Category: Urban Progressive Privilege
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In This House Of Cards
Last fall’s election was a rough one for America’s left. Their message was rejected by a majority of Latino men, an increasing share of the black vote, an astonishing percent of GenZ (some reports say that Trump drew a third of the vote at the deep-blue University of Minnesota), and even a near supermajority of…
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Bring Your Popcorn
MN House livestream: What do you suppose the odd are – a bunch of people chanting in the hallway. UPDATE 12:30PM: Simon adjourned the house – and the separation of powers between the Executive and Legislative branches. 12: 31 PM. The House just ruled the Secretary of State out of order, and is re-convening.
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A First
Today, for the first time in history, I can say “I’m looking forward to watching the first day of the new Legislative session”. As in, watching the livestream to see the fireworks or even better lack of them as the DFL takes their toys and flees. Since Melissa Hortmans stunts… …appear to be landing like…
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The One-Two Punch
Ken Martin is running for DNC Chair. And on the surface, it’d appear that this tweet is peak irony: But wait. As you read the thread, it becomes clear that it’s really more a matter of the Democrat leadership class being oblivious to the results of their own policies.
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If The Facts Are Against You, And The Law Is Against You
Stipulated: the DFL is Minnesota’s abusive spouse. I It’s in the phase of spousal abuse where the first round of resistance has led to an amping-up of the gaslighting and projection: That, and their messaging can not be intended to influence anyone but the stupid, the ill-informed and the uncritical, can it? “Losing the popular…
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For Those Who Observe
Merry January 6! It’s one of modern progressivism’s high holy days – along with Roemas, May Day and Feast of the Entitlements. Have a blessed January 6!
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For The Young Ignorant Lefty Bobbleheads In Your Life
You know who I’m talking about – the young humanities major at your job; the know-it-all lady witih ELCA hair in the PTA; the angry young relative who deigns to grace you with her presence at holiday dinners anyway. This one goes out to you. Use it wisely. Reasons American healthcare is expensive: 6. American…
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One Of The Benefits Of Being A “Progressive” White Woman…
…is that not only can you “appropriate” an indigenous culture to your rhetorical ends, you can agglomerate indigenous cultures together into whatever custom mix you want to make whatever “point” you please. For example, the term “Latinx”, which purports to consolidate widely disparate cultures (Puerto Rico has little in common with Central America, and less…
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And To Think We Accuse Them Of Economic Illiteracy
To: “Prez”, Dim Little Progressive Social Media BulbFrom: Mitch Berg, obstreporous peasant who passed Econ 201Re: Not The “Own” You Think It Is “Prez”, Re your sentiment expressed over the weekend: I mean, saving more money is good for you – might make you a conservative, eventually, actually. And unless you save that money in…
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The Stultifying Blue Fog
OK, so moving to Canada after threatening it over and over again may be a bit much. But changing social media platforms (after two years of threatening)? That’s a little more doable. Last week a friend of the blog emailed: Blue sky app. Looks and works pretty much like X. Their world views are safe…
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WUPH
JD Vance’s visit to the Third Precinct brought out, if not the worst of the plagues facing today’s Minnesota, at least the most comical: the WUPH. The White Urban Progressive Homer. Generally a 20-30-something male, employed in the non-profit, public or academic sector, part of the laptop class, single, socially mobile, mostly self-focused. And they…
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The DFL Dictionary: A New Entry
It’s high time we updated the “DFL Dictionary” – which, as you read it, is clearly a product of a more innocent time. When I do, one phrase I’m going to add is the “Urban Life Theme Park”. To wit: Urban Life Theme Park: (noun) A neighborhood, populated mostly by white middle-class “white “progressives” with…
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Focus
Look, it’s not like I need more reasons not to like Governor Walz. He’s fake. He’s a product of the Democrat propaganda machine. He’s a wannabe tyrant. But more personally? Listen to this bit here: I’ll cop to it – I spent a good chunk of my early years in the Twin Cities with a…
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America, 2027
SCENE: On Broadway at Central, in Northeast Minneapolis. It’s late fall; winter is clearly on the way. Stray papers blow down the street, nearly deserted in, visibly chilly. Outside the boarded up remains of what had been a breakfast place catering to “laptop-class” white progressive “new urbanites”, one of many boarded up stores on that…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Q: How Do You Make A Minneapolis “Progressive” Scream?
Answer: Show them you exist and aren’t going away: The comments on this tweet are the tip of the rhetorical iceberg, and bespeak a crowd who treat violations of their ‘Urban Progressive Privilege’ like getting jabbed in the yarbles with a knitting needle.
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A Modest But Emphatic Proposal
It’s high time we stopped calling Ivy Leaguers like this Columbia spokesbeing: …as “our best and brightest”. By the way – at “Mitch Berg University”, students who infringe other students rights – Jewish, conservative, liberal, communist, I don’t care – by depriving them of the use of the campus they pay to attend will be…
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This Is Today’s DFL
Christians are the same as slaveholders. No, that’s what Rep. Luke Frederick of Mankato says: He’s responding to an amendment that would protect churches and their members freedom of conscience about transgender issues. The MNDFL is at war with the Constitution. UPDATE: Harry Niska sums up the, er, debate: I’ll be talking with Rep. Niska…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Clouds Of Smug Descend
“Art” as humanity used to know it is pretty much dead, at least in any community of people who call themselves “artists” anymore. This was from a, for lack of a better term, “art event” in Powderhorn Park over the weekend: Ignore the stupid sled. Look, rather, at the audience. What do you see? Inevitably,…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Peak Karen
Henco is going to have a “contested” County Commission race, where “contested” means “a battle between bad, worse and worst” . I think the found ‘worst”. People inexperienced in the ways of Metro “progressives” might joke “I wonder if she’s going to put “Irritating people into behavioral change” into her campaign literature, yuk yuk”. To…
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Unexpectedly
With great fanfare, Minneapolis and Saint Paul raised their minimum wages to $15 an hour. And now, the Minneapolis Federal Reserve says the policy has done…well, exactly what every conservative said it would do: Pay is up 1% among those with jobs – but 2% fewer are employed as a direct result of the policies,…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Sign O The Times
The Strib finally hired a new editorial cartoonist to replace the worthless and unlamented Steve Sack. It’s Mike Thompson. And he’s brought a new sound to Minneapolis. No, not the popping of the Glock full-auto conversion. It’s the wailing and gnashing of entitled, plush-bottom, White progressive Minneapolis Yoo-hoos losing their spit over being lampooned by…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Our Vacuous Overlords
I’ve listened to a lot of vapid, trite radio in my life. Janeane Garofalo’s attempt at a talk show. Most any “audio essay” by David Sedaris. Just about every local show on AM950, from Nick Coleman and Wendy Wilde and Two Putt Tommy and Steve Timmer through Bart McNeil or whatever his name is. Lots…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: It’s “One Minnesota”, And It’s All Theirs
It took a week for the story to get out – but somehow, it did. A group of Mayor Carter’s staffers showed us what “One Minnesota” looks like when the new gentry cross paths with the proles: “They just came in, they were obviously intoxicated,” recalls restaurant owner Jason Dorweiler. He says a group of…
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Alone
To: Lieutenant Governor Flanagan,From: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Glad You’ve Discovered Light Rail Crime! Of all the people who’ve been beaten, robbed and murdered on Twin Cities light rail platforms, it’s good to know you’ve paid attention to one of them, finally: But clearly, you do not ride the light rail. I suspect you hitch…