Here’s your state rep, Luke Frederick, comparing people of faith to slave holders for dissenting from the left on trans ideology:
Please shock the world on election day, and send this hamster back to whatever coffee shop he was working at before he latched onto the DFL gravy train.
Since we have an election coming up, let’s take a trip down memory lane.
Here’s Rep. Dave Pinto, progsplaining last session why DFL prosecutors won’t go after straw buyers – because the sentences are “too low”…
…before joining his entire caucus in voting down a bill that would have increased the sentence.
Pinto will get re-elected. He’s in a nauseatingly save DFL district.
But if you live somewhere in play?
Your mission is clear.
Since Tim “Mind Your Own Business” Walz and his phalanx of lies are on the ticket next week, let’s make sure people remember this:
They warned us that if we voted GOP, fascism would erupt. And they were right.
Remember 2020?
No.
Never forget 2020.
The Cathedral of Saint Paul seats 3000 people.
Governor Klink arbitrarily limited to 10 people. No singing.
The 617 bar in White Bear Lake seats 37 people
Bars were limited to 50. No matter how many they started with.
This is governance by “the party of science“. Never forget.
(Via former representative Matt Dean.)
SCENE: In a conference room at the MN DFL headquarters. Chair Ken Martin is sitting along one side of the table with Gretel STROMBERG and Inge “Lucky” CARROLL, the executive director and chief social media meme-buffer at “Minnesotans United for All Progressive Causes”, the state’s primary non-profit political action committee that is no way, no how connected with the DFL, you racist pig. Across the table sits Chad MANBUNFRONDSON, upper midwest outreach director for the Harris/Walz campaign
MANBUNFRONDSON: So for some reason the Harris/Walz campaign is having trouble among men, especially whyte men.
CARROLL: (Hisses theatrically)
STROMBERG: Stupid wypipo
MARTIN: Worst people in the universe.
CARROLL: Unless they’re trans men.
STROMBERG: Who are men.
MARTIN: But of course.
MANBUNFRONDSON: We’ve tried treating them like infants. How’d that work?
CARROLL: To my amazement, that did not poll well.
MANBUNFRONDSON: And we tried social media sizzle, creating an entire group for them.
STROMBERG: Polls show most men found it (reads notes) “so patronizing it felt like a Babylon Bee parody” at best, insulting at worst”.
MARTIN: Whaaaaaa?
MANBUNFRONDSON: And picking Tim Walz – the manliest man to ever weedwhip a lawn, didn’t do the trick?
MARTIN: Most of the guys on my staff agree.
CARROLL: Uhhhhh….
MANBUNFRONDSON: And telling them that Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff are the new models of masculinity?
STROMBERG: Kind of a bad news/bad news situation there.
MANBUNFRONDSON: Huh?
MARTIN: The bad news is, most men thought Walz is a (checks notes) “doughy, lying little weasel”, and Emhoff is a “philanderingt sh**stick”.
STROMBERG: And the other bad news is, the move backfired pretty spectacularly.
MANBUNFRONDSON: Huh. So nothing’s worked.
(The others shrug with exasperationˆ)
MANBUNFRONDSON: OK. It’s time to release the Kraken.
MARTIN: Yeah, that should do it.
STROMBERG: (Chef’s kiss)
And SCENE
In a campaign full of cringe-y ads, this may be the dumbest:
Treating husbands as the enemy seems like a bit of a tactical error.
Democrats are shocked, shocked, that Trump is talking about using the guard “on citizens” (who are rioting and destroying cities).
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:
Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock to keep order while they integrated the schools.
He used the military against segregationists, the enemy within, his political foes.
Was that wrong? Was Eisenhower also Hitler, same as Trump?
Kennedy also sent the regular Army to help quell anti-desegregation riots at the University of Mississippi. To be fair, modern Democrats, at least the ones in MInneapolis, likely think of Kennedy as a fascist today, too.
Do the world a favor and vote against Karl Procaccini:
A friend of the blog notes, for those with shorter and less-photographic memories:
He was the legal architect of the lockdown in MN. His appointment was payback for his ability to defend any bad judgment policy Walz had, constitution be damned. Hack. Don’t vote for him, don’t leave it blank, vote for his opponent.
He’s basically Tim Walz’s hired legal help.
It’ll take a miracle to affect a SCOM race – but if we don’t work for miracles, they never happen.
As noted earlier, the polls look all right for Trump – far better, in fact, than in 2016 and 2020.
But there’s no way to know what’s baked into the “special sauce” in the polls. Did they overcorrect from their embarassing showing in 2016 and 2020? Did they over-overcorrect for 2022? There’s no way to know.
I want to make sure readers understand that, given the closeness of this race, the unpredictability (and inevitability) of polling error, and the Electoral College geography, a Harris/Walz victory remains plausible. You are permitted here, for a moment, to luxuriate in the irony that minorities are now the “problem” for Democrats — increasingly detached from what progressives arrogantly assumed would be a permanent relationship of political patronage. But MAGA types should save the smugness for now, if for no other reason than that Harris’s victory, should it emerge, will be properly interpreted as a direct rebuke to them.
I early-voted yesterday – something I’d never have thought about four years ago.
It took an hour to get into the polling station. This was in Roseville, MN – a very blue suburb.
Beyond the presidency – flipping the MN House, and ending the ravages of the “Trifecta”, is also at stake.
Two years ago, I resisted the “Red Wave” hype – it never quite smelled right to me.
This year? “It’s Trump’s race to lose” is a little more plausible – and thus, more dangerous.
Drag people to the polls, already.
I don’t need a lot of reasons not to vote for Kamala Harris next week. I’ve documented many of them.
She’s vapid.
World leaders – the ones that aren’t really just French or British or German version of her, anyway (including the Cartel leaders, who are the de facto leaders of Mexico and are world leaders in a sense in their own right) – have contempt for her, and are clearly drooling at the things they’ll be able to get away with if the American people screw this up.
The policies she does support are disasters, for the economy, liberty and the American republic.
She’s not a lot better at assembling a coherent thought than Biden, or go offscript without screwing up than Trump.
And that’s enough.
But it ain’t everything.
She’s got a pretty tenuous grasp of right and wrong.
The LIttle Girl Who Cried “Hitler”
Out of useful ideas, the Giggles/Piglet camaign is resorting to perhaps the Dems’ most loathsome trope: their opponents are “Nazis” and “Fascists”.
I stay pretty relentlessly civil – but there is nothing more loathsome, in part because it trivializes one of the most evil ideologies in history to try to win votes from stupid people.
For which she should rot.
Then there’s the little matter of her own little problem with authoritarianism.
“My Authoritaaaaaaaaah”
Giggles clearly enjoys the perks – the power – of being in office.
And flexing that power – especially against those who can’t defend themselves against her:
Not that I needed more reasons. But those are more reasons.
This was the DFL in 2023:
Just want to make sure people remember this for next Tuesday.
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:
We’re Number 1!
Viewed from the bottom up, that is. Or you might say, “dead last.” Potato, potahto.
It’s talking about fiscal policy and, well…
A newly released analysis of fiscal policy ranked all 50 states with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ state coming in first and Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in last.
The libertarian Cato Institute released the report, which graded states by spending, revenue and taxes. The top ten states in the rankings starting at the top are Iowa, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, South Dakota, Montana, Hawaii, Georgia, Idaho, and Vermont…
In 2019, Walz’s budget would have added ‘$2 billion more in new spending and taxes would increase by $1.3 billion to pay for it, with the rest of the money coming from an existing surplus.’ But he compromised with the legislature, and the final tax increase was about $330 million annually. Walz also pushed for higher gas taxes and higher vehicle fees to raise about $1 billion annually for transportation, but those increases were rejected.
Walz pushed for more tax hikes in 2021. He proposed adding a new individual income tax rate of 10.85 percent above the current top rate of 9.85 percent, a surtax on capital gains and dividends, and a hike to the corporate tax rate from 9.8 percent to 11.25 percent. The proposals—which would have raised about $1.6 billion annually—were rejected by the legislature…
Walz hit the middle class with HF 2887, which raised taxes and fees on vehicles and transportation. The increases included indexing the gas tax for inflation, increasing vehicle registration taxes, raising fees on deliveries, and raising sales taxes in the Twin Cities area.
No choking in the finals in this contest…
SCENE: In a conference room at the MN DFL headquarters. Chair Ken Martin is sitting along one side of the table with Gretel STROMBERG and Inge “Lucky” CARROLL, the executive director and chief social media meme-buffer at “Minnesotans United for All Conservative Causes”, the state’s primary non-profit political action committee that is no way, no how connected with the DFL, you racist pig. Across the table sits Chad MANBUNFRONDSON, upper midwest outreach director for the Harris/Walz campaign.
MANBUNFRONDSON: So here’s the new ad we’re thinking to get out the vote in Minnesota.
(Clicks remote. Ad flickers onto the screen)
(MARTIN, CARROLL and STROMBERG look at each other. The silence is a little awkward).
MARTIN (finally): It’s pure genius!
(CARROLL and STROMBERG applaud politely in the background)
MANBUNFRONDSON: We just figured that after seeing her husband’s performance during Covid, where treating the state like a bunch of addled infants for 19 months got him re-elected, that we literally couldn’t go broke betting on the stupidity of MInnesotans.
STROMBERG and CARROLL (simultaneously): You got that right.
MANBUNFRONDSON: So, presuming the media vetted the Governor and his wife sufficiently…
(MARTIN, CARROLL and STROMBERG look awkwardly at each other. before bursting out laughing. MANBUNFRONSON, late to the joke, joins them).
MANBUNFRONSON: (Catching is breath) Yeah, I know. No matter how often I come here, I still can’t get used to this place.
MARTIN (Summoning a butler with a clap of his hands): Let’s celebrate!
And SCENE
And People can vote for whoever they want to. It’s still a fairly free country.
But I’ve had a few people in my circle say they’re voting for Harris and Walz to “save democracy”.
When I read that ,I try to grasp how much one must ignore – willfully or not – to believe that Harris and Walz [2] support the American republican (small-r) system of popular, federalist government.
How do I count the ways?
1. Harris wants to abolish the Filibuster.
So what, you say? The filibuster gets in the way of “Getting things done?”
That’s the point. Most of what makes America great is that unless there is *overwhelming* agreement about something, it’s either going to get watered down, or just go away.
And that’s a good thing – a 50%+1 vote majority can’t jam everything it wants down on the other 49%. Both sides are *accountable*, and both sides *matter*.
WIthout the filibuster, the US will turn into France or Greece – with policies seesawing back and forth with changes in power.
Getting rid of the filibuster destroys a key pillar of trying to run a country where people don’t necessarily always agree with, or even like, each other.
What do you suppose that gets replaced with?
2. Harris supports gutting the First Amendment.
Harris supports (and gained power in part via) big tech censoring dissent. She’s cozy with Big Tech, and she wants that to count:
Democrats across administrations keep floating the idea of having a cabinet-level “disinformation czar” – which is another way of saying “someone who make sure all the news fits the official narrative”:
Governor Walz, for his part, ran a snitch line, and signed into law a “thoughtime database”. There is no way for a citizen to get *into* the database or find out what’s in it.
It’s not just Harris, and it isn’t just statements from 2019:
It’s not just conservatives raising the alarm:
And let’s not forget that Big Media is very, very on board with putting the finger on the scales to get the results they want:
Which is, literally, a promise to disinform the public.
If a Republican had done anything of the sort, Democrats would be screaming about the “chilling effect on dissent and democracy” that is.
*And they’d be right*.
3. Harris supports gutting the 2nd and 4th Amendments.
Since you’ll ask – the 1st and 2nd Amendments *are* litmus tests to me. How someone treats your right to speak, your freedom of conscience, to organize, and to protect your life, family, property, community and freedom, tells you a lot about how they’d treat other civil rights.
And in this particular quote, Harris showed that she’s perfectly fine trashing the 4th Amendment right to privacy with it:
4. Harris wants to gut the separation of powers
My whole life, the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has been left-of-center or (from about 2000 to 2017) pretty much deadlocked. Democrats were fine with that – “elections have consequences”. So we conservatives got some good SCOTUS appointments – and the Democrats are going crazy:
“[Harris] will also support common-sense Supreme Court reforms—like requiring Justices to comply with ethics rules that other federal judges are bound by and imposing term limits—to address the crisis of confidence facing the Supreme Court.”
And who’s going to enforce those rules and limits?
The executive branch.
The Supreme Court, which is supposed to check and balance the power of the Executive and Legislative branches, will become subordinate to the President; the executive branch will be able to yank the leash of any justice that displeases them.
If you don’t think that’s a direct attack on how “democracy” is run, I’d love to hear how.
As far as packing the court goes – do you really need to explain the effect this will have on respect for the institution?
5. Harris and Democrats are open to abolishing the Electoral College.
The Electoral College (EC), along with the structure of the Senate, was part of the agreement that smaller states – Delaware, Rhode Island, Vermont – made with the bigger ones (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York) to ensure that American “democracy” wouldn’t turn into the equivalent of “two foxes and a chicken voting on what’s for breakfast”.
Without the EC, the President will always be decided by California, New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas and maybe Ohio. There will be no need for Presidential candidates to even show up outside those states.
And it’d violate the contract by which the smaller states agreed to share power with the Federal Government. And what happens when you violate a contract? [3]
6. And all of that is just about “protecting democracy itself”.
It doesn’t get into the many other reasons I could never support Harris or Walz.
They support:
– Open borders.
– A foreign policy that *enables and encourages* the likes of Xi, Putin and the Mullahs. Diplomacy only works if it’s combined with the sense that there’s a nasty surprise behind it. Harris – the “last person in the room” – has been involved in more Biden administration fiascoes than any human should be allowed to; the Afghan collapse, Ukraine (Biden publicly told Putin he could invade *just a little* [4]), and the conflagration in the MIddle East (hint: saying “Israel has a right to exist, BUT they need to give Hamas and Hezb’allah a cease fire so they can re-arm, reorganize and try to exterminate Jews again later is *not* a coherent policy).
(Trump, for all his flaws, brought more progress than the Middle East has seen since 1978. Harris and Biden are benefitting, btw, from that – the fact that the Saudis, Egyptians and Jordan aren’t joining in with Iran against the Israelis is something kind of new.)
And for all the palaver about Trump “disrespecting” NATO, it served its purpose – starting NATO on the path toward becoming a serious defensive military alliance, rather than yet another bureaucratic salon.
Look, Trump is far from perfect – I didn’t vote for him in 2016, and I remain a Trump skeptic on many levels. I can’t stand his personality cult (or any personality cult in politics).
But January 6 was a riot, and even the FBI has cleared Trump of any substantial involvement. His statements about the 2020 election were way out of line…
…BUT even if Trump *was* trying to undercut democracy, our federalist system *did its job*, exactly as designed. In the grand scheme of things, nothing Trump did (or was alleged to have done) affected the handover of power, or the functioning of our institutions.
But the things Harris is proposing [5]? They WOULD change how our democracy works. Very much for the worse. They are a bigger threat to American self-government than anything Trump did, and certainly more than anything he’s *seriously(* proposed doing [6].
Joy doesn’t keep the world safe. Brat vibes don’t put food on the table. The American federalist system is stronger than mean tweets.
So I’m voting for Trump – *to protect our democracy”.
(PS – I’m a relentlessly civil guy. But responding with one of those passive-aggressive “laugh” emojis is going to get you called out).
[1] But everyone else is doing it, so sue me. Not literally, of course. It’s still a free-ish country – Walz’s “thoughtcrime” database notwithstanding.
[2] When I say “Harris” or “Walz”, I’m also including plenty of prominent Democrats who are likely to be influential in any administration they run.
[3] “Haha, Merg. That was settled in 1865!”. Well, no. It was settled in 1776.
[4] The “Just the tip” of diplomacy – and as we’ve seen this past two years, it’s worked about as well on the world stage as it did after prom.
[5] Saying “That was 2019! She’s changed!” ain’t gonna cut it. She herself says “My principles haven’t changed”. And if you’re holding things Trump said in 2006, in completely different contexts, against him, we need to have a word about this.
[6] And if you come back and say “he SAID he wants to be a dictator on day one!”, that was yet another dishonest edit. He’s going to roll back a slew of Biden executive orders, and reinstate a few of his own – all legitimate Presidential duties. Getcher shinebox.
SCENE: Mitch BERG is walking to a GOP fundraiser in one of the Twin Cities. He walks around a corner and almost slams into a distracted Avery LIBRELLE.
BERG: Er, excuse me…oh, hi, Aver…
LIBRELLE: Shut up Merg. Drumpf did a completely fake staged appearance at that McDonalds!
BERG: Huh. A politician doing a staged, fake appearance for purely political reasons?
LIBRELLE: Yes and…hey, the world is going cloudy. What’s up?
BERG: It’s called a flashback.
LIBRELLE: Ooooh….Weird.
LIBRELLE: It’s making me dizzy.
BERG: Uh, I don’t think that’s what’s doing it. Anyway, just a couple more.
BERG: So you were saying…
(But LIBRELLLE appears to have passed out).
BERG: Huh.
And SCENE.
I met Cenk Uyghur – host of “Young Turds” – once upon a time.
Now, I’m a pretty polite guy. And I had bigger things going on than having to waste time on the guy.
So even though my first impression of the guy was pretty awful, it never occurred to me to uncork on him quite like this:
But I’m glad Hassan did.
UPDATE: I’m told his show is called “Young Turks”. I regret the error.
FROM THE. HISTORY FILE: This clip from Election Night 2016 will never not make me smile:
…that Democrats are illiterate about history that’s less than a quarter of a century old.
But they keep doing it:
Forget for a moment that this episode occurred on the orders of Bill Clinton’s disastrous Attorney General, to placate Fidel Castro (who is no way no how Justin Trudeau’s father).
It’s also crap; employer ID verification backed with police enforcement will do the vast majority of the deporting, as people head back south of the border to avoid trouble.
Just like they did after 2017.
(This could, one day, be a Minnesota Highway Patrolman grabbing a kid whose custodial mom wants to trans him, from his father…)
In 2015, I spent some time in Detroit on a business trip.
And even then, before Covid, downtown Detroit felt…vibrant. Fun. There was stuff going on in the evening. There were places to go, things to do, people around and about.
Companies were paying people good money to buy or rent downtown and walk to work.
Things felt pretty decent…
…in about a square mile downtown. [1]
Go outside that square mile or two and it became…well, Detroit.
But I come not to praise Detroit, but to bury WUPHs – White Urban Progressive Homers, people who tie their identities so close to their cities that it squeezes out all humor, and all thought itself.
It’s not smack. It’s actual journalism, when referring to the ravages of two generations of non-stop corrupt Democrat governance on a city.
Like Detroit.
Or, if things keep going as they are, Minneapolis.
[1] I have no idea how Covid might have affected that state of affairs, but I’m not optimistic.
Remember Angie Craig?
Every two years she dusts off the ads with her four-wheeling around the back roads of her district, hanging out with the good ol’ boys in LeSeuer County, trying to appear “moderate”.
Remember Yusuf Haji?
Probably not. He’s running for Dakota County Commission.
Seems pretty innocent, right?
Turns out Haji’s got friends in low – and left-wing – places:
Turns out, not so much.
Haji is affiliated with “Our Revolution Twin Cities” – a group that wants to defund the police, among a dog’s breakfast of other bad ideas. Here’s an X thread with more on ORTC.
MInd you, this is in the same community that just had two cops and a firefighter killed by someone who would have been in jail but for the DFL’s other dilution of the criminal justice system.
Thing is, this area – the DakCo Commission, the various House districts (Gabriela Kroetsch is a strong GOP challenger in HD55A), and of course Angie Craig is vulnerable enough that this district is considered a plausibly contested race.
So if you live in the south burbs, don’t be fooled. Haji is a Moriarty – and Angie Craig is sucking up to the radical fringe that is no longer a fringe in this metro.
Video smuggled out of Kamala Harris HQ after the Fox interview last night:
This should help affect the votes of the four undecided voters out there.
These outtakes give you a pretty fair idea how the interview went:
A little more seriously? I didn’t get fooled by the “Red Wave” hype two years ago – I’m never quite that optimistic – but there’s a difference in the air these days:
Trump could still lose this – it’s not that hard to picture.
But I’m looking forward to the election night broadcast, if only to see how all these horse races turn out.
UPDATE: Judge for yourself:
A guy who started a snitch line, enacted a thoughtcrime database, sicced the Attorney General on businesses that tried to survive his draconian and capricious Covid regulations and turned radical protesters into a fourth branch of government when he wanted social policy done…
…is lying to warn us about authoritarianism.
Call me old-fashioned, but I’d think a governor who’s built his entire career out of rigorously-contolled optics – lots of photos of eating fair food and holding animals and social media strawmen, no uncontrolled press conferences or public debates – would know better than to do…
…that.
“Grassroots”: When a candidate who has never earned a primary vote, and only run one seriously contested election in her life, gets installed by the troika of Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama after defenestrating the current President for being unfit to run a campaign (although apparently not to be President of the United States).
Example:
Hope this resolves any confusion.
How It Started
This, of course, is the campaign Tim Walz is used to running: carefully curated photos of him holding animals, being fed corn dogs by Peggy Flanagan, and occasionally spouting risible strawmen via social media.
An “Instagram” Governor.
The bit above may be the perfect metaphor for Tim Walz, 2004-2023.
How It’s Going
Klink, while pheasant hunting with “influencers” over the weekend:
Now, I’ll give him half a pass on this: automatic shotguns are a pain in the ass. I hate ’em. And they are nothing like handling an M16/M4, the “weapons of war” Walz carried in the Guard and on the war-ravaged (checks notes) airfields of Italy.
But only half a pass.
Because when you’ve curated your entire public image as being a “progressive” who also fixes gutters and eats Fair Food and dresses like Elmer Fudd and shoots things for fun, one might think you’d take a little care – maybe check the piece over before the cameras show up – and maybe get it right when doing…
…y’know…
…your big instagram op.
“White Dudes for Harris” – the collection of online man-buns, barristos and Soho cliches from earlier in the summer – didn’t do it.
Picking Tim Walz – a thinly-closeted authoritarian with penchant for dressing up in Elmer Fudd costumes and eating Pronto Pups on camera – didn’t do it.
But this? This ad should solve Kamala Harris’s woes with men:
It’s like someone thinks the modern advertising and entertainment industries’ collective caricatures of “men” that you see in every ad or TV show that doesn’t involve an “A”-lister – either neutered, incompetent, buffoonish clichés or “men” who are “Masculine” in the same way trans men are “really women”.
This should really do it this time!
More on Harris/Walz’s male problems here.
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