Shot in the Dark

Category: The Second Civil War

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Punching Laterally-To-Down

    To: Jason Chavez, Minneapolis DSA/DFL councilbeingFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Punching Councilbeing Chavez, You tweeted this on Wednesday: Let’s talk about the term “uprising”. It usually connotes a group of subjugated, beaten-down people, “rising up” against their oppressors. Good examples of uprisings that fit some variant of that definition: Each of these uprisings have a…

  • 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?

  • 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…