by Craig Willms
Whoa, what a year it's been.
I honestly don't know what to make of what's going on. I freely admit that I have been poisoned by leftism and its predetermined righteousness that when common sense hit's me upside the head I automatically think something is wrong. The entrenchment of leftism in every single aspect of our beings has made me unwittingly compliant. I feel like I've been slapped awake a half a dozen times. I guess this means I'm now "based" if being "based" means being confident, authentic, and unapologetically true to oneself, regardless of societal expectations or popular opinion. Leftism is all about compliance and fealty to the collective belief. We can talk about the dearth of truth in the zeitgeist of the quasi-capitalist cronyism that actually does rule the world, but leftism pervades that as well.
1.) First, being Minnesotan since birth I see what leftism and the corruption that comes with it has done to the mentality of my state. I was so, so happy that the worst governor in our history, maybe in the history of the United States has decided not to seek re-election (BTW he would have won). Now we just need him to resign and run off with his tail between his legs all the way to China. Today he is essentially a yapping chihuahua, nothing he has to say is relevant in the least. That anyone would support him in the wake of the scandal and fraud that has dragged our state into the national doghouse and made Minnesota a laughing stock is beyond me.
2.) The spectacle of a Trump sanctioned operation taking out Nick Maduro and his wife from inside a military compound in Venezuela was a demonstration beyond belief. But they got it done, a seemingly an impossible task, with minimal damage and loss of life. Amazing. I strongly suspect the U.S. had inside help. I've since read articles and saw a documentary on what had happened to the once proud and quite rich Venezuelan nation to now realize it had ceased to be a functioning state. Venezuela was being propped up by foreign nations that had no intention of helping a beaten down Venezuelan population that is slowly starving to death. To know that average Venezuelans all over the world and those still in country are deliriously happy is all I need to know. Trump is in the process of saving them. Trump for his part, unfortunately, is once again talking and doing himself no favors - he needs to shut up. That said, I have hope that Venezuela will make a big comeback. Time will tell.
3.) An ICE agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, once again putting Minnesota in national spotlight for all the wrong reasons. I saw the video and what I saw was a car ramming an ICE agent and that car being shot at by the agent. The woman was confronting ICE in the course of doing their law enforcement duty. As the Brits would say she was engaging in a perversion of the course of justice. She used her car to block ICE vehicles from passage. When agents got out to confront her directly she used her car to thwart them, backing towards one agent then pulling forward to ram another. It was totally unfortunate, but also totally avoidable. To say she asked for it sounds cruel, but that's exactly what she did. My message to all: If you see ICE - go the other way.
That's all, for now... More later, the year is still young.
