We’ve had a cold streak here in Minnesota. It reached -19F, “feels like” -35F last night. It’s -16F, “feels like” -16F right now. This is too cold, even for me. It’s brutal. People are urged to stay inside. Frostbite can happen in about five minutes. That’s not much time at all.
Simultaneously, we had an economic blackout date in order to protest ICE. It was called, “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth of Freedom”. Several businesses shut down for the days. Others stayed open and donated a portion or all of their daily profit to charity. Thousands of people braved the cold to protest, which makes me really proud.
We’re made of stern stuff here in Minnesota. To put it bluntly, the federal administration did not know who they were fucking with when they came into Minnesota. People on the coasts like to joke about flyover states, but if they were ever to visit Minnesota, they would see that Minnesotans don’t back down.
I would be remiss if I did not point out that at the airport where they’re protesting airlines that are running deportation flights (to Texas where there is a deportation detainment/internment, the frontline of people kneeling and singing hyms was made up of mostly faith leaders. There have been a call to prayer, as it were, by several prominent faith leaders. They have recognized that what is happening is something they must take a stand on, and many of them have done just that. So I give full props to them for matching their actions to their words.
I’m so tired. Ever y time we think that this administration can’t go any lower, they do. It’s disconcerting to realize that we can’t trust anybody in the federal government right now. Anyone in this administration is inept, incompetent, aa lying asshole, or any combination of all three. I watch clips of them lying right to my face, and it fillls me with incandescent rage.
I hate being lied to. I especially hate it when someone does it ineptly or is doing it without the intent to really convince the listener. That’s just adding insult to injruy, quite frankly.
I hate what those assholes are doing to my state and to this country. I hate what they’re doing to me psychologically.
Whenever I see the head of Border Patrol strutting around, acting all high and mighty or saying indefensible bullshit, I just want to punch him in the face. Same with the VP. He came to Minnesota to give his support to ICe. Whining about whatever the fuck his whiny ass was going to whine about.