Category: 2020 Riots
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Rittenhouse: Not Guilty On All Counts
Live feed. Count 1 (Rosenbaum): Not guilty Count 2 (McGuinness) Not guilty Count 3 (Jump Kick Guy) Not guilty Count 4 (Huber) Not guilty Count 5 (Grosskreutz) Not guilty Strap in, Kenosha. It’s gonna be a bumpy night. : And here’s hoping Rittenhouse follows Nick Sandman into civil court. UPDATE: Judge Schroeder after the Jury…
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Our Betters Have Spoken
Author Thomas Ricks on Twitter: Three blocks from my house, August 26,2020. Well, there is a dumbass dupe in the conversation.
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I’m Old Enough…
…To remember when “insurrections against civil government” or a bad thing. That’s “Anti”-Fa, projecting their emblem onto the wall of the Multnomah County courthouse in Portland. It is literally no less objectionable than projecting a swastika, by the way. The emblem is directly descended from that of the German communist party’s version of the Brownshirts.…
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Equity
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: If taking a selfie in the Capitol is insurrection and attempted assassination of Congress, what is giving The Deadliest Virus Every Known to members of Congress, their staff members and people in the White House? Why aren’t Texas Democrats held in solitary confinement until their treason trials? Joe Doakes…
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The Fix
I’ve observed, with tongue half-heartedly about a quarter of the way into my cheek, that you could tell there not a significant number of “white supremacists” in last year’s riots, because as the Midway burned, vandalized and/or caked with graffiti, Allianz Field, the playground of upper-middle-class white progressive Europhiles and, we were once told, immigrants,…
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Hastily Made Portland Tourism Ad?
So is this a tourism ad, or a cry for help? Odd tourism ad, doncha think? Usually you get a picture of nature, or a soaring skyline, or beatiful people enjoying dazzling nightlife. But not this time. So what does a tourist do in Portland? Apparently you can cross a bunch of bridges. That might…
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Demotivator
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Happy Anniversary from your friends, the right-wing accelerationists, Nazis, Umbrella Man, the Klan, Trump supporters and other deplorable people bitterly clinging to their guns and Bibles. Joe Doakes
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Desperately Seeking
Twin Cities media – in this case, the “Minnesota Reformer”, aka “MN Monitor 4.0” – is apparently still hoping for the FBI to charge “Umbrella Man” with destroying or damaging 700 buildings last year. I’m sorry. That was snarky. I’ll try again. They are apparently still awaiting formal confirmation that Umbrella Man led a horde…
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Newbies
Have we reached a tipping point in the culture war as re guns? It’s not a new point – if you’ve listened to my show, you’ve heard the story. But this past year, 40% of gun sales were to people outside the “white male who’s already got a bunch of guns” stereotype: Not only were…
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Well, That Turned Around Fast
Friday Morning: local media cover the bejeebers out of a press conference – the sort of coordinated coverage that screams “a PR flak is working this hard”: While challenges remain, downtown Minneapolis’ progress toward a post-pandemic revival is picking up steam, according to the panelists who joined a Friday morning online forum hosted by the…
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The New Rules
Remember when there was an unstated rule, when following news coverage of a crime in the Metro – if they didn’t mention the offender’s ethnicity or show a photo, it actually answered the question? New addition to the rule: if the story pertains to criminal justice’s response to last year’s riots, and the offender’s ideology…
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Chum
Andrew McCarthy writing at National Review says the Chauvin jury was correct to convict him, not based on anything reported in the media or introduced as evidence at trial or the pervasive atmosphere of intimidation, but because the conviction means Chauvin is a bad cop and that exonerates the rest of society from the charge…
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With Apologies To David Letterman (Back When He Was Funny)
The Top Ten Things you Never, Ever Hear in Real Life. 10. “Hey, hand me that piano”. 9. “Gosh, the Star Tribune does a great job of balanced coverage on divisive issues” 8. “You know what I could use right now? A plate of “Scrod” from Embers” 7. “The fact that the Vikings, T-Wolves, Wild…
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Consequences. Unintended And…
A friend of the blog emails: Essentially this article blames the pandemic as the reason for higher Minneapolis property taxes next year. The reason is because commercial real estate in the city has been jumping so much over the last 10 years before 2020, home owners have not seen as much increase in property taxes. …
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I’m No Lawyer
As such, I have no idea if the City of Minneapolis is trying to find ways to throw the Chauvin trial, or to create grounds for endless appeals, each of them a potential spark for more riots and, of course, more springboards for more political grandstanding. But if it were…: Cahill’s decision followed a defense…
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Currying Favor
Here’s the team of lawyers volunteering their time to prosecute a Minneapolis police officer in the biggest racial lynching the city has ever seen. They must all be gunning for judge, hoping to impress Tim Walz with their sterling Liberal credentials so he appoints them to the bench. Thank God I don’t live in Hennepin County. Joe…
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The Darkness Before The Darkness
A longtime friend of the blog emails: With the impending Derek Chauvin trial, the fortification of the 4th Precinct has begun this morning. A wall of cement traffic barricades are being set around the perimeter. Back last summer it was reinforced with razor wire. I am so deeply saddened by what has happened to my…
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To Recap
We had a thorough discussion about Ryan Winkler’s tweet and establishedthat Democrats have a strong personal belief, perhaps even a moralconviction, that public safety is a government responsibility. We had a thorough discussion about a lawsuit against the City andestablished that when citizens suffer because government abandoned itsresponsibility, the citizens have no recourse against the…
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The Walk
Our thorough discussion of Ryan Winkler’s tweet established thatDemocrats have a strong personal belief, perhaps even a moralconviction, that public safety is a government responsibility. Our thorough discussion of the lawsuit against Minneapolis establishedthat when citizens suffer because government abandons itsresponsibility, the citizens have no recourse under existing law. You must rely on us; but…
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They’re Mad As Hell…
Owners of the iconic “Town Talk Diner” at Lake and MInnehaha in Minneapolis – which was turned into the “Town Talk Pile of Rubble” during the Floyd Riots – are sueing the City of Minneapolis for failing to protect… …well, much of anyone or anything – notwithstanding it being one of the city’s only unambiguously…
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I’m Not Saying…
….that Ron DeSantis is high up on my short list of candidates for 2024. I am saying that if he keeps up with his competent, fact-driven crisis management combined with his Trump-like ability to cut through the narrative BS while maintaining an air of measured acerbity… …he could get there pretty quick.
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#Unity!
Turns out Americans can unify on one thing – gunning up. Even in Minnesota? Perhaps especially so. the numbers: The National Shooting Sports Foundation tallied more than 37,600 statewide requests to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System in January — nearly double from 18,990 in January 2020. It wasn’t just January: More than 380,000…
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Oversight…
Henco attorney Mike Freeman isn’t happy about the “Minnesota Freedom Fund” repeatedly bailing out violent offenders who can be linked, however tenuously, to political protest. Which is fine, as far as it goes. But have you noticed, in the wake of all the collective slander about “white supremacists” being “the real culprits” behind last spring’s…