Tim Walz for VP?
Do Democrats really want to run on 2020's Most Peaceful Protests?
Minnesota governor Tim Walz (2019-present) is suddenly being talked up as Kamala's Veep.
Wasn't Walz governor of Minnesota when what used to be the most impressively orderly state in the Union self-destructed in an orgy of violence, looting, and arson in late May 2020?
Do Dems really want to run on 2020?
Kamala had a disgraceful 2019-2020, so why add the governor of Minnesota to the ticket to further remind voters of how massively Establishment Democrats screwed up in the crisis after George Floyd’s death?
On May 30, 2020, the Washington Post attributed a hilarious conspiracy theory to Walz:
Officials blame outsiders for violence in Minnesota but contradict one another on who is responsible
By Shane Harris
May 30, 2020 at 8:39 p.m. EDT
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) told reporters he had no doubt that protests over Floyd’s death began with Minnesotans frustrated and outraged “with inequality, inequities and quite honestly racism that persisted” in the state.
But state officials have assessed that up to 80 percent of those protesting or rioting came from outside Minnesota, Walz said. He suggested that far-right white supremacists and perhaps organized drug cartels were chiefly responsible.
A federal law enforcement official was not aware of any intelligence about cartels infiltrating the protests.
But according to local officials, most people arrested in protest-related incidents were state residents.
I’ve relistened to Walz dithering during Minneapolis’s Mostly Peaceful Protests, and, to be honest, it’s unclear whom he is blaming. He doesn’t seem to know.
Still, it’s massively clear that the Democratic governor of Minnesota and Democratic mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, massively failed at keeping a sizable part of the city’s shopping streets from being burned down by an out of control leftist mob whom they failed to discourage.
Walz for Veep!
I have a progressive friend who lives in Minneapolis. He believed the riots were started by right-wingers who nipped into town just long enough to smash windows and start fires, after which local blacks engaged in opportunistic looting. He is a high functioning individual whose delusions are confined to the political realm.
One of the unsolved mysteries of the 2020 rioting is Umbrella Man. Masked, dressed in black, and holding a black umbrella, he walked along the front of an Auto Zone store smashing the windows and inviting onlookers to loot. Presumably he was Antifa, but an ABC News article said police had identified him as a 32-year-old member of the Aryan Cowboys prison gang, "that aimed to stir racial tensions amid largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protests."
In a desperate cope, Frey tweeted on May 30, "We are now confronting white supremacists, members of organized crime, out of state instigators, and possibly even foreign actors [seeking] to destroy and destabilize our city and our region."
The individual identified as Umbrella Man was never arrested.
There is a not inconsequential amount of Minneapolis that has yet to be rebuilt in the four years since the riots. Most, but not all of the burned buildings have been torn down, but remain empty lots.
In fact, not only are businessmen unwilling to risk their capital in a city run by lunatics, many (most) of the businesses that anchored the downtowns of both Minneapolis and St. Paul have packed up and left.
In addition, Minnesota has become the locus of large scale federal funding fraud, involving the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars through scams targeting social services.
The culprits are primarily Somali immigrants, whose only concessions to integration with American society has been to jump on board the leftist grift industry.
The state government, under the leadership of Walz completely ignored the blatant theft until the feds stepped in.