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Tim Walz Acts as a Local Warlord

David Strom 2:00 PM | January 26, 2026
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Perhaps Somalis have taught Tim Walz a thing or two about how to create and run a clan of criminal/political revolutionaries.

The parallels are hardly exact, of course. This being Minnesota, the tactics are much more genteel, most of the time, and the people with whom he works are sometimes-allies/sometimes-adversaries who are also rivals for power when their common enemy is at bay, but in many ways, his organization operates as a gang. 

Another imperfect analogy is the old Mafia, and perhaps a better one. The Mafia was essentially run by warlords whose tactics were better suited to success in a more civilized environment than Sicily was, and in the case of the mob, the politicians were generally not at the top of the pyramid, but rather were bought off (or scared silly) by the warlords. 

Or, perhaps, we could compare him to Nicholas Maduro, with a lot less power over his state than Maduro had over Venezuela, but sharing his tactics of pillaging the state and his taste for socialism. 

None of these analogies is perfect; this is, after all, Minnesota, and the outside alliances are based in Somalia and, interestingly, Communist China (Neville Roy Singham, an American billionaire based in China and an associate of the CCP, is helping fund the Black Bloc here), but if history is not repeating exactly, it is rhyming. 

I and others have written extensively about the intimate ties between the political players here—Governor Walz, Attorney General Ellison, and Mayor Jacob Frey—and the Somali scammers and the Black Bloc activists. Our Governor helped enable a $10 to $20 to God knows how big welfare scam that swallowed up HALF of all Medicaid spending in the state, and Mayor Frey's wife was a key player in making it happen. Attorney General Ellison helped keep it going. And all of them used some of that money for their campaigns. 

All of these officials are deeply tied to the Black Bloc protests, just as their actions were key to ensuring that the George Floyd riots were able to take off and transform into mob action. 

Similar to now, come to think of it. 

Minnesota's state legislators, city councilors, prosecutors, and even some law enforcement officers are actively coordinating the attacks on federal officials, and all of them are encouraging the felonious tactics, egging on the agitators.

As I wrote earlier today, the invasion of Cities Church was far worse than first reported. Yet nobody among the Democrats is condemning the attacks, and many are calling for more such invasions, despite their being serious violations of federal law. Ellison himself has agitated in the past for using the FACE Act to prosecute people for protesting outside a Mosque, but now argues that invading a church is just free speech. 

Walz has declared "war" on the federal government, and the state is actively breaking federal laws by refusing lawful subpoenas from the Justice Department. 

For years, the state has violated provisions of the Help America Vote Act because, well, they think it only applies to Republican states. 

All laws only apply to Republicans, and if the law is not helpful enough for them, they will go beyond it. 

We now live in a state where roving mobs stop people on the streets to demand they prove they are not agents of the federal government, and bully people for wearing the wrong clothes. Any car can be stopped on the streets of Minneapolis by activists who have what amounts to checkpoints and who direct traffic as they like. 

Saturday's "victim," Pretti, took it upon himself to direct traffic and decide who could pass and who could not. For all the talk about the limits of power that federal agents have, in Minnesota, if you are an ally of Governor Walz or Mayor Frey, your powers are essentially infinite. 

Walz talks about the federal government as an "occupying force," as if Minnesota were not subject to the laws of the Union, because in his eyes, Minnesota's only connection to the United States is as a recipient of federal money. He talks about the "rule of law," but the reality is that he lives by the saying, "For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law."

That "everything" included tens of billions of dollars and complete impunity. The state never prosecuted any of the welfare fraudsters for obvious reasons; the prosecutions are federal. 

As chaotic demonstrations continue in Minneapolis, a New York Times dispatch reveals, perhaps unintentionally, how left-wing activist networks are fanning the flames by harassing ICE agents. 

“Earlier that day, outside a church that was distributing aid, I overheard a young man on his phone reporting a ‘confirmed ICE’ vehicle,” the Times piece reads. “I looked around for it, until I realized he was reading off the license plate from my rental car.”

For most Minnesotans, this warlordism isn't much of a problem. Our taxes are high, but we can avoid the worst of the Twin Cities. During COVID, our downtowns emptied out, and they have not remotely recovered—Minneapolis hardly at all. 

But, like Venezuela, it takes a long time for the corruption to take a wealthy place and turn it into a hellhole, and Minneapolis will never get that bad. Think Chicago, not Caracas.

In the meantime, though, my state is getting pillaged, and we live by the law of Walz. 

Now, ask yourself, why did Kamala Harris pick Tim Walz to be her Vice President, and why did Eric Holder give him the stamp of approval? 

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ANTIFA DOMESTIC TERRORISM MINNESOTA SOCIALISM TIM WALZ

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