Walz did something extraordinarily dangerous: He told millions of people that ICE agents are not enforcing the law — they are “kidnapping,” “hunting,” and committing “organized brutality.” He compared federal officers to secret police. He accused them of racial targeting. He claimed they are abducting citizens in unmarked vans. Those are not policy disagreements.Those are criminal allegations — delivered without evidence — against armed federal officers operating in the middle of a high-tension environment. --Jim Ferguson
🚨 TIM WALZ JUST LIT A MATCH IN A POWDER KEG
— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) January 15, 2026
What we just watched from Minnesota’s governor was not a normal political speech.
It was a speech designed to delegitimize federal law enforcement in the eyes of the public.
Walz did something extraordinarily dangerous:
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TIM WALZ JUST LIT A MATCH IN A POWDER KEG
What we just watched from Minnesota’s governor was not a normal political speech.
It was a speech designed to delegitimize federal law enforcement in the eyes of the public.
Walz did something extraordinarily dangerous:
He told millions of people that ICE agents are not enforcing the law — they are “kidnapping,” “hunting,” and committing “organized brutality.”
He compared federal officers to secret police.
He accused them of racial targeting.
He claimed they are abducting citizens in unmarked vans.
Those are not policy disagreements.
Those are criminal allegations — delivered without evidence — against armed federal officers operating in the middle of a high-tension environment.
Then he went further.
He told people to:
• track ICE in their neighborhoods
• film them
• build databases on them
• gather “evidence” for future prosecution
That is how you turn law enforcement into targets.
When you tell a population that federal agents are criminals, and then tell them to identify, track, and document those agents, you are pouring gasoline on a fire.
Walz wrapped it in the language of peace — but the effect is the opposite.
This is how you create chaos.
This is how you invite confrontation.
This is how someone gets hurt.
A governor’s job is to cool a crisis — not radicalize it.
And tonight, Tim Walz chose to escalate.
History shows us exactly how this kind of rhetoric ends.
And it never ends well.