What’s the Minnesota Yell? “Ya, Hey”?
Minnesota governor Tampon Tim Walz inadvertently says the quiet part out loud: there’s insurrection in Minnesota, analogous to the Secession Crisis of 1860:
Yes, Tim. Yes it is. And you are leading it, you rebel you.
By the way, what’s the Minnesota Yell? “Ya, hey”?
The remarkable thing about Minnesota is the dogs that aren’t barking. That is, the near total absence of Minnesota-level chaos and violence in the rest of the country, including places (like Chicago), where ICE is active, and indeed fairly aggressive.
This means that it’s not ICE qua ICE that is the issue here. It is Minnesota-specific.
Indeed, it is localized to Minneapolis.
Almost certainly because Antifa and Antifa-esque elements have decided to concentrated their forces and efforts there. And why? Almost certainly because of state and Minneapolis city officials’ acquiescence at the very least and likely active cooperation.
Walz and Minneapolis mayor (and Somali cuisine gourmand) Jacob Frey and state Attorney General Keith Ellison have channeled the spirits of Southern States Rights advocates from Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (cf. Virginia and Kentucky Resolves), John C. Calhoun, Orval Faubus, and George Wallace, invoking the 10th Amendment to declare that the writ of Federal law does not extend to Minnesota, at least with regards to immigration law.
Walz is the Temu W. H. Gist (SC’s governor in 1860). Gist’s son, by the way, was named “States Rights”. (States Rights Gist was one of the six Confederate generals slain at Franklin on 30 November 1864).
Great company there, guys!
Although the ideological polarities of Walz and Calhoun et al seem diametrically opposed, if you look at things at the correct angle you’ll see perfect alignment. States Rights ideology rears its head precisely when Democrats lose control of the Federal government. The Crisis of the 1850s and the Secession Crisis that followed for example, coincided with the looming loss of Democratic control over the Senate due to the likely admission of more free states, and the election of the “Black Republican” Lincoln.
And 175-165 years later, the election of Trump and the resulting exercise of Federal muscle to enforce Federal law has caused Democrats to raise the standards of States Rights and insurrection again.
This presents both an opportunity and a danger to the Trump administration. The opportunity is that the leftists’ decision to concentrate their efforts in Minneapolis should make it possible to take down a significant portion of their insurrectionist muscle and more importantly the financial backers thereof. The street muscle’s indiscriminate use of communications should allow the US to employ its awesome technical means to identify, map, and roll up the insurrectionist network.
Look at the resources and technical means the US government deployed to round up J6 “insurrectionists.” Do the same here. Indeed, it is beyond puzzling that the Trump administration has apparently shied away from doing so until now. Certainly they have not taken actions that would make one believe that they have.
The danger is in the information warfare aspect of the battle. Confronting the useful idiots like Renee Good and Alex Pretti on the streets plays into insurrectionist info ops. The likes of them, and most importantly, their organizers and financial backers, must be accosted at night, at their homes, with no more warning than a loud bang on the door and shouts of “Open up! Federal agents! We have a warrant for your arrest!” Their public appearances should be in shackles, doing the perp shuffle.
And it may come to the point where Walz, Frey, and Ellison are the ones answering their doors–or cowering in fear when they get beaten down.
The administration, and DHS in particular, have done a poor job at managing warfare. Confrontations on the streets apparently intended to demonstrate Federal power have played right into the left’s standard victim-oppressor framing.
Don’t fight on your enemy’s chosen battlefield, which in this instance is the streets of Minneapolis, or using the weapons they prefer, namely firearms and pepper spray. Fight them on the ground you choose–their command and control nodes–using the weapons advantage you have–signals intelligence and other information collection methods.
PS. Tim’s grasp of history is rather weak. He evidently doesn’t realize which side of Fort Sumter he is on. But this isn’t the only illustration. Some weeks ago he invoked the memory of the famous charge of the First Minnesota at Gettysburg. Not only was the charge carried out by Federal forces against insurrectionists, Tim said it happened in response to Pickett’s Charge on 3 July 1863. It occurred, in fact on 2 July, and was directed against Wilcox’s Alabama Brigade. Some social studies teacher, that Tim. But that’s probably a fitting testament to American public education.
Minneapolis also seems to be an important hub of fraudulent Federal billion$, siphoned off and funneled to NGOs and Antifa-esque activist groups. Walz and Ellison appear to be up to their necks in it. That may in part explain why the fight is focused there – to protect the dark money income stream.
Comment by Pat Frank — January 30, 2026 @ 4:54 pm
Things seem perhaps to have cooled down a little already. I imagine the conversation:
Donald the Great: We have evidence that will let us charge you with federal felonies that could result in 20 years in a federal penitentiary.
Governor Walz: How can I help you out, Mr President?
D the G: You can rat out some of your insurrectionary buddies.
Comment by dearieme — January 30, 2026 @ 6:22 pm
As I have written before, whenever I go onto social media to watch cat videos, I get floods of ICE Brutality content instead. (Previously it was Gaza Genocide.) To get prime placement on social media, a content creator has to pay. Someone is paying content creators to flood social media with ICE Brutality content. It shouldn’t be hard to follow the money to its source.
Comment by Michael van der Riet — January 30, 2026 @ 11:31 pm
“omeone is paying content creators to flood social media with ICE Brutality content.”
Perhaps, even probably. But William of Ockham suggests that scenes of ICE actions generate lots of clicks and engagement – and the algorithms reward, well, clicks and engagement.
Comment by dcardno — January 31, 2026 @ 2:54 pm
Alright, let’s put our thinking caps on for a second (I know, I know, it’s a tight fit for some of you).
The Professor and half the people in this thread are practically creaming themselves with excitement over the idea of “rolling up the financial backers” and “mapping the command-and-control nodes.” It’s a lovely little fantasy, but let’s look at the actual scoreboard.
We have been hearing for over a year now that the Hammer of Justice (c) was about to fall on the shadowy billionaires and “dark money networks” supposedly fueling every protest in Minneapolis. We’ve had executive orders, DOJ task forces, and daily Truth Social posts promising that the “funders of the insurrection” were finally going to get their midnight knock on the door.
And yet, here we are in 2026, and the net has come up… empty.
If this vast, coordinated, high-level financial conspiracy actually exists, and the most powerful surveillance state in human history—led by an administration that would give anything for a Soros-branded smoking gun—can’t produce a single major indictment after a year of “mapping,” there are only two possibilities (non-mutually exclusive) left:
1) The federal government is so laughably incompetent that they couldn’t find a checkbook in a desk drawer.
2) There is no shadowy cabal, and you’re all just chasing a security blanket to avoid admitting that people might actually be angry without being paid $50 an hour to do it.
So, which is it? Is the administration totally inept, or have they just been blowing smoke up your skirts about “funders” this whole time?
P.S. For the prof worshiping the “technical means” of federal law enforcement, please look at the massive daycare fraud currently hemorrhaging tax dollars in Minnesota. It didn’t take a multi-agency task force or “signals intelligence” to bust it; it took a single YouTube vlogger with a camera to notice that these “daycares” receiving millions in funding were literally empty buildings. While the feds were busy play-acting Zero Dark Thirty looking for imaginary Antifa gold, they were being out-investigated by a guy with a tripod. If you’re waiting for these guys to save the Republic, don’t hold your breath—they can’t even outwit a “ghost” daycare
Comment by [email protected] — January 31, 2026 @ 4:01 pm
Some of your readers might gain from this medical advice.
https://thecritic.co.uk/a-clinical-note-on-trump-derangement-syndrome/
Comment by dearieme — February 2, 2026 @ 6:37 am
“This means that it’s not ICE qua ICE that is the issue here. It is Minnesota-specific.”
Much to my surprise, I found a good factual basis for this claim: https://knowledge.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/UCLA_CNK_State_Variations_in_ICE_Arrests_July2025.pdf
Summary: Some research from UCLA found that arrest rates per resident non-citizen in Minnesota are almost bang on the national average (or median – chart isn’t explicit). With two caveats: MN only really started hitting the news in the last few months, so maybe something changed since this research was done, or maybe the fraction of illegals (instead of just non-citizens) is much lower in MN, which would make it disproportionate. But unless that is proven, it seems that ICE aren’t disproportionately targeting MN.
Their tactics and civil behaviour are still atrocious, however. Yes protests are generating more contact as the Prof claims, but if a police force can’t manage that, then they shouldn’t bloody well be acting as a police force.
Comment by HibernoFrog — February 4, 2026 @ 8:30 am
Hiberno: I think you elide the difference between “contacts with protestors” – like people marching, waving placards, and so on – and protestors actively preventing a police force from performing their function.
Comment by dcardno — February 5, 2026 @ 8:26 pm