Category: Slander Files
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The Maye Quade Doctrine: If It Moves, Slander It. If It Doesn’t Move, Defame It
I’ll allow that it’s possible that between David and I, Minnesota might get a little over-covered here at Hot Air. But I’ve got a theory: national Democrats are trying out a lot of their national strategies and tactics in Minnesota; conservatives following Minnesota politics got a fair amount of deja vu during the ’24 presidential…
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“This Is MAGA Country!”
“Klan” leaflet with “German”-style type appearing “according to a pastor” in Springfield Ohio: “Stamped Self-Addressed Envelope?” Berg’s 20th Law governs: 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…
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The New Political Geography
Perhaps you heard – conservatives won big in EU elections last weekend. You might have missed it, because the news only referred to “the far right” – as if Francisco Franco were back from the dead. Indeed, it’s yet another term that today’s left have rendered meaningless: Let not pretend this is accidental. Big Left…
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A Stylish LIttle Stiletto Boot On Your Neck Forever: Apple Valley Edition
Among Big Left’s great crimes against history is the complete devaluation they have achieved against the term “Fascist”. To much of the parts of society that routinely use the word, it now means “anyone not on board with today’s left’s narrative”. No, really: And Big Left knows what it’s doing, since the other options have…
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Four Out Of Five Red Sox Fans Say “The Yankees Suck”
Senator Erin Maye Quade continues to confirm my thesis that DFL politicians count on their voters being – let’s be diplomatic – smug, but uninformed and uncritical. The Alliance Defending Freedom is “literally” “designated” as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is – and I know 95% of your readers know…
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A Couple Bucks In The Proverbial Tip Jar
Sure, it’s entirely plausible that an entire “white supremacist” group without a single inbred-looking morbidly overweight guy among ’em might march through DC without a mob of “counterprotesters” howling for their blood. It’s a crazy world, anything can happen. What makes this whole thing seem just a tad lessplausible is…:
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Communicating With The MN DFL: Part X
Dems: Public broadcasting is NOT state media! 1% of their funding comes from government! Normies: Then defunding won’t hurt anythi… Dems: NOOO! You’ll KILL ELMO! Why do you hate Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers?
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Communicating With The MN DFL: Part IX
Dems: Trans women are women! Normies: Except in athletic competition, where their innate masculine physical traits are a huge advantage, not to mention in prison where they tend to rape bio-women… Dems: Genocide!
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Communicating With The MN DFL: Part VIII
DFL: Let’s fully fund education! Normies: Could you define that term? Because we already pay an awful lot of money, and the results keep getting worse… DFL: You hate children! Why do you hate children?
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Communicating With The MN DFL: Part VII
Dems: Blue America *carries* Red America. Without us, Red America would starve. Normies: OK. Let’s talk national divorce, since you don’t need… Dems: Why are you talking treason!?!? NEVER!
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Communicating With The MN DFL: Part VI
DFL: Walz runs the most transparent administration in history. Normies: His administration us utterly opaque, hides information, and communicates only in giggly selfies. DFL: Our HR office will be in touch.
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Communicating With The MN DFL: Part V
DFL: The surplus is immense, and a monument to DFL wisdom. Normies: It’s mostly one-time money. You turned it into permanent spending. It’ll be a deficit next session. DFL: We ALWAYS said it was one-time money!
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Communicating With The MN DFL: Part IV
DFL: the police are in occupying force of oppressors, and must be defunded! Normies: we oppose defunding the police. DFL: hey, we never said anything about defunding the police!
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Communicating With The MN DFL: Part III
DFL: we will make Minnesota a safe place for children to get gender affirming care Normies: we oppose allowing children who can’t rent a car or consent to getting a tattoo to opt for life changing gender altering surgery. DFL: hey, who said anything about altering gender!
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Communicating With The MN DFL: Part II
DFL: it’s good for children younger than 13 to attend a highly sexualized drag shows. Normies: we oppose children attending highly sexualized drag shows DFL: don’t you DARE call us groomers!
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Communicating With The MN DFL: Part I
DFL: it’s time to ban magazines larger than seven rounds, as well as “assault weapons” Normies: so, do you want to confiscate firearms? DFL: how dare you say anybody’s coming for your guns! You’re paranoid!
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Unsafe Space
That wave of right-wing terror they’ve been warning us about for the past fifteen years is apparently nigh, and coming for Jacob Frey: The progressive mayor of Minneapolis is fearing for his life since receiving an uptick in death threats… Well, yeah. After giving free reign to leftists, including all but inviting “Anti”-Fa to attack Trump rallygoers,…
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But Of Course
It may perhaps be a sign of a shift in the perceptions of the GOP’s likely behavior in 2024 – but Big Media is already calling Ron DeSantis not only “Hitler”, but even worse than Trump: I noted on the show a few weeks ago that Democrats referring to Republicans as “literally Hitler” goes back…
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NPR’s War On Things That Just Work
I listen – as rarely as I can – to NPR’s “On the Media”. The show is basically an unthinking cheerleader for America’s “elite” media. And their latest theme is participating in the war on “Nostalgia” – particularly, against the notion of looking to the past for lessons that might help with the present and…
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Pauline Kael Syndrome
To: Lieutenant Governor FlanaganFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: This… Lieutant Governor Flanagan, About this appearance, on a local, uh, livestream, I guess? I have so many questions. Baaaaaaaaaaahb: For starters: Does anyone really care how you dress? And by “anyone”, I don’t mean “Baaaaaaahb from FRIDley” – although we’ll come back to him, and to…
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A Conversation About Guns
Senator Ron Latz went to Harvard. Did you know that? Anyway – here he is, talking about the new “public safety” / gun grab bill. Well, sort of: Dear Democrats: it’s your duty to run on this, this fall. Every candidate, every race. Seriously: Republicans, statewide: somebody needs to put this on signs, buttons and…
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What A Difference Four Years Makes
2020: His reelection bid coming up short in the face of democrat turnout and allegations of fraud, Donald Trump claims Dominion voting machines are rigged. The establishment tut-tuts, call Trump a sore loser. Social media censor thousands of people who repeat and extend Trump’s claim about the voting machines 2024: Uh…
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Tienanmen Dean Speaks Out
To: Representative Dean PhillipsFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Show Us The Information Rep. Phillips, After wrapping Beto O’Rourke in unearned merit earlier this week, you’ve now gone full Napolitano: you “know” there’s a virtual army of spree killers just waiting to… …well, let’s let you explain it: That’s a pretty big accusation, Representative. Any chance…
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I Rarely Spike The Football
UPDATE: I got punked. When I’m universal dictator, Reddit is sooooooo hosed. But I will do it today: The ignorant, stupid racists of The View got curb stomped. Anything that causes that program pain is an objective good.
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Calling All “Journalists”
More on the Ilhan Omar response tweet – itself just a big fascination – later. Now – let’s take a look at this tweet, from someone justifying the hacking of crowd-funding data for people supporting the Trucker Convoy, included this photo and blurb: Stay with me on this: it zigs, and it zags. We’ve got…