Shot in the Dark

Category: Campaign ’22

  • Flipped

    Tulsi Gabbard is sick and tired of the Democrat party, and she’s not going to take it anymore: A few thoughts: The Key Log: As Berg’s Seventh Law foretells, one of the reasons that Democrats like to harp on the “extremism” of the GOP is to deflect away from their own. One can hope the…

  • That Brave Stance Thing

    Rep. Omar: So, Rep. Omar – are you condemning the regime’s actions? Because by your logic, the women of Iran are fighting against being forced to don the hijab… …which you call “Islamophobia” when Americans say it. Just want to be clear, here.

  • Potemkin Reform

    Yesterday, just in time for midterms, President Brandon “pardoned” all people in federal custody for marijuana possession charges, and urged states to do the same. Mentioned in the closing seconds of NPR’s report on the subject: the number of people in Federal custody solely for marijuana possession is… (checks his notes) …zero. Literally nobody will…

  • The Show Suit

    Keith Ellison, after three years and 9 months of glorifying, aiding and abetting crime and the collapse of the rule of law… …is “tackling gun crime“. The lawsuit, filed in Hennepin County District Court, alleges Fleet Farm sold at least 37 firearms to two straw purchasers over the course of 16 months, despite red flags that…

  • Cloud Control

    Senator Amy Klobuchar thinks the stakes of this election are very, very high: Sen. Amy Klobuchar was slammed Tuesday for appearing to suggest that voting for Democrats in the November midterm elections could help thwart hurricanes and the effects of climate change. The evidence is all around us: Democrats not only think their voters are…

  • Keith Ellison’s Round Trip Journey

    Keith Ellison – a year ago this week – op-edding to endorse the “Defund” Amendment in the MInneapolis city elections: Keith Ellison today: “I’m so a law and order, I make Dirty Harry look like a soy-boi cuck; just ask Mike Freeman!. No, really. Check out his latest TV ad: It is is the most…

  • The Case Of The Three Command Sergeants Major

    A third National Guard Command Sergeant Major – the top non-commissioned officer in a battalion of 500-800 soldiers, all of them very long-term soldiers/guardsmen with impeccable credentials – has come out against Tim Walz: I need to find these sergeants and get them on the air, since I don’t suspect the Strib, the TV stations…

  • Feeding Our Supporters

    The “Feeding Our Future” (FOF) scandal just keeps getting better and better. Let’s sum up where we are so far: 48 people were indicted on Thursday by the Feds. Governor Walz claimed that Ramsey County Judge John Guthman, had ordered the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) – on pain of a contempt charge and potential…

  • Campaigning 102

    Ryan Wilson – who’s running for State Auditor, and is leading incumbent DFLer Julie Blaha in the latest Trafalgar poll on Minnesota statewide races – did a whirlwind tour of Minnesota yesterday, as recounted in this twitter thread. Read the thread, and notice what’s missing: At no point in the tour did he drive of…

  • The DFL’s No Good, Very Bad Day (Part III): Follow The Money

    Perhaps the biggest story of all dropped last. US Attorney Andy Lugar released indictments against 47 (and later, 48) suspects in the Feeding Our Future scandal – the scam funneling $250 million in federal COVID relief into, it’s alleged, the pockets of a series of local non-profits. he 48th indictment was allegedly a woman who…

  • The DFL’s No Good, Very Bad Day (Part II): Police On My Back

    As the DFL’s day continued, the DFL’s push to wrap themselves in law and order took a solid hit when a couple of dozen county sheriffs endorsed Jim Schultz for Attorney General: This has got to terrify the DFL. There may be more bodies buried at the AGO than even in Steve Simon’s State Department.…

  • The DFL’s No Good, Very Bad Day (Part I): Polled

    It was a rough day for the DFL yesterday. One we’ll be talking about on Saturday at some length. First: a Trafalgar poll showed the Governor’s race tied, and Jim Schultz and Ryan Wilson ahead in the Attorney General and Auditor’s races: After the cold bucket of water from SUSA three weeks ago – showing…

  • Chanting Points Memo: Giants In The Associates Washroom

    DFLers are of the opinion that Keith Ellison is a legal giant compared to challenger Jiim Schultz. Here’s an example from a repeat Point Chanter: The truth is, Ellison was a very junior litigator for three whole years, before becoming a “community organizer”, non-profiteer and politician. Ellison was a very junior attorney, when he was…

  • Don’t Forget

    It’s about six weeks until the election. And with polls showing Governor Klink seven points up on Scott Jensen, it’s time to remind minnesotans, with their famously short attention span‘s, about what this last couple of years have been like. The Twin Cities media desperately wants to memoryhole this episode: Governor Klink created a three…

  • The Shorter MNDFL

    “ The rule of law has collapsed so badly in a city we used to proudly brag about “owning“ that crime flourishes openly and without fear in the streets“ “And if you don’t accept an invitation to come see this collapse face-to-face, it is you who is the problem!”

  • Deflection

    Gosh, why is it that Governor Klink and Co-Governor Flanagan can’t stop talking about abortion? White, upper middle class progressive women – the people who are the new DFL base – never come to North Minneapolis, so it’s all OK.

  • Polled

    I’m going to guess some internal poles give representatives Angie Craig and Dean Phillips a bit of a wake up call. 2022: representatives Craig and Phillips have a bit of a change of heart, just in time for midterms: I’m going to guess that all those soccer moms in Lakeville and Wayzata aren’t amused at…

  • The Media’s Loving Embrace

    According to the Strib, there’s almost no difference between the two attorney general candidates! I mean, an honest report would note that, for the incumbent Attorney General, this (if true, which you can never really assume with the incumbent attorney general) would be a 180° reversal of course… … but no worries. It’s not like…

  • Never Forget

    Since it’s state fair time Dash the time when at least some people in Minnesota start paying attention to the upcoming elections – let’s make sure we remember: when minutes counted, Governor Klink took days to respond to the collapse of law and order in Minneapolis. The media is going to focus on cheery stories…

  • The New Democrat Strategery

    2018: afraid that the hyper-progressive Erin Murphy/Erin Maye Quade ticket will lose the governor‘s office, the coterie of progressive plutocrats that bankroll the DFL prop up retrofitted “moderate“ Tim Walz as a sort of Danish-monarchy-style figurehead for the hyper-progressive troika of Peggy Flanagan, Ryan Winkler and Melissa Hortman (all of whom are essentially mouthpieces for…

  • Wishful

    “ DeSantis in fighter plane conjures images of Dukakis in tank“ Just between you and me, I suspect that the only people for whom it “conjures” that image is Charlie Crist’s message team. DeSantis was actually in the military; putting Dukakis in a tank was a little like putting Paul Lynde in a UFC ring.…

  • As Long As We’re On The Subject

    To: Governor WalzFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Priorities Your Highness: You wrote this on Twitter yesterday: Let’s look at this past four years: Crime wave, abetted by DFL policy Riots, encouraged by your administratiion’s passive-aggressive bureaucratic gamesmanship with the National Guard Collapse of respect for the rule of law, as a result of DFL policy…

  • Vow Of Silence

    To: Governor WalzFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Debates Governor, You pretty terrible performance in his debate with Scott Jensen at FarmFest last week. Which is, I suspect, why you’ve backed out of the traditional debate at the State Fair: Governor Walz: Don’t like the noise, heat and humidity? After doing like 14 years at the…

  • Berg’s 24th Law Is New Yet Omniscient

    Last week, President Biden said this: And the left social-media bashibazuks spent the rest of the week repeating it as if – aaaaalmost as if – driven by a coded algorithm. Why, it’s aaaaaaalmost as if the Democrats know they can count on stupidity, incuriosity and inability to reason to bring out the vote for…

  • Ray Of Hopelessness

    I wouldn’t say there was much in the way of “surprises“ in the primaries last night. Mostly confirmation of existing hunches, and a brief stab of hope followed by waves and waves of confirmation that Minneapolis is not only screwed, but seems hell-bent on participating in its own screwing. The marquee race, Don Samuels tackling…