PJ O’Rourke said it best: progressives in power are like crack whores with a stolen Platinum Card.
They certainly had their party this session – and ended things with a budget-signing yesterday that had Leni Riefenstahl sending a chef’s kiss from the great beyond:
The Stalkers and Swatters: Enabled
The rent-a-crowd: De Rigeur
The smug. Overwhelming
The photos: cropped to a fine sheen.
The social media blitz of endzone-happy dancing, featuring gigabytes of the DFL’s one real product, the smug selfie, was worth of Kim Jong Un’s minions.
But the hangover is coming.
The first lawsuit to try to tamp down the Trifecta’s power-sodden overrreach is on the books:
The DFL admitted publicly they were targeting Northwestern and Crown due to their religion – and they didn’t care.
And it ain’t the last lawsuit you can expect to see.
Democrats delivered on most all of their campaign promises — which is exceedingly rare in this political environment. If the majority agrees with Niska, we’ll see change in the 2024 election. But I wouldn’t count on it; sure seems like a majority see things improving in MN.
From a South African author, Ernst Roets:
Those in power in South Africa have way too much confidence in the potential of using legislation to change reality. When legislation doesn’t align with reality, people simply ignore it.
I think this applies here too.
The only campaign promise I even remember was getting $2,000 back from being overtaxed. I don’t remember anything about raising the gas tax, other taxes, aborting babies up to birth, removing protections from babies who survived being aborted, genital mutilation for children, drivers licenses for illegal aliens, or us paying having to pay for illegal aliens health insurance. It’s like the DFL and media (but I’m repeating myself) didn’t want us to know about all these popular positions.
Just think what their landslide could have been had they campaigned on them!
Emery, the DFL couldn’t fulfill all of their campaign promises if they had a budget the size of the Federal government.
As was already pointed out, the DFL isn’t cutting $2,000 checks to everyone.
The DFL didn’t eliminate social security taxes, which WAS a campaign promise in the swing districts they needed for the trifecta.
Education Minnesota has already been complaining for over a month that the DFL failed to fully fund education.
The Nurses Union didn’t get their staffing regulations where they really wanted them, at Mayo.
And the DFL is going to lose this Court Case in Federal Court even if the MN State DFL Supreme Court lets it fly.
And all of that BEFORE Reality actually kicks in.
The next biennium WILL see a major deficit, and that’s assuming that the forecasted tax revenues for this biennium actually materialize.
A comment on another blog struck me recently: Liberals believe in magic. They truly believe their word-magic has the power to alter and shape reality:
– The side with the best narrative wins the war in Ukraine. Boots on the ground don’t matter. Likes and Up Votes are what matter.
– Calling a human wearing a penis a woman, makes her a woman, chromosomes and genitalia be damned. As a woman, she’s going to need tampons in whichever restroom she chooses to use, regardless of the physical impossibility of her using the tampon for its intended purpose. They must be available to her.
– Silencing critics eliminates dissenting opinion. If nobody is allowed to object, the majority hears objection, as in: “Hearing no objection, the motion passes.” Thereafter, nobody can object because they failed to object when the motion was adopted unanimously so they must have been in agreement and it’s too late to back out now.
– Spending money on worthy causes signals virtue, and virtue is priceless; therefore, revenue, income and deficits do not matter, spending matters. The books will take care of themselves, or not, but it’s no concern of The Virtuous.
– Printed words control personal behavior. A sign saying guns are banned in these premises erects a magic force field at the threshold – no gun can enter. A statute printed in a statute book saying background checks are required for all firearms transfers prevents gangbangers from stealing guns or selling stolen guns. They cannot do it because they cannot pass the background check. Not only will gun crimes drop, homeowners insurance rates will drop as gun thefts become a distant memory. [Note that spells cast in writing tend to weaken over time, a natural phenomenon related to geographical location. The spell-law against shooting people in the streets may not work after a while, leading to an upsurge in shootings in certain neighborhoods. It may need to be supplemented by a new spell-law cast to prevent certain people from buying guns, or by regulating magazine size. This is NOT evidence that the word-magic is ignored by certain races or that the entire notion is ineffective foolishness, because shut up you hater.]
I think he’s onto something.
Moderation. And I tried so hard to avoid certain words . . .
If you work in the education, you have be smilin’ big because, once again, the legislature poured hundreds of millions into education, with the only strings attached being that they MUST teach students that people are to be judged, not by the content of their character, but by the color of their skin.
Well, Bot Boy, we’re all thrilled that you are happy to pay for a worse Minnesota. Look forward to the big increase in your property taxes on your lakeside double wide.
Looks like Uber is making good on their threat to eliminate service outside of the Metro & provide only “premium” service in the Metro.
Darn those Minnesota Republicans for not running a better candidate for governor! This is their fault!
There is actually an SITD commenter who believes this.
I think we should stop using the word discrimination. It is loaded with too much baggage, makes people think of police dogs and fire hoses. I think we should use “selection.”
The way to stop racial selection in admissions and hiring is to stop selecting on the basis of race.
Odd how most Minnesotans think the state is “on the wrong track” when the DFL assures us that they are just fulfilling campaign promises.
https://www.americanexperiment.org/most-minnesota-voters-think-that-the-state-is-on-the-wrong-track/
The voters of MN are getting the government they voted for.
Death spirals are hard to stop, much less to reverse. If you can get out of Minnesota, this is a good time to start shopping for real estate in a red state. It ain’t going to get better.
The thing that is sad is that the lawsuits only undo a tiny portion of the damage done by the DFL, and there is no “piercing the veil” to punish the perpetrators. It’s just embarrassment, and we know they’re impervious to that.
You shouldn’t be able to punish legislators for passing bad laws, bb. They were elected. If the legislator’s constituents want him or her to pass bad laws, it his or her job to pass them.
Walz vetoes the Uber Bill. And is immediately attacked by the same radical DFl ‘rs he was so happy to take selfies with yesterday.
There is no right. There is no wrong. There is only the party.
Another milepost on the road to Progressive totalitarianism:
But let’s say when the high school sophomore clicks Tabroom she sees that her judge is Lila Lavender, the 2019 national debate champion, whose paradigm reads, “Before anything else, including being a debate judge, I am a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. . . . I cannot check the revolutionary proletarian science at the door when I’m judging. . . . I will no longer evaluate and thus never vote for rightest capitalist-imperialist positions/arguments. . . . Examples of arguments of this nature are as follows: fascism good, capitalism good, imperialist war good, neoliberalism good, defenses of US or otherwise bourgeois nationalism, Zionism or normalizing Israel, colonialism good, US white fascist policing good, etc.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/judges-ruin-high-school-debate-tournaments?utm_source=tfptwitter
MMP, You say that like it’s a bad thing.
True, in the past, debates were judged on the basis of logical reasoning and persuasive argument. But it turns out those are simply tools used by capitalist racist, white people and MAGA Trump supporters to oppress pretty much everyone else.
The only valid basis to judge a debate is the vigor with which the approved talking points are asserted.