Nothing any Democrat says, or does, up to and including violating federal law and national security, will ever be held against them
On the other hand, anything untoward (or that can be interpreted as being untoward, regardless of intent or context) that is or is reputed to be done, said, hinted at or speculated to have been done, said or hinted at by any Republican officeholder (no matter how obscure or inconsequential), candidate (whether mainstream or far fringe), party official, contributor, voter, supporter, rally attendee, or by any putative supporter, contributor or rally attendee, or anyone claiming or reputed to have at any time been a Republican party member, supporter or sympathizer, will not only be treated like it’s evidence in a federal trial, but imputed to every conservative, anywhere, regardless of its context, accuracy or even truthfulness.
A Republican – no matter how obscure – who says something repugnant in a forum no matter how marginal, can count on becoming very, very famous.
To wit:
I have a question for all Republican politicians with a shred of dignity:
Are you proud of the fact that embracing Donald Trump has poisoned the character of your children?
Just look at what you’ve become. An entire generation of Republicans are literal fucking Nazis. pic.twitter.com/m6WdBaKSLJ
If we presume this conversation isn’t a hoax (I don’t), then let’s tote up the score: a few maladapted “young republicans” had a pretty ugly conversation.
Versus: A solid plurality of young Democrats justify murder over politics.
Which is probably why this story is getting pushed in the first place.
To: Smooth-brained DFL Social Media Smurfs From: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous Peasant Re: When Did You Stop Beating…
SBDFLSMS,
As we watch Governor Piglet – who staged a lockdown, seized 18 months of emergency power for a 3 month emergency, started a snitch line and a “badthink” database and has spent seven years relentlessly dividing Minnesotans under the slogan “One People, One State, One Minnesota [1] – flail around at having called half of his state’s people “Nazis” and “Fascists”, I urge you to take a moment for introspection about some basic logic and, yes, morality.
Here’s the thing; the burden of proof is on you to prove someone is a “Nazi” or “fascist”, with some sort of evidence. It is not on your target – we’re not “victims” – to prove they are not.
Otherwise, you’re just a mud-slinging coward.
That is all.
[1] OK, that wasn’t literally the slogan. But nobody who studied European totalitarianism in the 20th century didn’t think that when they first heard the slogan “One Minnesota”. I guarantee it.
Elon Musk – a socially awkward guy, most likely out on the spectrum somewhere – gesticulated that he’s “throwing his heart out to the audience”…
Elon Musk was very ill-advised to do this kind of salute to denote his clearly stated ‘my heart goes out to you’ sentiment… but he obviously didn’t mean it as a Nazi salute and anyone who says he did is being a disingenuous idiot. pic.twitter.com/5fh82psnSC
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…
All incidents of “hate speech” not captured on video (involving being delivered by someone proven not to be a ringer) shall be assumed to be hoaxes until proven otherwise.
Now, let’s take bets on how long it takes for the story to come out as a hoax.
Closest without going over?
(And that German-style font? Isn’t it just amazing how “white supremacists” are mouth-breathing cretins who also love to slip in sly historical illusions via graphic presentation?
Show me the “Republican” who supports price controls, open borders, defunding police, gun confiscation, soical decline, packing the SCOTUS, creating two new Democrat states to pack the Senate, explosive debt, and a foreign policy as firm as a Dairy Queen ice cream cone, and I’ll show you the real problem.
In North Dakota, it’d be called a Fleischkikla (German-Russian for the German Fleischküchle. In Northeast Minneapolis, it’s a Pierog. There are other names in other languages. They probably have a local term in Ohio that would flummox Klink
But in all my years in Minnesota – admittedly almost none of it in the First CD – I’ve never ever heard the term Runza.
Am I missing something?
Or is this literally the dumbest attempt at a dunk that Walz has ever tried?
[1] In the “fascist dictatorship founded on racial obsession, focused on murdering Jews” sense of the term, rather than the “I’m a leftist and I don’t whatever it is” sense.
Illegal immigration is crushing working-class incomes.
But we get the representation we deserve, apparently:
The whole thing together is a work of art. Put it in a time capsule for future generations, or whatever the digital equivalent is. Note the expressions on the faces of the men. pic.twitter.com/lQrjx7PRrR
It appears the Vegetable In Chief has browbeaten Netanyahu into letting Hamas live to rape, burn and mutilate another day:
Very discouraging news out of Israel today that the IDF is pulling its forces out of southern Gaza, supposedly to “rest, regroup, and re-supply” after four months of hard fighting. Let us hope this is true, but one can’t help but suspect that this move may be in response to demands from the Biden Administration that will inevitably lead to a permanent cease-fire which will amount to a Hamas victory, because Hamas will have survived a hard Israeli punch but will now have time and room to rebuild. (Axios is now reporting that Biden delivered an ultimatum to Netanyahu.)
Biden appears to be well on his way to making Jimmy Carter look like a foreign policy titan:
When I heard the news of the IDF strike that killed seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen, my first instinct was that the aid workers were set up by Hamas through false or deceptive intelligence sent to the Israelis. We know Hamas uses civilians as human shields and welcomes civilian casualties as a means of propaganda, and foreign civilian casualties are the best propaganda of all. Maybe an Israeli officer was hasty and had a twitchy trigger, but I doubt it. In any case, it gave the feckless and craven Biden Administration the excuse it needed to break with Israel (as I predicted it eventually would), in the biggest betrayal of an ally since Munich in 1938.
“Art” as humanity used to know it is pretty much dead, at least in any community of people who call themselves “artists” anymore.
This was from a, for lack of a better term, “art event” in Powderhorn Park over the weekend:
Ignore the stupid sled.
Look, rather, at the audience. What do you see?
Inevitably, they are smug, corn-fed, entitled, white progressive members of the laptop class and the non-profit/industrial complex – no doubt from “Urban Life” theme parks like Marcy Holmes or Merriam Park, larping it up as “art fans” in Powderhorn, the part of Minneapolis that smug progressives go to when they want to be “down with the neighborhood” (before they scamper back home to where all the barristas and short order brunch technicians have to commute to from Fridley and Brooklyn Center).
The MPD has condemned the display – which, I’m sure, is causing all sorts of nasal snorking over lattes this morning.
And why not? It’s not their stores being cleaned out (none of them as any concept of the free market more involved than a coffee shop), not their cars being jacked (does anyone actually steal electric cars?), not them waking up to bullet holes in their siding.
Here’s hoping every last one of these cretins needs a cop sometime soon.
The Babylon Bee has developed Artificial Intelligence video to the point where they can make a video mocking the President and the gathered, uh, dignitaries, or…
Governor Klink and Senators DeVille, Baldwin and Slugger made the President stand with his thumb up his butt while they took the inevitable slew of selfies to gurgitate out onto social media.
I love how the even President Biden, around :30, puts up his hands so as to say “What TF? Aren’t I the President?” as DeVille, Slugger and Baldwin cackle like a bunch of Edina housewives chugging box wine.
Hilarious? Yes.
A perfect representation of today’s MNDFL – the obsession with self-adulatory echo-chambering, the forced junior-high giggling, the obliviousness to anyone and anything outside their special little world? The three of them, and Baldwin, act like a clacque of spoiled, oblivious middle-school mean girls.
This does, in fact, personify today’s DFL to a perfect “T”
Someone walks up to you with a baseball bat. They say they want to kill you.
Your response is “no, I don’t want to get beaten to death with a baseball bat”.
Looks like you have a standoff. A controversy. A conundrum.
Someone else steps in and asks “How about we compromise? Will you settle for a traumatic brain injury?”
It’s the middle way, after all. The guy with the bat might even say “sure, I just wanna hit you, hard!“
You might respond “No – in fact, I don’t want anyone hurting me in any way. At all”
And the buttinski responds “Why won’t yiou compromise?”
Who’s right?
You?
The guy with the bat?
Or the person striving to find the middle ground between the two of you?
If your response is “I’m putting my foot down; nobody is hitting me with a bat for any reason at all“, and the other to ask “why do you hate the guy with the bat?“, does that change anybody’s mind?
Point being, sometimes the middle path, the compromise, is not the most moral path forward.
Given that justices Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett were appointed and confirmed via the same process that has covered for over 200 years…
Republicans stole two Supreme Court seats and appointed justices who flat out ignore precedent to do the bidding of Big Oil, Wall Street… really any right-wing, dark-money group with deep pockets.
… can someone tell me how our “junior senator” trying to popularize this kind of garbage isn’t a bigger threat to our system of government, the January 6 ever was
…that Democrats not only assume “their” voters are stupid and uncritical, but they they count on it.
Honestly really depressing that the thing that made me leave Congress – nonconsensually shared intimate images – are now being openly displayed IN Congress.
You removed the tweet, but followed up saying that you meant “exterminate at the ballot box”, although you delivered it with all the subtle grace of Sean Penn on a three day bender.
But hey, I’ll meet you halfway. Ask Sarah Palin what it’s like, having something that was meant one way passed off as something completely different. That’s politics.
And given the number of unstable, armed people on your side of the political aisle, perhaps you should moderate your tone a bit.
But while others focus on your original rhetoric, I’m going to roast you for this:
In this case the phrase was used as symbolism. I know you pathetic MAGotts don’t have the intelligence to recognize that but that’s your problem. Don’t project your mindless violence fantasies on this peace loving hippie. Exterminate at the ballot box was clearly what was meant. https://t.co/sE92Ew7CuK
— 🇺🇸🕉🇺🇦🟦Stevie Van Zandt☮️💙 (@StevieVanZandt) April 11, 2023
It’s one of an endless series of tweets in your feed where you refer to Republicans as some variant of stupid.
Democrats have introduced a bill in the Minnesota Legislature that would ban the sale of bottled water in the state.
Introduced earlier this month by Rep. Sydney Jordan, a Democrat from Minneapolis, the bill would prohibit manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers from “selling or offering for sale bottled water in Minnesota.”
The bill defines bottled water as “water contained in a formed or molded container” that is “comprised primarily of plastic resin, sealed, and holds less than two liters when full.”
