Writings by LISA KOO: MINNEAPOLIS of course

Good morning! ☕️❄️

*Please forgive the grammatical errors.

Preach, my preacher. 🙏🏻

The last 5 months have been a big giant yawn actually.

AND

(sigh)

It's pronounced:

lon/gev/i/ty

NOT long/gevity

Tiktok.😆 That's why there's only one G. Longevity. Oh dear. I'm not going to think about what they're not teaching you in school.

According to my Ring cam notifications, the amount of people in Minneapolis who get their packages stolen, lose their pets, and get their cars broken into and/or stolen is all you really need to know about that city.

I was in Minnesota for almost five months. I had some family business and decided to hang out for a bit.

If you're coming to Minneapolis to visit stay in hotels in the North Loop and in the college towns. Support those local areas, restaurants, and businesses.

Airbnb, especially in Minneapolis, are riddled with hostile extreme left wing white entitled politics, not to mention you don't know these people or what medications they're on for emotional/mental stability in addition to all the chaos. Staying at an airbnb is 100% at your own risk in this day and age entering the homes of complete political hostile strangers. My advice, support local hotels. Support local employment. Support local businesses. Keep businesses working, keep employees earning paychecks, not some dude who doesn't want to get a job and rents out his/her dumpy spare room.

We Independent thinkers, Independent voters, know in our hearts how to keep America going forward regardless of political extremism. What's happening in Minneapolis right now is political extremism between the MAGA president/homeland security and extremist lefty "liberals" who are being egged on by Minneapolis politicians and Hollywood. Young Minneapolis protesters are doing it because they're young, they're afraid for their futures, they want to be involved in something they feel is bigger than themselves. Anyone over 35 years of age and protesting however are doing it because they don't want to see brown people deported. Who will clean their houses, serve them food, and raise their children? Don't forget, boys and girls, the KKK was started by these guys.

If more people joined the Independent party we could make politicians on both sides of the isle work harder for our votes. Politicians need to work harder. This loyalty to party is sheep-logic. Be a Republican, be a Democrat, fine, but until both parties get it together, be Independent. Nothing scares politicians more than a party that swing votes.

AND LOOK,

I'm from Minnesota, a calm chill part of Minnesota back in the 70's and 80's. Who says you can't go home again. I had the resources to invest some time back in my childhood home. I guess I wanted to see what, if anything, I had missed out on by moving away in 1989. After 5 months, the answer is nothing. I missed out on absolutely nothing. I lived a hundred interesting lives on the west coast for the past thirty-five years. It made me a stronger better wiser woman than if I had stayed in Minnesota, clearly.

It's terrible what's going on in Minneapolis but don't think for a second the drama and heartache instantly arrived when ICE showed up. The instigators, the agitators, the riff-raff, have been growing in Minneapolis like a disease for many years to get to this point. I don't have a single problem with Somalis, Hispanics, or Hmong people, which is who ICE seems to be targeting. I have an issue with people who came from other American states to bully Minnesotans and take advantage of their kind nature for their own selfish needs.

The only beautiful parts of Minnesota that's left is the country far (far!) away from the twin cities. Far away. It's time for travelers to go back to staying in hostels and hotels. Support local businesses. Support local restaurants. The problem Minneapolis is having is that too many airbnb residents who rely on the money of colored people. Don't believe me? Check out the airbnb app yourself. If white Minneapolis didn't rely on the money of colored people via airbnb and Uber, they wouldn't be on the streets right now protesting when it's barely 11 degrees out. Get a job!

If ICE hangs around Minneapolis long enough these white left wing extremist would have to get actual jobs and work. They don't want to work because that's how extreme white privilege reckens the world to be. "I'm white. I shouldn't have to work." I don't know how Minneapolis got this way but as I've said before, growing up on the prairie we kept away from Minneapolis, away from the riff-raff, away from the drama. We had no reason to go into Minneapolis, and at 57 years of age I still have no reason to go into Minneapolis. There are other cities who simply mind their own business. I'll $upport those cities. Amen.

Sadly, no matter where I am there's a certain breed of white women that test my patience. Right off the bat, this is when white women annoy me to no end, when they're so into themselves they make you wait, and wait, and wait, for them to finish putting their coffees together at the coffee stand. They hover over the entire coffee stand, slowly adding cream to their coffee, then sipping at it, then adding more cream, then sipping the coffee, then adding more cream, then slowly stirring their coffee, then sipping it, then adding more cream, and they know you're standing there waiting for her to finish... it legit took every ounce of strength and God to not drop kick this woman like a football during the World Cup Championship. Finally I just reached over her and said, "Yeah I'm getting coffee also." To which she mumbled a wholly insincere, "Sorry" and shuffled off to the side. Don't be sorry, Karen, pay attention to your surroundings. You know this woman is just as annoying when she drives, and in the work place, and in her relationships, and with every dreaded conversation a person is forced to have with her. And to this day she has no idea why her husband left her for another woman. I don't know who it was but someone lied to her repeatedly by telling her she was special. This is why you don't tell women they're "Queens" because they actually start believing it. "I'm a Queen!" No, you're Karen from Hennepin County, now get off your cell phone and use your turn signal. This is why Trump is in office. Selfish white entitled woman voted for him.

Every time I see a white woman at these Minneapolis protests for an issue so NOT about them, when they chant, "Ice out now!" All I hear is:

"My house won't rent itself!"

"My house won't clean itself!"

"My laundry won't steam itself!"

"My food won't serve itself!"

I get why people of color are there, absolutely, of course, but why are white people protesting unless:

"My kids won't raise themselves!"

So to them I say, if you go to a protest and end up face to face with ICE agents resulting with getting bonked on the forehead by a can of teargas, stupid Karen is as stupid Karen does. Your actions have consequences. At this point, you already know ICE agents will shoot you in the face with the full support of homeland security and the White House, soooo unless you're prepared for the worst case scenario, I mean, they warned you, don't be surprised. They shot a white woman in the face. Protest now at your own risk. Actions have consequences FOR YOU, not for ICE. ICE agents have the full support by those in power.

Here is why extreme lefty liberal protesters lose me every single time, y'all stormed a church where children were praying. Church is a sanctuary for everyone wanting to pray, repent, take communion, etc. When lefty extremists do things like storm churches you show your lack of respect for a humble house of worship. I leaned your way in the very beginning UNTIL among other things you guys stormed a church with children praying inside and while proudly disturbing people in hotels who were not ICE agents. You disturbed innocent weary travelers wanting to just relax and sleep. How dare you. I don't care if ICE agents in are in a church or a bathroom or a hotel, you protesters obviously have no respect for the rights of others, or children, you only care about yourselves. You can hate ICE agents for the same reason but eventually one of you is going to have to be the adult here.

FYI, stop chanting "fascist". Protesters didn't stop WWII, joining military nations did. America has a wannabe dictator for a president, and America's protesters are wannabe soldiers. Note, I said "wannabe". If you want to fight the good fight so badly enlist in the military.

Back in 1990-something, back in my 20's, I went somewhere via Greyhound and the bus was stopped in Utah, I think, and Immigration officers got on the bus and asked everyone for identification. When one of the agents got to me I showed him My ID and I asked him what this was all about and he replied, "It's not about you." And kept walking up the isle checking ID's. Less than ten minutes later no one was removed from the bus and we were back on our way to California. I think Clinton was president then. Where was your outrage then lefty liberals? Answer: Nowhere. You couldn't have cared less. Your guy was in office and I didn't have anything you wanted. I complied with officers and everyone went about their way. No one got hysterical and called the news channels.

Again, in 1990-something, coming back from San Diego going to Los Angeles my friends and I were stopped by immigration at the check point. They made us get out of the car while they checked our vehicle for stowaway illegals. They found nothing of course which made them mad enough to then search the car with a drug and/or bomb sniffing dog resulting again with nothing, of course. After an hour we were free to go. Where was your fury then, lefty liberals?! Answer: Nowhere. I had nothing you wanted and your cigar guy was still in the White House. Again, we complied with officers and everyone went about their way.

Minneapolis protesters over the age of 35 are there because chances are they make their living by renting real estate, or have businesses that rely on cheap illegal labor.

I hate to break it to privileged white "liberals" of America out there protesting ICE to save their cheap brown labor, but if it were white people being arrested by ICE ain't no one darker than beige coming out in 11⁰ winter weather to protest for you. 😏

When President Newsom takes office he's going to spend the first year of term apologizing to everyone everywhere like a husband of the world. In the meantime protesters and ICE agents are doing nothing more than providing lip service to the media in 11 degree weather. It's 11 degrees out. What the heck are any of you doing outside? I grew up in the harshest of Minnesota winters and even I don't want to go outside to just get in the car. Some peoples flexes are weird y'all. Wow.

I see people in Whole Foods running around in shorts, tank tops, crop tops, and I even saw some fat girl with no jacket, just a thin hoodie zip-up and "juicy" bedazzled on the butt of her yoga pants, and let me just say, dear fat girls, if your fat is oozing over your yoga pants, you need much, much bigger yoga pants, please and thank you. And then I saw her walking down the street, no hat, no jacket, nothing. 11 degrees out. Hooker? Maybe. Allow me to be the mother you clearly never had, dear, dress reasonably. It's winter. It's below freezing. Don't pretend you're not cold. You're not a penguin. You're too fat and not cute enough to be a penguin. Don't act like 11 degrees is summertime. I sincerely think a person is mentally challenged when they run around in 11 degrees F in shorts and a tank top.

So like yeah. Enjoy your protests, I guess.

The only church you see getting involved in Minneapolis protests are like fourth-cousin-once-removed protestants. I'm a community lay minister (meaning I'm registered but not Ordained to one specific church) and I advise all Christians in Minneapolis to let God fight this one. Don't put yourself in harm's way. Let God's Will be done in Minneapolis and everywhere else ICE agents are. Let those in power duke this one out. If you want to draw a sword join the military otherwise let God's Will be done.

I was not going to even going to mention it but, I stayed in a place in Minneapolis where ICE agents happened to also be staying. They were there at least two nights that I know of. No drama. No protesters. No nothing. Thank goodness. They parked their vehicles on the side parking lot which happened to be just outside my window. They stayed on the same floor as me. One agent even held the front door open for me (the monster!) and we even saw each other at breakfast with no drama, no nothing, just common courtesy. That said, they are not trained police officers. I mean, are protesters trying to get shot in the face at this point? There's nothing honorable or heroic in it. Let God's Will be done.

I've left Minneapolis enroute to my next mission of service in a nearby state. It's a known historic red state but whatever. I go where the nonprofit work is regardless if it's a red or blue state. Unhoused people don't care where the help comes from. They just want someone to care about them. I serve the people, not the state. Serving the state is for politicians. A guy I worked with for three years in Los Angeles also returned to his Midwest home state and is working for a nonprofit. After some chats with him I decided to check out his home state and his work place. It's a nice out of the way small town, thank goodness. We'll see how it goes. May we all arrive safely in all our travels. Amen.

I really do need a Saint Gertrude pendent.

You're smarter than most, my dear Elmo.

AND ANOTHER THING

As if that orange tube donkey sitting in the white house was the first president to deport illegal immigrants. But now y'all made that orange orangutan so angry he's just going to start a civil war. Way to be thinkin', Minneapolis. Why aren't you pressuring Tim Walz or Jacob Frey. Go stand outside their houses with drums and whistles. Women in Los Angeles protested Trump in full numeric force after he was elected, yeah ok, but he's still in office you know. Soooo... What was the point?

A woman I've known in Minnesota since the sixth grade asked me why I now spend my life in service to Christ. I told her the simple honest truth. I spent my entire adult life praising false idols. It's time I praise the real one. Amen.

If you're sick and tired of "mom" and "dad" politics, join the Independent party and make them sweat. Make them all sweat for your vote. Make them work harder for it. You owe them nothing. Regardless of your political leanings, regardless of your religion, race, creed, etc., you only owe it to yourself to live the best life for you and your loved ones. Join the Independent party and make "mom" and "dad" politics sweat it out for a while.

Food costs, still high.

Health/dental Insurance, non existent.

Social security, who knows.

Fema, what's that again?

Nonetheless, our commander and chief has a new ballroom, a borrowed Peace prize, and wants to fight Denmark for Greenland, apparently. Lord help us.

Anyway

Has that guy learned how to do the Dougie yet? Last I saw it was day 23. Hang in there, guy. At this point you're a beacon of hope and inspiration more than you'll ever know.

Let's not forget our favorite eagles. The soft part of the nest is down. Could there be eggs soon?🤞🏼