A. send your goons after businesses, trying to survive your administrations unconstitutional lockdown. Openly sided with rioters against law abiding people.
Or
B. Yap about “upholding the dignity of every Minnesotan”.
Pick one.
Lieutenant, governor Flanigan – who is known to wear an Anishanabe costume when it suits her, politically – was crowing about Minnesota being on the brink of adopting, the most radical abortion law in the country., and one of the worst in the world:
Former senator Matt Dean caught her on the facts.
But Representative Donna Bergstrom – also an Ojibwe – had the burn that we’ve been looking for:
I bet the Ojibwe had words for “murder”, “outsider who’s not supposed to be among us without some scrutiny”, and “petty tyrant”.
I was down at the State Capitol yesterday morning for the Gun Owners Lobby Day.
While there, I ran into a bunch of legislator friends, including former Representative, now Senator Eric Lucero.
Who told me this story, which I’m pleased to pass on to all of you now.
Anyone get the impression Senator Mitchell was a “Meteorologist” at a failing small-market TV station before becoming part of the DFL machine?
Maybe Steve Carell studied her before doing “Anchorman?”
During the debate on the state’s #1 priority, Rep. Peggy Scott asked Rep. Skeletor when a baby becomes human.
Liebling’s response:
I’m going to park this is a post for 2024. The media will try to memory-hole this entire shameful episode. I may not be able to fix that, but in the little corner of the world I influence, this is going to be a topic in about 18 months.
Amy Klobuchar should be thankful to the feminist goddess that Tina Smith is in Congress.
Because as long as she is, A-Klo is not the dumbest Senator in our delegation.
Shot:
Chaser:
To be fair, Smith says it because she knows Democrat voters don’t do critical thought.
Children can decide they are any gender or orientation they want…
DFL representative Sandra Feist, from the moldy blue suburbs of Henco, speaking on behalf of a bill that would, uh…
…put tampons in boys restrooms in Minnesota schools:
Remember – there is no such thing as “woke culture“, peasants!
While not a single tampon in will be used to deal with a “period” in a bio-boy, I do predict this will lead to a golden age of practical jokes played with tampons.
BTW, the Moe Howard estate called. There will be a cease and desist coming from their lawyers about that hairdo.
I pity the poor schlubs at the Babylon Bee and The Onion.
How hard must it be to actually satirize the modern left?
Speaking of which – this was in the MN House:
While gender may be a, uh, “social construct”, so is insanity.
DNA, however, is not.
Hunter Biden paid $50K a month to rent a house he claimed he owned:
Hunter Biden claimed he paid $49,910 a month to live at President Joe Biden’s Delaware residence where classified documents were discovered, a document shows.
The file, labeled “background screening test,” shows Hunter Biden lived in the president’s Wilmington, Delaware, residence between March 2017 and February 2018. Hunter Biden also claimed to “own” the property, according to the document.
The document was originally discovered on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, according to the Washington Examiner, and was reshared on Twitter by the New York Post’s Miranda Devine.
Of course it’s money laundering. It won’t be confirmed until long after Biden has left office, but STFU. This is a payment to the Big Guy.
My only question: how will Big Leftymedia limber up for the logical and factual gymnastics they need to do to bury this?
The goal of the Soros-funded district attorney is to make people distrust the system – by punishing the law-abiding and coddling the depraved – to the point where they demand a dictator to keep them safe.
We warned Hennepin County that that was Mary Moriarty’s goal.
The Good News: The tl:DR version of the story found in Alpha News’s tweet isn’t a great summary of the case.
The Bad News: the actual facts are even worse:
Her campaign was opposed by 32 senior Hennepin County prosecutors, including Catherine McEnroe, who is now under investigation by the Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility, according to the Star Tribune.
McEnroe was leading the prosecution of 35-year-old Marco Tulio Rivera Enamorado, who was charged with one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. He allegedly raped his 14-year-old cousin when he was invited from Honduras to come live with her family in the summer of 2019.
McEnroe is accused of fabricating the contents of a note that was passed to her by a victim advocate during Enamorado’s trial Jan. 6.
So – so far, what we have is a prosecutor who went on record opposing Moriarty (bad career move) lying to a judge (bad legal move). Hard to tell, to a layman, if this is incompetence, revenge, or both.
But it gets worse; rather than take the hit and go forward with a different prosecutor in this rape case, Moriarty dismissed the chargfes:
A source with knowledge of the situation said there was no reason for the case to be dismissed, especially since two other prosecutors offered to take over the case.
“The conduct of the county attorney trying the case had nothing to do with the substance of the actual trial,” the source said. “That attorney absolutely could have continued on with the case. If there was concern about her candor to the court, then a supervisor could have acted as co-counsel to ensure the court that there would be truthfulness.”
Moriarty said her priority from the beginning was “trying to see if we could continue to prosecute this case, whether now or later after a mistrial might be declared.”
So Enamorado is free, can never be tried for the case again, and Mike Freeman is looking better and better.
You voted for this, Hennepin County.
The Bad News: The DFL ran on abortion last fall, and won,.
The Worse News: They’re making hay with that “Mandate”, working to remove protections in Minnesota law for infants actually born alive:
The “Born Alive Infants Protection Act” was passed by the Minnesota Legislature in 2015. It states that abortion survivors should be fully recognized as human persons and provided with medical care to preserve their lives.
Rep. Tina Liebling, DFL-Rochester, wants to repeal these protections because they are an “insult” to doctors, she said during a House Health Committee meeting Thursday.
Her bill would also repeal restrictions on the use of public funds for abortion and a requirement that aborted babies be “disposed” of in a “dignified and sanitary” manner.
So not only can DFL doctors murder babies on their way out of the birth canal, they can dump the bodies wherever they want to. Hey, that’s progress.
The Good News, Maybe: After this session, there won’t be a whole lot more abortion for the DFL to run on.
The Worse News: I expect the DFL to run on legalizing murder of children up to age 13. Unless they’re transgender.
…many conservatives feel about Kevin McCarthy, this is just glorious:
Seeing “Duke Nuke ‘Em” cashiered from everything requiring a security clearance is the perfect ending to the week.
Just a warning, progs; get walked around a hotel room on a dog leash by a Chinese spy? There might be consequences. Yes, even for a Democrat.
To: Hennepin County
From: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant
Re: You’re Screwed Blue
Dear HennCo
I can’t believe I missed this; your new co-chief public defender (FKA “County Prosecutor”) was sworn in this past week.. As befits an unserious person in an unserious city at an unserious time, she was sworn in on a comic book:
The new attorney of Hennepin County, Mary Moriarty, took her oath of office Tuesday with her hand placed on a copy of a graphic novel about the late congressman John Lewis.
Photos from the swearing-in ceremony show Moriarty with her hand on a copy of “March,” which she described as a “graphic novel trilogy about Congress Member John Lewis and his courageous fight for voting rights.”
A comic book.
I may start rooting for the criminals at this rate.
Oh, yeah – no surprises here:
“Research and data show that non-restorative models of punishment do not prevent recidivism, do not repair families, and cause harm to a community. Incarceration, sometimes a year or more after a crime is committed, disconnects the punishment from the impact of a crime on a victim,” she says on her campaign website.
“Incarceration disconnects the person who committed violence from their community and makes reintegration extremely difficult,” the website adds. “Mary’s office will seek to provide an alternative to traditional prosecution through restorative justice as an option for victims.”
She also opposes the cash bail system, which is “not helping to make our community safer.”
So strap in, HennCo. It’s gonna get worse before it gets better.
The Senate voted to allow water bottles on the floor of the chamber.
After 45 minutes of debate.
And when I say “debate“ I mean this sort of thing from my “Senator“, Sandi Pappas.
Weird. I didn’t think Democrats believed in slippery slopes?
As someone else put it:
SCENE: It’s MSNBC. A commentator is bellowing at the camera.
COMMENTATOR: Long Island Republican Congressman-elect George Santos is lying! Which means he’s no different than all Republicans!
SCENE: In a South African jail cell, three inmates are watching MSNBC
JOE BIDEN: The commentator is right. Republicans all lie.
CORN POP: Word up.
NELSON MANDELA: I”m so glad you left the leadership of the Delaware Civil RIghts movmement to come to jail, here in South Africa.
SCENE: In a classroom in Boulder, CO, watching MSNBC
RACHEL DOLEZAL: That’s right! Can I get an amen!
CLASROOM: (A few half-hearted or sarcastic “amens” ensue)
SCENE: A Hill somewhere in the Mekong Delta. Two men in jungle fatigues, M-16s smoking, stand amid a pile of slain Viet Cong and piles of cartridge cases, watching MSNBC on a black and white console TV set.
JOHN KERRY: Let me be clear. I agree with this perspective. All Republicans lie through their teeth.
RICHARD BLUMENTHAL: (Spitting a plug of tobacco into the foxhole, wiping blood off his K-Bar knife on his pants leg). Yup. All of ’em.
SCENE: At a steak house in Newark, New Jersey. MSNBC is playing on a TV over the bar.
T-BONE: Wotchuthinkabout dat?
COREY BOOKER: He’s right. All Republicans lie, all the time.
SCENE: A runway in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina. A group of American officials, Secret Service, and a blondish woman huddle behind a brick wall as sniper five spatters the ground around them. A racket of gunfire as Bosnian troops return fire, trying to clear the airfield for the woman to get on her plane. On a TV behind the wall, MSNBC blares.
HILLARY CLINTON: Damn straight they’re all liars!
SCENE: At a Native American observance, with drums and dancers, on the quad at Harvard University, as a TV blares MSNBC in the distance.
ELIZABETH WARREN: The great spirit that is the true law professor of the universe agrees. Republicans are liars. As the first woman of color at this law school, I agree.
The drums continue to beat, as crowds of pasty white liberals shuffle past.
SCENE: At a spa in Hollywood, a man and woman lie on their backs, cucumber slices over their eyes, listening to MSNBC on a TV in the background.
HILARIA BALDWIN: Repobelicans are de woorst liahrs.
ALEC BALDWIN: I oughtta kill them all.
SCENE: At the Saint Paul Grill. Editors and Executive Producers from the Star-Tribune, KARE, WCCO-TV and the Pioneer Press are having cocktails with Ken Martin as MSNBC plays above the bar.
EDITORS AND PRODUCER AND MARTIN: Heh.
SCENE: in the back of a limousine, driving through the District of Columbia. Ilhan OMAR is sitting in the back with husband Tim MYNETT, watching MSNBC on a mobile device.
OMAR: I was never married to my brother.
MYNETT: Literally nobody in the world believes you were, darling.
AND SCENE/S.
…when dissenting from forced civil rituals was considered the height of Patriotism.
Why, it was only Kaepernick years ago.
How things have changed:
Look – as someone who supported Ukrainian independence back when Democrats universally said the USSR was here to stay, I have one request: Show the share of the money that actually goes to weapons, logistics and training.
Because I’ve seen estimates that 2/3 of the money we “send to Ukraine” ends up in the pockets of consultants and special interests in the US that don’t include building weapons (or replacing them in US units and inventories), shipping them, or training Ukrainians to use them.
And what better way to avoid that accounting than to hold yet another ongoing witchhunt against “badthink?”
Over the past few weeks, Stanford issued its “List of Allowable Words”.
They don’t call it that, of course. The official title is the output of the “Elimination of Harmful Language” initiative.
And if you expect something that the Babylon Bee might have passed on as too implausible, you’re half right. The Bee makes better satire. But if you work in modern corporate culture, it’s all too plausible.
The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative (EHLI) is a multi-phase, multi-year project to address harmful language in IT at Stanford. EHLI is one of the actions prioritized in the Statement of Solidarity and Commitment to Action, which was published by the Stanford CIO Council (CIOC) and People of Color in Technology (POC-IT) affinity group in December 2020.
The list has gotten a raft of derisive coverage – all of it justified.
Pick a favorite.
Mine (so far):
Well, no – Seminal (and “Semen”) are derived from the Latin term for “Seed”. A “seminal” thing is something from which something bigger grows. It’s not “male-dominated”, it’s Latin-dominated.
But :
Grammatically? That’s just bizarre. Adding “ed” is a common way to turn a noun into an adjective.
Biologically? That’s even more bizarre. The word “Trans” itself means some sort of, uh, transition is required.
Oh, go ahead. Pick out your favorite and leave it in the comment section. I can’t fight the language war by myself.
I used to think DFLers merely counted on voters being ignorant.
I was young and naive.
They actively promote ignorance:
Senator Morrison is an M.D, so she certainly isn’t stupid. She must know that the imponderably vast majority of those “children”. are boys aged 14+ who are involved in crime, mostly murdered by other young men like themselves, likewise started on the wrong path bright and early in life.
She must know that the only things that actually work to prevent that sort of carnage are:
Certainly she’s had this shown to her. There’s no way that hasn’t happened.
So she’s counting on promoting ignorance.
Look for a lot of that this session.
The headlines tell a heart-rending story: new Florida congressman, heralded as the first “Gen-Z” member of Congress, can’t afford an apartment in DC.
If an intellectual titan like Reich is yakking about it, it must be worth a look. And, sure enough…:
When he’s sworn into office next month, Florida Democrat Maxwell Frost will become the first member of Generation Z to become a member of Congress in U.S. history; an auspicious milestone for the 25-year-old and the House of Representatives at large. For now, though, the onetime progressive activist-turned-legislator has more immediate concerns on his mind — one shared by millions of his generational peers, as well: finding an affordable place to live amidst skyrocketing house and rental prices.
And I couldn’t help but think – the story seems familiar.
Sure enough – four years ago, Tide Pod Evita had the same exact sob story:
One year ago, you could find Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez working behind the bar at Flats Fix, a small taqueria near Union Square. Come January, you will find her in Washington D.C., representing New York’s 14th District as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.
But just because she is making history, doesn’t mean she is making money. Ocasio-Cortez recently revealed that she is currently unable to rent a D.C. apartment.
Of course, being in Congress has its perks – an upper middle class salary, connections, power. AOC’s not exactly “the one percent” just yet, the movement is, uh, emphatically “up”:
Year AOC Net Worth (estimated) 2019 Not Available 2020 $100,000 2021 $200,000 2022 $350,000
She – and Frost, for that matter – appear to be on the track to cash out juuuust fine.
But I’m wondering – is this going to be a biennial tradition? The media bemoaning some young, “progressive” pols brief brush with DC rental reality, on their (unstated) way to a sinecure, a federal pension, a “commentator” job at MSNBC, and connections that lead to millions of lifetime wealth?
I think Mr. Frost’ll pull through somehow.
Big Left’s latest atrocity against the language – a perversion that looms large in the “Twitter Files” story – is the debasement of the terms “Attack” and “Safety”.
One example:
The “attack” was more commonly or germanely known as “showing evidence of wrongdoing on Fauci and Roth’s parts”, of course. And the fact that Roth was Twitter’s “Safety” czar, with “safety” in this case meaning “insulation from conservative dissent”, closes the circle on my lede.
But the larger point is, Big Left is actively debasing terms that used to have fairly vivid meanings.
“Attack”: Leaving out actual physical assaults, it meant a malicious verbal or written aggression – not “building a case for someone’s malfeasance”.
“Safety”: The state of being protected from or preventing harm – once upon a time. Now: the existence of an informational echo chamber.
The list goes on: Fascist, Holocaust, Nazi, Hitler, Man, Woman, Family, and on and on.
It’s not accidental, of course – controlling language is a key part of controlling society, and removing the redolence in language that harkens to the lessons of the past ensures that any future tyrant can dispense with any foreknowledge of what they are up to.
It’s pretty brilliant, really. Also evil.
Anyone remember Mika McFeely? He’s sort of the Filene’s Basement version of Ed Schultz, another guy who got his start talking about grown men chasing balls around fields, and decided to go into being a political, talking head. He’s the Heitkamp family’s token liberal on KFGO in Fargo, and proof that the talent bench for progressive talk hosts in Fargo is even shallower than in the Twin Cities.
I wrote about him (checks notes), a little over 12 years ago, when he wrote easily the stupidest hatchet piece I’ve ever seen, about Mary Franson, during the 2012 elections.
Anyway – he came to Minneapolis over the weekend. Ironically, it was to see Les Mis, a play featuring an out of touch patrician class that attacks a plebaian class whose travails they neither share nor understand.
Oh, yeah – he had a great time!
In other words, he went to a show, with hundreds of other people, and then went to a tony restaurant on the south end of the gentrified North Loop. Back to the hotel – or on the road back to Fargo? – by 11!
And look – no crime!
Guess all those people talking about crime in Minneapolis are wrong!
Speaking of crime – tourist McFeely has an interesting perspective on recent Twin Cities history:
Not sure it’s “Anti”-Fa that’s shooting up crowds after bar closing on First Avenue.
But he’s getting a little warmer: “Anti”-Fa are the children of the Twin Cities bon vivant class. But they didn’t burn the Ordway, or Kenwood or Linden Hills. They burned East Lake and University – the places where immigrants and lots of entrepreneurs and workers try to earn a living.
But he didn’t go to a show on Lake, or Uni, or up at Plymouth and Sheridan, now, did he?
Well, I guess that settles it!
How certain is the DFL that at least a plurality of Minnesota voters just aren’t very good at logic, civics or critical thinking?
Sure enough that they’re treating the $17 Billion “Surplus” a big win for progressive governance, and proof of some divine mandate:
What it actually is, of course, is a combination of:
Mark my words – and I have marked them myself, with “to dos” on my calendar on the first Mondays ijn December of 2024 and 2026: the following will happen:
We’ll check back on this. Oh, yes we will.
To: Minnesota Peasants. Er, Citize…Subjects. Let’s go with Subjects.
From: Minnesota State Government
Re: Take Comfort
Your paycheck is worth 8% less than it was last year.
The price of food and gas is waaaay up.
Your rent is going up. Lots.
The cost of borrowing has more than doubled.
The schools are failing – and your government blames you for it, and for everything else.
But don’t trouble your hearts, simple peasants. Because while you may suffer, your government is doing just fine.
Because while peasants like you come and go, State Government is forever.
And in that, you should take comfort.
Signed
Minnesota State Government
SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking around Uptown Minneapolis trying to decide which pop-up brunch joint to go to. Absorbed in thought, he doesn’t notice Avery LIBRELLE has approached
LIBRELLE: Merg!
BERG: Oh,Go…olldarnit, Avery, how have you…
LIBRELLE: Shut up. Why aren’t Republicans condemning Donald Trump’s latest attack on Demoracy?
BERG: Republicans and conservatives are, in droves.
LIBRELLE: But when are they going to condemn it?
BERG: Uh…they re?
LIBRELLE: But when are they going to condemn it?
BERG: While you ponder that, here’s another question: when are Democrats going to condemn their party’s constant erosions of the Constitution and the rule of law? Their efforts to erode Federalism, abolish the electoral college, add states to tack on Democrat Senators, weaponizing the IRS, FBI and DOJ, squat on the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 10th and 14th Amendments, circumvent the FIrst Amendment via “public/private partnership” between Big Tech and the Democrat Party, weaponize “Emergency Orders”, pack the SCOTUS?
LIBRELLE. But when are you going to condemn it?
BERG: (Backs slowly away)
LIBRELLE. But when are you going to condemn it?
BERG: (Leaves building)
LIBRELLE. But when are you going to condemn it?
LIBRELLE. But when are you going to condemn it?
LIBRELLE. But when are you going to condemn it?
(And SCENE)
The DFL ran the table in the last election.
If they want something passed, they will likely pass it (exceptions exist, and we’ll be talking about them).
Marijuana legalization should be a slam dunk. There’s no need for the party to mobilize its base to get out and pimp for bread and circuses…uh, I mean weed.
And yet they’re doing this:
Seems odd, doesn’t it? Coming up with weed merch for a measure that was a campaign “promise”?
Fearless prediction: the DFL will draw up a weed bill – or amend it onto an omnibus that won’t pass with certain amendments, including weed, included. The DFL will blame the GOP, and use it in two years to get the strung-along weed-voter dupes to trudge to the polls again in 2024.
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