Category: Trump Derangement
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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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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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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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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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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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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:
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That’s A Bold Strategy, Cotton
Berating voters didn’t work well for Royce White. And not finishing thoughts didn’t do Giggles a lot of favors (you’ll have to hunker down and get to the “end” of the video to get the reference, and I can’t blame you if you don’t). But… …maybe this time it’ll work. PS: What is the “Right…
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Detente
Are Brzezinsky and Scarborough trying to save their jobs? Or are they trying to belatedly act like “journalists?” It’s a coin toss as far as I can tell. But one things’ for sure – while good deeds might not go unpunished, failing to “denormalize” the “Literal Hitler” certainly won’t: (Side question: Why is it that…
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It’s A Simple Question, Mr. Stelter
To: Brian Stelter, CNNFrom: MItch Berg, obstreporous peasantRe: Brendan Carr Mr. Stelter, You tweeted this about Brendan Carr, President-Elect Trump’s pick to head the FCC: Just curious – what is it you think Carr is wrong about? That is all.
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It’s A Family Thing
Progressives – in this case, a guy who was telling us Joe Biden was stronger and more with it than Chuck Norris in his prime until two hours before Giggle defenestrated him – are not cool with RFK Junior running the DHHS: So – RFK Jr. is driving his uncle’s car off the bridge and…
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Lying Liars Lying Again
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Let’s not think for a moment that Big Left is giving up after the November 5 landslide.
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Stakes
After a senseless tragedy, people – almost invariably conservatives – are told to never, ever dare to “politicize” it [1] 46 year old Anthony Nephew of Duluth apparently politicized his family’s tragedy for us over the weekend, murdering his wife and son, his ex-partner and son, and checking himself out afterward. According to the London…
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I’m Only Human
After being called a “Nazi”, a “misogynist”, a “fascist” and a “Racist”, it’s hard not to indulge in a little schadenfreud. Maybe a lot. And when God throws an opportunity like this in your way, who am I to argue? A licenced “poiltical analyst”, last Tuesday before the results started rolling in: I asked the…
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Burning Daylight
While I don’t endorse Bono’s threat to “drive a car off a cliff” after a Trump election, nor Rob Reiner’s to “set himself on fire” (and doubt Cher get a bullet into her head with all her various, uh, augmentation), I do believe that if Trump plans to be a “dictator”, one useful act would…
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“He’s Gonna Sic The Army On Citizens!”
Democrats are shocked, shocked, that Trump is talking about using the guard “on citizens” (who are rioting and destroying cities). Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Kennedy also sent the regular Army to help quell anti-desegregation riots at the University of Mississippi. To be fair, modern Democrats, at least the ones in MInneapolis, likely…
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Just Another Day
Another assassination attempt on Trump yesterday. Looks like eight years of “denormalizing Trump” is bearing fruit.
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That’ll Hurt
This one’s gotta leave a mark on Trump: How much did these two clods spend to make their twenty second video? BTW – burn calories, not flags. Jeez.
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From The Upcoming Revision To The Oxford English Dictionary
“Frumming (Verb): To compare two radically different things as if they were the same, by leaving out dispositively vital context. Example: Variations: Frummery: (Noun): “It was pure frummery to compare the records of the two presidents by dishonestly leaving out the pandemic”.