Shot in the Dark

Category: Urban Progressive Privilege

  • Behold, Minneapolis 2023

    After a solid year of “protests” – they might be more accurately called “a ‘ultra-progressive’ coup on the streets” – Portland’s coalition of Big Left constituents is starting to fracture. [The “anarchists”] have shown themselves at times to be violent — one was charged with attempted murder after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the…

  • I Think I Figured It Out

    An allegory in three acts: Act 1 SCENE: An elementary school classroom.BULLY is sitting at the desk next to KID. A half dozen pencils lie strewn about the floor around KID’s desk. BULLY: Throws a pencil at KID. KID looks annoyed, but shakes it off. BULLY: (Sotto Voce) Hey, kid! (KID looks over as BULLY…

  • City + Other People’s Money + Urban Progressive Privilege = Fun For Progs!

    A friend of the blog emails: I’m not going to weigh in on whether the Interstate system was bad for some neighborhoods when it happened.  But, every urban renewal project since then (like St Paul’s Green Line) seems to have been worse in terms of the impact on these neighborhoods. The goal in these current…

  • Cause -> Effect?

    A few weeks back: U of M “student government” official (and Tina Smith employee) calls for students to resist the U of M police – in as many words, to “make their lives hell“. Today – the U is turning into a cold Newark: University of Minnesota police are warning students, staff and neighbors to…

  • The Right Profile

    A friend of the blog writes: Interested in who gets an interview for this I’m gonna guess the credentials are entirely social. And that the interview sounds like something from Animal Farm.

  • Urban Progressive Privilge: Two Americas

    It would seem there are two black Americas. One whom upper middle class white progressives have appointed themselves leaders – the type that call Tim Scott “Uncle Tim” and jabber on about defunding and actively harassing the police “for racial justice“… …and the actual people who live in the neighborhoods that are being gutted. In…

  • Urban Progressive Privilege Means Never Needing A Moral Compass

    Erin Maye Quade – who, you may recall, came within an epic suck up to the progressive movement of being Minnesota’s lieutenant governor – had this to say about Tim Scott’s rebuttal to the presidents… whatever that was Wednesday night: This, on top of Ryan WInkler’s “Uncle Tom” jape at one of the most accomplished…

  • Toxic AF Romper Room

    This is an open thread for all the random dick-measuring y’all wanna do. Like arguing about the Holocaust. An even on which this blog has been crystal clear throughout its history, if you happened to read any of it. Or branch out and flame away over whether Van Halen is “Metal” or “Hard Rock”. Knock…

  • 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…

  • Urban Progressive Privilege: In Which I Defend A Cake-Eating Private School

    Around the time of the Chauvin verdict, and in the wake of the Brooklyn Center shooting, a group of students at posh Creti\-Derham Hall – a private Catholic school in Saint Paul – held a walkout. Now, that’s fine. It’s a foreign concept to me, of course – in my day, at my high school,…

  • Parody Meets Reality. As Usual.

    Babylon Bee tries to parody the hypocrisy of the Twin Cities political class. They’re running a solid four years behind the Twin Cities pollitical class’s ongoing self parody. One of the traits of Urban Progressive Privilege – being the beneficiary of a double standard makes no more impression than the concept of “water” does to…

  • 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”.

  • The Racism Of Commoditized Expectations

    In the wake of the verdict yesterday, Speaker Pelosi thanked George Floyd for his “sacrifice”: “Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice,” Pelosi said Tuesday outside the Capitol where she was joined by the Congressional Black Caucus. “Because of you and because of millions of people around the world who came out for justice, your…

  • None Dare Call It Slander

    I mean, when even Bill Maher gets uncomfortable… Former North Dakota Senator and current useless mouth Heidi Heitkamp calls Gina Carano a “Nazi”. Plain and simple, full stop. I’ll chalk this up to the (utterly true) idea that any Democrat can parrot any narrative twaddle, no matter how moronic, without fear, knowing that their audience…

  • Among The Biggest Advantages…

    …that DFL politicians have is that they can say anything, no matter how illogical, preposterous and risible, anything at all , knowing that not only will the media never call them out on it, but that “their” voters, of all races, classes and education levels, having as they do zero critical thinking skills, will gobble…

  • Hometown Boy Makes Good Idiot Of Self

    The good news: After hearing Ben Shapiro roasting Rupar last week on his radio show, I have to say it’s been amazing seeing that more people nationwide are learning what we in the Twin Cities have known for most of a decade: that City Pages alum and Vox “writer” Aaron Rupar is a really terrible…

  • After Nearly A Year…

    …of constant violence that he encouraged not only with as many words but with as many actions, Portland, Oregon mayor Ted Wheeler says people are “sick of” the constant sturm und drang that has made parts of the city unlivable: Portland became a hotbed of civil unrest last summer during demonstrations protesting the police killing…

  • More Victims Faster

    Minneapolis pushing ahead to eliminate cops.  Look at the photo to see who’s pushing the issue.  Do any of those people look like they live in Hawthorne or Phillips?  Any of them look like they’ll be affected when cops stop patrolling dangerous neighborhoods?  Looks more like White people from affluent neighborhoods telling the city council…

  • Death Spiral

    Joe Soucheray on the Chauvin Trial and Minneapolis: Yes, the trial, and the attendant protests, could be the end of Minneapolis. There is no political strength in place to save it. The council even exudes a vibe that suggests they are more concerned about the safety and convenience of protesters than their own citizenry. The…

  • We Have Reached “Peak Progressive Snowflake”

    Truth is a trigger, apparently. A far-left progressive representative relates the “emotional toll” of having black female politicians’ “violent” rhetoric (if we’re using Trump’s rhetoric on January as the standard) in Trump’s defense: “The defense council put a lot of videos out in their defense, playing clip after clip of Black women talking about fighting…

  • In Re Big Guy

    This is interesting Another stunning example of the ‘rules-for-thee-but-not-for-me’ attitudewhich is fast becoming a Biden administration hallmark. My question is: who paid the 10% to The Big Guy, for allowing this claimto go forward instead of having the FBI arrest them for sedition? Haven’t tracked that down, yet. Joe Doakes I think we’re talking a four…

  • This Is What Urban Progressive Privilege Looks Like [1]

    Every spousal abuser in history: “Yeah, sure, I hit you. But you provoked me – again. So you’re at least partly to blame. Maybe mostly. I mean, actions have consequences, baby…” Big Left’s latest line – through one of its local mouthpieces, former Reprentative and Lt. Gov. Candidate and Urban Progressive Privilege poster child, Erin…

  • #UnityAndHealing

    My first thought in reading this story, I kid you not, is that I’m a little amazed a city government or law enforcement establishment actually did anything about an offense like this: After a hearing last Friday and conversations with the city attorney, the employment of part-time Library Specialist Cameron Dequintez Williams was terminated on…

  • Not An Animal

    “Protect” Minnesota has a new executive director. We’ll come back to that. Modern American “progressivism”, like all its many forebears in the past 200 years, has been all about rallying people against boogeymen. From “monarchists” in the French Revolution, to “Wreckers” in Stalin’s USSR to the Wobbly’s “Bosses”, up through “the patriarchy” and “the man”…

  • Bigotry Of Bizarre Expectations

    Kind of a good news, bad news situation here. But maybe not in the way you think. A teachers union president in Washington State refers to reopening schools as a “white supremacist” initiative. The good – or “good” – news: this is an example of the type of rhetorical, social and policy overreach one can…