An apparent teenager was shot and killed on the Nicollet Avenue LRT platform on Tuesday afternoon, in broad daylight, during a Twins game.
#DowntownIsBack #Vibrant!
Minneapolis’s progressives sprang into action against the real problem…
…which is apparently “people who point out that Minneapolis has a problem”.
If only people would stop talking about crime, it wouldn’t be a problem, would it?
All those Democrat twitter account with Ukrainian flags will be Ukrainian flag-free by September 15.
…to figure out how to rephrase something like “the Democrats know they can say any bull crap they want without fear of consequences, because well the typical Democrat is a college educated person, they are ill-informed and gullible” into the form of a “Berg’s Law“.
Because we need it now more than ever:
Literally nobody who matters treats and ectopic pregnancy or a miscarriage the same as an elective abortion.
Most of the hard, empirical realizations I’ve had as a result of this blog started as satirical, sardonic or otherwise flippant remarks that turned out, to my amazement, to be true.
The canon of “Berg’s Law” is the closest I’ve got to a “famous” example.
Less flippant? My ever-more-frequent observation that Democrat politicians can tell “their” voters pretty much anything that suits them, because their base just doesn’t do critical thinking.
Case in point: the Administration apparently wants to borrow a page from Elizabeth Warren, and have the economy “identify” as healthy:
In 1984, the regime released the news that the chocolate rationwas being cut from 35 grams to 25 grams, by announcing that it was actually an increase from 20 grams. Maybe the people knew better, maybe they didn’t, maybe they just shunted the truth aside out of self-interest.
Not sure this is the same pathology – but I can’t think of a better one.
Don’t you dare say Democrats are unpatriotic:
Mind you, that’s not a BLM or “Anti”-Fa Group. This is a Democratic party unit.
UPDATE: But wait! Some of them do have some standards!
A “Democratic Socialists of America” group apologized for a planned flag burning.
They apologized to the environmentalists, anyway:
To: Democrats
From: Mitch Berg, whose common “irascible peasant” self-appelation has never seemed more on-target.
Re: You
Dear all Democrats,
Every once in a while, in front of a friendly audience, you slip and let the truth out.
In front of the NPR simps in 2016, for example, you said in as many words it was time for the media to put its finger – or arm, or butt – on the scale to tip the public against Donald Trump.
And now, from the (if you’ll pardon the expression) Colbert sixty minutes hate:
You can put most of what this woman says into the mouth of a spousal abuser – which really is a great metaphor for the modern Democrat party.
That is all.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:Joe Dokes from Como Park emails:
It’s incidents like these which make people look at Uvalde and say, “Hmmmmm.”
An attempted mass shooting at a school was thwarted when the shooter found doors were locked, the school had an armed officer on scene, and responding police officers took prompt, effective action to end the threat. In other words, the system worked exactly as it should, exactly the way Conservatives have spent the last two weeks saying it would, because the people responsible for school safety did their jobs. Give them all a medal, they deserve it.
Which makes us wonder – why didn’t it work in Uvalde? An incredibly long string of coincidental but accidental failures, or a glow-in-the-dark operation intended to stir up public support for gun control just when the ‘President’ needs a wag-the-dog distraction from the unfolding disaster that is the Lesko Brandon administration?
Hmmmmm.
Joe Doakes
Given the craven depravity with which the Lesko Brandon administration is running things, it seems simultaneously like a conspiracy theory and documentary evidence.
Democrats: “The President has little to no control over supply chains. He is but packing peanut before the winds of war, greed, the market and Americans selfishness”.
Also Democrats:
Makes perfect sense to me.
The Left, 364 Days a Year: “What, you think you’re going to take on the US Government and Military with your AR15?
The Left, the other day: “ZOMG, THEY HAD GUNS AND WERE GOING TO OVERTHROE TEH GOVERMENT!
It’s such a good think our nation returned to seasoned, professional leadership in 2021:
Given the Orwellianism of modern Democrat politics, I’ll wait for the declaration that “Senility is intelligence!”.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
I can’t wait to learn who GOP, Inc. will select as the Republican candidate for President in 2024. It won’t be Trump, that’s for certain. But I’d like to know now, so I can start working on my “literally Hitler” memes.
Well, yes, of course s/he will be “literally Hitler.” Every Republican candidate is “literally Hitler” until defeated. Reagan was “literally Hitler” for walking away from Reykjavik. Bush the Elder was ‘literally Hitler” for secretly flying an SR-71 Blackbird to Iran to negotiate the release of Jimmy Carter’s hostages. Romney was “literally Hitler” for having binders full of women. McCain was “literally Hitler” because he agreed to have Sarah Palin as running mate and she was “literally Hitler” too. Chimpy McBushHitler was “literally Hitler” because he lied and people died. Trump was “literally Hitler” because he bragged about grabbing women by the . . . and now, the next Republican candidate for President will be “literally Hitler” simply for . . . being the Republican candidate for President.
About the only person who wasn’t “literally Hitler” was Hitler himself, because he declared war on the Russians who weren’t led by Putin at the time, but someday would be. And Putin is “literally Hitler.”
Joe Doakes
They have been building the “literally Hitler“ file on Ron DeSantis for a while now.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Lesko Brandon purportedly ‘paused’ his new Disinformation Governance Board. Nina Jankowicz, the person tapped to head it, announced she would resign. Internet speculation is Lesko Brandon caved to public opposition.
Brandon wasn’t the first. George Bush the Younger established the Office of Strategic Information in 2002, which was supposedly disbanded by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld due to public opposition, same as now.
Come ON, people. It’s an office of DIS-information. Its whole purpose is lying – to the enemy, to Congress, to the public, to whomever needs lying to so The Agenda is advanced.
Do you REALLY believe it’s out of business? Or has it been quietly renamed, moved to the basement, and told to issue no more public announcements but instead work only through leaks to its trusted media partners?
Joe Doakes
I firmly believe Joe is absolutely right; it’s still out there; it’s just not singing “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious“ on TikTok anymore.
SCENE: Mitch BERG is picking up an Amazon parcel at the drop box at a Whole Foods on Selby Avenue. As he fiddles with getting the scanner to scan the bar code on his phone, Avery LIBRELLE walks up behind him.
LIBRELLE: Merg!
BERG: Oh, shhhhhhhure enough, it’s Avery. How’s thi…
LIBRELLE: Republicans are racists!
BERG: Oh, yeah, you bet. You heard about the Republican gubernatorial candidate who chased down an unarmed black jogger – very similarly to the Ahmaud Arberry story? Chased him down and pointed a shotgun at his chest?
LIBRELLE: I had not. But sounds like a typical Rethuglicon!
BERG: Oh, you beg:
The jogger said [the candidate] pointed the shotgun at his chest; [the candidate] denies this but allows that his intent was to detain the jogger. At the time, [the candidate] was mayor of a small town in Pennsylvania.
LIBRELLE: This is truly the America that Donald Trump created.
BERG: Uh huh. (BERG takes on a snarky grin)
LIBRELLE: What?
BERG: Nothing. (He can barely cvontain his glee).
LIBRELLE: Wait. That’s the look you get when you drop what you think is the big zinger in one of these stories of yours.
BERG: Zinger? Who, me?
LIBRELLE: (Yelling at a store employee). Pouncer! He’s a pouncer!
EMPLOYEE: Er, sure, maa… (Stops, confused) Sir…uh (Looks at BERG, who merely shrugs)
BERG: I’ll be leaving now.
And SCENE
The fact that the news media is, today, writing stories lauding the administration for its panicky handling of the baby formula crisis that it created, tells us a little about the sick state of both our executive branch, our bureaucracy and our news media.
President Joe Biden authorized the use of Air Force planes for the effort, dubbed “Operation Fly Formula,” because no commercial flights were available
Well, that’s mighty big of him, given that it was an executive branch bureaucracy – the Food and Drug Administration – whose inexplicable, and as yet unexplained, closing of a formula plant in Michigan, not to mention Byzantine importation restrictions on formula from Third World hellholes like Switzerland in Germany, caused the crisis in the first place.
I’ve never been the worlds biggest Donald Trump fan – but if this had happened on his watch, a series of peevish and borderline inscrutable tweets would have been followed by executive orders expediting the reopening of the plant and trashing the import restrictions that prevented the free market from doing what it does best Dash getting resources where they are needed, when they are needed.
The fact that our news media is allowing government to treat itself like heroes for “solving” a problem it created (at absolutely sinful and bizarre expense – have you seen how much military aircraft flights cost these days?) is a little bit like giving a medal of valor to an arsonist for putting out a fire they set.
SCENE: The set of a tony TV talk show; black background, two chairs, end table with two glasses of water. Mitch BERG is interviewing George ORWELL, back from the great beyond.
BERG: Mr. Orwell, one of your great quotes from 1984 was “He who controls the past, controls the future. He who controls the past, controls the present”.
ORWELL: Quite.
BERG: So when you see today’s American Left saying things like this – a woman who specifically called for shutting down schools, even as the science piled up that children and their teachers were safer from a public health perspective in school than at home, that most of Europe recognized this well over a year ago, and that fought hard to stay shut down long after most of society had re-opened, but then went out in public to say…:
ORWELL: Oh, I see things like that, and so much more, and I say to myself “George, you were such an impish young pollyanna back in 1948”.
And SCENE
The Minneapolis Police have problems.
It’s been the most open secret in the world for as long as I’ve lived in the Twin Cities. Minneapolis cops leaning on black and minority drivers, being more willing to take off the gloves when operating in black neighborhoods – this was news in the mid-80s. It’s like most police departments – a few bad apples among a lot of good cops – only seemingly moreso.
Minneapolis has problems.
If you didn’t see it three years ago, you should have noticed it in the past two years. They had a city council president who said in as many words that expecting law and order came from a place of “privilege” (a privilege she was happy to enjoy with $1K a day in taxpayer-funded private security, of course), and a council that backed that up with policy, to the point whereJacob Freaking Frey looks like a law and order conservative (whenever there’s not a crisis, anyway).
It’s a city that seriously believes the answer to crime is to transfer more taxpayer money to “community” “non-profits” – the same people who’ve been profiting from the status quo, and code for “the DFL’s political farm team”. (It’s the same answer they have for education, economic development, and pretty much everything else).
The Minnesota DFL has a problem.
Polling for mid-terms is abysmal – potentially catastrophic. Early signs are they could lose the House of Representatives and fall further behind in the Senate; it’s even hypothetically possible the hapless MNGOP could finally get a governor.
The economy shows every sign of starting to slow down (at best) – something the media will try to spin until after a new, GOP-controlled Congress and Legislature take over, but for now, things seem to be getting away from ’em.
But…
The DFL controls the state bureaucracy.
The report that was issued by the MN Department of Human Rights – which is like one of those non-profits we mentioned above, only part of the executive branch – earlier this week could have been issued at any time in the past 35 years. It should have been issued at any time in the past 35 years; you don’t have to be a black community activist to notice the MPD has issues. If the DFLers who created the Human Rights department, and who have always staffed it, had needed to issue it at any point in the past 35 years, they would have.
But they didn’t need to issue it then. It might be excessively cynical to say a city full of people angry about their police suited them, per se – but it wasn’t against their interest.
But now? As Democrats nationwide are being weighed down (justifiably!) by their performance on law and order issues – now the MNDoHR comes out with a report on the MPD?
Right around the time the DFL statewide needs to deflect the “conversation” about crime away to…anything but six decades of failed DFL rule?
Seeing a pattern, here?
The bad news? Reality may be worse.
I had Representative, and with any luck at all, next year, Senator Eric Lucero, on my show last weekend.
He talked about “ESG” – short for “Environmental Social Governance”, which is basically the plan, well underway, to impose “social credit” scores on businesses. These will inevitably trickle down to citizens.
The conversation should scare the crap out of you.
You don’t need conspiracy theories anymore. This is the real thing.
SCENE: Mitch BERG is standing in line at Kramarczuk’s Deli in Northeast Minneapolis, checking his email on his phone as he waits for an order. Distracted, he doesn’t notice Avery LIBRELLE walking in the door.
LIBRELLE: Merg!
BERG: Aaaaah, sssssschto Novovo, Aver…
LIBRELLE: Why are you here?
BERG: I’ve been coming here for 30-plus years.
LIBRELLE: What? You support the right of a beleaguered people who are surrounded on three sides by an authoritarian regime who has tried to murder them all in the past, who’ve launched yet another campaign of terror, and is carrying on a plucky campaign of resistance against overwhelming odds, tapping immense civil spirit to fight back against an authoritarian invader who vows genocide against them?
BERG: You’re referring to Israel?
LIBRELLE: (Mouth flaps open like a trout)
CLERK: (To BERG). Order up. (Puts wrapped sausage on counter. Turns to LIBRELLE). Er, your order sir…er, ma…(Looks at BERG, in a visible panic. BERG shrugs.)
LIBRELLE: (Mouth continues to flap)
BERG: Have a great day.
(BERG walks out. And SCENE).
Months after being exposed as a Federal “shake and bake” operation, the DOJ’s prosecution of the “kidnapping” case against Gretchen Whitmer ended in complete ignominy:
Exactly 18 months to the day, Birge’s prosecutors suffered a humiliating defeat in a Grand Rapids courtroom after a jury acquitted two of the men and deadlocked on the guilt of two others. (Two defendants pleaded guilty and testified for the government during the three-week trial). Despite endless resources and favorable rulings by the judge overseeing the case, the government failed to secure a single conviction in what the Justice Department considered one of its largest domestic terror investigations ever.
Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, after a year and a half in prison, went home to their families on Friday night; Adam Fox, the alleged ringleader, and Barry Croft, Jr. remain incarcerated while Birge’s office prepares to retry the men—a fool’s errand, as they didn’t know each other prior to the FBI’s involvement in the faux plot and live almost 1,000 miles apart. (Croft resides in Delaware.) It’s a desperate attempt to save face, regardless of the lives and the principles of justice at stake.
Not only were jurors unpersuaded by Birge’s prosecutors, the jury instead seemed to believe defense attorneys’ arguments that their clients were entrapped by the FBI. At least a dozen FBI undercover agents and informants, working out of numerous FBI field offices across the eastern half of the country and at the direction of supervising agents, concocted and funded the sting operation. Dan Chappel, the main informant compensated at least $60,000 by the FBI for “bringing people together,” as his FBI handler ordered him, took the stand to explain his role. But his testimony was lackluster and ultimately did not convince the jury the men were guilty.
So, let’s review the facts as we know them today. The “attempt”
How is this not election interference – which, we are reliably informed, is a threat to the very fiber of democracy, when it’s “Republican” yahoos trampling through the Capitol?
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
As my mind wanders, it links unrelated ideas. For example:
How deadly is Covid? How many people died OF Covid, WITH Covid, or merely DURING the Covid pandemic? It makes a huge difference but the media glosses over the distinction all the time.
Similarly, Miami Beach declared a Spring Break curfew because of a shooting, and a Wal-Mart got trashed by “Spring Break Youths.” Except there is a striking lack of logo sportswear in the videos. Are we certain these are UCLA students who brought their pistols to town for a shootout during Spring Break? Are we certain those Walmart yutes are students from Harvard and Yale? Could they be locals causing trouble DURING Spring Break? It makes a difference but the media glosses right over it.
Blaming the wrong people leads to punishing the wrong people. How can we make good decisions if the media gives us bad information? And that links to Ukraine, and gun control, and FBI racial crime statistics, and inflation, and . . . .
Joe Doakes
If people can’t trust the institutions that make self-government sustainable, what do they think the inevitable end result is?
Could we at least call this what it really is – bribing you, with your own money?
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Check me on this – are you seeing what I’m seeing
Joe Doakes
…somebody tells you what a genius and go in miracle was, or how she was the “leader of the free world in pro for four years, just mention this.
They’re Iran’s combination of the Saudi religious police, the KGB and the Green Berets.
They were behind the Marine Barracks and US Embassy bombings in Lebanon in the ’80s, which killed hundreds of Americans.
They are known to be directly responsible for killing 600 American service people in Iraq.
They’ve been directly tied to destabilizing most of the governments in the Middle East and Africa, not that many of them need a lot of help in that regard.
They brougth Lebanon and Syria to their knees.
They’ve been waging a horrific war in Yemen.
They are behind most of the attacks against Israel for the past 30 years, and are HAMAS’s main sponsor.
So of course the Brandon administration wants to destigmatize them:
According to Barak Ravid, reporting for Axios, three Israeli officials and two American sources have told him that the Biden administration is considering removing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from the terror blacklist if Iran issues a public commitment to de-escalate its activities in the region.
Look at the bright side; it’ll free up CIA and FBI resources to go after the real terrorists, like the Heritage Foundation and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
“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 unaware of what’s happening to the US’ northern neighbor.
Looking at Democrat likely voters alone, 65 percent said they favored Trudeau’s crackdown on the protestors, and 17 percent said they disapproved.
I mean, even the rhetoric is becoming too obvious to avoid; Orwell’s villains declared that freedom was slavery; today, democrat thinkers closer and closer to the main stream say freedom is “white supremacist“.
Tomato, tomahto.
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