You’re The Governor…
By Mitch Berg
…of a Midwestern state that’s been wracked by skyrocketing crime, cataclysmic racial strife, a collapsing education system, and an economy that is showing the strain of nearly two years of ham-fisted and largely ineffective government responses to Covid.
Whatcha gonna do?
“I’m gonna go to Disneyworld” might have been a better idea.
And that “interview” sounds more like a slumber party.
January 5th, 2022 at 7:47 am
So maybe sneak a copy of the Constitution into the fiction section of the library?
January 5th, 2022 at 8:07 am
I won’t make this a full-blown threadjack, but I will mention that one of Tim Jong’s bestest’s buddies, Sheriff Dave, “told deputies at crash scene that someone else was driving” (quote from the Red Star). Lots more info. Hope this is part of the well-known and famous SitD Noon Update.
January 5th, 2022 at 9:52 am
Read “more” fiction? You’d think the Star Tribune would be plenty…
January 5th, 2022 at 10:20 am
Given Timmy’s Executive Order proclivities, I bet he’d like reading the Jack Over-Reacher series.
January 5th, 2022 at 10:56 am
I kinda think he’s been reading plenty of fiction already, starting with the writings of Anthony Fauci.
January 5th, 2022 at 11:03 am
“…wracked by skyrocketing crime, cataclysmic racial strife, a collapsing education system”
Hyperbole much?
Never let a crisis go to waste, that’s clearly the motto of the GOP (and you).
January 5th, 2022 at 11:09 am
Let’s see, you have an out-of-control pandemic, unemployment shoots to the moon, you are under investigation for illegally withholding arms support from an ally who is currently threatened by a strategic adversary….whaddya gonna do?
Go Golfing!!
https://seattlemedium.com/donald-trump-spent-almost-a-year-playing-golf-during-presidency/
I mean, this is the same President who whinged about Obama’s golfing outings.
Same old same old from you Mitch, ignore the log in your eye, bitch about other people’s lack of “dedication” (in your eyes), but absolute silence on the far more egregious conduct of the right. Got it.
January 5th, 2022 at 11:39 am
Lol, puddingboy, you NAILED the description of gropey joe! Well played sir!
January 5th, 2022 at 11:50 am
OK, let’s do a fact check on Paddyboy. Is it false that crime is skyrocketing? Well, in 2019, Minneapolis murders were at 48, vs. 84 in 2020 and 96 in 2021. I would dare say that an approximate doubling of the murder rate in two years qualifies as “skyrocketing”. Verdict: 100% true.
Social strife? Um, lessee, did we have a series of riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd’s death, and we’re getting gang-bangers in the MOA again. Even here in Rochester, stores were putting pallets of bricks (? dumb move in my view, but whatever) to forestall violence there. Verdict; true.
Collapsing education system; well, the statistics I saw today indicate that the rate at which kids fail to achieve at grade level increased by 17% during the epidemic, and in an act of pure genius, Edina schools are not only endorsing CRT, but also forcing kids to eat their lunches in the snow unless they buy the school lunch. Not quite sure how forcing kids to queue up close together slows down an epidemic, but that’s the level of thinking in the collapsing Edina public schools. Verdict; true.
Only thing I can sort of agree with Paddyboy on here is that our Presidents play a lot of golf. Given that whenever they try to do their jobs, it tends to cost me money and/or freedom, however, I’m at a loss as to how it would be a bad thing for them to enjoy that game.
Ya know, Paddy, maybe, just maybe, you ought to try to align your comments with reality here. You’re more or less arguing that the sun is blue on your planet.
January 5th, 2022 at 12:47 pm
Is it false that crime is skyrocketing?
Good call on the murder count in Mpls, bike, but even more impressive is that St Paul, where Tim Jung lives, set an all-time murder record. Second, I don’t recall ever hearing that the mayors of the hoity-toity HennCo suburbs got together to complain about the spill-over of Mpls crime to their burgs.
January 5th, 2022 at 1:03 pm
Never let a crisis go to waste, that’s clearly the motto of the GOP (and you)
Such an odd sentence. The p-boy is clearly deranged. He tries to transfer responsibility to the GOP for a saying made by a Democrat about the political strategies Democrats should employ so as to continue winning.
Mpls and St Paul are, as Mitch has alluded to many times, *owned* by the DFL. The GOP has little or no influence, much less clout, in either city. So what exactly is the GOP (and Mitch) doing to take advantage of this crisis, any crisis?
January 5th, 2022 at 1:04 pm
Well played, bike.
One unspoken factor of the failing education system, is the extreme physical and emotional damage that the abusers that run Education Minnesota have inflicted on hundreds of thousands of children.
Bravo, Paddywhacker, you detestable Jack weed!
January 5th, 2022 at 2:44 pm
jdm, that St. Paul statistic is not impressive, but depressive, no? And agreed, it is equally depressing that Paddyboy is so devoted to his ideology, he apparently cannot admit the obvious.
January 5th, 2022 at 3:07 pm
The title of this post was “You’re The Governor…” so Paddy rips the President.
Education system collapsed? Apparently so.
January 5th, 2022 at 3:20 pm
^ previous president.
January 5th, 2022 at 4:52 pm
This is a great time to repost the top five rumors about Walz from Dec. 27, 2020:
-I’m not saying that there is anything weird about Walz and farm animals, but I hear that when he was young, he spent far more time in the barn than was really healthy for a teen age boy.
-In his next emergency decree, Walz is going to A: close all of the clothing stores, unless they carry “husky” sizes. B: order that any disabled vet who refuses to wear a mask will have his/her artificial limbs confiscated. C: All new admissions to long-term care facilities will have their toe tagged on admittance “to save time.”
-Walz is going offer MN as the host of the 2022 Olympic Games, but only if the Olympic committee adds “Being a dick” to the list of Olympic sports.
-When Walz was in middle school, he got pantsed so often he started wearing two pairs of underwear. This is the reason that Walz refuses to be photographed nude; he still carries the scars of the many Double Atomic Wedgies he received in the seventh grade.
-Walz’s favorite part of doing his televised covid press conferences is putting on the make up.
January 6th, 2022 at 4:17 pm
I wonder why Pelosi’s committee hasn’t subpoenaed Ray Epps? There he was tearing down barricades on January 6, leading the MAGA protesters, exhorting the crowd to get into the capitol on January 6, and it looks like he spends his days in Arizona playing golf.
Huh.
It’s good to retire on a government pension when you are in your 50s.