Shot in the Dark

Category: The Second Civil War

  • Open Letter To MPR’s Jon Collins: Year 4

    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…

  • Lab Report

    To: Central Science Bureau, Planet Xymorg. From: Forward Observation Base, Dark Side of Sole Moon, Planet Terra, Sol SystemRe: Initial Observations Central Bureau, Enclosed please find the report on our observations of the inhabitants of planet Terra (aka “Earth”). Methods Our team observed the inhabitants of Terra via an extensive observation of “Advertisements” – a…

  • An American Hero

    For like the 21st year in a row, I didn’t watch the State of the Union. I’ve joined the crowd that considers it a useless exercise at best, a nod to monarchy or worse at worst. But I almost wish I had tuned in, for this alone: “Thirteen Marines” Including his son, LCPL Kareem Nikoui,…

  • Remember…

    …while it’s always the Democrats who fantasize [1] about turning the military loose on Americans…: …it’s the Republicans who are really the “Fascists”. Representative Wu went on to bleat…: That’s right – a guy who openly fantasizes about shooting missiles at Americans is concerned about “dangers to his community”. Gene Wu may be the modern…

  • Let’s Stir Up Another Republic-Threatening Hornets Nest: Part I

    I saw “The Fall of Minneapolis” again last week. Now, when I first mentioned seeing it a few months back, a few smart people whose opinions I never discount asked “is there anything new that the courts didn’t settle?” That brings up a couple of questions. In our society, we usually think that if a…

  • I Read Deena Winter In The “Minnesota Reformer” So You Don’t Have To

    Earlier this week, the Minnesota Reformer – a news outlet financed by “progressive” plutocrats iwth deep pockets – did its review of AlphaNews’s “Minneapolis Has Fallen”. The claims – well, I’ll let the tweet do the talking for the piece, entitled “I Watched Minneapolis Has Fallen So You Don’t Have To”. Let’s go briefly through…

  • Settler Projects

    Among the “setter projects” that Americans established as we (yes) conquered the North American continent, along with representative democracy, were universities. And I’m thinking that those are among the “settler projects”… …that actually need to be dismantled. Or at least, it’s time for an actual honest-to-god McCarthy-style purge of Universities.

  • Mirthy

    SCENE: Mitch BERG is loading some garage junk into a truck. He doesn’t notice Avery LIBRELLE, whjo is walking up the alley writing down the addresses of homes without handicap parking spots. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Uh… LIBRELLE: Christian Nationalists can’t handle freedom of religion! They’re having a cow and melting down over a Satan Club…

  • Converts

    Wonder why Big Left’s noise machine was so quick to try to gundeck The Fall of Minneapolis? Because they’re smart enough to see that it coud change some minds. In this case, the minds of academic Glenn Loury and the NYTimes’s John McWhorter – both of whom formerly bought Big Left’s story on the events…

  • The More Things Change, The Less Things Change

    There was a time when I might have asked what a metro school board, like for example Edina, might have done if a bunch of students wandered around the halls bellowing:\ “UptownDowntownWe Just Want Our Lebensraum Or: We don’t need ethnic pollutionBring us the Final Solution! But it occurs to me…: …it may be the…

  • Actual Journalism

    Since the entire media will try to suppress it – here’s “The Fall of Minneapolis”, by Liz Collin and the Alphanews crew: Watch it. Pass it along. I won’t give you any spoilers – you already know that Mayor Frey was a hapless stooge at best, a theatrical ninny at worst. Chief Arradondo lied through…

  • Muslims: Shut Up Or Get Cut Up

    Lest anyone doubted that Big Left today is Marxist to its foetid roots, we now join a white, uppser-middle class white progressive member of the Saint Louis Park School Board pulling intersectional rank on…. …Muslim parents objecting to porn in elementary schools: That’s the thing about intersectionalism; while more virtue attaches to people the farther…

  • The Enemy Within, Around And Above

    This is this sort of thing that should send Americans to be barricades. This is ample reason to block freeways (in DC and Silicon Valley and Saint Paul’s Government Canyon anyway). This is a reason to break out tar and feathers and lots and lots of harsh tweets. It’s a thread. Click through in Twitter.…

  • Review And Revise

    Whatever opposition I’ve had to deportation of illegal immigrants is waning fast: I’ll work my ass off for the first Presidential candidate to promise to deport aliens who are actively hostile to everything this country stands for. I said “actively”. And if the people in this mob are citizens? Deport whatever immigration official or politician…

  • Compromise

    Someone walks up to you with a baseball bat. They say they want to kill you. Your response is “no, I don’t want to get beaten to death with a baseball bat”. Looks like you have a standoff. A controversy. A conundrum. Someone else steps in and asks “How about we compromise? Will you settle…

  • The Fix

    A “high trust” society – the kind of society where you can leave your doors unlocked, or at least not keep all your property under constant surveillance at the very least – depends on trusting your neighbors, and the institutions by which we govern ourselves. When that trust is broken, society becomes “low trust” –…

  • It’s A Start

    The Georgia Attorney General is bringing RICO charges against 60+ “Anti”-Fa droogs: “We contend the 61 defendants together have conspired against the construction of the Atlanta public safety training center by conducting, coordinating, and organizing acts of violence, intimidation, and property destruction,” said AG Carr, in a press conference on Tuesday. As alleged in the…

  • A Third Rail Made Of Millions Of Third Rails

    SCENE: Mitch BERG is sitting in a Chicago-style Viking restaurant in Richfield, perusing the menu. Devadip Ulysses PLOOBRADOR is escorted in and sits at a table next to BERG. PLOOBRADOR is a mystic prophet and self-described wise man who also doubles as a UPS and Doordash driver. BERG: Mr. Ploobrador. PLOOBRADOR: Mr. Berg. So what’s…

  • One Day In The Theme Park

    SCENE: Mitch BERG is standing in line at a Mexican fast-food joint when Evan Micah BRYAN walks into the store. BRYAN is 23, a 2022 graduate of Macalester with a degree in Political Science, is the Senior Communications Director for the Senate DFL Caucus. BRYAN: MeRG. BERG: Uh, hey… BRYAN: ZOMGConServaTiveZ aRe tEh HiCks aND…

  • Lipstick On The Pig

    Big Media (Loudly). Target is getting threatened for backing off of some trans-forward merch in some stores in some places… (More quietly): …by pro-LGBTQIAetc advocates. Conclusion: give in to the wannabe terrorists so the conservatives don’t win!

  • Open Letter To MPR’s Jon Collins: Year 3

    To: Jon Collins, Senior Reporter on Race, Class and Communities, MInnesota Public RadioFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Anniversary + Findings Mr. Collins, As with last year and 2021, I hope this day finds you well. It was three years ago today you sent this out on your listener mailing list:: “South Minneapolis: I know this…

  • Three Years Ago Today…

    …as the George Floyd riots gathered steam, this blog (thanks to a source with deep connections among Henco first responders) scooped the entire rest of the Twin Cities media on the Third Precinct story.

  • A Time For Choosing

    January 6 was, at worst, a bunch of goons and wannabes playing “Three Percenter” games. Maybe they were provoked by a Fed, maybe not. Watergate? That was a President and his committee doing something that they knew was wrong enough that they felt the explicit need to cover it up. amind The Durham report describes…

  • A Couple Bucks In The Proverbial Tip Jar

    Sure, it’s entirely plausible that an entire “white supremacist” group without a single inbred-looking morbidly overweight guy among ’em might march through DC without a mob of “counterprotesters” howling for their blood. It’s a crazy world, anything can happen. What makes this whole thing seem just a tad lessplausible is…:

  • Controlled Demolition, Part III

    Earlier in this exceptionally loosely linked series, I lamented that the conditions that set up the great American resurgence of the early 1980s aren’t, largely, there in our society today. I’ll return to the example of France. The French nation and people have a culture that goes back, in one form or another, to pre-Roman…