Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails:

Rioters broke into an FBI vehicle and stole an assault rifle bag, the kind used to transport an M-16 fully-automatic military-grade assault rifle.  Assuming it’s not just an empty bag, the streets of Minneapolis just got a lot less safe. These are the people Democrats are encouraging and supporting.

Joe Doakes

 

I’m waiting to hear how Big Minnesota Left tries to spin this as protected speech. 

I can’t pretend this is a comprehensive list.  I don’t think humanity can measure this level of stupidity. 

But I gotta try. 

I’ll save the worst for last. 

Well, gosh, “Kalvan”, I think the difference might be that literally the entire state of Minnesota including the entire GOP closed ranks around the families’ survivors, and the GOP repudiated everything to do with the guy when it turned out that even though he was nuts, he was a nut who spouted some right wing chanting points. That, and the fact not a single significant person said “Well, political murder is baaaaaaaad, but when you jam down abortion mandates and kid-transing and gun control you gotta expect some blowback…”

Can you see the difference, “Kalvan”?

I keep asking progs who parrot this to tell me – what evil things did Kirk say?

And I’ve gotten a few back – every one of which was ripped completely out of context, context which is available out there.  

I don’t love the whole “get people fired” thing, personally.

But forget for a moment that progs have been going after conservatives’ jobs (also shooting them) for years. It’s not the government “censoring” people. And maybe, just maybe, “it’s good someone I disagree with died” is an “opinion” that deserves some opprobrium.

And in the responses to that one:

Make you first shot count, Sparky.

Is the point that “pageant winners are promiscuous?”

And the mangling of the whole doctrine of “submitting”

Is this a Richard Carlbom burner account?

Now, most of the above are dolts, rage farmers and Don Lemon.

But these? These (read the whole thread) are elected DFLers:

Make sure you scroll down to check out Ilhan Omar’s contribution, on Mehdi Hassan’s podcast.

And Richard Carlbom, executive director of the MN DFL:

So “Hey, Fascist, Catch” was an ingenious hipfake.  Got it.  

It’s been a depressing week for observing humanity.  

Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:

 

Joe Doakes

Can a civil society survive when society spends more time and effort protecting criminals than the law-abiding citizen?

The Mayor of Boston just made her, and presumably her city’s, priorities pretty visible:

Now, you might say it costs nobody anything – the victims are alive, the attacker dead. Expressing (misplaced) sympathy isn’t going to kill him again, or endanger the victims. Is it?

I see your logic, and raise you Mary Moriarty (open and expand the thread):

But here’s the money quote:

A source familiar with the case told us that charges were declined by Mary Moriarty’s office because the victim was able to fight back.

Got that?

If you defend yourself, that’s all the justice you need.  (How much do you want to bet the intended victim only evaded assault charges because he was a teenager?)

We are getting to the point where the lesson is the one people in all low-trust societies eventually get to; it’s better to handle “Justice” by yourself.  To do the job, to not talk to the police – even enforce the practice – and make offender examples on your own.  

I’d ask “is this what you want”, but this is  the DFL we’re talking about. 

The smartest woman in the world, decided to sound off about crime in the District of Columbia:

we’re starting to see this, along with “a little bit of crime is one of the things you put up with to live in a major city” – the kind of gaslighting rationalization used by the class that ran New York City before Rudy Giuliani took over.

it’s really very Orwellian: convincing an entire population that crime = normality, and seeking normality is the aberration.

and you’re seeing plenty of this from the Minneapolis booster crowds, in between their videos of crowds of people at street fares and families riding around the placid lakes far from the centers of crime; here you go, I’m a Republican tough guy from Maple Grove with your F350; here’s crime-ridden Minneapolis”, as if two things cannot only be possible, but be possible around the corner from each other.

I pity the next Democrat moron, who tries any of this with me.

When Ilhan Omar says things like this:

…is she:

1. Telling a truth so broad that it is in effect a lie (white men are the second largest racial/gender group in the country; nearly all violence is intra-racial, and there are more of them to perpetrate and be victims, and hypothetically to become terrorisrts)
2. Lying (white men commit proportionally less violence against black men than vice versa)
3. Referring not to violence but to logic and honesty, in which case she’d best fear me?

Thoughts?

It’s entirely possible that DNI Gabbard is making a mountain out of a molehill. 

But if she’s not…:

A president using national intelligence infrastructure fo try to jink the political order is not only an order of magnitude bigger than Watergate – it is the kind of thing that the system bent over backwards to correct, and overcorrect, in the wake of learning all the information J. Edgar Hoover had collected about Americans.  

If true, it’s a greater threat to democracy than hundreds of riots at the Capitol, no matter who’s doing it on whom’s behalf.  

I may have to promote Berg’s Seventh Law to Berg’s First Law.  

It must be a tough time to be Erin Maye Quade – Senator from Apple Valley, and Big Left’s attack poodle in the Senate.

In the past couple of years, she’s voted for a thoughtcrime data base, and openly fantasized about using government power to keep parents from teaching their kids about abstinence…

…and about “Eminent Domaining” and bulldozing the crisis pregnancy centers try to keep people out of the Planned Parenthood clinics that spend so much on her campaigns and will presumably be her post-politics career.

Because suddenly, she’d discovered that big powerful government can be scary, when you’re not at the controls.

Even if you have to conjure those threats out of thin air:

Further evidence of Berg’s Seventh Law; QAnon was a fantasy, but BlueAnon is very, very real. 

It’s not like they’ve never been in the. minority before.   As recently as (checks notes( 2021-2022 (somehow it seems longer), they had a one-vote minority in the Senate, and the DFL’s world didn’t end. 

And yet being (when all the special elections and likely special election results are in) one vote up in the Senate and tied in the House has them out larping Norma Rae. 

Why, oh why?

For those who don’t want to open “X” and scroll down:

Democrats would show up to work, the Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee could hold official House committee hearings and dig in deeper. We are waiting.

And now it makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?

Let’s talk about moral myopia for a moment. 

It’s been interesting watching DFLers who two years ago were chanting “when you’ve got political capital, you use it” with a one-vote Senate majority, suddenly…

…whinging like stuck cats now that President Trump is, y’know, using political capital.

Did I say “interesting”?  I meant funny.

Almost as funny as watching people who set up badthink databases and Covid snitch lines, who cheered Twitter and Meta censoring opposition and demanded that the unvaccinated people lose their jobs and get hauled off to camps and be shunned from society at large…

…pretend that they wouldn’t have turned in Ann Frank for a Starbucks gift card. 

On January 6 a bunch of idiot rioters tried to hijack the Constitutional process for transferring power. And they failed; the process in the Constitution prevailed and, hysterics and partisan hyperbole side, succeeded fairly easily.

On January 24, at the behest of 66 petulant ninnies, seven partisans in goofy robes ruled that the legislature reports to the court on matters of its own organization; that despite the plain text of the Minnesota Constitution, a quorum is a majority of *chairs*, not the people sitting in them.

It’s almost makes comical sense for the party that thinks guns magically shoot people, and that sex is ephemeral,, and that “you can keep your doctor” means you lose your doctor,  to rule that inanimate chairs, not the peole in them, are the part of a legislature that really matters.

But the laughing stops – if you care about the Constitutional order, which apparently not a single DFLer does – when you realize this decision means the Legislature reports to the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Orwell and Solzhenitzyn showed us what happens when the only objective reality is getting and holding power. Y’see, that’s the problem with democracy – everyone has to agree to the basic terms. The DFL in all three branches showed they don’t, in as many words.

(There are no doubt some in the audience who’ll say “I bet you wouldn’t be saying this if the roles were reversed!”. I most certainly would. But it’s academic, because no Republican-run institutions have ever gutted the Constitutional separation of powers quite this brazenly. ).

Elon Musk – a socially awkward guy, most likely out on the spectrum somewhere – gesticulated that he’s “throwing his heart out to the audience”…

…in a way that no lefty troll can possibly resist.

Er…I’m sure that’s just an isolated…

Huh. Well, they’re kind of old and in the way…

Ooof. Well, that’s just pouncing on a political bete noir…

Oh, my.

Biden, after promising to only pardon people who’d been convicted of something, and promptly pardoning his son not only for the allegations we knew about  but for anything else that happened in a years-long window, has issued pardons for a bunch of people whose actions we were told were completley above board:

As loathsome as Fauci was and remains, I’d have thought his actions were covered by qualfied immunity. 

Milley, on the other hand?  Divulging US military plans to foreign adversaries is, I’m  told, frowned upon in the military. 

So I guess we see whose side Biden was actually on…

Merry January 6!

It’s one of modern progressivism’s high holy days – along with Roemas, May Day and Feast of the Entitlements. 

Have a blessed January 6!

In the past week or two, we’ve seen:

• The HD54A recount in Shakopee, which showed DFLer Brad Tabke winning by 14 votes, with 30 ballots turning up missing, it seems they’ve found a significant number of duplicate votes. Any guesses who they voted for?
• In the HD40B, Curtis Johnson’s election was erased. The DFL is trying to jam down a special election, even though state statute says the seat needs to be vacant – which is won’t be until January 14, when the new legislature gets sworn in. It’s still Jamie Becker-Finn’s seat. (Note to Rep. Becker-Finn: drapes don’t have shoes).
• In SD 50, where former Senate Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic died, Governor Klink jammed down a special election on January 14 – including a one day filing window, on New Years Eve. For a seat the DFL considers their property, they have to try to squeeze out any competition.

In the 1960s, when Democrat-run states in the deep south were found to have gamed the election rules to keep minorities from the polls, the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations stepped in and put most southern states under consent decrees, requiring them to report to the Department of Justice to ensure their elections were fair and unbiased.

Maybe it’s time for Trump’s DOJ to do the same in Minnesota.

One of the more satisfying stories of this past year was watching the accelerating decay of the mainstream media’s influence over society.

And this was one of my favorite examples:

Watching the orwellian “Joy” campaign get pelted with rhetorical rocks and garbage by the commoners was one of the greatest, er, joys I’ve had, at least politically, in recent years.

Democrats, 2020-November 2024:  “We need to vote to save Democracy!   Remember January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  January 6!  

Democrats today:

Anyone wanna place odds on an inauguration day riot?

You know who I’m talking about – the young humanities major at your job; the know-it-all lady witih ELCA hair in the PTA; the angry young relative who deigns to grace you with her presence at holiday dinners anyway.

This one goes out to you.  Use it wisely. 

Reasons American healthcare is expensive:

6. American pharmaceutical and device research and development can’t recoup costs overseas, due to rigid price controls in “single payer” healthcare systems (ironically making all “single payer” systems in effect dual payer systems).

5. Healthcare costs track gross incomes, worldwide. The inflation curve for healthcare is largely the same as the growth in a nation’s standard of living, whether it’s the US, Taiwan or Norway.

4. Americans are terrible drivers.

3. Americans are disproportionally very overweight.

2. As most Americans work during their prime earning years, older folks that used to stay with family in their 80s and 90s are now in assisted living, skilled nursing and memory care.

1. The “Affordable Care Act”, and the serial waves of government intervention that came before, stuffed a gob of unfunded mandates onto insurers.

Reasons American healthcare is expensive:

5. Healthcare costs track gross incomes, worldwide. The inflation curve for healthcare is largely the same as the growth in a nation’s standard of living, whether it’s the US, Taiwan or Norway.

4. Americans are terrible drivers.

3. Americans are disproportionally very overweight.

2. As most Americans work during their prime earning years, older folks that used to stay with family in their 80s and 90s are now in assisted living, skilled nursing and memory care.

1. The “Affordable Care Act”, and the serial waves of government intervention that came before, stuffed a gob of unfunded mandates onto insurers.

Not reasons that American healthcare is so expensive:

2. Greed.

1. Upper middle dilettantes haven’t shot enough CEOs.

Hope that settles that.

2. Greed.

1. Upper middle dilettantes haven’t shot enough CEOs.

Hope that settles that.

Fun Fact #2:   The people angry about that insurance companies – UHG today, but surely all the other ones before long – want to force you onto national health insurance, which doesn’t “deny claims” so much as stall, ration and – well, deny treatment, and are actively exploring (and in some cases have arrived at) “euthanasia”, sometimes without asking any kind of consent at all, and above whom there is nobody to appeal.

Did I say “fun”? I meant “illustrative”.

They warned us that if we voted Republican, extremists would roam the streets murdering their enemies, as their fellow extremist droogs rejoiced.

And they were right.

The meme has traveled about that UHG denies claims at double the national average. That may be true, and that may be utterly without context, and neither I nor the gerbils posting the memes know one way or the other.

Of course, most of the people rejoicing (not exaggerating) Thompson’s murder do it by way of saying it’s high time we adopt “single payer” government healthcare.

Of course, if they think a UHG denial causes problems, wait’ll they get a load of the “cost cutting” measures single-payer systems are moving into.

The Democrat mayor of Denver, Mike Johnston, is suddenly a big fan of enumerated powers:

Glad they’re learning to love federalism and separation of powers. It’ll be a great precedent when some other Democrat tinpot tries to do a “Mandatory Gun Buyback”.

By the way – doesn’t this seem just a skosh insurrection-y?

I’m old enough to remember when “election denial” was the highest of crimes and misdemeanors.  And if you’re much over four years old, so are you.

But (predictably) not as re Senator Bob Casey in Pennsylvania:

Donald Trump’s stubborn denial of his defeat — his refusal to accept the legitimate election results of 2020 — was bad. January 6 was terrible.

But we saw a similar rejection of election results from Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams two years earlier, and she became a Democratic hero — literally wearing a cape in one photoshoot — and a favorite subject of the Democrats’ celebrity-industrial complex. (And remember, she’s apparently exempt from masking for Covid, while kids sitting right next to her had to stay masked.) She may never become governor of Georgia, but she can always be proud of holding the position of President of United Earth (selected, not elected).

To review, Abrams’s denial of election results was forgivable, Trump’s was the trigger for “the worst attack on democracy since the Civil War,” in Biden’s words, and now Casey’s denial is just a prudent desire to see every vote counted. You don’t have to be Columbo to recognize a suspicious pattern in which a Democratic candidate’s denial of election results is excusable, but a Republican candidate’s denial of election results is a dangerous threat to American governance.

I had a hunch that pendulum was going to swing back, and hard, yet again.

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.)

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.