Shot in the Dark

Category: Let’s Go Brandon

  • Never Forget

    The Vice President of the United States actively worked to bail out rioters, convicted rapists and scads of violent goons: Not a single national Democrat or local DFLer denounced this erosion of our legal system. Some, including much of the metro and state “progressive” power elite, celebrated and participated in it. This needs to be…

  • A Little Soggy

    Governor Klink, Melissa Hortman and the Urban DFL clacque squandered a $19 billion surplus paying off the DFL’s special interests, and all we got was a broken dam. Unexpectedly? No. Not a bit. The century-old Rapidan Dam on the Blue Earth River – a tributary to the Minnesota, and eventually the Mississippi – has been…

  • Fishy

    Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: From Powerline: Something strange has been happening with jobless claims numbers lately Calling the state of the U.S. jobs market these days stable seems like an understatement considering the latest data coming out of the Labor Department. That’s because most of the past several weeks have shown that…

  • Politicians Field Guide: The Moderate In The Race

    Elon Musk illustrated the truth for many in America’s political “middle”: I’m not in “the middle”, by any means. I used to call myself “center right”, but these days I am proud to call myself a Paleocon, from the “let’s get back to the Sharon Statement” school of paleoconning. Trump from 2016 to 2020 governed…

  • If You Are…

    …one of those people who doesn’t need food, energy, shelter, or transportation, Paul Krugman’s got great news for you: And apparently, if you are one of those people who needs those things, you either don’t count or are a failure.

  • Bidenomics And That “Top Five” Ranking

    The Shutterfly warehouse in Shakopee is going to close. A picture products and service company has decided to close its facility in Shakopee, costing around 250 employees their jobs. Shutterfly said in a notice to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development that it plans to permanently close its location on Deen Lakes Boulevard…

  • Ever Notice…

    … how iconic brands in Minneapolis never find buyers? They always go from humming along to closing up shop for good? Psycho Suzies tiki lounge may have been one of the most distinctive bars/restaurants in the city, that, for its many faults, as always been pretty creative on the food front. It’s been a while…

  • Best Intentions

    Black owned detailing shops, immigrant owned restaurants and Vietnamese run nail salons come and go constantly throughout Minnesota. They come and go without much comments from the gatekeepers of popular culture. but high concept, restaurants, especially the ones that clean closely to the progressive narrative? They get saturation media coverage, coming and going. “Common Roots”,…

  • Heavy-Handed Metaphor Alert

    A bar and restaurant explicitly aimed at revitalizing Downtown, and at “bringing Minneapolis together”,as a “place of healing for people” as one of its owners said, and overturning the image of downtown Minneapolis as a crime-ridden area enmeshed in a death spiral, has… …oh, do I even need to finish the sentence? I mean, let…

  • Downtown’s Back, Baybee!

    If proclamations made with muted, Minnesotan gusto were correlated with economic results, Jacob Frey’s exhortations would have downtown Minneapolis humming along like Dallas. Alas, they do not. Some of downtown’s signature office towers are ailing financially:  The 30-story LaSalle Plaza in downtown Minneapolis is scheduled to go to auction next week after the previous owner, the Teachers’…

  • Tuesday’s Gone

    Fleshing out my first thoughts on the most recent election: In Minnesota, the age-old wisdom prevails: money talks, bullshit walks. Tim Walz is sputtering fool, but he will be governor for the next four years. Unless his A1C level approaches triple digits, it’s highly likely he’ll complete his term and step aside for another sideshow…

  • Utopienfergnügen

    I caught this Twitter thread last week, and wanted to make sure I got a chance to talk about it. It’s by Andrew Hammel, an American living in Germany. The first people to pass it around to are all of your friends who still think Angela Merkel was the real leader of the free world…

  • Breaking News (Breaking Wind) From Seven Years Ago

    Deep thoughts from Chris Cillizza, circa 2015: Joe Biden’s unique trait as a politician is — and always has been — his honesty. Sometimes that honesty gets him into varying degrees of trouble. Sometimes it makes it seem as though he’s the closest thing to a real person you could possibly hope for in politics.…

  • Think “Walz Checks”, Only Gassy

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Modern Monetary Theory says the government can borrow and spend as much as it likes without consequences. If we can afford a gas tax holiday, why not an income tax holiday, a social security tax holiday, a liquor tax holiday? Or is MMT a lie and the gas tax…

  • Inflated

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: UBack when the Lesko Brandon administration was insisting price inflation didn’t exist, I detailed the recent history of price increases in a single product as a way to prove the lie. Now that price inflation is admitted, turns out to be a good thing because it helps consumers cut…

  • For Those Of Us…

    …who disdain conspiracy theories, and like a little bit of corroboration with our hot rumors… …the Biden administration certainly isn’t making things easy.

  • Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Another change from the Trump years: now we have beggers on street corners in Woodbury. I suppose that’s more equitable than having them concentrated in the central cities. And we seem to have a better class of buskers, showing some musical talent instead of merely waving a sign. Does…

  • Days Of Future Past: Obama’s Fourth Term Edition

    Production: US currently run by an administration imposing a “radical restructuring” that will make society a dystopian droog state (for all but the oligarchs who will sit at the top. See also the USSR, or China). Staging: Justin Trudeau’s Canada, where the next steps of the dystopian vision are trialed on a “western” population. Experimental…

  • Plan D

    Claiming inflation and recession weren’t real didn’t work. Blaming them on a pandemic only the media, the very comorbid and the most drama-addicted Karens really care about anymore is just absurd. Blaming it on Putin? That reeks of desperation. So we’re down to Plan D: gaslighting consumers and society.