{"id":600,"date":"2026-06-02T13:13:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:13:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:13:37","slug":"not-satire-welcome-to-the-george-floyd-gift-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"Not satire: Welcome to the George Floyd gift shop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey took to \u2018X\u2019 on Memorial Day to tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today, we remember George Floyd, who was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer six years ago. \u00a0 That moment changed our city forever.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=596\">MAiD in America<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Five lugubrious tweets later\u00a0on the same topic, he tweeted:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The weight of what happened is still with our city six years later \u2013 and the responsibility to keep moving forward together is too. I know we can keep building a Minneapolis that is safer, more accountable, and more worthy of the people who call it home.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow. Wouldn\u2019t want to remember anyone else on Memorial Day but the career criminal, would we?<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Keep<\/em> moving forward together?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, Minneapolis has really gone in the right direction lately (rolls eyes.) Neither Frey nor Minnesota&#8217;s feckless governor, Tim Walz, has been \u201cbuilding a Minneapolis that is safer, more accountable, and more worthy of the people who call it home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, under these clowns, Minneapolis has become demonstrably less safe, and less worthy of any respectable citizens that still call the city home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccountability?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is none. Not for Frey. Not for Walz. Not for the Tesla car-keyer, who caused $20,000 in damage and remains\u00a0a still-employed state employee. Not for the countless Somali scammers and fraudsters who\u00a0have brazenly stolen the hard-earned money of that city\u2019s taxpayers by the billions of dollars and laughed about it.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=593\">Islamists are here, and with deadly intent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Something called the Minnesota Agape Movement (MAM?) has proposed utilizing the spotin Minneapolis\u00a0where the gas station that BLM rioters torched once stood to put up a gift shop in honor of George Floyd, which as Daniel Greenfield at Front Page\u00a0reports, will also include a restaurant, bar, and\u00a0self-cleaning toilet.<\/p>\n<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"george floyd gift shop satire\" class=\"wp-image-598\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/3ddbec36104bf07cf924dccaa4840a6e.jpg\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/3ddbec36104bf07cf924dccaa4840a6e.jpg 640w, https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/3ddbec36104bf07cf924dccaa4840a6e-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Grok ai-generated concept illustration<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How fitting!<\/p>\n<p>Think of the possibilities! The store probably wouldn\u2019t take cash \u2014 and would likely have bars across its windows and storefront \u2014 but I\u2019m sure it would be, like Floyd, mostly peaceful.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps MAM could operate it. Yes, MAM, please do! I can see it now: there could be George Floyd apparel and accessories. Hoodies, counterfeit money holders, Floyd bobblehead dolls. Scarves and face masks with \u201cI can\u2019t breathe\u201d emblazoned on them. Shirts depicting Floyd holding a gun to a pregnant woman\u2019s abdomen during a hold-up could sport the phrase, \u201cAbortion Is Women\u2019s Healthcare.\u201d A secret room in the back of the gift shop could sell fentanyl, meth, and other drugs 24\/7\/365.<\/p>\n<p>What else would one expect of the new Chicago Avenue Gift Shop\u00a0on 38th\u00a0Street East in Minneapolis?<\/p>\n<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"George Floyd gift shop illustration\" class=\"wp-image-599\" height=\"463\" src=\"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1aad53a9eeda29e590e734a9606abe37.jpg\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1aad53a9eeda29e590e734a9606abe37.jpg 640w, https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1aad53a9eeda29e590e734a9606abe37-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Grok, ai-generated illustration<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Buy one crack pipe, get one free every Monday between 8:00 p.m.\u00a0and 9:25 p.m.! Just tell them George sent you.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=588\">Georgia\u2019s justice system: there must be something in the water<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey took to \u2018X\u2019 on Memorial Day to tweet: Today, we remember George Floyd, who was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer six years ago. \u00a0 That moment changed our city forever. Read more MAiD in America Five lugubrious tweets later\u00a0on the same topic, he tweeted: The weight of what happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,2],"tags":[294],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-politics","tag-related-topics-humor-minnesota-george-floyd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Not satire: Welcome to the George Floyd gift shop! - Interstate Logistics Hub<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=600\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Not satire: Welcome to the George Floyd gift shop! - Interstate Logistics Hub\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey took to \u2018X\u2019 on Memorial Day to tweet: Today, we remember George Floyd, who was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer six years ago. \u00a0 That moment changed our city forever. 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