Berg’s Law: Stare Decisive

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It’s been a while since we inaugurated a new Berg’s Law.

But it’s high time.

Berg’s 24th Law Of Rhetorical Predictability: Democrat politicians can, and routinely do, say anything they want, regardless of honesty or even factuality, confident that their audience, while theoretically “educated”, has no capacity for critical thought”.

We’ve seen this writ large…

…well, no. We’ve seen this writ small, venial and a little bit pathetic this past week or so, as Governor Walz has gone out of his way to take credit for a “Middle Class Tax Cut”…

…that he fought:

The only reason Governor Flanagan and Mr. Walz have “never raised a tax” is because of that single-vote, and later 3-5 vote, MNGOP majority in the Senate.

But Flanagan and Walz made the claim in the Farmfest debate, and it’s on their TV ads that have been inundating local TV this past few weeks.

Why?

Because they know local media will never check them on it, and DFL voters can’t think critically anyway.

They could say “2+2=Abortion”. and every ELCA-haired crone at every coffee shop in Crocus Hill and Kenwood will nod their head and chant it back in response.

It’s why it’s called a “Law”.

36 thoughts on “Berg’s Law: Stare Decisive”

  1. Scott Jensen’s angling to secure his second Lie of the Year award

    “Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota physician and Republican state senator, told Ingraham that, because hospitals were receiving more money for COVID-19 patients on Medicare — a result of a coronavirus stimulus bill — they were overcounting COVID-19 cases. He had no proof of fraud, but the cynical story took off.”
    https://video.foxnews.com/v/6148398329001/

  3. Jensen’s comments suggest grievances over mask and vaccine mandates will be a big motivator for Republicans in the fall elections. Maybe, but I doubt it for two reasons. First, it feels like most people have put the pandemic behind them. Second, it’s hard for Jensen to criticize Walz as an enabler of big government when he represents a party that is dedicated nationally to using the power of big government to make and enforce decisions concerning woman’s healthcare.

  6. Night Writer – don’t hold your breath.

    Mitch – thank you for again encapsulating so much of liberal social media in such a concise manner. I spread the seventh law around liberally on Twitter, and this one will get some use too.

    I do want to point out that the title & the tag are mismatched.

  7. Since I routinely skip over any Emery comment, could someone please alert me anytime he has a comment that is NOT a threadjack?

    I believe Robert Christgau, the longtime rock critic for the Village Voice, called that category “distinctions not cost-effective.”

  9. I am not a citizen of Minnesota, So I have no dog in this fight.
    But if you are a Minnesotan you know that Walz’s response to covid was unwarranted. His exec orders were based on a model that showed 20,000 deaths to Minnesotans by covid before August of 2020.
    This estimate took into account mitigation measures.
    The actual number of Minnesotans dead by covid before August of 2000 was a tenth of what Walz claimed that they would be.
    Minnesotans who believe in social science modeling and the opinion of experts will vote for Walz. People who believe in empirical evidence will not.

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  12. ^^Is Biden still hawking his “vaccine”?
    Not the best spokes person for vaxxing at this point, is he?

  13. 2+ years on and people still don’t know the basics.

    I don’t recall anyone ever saying you won’t get COVID-19 if you get vaccinated. That is what anti-vaxxers would want you to believe. The mRNA vaccine was always meant to reduce the chance of serious illness (especially hospitalizations). It is doing exactly what scientists have claimed it would do.


  15. Claim
    During a July 2021 CNN town hall, U.S. President Joe Biden falsely stated that “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations,” and “If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in the ICU unit, and you’re not going to die.”
    Rating
    Correct Attribution

  16. And an Atlantic article from March 2021 explaining that breakthrough covid cases are exceedingly rare: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/03/vaccine-breakthrough-cases/618330/
    “Since mid-December, when the rollout of the newly authorized vaccines began, nearly 40 million Americans have received the jabs they need for full immunization. A vanishingly small percentage of those people have gone on to test positive for the coronavirus.”
    You can’t ret-con this Emery: Or maybe you’d like to see a video of Slow Joe explaining that once you are fully vaxxed, you don’t need to wear a mask?
    The misinformation is COMING FROM INSIDE YOUR HOUSE.

  17. Kevin Roche bullet points the manifold failures of Walz’s public health guru, Jan Malcolm:

    You forced thousands of nursing home residents to be isolated from what little social contact they had. These residents then gave up, developed what is euphemistically referred to as “failure to thrive” syndrome and died. You compiled one of the worst records in the country in regard to nursing home deaths and serious illness.
    Your constant harping on danger and safety led hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans to miss needed health care, including child immunizations, leading to sharp rises in serious disease and to increases in death from causes such as dementia, heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. We will pay the price for this terror campaign for years to come.
    Your policies caused a sharp increase in deaths from drug and alcohol abuse. You supported open-border policies which allowed enormous quantities of fentanyl and other dangerous drugs to flood into our communities, you supported destroying effective police forces to stop this flow of drugs and you have done nothing, absolutely nothing to limit the use of these drugs. Adolescents, young adults and minorities are most at risk due to your policies and inaction.
    You supported and enforced school closures which destroyed the educational and social lives of Minnesota’s children, and led to thousands of minority children simply dropping out of school.
    You supported lockdowns which disrupted all Minnesotans lives, leading to the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs and the closure of tens of thousands of businesses, resulting in financial and mental health distress.
    You constantly provided misleading and incomplete information to the public and continue to do so to this day. You have been more interested in giving out only what data supports your messages as opposed to the truth. You suppressed a study on the ineffectiveness of masks. You refused to release communications with teachers’ unions showing that your school closure policies were just payback for campaign contributions to Walz and Democrats. You hid data showing that most hospitalizations attributed to CV-19 were not primarily for treatment of that condition. You supported crazy approaches to attributing deaths to CV-19. You continue to refuse to provide full data on breakthrough infections and reinfections that would allow an honest assessment of vaccine effectiveness and immunity from prior infection.
    You lied about vaccine effectiveness and supported vaccine mandates which worsened health care staffing problems and led to worse health care. Your policies caused many workers to lose jobs even though they were no more likely to get infected or to transmit than were persons who were vaccinated.

  20. We know that Walz’s response to covid was wrong. We know this because his response, as he said, was based on models that showed 20,000 Minnesotans dead from covid by 1 August, 2020.
    Instead there were 2,000 deaths, 80% of which occurred in care facilities license by the state.
    Where Walz had responsibility for people’s lives, people died.
    No malarkey about ivermectin and anti-vaxxers can fix that. Those people are dead as a result of Walz’s covid policies, you can’t bring them back.

  21. Emery embodies the adage about never playing chess with a pigeon: Even if you win, the pigeon will knock over the remaining pieces, crap all over the board, and strut around like it won.

    No acknowledgement that UMMP destroyed his assertion with facts within 15 minutes. Nope, just pivot and argue something else.

  22. I saw the Walz-Jensen appearances at Farm Fair. Funniest bit was when Walz tried to make a deal his status as an ANG veteran an issue. Even the pro-Walz people I know are embarrassed about Walz bailing out of his ANG career in 2005 when it looked like he’d be deployed some place dangerous.

  23. I know a DFLer or two who wish Walz would stop jabbering about being a veteran. Yes, he was in the Guard – but he bailed out on his obligation to run for Congress.

  25. So are you predicting a Jensen loss, Emery?
    Or just blowing smoke?

  26. ^^ You love data points—this is a snapshot of where we are today (after your ridiculous assertion).

  27. “Emery embodies the adage about never playing chess with a pigeon: Even if you win, the pigeon will knock over the remaining pieces, crap all over the board, and strut around like it won.”

    In, you have encapsulated not just rAT Emery, but every degenerate leftist I have ever met.

    IMO, don’t matter if you didn’t coin it, you brought it here first so you get the rare Blade Nzimande ENDORSED!

  29. The difference between rAT Emery and a pigeon is, pigeons don’t eat their own excrement.

    rAT Emery eats it and builds on it.

  30. ^^ . . . (after your ridiculous assertion).
    You’ll notice that Emery never actually links to or quotes the claims that he makes about what other commentators on have said on SITD. This is purposeful. Emery knows the weakness of his position.

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