Remember – if you don’t live in Minneapolis, Jacob Frey and Keith Ellison don’t believe you are entitled to an opinion about the future of policing in Minneapolis.
But on other issues…
I guess it’s just the right people from out of town that are entitled to an opinion.
The DFL: Enforcing a rigid cast system since 1948.
A friend of the blog emails:
This has to be the most depressing, let them eat cake piece on the “success of the soccer stadium” that I have ever read.
“There’s been some smaller businesses moving into the stadium area to serve soccer fans, but much more work is needed to boost the area.”
Excuse me? To serve the soccer fans? What about those of us who live here. This was a community long before the stadium and the light rail came along to break it up.
Nothing is going to be built there for a long time. But, hey, as long as the city keeps dealing out the money, McGuire doesn’t have to really do anything.
The fabled “memory hole“ is full of narratives that don’t match those of Big Left, locally and nationally.
President Trump used to say that, with him as president, we would win so much, we would eventually get tired of it.
I don’t know about that.
But after eight months of this administration, I am sure as hell tired of losing.
John Thompson sprang to prominence threatening to burn down Hugo, MN.
He was elected to the Minnesota House with an overwhelming margin of victory.
He was pulled over a month or so back with no license plate and an invalid Minnesota license, but a valid Wisconsin one – he denounced the officer as “Racist” – apparently leading to a trail of investigation pointing to possible fraud and a background of other unsavoriness.
He followed up the episode with a dreadful non-apology apology…
…followed by a few perfunctory demands from the DFL that he resign – which have been followed up with all the alacrity of a Joe Biden foreign policy
And yet he just becomes more prominent:
My theory: Thompson will just become more and more prominent. His early issues, spun into meaninglessness with the active connivance of a metro media machine that serves mostly as a DFL public relations apparatus, will get romanticized – or at least bowdlerized – into more an “origin story” than a record.
By 2025, he will have Ryan Winkler’s job.
By 2030, Ken Martin’s.
John Thompson is the MNDFL’s leading public intellectual.
Judging by the California Democrats at this fundraiser (which was dredging up money for, among many others, Angie Craig), that privilege is…:
…having a visible face.
These are the hamsters demanding mask mandates.
I’ll believe in the efficacy of masks when the people demanding I “believe” in masks act like they believe in masks.
… Jimmy Carter is hitting his knees and thanking God that, while he is still alive, there is going to be a debacle and hostage crisis worse than Iran.
I’ve been a big fan of XKCD, the blazingly smart and cunningly simple web-comic, for a long, long time.
10 years? 15? Hard to say.
Which isn’t to say I agree with everything.
Like this bit here:
The word “Tantamount” is three syllables that serve as a front for enough horrible logic to fill all of Weimar Germany to a depth of eight feet. Because only in the world of cartoony quips is waving a flag, or even parroting Nazi (or Communist, for that matter) rhetoric “incitement” per the SCOTUS.
As longtime friend of this blog Sean Sorrentino put it:
Advocacy of force or criminal activity does not receive First Amendment protections if (1) the advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless actionand(2) is likely to incite or produce such action.
“Hey, we should round up all the Jews and put them in concentration camps.”
Not Incitement.
“There’s a Jew, grab him!”
Incitement.
Distasteful? Sure.
Deserving of censure? Absolutely.
Almost always, in our society, the hallmark of people who’ll never have the power to do much of anything, much less the sweeping assaults they’re talking of? Doy.
And of course, the whole “Punch a Nazi” and “Bash the Fash” conceits, combined with definition of “Naziism” and “Fascism” broad enough to cover, say, every single Republican, are the sort of mass dehumanization that leads us directly to…
…to what?
I don’t want to keep seeing the same hands, here.
… when the Harris/Biden administration was going to restore our stature in the world.
A friend of the blog emails:
The NY Times has an article saying that Arizona’s monsoon season this year is anything but normal. Local Arizona news is reporting that climate change is bringing more extreme weather.
Surely, St Paul’s Chief Resiliency Officer has some advice for us as Arizona citizens are facing deadly flash floods and we are experiencing horrible a horrible drought. He must have some tips for us to protect ourselves, our Earth, our resources….
Nope. It’s just laughs, fun and games because the floods are tearing down the wall.
It would be easy to look at this and think that the post of “Chief Resiliency Officer“ was just a joke.
That would be a mistake.
The “resilience“ this officer is there to uphold and protect is the resiliency of the transfer of taxpayer money do you the political class.
Once you understand that, his job – and especially that of Kate Knuth – make all kinds of sense.
Joe Doakes from Como park emails:
A friend explains how The Big Steal will work.
Joe Biden is senile, the election was stolen and everybody knows it, whether or not they admit it. Kamela Harris is incompetent and hated more than Hillary. Neither of those buffoons is the real Usurper whom The Big Steal was intended to install in office. The Usurper is secretly running things now but can’t officially take office until the placeholders are gone. How do they do it?
Harris is already dead but they’re hiding the body waiting for Afghanistan to blow over. The Usurper is waiting in the wings to be confirmed as Vice President. As soon as he is, Biden will be removed as senile. The Usurper moves into the Oval Office, some other patsy takes the Veep job, Congress goes back to debating how many helicopter loads of money to dump into the economy to maintain the illusion of economic success, and the new administration goes to war on the American way of life.
Who is it?
Joe Doakes
It’s not the craziest thing I’ve heard this week.
That would be “Joe Biden is doing a great job”.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Richard Fernandez writes an insightful column about The Garden Administration’s stunning reversal of fortune. From the economy to the border to foreign affairs to the culture war, we’re losing everything, everywhere, and all at once. On the bright side, they may have killed the last, best hope for freedom in the world; but their pronouns are up-to-date.
Joe Doakes
As someone who was there (albeit very young, and very Democrat), this feels an awful lot like the 1970s.
But there is no Herb Brooks warming up in the wings. R
on DeSantis has a chance of being well Reagan, at least.
The MN Gun Owners Caucus is suing the Minnesota State Fair for unilaterally breaking Minnesota state statute (714.624, in this case) by unilaterally banning law-abiding citizens right to carry, with a permit, on the MN State Fairgrounds – as they literally have been doing since the fair started in the 1800s, with literally not one single incident. We spoke about this last week, and on my show this past weekend.
Over the weekend, the DFL, er, shot back.
On that clip of jabber-y, too-close-to-the-cheap-mic audio are DFL chair Ken Martin, and…
William Davis – the guy who “joked” before the 2018 mid-terms:
Last week, DFL staffer William Davis responded to a Facebook post that said, “On 11.6- take back your country.” On that post, Davis commented, “On 11.7- bring them to the guillotines.”
That’s the hamster that’s referring to law abiding gun owners who have a fraction of the violence record of, well, Twin Cities democrats, as cartoon characters.
WIlliam “Robespierre” Davis.
One of the people that, if you take his own rhetoric seriously, half of the state needs protection from.
You don’t even need to write a punch line with these hamsters.
Looking at the collapse of Afghanistan, and the likely re-emergence of Al Quaeda and ISIS, as well as the inevitable surge of Chinese, North Korean, Iranian and Russian aggression that will attend the adminstration’s show of not just weakness but pathetic senility, one looks for some bright spot.
“But it’s not actually Saigon…”
So – a bright spot to the most dismal day of American foreign policy since I watched that Huey take off from the roof of the embassy in fifth grade?
Maybe it’s this: some of the top “minds” in DC Democrat messaging are going to have to spend so much more time thinking of ways to convince people that “conservative white supremacist terror” is the greatest threat facing this nation, they won’t have time to think of anything new.
I said I was “looking” for a bright spot. I didn’t say I found one. But then, what the heck, we can’t even find the ^$#@ President:
Site note: as I watch thousands of Afghans trying and failing to flee for their lives because American bureaucracy is more concerned about Covid testing than mass murder…
…I have to wonder if Michelle Obama is still proud to be an American .
Because I’m have a touch of “not”, at the moment.
More tomorrow.
Clearly, Andrew Cuomo has outlives his usefulness to Big Left:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced that he would be resigning amid the sexual harassment probe in 14 days.
“New York tough means New York loving, and I love New York and I love you,” Cuomo said, “I would never want to be unhelpful in any way, and I think given the circumstances, the best way I can help now is if I step aside and let government get back to governing, and therefore, that’s what I’ll do.”
I honestly didn’t think it would or could happen, even given that Progressives didn’t much care for Cuomo.
And just watch – his successor will be worse. Maybe not in “groping letch” terms, but policy-wise.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
In the olden days, a king who seized power wrongfully was a “usurper” and knowing that everyone hated him for stealing the throne, the usurper would generally kill as many of his enemies as he could, as quickly as he could, to cement his grip on power. Those he couldn’t kill directly, he’d threaten to intimidate.
Joe Doakes
Democrats learned a lot from those kings. And, for that matter, peasants.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
High capacity computers banned in California.
Well, who needs a computer capable of performing that many operations per second? One a month should be plenty.
Joe Doakes
Heh.
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Looks like the DFL, tired of chasing after the John Thompson crazy-car and facing a likely round of unpopular “Covid” measures from Governor Klink, needs a scandal to divert attention away from itself. Again.
They is appear to be having no such luck.
DFLers are attacking Senate Minority Leader Susan Kent’s handling of a sexual harassment complaint – spurred by DFL staffers going public:
I did say “public”:
While I fully expect this to get memory-holed, pronto, it’s interesting that this story is coming from a left-leaning news source.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
If taking a selfie in the Capitol is insurrection and attempted assassination of Congress, what is giving The Deadliest Virus Every Known to members of Congress, their staff members and people in the White House?
Why aren’t Texas Democrats held in solitary confinement until their treason trials?
Joe Doakes
Because the Texas Democrats don’t allow the Democrats, nationally, to deflect away from their support for the costliest riots in US history?
I’d like to claim this as a late addition to the DFL Dictionary – but alas, it’s actually from the Urban Dictionary:
Rupar (Verb): To purposely (sic) mislead. To completely mischaracterize a statement or video by omitting context.
Yesterday, at a “press conference” on the Capitol steps, as embattled representative John “Burn Hugo Down” Thompson, the DFLer from either Saint Paul, Superior or someplace else, was promising not to resign, a woman – “Tammy Jo”, we’re told – drove “onto the Capitol Mall” (looks like the upper parking lot to me) and waved a Trump flag.
KARE11’s John Croman – who is distinguised by being “Not Quite Esme Murphy” – tweeted what would appear to be a troubling outburst:
Now, my first thought was that “Tammy Jo” was likely a DFL plant, a DFLer from Woodbury, sent to lend Thompson and his press conference a cleansing blast of the unambiguous victimhood that is his only line. That, I surmised, would explain why not a single member of our city’s press corps – the people who ran down “Umbrella Man” and his life story run down while the rubble was still burning last year – has come up with a complete identification of “Tammy Jo”.
I’m sure it’ll happen.
But even given the in-the-bagginess of the Twin Cities media, that seemed a bit of a stretch.
Still – it’s not merely the Twin Cities media; it’s KARE11, the station that led the local TV market to “Woke”-ness. There’s got to be a DFL-upsucking angle, I thought. I mean, this wasn’t a “hate crime” per se, but Berg’s 20th Law seems to be proximate: “All incidents of “hate speech” not captured on video (involving being delivered by someone proven not to be a ringer) shall be assumed to be hoaxes until proven otherwise.” There might need to be an Esme Murphy Corollary: “Hoaxes, and/or DFL PR operations”.
Because the DFL had a need, and Croman fulfilled it.
Leave it to David Steinberg, who on issue after issue – Keith Ellison, Ilhan Omar, the riots, the Minneapolis City Council – does the reporting the Minnesota Media can’t be bothered, or haven’t been told by Ken Martin they’re allowed, to do.
So – what really happened?
Aaron Rupar isn’t the disease. Coming from the Twin Cities media scene as he did, he’s just a symptom.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
The Garden Administration will take in refugees from Guatemala but not Cuba. Why not? They are all Latinx. They’re all fleeing poverty and persecution. Why take some and not the others?
Perhaps because Cuban-Americans vote Republican? Could Democrats really be that crass, that callous, that low – sorting refugees by political affiliation?
Joe Doakes
Rhetorical question, Joe?
After 18 months of warning about “superspreaders” that never panned out, Democrats – in this case, the Texas Fleebaggers – finally put their money where their gaping, unmasked-on-airplanes mouths are:
On Tuesday, Axios reported that an aide to the speaker and a White House official tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a rooftop reception to honor the fugitive lawmakers. Both individuals were fully vaccinated, although a White House official downplayed the staffer’s illness.
“Yesterday, a fully-vaccinated senior spokesperson in the Speaker’s press office tested positive for COVID after contact with members of the Texas state legislature last week,” said Drew Hammier, deputy chief of staff to Pelosi.
The group of 50 Texas Democrats flouted federal regulations implemented by President Biden that require passengers on privately charted planes to wear masks for the duration of a flight. As of publication, no legal action has been taken against them, even though the Centers for Disease Control issued explicit warnings about not wearing masks. The Federal Aviation Administration did not respond to requests for comment from the Washington Free Beacon.
Since their arrival in Washington, D.C., six of the Texas Democrats have tested positive for COVID-19. The whereabouts of the Texas Democrats are unknown, and the public does not know how many people they infected during their trip to the nation’s capital. Texas state representative Gene Wu, a prominent member of the group who has shared news articles on Twitter about coronavirus strains entering the country while on the lam, did not respond to a request for comment.
Of course, their mission – gundeck the election reforms via foul means in a way they could never do via fair – remains accomplished.
Call it “divine retribution”.
Mayors of big, Blue cities dunked on cops…
I wasn’t living here in 1980. I’m not sure how Minneapolis’s Loony Left reacted to the “Solidarity“ protests in Poland – where the Polish “Solidarity“ trade union led a year of demonstrations against Poland’s communist government. The demonstrations – which newly elected President Ronald Reagan supported morally, symbolically and materially – were the beginning of the end of the communist bloc, and the Soviet Union with it.
I have vague memories, arriving in the Twin Cities years later, of sensing that an awful lot of Minnesota leftists had bet on the wrong side in that particular episode. I mean, two decades later some of them still did, in my comment section.
Now, 40 years later, as a similarly benighted country protests for similar reasons, a Democrat government is lending the Cuban demonstrators a bit of rhetorical support from a senile president, along with an executive branch that is, as we noted yesterday, laying down the law hard in favor of the regime.
And the Minnesota left?
They are showing themselves to be as morally depraved and intellectually bovine as ever:
Facing an economic crisis, food and medicine shortages and rising prices, the Cuban people are demanding that the communist regime give up power.
“We have to see the larger context of the pandemic, COVID-19. The economy has also collapsed, Cuba depends on tourism,” said Nimtz. The Minnesota Cuba Committee is also calling for an end to the U.S. trade embargo.
“What we are doing here is to demand, demand that the Biden administration end the embargo, lift the embargo, and do as he promised,” said Nimtz.
Minnesota Progressives; reliable communist useful idiots for 60 years.
SCENE: A group of parents are gathered at a school board meeting in “Anytown, USA” – a medium-sized city in a swing-ish state. The city voted for Trump in 2016, elected a Democrat cityi council in 2018, and was nearly statistically tied in 2020.
While these meetings are normally somnolent affairs dealing with abstruse board policies and contracts, this is the exception. The district’s contract with a curriculum consultant who’s been training the staff on “inclusive teaching” is under discussion.
The audience is orderly, but the tension is palpable as school board president, Doctor Karen Gossleiten-Prigg, addresses the audience.
GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: Questions? OK – you, over at the microphone to my left.
AUDIENCE MEMBER 1: Why is the district teaching Critical Race Theory?
GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: We’re not teaching “Critical Race Theory”. Indeed, the entire term “CRT” is a creation of (clears throat) conservative media.
You, over on my left…
AUDIENCE MEMBER 3: But Ms. Gossleitein-Prigg…
GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: …That’s Doctor Gossleiten-Prigg.
AUDIENCE MEMBER 2: (Over snickers in the audience) …Doctor Gossleiten-Prigg, I brought a series of CRT press clippings to show the audience:
GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG:
AUDIENCE MEMBER 3: You’re telling me there isn’t a certrain…tone to the discourse when it comes to this subject?
GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: Right, but that’s not Critical Race theory. You ,over on my left…
(Audience members 2,4,6 and 8, standing at the mic on GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG’s right, start to rustle a bit. )
AUDIENCE MEMBER 5: So you’re saying that the district doesn’t teach critical race theory?
GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: That’s correct. You on my left…
(Audience members 2,4,6 and 8, start to audibly complain )
AUDIENCE MEMBER 7: So if you’re’ not teaching Critical Race Theory, what are you teaching them?
GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: Glad you asked. What we are proposing is a set of standards, a framework if you will , for teaching the history of this country. You, on the left…
AUDIENCE MEMBERS 2,4,6 and 8 (Agitated) Hey! What about us?
GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: You’re on the right. You on the left…
AUDIENCE MEMBER 9: So you’re not teaching Criticial Race Theory?
GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: Of course not. CRT doesn’t exist. Again – we’re creating a framework for teaching history.
AUDIENCE MEMBER 9: So where are kids being taught that “whiteness” is a deterministic unavoidable state that makes one uncontrollably racist, and that every group of “white’ people is in and of themselves a “structure” that just can’t avoid hating other races?
GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: Oh. That’s not CRT.
AUDIENCE MEMBER 9: So where does it come from?
GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: History!
And SCENE
Cubans, actually suffering the oppression that a few million “progressive” snowflakes fantasized they were suffering during the Trump term, are thinking, again, about risking it all to come to America:
And our administration will have none of that:
Note to Cubans: it’s a rookie flub. As long as Biden Harris is in office, you need to come via the southern border.
Problem solved.
Question: Mayorkas didn’t put this out via a mean tweet. So why am I feeling ashamed to be an American, right about now?
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