Category: The Second Civil War
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Conspiracy Theory
Joe Doakes, ex-Como Park, emails: One of the most common ways to refute any conspiracy theory is to point out that with that many bad actors, surely someone would have talked. https://x.com/MattForVA/status/1971575908424151298 Now let’s talk about the stolen election. Joe Doakes Joe’s not wrong – although it did come out in only…
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Options
Joe Doakes, once but no longer of Como Park, emails: Suppose you are playing a game and your opponent cheats. You point it out and he denies it. You insist you saw him cheat and he admits doing the act but claims that wasn’t cheating. When you show him the rule book, he asserts those…
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Picture, If You Will…
You’re a security guy. You’re securing a public figure – part of an administration brings out the crazy in the crazies, and who has herself gotten plenty of “admiration” from the “Professor Bill” set. She completely meets the criteria set down in Berg’s 8th Law. You’re securing her in a crowded room full of people…
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Like Dunkirk, Only With Robots
Waymo moves all of its self-driving cabs out to the suburbs of Los Angeles: It may be the most 2025 photo of all time.
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City Council Reps And County Attorney Of The Flies
This past Tuesday, scads of feds – FBI, DHS, BATFE – raided eight different businesses around the Twin Cities, serving search warrants related to human trafficking. Seven of the raids went off without a hitch. But the eighth – at Lake and Bloomington, deep in the heart of white, progressive Minneapolis – was different. The…
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Open Letter To MPR’s Jon Collins: Year 5
To: Jon Collins, Senior Reporter on Race, Class and Communities, MInnesota Public RadioFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Anniversary + Findings Mr. Collins, As I have every year since 2021, I hope this day finds you well. It was four years ago yesterday you sent this out on your listener mailing list:: “South Minneapolis: I know…
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Walz 3.0: Thrash That Poor Crippled Horse
He’s gonna run for Governor again: Of course, the little gnome will spend the next 18 months dodging debates. But his Veep bid last year, and his newfound rise to national prominence, have given people a whole lot more material. As has the governor himself: The little gnome never gets tired of “Nazi” references, does…
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Domino
Minneapolis deputy police chief Katie Blackwell’s defamation suit was thrown out, and she’s been ordered to pay back part of Liz Collin’s legal fees: This may be the biggest backfire I’ve seen in a defamation suit – and the subject is by no means academic to me. In a move that finally brings truth to…
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Sunday Open Thread
Have at it. What could possibly go wrong?
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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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Level-Setting
This sums up the moment we’re in as well as anything I’ve seen. Worth a watch.
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The Usual Suspects
After almost five years, the City of Minneapolis “plans” to “do” “something” with the former Speedway in “George Floyd Square”. I’m adding emphaiss to the quote below for a reason: The City of Minneapolis has received four applications to redevelop The People’s Way, which was formerly a Speedway gas station at the corner of 38th…
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Redux
So – AlphaNews and Liz Collin released Minneapolis has Fallen a little over a year ago. One of the signal scenes in the movie happened when Assistant Chief Blackwell testified that the “Maximal Restraint Technique” – which a series of current and former MPD officers testified was part of MPD traininig, and which Chauvin’s mother…
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The DFL Playbook
2. Keep on letting it stew. Let the “steam” build: 3. Go “I’m shocked, shocked that there’s a crime problem! 4. “Ride to the rescue” with a meaningless band-aid that doesn’t come close to addressing the cultural crisis you, yourselves, fomented: Of course I’m not the first or only one to notice this: Apparently “chaos”…
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Pre-Cognitive Dissonance
Am I the only one that heard about Taylor Lorenz’s “Joy” at the murder of Brian Thompson… …and thought “that certainly puts a new spin on the Harris campaign’s theme?” Freedom is slavery? 2+2=5? Murder is joy? One “joy” I try to deny myself is excessive schadenfreud. Pinky swear. But I’ll confess, I feel quite…
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To The Dacha Born
John Kerry – who came waaaay too close to becoming President, and that’s after acknowledging what a disappointment Dubya was in retrospect – accidentally told the left’s truth: “our First Amendment stands as a major block to be able to just, you know, hammer it” It’s disheartening how many Democrats consider that a bug rather…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Paul Gazelka’s book Lifting the Veil is available right here. Today’s music list:
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“This Is MAGA Country!”
“Klan” leaflet with “German”-style type appearing “according to a pastor” in Springfield Ohio: “Stamped Self-Addressed Envelope?” Berg’s 20th Law governs: All incidents of “hate speech” not captured on video (involving being delivered by someone proven not to be a ringer) shall be assumed to be hoaxes until proven otherwise. Now, let’s take bets on how…
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Gwen Antoinette
Now that Tim Walz is enjoying the first of his fifteen minutes, it’s high time we revisit some of his greatest hits. Here’s Gwen Walz – who seems more and more like a Jill Biden character lately, and that’s not a good thig – talking about her, uh, odd perspective on the 2020 riots: As…
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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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Remedy
Joe Doakes, no longer from Como Park emails: In Murthy v. Missouri, the Biden administration was accused of unconstitutional infringement of free speech by pressuring social media to suppress stories unfavorable to the administration. A lower court found it was the most blatant act of censorship in American history. The Supreme Court sidestepped the issue…
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Arsenal Of Theocracy
Joe Doakes, no longer from Como Park, emails: Biden says Americans do not need firearms to resist government tyranny because we don’t have F15s so can’t win anyway. Biden surrendered to the Taliban. How many F15s did they have? Asking for a friend Joe Doakes Ooh, I can answer that! None! Lots and lots of…
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Pogrom
There’s really no other word to describe what happened in Los Angeles on Sunday: Nothing small or isolated about it. I’m old enough to remember when Jews feared the right in America. But barely. This guy… …looks like a skinhead reliving his “glory days” from the ’80s. That the modern “Palestinian” movement allies with them…
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Why Can’t Johnny Do History?
POTATUS – or “Doctor” Jill, or the social media intern – spoke last week: Question: do any of them know how this nation started? Or why?