Category: Trump
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I’m A Uniter
Any dividing I do is just a side benefit.
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Meatheads All Around
On muting one’s sympathies.
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Focus
Trump needs it.
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Rent Free
Dopamine is addictive.
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Where’s The Beef?
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: D0GE identified $100 billion in fraud, waste and inefficiency The recession bill cut $9 billion. What happened to the rest? Joe Doakes, ready for more winning “Less losing” was good for starters. But yes. More, faster.
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History Is Blank Verse
December 6, 1941: “A modern war would inevitably turn into a trench quagmire like the First World War” June 24, 1950: “The next war will be, at best, a mobile industrial clash of titans, and likeliy end with mutual nuclear annihilation” March 7, 1965: “This war is going to be a conventional war to contain…
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Tough
Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails: Why fly deportees to Africa? Is Trump trying to provoke a constitutional crisis? My understanding is that the animals being deported are so vicious that their own countries won’t take them. They’re being sent to the only place that will accept them. Yes, it’s a Third-World shithole. What’s…
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What A Difference A Week Makes
Democrats, Two Weeks Ago: “No government official is a king!” Democrats today: “What? You can’t arrest a judge! Judges can’t break the law!”
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Calculated Risk
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Scott Johnson from Powerline has a column explaining why Trump’s tariffs are calculated incorrectly and are therefore too high. He gives a formula from some academics showing that the inelasticity of trade was improperly factored into setting our new rates. Missing the point, Scott. The point is foreign…
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Outbreak Of Reason
SCENE: Mitch BERG is pondering the tragedy that is his backyard garden when Avery LIBRELLE, riding a recumbent bike, rides up the alley, unbeknownst to BERG. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Ohhhhhh fuuuuun seeing you Avery… LIBRELLE: Shut up. Robert F Kennedy is making Americans sick. There’s a huge measles outbreak. BERG: Huh. And that’s RFK’s fault?…
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Missing The Forest For The Dust
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: I notice a common theme running through Berg’s Third Law (disasters) and Mother Jones Corollary to the Tenth Law (vicious lies) and 18th Law of Media Latency (48 hour rule): the media rushes to lie about Conservatives, so thoughtful readers will wait for the dust to settle an…
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DOGE: Making Australia Australian Again
I’ll admit it – two months of DOGE has made me a little inured to stories about outlandish things that the Federal Government spends our money on. Promoting DEI in Serbia? Transgender comic books in Peru? Yaaawn. Get back to me when you’ve got something interesting. So when I heard that there…
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Our Violence-Prone Overlords
What does Tim Walz fantasize about? Well, not in a debate, he can’t.
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It Is An Unassailable Fact Of Human Nature…
…that the people who most need to read articles like this (I’m not going to pull-quote it; it deserves a quick read) will be the last to actually read it. Of course, those who have been through the history of the various characters in this blog’s comment section know that while the tendency flowered under…
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An Escalator With No Top
It’s become a bit of an easy trope on the right: Star with “You think you hate the media?” Add some bit of loathsome leftymedia depravity Button it up with “You really don’t hate them enough”. It’s a progression with no end; every day brings new loathsomeness. It’s entirely possible it’s a barrel with no…
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Battlespace Preparation III
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: More tomorrow.
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Battlespace Preparation II
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Part III coming up tomorrow.
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Battlespace Preparation I
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Two more parts to come. I’ll save my comments for after Part III.
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Whatever You Do…
…don’t you dare claim there’s intrinsic bias in Twin Cities media: So many ways to word that: “uphold federal immigraiton law”, “stop abuse of the healthcare system”, “drop non-qualified non-citizens from taxpayer-funded healthcare”, among others. But they just have to imply malice. You think you hate the media enough? You…well, you know where this goes, right?
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The High Horse
MInnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon apparently shares a platitude writer with Tim Walz: Same person? Different? hard to say – but they share a certain – uh… …factual incoherence?
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Behold #BlueAnon
It must be a tough time to be Erin Maye Quade – Senator from Apple Valley, and Big Left’s attack poodle in the Senate. In the past couple of years, she’s voted for a thoughtcrime data base, and openly fantasized about using government power to keep parents from teaching their kids about abstinence… …and about…
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Buzzsaw
Yesterday, I was trying to remember – how long has it been since the inauguration? Was it three weeks, or four? Nope. Two weeks. Seemed so much longer than that.
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Day 1, Part 2
The last time I watched a Presidential inauguration live on TV was when Jimmy Carter was inaugurated. I was in junior high, and they wheeled a TV into our history classroom. I missed Reagan’s (twice), Bush I, Clinton (twice), Dubya (twice), Trump’s first, and Obama (all three times). I may break my streak today. Partly…
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Method
SCENE. Avery LIBRELLE is wandering the aisles at Barnes and Noble in Maplewood, when h…er, sh…er, Avery notices Mitch BERG poring over the German book aisle. LIBRELLE pounces. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Uh, Schoiße…, er, I mean, hey Avery… LIBRELLE: Shut up. Why is Trump obsessed with taking over Canada, Greenland and Panama? BERG: What do…
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How It Started
NPR’s token Aztlani, Maria Hinojosa, yelling “SLAY, QUEEN GIRLBOSS!” as Mexico’s socialist female president briefly flexed on Trump’s border plans: How it’s going: Yep. The whole world witnessed it: