Category: Campaign ’22
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Berg’s Law: Stare Decisive
It’s been a while since we inaugurated a new Berg’s Law. But it’s high time. Berg’s 24th Law Of Rhetorical Predictability: Democrat politicians can, and routinely do, say anything they want, regardless of honesty or even factuality, confident that their audience, while theoretically “educated”, has no capacity for critical thought”. We’ve seen this writ large……
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Play Your Bets
I have no idea why it Michael Beschloss a blue check. But let’s place a little bit, if not with him then with ourselves: It’s entirely possible he’s right. Abortion, and abortion alone, could Blunch watch polls today say will be a red wave. But if it doesn’t? What is the opposite happens? What if…
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Euphemisms
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Found this stuffed in the screen door on Sunday morning. Couple of late-middle aged White women with ELCA hair going around the neighborhood (no doubt doing Good Works before heading off to hear the Gospel). Struck me that Tina doesn’t mention which political party she intends to caucus with,…
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Lowering Costs!
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Not sure how I got on this mailing list but here’s the latest news: Angie Craig hates my vehicle warranty. She wants me to burn E15 which the service advisor told me not to do, absolutely not, voids my warranty. She also hates my family grocery budget. She’s proud…
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Junetwentieth
Goivernor Klink on Twitter over the weekend, commemorating Juneteenth: “…work to dismantle unjust systems of oppression” Like open-ended emergency powers that can be extended endlessly at the whim of a political party in power? Like arbitrary authority that allows a governor to crush businesses at a whim, but spare the ones that donate to his…
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The New Brown Face/s Of White Supremacy
Remember when Democrats giddily predicted Texas would inevitably turn blue? Someone didn’t get the memo. Republican Mayra Flores won the special election in TX34 – along the Rio Grande, the second most Latino district in the country – last night. Born in Mexico, daughter of migrant workers, wife of a border patrol agent, she ran…
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Results
The Pioneer Press, apparently knowing (what little is left of) its audience, says: Now, I don’t pry into other peoples personal healthcare decisions, and I’m pretty merciless to any idiot who tries to yap about mine. But it’s worth noting that Dr. Jensen, though not vaccinated, appears to have missed zero days of work or…
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Governor Gaslight
To: Governor Walz You – or one of your social media smurfs – tweeted this over the weekend: I caught the subtle gaslighting; in Democrat communications lately, upporting your current flavor is “courage“. I’m sure that will log roll at least a couple of gullible people who don’t think that hard. But since The laws…
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Lessons Unlearned?
SAN FRANCISCO: Whew. Stop prosecuting criminals, and bad things happen – who knew, right?That was crazy, wasn’t it? I tell ya, maybe those Republicans are right; San Francisco is it’s own worst enemy. Is there a city anywhere in the country as crazy as us? MINNEAPOLIS: Hold my latte.
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Flushed
Chesa Boudin – the Soros-backed district attorney in San Francisco – didn’t just lose his recall yesterday. He got brutalized. Scott Johnson at Powerline, inimitable as usual: Recall is a particularly good word in this case. He was a defective prosecutor. Among his innovations was the elimination of cash bail, the nonprosecution of a large…
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All About Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Although Jennifer Carnahan underperformed her expectations in the CD1 primary on Tuesday, coming in well under ten percent of the vote in her late husband’s district, she did get one huge break yesterday. Beto O’Rourke interrupted a law enforcement briefing on the Uvalde massacre in one of the most cynical, narcissistic bits of self-promotion I’ve…
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Fingerprints
This next couple of Tuesdays will give us six primary races that should be bellwethers about the influence of Donald Trump in the midterms, and potentially in 2024. There are four of them tomorrow – in Idaho, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Ohio – and two more next week in Georgia and Alabama. My hunch –…
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Will The Real Donald Trump Please Stand Up?
The Left wants Donald Trump on the ballot this fall – the Trump with no internal governor who wrote the mean tweets, the Trump of the (often dishonest or fabricated) media narratives, and especially of the “January 6” of fact, fiction and in between. But then, so does the GOP. But which Donald Trump? The…
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All In The Timing
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…
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From Deep Moldy Blue
Voters in Kenosha County – which has been voting Democrat for literally decades – threw out Democrats for county executive and school board in county elections this week.. Former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, a Republican candidate for governor, endorsed 48 school board candidates. Of those, 34 won including eight incumbents, based on preliminary results. Democratic…
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Panic in Donkville
It’s almost impossible to put enough lipstick on the porcine Biden administration. All the polls are in the crapper and the only numbers that are going up are in the grocery aisles. Meanwhile, as Joel Kotkin notes, Biden and the rest of the party are doing their best Thelma and Louise imitation, especially where the…
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Sanity Check
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Check me on this – are you seeing what I’m seeing Joe Doakes
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Everything Old Is New Again
In 2010, faced with running against charismatic Republican Tea Party firebrand Tom Emmer with somnolent and visibly addled Mark Dayton, Big Leftymoney rallied enough money to prop up “moderate” “Republican” bureaucrat Tom Horner, an Arne Carlson/Dave Durenberger-era functionary designed to soak up “moderate” “Republican” votes from Republicans who found themselves disaffected by Tom Emmer’s “extremist”…
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Q: How Badly Is The DFL Polling For Mid-Terms?
A”. This badly. Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan are officially launching a statewide public safety tour. So – Governor “We’ll Send the Guard To Your Riot When You Fax Out the TPS Report” Walz is feeling the string. And to show how serious he is about crime, he’s taking his “Lieutenant” Governor…
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Mayor Carter/Frey’s Perilous Tightrope
On the one hand, official hypochondria along with privileged lawlessness is polling very badly for the DFL this fall. So the vaccine mandates (and the whole “public safety is a privilege” thing) have got to go. On the other hand, if DFLers abandon hypochondria, the Karen vote (social, not ethnic) will rebel. So the mayors…
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“Common Sense”
Whenever your Democrat friends condescendingly coo “nobody is coming for your guns”, just remember – they’re coming for your guns: Gun owners in Minnesota had a pretty easy session last year. This year, the Dems have to try to turn out their base. Grabbing guns certainly gets the Karens and Mascists and ninnies of the…
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Sign O The Times
And then there were six, again: Kendall Qualls has jumped into the MNGOP Governors race. And the MNDFL’s Ken Martin’s response? So…for the 2022 Governor’s race, Ken Martin is still running against… …Trump? Which is interesting, because it wasn’t so long that his party’s line was completely different: Why yes. Indeed. I suppose it beats…
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Moving Forward
The House DFL’s redistricting plan couldn’t be more obviously gerrymandered to support the DFL if they re-did CD 6, 7 and 4 to spell out “DFL” in precincts on the state map. Rep. Jeremy Munson has what I think is the second-best proposal I’ve seen: Now, I thin the best plan I’ve seen (with all…
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Not For Turning
It was a generation ago – when I was in high school – that Margaret Thatcher become Prime Minister. The media and popular culture were less tribalized then than they are today – but the drumbeat from the cultural authorities was this is a very bad thing. And it foreshadowed the great American resurgence that…