Shot in the Dark

Category: Urban Progressive Privilege

  • The Hits Keep Coming

    The bail fund promoted by Kamala Harris kicks another sex offender loose. This is the same basic bunch that bailed an “Anti”-Fa thug who beat the snot out a Twin Cities’ bar owner for… …well, we’re not sure yet. But it was a mostly peaceful protest.

  • Ted Antoinette

    Remember when your “progressive” acquaintances would scoff and say “there’s no such thing as a ‘limosine liberal’, a ‘condo pink’, or any of that?” I do. And they’ll do it again. But here – along with Lori Lightfoot’s haircut and the blowout that was apparently inflicted on Nancy Pelosi by GOP operatives – is Exhibit…

  • Urban Progressive Privilege: The Free Market Of Ill-Informed, Class-Privilege-Sodden Twaddle They Are Pleased To Call “Ideas”

    I listen to NPR so you don’t have to. And there are some reasons it’s worth it. I mean, that’s where you get Live From Here with Chris Thile. Well, for now, anyway. Otherwise, there’s… …well, a lot of racial virtue-signaling. I suspect the most lilywhite of America’s organizations is fearing a lot of backlash…

  • Snappy Answers To Casual Gaslighting, Part V

    “You should be voting in your ‘best interests’” You mean, the “best interests” that gave voters Camden? Stockton? Detroit? Newark? New Orleans? Baltimore? Saint Louis? DC? North Minneapolis? The destruction on Lake Street and University Avenue? The carnage every summer in south Chicago? Those “best interests?” Just wanna be clear, here.

  • Reagan Spoke Too Soon

    What’s the most dangerous phrase in the world? 1980: “I’m from the governent and I”m here to help” 2020: “I’m an ‘ally’ and I’m here to help. “ A friend of the blog emails: Privileged Liberal White People: we’re going to help those poor communities of black people. We’ll build a train so they can…

  • Waiting For Word From “Protect” MN, Everytown And Moms Demand

    The “warlord” of the Seattle Peoples Autonomous Zone hands out AR15s to fellow “revolutionaries”: Not a background check among ’em. The gun groups seem to be silent on this particular example of gun proliferation.

  • Steam

    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”— “Animal Farm”, George Orwell So let me get this straight: Lt. Governor Flanagan, who chairs the Capitol Architecture Committee, who is a “progressive” (koff koff) who has made her displeasure with the Capitol mall’s statue of Christopher Columbus amply known in the past,…

  • Ripped From The Headlines Of Pure Fiction. Honest.

    SCENE: Debate hall at the University of Minnesota. Mitch BERG is getting ready for a debate with Stacey HINTON. HINTON – a white woman from Edina – is president of the group “Keep All Racists Equally Nonplussed”, a social justice group without portfolio. The moderator takes the stage, as a small audience rustles in its…

  • False Equivalence

    SCENE: Mitch BERG is looking for almond flour at a Cub Foods, when Cat SCAT, designated “fact checker” at the (possibly fictional) progressive blog “”MinnesotaLiberalAlliance.Blogspot.com“, and the office manager at a small phrenology practice, glomphs up from behind. SCAT: Hah hah, Merg! People are removing racist statues from the Capitol grounds! That’s gotta make all you…

  • Cultural Appropriation For Ye, But Not For We

    This was the House Democratic leadership, doing their (nothing but) symbolic photo-op before the George Floyd funeral: They’re wearing “Kente” cloths – apparently Ghanaian in this case, but there are similar adornments all through Africa. They have cultural significance. And to Pelosi and her little claque, they are nothing but costumes. Some actual Africans were…

  • Some Memorials Are More Equal Than Others

    My brother died one month ago today.  No funeral – they were illegal.  Covid. It was SCIENCE! Then the Covid rules changed: we could have a 10-people funeral.  That wasn’t enough for both our side and the widow’s side of the family to attend.  No funeral.  SCIENCE! Then the Covid rules changed again: we could…

  • You May Ask Yourself…

    … how many mulligans does a democrat get before people start actually calling them on there, well, “inconsistencies”? The answer, of course, provided they are progressive enough, is “as many as they want” “Authenticity”. This is not the Babylon Bee.  The article itself is a moderately interesting read, if only to (try to help…

  • Unwarranted

    America’s left, sotted as it is with Urban Progressive Privilege, has little doubt that it is the the smart crowd. Of course, you don’t have to be a conservative in Saint Paul, or on social media, to know that that’s just not so. This has been bouncing around for a while, but it’s worth a…

  • Expectations

    Elizabeth Warren campaign staffers abuse journalist who “didn’t support Warren” enough. Politico reporter Alex Thompson, who was assigned by his editor to cover Warren’s campaign, posted screenshots of messages that Warren staffers have been sending him. Some Warren campaign staffers don’t have a good understanding of campaign journalism. Not my job to “actively support the…

  • Believing Their Own Press

    Democrats accept on faith that they are smarter than Republicans. Indeed, accepting this as a matter of faith is a key tenet of “Urban Progressive Privilege“. And the fact is, I’m always leery of surveys and social “science” that try to correlate virtues – intelligence, cognitive flexibility, and on and on – to political orientation.…

  • Why Trump Just Might Win Again

    If you haven’t seen this, I’m going to jump on the bandwagon. This is what “GOP” “Strategist” Rick Wilson and the NYTimes Wajahat Ali think of their opponents when they think they’re on friendly turf: Don Lemon “apologized” by saying he “didn’t catch” all of what his guests were saying. Of course he didn’t. He…

  • Black Lives Matter (Unless They Break From The Man’s Narrative)

    Rote Fahne…,er, wait. They’re not called “Red Flag” anymore, not since they were the German Communist Party’s analogue to the Sturmabteilung (“Brownshirts”) in Germany in the 1920s. They’re called something else, now. Let’s start over. The angry white middle class kids from “Anti”-Fa were out on the street in Seattle last Monday, protesting against… …free…

  • Things I’m Dying To Force My “Progressive” Friends To Watch

    There’s a significant part of me that thinks I said everything that needed to be said about the notion of “white privilege” with this bit here. But just in case there’s some rubble left unbounced out there:

  • They Want You Dead

    “Someone” at Saint Olaf in Northfield “swatted” a group of Republican students:. Despite the students telling the officers they had no guns and no ammunition and felt they were the victims of a malicious prank — as right-of-center students have faced open hostility on campus for several years — the officers continued to raid the…

  • Is She Perchance Samoan?

    You’re a radical “Progressive”. As such, you pretty much despise most of the things that allow you the wealth and leisure to be a radical “Progressive”: commerce, the free market, individual wealth (beyond whatever is needed to give you everything you want), and the cheap, safe energy, whether petroleum or fission-based, that makes that wealth…

  • It’s Good To Be King

    As this is written, Saint Paul is getting around the plowing non-emergency streets. Sort of. Tonight and tomorrow will be the big nights for clearing Friday and Saturday’s fairly significant snowfall. Guess who didn’t have to wait? Mayor Carter. And Public Works director and former City Council boss-lady Kathy Lantry: But the city’s plows got…

  • Campaign Contribution

    Trump goes to hostile areas – Minneapolis, the Nationals’ stadium. “Progressives” – spoiled, entitled public unioneers, academics, PR flaks disguised as journalists, “students” and non-profiteers, eternal beneficiaries of a prosperity they had nothing to do with creating – act like spoiled toddlers, continuing the tantrum that started three years ago and looks unlikely to stop…

  • This Is Today’s #MNDFL

    From the Trump rally: Who are the real fascists here? The so-called “resistance” assaults Trump supporters. pic.twitter.com/QH7PXK1gev — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) October 14, 2019 Notice the shrieking harpy sucker-punching the woman. Canny move – any response would have gotten on CNN as “Trump Supporters Attack Woman Of Color!” And it was smarter still, in…

  • What Do You Want, A Cookie?

    The media is gushing – not inappropriately – over Ellen DeGeneres’ defense of her friendship with Dubya. To which I, and the vast majority of middle America who actually have to live in this world, respond “this is real life for most of us, the ones who don’t live in progressive cocoons. Of course, Urban…

  • Surprising Precisely Nobody

    College Republican display at the U of M’s annual “Paint the Bridge” party vandalized. For the fourth year in a row: The group said their panel, which included text reading, “Donald Trump The Wall,” “Draining the Swamp,” and “America FIRST mentality,” was covered up within a day. I wonder, sometimes, if the Democrats wonder what…