Ricochet is the best place on the internet to discuss the issues of the day, either through commenting on posts or writing your own for our active and dynamic community in a fully moderated environment. In addition, the Ricochet Audio Network offers over 50 original podcasts with new episodes released every day.
Minneapolis: Nice No More
Congratulations, Minneapolis! You just dodged a bullet – for now. But only for now. What you will eventually learn, the hard way, is that the white-hating, race-obsessed mob can’t be placated, satisfied, or bought off. Its depravity is bottomless and its appetite for destruction knows no bounds. But for now, you bought yourself some time. The mob said “jump” and the jury on the Chauvin case said, “how high?” The mob said “guilty on all charges” and the jury said, “sir, yes sir!”
Look, we already have a juror confirming what we already knew anyway in a post-trial interview: “I did not want to go through rioting and destruction again and I was concerned about people coming to my house if they were not happy with the verdict.”
Case closed. The BLM mob owns Minneapolis. Bow before BLM – or else.
And let’s not forget, Minneapolitans, there is this matter of Daunte Wright yet to be dealt with. Daunte was yet another in an endless line of violent criminal thugs produced by the toxic culture who got himself killed while resisting arrest. So, all that boarding up of property in anticipation of riots if Chauvin wasn’t convicted . . . Well, you might not want to take it down just yet. In BLM-owned Minneapolis it should probably remain as a permanent fixture.
In any case, let’s take a brief tour of left-wing reaction to the Chauvin verdict. (Spoiler alert: they’re not satisfied!)
Kamala Harris: “It will not heal the pain that existed for generations . . .”
The NFL: “Today’s outcome in the Derek Chauvin trial . . . does not undo the loss of life. Mr. George Floyd should be here with us today.”
Farrakhan apologist and Attorney General of Minnesota, Keith Ellison: “I would not call today’s verdict justice. . .”
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin: “The verdict yesterday . . . was an aberration . . . an anomaly. We have these kinds of cases happening every day, all day.”
Michael Moore: “YES!! In handcuffs! Now on to the work! All of us demand an end to white supremacy and white privilege. How many innocent black and brown ppl are in prison? Free them all! . . . End policing as we know it. It doesn’t work.” You just have to love his enthusiastic recommendations for actions that would totally destroy any civilized society. Wow, absolutely breathtaking!
AOC: “It’s not justice. I’ll explain to you why.” I think we’ll skip it. This Marxist twit couldn’t explain her way out of a wet paper bag.
Hollywood: Not even worth the key strokes.
BLM: “Blah, blah, blah . . . systemic racism . . . blah, blah . . . white supremacy . . . blah, blah. Killer cops . . . black bodies . . . blah, blah, blah. Well, later homey! Gotta go buy another posh property in a nice safe white neighborhood.”
The basic thing to realize here is that the American neo-Marxist left has brought the country into a psychotic delusion about so-called systemic racism that is so incurably tenacious . . . Well, let’s put it this way. You can no more talk them out of their psychosis than you could the schizophrenic homeless guy waving his arms and shouting obscenities on any Democrat-controlled city street corner.
In the meantime, the relentless crime, chaos, and violence will continue – and likely accelerate due to the lack of policing – in the black sections of every Democrat-controlled city in the country and no one on the left will bat an eyelash, or if they do, it will all be blamed on white supremacy, 1619, voter ID laws or what-the-hell-ever. So, teenage girls will continue to have their knife fights. (Leave ‘em alone, it’s just one of their rites of passage!) Bullets will continue to fly, some at their intended targets, others that just go astray and hit innocent people at random, including children in their houses, babies in strollers, old ladies walking down the street, etc., etc., ad infinitum.
All brought to you by Black Lives Matter, Inc., and supported by virtually every institution in the country, all of which have been engulfed by the cancerous malignancy of leftism, which is currently the worst social plague ever visited upon civilized humanity, short of war, communism and genocide (any of which could still be in the offing for us).
If you have a biblical worldview, you understand that man is a fallen creature, that his depravity is virtually unlimited, and that there is nothing so good and beautiful that he won’t willfully and gleefully destroy it. So, while dismayed, you’re not surprised that post-Christian America is being destroyed in front of your very eyes. You understand that evil and foolishness are the default settings of humanity, not goodness, and that even the greatest country in history is not immune to destruction. You will pray for the salvation of America, while understanding that prayer may not be answered affirmatively.
But if there’s one thing you can bank on, it’s this. In the next election cycle, the majority of Minneapolitans will keep right on voting for the destruction of their own city by electing and reelecting BLM-loving, police-defunding, neo-Marxist Democrats. How is that possible? It’s because leftists simply seem incapable of understanding the most fundamental aspects of human nature and are incapable of learning anything from history.
Well, buh-bye Minneapolis. It was nice knowing ya. You went from “Minnesota nice” and “Prairie Home Companion” to Mogadishu on the Mississippi. You know what most of us would call that? An epic fail! Can’t wait to see how many roads, schools, and libraries are named after the sainted George Floyd (and soon to be sainted Daunte Wright). And good luck with defunding the police. Can’t wait to see how the social workers will handle the anarchy that will consume every inch of your hapless and injudicious city.
As for all of you who voted for this and will continue to in the future, you deserve every last bit of what you will get. Unfortunately, those rational and decent citizens who did not vote for it don’t deserve it, but what can they do? Sad to say, but their only recourse at this point is to leave. Minneapolis is a fallen city now held hostage by the BLM mob. A minority of good people can’t save it, nor should they go down with it. It may be heartbreaking and supremely difficult, but they should make their way to a better place, like the young woman in this article and no doubt many others.
Published in General
If you’re willing to risk living in a city that is run by people who failed to protect it during the George Floyd riots and have since been all about defunding police or tying their hands such that they basically can’t stop criminals without being accused of racism, then I wish you the best of luck with that. But you really need to understand that you cannot count on your local authorities to protect you. We have seen this in cities all over the country, not just Minneapolis. Those cities are hemorrhaging police because why would police work under such conditions? And given that the entire country is in a psychosis about imaginary “systemic racism,” which is being encouraged by virtually every institution we have, it’s hard to imagine what turns it all around in any foreseeable future.
The latest postcards from the Minneapolis Visitors Bureau are not helping. You know, the ones that say, “Greeting from Minneapolis, Land of 10,000 Riots”.
(My photoshop skills are sorely lacking; you’ll have to picture it.)
It’s not going to be fixed. There will not be fair national elections, or fair state elections where Democrats dominate and gradually even more of the mindless middle will join in. If we had a few decades fine, but does anyone think the Chinese will give us several decades?
See also: Oakland, CA. We worked hard to get out before the election and bailed in October. I still have my Nextdoor account for my old neighborhood and things continue to get worse. The OPD has been chronically understaffed the 25+ years we lived there. They can only deal with the most serious stuff and only collect stats on the robberies, car thefts, car jackings, catalytic converter thefts, mugging, and the new bizarre spate of apartment balcony invasions. All real and happening within walking distance of my old house.
The comments I read on Nextdoor are maddening and evidence of a city killing itself with compassion.
One problem at the moment is the news is not working anymore. Here in Louisville Friday and Saturday night BLM decided to march from downtown up the major party strip to the mayor’s house. Threatening all the way. LMPD sent riot troops and tried to disperse the mob. I saw this on Facebook live from the LMPD page and a few on the ground citizen journalist but our local blue rag and the ABC, CBS, NBC, etc had nothing on it. We are not even in the middle of this insanity and our media keeps catfishing us and misinforming us. At this point BLM can burn any major city to the ground and the news type will say all is fine come on down for the Derby.
One of the things about Nextdoor and FaceBook is it has allowed you to see what morons your neighbors and friends are.
I have a nephew living in Portland, Oregon who insists everything is just fine there. I find that baffling.
Ha ha, but no, they wouldn’t be outraged if there electric cars involved. They would be outraged if it happened around Lake of the Isles or Lowry Hills or Linden Hills. They are not surprised that the North side is like this, because of Systemic Things, and they will absolve the participants because they are symbols, proof of the bien-pensant class’s prior precepts: people are tumbled around by forces beyond their control, stripped of their agency, and driven to desperate acts.
Privately they might say other things, but only if among friends.
Let the people of the Lakes area experience a protracted interval of what the people of the North side experience, and it will seem less abstract.
The left is using this event to try and strip qualified immunity away from the police, which will effectively end police work.
Yeah, in Oakland I get to see the mindset of emotional infants who think they’ll always be young and able to use the bike lanes that are causing traffic jams and destroying the parking they will wish they had one day. If you complain about increased disorder and noise on the weekends around a prominent city park you are labeled racist or insensitive to the funky/diverse nature of Oaktown.
Up here in Calaveras County I get to see Bay Area refugees who haven’t left their politics behind and wonder “why don’t we have X up here?” Or “why are people allowed to burn needles to clear their lots or wood to keep warm?” Well, we don’t have X here because it’s the mountains, rural, it snows, we care how things get paid for, etc. The anti-burners are already agitating to go to the state with letters and petitions. Can’t you first work with your neighbors or live here long enough to understand how things work before resorting to force? One guy loses control of his burn pile = no one gets to burn – ever!
This is just a miniature version of what other states absorbing Californians have to fight. My libertarian politics fit up here, they didn’t in Oakland.
This is one thing I have heard the BLM people say but not really do. If they want change they can take their stuff to the neighborhoods that care to get their attention. Their problem is to get there they may have to go to area that cares too much in a way they do not like.
I prefer not to willfully visit places where I’m filled with profound, abject moral disgust at most of the population. And most people are safe on any particular day in any high-crime area, especially if they keep their head down.
This is quite a thread.
I agree with you. To be honest, I wouldn’t set foot in any city that would allow an autonomous zone calling itself “George Floyd Square” to exist for more than five minutes.
I wonder how many crimes – including killings – will occur in “George Floyd Square” before it gets shut down?
Unless it’s just something trivial like one block of downtown with no actual buildings etc.