Hey, who wants to hear from Gov. Tim Walz's daughter, Hope? She says that Minnesota Republicans are so bad at politics that it's funny, but that's not what's on her mind. She was just at the Minnesota State Fair and was apparently triggered by Republicans flying the old, racist state flag, not the new one that looks suspiciously like the flag of the Puntland State of Somalia, where Rep. Ilhan Omar is from.
As I reported back in 2023, Minnesota retired its state flag. As KARE 11 reported:
The new design follows calls to change the current Minnesota flag, which features the state seal on a field of blue. The seal shows a Native American riding off into the sunset while a white settler plows his field next to a rifle leaning on a nearby stump. Critics have called that imagery offensive for depicting a Native American being driven off the land.
It reminded me then of Land O'Lakes being faced with its problematic packaging, featuring a Native American woman. So what did Land O'Lakes do? It just made her disappear.
This was the same year that The Washington Post ranked seven state flags that still had ties to the Confederacy, from least to most obvious. Least obvious was California's, which was favored by "Bear Flaggers," who "were proslavery Southerners who brought enslaved people with them, and others enslaved the Indigenous people there." Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina were also problematic. Minnesota didn't make the list.
The "critics" won out anyway, and Minnesota began the search for a new state flag and ended up with the Somalia lookalike.
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As I reported this spring, the Minnesota city of Zumbrota was going to bring back the old state flag, "sparking a debate over heritage and politics." The mayor said it was a moot point anyway, as it would just be put in the corner of city council chambers.
Then Walz began to get serious. Minnesota Democrats proposed a bill that would cut aid to cities that refused to fly the new state flag.
In any case, Walz's daughter sees a racist rallying cry in the old flag.
Hope Walz is mad because Minnesota Republicans are “racist” for supporting the old Minnesota flag over the new one—which 7 out of 10 Minnesotans disapprove of the new one, by the way.
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) September 7, 2026
Also, Michele Tafoya is Colombian, and Lisa Demuth is Black.
Yeah, Republicans are so racist. pic.twitter.com/hTyxUOXgXH
My neighbor has the old MN Flag. He is Native American and his wife is Asian...Who was it damaging to?
— ProudAmericanBert (@doublebert12) September 7, 2026
They are racists now.
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) September 7, 2026
These are the rules. I don’t make them.
Thanks for the political advice, Hope. Ask your dad why he did not allowed any republicans to be a voting member of the committee that picked the new flag. Maybe he thinks we are all just bad people like you do.
— Matt Dean (@repmattdean) September 8, 2026
— Trip Pache (@DrSlayyyy) September 8, 2026
This entire psychopath family needs to go the fuck away like NOW.
— DET1969 (@goodboisweeney2) September 8, 2026
Sioux (Dakota) from Little Crow’s party ambushed the Dustin family near Howard Lake, MN, on June 29, 1863, killing most during the Dakota War aftermath. Our OG flag represented the struggle, the new one represents Somalia.
— Reggie Montgomery (@reggieSKOL) September 7, 2026
So vote for lunacy and more of the same crap you’re saying? No thanks! I think we are all tired of this kind of crazy. It’s called free speech sister and we can hang any flag we want!
— Candice Markus (@Candace92889331) September 8, 2026
Holy cow it’s like watching a younger version of her mother. The whole family has lost their mind and are crazy as crap
— Robert (@rdl1037) September 7, 2026
Nose-piercing theory confirmed also.
Gavin hands. She is an absolute nut job.
— Don Voss 🇺🇸 (@DonVoss2) September 7, 2026
She should have been prosecuted for aiding the criminals during the Floyd riots.
— Gun_Toting_Dad (@GunTotingDad) September 8, 2026
Posting on social media about where the National Guard was going to be deployed.
The arrogance is astounding. Her parents are both lunatics so no surprise.
— Dr. Curtis Spicoli (@curtisspicoli9) September 7, 2026
The New York Times' editorial board's Mara Gay finds the American flag "just disturbing"; The View's Sunny Hostin said this July that neighborhoods with American flags make her feel unsafe, and Hope Walz finds Minnesota's old flag a racist rallying cry. Neither one blinks an eye when Antifa or Palestinian flags are paraded through the streets, though.
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