While “Moving Forward” In “One MInnesota”

All last week: the DFL telling the peasantry that 2+2=5.

The weekend:

Having your selfie photographed. Words fail. So it’s a good thing we’ve got pictures.

Endless gauzy-focused, staged cheesecake (literally, this weekend) photo-ops, breathlesslyt lapped up by a tame, generally almost worthless media.

Remind anyone of any utterly depressing and ever-more-timely literary masterpieces?

17 thoughts on “While “Moving Forward” In “One MInnesota”

  1. I don’t understand (the point of) this post. I mean, I understand all the words and I think they’re all true, but how is this report of DFL MN any different than last week? Or next week?

  2. its the Kardashian Effect. Walz and Flanagan understand their role as the most important and most sought after celebrities in MN so they provide the media with fully reassuring photos of them being “just folks”. It helps ever so much when the monopoly print media is run by your former staffer.

  3. ChatGPT, can you tell me the story behind this tweet? https://twitter.com/GovTimWalz/status/1639365362314608645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

    Governor Walz is a cunning man with a love for Wrecktanglepizza. He knows he can’t be seen indulging in his guilty pleasure too often, so he comes up with a plan. He orders pizzas for hungry children, but secretly eats them himself on the side.
    His staff warns him that this could become a liability, but he doesn’t care. He revels in his wickedness, knowing that he’s getting away with something that others can’t.
    When the owner of Wrecktanglepizza offers him free pizza, he sees it as an opportunity to take his wickedness to the next level. He makes a deal with the owner to have the pizza delivered directly to him, without any public knowledge or attention.
    And so, Governor Walz continues to indulge in his pizza addiction, all while feeding hungry children and keeping up his public image. He knows that he’s playing a dangerous game, but he can’t help himself. The temptation of the crispy crust, tangy sauce, and melty cheese is too much to resist.

  4. walz administration . . . literary masterpiece . . . i’m thinking john kennedy o’toole . . .

  5. Thanks Pig; your explanation helped. I thought I’d fix something tho’ in what you wrote.

    as the most important and most sought after celebrities in the MN metro area

    Other than grumbling about them, Walz and certainly not Flanagan are ever mentioned out here beyond the metro.
    **********
    Nicely played, big man.

  6. Which literary masterpiece? As Neil Postman so aptly observed:

    “What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny ‘failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.’ In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.”

  7. jdm – I recognized your reference, but was thinking dystopian masterpieces. Ignatius is indeed everywhere today, though.

    It reminds me of another masterful writer, Flannery O’Connor. When asked why southern writers wrote so much about freaks, she replied, “Because we can still recognize them.”

  8. NW
    ” Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.

    or as John Lennon put it:
    “Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
    And you think you’re so clever and classless and free
    But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see

    A working class hero is something to be
    A working class hero is something to be “

  9. Wrecktangle is the #1 pizza in America? Huh? I’m sure that great Chicago parlors like Connie’s, Uno, and Gino’s might have some comment on that, as well as the great places in New York. I’ve eaten (Shakey’s) a fair amount of Detroit style pizza, and while I enjoy it, it’s not quite the same as Chicago, New York, or Neapolitan styles.

    Serious lack of connection with reality on the governor’s part, IMO. And regarding the media, I can forgive them for not having a clue about the great political issues of the day, but don’t they eat?

  10. The award was for the best breakfast pizza in America.

    That’s like winning an award for the best vegan barbecue. Congrats. I think.

    Small wonder Walz is there.

  11. Eh, Bikebubble? Your Governor supports buttsex, degeneracy, child trafficking and money laundering Ukraine 💛💙.

    Iksnay on the shit ostingplay.

    That is all.

  12. Bigman, when son#2 was in college, I visited the house he shared with 3 other guys, unannounced. I won’t go into details, but Animal House doesn’t cover it. I stepped over bodies on the floor….

    On the table in the kitchen, was, nothing short of a fucking horrowshow…I asked Son 2 “What in thee hell is *that*? He said, “breakfast pizza!”, and then ran out of the door…true story.

  13. ChatGPT can spit a grifter! 10/10 they’re working on erasing that from it’s data base right now.

  14. In my single days I considered leftover pizza to be the “breakfast of champions”. I have never actually ordered a breakfast pizza, though.

  15. Is there any hope for the MNGOP? We should be able to capitalize on the steaming pile of dog shit legislation that was just dumped out by the DFLA but we seem so incompetent itd be funny if it wasnt so damn depressing.

  16. You have to read this post with Living Color’s Cult of Personality blaring from the speakers with volume set to 11. This is what we have degenerated into – we had to leave this shit to step right back into it? And it still smells like shit.

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