Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
You almost can’t blame the 37-year-old woman who lost her life obstructing federal law enforcement for her own actions, though.
Whomever this young, white female turns out to be, she is emblematic of a generation of people who have been enabled to feel all of their actions are justified, no matter how dangerously consequential they may be.
During the summer of 2020, hordes of looters and hooligans disguised as activists took to city streets to cause mayhem and destruction and steal as many designer items as they could.
Minneapolis was a hotbed for such activity. An estimated $350 million in damages was caused by unsupervised “marches” that brought a parade of pillagers and plunderers through the city streets for nights on end.
This was all justified, though. The sacrificial lamb, George Floyd, died so that others may steal and destroy with impunity. A community was upset, don’t you know? This is how they express their grief.
Governor Tim Walz’s even weirder wife, Gwen, basked in her white guilt that summer.
Reflecting on the destruction of the largest city in the state, Gwen said, “I could smell the burning tires and, um, that was – that was a very real scene. And I kept the windows open for as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was – of what was happening.”
In her eyes, a marginalized community had been touched by tragedy, and it was her duty as a privileged white woman to allow them to lash out at the perceived injustice by enriching themselves with Nikes and Gucci swag while setting fire to auto parts stores.
Fast-forward to 2025, and Walz white guilt flowed freely once again. The newly sworn-in Trump administration had begun fixing what Biden’s had broken: the border.
Through enforcement at the border and targeted sweeps throughout the country, President Trump brought illegal immigration to a screeching halt and created what has been dubbed “reverse migration” through tens of thousands of deportations.
The shock of having federal immigration laws enforced as they were intended led Tim Walz, Gavin Newsom, mayors Michelle Wu and Karen Bass, and many other state and local officials to refer to ICE agents as Trump’s Nazi Gestapo, white supremacists, and secret police. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries encouraged people to “fight” ICE and their mission to protect the homeland.
Clearly, the Democrats didn’t mean it when they said both sides needed to tone down the rhetoric after Donald Trump was shot, or when another assassination attempt was made against him, or when Charlie Kirk was murdered, or when ICE agents were fired upon in Dallas, or when National Guard members were ambushed in Washington, D.C., leaving one dead and another fighting for his life.
They didn’t want their rhetoric toned down. They wanted it appeased. And the rhetoric will continue to fuel acts of violence in the name of social justice.
The rhetoric of Minnesota politicians came to a head Wednesday when a 37-year-old white woman felt justified in blocking a public roadway to obstruct ICE and DHS officials.
And whether she was truly fleeing when LEOs approached her or she was aiming for them, her actions were believed to have lethal intent. Those actions were met with an equal and opposite reaction from an officer who had a responsibility to protect himself, his fellow agents, and anyone who may have been in the path of this woman’s reckless motor vehicle operation.
Once again, Dems can’t tone down the rhetoric. Ask Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who Wednesday said ICE needs to “get the f— out of” the city. Or ask Tim Walz, who while preparing the National Guard to deploy (a twisted irony if ever there was one) left room for interpretation when he said, “We’ve never been at war with the federal government.”
Walz, Frey, and others are f—ing around. And the people who hang on their every word are, unfortunately, finding out.