Category: Trump Derangement
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Shards
Chaya Raichik, of the account “Libs of TikTok”, and her seven-digit collection of followers, have gone scorched earth on social media accounts that cheered last weekend’s assassination attempt on former president Trump: I get the urge. Perhaps more than most. I’ve had at least one job get tanked because some (very “progressive”) management found out…
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Climate Of Hate
Saturday’s murder of a Trump supporter and father of several, the serious wounding of at least two more, and the miraculously slight injury to candidate Trump, was shocking. But it was far from unexpected. First things first: Thomas Crooks was the one who pulled the trigger, killed Corey Comperatore, and tried his damnedest to kill…
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A Pattern
While listening to the debate last week, I did hear one line that I fully expected Big Left’s chattering classes to try to exploit: Trump noted that illegal immigration would heavily impact “black jobs”. And that brought out the heckling class: Do you notice a pattern? It’s a diverse crowd of hecklers. Some of them…
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Plan B
Every Democrat, for the past 24 hours or so: SCOTUS: You can’t just throw your rival in prison because you don’t like him. DEMOCRATS: So you’re saying we can drop bombs on him? SCOTUS: You really can’t even charge your rival with a crime because his presidency made you mad. DEMOCRATS: Got it. So we…
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America Takes A Six Month “Lid”
We were told that Joe Biden is so on top of things, he can type in different languages on different iPhones at the same time. Remember this? The most credible people ever – dare I say, our “best and brightest” – assured us that Joe Biden at 82 is like Chuck Norris at 40: And…
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Better Late Than Never
Snopes finally admits something conservative media has been saying for seven years and change: Not sure what it was that prompted them to cough up the truth. Perhaps because, at least among the opinion-making class, the damage is done and irrecoverable; in this case, “Journalist” Christopher Ingraham of the MN Reformer: He’s one of the…
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Chanting Points Memo: The Law
To: The MN DFLFrom: Mitch Berg, Deplorable PeasantRe: Positioning w/r/t “The Law” DFL, The other day, your social media intern reiterated a chanting point the entire left was prattling lasdt week: “Nobody’s above the law” – with the apparent exception of the following: Circumstantial evidence indicates they are, indeed, “above the law” . That is…
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Just For The Record
Governor Klink – or his social media intern – turned the gas on the living room lamp down: Biden may be a good man – signs say “no, not really” – but the “steadiness” of his “leadership” have left the Middle East and Ukraine in flames, and I’m not betting against bad things happening in…
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Pulling The Weight
Another campaign, another flap about Trump vs. NATO: On the one hand, Trump’s rhetoric about NATO is…not “reckless”, so much as annoying. On the other hand? At a policy level, Trump strenghened NATO – and his rhetorical, er, “unpredictability” seems to have caused America’s would-be enemies to sit out the aggression and wait for the…
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The Thing About Trump
I’ve been pretty open about it for going on four decades. I don’t like Donald Trump. Let me be more clear; I don’t like people with the public persona people like Donald Trump cultivate. But personality and social media aside, Trump accomplished things. My biggest problem with Trump? His personality cult. Like this particular piece…
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Let’s Stir Up Another Republic-Threatening Hornets Nest: Part II
Since roughly the 2020 election, I’ve simultaneously: Three points. Imperfection The first point? I made that a few weeks back, when I talked about why I don’t necessairly think “a judge and jury say so” is completely invariably the dispositive last word on any issue. Long story short – judges and juries make mistakes. And…
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Attention: Secret Service
To: The Secret ServiceFrom: Mitch Berg, obstreporous peasantRe: SOPs Secret Service, Am I remembering wrong, or wasn;t there a time when “threatening a current or former President” was worth investigating, if not actually chargable? Just curious – Rick Wilson, NPR’s sole GOP source and former head of an organization that had a bit of a…
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Justice Is Blind And Probably A Little Buzzed On Adderall
I mean, it’s a grand jury, intended to allow prosecutors to indict ham sandwiches, etc etc, bla bla. But looking at this interview with the forewoman of the Trump grand jury in Fliorida… …it’s hard to be filled with confidence in the future of one of the most important institutions in our democracy.
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Fearless Prediction
Big Left will flip the tables, declare that Trump’s push to develop a vaccine was a huge mistake.
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Good Riddance
Adam Kinzinger proves he knows nothing about the constitution by saying it in as many words. No. Really. The only thing that bothers me as much is the Trump personality cult is the anti-Trump personality cult
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Our Betters Know It
We are living in a meritocracy that is utterly lacking in merit. And our betters know it. If the current leadership in Washington were confident in their abilities and in their support, you would not see FBI raids on political opponents and political show trials on national television. You are under no obligation to like…
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You’ll Get Nothing And Like It
Former Trump hand Michael Anton, writing for Compact, offers a bracing view of the various pathologies of Trump haters, whose numbers are legion, at least among the chattering classes. I am going to pull a few quotes; this article is a festival of pull quotes, truly a “read the whole thing” special. But a few…
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Suss This
Given the glacial pace of John Durham’s investigation, it’s easy to assume that nothing is really going to come of his efforts; it’s a drill we’ve all seen before. Before Lucy pulls the football away yet again, let’s note that Durham did establish something long suspected: John Durham released a potential smoking gun in the…
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P. J. O’Rourke, RIP
P. J. O’Rourke died yesterday at the age of 74. He was one of the best conservative pundits of the last 50 years and certainly the funniest. He also had a keen eye. In his 1990 classic Parliament of Whores, he provided a spot-on synopsis of the people you meet at a protest rally. Tell…
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Lit
SCENE: Mitch BERG is trying out an ethiopian restaurant. Avery LIBRELLE, wearing two masks and a face shield, walks in, and notices BERG before he can hide his face behind a menu. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Oh, fuuuu…get about finding better Ethiopian food than… LIBRELLE: All Republicans are at fault for supporting the overthrow of the…
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Gurgitation On Cue
SCENE: Mitch BERG is looking for a new heat gun at a hardware store when Kirk THUNT, used car salesman and chairman of The Arne Carlson Project, an anti-Trump organization based in Forest Lake, walks around the corner. THUNT: Merg. BERG: Er…hi ,Kirk… THUNT: You routinely refuse to condemn Donald Trump for trying to overthrow…
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This Is #NeverTrump
I’ve been frank about my long-term ambivalence (at best) about Donald Trump. In fact, if the universe were a purely binary construct, I could say with a straight face that the only think I like less than Trump… …is “#NeverTrump”, the reaction to Trump among Republicans that became ever-more knee-jerk over time, to the point…
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Never Thought I’d See The Day
I’ll admit it – I thought it was impossible for.a ‘woke’ lefty to get charged with a “hate crime”, and that the entire category was designed to try to gin up numbers for Big Left’s “there’s a wave of white supremacist terror coming that will dwarf 9/11″ thesis. I stand, well, partially corrected.
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Life Is Full Of Ironies, If You’re Stupid
A few years ago, when people started talking about the “Dunning Kruger Effect” – the notion that the less someone knows about a subject, the more expert they feel about it – the first thing I thought was “Well, this isn’t going to get turned into a form of onanistic self-ongratulation, used in service of…
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Ruparing
I’d like to claim this as a late addition to the DFL Dictionary – but alas, it’s actually from the Urban Dictionary: Rupar (Verb): To purposely (sic) mislead. To completely mischaracterize a statement or video by omitting context. Yesterday, at a “press conference” on the Capitol steps, as embattled representative John “Burn Hugo Down” Thompson,…