{"id":10285,"date":"2026-02-05T16:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/?p=10285"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:18:09","slug":"minnesota-nice-ly-frelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/minnesota-nice-ly-frelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Nice-Ly Frelled"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the anti-ICE, pro-illegal immigrant antics continue in the state of Minnesota, a place which historically appeared to the rest of us as a place where the people were generally bland, socially conservative, hardworking Scandinavian-American midwestern types, fond of mayonnaise as a spicy condiment. Alas for those dear, innocent days of Minnesota Nice, when one could assume\u00a0(with some degree of accuracy)<\/em>\u00a0that Garrison Keiller\u2019s Lake Woebegon was a fairly accurate reflection. But since the appearance of Tampon Tim Walz and the legendary Somali \u2018Learing Center\u2019, that wholesome image has gone down in flames, bigly. When I posted this\u00a0satiric music video<\/a>\u00a0to my social media this week, a regular commenter lamented that now he was embarrassed to even admit that he had been raised in Minnesota,\u00a0(Tell me about it \u2013 during my entire hitch in the military, I had to live down being from California; where everyone was assumed to be a whacko nutcase like Shirley McClain or a bumbling character from the comic novel\u00a0Serial<\/a>.)<\/em>
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Anyway, heaping irony on top of a pyramid of insurrection, idiocy, and general flim-flamery, now the dedicated anti-ICEists in Minneapolis and elsewhere are setting up blockages and checkpoints, demanding to see an ID, a reason for the driver of the vehicle to be in that neighborhood, and running an inquiry on the vehicle license plates. The irony of this as a protest against our national authority doing precisely this at the national border and deporting those foreigners who do not pass muster \u2026 is an irony so peculiarly dense as to drop through the core of the earth and come out on the far side. Progressives \u2026 not exactly known for logic and consistence, are they?
\nIt was also in the news that the two agents responsible for shooting anti-ICE protester Alex Pretti\u00a0(who does seem to have been a piece of work with a vicious temper)<\/em>\u00a0are Hispanic \u2013 which has given a massive case of butt-hurt to those sympathetic to the anti-ICE effort, and whom are therefore all about securing the safety and freedom of immigrant gangsters, sex offenders, human traffickers, drug-dealers, and thieves of identity and other valuables to go freely about their illicit business in the US.<\/p>\n

It appears to have not occurred to them that \u2013 A: many long-time populations of very patriotic Hispanic-Americans have been settled in Texas, New Mexico, California\u00a0(and other places)<\/em>\u00a0since before there ever was a United States and have very little in common with (for example) gangbangers from El Salvador or human traffickers from present-day Mexico, B: might also be considerably annoyed and feeling like chumps if they\u00a0have<\/strong>\u00a0gone to the trouble and expense of immigrating legally, and C: be mightily annoyed over having their own communities overrun by and predated upon by the gangbangers, traffickers and thieves from south of ye-olde-border.\u00a0(I have made this point in several previous posts and comments. Those populations most pissed-off about being overrun by illegals are those most directly and personally adversely affected \u2026 and aren\u2019t likely to have been awarded any Grammys recently.)<\/em>
\nSo, circling back to the matter of Minnesota Nice \u2026 I guess that if you can\u2019t be a shining model to be emulated, you can be a grim warning of what\u00a0not<\/strong>\u00a0to do. Comment as you wish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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