who clearly went to her broiler drawer to armor up for conflict in the streets. Yes, folks, that is a protester facing off against the government wearing a braising pan as a protective chest plate.
She's using a broiling pan for a shield and I can't stop laughing. 😂 pic.twitter.com/vAS7bCxD5u
— Freyja™ (@FreyjaTarte) January 15, 2026
She seems misplaced in Minny tonight. I would expect her to be out protesting in the streets of Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan. Give her credit, though; if she survived the frontlines of the Cupcake Wars, she could be formidable. But this is not the most misguided form of outrage seen. Seriously, these outraged citizens and the carpetbaggers from out of town need to rethink their approach to things, considering where the outrage has moved to.
They are now protesting dogs.
The DHS account has posted how they came across something when agents were at the kennel where they are staging their canines. On the feeding schedule for one German Shepard there was a protest note left for the K-9 agent to read.
THEY’RE EVEN GOING AFTER THE DOGS!
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 21, 2026
In Minneapolis, anti-ICE agitators are targeting our @CBP K-9s, including K-9 Dina, pictured here. At the kennel where K-9 Dina was staying, it was discovered that an employee had written "ICE OUT" on her feed chart. pic.twitter.com/FYseJqx68C
This shows how emotionally misguided these people have become, because when you involve dogs in your outrage, you will start to anger people, apart from politics. To help out, consider this: People watching a war movie will sit back placidly as hundreds of soldiers are perforated by gunfire or vivisected by Tomahawk missiles onscreen, but have a soldier step back and accidentally land a boot on the tail of a Corgi, and peals of horror will be heard instantly.
But all of this shows only one thing. Amid all the Sturm und Drang playing out in the Twin City metroplex, these defiant dolts are only managing to help the cause of ICE in the region. These hysterical demonstrations also go to great lengths to explain how the aping goober Tim Walz and the simpering Jacob Frey managed to be elected repeatedly.
Possibly their proximity to Canada means they picked up a contact buzz from the Trudeau revelers from America’s chapeau. Whatever the cause, the adults are now in town and are cleaning up the mess. For anyone who has ever entered the room of a teen with a rolling garbage bin and a shop-vac, the bleating and mewling heard in Minneapolis today is certainly familiar.
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