Category: Privilege!
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Success Is Failure
Joe Doakes from Como park emails: Suppose you build a better mousetrap and the world beats a path to your door. That’s a good thing, right? Creativity? Progress? Jobs? No, it’s a public nuisance, all those people driving their cars to your store, tying up traffic, idling engines (which cause global climate change). Cars backed…
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Priorities
It seems the relentless watchdogs of government in the Twin Cities media are at loggerheads with the government over the Hutchinson case: You might say that I’m a dreamer – but I remember news media that’d take government to court to get to the bottom of a story like this. Provided they’re not a DFLer,…
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Not As “Woke” As They Think
A friend of the blog, from (this is an important to the story) Saint Paul, emails: A couple who currently rents on my block are looking to move. Not that unusual. Renting isn’t typically a long term goal of professionals. They want to move out of the neighborhood versus buying in the neighborhood. Again, not…
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Our Betters Have Spoken
Author Thomas Ricks on Twitter: Three blocks from my house, August 26,2020. Well, there is a dumbass dupe in the conversation.
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Compare And Contrast
SCENE: It’s the studio at Minnesota Public Radio. MyLyssa SILBERMAN, reporter for National Public Radio’s Saint Paul bureau, covering the “Fake News” and “Diversity” beats, is guest-ghosting “MInnesota Insights”, a program of insights about Minnesota,. She is interviewing Gretel STROMBERG, Executive Director of “Minnesotans United for All Progressive Causes”. SILBERMAN: So, big news in Los…
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Heroes Are So Hard To Find
It wasn’t that long ago, really. We had heroes among us. Now they are so hard to find: These days, the men and women who worked through the whole pandemic are being shamed and patronized by the very people whose cushy existences they facilitated for a year and a half. The liberal elites who holed…
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Pop Life
I’ve never much liked the entire “Seventies Midwestern Arena Rock” genre. But among the bands in that genre, it’s Styx that’s always gone beneath and below the rest, the one whose impression to me swerves from apathy into active dislike. It’s not that they couldn’t play. They certainly had live game. But unlike REO Speedwagon,…
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Well Groomed
There was a little bit of kerfuffle earlier this week over this tweet, by “a member of the U of M’s student government”: Is this not the ultimate expression of “white privilege?” It can almost go without saying that she’s got a job coming up in Tina Smith’s office. So you can forget about the…
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In A School, Somewhere In California, Most Likely
TEACHER: “Marco, can you gell us what the ‘Holocaust’ was? MARCO: “Er…January 6?” TEACHER: “Correct…”
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On “Hockey Night In Vermont”, Soon.
PLAY BY PLAY ANNOUNCER: “Gascoigne checks O’Reilly into the boards…” COLOR GUY: “Oh, wow. Cheap hit, there…” PLAY BY PLAY ANNOUNCER: “Aaaaand off come the gloves. We’ve got a donnybrook going here” COLOR GUY: “Hockey used to be such an artistic game. How far hockey has fallen, since it’s first ever fight, last January 7”.…
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Somewhere In Kenwood
MOM: “Why isn’t your homework done, Junior?” JUNIOR: “January 6” MOM: “Fair enough”.
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Somewhere In Highland Park, Probably
GUY A: “Who was that woman who got arrested here in Highland a few years back for being a terrorist?” GAL B: “Sarah Jane Olson. She was arrested for being involved in January 6″. GUY A: “I thought it was from in the Symbionese Liberation Army, back in the seventies?” GAL B: “Couldn’t be. There…
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One Day, Driving Through The Eastern Ukraine
TOUR GUIDE: “Welcome to Volgograd – formerly Stalingrad”. TOURIST:”Excuse me – will we see any monuments to the Battle of Stalingrad?” TOUR GUIDE: “What?” TOURIST: “The epic battle between the Nazis and Soviets, in 1942-43?” TOUR GUIDE: “I don’t understand. There was no war or violence of any kind before January 6”. KOMMISSAR (yelling from…
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A Press Conference, Someday Soon, Most Likely
GOVERNOR WALX: “Any questions?” REPORTER: “Tell us why you moved people with Covid into nursing homes?” WALZ: “It was January 6. It was responsible for everything“. REPORTER: “Thanks!”
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It’s More Or Less Inevitable
BOSS: “Er, let’s talk. You’ve turned in no work yet this year.” PROGRESSIVE EMPLOYEE: “After January 6, how could I?” BOSS: “Fair point”.
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In A Blue-City School, Somewhere, Probably
TEACHER: OK, Chad, what do the Gulf War, World War 2, World War 1, the Civil War, the War of the Roses, and the French Revolution have in common? CHAD: Um… TEACHER: Besides being called wars. CHAD: Um…I don’t know? TEACHER: None of them existed. Because there was no violence of any kind before January…
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Too Good To Fact-Check
COP (PULLING WOMAN OVER): “Do you know how fast you were going, ma’am?” WOMAN: “After January 6, does it even matter?” COP: “Good point. You’re free to go”.
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Heard, I Suspect, In Every Progressive Home
PROGRESSIVE PARENTS: “Now, Barack, eat your lima beans… CHILD OF PROGRESSIVE PARENTS: “After what happend January 6?” PROGRESSIVE PARENTS: “Damn. He’s right”.
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When Everything Is Pathology…
I’m going to modify Mahatma Gandhi’s classic aphorism on the course of dissident politics. First they ignore you. Then they mock you. Then they pathologize you. Then they attack you. Then you win. The term “whiteness” has become a key term in the word salad of modern progressive duckspeak. It it feels like the terms…
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All In This Together
Further evidence that the “state of emergency” is more about power and wealth transfer than public health: the ritzy French restaurant where Gavin Newsom (among many Democrat pols) entertained his friends in flagrant violation of his own quarantine rules, keeps on profiting from its special connection. And as Megan Fox at PJM notes, the story…
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And The List Goes On
Nancy Pelosi’s haircut and blowout was more important than the public health measures whose jamdown she supported – after which the speaker and masses of her droogs took it upon themselves to try to defame the stylist for apparently fooling the hapless speaker of the house and Powerful Woman into acting like Marie Antoinette. Chicago…
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Our Cuturally-Illiterate Elite
I may owe Ryan Winkler an apology. I mean, growing up in rural North Dakota back when only Al Gore had access to the Internet, even I knew what “uncle Tom” meant when applied to a black man – so naturally I figured someone in his position, Harvard grad and all, would as well. Clearly,…
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Complementary Mass Psychoses
I figured this out the other day. Just as “White Privilege” is really class privilege sanitized for white progressives’ protection… …so, too, is “white fragility” in fact “blue fragility” – the inability of “blue-state” progressives to reconcile their class advantages with their white prog guilt. And both, also, are one sweet bit of grifting, if…