Category: The Second Civil War
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Mostly Peaceful
Pro-“choice” activists firebomb pro-life office: Madison police and fire departments were called to the office of Wisconsin Family Action (WFA) around 6 a.m. on Sunday after a passer-by reported smoke coming from the building. The flames were extinguished and thankfully, no one was injured. Investigators found a smashed window and at least one molotov cocktail that had…
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The Drawing Board
An anonymous lawyer friend (who is not Joe Doakes) writes: I’d get in so much trouble if I posted this, but when I see people say that 70% opposethe overtruning of Roe v. Wade, my first thought is that no more than 2% even know what it says, much less what overturning it would mean.…
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Democracy Dies In Democracy
Americans want change, dammit! I suspect modern Americans, if asked “should we install a single executive, with unlimited power over government, to get things done and solve the current crisis?“, it’d show something like 52% positive.
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Apples And Chainsaws
If you listen to the pro-infanticide crowd, you might think the Unted States “lagged” behind the heathens on the Continent when it came to “reproductive rights”. Which is why listening to the pro-infanticide crowd is such a terrible idea: Most of Europe is more restrictive than Mississippi or Texas. Hold that thought.
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Two Americas
During World War 2 in the Pacific, American GIs famously used verbal call-and-answer passwords with the letter “L” – “Calla Lillies” was a famous one – because the Japanese language has no such sound in it; it’s hard for Japanese-born speakers, even those relatively fluent in English, to make that sound. Likewise, an easy way…
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Pondering The Decline
Joel Doakes from Como Park emails: If: A sane man instinctively recoils in horror from harming another, and later suffers PTSD from the guilt; A sociopath cares about his own group but not other groups and therefore has no problem harming them; and A psychopath actively enjoys harming people and seeks out the opportunity to…
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Destructive Destruction
The CVS store that has served for the past few decades as one of the anchors of the MIdway’s “main street”, at Snelling and University (but for seven months after the George Floyd riots, of course, where it stood boarded up, a monument to the perfidy of the metro DFL) is closing in a couple…
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Scratch A “Progressive”, Find A Totalitarian
“So, Mitch – why do you say that the democratic party in United States is the party of authoritarianism? “ Because they tell us they are. Strong majority of Democrats approve of Justin Trudeaucescu‘s treatment of civil disobedience:treatment of civil civil disobedience: 35 percent overall approved of Trudeau’s crackdown, while 10 percent said they were…
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Calling All “Journalists”
More on the Ilhan Omar response tweet – itself just a big fascination – later. Now – let’s take a look at this tweet, from someone justifying the hacking of crowd-funding data for people supporting the Trucker Convoy, included this photo and blurb: Stay with me on this: it zigs, and it zags. We’ve got…
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“Captain Obvious? Your Promotion To Admiral Came Through”
Study shows that “racial justice” protests that include “Anti”-Fa are at least 18 times more likely to end up in violence than protests where they didn’t show up. And no, the same does not hold true for “right wing“ groups: They continued on to question whether the right-wing groups were the real source of the…
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Our Bully-Girl Social Superiors
Nekima Levy-Armstrong, at the demonstration over the weekend outside what may have been the Minneapolis interim chief’s house: My – she’s kind of a bully, isn’t she? She’s well on her way to being Al Sharpton.
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For It, Before Against It
I don’t as a rule care about artists politics, anymore than I care about a politician’s taste in music. But the flip-flop of so many “counterculture” artists to “cultural enforcer” would be jarring, to anyone who thought about it critically. It made headlines last week: Neil Young, who’s spent the last couple weeks trying to…
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Maybe He’ll Give Up Umbrella Man!
10 year sentence – a downward departure from sentencing guidelines by nearly half – in the burning of a Minneapolis pawn shop during the George Floyd riots: Black Lives Matter rioter Montez Terriel Lee Jr., of Rochester, New York, was sentenced Friday to 120 months in federal prison for his role in burning down a…
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Inhuman
Remember in the 1980s, when some “conservative” fundies rejoiced at the deaths of AIDS patients. It was a pretty depraved stance. Everyone knows that. Someone tell the fairly irredeemable LA Times drone Michael Hiltzik – who has reprised that particular bit of human depravity by declaring “Mocking some anti-vaxxers’ deaths is necessary“. Helpfully, he adds…
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Rule Of Law
Governor Klink had a union obligation to save the bloody shirt yesterday: I mean, he’s not wrong – although I doubt he knows why. The part of our “democratic ideals” that the mooks ofJanuary 6 attacked was the process – the Constitutionally-mandated steps for determining who the President is. The rioters tried to circumvent that…
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Mention
Joe Doakes from Como Park emailed me yesterday: Today is the Honorable Sixth, the day when patriots everywhere raise their fingers to the usurper in Washington, in memory of the innocents slaughtered and the political prisoners still held captive for attempting to secure democracy by peaceful means. Joe Doakes I mean, if it were Democrats…
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The First Of Many Wavings Of The Bloody Shirt
I don’t disagree with any of the particulars of the National Review’s editorial about January 6: There is no defense for what the mob did that day. None. The people have a right to form loud, angry crowds to petition and protest their government. They need not do so in ways that are pleasant or…
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It’s Not Us. It’s You.
This nation has two choices, if we’re to remain a nation (or, potentially, a viable society). One of them – by far the most radical and traumatic – is secession; from individual states, and maybe from the US itself. (And no – that wasn’t “settled in 1865” any more than it was settled in 1776.…
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I’m Pretty Convinced…
…that Covid provides a disturbing proportion of our society with a reason to wake up in the morning; “enforcing the misery” gives their lives whatever meaning it has. Which brings us to this: First, kudos to the guy, who learned the important lesson: when a woman, no matter how wrong, no matter how impaired, no…
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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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Travesty
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails You’re a cop. You’ve stopped a driver and have him standing on the side of the road because he’s got warrants for his arrest. He dives back into the car, presumably going for his gun. What do you do? a. grab him from behind and wrestle with him. No,…
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It’s Not Us. It’s You.
A relationship can survive anything, says Dennis Prager, except contempt. And there is a lot of contempt in our society. Mostly one-way: Nearly a quarter of college students wouldn’t be friends with someone who voted for the other presidential candidate — with Democrats far more likely to dismiss people than Republicans — according to new Generation…
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Everything’s A Wedge
According to Dana Milbank… …dissenting from Big Left/Big Media/the Brandon administration is “fascism”.. Not sure if they’re trying to foment a civil war. If they were, what would they be doing differently? (And how is the Brandon Administration “salvaging democratic norms?” Labeling everyone that disagrees a “white supremacist?”)
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Urban Progressive Privilege: Am I The Only One That Thinks…
…that the current, possibly-excessive, garment-rending over the “Omicron” variant is the sound of an awful lot of people who’ve gone through lives with little purpose or meaning, and have found a perverted version of both in bullying, shunning and scarlet-lettering people with different conclusions and means of dealing with Covid? That depression and anxiety might…
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Rittenhouse: Good News, Bad News
I’ve had to spend a long weekend explaining to a lot of “progressives”: it’s entirely possible that not only are both of the following true: Something can be a bad idea, legally and in common sense terms, Self-defense is not only legitimate, but a very high hurdle to meet under the law in every state…