Whatever you do, stay the course:
Keep giving the DFL more chances to try to run a city.
Maybe a few hundred more second chances and they’ll get it…
…nah. Can’t keep a straight face.
Great Job, Minneapolis
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34 responses to “Great Job, Minneapolis”
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So, the Democratic Party is responsible for mismanagement at the police department? Ok, got it.
How do you then feel about when someone who works for Trump breaks the law? Is he accountable when yet another of his scumbag sychophants is found guilty of obstructing lawful investigations by committing perjury?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/15/politics/roger-stone-trial-verdict/index.html
I mean, as important things go, a police office failing to keep up with work is certainly FAR more important than the President’s life-long and hand-picked crony attempting to illegally obtain dirt on Hilary Clinton and sway a national election and CERTAINLY the Democratic Party is responsible far more so for that office’s management than Trump is of his personal buddy going off and engaging in felonious conduct on Trump’s behalf. But please, tell yourself some more lies about how this is all a witch-hunt and then salve your egos in worrying about untested rape kits while ignoring the fact that many states, including Texas and Mississippi have the same issues so I guess the GOP, which runs both states, needs their 2nd and 3rd and 400th chances too.. Certainly your cherry-picked myopic little issue is far more meaningful to comment on than that a pig like Stone finally got his comeuppance. Yep..
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Paddyboy, focus.
Trump has nothing to do with the management of the Minneapolis city government.
Plenty of other comments where we can discuss Trump.
This comment is on Minneapolis city government and who is responsible for its performance.
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Peev
Trump is just playing politics the way the Clintons do, why are you objecting? It is after all just Democrat Politics As Usual – remember Trump used to be a Democrat. -
So, the Democratic Party is responsible for mismanagement at the police department? Ok, got it.
The DFL runs Minneapolis. In effect, the DFL primary is the Mayoral and City Council election.
The buck stops with them. There is no rational argument about that.
How do you then feel about when someone who works for Trump breaks the law?
How is that in any way germane to crime in Minneapolis?
Is he accountable when yet another of his scumbag sychophants is found guilty of obstructing lawful investigations by committing perjury?
So are you saying that:
a) Minneapolis pols are the equivalent of “scumbags and sycophants”, or
b) are you arguing a strawman?Your response would be appreciated.
I mean, as important things go, a police office failing to keep up with work is certainly FAR more important than the President’s life-long and hand-picked crony attempting to illegally obtain dirt on Hilary Clinton
You have this curious idea that taking a stance on one is connected to one’s stance on the other. Please explain, in detail.
But please, tell yourself some more lies about how this is all a witch-hunt
I’ve said not a single thing about the impeachment. The argument isn’t about it. You’re asking me to defend a point that has nothing to do with the discussion.
worrying about untested rape kits while ignoring the fact that many states, including Texas and Mississippi have the same issues so I guess the GOP, which runs both states, needs their 2nd and 3rd and 400th chances too..
So…Minneapolis is no better than Mississippi?
Interesting.
Your response will be appreciated.
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Mitch
you said: Please explain, in detail.
Is that wise?
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Swine Bodine,
I’ve never let “unwiseness” stop me before. Why start now?
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As long as the trannies get city government jobs; the choo-choo keeps moving thugs around on time; illegal GuataMexidorians are comfortable, and as long as all that happens away from Lowry Hill, the reprobates in Minneapolis are happy. If they were not, why would they keep electing degenerates?
Besides, working those rape cases will only bring more misery on the poor aspiring rappers North of Broadway. Who wants that?
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re: The Stone conviction.
How can the DOJ convict Stone, and ignore MeMaw’s perjury, no, repeated perjury under oath before a Congressional committee? Dare we hope?
In other scumbag news, the House Ethics Committee has extended it’s investigation into Rashida Tlaib’s theft of campaign funds. She’s guilty af, and is pleading ignorance, which she is but is no excuse.
Mogadishu Barbie is guilty of the same shit, and more. There is at least 3 complaints before the committee regarding her…dare we hope?
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Im just sitting on the sidelines here munching on some popcorn, thanks for the free Friday entrainment guys.
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Paddyboy, focus.
“Hey you, stop that autistic spazzing.”
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About those rape kits:
Forensic DNA testing is not like 23andMe. It cost about $1,000 a pop, the cost of fixing 20 potholes or put another way, $197,000 is the price of a single Diversity Coordinator.
So what do you want to spend money on?
Beyond that, just because you have a rape kit doesn’t necessarily mean it needs testing.
Case in point:
“My ex-boyfriend raped me.”
“What is his name?”
“XXXX XXXXX.”
Later…
“We talked to XXXX XXXXX and he said the sex was consensual.”
“He is lying.”
There may be a case here, but the police know who both parties are so there is not need to identify anyone and both admit they had sex, so that doesn’t have to be proved. The rape kit only needs to be tested if XXXX XXXXX changes his story.
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You’re such a cynic, Greg.
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“$1,000 a pop, the cost of fixing 20 potholes”
LMAO…no. More like $20,000 to fix one pothole.
https://www.twincities.com/2010/05/09/st-paul-suspends-17-workers-over-pothole-patching-scandal/
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The conservative argument is that all politicians and government workers are, if not outright crooks, entangling their personal interests with the public interest.
The liberal argument is that only conservative politicians do that. They can be trusted with administrating a behemoth state because their motives are pure.
The conservatives, as usual, have the best of the two arguments. If all politicians and bureaucrats are working the system to enrich themselves, of course you want the government to remain small and its powers strictly limited. It would be insane to want anything else. -
I’d like to take a poll. How many SITD regulars visit Liberal blogs to shit-and-run in the comments, the way certain Liberals do here?
I don’t. But maybe it’s just me. How about y’all?
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I don’t
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I don’t. I usually stick around prodding them until they mention Hitler then I count coup and leave.
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I used to.
Most of them have closed down, or are so dilatory I don’t bother. And the level of discourse has fallen from what was already an abysmal level.
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agreed most of the blogs are dead as far as discussion goes, thats why I have half a dozen FB identities – most of which are in FB jail for one reason or another at any given time- so the whole process is far more time consuming than it needs to be, but its a hobby.
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How many SITD regulars visit Liberal blogs to shit-and-run in the comments, the way certain Liberals do here?
[Shudder] Thanksgiving with the family is coming, that’s traumatic enough.
I have ten siblings, half of them have successful careers and half struggle in academia and the arts. Guess who are the conservatives and who are the liberals.
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Hey, Swiftee. Great comment and link about the potholes. I got as far as “No one was fired.”
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Supposedly the closer government is to the people, the more responsive it is to constituent concerns. I don’t believe that this is true anymore, if it ever was. If it was so you would expect that city politics would represent the will of the burgomeisters; clean streets, petty crime would be prosecuted, disturbances and demonstrations would be discouraged as being bad for business. Instead we have the opposite. The city or county is run by idiots who line their own nests and the nests of their cronies, and the voters either return them to office or move to the suburbs.
In my county, two stories were juxtaposed in the local paper: the county council had declared a climate emergency due to anthropogenic climate change, and the county council had failed to repair a dozen of the civil defense sirens that warn citizens in case of enemy attack or tsunamis (the county has been subject to both).
The “climate emergency” resolution was especially stupid. The best way our county could help reduce CO2 emissions would be to discourage tourists from flying to the middle of the Pacific to vacation here. That would crash the local economy in an instant, we’d be living like Tongans. -
I’d like to take a poll. How many SITD regulars visit Liberal blogs to shit-and-run in the comments, the way certain Liberals do here?
I don’t. But maybe it’s just me. How about y’all?
Life’s too short.
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Very few liberal websites even allow dissenting commentary.
I think it’s hilarious that Peevee’s own little crap hole would never let someone like Peevee comment.
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You should write a letter to the editor to that effect MP, and bring it up next time the county commission has a meeting.
Rubbing virtue signaling reprobates noses in their own stupidity is an act of kindness.
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Everyone should email Trump to encourage him to pardon Stone unless Hillary is tried for purjury.
He’s pissed rn, but he’s got a short attention span so we have to strike while the irons hot.
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Swiftee,
Totally agree, especially if this is true.
And, based on this “Judge’s” track record, I am sure that it’s true.
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If Gateway pundit said the sun rises in the east, I would get up early to confirm it.
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Swiftee Pinochet on November 16, 2019 at 9:04 am said:
You should write a letter to the editor to that effect MP, and bring it up next time the county commission has a meeting.
I’m out of here in eight months, Swiftee. This place is getting californicated. Lunatic leftists make life miserable for citizens who are just trying to get by, and all the problems they cause are blamed on the Yankee colonialists who annexed the state in 1898. -
“all the problems they cause are blamed on the Yankee colonialists who annexed the state in 1898.”
Most of the people I know there, Hawaiians, or whatever mishmash that passes for Hawaiian now, say annexation was the best thing that ever happened to Hawaii.
They know that without those regular shipments of Spam they’d be dead in a month. They also know that 1/2 of the people living there couldn’t survive without Democrats to provide the welfare they use to buy the Spam.
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Swiftee, what you can say about all of these hell-hole localities –Cali, NY, Washington DC, Washington state — is that are not run by populists.
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I’d like to take a poll. How many SITD regulars visit Liberal blogs to shit-and-run in the comments, the way certain Liberals do here?
Mitch should be praised for running a sanctuary blog where folks such as paddy-soy-boy can flee their sh*t-hole blogs and squat freely here in the public thoroughfare. I can understand their sense of relief – just not how they think they are providing a public service.
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Regarding the rape kits, there are some that don’t “need” to be tested, perhaps, but keep in mind that they don’t just have DNA. They have records of whether trauma was inflicted, what kind, etc.. If I remember right, when they’re processed, the police manage to solve about 10% of them and put a fair number of people into jail.
And if we infer that the lifetime costs of a sexual assault are huge, spending a grand to figure out what we can is pretty darned cheap in comparison. Plus, letting the police say they didn’t “need” to be tested gives them a way of putting Officer Friendly back on traffic or doper patrol without feeling guilty. Until we’ve got a good “barrier” to the police dropping significant crime investigation in favor of traffic/doper patrol, I think we really ought to err on the side of “we are going to do at least a good basic investigation of sexual assault reports.”
To draw a picture, according to a Strib series last year, only 20% of reports were getting a good basic investigation, but with that, Minnesota was getting about a 5% conviction rate, 2.5x better than the nation as a whole. Imagine what we’d end up doing if 100% of reports got a good basic investigation that would get detectives thinking “hey, there might be something here.”
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PBPeevishPenigmaPaddyBoy has been using the same, tedious “What-About-ism” arguments for more than a decade on this blog. What’s hilarious (or downright pathetic) is he seems to believe it’s rational discourse.
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