Shot in the Dark

Category: Progressive Tyranny

  • Courting Collapse

    A bit of trivia, here.  In 2003, when the Legislature passed “Shall Issue” reform, the law required the state to honor carry permits in all state and municipal government buildings.  But there was one big exception. The Minnesota Judicial Branch chimed in and said, in effect, that the Legislature couldn’t tell the Judicial Branch how…

  • This Is Today’s DFL

    Retired judge.  Illegal “swearing in” (according to statute) At the MN History Center – after hours.   So somehow they got into a closed building to have an extralegal ceremony with an inactive judge, former SCOM DFL steno Kevin Burke.  And not a single DFLer has had the integrity to publicly go “uhhhh, let’s think about…

  • Coup

    WCCO-TV “political reporter” Caroline Cummings appears to be setting up to replace Esme Murphy one day.  Her reporting on the constitutional crisis brewing tomorrow might be a little more curious than your typical Esme Murphy tongue-bath for Democrats. But not by much. Of course, Steve Simon’s opinion is about as useful as being able to…

  • The One-Two Punch

    Ken Martin is running for DNC Chair. And on the surface, it’d appear that this tweet is peak irony: But wait.  As you read the thread, it becomes clear that it’s really more a matter of the Democrat leadership class being oblivious to the results of their own policies. 

  • The Real Problem

    The images coming from California are apocalyptic.  I’m not being hyperbolic. Judge for yourself. So in times like this, it’s good to know our “elites” have the right perpective. Also: Karma’s a Mitch: Wait’ll they learn what FEMA did with all that money…

  • If The Facts Are Against You, And The Law Is Against You

    Stipulated: the DFL is Minnesota’s abusive spouse. I It’s in the phase of spousal abuse where the first round of resistance has led to an amping-up of the gaslighting and projection: That, and their messaging can not be intended to influence anyone but the stupid, the ill-informed and the uncritical, can it? “Losing the popular…

  • For Those Who Observe

    Merry January 6! It’s one of modern progressivism’s high holy days – along with Roemas, May Day and Feast of the Entitlements.  Have a blessed January 6!

  • Declaring The Causes That Impel Us, 2025 Edition

    The below is an update of a piece I first wrote almost five years ago. It was at that moment about the time when people – smart people, anyway – were starting to realize that Covid wasn’t the new Bubonic Plague, that the sky was not falling, and that whatever “model” Governor Klink was reading…

  • For The Young Ignorant Lefty Bobbleheads In Your Life

    You know who I’m talking about – the young humanities major at your job; the know-it-all lady witih ELCA hair in the PTA; the angry young relative who deigns to grace you with her presence at holiday dinners anyway. This one goes out to you.  Use it wisely.  Reasons American healthcare is expensive: 6. American…

  • The Real Victim, Here

    Governor Klink – who two years before had arrogated emergency powers that Francisco Franco would have envied, who sicced the Attorney General on anyone who defied him – as the trifecta started marauding: “You got political capital, you gotta use it”. Two years later and facing two years of tie votes in the House: “I…

  • So Tired Of Winning

    “Life is full of ironies – if you’re stupid” — PJ O’Rourke Remember 2010-2012?   When Democrats snarled that there was no way, no how that there were “death panels” buried in Obamacare? And those of us with some experience in the healthcare industry responded “of course, there are, and have been ever since government poked its nose…

  • Pre-Cognitive Dissonance

    Am I the only one that heard about Taylor Lorenz’s “Joy” at the murder of Brian Thompson… …and thought “that certainly puts a new spin on the Harris campaign’s theme?” Freedom is slavery? 2+2=5? Murder is joy? One “joy” I try to deny myself is excessive schadenfreud. Pinky swear. But I’ll confess, I feel quite…

  • We Were Warned

    They warned us that if we voted Republican, extremists would roam the streets murdering their enemies, as their fellow extremist droogs rejoiced. And they were right. The meme has traveled about that UHG denies claims at double the national average. That may be true, and that may be utterly without context, and neither I nor…

  • Your Tax Dollars At Work

    I consider Dennis Prager, if not a friend in the classic sense, at least a good acquaintance. Most decent people wish him all the best in his apparently extended recovery.  If your worldview calls for prayers, they’re being welcomed. I specified “decent” people because… …well… Lakeville schools’ response was predictable enough: Now, I’m not one…

  • I Was Told There Would Be Pouncing

    While this is good – and expected – news, I feel a little cheated. Companies are ditching DEI because it’s bad for the bottom line; they can practice equality without flogging “equity”.  But notice how it’s framed: “under pressure from conservative activists”.  I mean, if you’re going to “blame” companies’ rediscovering economic and social sanity…

  • One Of The Benefits Of Being A “Progressive” White Woman…

    …is that not only can you “appropriate” an indigenous culture to your rhetorical ends,  you can agglomerate indigenous cultures together into whatever custom mix you want to make whatever “point” you please. For example, the term “Latinx”, which purports to consolidate widely disparate cultures (Puerto Rico has little in common with Central America, and less…

  • Perhaps They’ve Been At Their Lake Houses For The Past Two Weeks

    Governor Walz on Twitter, over the weekend: Lt. Governor Flanagan, who uses her Native heritage like Walz uses plaid shirts: That might explain them missing this bit of news: Apparently “stolen land declarations” aren’t as important as a decent economy and, perhaps, taming of the federal bureaucracy that’s sandbagged so much of Native American society.…

  • And To Think We Accuse Them Of Economic Illiteracy

    To:  “Prez”, Dim Little Progressive Social Media BulbFrom:  Mitch Berg, obstreporous peasant who passed Econ 201Re:  Not The “Own” You Think It Is “Prez”, Re your sentiment expressed over the weekend: I mean, saving more money is good for you – might make you a conservative, eventually, actually.   And unless you save that money in…

  • The Stultifying Blue Fog

    OK, so moving to Canada after threatening it over and over again may be a bit much.  But changing social media platforms (after two years of threatening)?  That’s a little more doable.  Last week a friend of the blog emailed: Blue sky app. Looks and works pretty much like X. Their world views are safe…

  • What’s In A Word?

    Last night, someone on social media had a slightly different angle on the weekend rally featuring Governor Walz.  Earlier in his failed VP bid, he said “to some people, “socialism” is just neighborliness“. And over the weekend, the guy who called over half the nation “Nazis” hopes we can look at each other as neighbors.…

  • I’m Only Human

    After being called a “Nazi”, a “misogynist”, a “fascist” and a “Racist”, it’s hard not to indulge in a little schadenfreud.  Maybe a lot. And when God throws an opportunity like this in your way, who am I to argue? A licenced “poiltical analyst”, last Tuesday before the results started rolling in: I asked the…

  • Hey, Mankato!

    Here’s your state rep, Luke Frederick, comparing people of faith to slave holders for dissenting from the left on trans ideology: Please shock the world on election day, and send this hamster back to whatever coffee shop he was working at before he latched onto the DFL gravy train.

  • Evil-Adjacent

    I don’t need a lot of reasons not to vote for Kamala Harris next week.  I’ve documented many of them. She’s vapid. World leaders – the ones that aren’t really just French or British or German version of her, anyway (including the Cartel leaders, who are the de facto leaders of Mexico and are world…

  • We’re #1!

    Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: It’s talking about fiscal policy and, well… No choking in the finals in this contest…

  • WUPH

    JD Vance’s visit to the Third Precinct brought out, if not the worst of the plagues facing today’s Minnesota, at least the most comical: the WUPH.  The White Urban Progressive Homer.   Generally a 20-30-something male, employed in the non-profit, public or academic sector, part of the laptop class, single, socially mobile, mostly self-focused.  And they…