…that Hillary Clinton twote this tweet:
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/791263939015376902
Why this isn’t up there with the Chicago Tribune’s “Dewey Wins” headline is simultaneously inconceivable and, given today’s media, unsurprising in any way.
Berg’s Seventh Law reads “When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives’ ethics, character, humanity or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds.”
So when Democrats accused Donald Trump of collusion with the Russians, I naturally assumed…
…that Donald Trump, being “different” than your average politician, might bring us a situation that is that rarest exception to the rule.
Chalk it up to excessive modesty about my own prescience. There’s a reason they’re called “Berg’s Law” and not “Berg’s Joke”;
And that reason is, with no exceptions, it’s always right.
UPDATE: Oh, yeah – remember when colluding with Russians to dig up dirt on your presidential opponents was “treason?”
The media hopes you don’t.
You might ask yourself; how does someone like Heidi Heitkamp – a liberal Democrat Senator, in a party that is almost extinct outside Fargo, Grand Forks and Minot, and whose state legislative caucus doesn’t have enough elected members to fill all the party’s committee assignments – keep getting elected in a state that Trump carried 68-32?
It’s easy: Lots lots of Democrats on the coast who are desperate to hold a Senate seat that was in Democrat hands for generations, and which, once lost, will likely never be Democrat again (emphasis added):
Heitkamp, currently gearing up to run for reelection in a state President Trump carried by 36 percent, was heavily reliant on sources outside North Dakota during the last fundraising quarter, during which only $21,318 of the $739,218 raised came from North Dakotans.
Nearly twice as much money—$39,600—came from employees of financial giant Goldman Sachs alone, including a maximum contribution from Harvey Schwartz, the firm’s president.
Also outpacing North Dakotans were New Yorkers, who supplied $191,408 to Heitkamp, and Californians, who supplied $124,452.
Overall, the $717,900 Heitkamp received from donors outside the state accounted for more than 97 percent of its fundraising during the quarter.
Heitkamp earlier this year attacked the idea that “billionaires outside North Dakota who don’t know anything about our state” have an impact on its elections.
Perish the thought.
As we noted recently, Representative and gubernatorial candiate Tim Walz is:
But when even the local bought and paid for lefty zine twigs to your hypocrisy, maybe you’ve bitten off more than you can chew.
A longtime friend of this blog writes:
With all the talk of Trump being too impulsive to have his proverbial finger on nuclear weapons, Trump hasn’t really done anything rash. He says some annoying things, getting the goat of many people in this country. But, despite all the uproar, he has pretty much stuck to not doing anything to us.
However, the constant focus on his brash style of speaking has me most concerned about what the Democrats are going to produce next Presidential election to counter this. It has been speculated that Franken may run. He has already written a book, which usually signals interest. Last night, I had a nightmare that he announced. His pen will likely be a little more impulsive in doing to us.
Yeah, that thought’s crossed my mind. I can just see the meeting at the DNC: “So the people want loudmouthed, brash and incorrigible? Let’s give ’em really loudmouthed, brash and incorrigible!”
If Franken doesn’t run, they might go with Dennis Rodman.
To: Representative Walz
From: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous Peasant
Re: Pandering
Rep Walz,
The other day, you took time off from measuring the drapes in the Governor’s office to Demsplain how you plan to end atrocities like the Las Vegas shooting:
Representative Walz: I realize you’re talking to your DFLer base, and they’re not long on logic, much less less knowledge on this issue, but perhaps you, or one of them, could tell me: how would “background checks” have prevented a shooting by a person with no criminal background that anyone seems to be aware of?
I’ll be inviting Rep Walz onto the Northern Alliance Radio Network this Saturday to discuss this.
But let’s focus for a moment on the statement “Let me be clear: I’ve got the credibility to bring gun owners to the table in St. Paul to get this done”.
Rob Doar from MNGOC had the most accurate response so far:
Pandering, you say?
Why, yes – pandering is the word:
Rep. Walz cavorting with the Dreamsicles, just before the 2016 election.
With that photo, you are as “credible” with gun owners as David Duke would be as an emissary to Black Lives Matter.
When last we spoke about MNCD1 DFL representative Tim Walz, he was cuddling up – literally – with “Protect” MInnesota’s ELCA-coiffed Dreamsicles.
I urged gun owners in CD1 to remember this photo – the photo of “gun grabber Tim”.
And this next bit should help?
Every word of it is crap, of course:
But that’s the line; he’s going to “do everything” he can to foist a law on the people that can not affect crime, and can only serve to register the gun of the law-abiding citizen.
He is, of course, playing for the Metrocrat vote, trying to get the DFL endorsement to run for governor. He will promptly reverse course if he gets the nod (or runs for Congress again). The media will let this fall down the memory hole.
Let’s not let that happen.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Why Puerto Rico is still without power, and will be for a long time. Money quotes:
“The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, known as PREPA, is unable to complete the task of restoring power on its own: It is bankrupt, just like the Puerto Rican government . . .
“Maria delivered a near-knockout blow to PREPA, which was in deep crisis before any storm hit. For many years, it was unable, or unwilling, to invest in its four-decade-old power plants, which still burn imported oil, and above-ground power lines that were vulnerable to storms. Rolling blackouts and brownouts become common . . .
“PREPA struggled with a multi-billion-dollar deficit and a worker shortage — all while charging some of the highest rates in the United States. The utility relies on its own cash reserves to operate, and has no access to capital markets, a shortfall that is expected to worsen as its revenue collections cease during the power outage . . .
“Once the damage assessment is done, PREPA, along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S Department of Energy and the APPA, can send workers and equipment to the island to help . . .
Oddly, the article fails to mention WHY the government is bankrupt. It’s an island paradise, tourism is strong, where did the money go? Bad luck? Hurricanes? Trump?
No, they pissed it all away through the usual Blue State shenanigans: social programs, cronyism, and union benefits for government workers. And you’re going to pay for it. It’ll be the largest bailout to date, and it’ll be snuck through as emergency assistance, including loans that will never be repaid, grants, and just look in the fine print and the back pages and total up the amounts that will be tacked on for public art, ecological impact studies, culture and race equity assessments and payouts, etc.
Those poor children, suffering, how can you refuse to help? You should be happy to pay for a better Puerto Rico. And once you’ve paid for them, how can you refuse to pay for Chicago?Joe Doakes
Never waste a crisis.
Last week, I wrote a bunch of pieces on an editorial that appeared in the Strib the weekend before last.
The Strib complained about the growing street crime – in particular about the consequences of some local and higher court rulings that make enforcement against crimes like public intoxication and panhandling harder without specific legislative intervention. (They also proposed the same impotent diversions on gun control that every DFL metrocrat shill runs to when faced with a wave of violence).
All the problems come back to one thing – a mayor and city council that may or may not be unable to grapple with the issues, but are certainly unwilling to interrupt the consequence-free virtue-signaling – like strong-arming local businesses with minimum wage hikes and sick time benefits, and social justice warrior-mongering – that obsesses so many of them.
Betsy Hodges in “action”. Crime skyrockets – but Target “Raises its minimum wage”. Of course, technology has led to them cutting thousands of entry-level jobs, already. Just like we warned you. More to come.
And this is the city council that, in large part, the Strib has supported to a fine sheen for the past sixty years.
And the mayor they’ve supported all along as well; I take you back to October, 2013, when the Strib editorial board endorsed Hodges for mayor:
Hodges is aligned with this page on the need for improved transit, including streetcars and enhanced bus service, as a driver of economic development citywide. As mayor, she’d play a key role in deciding the future of the Southwest Corridor light-rail project.
Although the school board operates independently from City Hall, Hodges says that as mayor she would seek to build consensus around the increasingly desperate need to close the city’s achievement gap, and she puts the right emphasis on early childhood development and prenatal health programs with her proposed “Cradle-to-K” cabinet. She’s talked generally about longer school days, more flexibility for administrators in teacher labor agreements, and support for reforms proposed by Superintendent Bernadeia Johnson.
Hodges doesn’t promise lower property taxes, but her record suggests she’ll be a strong steward of city resources and taxpayer dollars.
Hodges also promises to be aggressive in using technology to enhance public safety and would seek more accountability in hiring, training and disciplining cops. In a recent meeting with the Editorial Board, she acknowledged that the police union contract makes it too difficult to fire bad cops.
Does any of this – which reflects the express wishes and position of the most influential editorial board / DFL PR firm in the state – sound like what’s actually happened since the voters gave the Strib, yet again, exactly what they wanted?
Own it, Strib. You got your wishes in the North Loop, as you have throughout the city. You did your best to break it. You fix it.
Betsy Hodges’ campaign?
Among those who have stepped away from the reelection effort are spokesperson Alida Tieberg and adviser Jim Niland, a former city council member who’s held in deep respect within DFL circles.
The news comes just five months after the resignations of Jorge Contreras, Hodges’ first campaign manager, and organizing director Kyrstin Schuette.
The reasons behind the resignations are described as a perfect storm of sorts, according to sources who spoke to City Pages on the condition of anonymity because the don’t want to ruffle feathers within the DFL.
The City Pages answers to the same DFL chain of command that that “whistleblowers” do.
The mayor’s campaign coffers are said to be running on fumes at around $6,000, according to a source who’d spoken with former staff. Hodges’ most recent disclosure from August showed it had a cash balance of about $58,000. However, it also showed the campaign still owed five vendors roughly $25,000.
The only question I have is “will Minneapolis go even further to the left and vote for Ray Dehn.
Some critics say Hillary’s new blame-all autobio includes a “bizarre misreading” of George Orwell’s 1984. Among them is Allahpundit, from Hot Air.
There are establishmentarians, there are big-government establishmentarians, and then there are people who read Orwell and see a parable about insufficient trust in authority:
Here’s the passage
I say they’re being pollyannaish.
Hillary’s a lot of things – I’ll skip the hour-long session of listing them all – but she’s not stupid, and she’s not illiterate.
We’ve noticed this with not a few figures on the left; they’re pretty much sure they can get away with saying anything; God knows the media will never call them on it. I’ve focused on it in particular as re Second Amendment policy – this blog has a large, well-populated tag documenting the Minnesota victim disarmament movement’s serial fabulism – but we’re really just scratching the surface.
My thesis: Hillary thinks knows she can say anything she wants; the media will never check her; her supporters can’t stop jabbering about their credentials, intelligence and level of information (they watch Rachel Maddow, dammit!) to bother reading the damn book in the first place.
State GOP deputy chair David Pascoe reported from the Fair last week:
Don’t you dare say Minnesota “prorgressives” are getting deranged.
When we last talked about Ryan WInkler, he was on his way to Belgium, in as much disgrace as the media ever allows a DFL golden child to face, after having called SCOTUS justice Clarence Thomas an “Uncle Tom”. Winkler – who got a degree at Harvard – claimed he wasn’t aware of the history of the term. But no matter; he took a break.
But he’s baaaaack, and running for Attorney General.
And this oughtta be a great campaign; he’s got the same Twitter smarts as the President seems to have:
Our old friend Chad the Elder of the late, great Fraters stepped up, with results that, if you know Winkler, are utterly predictable:
He wants to be attorney general.
This oughtta be a fun campaign.
(Via Gary Gross)
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Senator Amy Klobuchar is withholding a blue slip to block the Senate from taking up consideration of President Trump’s nomination of Minnesota Supreme Court Justice David Stras to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Why?
Yes, yes, Class Clown Al Franken is withholding his too, but we all know he’s a big, fat idiot. Nobody cares what he does.
But Amy was Hennepin County Attorney, she knows prominent Minnesota lawyers including some on her side of the aisle who would approve of Stras, she has a better reputation for being sensible than her ‘colleague.’ So what’s her excuse?
Joe Doakes
Following orders.
To: Betsy Hodges, Mayor, Minneapolis
From: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant
Re: Problem-Solving
Your Highness,
This is a problem that calls for decisive action. Like banning plastic bags, building “green roofs” and banning idling cars.
I know we can count on you.
That is all.
With Betsy Hodges’ administration rolling downhill faster than Creed’s career bell curve, Minneapolis looks likely to swerve hard left.
As hard left as Ray Dehn? Maybe not – maybe Jacob Frey appears like a sensible moderate in comparison with the other frontrunner in the mayoral race. Maybe. This is Minneapolis.
But Dehn’s remarks in the wake of the Noor shooting, the resignation of chief Harteau, and the pandemonium at Hodges’ press conference gives Dehn a yuge platform, at least for now. And he’s using it – for better or worse:
Crime is not a product of individual morality but the consequence of scarcity in our society. We must divest resources, disarm officers, and dismantle the inherent violence of our criminal justice system which continues to uphold white supremacy. Our approach to public safety must reflect a belief that our communities are safer when they have housing, clean air and water, access to education and employment, and quality healthcare.
“Like if you took away Thurgood Marshall’s bank account, you think you’d see him selling crack at the Union Station bus terminal?”
– P. J. O’Rourke
Is Minneapolis anywhere close to hitting “Peak Left?” A moment like the 1977 New York Blackout, prompting New Yorkers to stop the insanity?
I don’t think so. Minneapolis’s DFL establishment is controlled by people who aren’t affected by the city’s collapse; people in Kenwood, Nicollet Island, Minnehaha Parkway and the like, who can and do remain above it all – or, like Alondra Cano, dabble in “it all” for effect.
Remember all the Democrats who rode Detroit, Camden, Oakland, Newark and New Orleans straight into the ground, bleating about peoples’ “best interests” all the way.
It’s gonna get worse before it gets better, Minneapolis. Smoke ’em if you got ’em.
Tragic shooting in South Minneapolis; woman from Australia killed by cop originally from Somalia.
Steve Cwodzinski – the teachers union foot soldier who “replaced” Dave Hann in the MN Senate seat representing Eden Prairie, follows Rahm Emanuel’s dictum to a fault:
“Two immigrants came to the United States searching for the American dream. One came to heal; the other, to protect. Now due to the fear and violence surrounding firearms, both have realized the American nightmare.”
The mission of today’s DFL: Deflect the glare from:
…by jabbering about “fear and violence surrounding firearms” that were present only in the hands of the cop, whom the DFL would have us believe are the ones who can be “trusted” with that constitutional right.
People of Eden Prairie; you sent him to Saint Paul. Take him back.
State Representative Alice Hausman, on Facebook:
Kommissar Hausman: perhaps you’ve heard of the Fifth Amendment? Nobody can be compelled to testify themselves?
Also – the “qualified immunity” laws that you, in the legislature, continually pass and expand to keep the DFL’s benefactors in the (are you ready for this) Police Union happy pretty much spell out how officers are treated after an officer-involved shooting.
Rep. Hausman: it’s starting to occur to me that HD66A didn’t lose out on all that much expertise when you fobbed your job off on Heather Martens.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Trump claims John Podesta barred the FBI from looking at the DNC computer.
You remember that computer – not the one in Hillary’s bathroom that she wiped with a cloth, this is the DNC server that supposedly got “hacked” by the Russians to steal the Democrats’ emails, which the Russians then released to the public through their shill, Wikileaks, in an effort to make Hillary look bad so voters wouldn’t like her, all the while colluding with the Trump campaign to steal the election from Hillary. Trump claims the FBI never saw it.
Naturally, the Liberal media is covering for the Democrats. Politifact rated Trump’s claim a LIE: John Podesta did NOT bar the FBI from looking at the DNC computer. Somebody else did that.
Missing the point, people! The essence of the claim remains true: the feds never saw the computer.
The only evidence the Russians had anything to do with the massive leak of embarrassing emails comes from the private IT firm hired by the Democrats. The leak could just as easily have come from a disgruntled DNC employee, perhaps an IT specialist who downloaded the emails and offered them to Wikileaks right before he was murdered in a ‘robbery gone bad’ in which nothing was stolen, that the D.C. cops refuse to investigate.
Since when does the FBI out-source criminal investigations or national security breaches? But the Democrats assured James Comey the Russians did it, and that’s good enough for old Jimbo. And the rest of the nation blindly follows the false trail down the rabbit hole.
Joe Doakes
If Democrats defended this nation like they defend their narrative, ISIS would be hiding under a rock in the Hejdaz.
After a 14 hour convention that descended at one point into fisticuffs, the Minneapolis City DFL Convention reached no endorsement – but Ray “The Kommissar” Dehn had a lead in the delegate count for mayor.
Further proof that the Minneapolis DFL is pushing too far left even for Betsy Hodges? Sure.
But it’s the ephemera that tell us how far to the left. This was one of Dehn’s congrats on Twitter:
“Comrade”.
This is Minneapolis today.
Ohio man indicted by a federal grand jury for threatening Republican congressman:
E. Stanley Hoff, 68, is accused of leaving a voice mail for the Upper Arlington Republican after the June 14 shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and four others at a GOP congressional baseball practice. The gunman was killed by police.
The voice mail stated: “I’ve seen the prayer ya’ll were saying at the baseball diamond. … I think ya’ll better hit your knees and pray for the people that you’re screwin’ up their lives.
“We’re coming to get every goddamn one of you and your families. Maybe the next one taken down will be your daughter. Huh? Or your wife. Or even you.”
It’s retaliation for…well, something that is sure to happen. Someday. Honest.
The Mesabi News has been one of few newspapers in the state with an editorial board that bucks the DFL line.
And their editorial from last Tuesday – “” – might be exhibit A in the “Why Trump Won” museum, someday.
They’ve had enough of the Iron Range’s future being determined by Twin Cities environmentalists:
The Iron Range is done being paraded around in the three-ring circus of hearings, resolutions and comment periods, which are really nothing more than putting the everyday Iron Ranger on trial by a jury of its uniformed peers.
At 4 p.m. today at Virginia Carpenters Union Hall, the Iron Range unifies. Labor groups, businesses, politicians and unions — and supporters in the Twin Cities — are standing up and saying we’re done. They’re calling for a boycott of a Forest Service hearing on July 18 in St. Paul over a federal land withdrawal, and instead will protect the Range’s way of life — on the Iron Range — July 25 in Virginia.
The editors see how the game is being played.
These hearings, on the taxpayers’ dime, are a mockery of working government. Go to Duluth, go to St. Paul, Ely or Virginia and it’s the same group of people talking on both sides.
What more is there to hear? And what is there to learn about mining in St. Paul? The Forest Service says it seeks a wide opinion on the subject, so by that logic environmental hearings on the St. Croix Bridge or the Fargo-Moorhead Diversion project should have hearings on the Iron Range.
But it won’t happen because this is the playground for the Twin Cities, and they’ll get there “one funeral at a time,” as Becky Rom, the leader of the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters, has been quoted by The Progressive, a grassroots publication that champions progressive politics.
Remember this the next time some plushbottom fop from Kenwood or Crocus Hill calls themselves “the Resistance”.
…of tinhorn, cronyistic Democrat politics in safe blue areas.
But I can’t keep up with this story, which appears to be un-parodyable.
Golf clap, White Plains New York. From one intentional satirist to an unwitting one, well done.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Headline in New York Times:
Democrats Seethe After Georgia Loss: ‘Our Brand Is Worse Than Trump‘
Of course, Democrats say the words but they don’t accept the implications. The reason Democrats’ brand is worse than Trump is because their ideas are crap and no amount of public relations re-branding is going to make the crap sandwich more appetizing to voters.
When voters won’t do as Liberals desire, they rationalize their defeat:
1. The voters didn’t understand. We didn’t get our message out. Our brand is tarnished. If the voters had understood what we’re selling, they’d have gobbled it up. We need to raise more money to get our message out.
2. The voters understood what we’re selling, but they’re too stupid to buy it. They voted against their own best interest. They should be happy to pay more taxes for a better Minnesota. They should be happy their kids will be bussed to a more diverse school, happy that low income apartments will be built in their neighborhood. They need to be educated to see that ours is the right policy, not their own short-sighted self-interest.
3. The voters understood what we’re selling, and they tried to buy it, but some nefarious schemer deprived the voters of their desire. Blacks were denied driver’s licenses. Felons can’t vote. The polls closed early or stayed open late. There was a blizzard. The Russians hacked the election. We wuz robbed.
4. The voters understood what we’re selling, they know it’s superior to their own ideas, everyone had a chance to vote, but the voters can’t stand the notion that the people being ground under their heels might somehow escape. The voters are racist, homophobic, misogynistic, bigoted, deplorable haters, bitterly clinging to their guns and Bibles. We have no hope of persuading them to voluntarily accept our ideas; therefore, we must impose our ideas using administrative rulemaking, international agreements or liberal judges.
I’ve been watching politics since before the Reagan campaign, nearly 40 years ago. It’s the same cycle, over and over.
Joe Doakes
Joe’s right.
Unfortunately, American voters aren’t a whole lot less flighty in the long term than French voters. We shall see.
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