Minnesota’s insurrection ICE capades ramped up again last Saturday, when an armed man was shot and killed by ICE agents while he was resisting arrest, as it turns out, for the second time in a week.  This shortly after the killing of a woman who nearly ran over an ICE agent with her car.  Surprising no one, the Left and its lap dog media knows who’s to blame – Trump.

The usual political suspects are calling the same names – Hitler, fascist, Nazi, etc.  The ICE operations this week were compared, seriously, to Nazi roundups of Jews who were taken to death camps.  That idiot, Governor Tim Walz, even compared Minnesota rioters shielding illegal aliens from deportation to Ann Frank hiding in an attic in World War II.  The Director of the National Holocaust Museum had to cry foul on that one.

And speaking of idiotic Tim Walz, his oped in The Wall Street Journal this week, was even more outrageous.  Entitled, The Un-American Assault on Minnesota, the piece, and it truly was a piece, complained of “a campaign of brutality,” that “shot and killed two of our neighbors.”  He said, “countless other protesters were physically attacked,” and that the only thing the subjects of the operations (illegal aliens) had done wrong was “to exist as persons of color.”  What unmitigated horse shit.

One of the “neighbors” who was shot obstructed ICE operations for hours.  She ignored orders to leave the area.  When she was ordered from her car, she gunned the engine, and nearly ran over a ICE agent.  The second Minnesota “neighbor” had, a week earlier, obstructed the ICE officers.  When they tried to arrest him, he resisted arrest, and suffered a broken rib.  Luckily, he was a nurse, so he knew how to treat his wound.

On Saturday, he returned to the scene of ICE operations, this time without any identification, and armed with a loaded semi-automatic pistol, and two spare magazines, enough ammunition to shoot 30 people.  When he ignored orders to leave, and the agents tried to arrest him, he resisted 6 officers who were attempting to handcuff him, the gun came out, and he was shot.  The incident is the subject of an ongoing investigation.

But back to Governor moron.  The only thing the targets did wrong was to be people of color?  Well, no, and no.  Your complexion, or being from a Spanish speaking country isn’t a wrong.  In fact, more than half of all ICE agents are Hispanic.  In any case, the people ICE is trying to arrest in Minnesota are illegal aliens who have committed crimes, here, or in their own countries.  They are subject to removal by law, and they include murderers, rapists, and child molesters.  These are the neighbors the Minnesota maniacs are trying to protect.

Walz went on to claim that Minnesota does cooperate with ICE.  That’s a blatant lie.  And I loved this one.  He said “everyone in Minnesota wants to see the immigration laws enforced.”  I guess that is, except all elected officials, and the violent nuts in the streets.  This was the best one though.  Walz said, all Minnesotans are doing is “protesting, loudly and urgently, but peacefully.” Sound familiar?  The last time Trump uttered those words, he was impeached, and then indicted.

And who is Walz trying to kid?  Assaults on ICE agents are up over 1,000 percent.  There’s a big difference between protesting and obstruction of justice.  Protestors march up and down with their signs, singing and chanting.  Rioters, like the nuts in Minnesota, stalk the agents, blowing whistles to warn illegal aliens.  They dox the agents, disclosing their addresses, so their families can be attacked.  They throw rocks, and shoot fireworks at the agents.  They physically assault them, and then they resist arrest.  And some of the Governor’s “neighbors” have deep pockets.  The revolutionaries are being bankrolled by people with enough money to provide access to internet tracking systems, and to have trucks magically appear, providing the nuts with ballistic shields and commercially printed signs.

And the insurrection seems to be gathering followers.  The same day the Walz Oped ran, Journal editor Gerard Baker published his piece, Time for a Cease- Fire on Immigration Enforcement.  Baker says the two killings were avoidable.  I agree.  If Ms. Good didn’t try to run over the agents, she would be alive.  As for Mr. Pretti, having been arrested a week earlier, he was fully aware of the line where protest becomes obstruction of justice.  He not only came back and crossed that line, but he purposely took a loaded gun to a riot that he, himself was provoking.  Had he left the gun at home, he would be alive.

In the wake of this latest shooting, the Administration is trying to lower the temperature in Minnesota.  That’s a good idea.  But simply pulling all agents out and declaring a “ceasefire” is not.  A federal retreat would be taken as a victory by the Leftist revolutionaries, who would then spread their violent tactics to other locations.

Mr. Baker admits that the Trump Administration’s efforts to remove illegal aliens are legitimate and necessary, and enjoy full democratic legitimacy.  The inquiry should stop right there.  He goes on to admit that the far Left and their Democrat enablers are trying to get us to abandon all efforts at immigration enforcement.  Makes sense so far.  But then he goes off the rails.

Baker then says, that their efforts to undermine the process are nothing compared to the public unease being generated by the tactics ICE is using.  “Masked men, equipped for street warfare.”  Mr. Baker, they’re masked because Leftist nuts are doxing them and threatening their families.  They’re equipped for  street warfare because they are engaged in a war on the streets, and not a war of their own choosing.

ICE has to employ frightening, seemingly heavy-handed tactics because and only because the governments of sanctuary States like Minnesota prohibit police officers from aiding ICE or even from coming to the assistance of brother officers who are under attack.  That is a shameful dereliction of duty for any law enforcement officer.  The reason for the resort to urban warfare in Minnesota isn’t misconduct by ICE officers.  They’re just fighting for their own survival.

Simply put, the problem isn’t too many ICE officers in Minnesota, it’s too many revolutionaries in that State, coupled with elected officials who openly aid and abet insurrection.  In Texas, ICE apprehends and deports 10 times as many illegal aliens as in Minnesota, without incident.  The difference is that the Texas government recognizes the constitutional authority of the federal government, and Minnesota’s does not.  They’re too busy trying to shield themselves and their Somali fraudsters from federal scrutiny.

Thirty years ago, Hollywood produced a movie entitled Independence Day.  You may remember it.  Will Smith, Randy Quaid, Jeff Goldlbum, and others.  The theme was that the country was going along just fine, but one day, an alien invader appeared, bent on conquering the world.  I especially enjoyed the part where the invaders blew up the Capitol building.

The movie aliens appeared to be all powerful.  It turned out that our military had captured an alien ship years before and had been searching for a means of defeating them.  The beleaugered Earthlings used every weapon at their command to stop the invaders, up to and including nuclear weapons, but the invaders just seemed to get stronger.  In the end, it turned out the invaders couldn’t be attacked head on.  The only way to defeat the threat was to introduce a computer virus that permitted the invaders to be defeated from within.

It occurred to me that the loony Leftists are in the process of remaking Independence Day.  For these crazy bastards, Trump and MAGA are the invading aliens bent on conquering the world.  Like the characters in the movie, the Left has been searching for a way to defeat the aliens for years, about eleven years, to be precise.

They tried every method of head-on attack they could use.  They spied on the aliens, and broke myriad laws to prevent the aliens from taking over.  They prosecuted them.  They impeached them.  They libeled them.  They tried to pretend the aliens didn’t exist by removing them from ballots.  They tried to bankrupt the aliens.  They tried to imprison the aliens.  Then they twice tried to kill the alien leader.  But they failed.  The alien invaders were too strong to be defeated in a direct attack, and they just grew stronger.  So now they are trying to defeat the aliens by injecting a virus to poison them from within.

The internal virus being utilized by the Left now is called the resistance, or more precisely the illusion that there exists a righteous resistance to an extremist threat being posed by the Trump Administration.  Ground Zero for this operation is Minnesota.

The Trump Administration is in the process of enforcing the duly enacted immigration laws that are on the books, and have been on the books for decades.  These laws, codified in Title 8 of the United States Code, are laws that were enacted by Congress, and in most cases, Congresses that were controlled by Democrat majorities.

These laws prescribe who may be lawfully admitted to the United States, who may be or must be deported if they have entered the country, and the manner in which such actions are to be undertaken.  These laws are not, or at least should not be controversial.

One does not have to look hard or long to uncover dozens of statements by prominent Democrats about the need to protect or borders from illegal aliens in general, and from illegal aliens who were convicted of serious crimes before they came to our country, or have committed crimes once they arrived on our shores in particular.

The list of these prominent Democrats includes Il Duce Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and none other than Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden himself.  All of the above, in the recent past, are on record as supporting such things as building a border wall to keep illegals out.  They all talked about it, and voted to do just that.

The Left’s zeal to rid America of the alien threat of Trump and his MAGA movement from 2015 to 2025 changed all that.  Biden and the Democrats, with the aid and comfort of a number of RINO Republicans, were content to ignore, flaunt, and outright violate the duly enacted laws of the United States if that was the only way to remove the threat of the evil, alien Orange Man and his supporters.

From 2021 to January 2025, Biden and company admitted more than 10 million new illegal aliens to our country to inundate or system of government, and to tip the balance of power their way in perpetuity.  They did this without any rhyme or reason, without any semblance of vetting, and with complete disregard for the consequences.

The true fact is that Trump and MAGA aren’t threats to “our democracy,” as they so love to repeat, but to the continuance of their control over a corrupt system, that permitted them to tap into trillions of dollars that they simply printed, adding to an already unsustainable national debt.

You see, the Left and the conservatives have two diametrically opposed views of the social safety net that made America they envy of the world, and the preferred haven for the world’s immigrants.  Simply put, Republicans view the safety net as a trampoline, which cradles the needy before catapulting them up and out to self reliance.  Democrats view it as a hammock, in which millions can be nestled in perpetuity.  It wasn’t always this way.

Laws, necessary laws, supported by members of the former Democrat Party, such as the requirement that no immigrant was to come here if he or she would be a public charge, were ignored, because the Democrats knew that, the more people who could be made dependent on our social welfare programs, the more money could be spent on their support.  This money, then is funneled to supposedly well meaning government agencies, and then to NGO’s, non-governmental organizations like Catholic Charities, to be spent on the needy.  Only much of the money goes not to the needy, but instead is funneled back to the Democrat Party in the guise of campaign contributions.

Along the way, billions of dollars were siphoned off by fraudsters.  In Minnesota, more than $10 billion in outright theft has been uncovered. It goes without saying that the scope of the theft in places like California, New York, and elsewhere will dwarf this number.

Much of the Minnesota graft came into the hands of Somali immigrants.  The Trump Administration understandably is trying to prosecute the criminals and recoop some of the money.  The Administration surged ICE officials and other law enforcement people into Minnesota.  Financial investigations are underway, and ICE has arrested and is arresting thousands of criminal illegal aliens in that State.

With the future of the Democrat money spigot at risk of being shut off for good, the impetus to expel the the Trump/MAGA alien invasion threat was ratcheted up.  The Democrat response – insurrection.  The so-called sanctuary States now are not only declining to help ICE, but are affirmatively obstructing the operations of the federal government by means of violence.

The Insurrection Act is a U.S. federal law authorizes the president of the United States to deploy “such part of the land or naval force of the United States” that the president deems necessary, including using the military and State militias, to suppress an insurrection or to enable the local enforcement of federal or state laws.  An insurrection is an organized and usually violent act of revolt or rebellion against an established government or governing authority of a nation-state or other political entity by a group of its citizens or subjects.  By any measure, that’s what’s going on in Minnesota and elsewhere.  For example, the Attorney General of Arizona this week said citizens might be justified in shooting ICE officers who wear masks, under the State’s Stand Your Ground law.  So, uniformed officers come out of a truck emblazoned with “ICE,” they wear badges and have “ICE” on their chests and backs, but you can shoot them because you didn’t know they were cops?  If she’s the chief law enforcement officer in the State, God help Arizona.

For Democrats, it’s Insurrection Day, because that’s the only means at their disposal to stop Trump.  Invocation of the Insurrection Act would be justified, but it’s risky, because such a flexing of federal muscle is controversial.  And Democrats are fanning the flames using their favored methodology – lying.  They’re claiming that the use of the Insurrection Act is a prelude to Trump’s use of the military to cancel the mid-term elections.  That’s nonsense of course, but the Democrats will use any means to keep their snouts in the unlimited pig trough of federal funds.

If they can gain control of the House in November, they can cancel all Trump programs, and keep impeaching him until his term runs out.  It’s a dangerous game they’re playing with the U.S. government, but they don’t care and it may work.  What they’re doing is shameful and unAmerican.  They have chosen the welfare of criminal illegal aliens, including murderers and child molesters, over the welfare of the people and the Constitution they have sworn to protect.  We’re in big trouble, and if Americans can’t be made to see the truth between now and November, I shudder to think of the consequences.

It’s a rare occasion when I base the title of one of my weekly offerings on a rap song.  I have long been of the opinion that it’s no coincidence that Rap rhymes with crap.  However, since the nation’s most influential DJ, John Donald Trump, has been known to play rap music,  I made an exception.

The song in question is Vanilla Ice’s, Ice, Ice baby.  Vanilla Ice actually performed at President Trump’s New Year’s Eve party at Mar-A-Lago.  The reason why I know this is because I came across a media hit piece that criticized Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem for singing and dancing to the song at the party.

In the aftermath of the ICE shooting in Minnesota, I thought of Ice, Ice Baby because the song is about a shooting.

Gunshots raged out like a bell
I grabbed my 9, all I heard were shells
Falling on the concrete real fast
Jumped in my car, slammed on the gas
Bumper to bumper, the avenue’s packed
I’m trying to get away before the jackers jack
Police on the scene, you know what I mean?

I rest my case.  It’s no coincidence that Rap rhymes with crap.  In any case, the Minnesota shooting has some parallels with the son’s lyrics, which is not to trivialize the fact that an ICE protestor was killed.  The shooting didn’t have to happen, but the fact remains that it did happen because, and only because the woman, 37 year old Renee Nicole Good, deliberately obstructed and provoked the ICE officers who were lawfully on the scene trying to do their jobs.

Unsurprisingly, the lap dog media is trying to paint Ms. Good as an innocent motorist who just happened on the scene, and had no choice but to attempt to drive away.  She’s being cast as “the Minnesota mom,” much as Kilmar Abrego was called “a Maryland dad.”  Nothing could be further from the truth.

First of all, Good wasn’t from Minnesota, and wasn’t simply a motorist in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Depending on what report you want to believe, she either was from Colorado or Missouri.  A rabid anti-Trump activist, she and her significant other dutifully left the United States after the 2024 election, and moved to Canada for several months.  They came back, and settled in Minneapolis, for the purpose of obstructing ICE operations.

Rather than a simple Minnesota mom, Good was a rabidly anti-Trump radical who had been trained as an “ICE Watch warrior,” and presumably knew what she was doing when she behaved aggressively toward the officers.  I stress that this is not a rumor being spread by the Administration, it comes from one of her close friends, a woman named Leesa.

It seems that Good’s decent into anti-ICE mania was cultivated by her contacts within the charter school where she enrolled her 6 year old son.  The Southside Family Charter School is connected with “ICE Watch,” a group of local leftist activists devoted to disrupting ICE raids in the area.  This group has been known to use their vehicles as weapons against law enforcement.

Good’s friend Leesa said of her, “She was a warrior.  She died doing what was right.”  Leesa revealed that Good “was trained against these ICE agents — what to do, what not to do, it’s a very thorough training.  To listen to commands, to know your rights, to whistle when you see an ICE agent.”  Leesa added, “I know she was doing the right thing.  I watched the video plenty of times but I also know in my heart the woman she was, she was doing everything right.”

I guess Good’s anti-ICE training wasn’t thorough enough to include a lesson on not trying to run over the ICE officers when they order you to stop.  Or maybe she was absent that day, because that’s what happened in this case.  Good was described as the leader of the anti-ICE protestors who had been harassing the ICE officers all day long.  When one of the ICE vehicles got stuck in the snow, Good used her vehicle to box the officers in.

Video of the incident shows that officers tried to get Good out of her car.  “Get out of the car. Get out of the fucking car,” one agent was heard saying in the video as the group approached the vehicle on a snowy road in a suburban neighborhood.  The agent then grabbed the car’s door handle, and a bystander is heard yelling “No!” as the driver begins to move the car backward.

Another agent was seen circling the car just as it was moving, eventually standing in front of it just before it lunged forward.  He fired at least two shots at the driver as the car came towards him before moving out of the way as it continued moving forward, the footage shows. The car then veered off the side of the road and crashed into another vehicle.  The officer who fired the shots reportedly was dragged 50 years by a protestor’s car in Minnesota last June.

There will have to be a complete investigation of this incident, and likely a grand jury hearing.  That’s routine procedure.  However, the result likely will be a determination that this was a justifiable shooting.  I, unfortunately, have some experience with such incidents.

I was a prosecutor for 25 years.  On the day my oldest daughter was born in 1988, the State Police were conducting an operation to arrest a man on drug distribution charges.  The man used his pickup truck to try to run over two Troopers.  One of the Troopers shot and killed the driver.  The shooting was found to be justified.

But just as in the shooting in Minnesota, the 1988 shooting didn’t have to happen.  In each case, the driver of the vehicle set in motion the deadly result.  Police officers do not lightly resort to the use of deadly force.  They aren’t villains, they aren’t brutes, they are human beings, and taking a life takes a toll on them.

The Trooper who was forced to shoot the suspect in 1988 suffered an emotional breakdown, and required years of therapy before he could come back on the job.  In Minnesota, Ms. Good was a professional agitator who was trying to call attention to herself.  She succeeded.  Her actions are a symptom of the sickness that affects the Left.

These people truly believe that their anti-Trump, anti-ICE cause permits them to ignore all laws on the books.  ICE had and has every right to conduct its operation in Minnesota, or anywhere else in the country.  They are in the streets to arrest criminal illegal aliens who are involved in violent crimes. Leftists brand the ICE agents as terrorists.

The law clearly authorizes the use of deadly force when an officer’s life is endangered.  Leftists want to ignore that law as well.  And for what?  To oppose all things Trump, and to give aid and comfort to violent criminals who would just as soon kill one of the mindless protestors as an ICE officer.

The Biden Administration nurtured the notion that laws need not be enforced, when a leftist cause is at stake.  Soros financed prosecutors still practice this insanity.  The fact is that Ms. Good chose to give her life to protect illegal alien child molesters, who no doubt would victimize her 6 year old son if they got the chance.  If she was the saint they are making her out to be, she would be alive today, and her son wouldn’t be an orphan.  Here’s some good advice.  If you don’t try to run over a law enforcement officer, you won’t get shot.

I’m sorry if that sounds cold, but that’s the way it is.                                                  It’s ICE, ICE, Minne (too cold, too cold).

In 1823, in his annual statement to Congress, President James Monroe announced what became a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy, which became known as the Monroe Doctrine.  The Doctrine served notice that, because the Old World and the New World had different systems, they must remain in their distinct spheres.

President Monroe made four basic points: (1) the United States would not interfere in the internal affairs of or the wars between European powers; (2) the United States recognized and would not interfere with existing colonies and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere; (3) the Western Hemisphere was closed to future colonization; and (4) any attempt by a European power to oppress or control any nation in the Western Hemisphere would be viewed as a hostile act against the United States.

In 1848, President Polk reiterated Monroe’s principles, warning Britain and Spain not to establish footholds in Oregon, California, or Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.  Polk reinterpreted the doctrine in terms of the prevailing spirit of Manifest Destiny. Whereas Monroe had said only that the Western Hemisphere was no longer open to European colonialism, Polk now stated that European nations should not interfere with projected territorial expansion by the United States.

In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt added the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.  This Corollary stated that in cases of flagrant and chronic wrongdoing by a Latin American country, the United States could intervene in that country’s internal affairs.

For more than 100 years, the U.S. tried to exploit our distance from Europe to avoid entanglements in wars on that continent.  We remained basically isolationist.  It was only when our rights were invaded or seriously menaced that we intervened for our own defense.

Before we entered World War I, Woodrow Wilson fully intended to stay out of the conflict.  It took German Uboats sinking U.S. shipping, and the German Ambassador trying to entice Mexico to attack us to get him to declare war.  Up until the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. had a policy of neutrality which greatly hampered FDR’s efforts to aid Great Britain.

With regard to threats native to Central and South America, the U.S. hasn’t been shy about exerting its influence under the Roosevelt Corollary.  U.S. Marines spent most of the 1920’s and 1930’s pacifying Haiti, Nicaragua, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

We toppled the Guatemalan government in 1954.  We invaded the Dominican Republic in 1965.  We intervened in Nicaragua in 1979, El Salvador in 1980, Grenada in 1983, and Panama in 1989.

Last weekend, President Trump treated us to an exercise of what’s being called the Donroe Doctrine.  In 2020, Venezuela’s poser President Nicolas Maduro, and his wife, were indicted for federal crimes.  In 2022, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden put a $25 million reward on Maduro’s head.  Trump increased the bounty to $50 million.  Sunday morning, Maduro and wife were seized by Delta Force operators, and flown back to the U.S. to face justice.

Democrats had lambasted Trump for failing to seize Maduro in his first term.  The detestable Chuck Schumer denounced Trump’s Venezuela policy because he hadn’t removed Maduro.  Democrats openly called for regime change in Venezuela.  There was good reason for them to do so.

Venezuela sits on the largest oil reserves in the world.  Before the country was taken over by Communists Hugo Chavez and Maduro, Venezuela was one of the richest nations on Earth.  The Communists did to Venezuela what they do wherever they seize power.  They bankrupted the country, and turned the citizens into starving slaves.

In the Socialist Worker’s Paradise of Venezuela, one-third of the population fled the country.  Those who remained were reduced to eating pets and zoo animals.  Yes, that really happened.  In place of the oil economy that had made Venezuela rich, Maduro made his nation a narco-terrorist State.  Maduro is accused of running the narcotics distribution enterprise himself.

U.S. oil companies found the oil under Venezuela, and built the infrastructure necessary to refine their heavy, dirty crude oil.  The Communists expelled our companies and seized their assets.  What remains of the Venezuelan oil industry was being run by, and for the benefit of the Chinese, the Russians, and the Iranians.

Venezuelan oil has been subjected to sanctions, sanctions that went unenforced until Trump’s reelection.  In addition to destroying the Venezuelan drug boats, Trump began seizing oil tankers carrying sanctioned oil to China.

The Delta Force raid involved 150 aircraft, fixed wing and helicopters.  Our forces neutralized Venezuelan air defenses.  They invaded the army base where the Maduros were living, under the protection of Cuban Army troops.  The Cubans have admitted that 32 of their “combatant” officers were killed.  Delta Force breached the defenses, got the Maduros out within one hour and exfiltrated without casualties.

Given all the Democrat bitching about want to remove Maduro, they should be very happy now, right?  Wrong!  Now, they want to impeach Trump (again) for doing now what they blasted him for not doing earlier.  No surprise there.  If Democrats didn’t stand for hypocrisy, they would stand for nothing at all.

Like their Socialist comrades in the leftists governments of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, and Spain, many elected Democrats are denouncing the Maduro operation as illegal.  Scamola, sorry Scamala, Harris was sober enough to condemn the Trump administration’s capture of Venezuelan dictator Maduro and his wife, as both “unlawful” and “unwise.”  Right.  Have another drink Scamala.

The usual leftist suspects like Dan Goldman, Chris Van Hollen, Adam Schiff (for brains) , and Chris Murphy are calling the operation an unconstitutional incursion aimed at giving Venezuela’s oil to Trump’s billionaire friends.  They’re muttering about the War Powers Act, and complaining about Trump not seeking their consent.

Of course, we’re not at war, he doesn’t need their consent, and please, make my day.  Invoke the War Powers Act, so the Supreme Court can strike it down once and for all.  The decrepit Nancy Pelosi admitted the real reason Democrats are denouncing the operation. “Venezuela is ruled by an illegitimate regime, but the Administration has not made the case that an urgent threat to America’s national security existed to justify the use of U.S. military force … Congress must be fully and immediately briefed.”  Translation –  “We’re against it only because Trump did it.”

The operation to seize Maduro was done for the purpose of arresting a wanted fugitive, to be sure.  That clothed the operation in legal authority.  But arresting the Maduros wasn’t the only purpose.  Several days before the raid, the Chinese announced to the world that they were not going to recognize any U.S. right to protect its own hemisphere.  They announced they were going to send in tankers to take out all the oil they wanted.

The Chinese spit on the Monroe Doctrine.  Donald Trump took note.  The Maduro operation served notice on the Chinese, the Russians, the Cubans, the Iranians, and others that the Monroe Doctrine remains in full effect.  Maybe we should call it the Trump FAFO Doctrine.  Whatever we call it, the message was received.  How it will end will depend on whether Venezuela gets to have a real, fair election.  Stay tuned.

It’s a new year, and despite all hopes that we might be getting closer to a society in which we could reach accommodation with those holding differing opinions, that doesn’t seem likely.  If anything, an already polarized society and electorate seems to getting even more polarized, if that’s possible.

Those afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome, incredibly are sinking even deeper into their psychoses.  Absolutely every action taken by the President sets these people off.  For his part, President Trump knows this, and he therefore takes every opportunity to provoke them.  Perhaps that’s not the best tactic, but after what he’s been through, can you blame him?  I mean, Trump’s constantly being criticized for failing to seek accommodation with people who continually declare him to be illegitimate.  There’s no pleasing or negotiating with these people, so screw them.

Trump does things for the express purpose of making liberal heads explode.  And the liberals never fail to take the bait.  The latest one is Trump’s decision to add his name to the Kennedy Center.  Unsurprisingly, liberals are outraged.  Would I have added the Trump name to the building – no.  But at the end of the day, what difference does it make?

Now, irate progressive performers are cancelling their appearances at the Kennedy Center.  The Kennedy Center Director, Rick Grenell, has announced that he has evidence that CNN is encouraging performers to cancel scheduled shows.  If true, I foresee a lawsuit against CNN for tortious interference with contract.  CNN may wind up funding the renovations of the Trump/Kennedy Center.

Most of the cancellations have come from performers I’ve never even heard of.  A New York City jazz group by the name of The Cookers have bailed on their planned New Year’s Eve performance, pontificating, “Jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless insistence on freedom:  freedom of thought, of expression, and of the full human voice.”  Not sure what that means.  Whoever they are, they were still free to sing whatever they wanted, and to say whatever they wanted about the President.

Musician Chuck Redd, who had hosted the center’s “Jazz Jams” Christmas Eve concert since 2006, withdrew from the show after hearing of the name change. “When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,” Redd said.  Redd’s doctrinal purity may prove costly, however.  Grenell has notified Redd that his belated cancellation may expose him to a lawsuit for breach of contract, to the tune of $1 million.  That’s truly putting your money where your mouth is.

You must remember that, for so-called progressives, substance is irrelevant.  It’s only the cause that counts.  What cause?  It doesn’t matter.  If Trump’s for it, they’re against it.  Never mind that John F. Kennedy got elected in 1960 by appearing tougher on defense than Richard Nixon.  Never mind that JFK wouldn’t be welcome in today’s Democrat Party.  The cause is resistance, no matter what.

The mania to resist animates their every action.  It doesn’t have to make sense.  These are the people who force sports teams to change mascot names they find objectionable, but have yet to realize that Washington and Lee College is named for Robert E. Lee.  They have long lists of forbidden words and deeds, and they would compel prohibitions if they could.

The progressives’ failure to exhibit flexibility, and their insistence on adhering to their lists of the imagined offenses that “trigger” them put me in mind of the 1885 Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, The Mikado.  It’s set in the fictional Japanese town of Titipu.  KoKo has been condemned to death for flirting.  But the locals have found an ingenious way to avoid capital punishment.

Because criminals must be executed in accordance with the order of their crimes, the town appoints KoKo as Lord High Executioner, because, he “cannot cut off another head until he’s cut his own off.”  When the Emperor, the Mikado, notices the lack of executions, he orders KoKo to take action.  KoKo is prepared though, as he’s been compiling a list of likely victims who, “never would be missed.”  KoKo then sings the aria, I’ve Got a Little List.

The lyrics of that song have been updated through the years to reflect the time and place of the operetta’s performance.  Since liberals have their lists of things that they object to, I thought it only fitting that, to usher in the new year,  I should share my “little list.”  Here it is.

As some day it may happen that some justice will be served
I’ve got a little list — I’ve got a little list
Of society offenders on whom vengeance should be served
And who never would be missed — who never would be missed!

There’s the pestilential nuisances who claim to read the news;
All women who just do their hair and buy too many shoes;
All so-called influencers who have never held a job;
And Rosie O’Donnell, that fat disgusting slob;
All self-important actors with large mouths and little minds;
And bubble-headed actresses who wiggle their behinds;
They’d none of ’em be missed — they’d none of ’em be missed!

There’s the social justice singers who just croak out every tune;
And old Kamala Harris who’s still laughing like a loon;
And the people who eat garlic and then puff it in your face;
And the climate change fanatics who just hate the human race;
They never would be missed — they never would be missed!

All idiots who praise with an enthusiastic tone
All centuries but this one, and all countries but their own;
And those who preach for justice, and the rights of victims tout;
Then open up the prisons and let all the criminals out;
But by now I think you have probably have must have got the gist;
I don’t think they’d be missed — I’m sure they’d not be missed!

He’s got them on the list!  He’s got them on the list!                                            And they’d none of them be missed, they’d none of them be missed.

Happy New Year from Frank on Friday.