Our Banana Republic
By Mitch Berg
The state legislature wrapped up on Sunday. Behind their moral leaders – an accused felon and a not-very-closeted authoritarian – they enacted one of the more shameful spectacles anyone has ever seen in the Minnesota state legislature:
The process – and all inconvenient parliamentary procedure – was ignored, as the DFL jammed down a 2,800 page omnibus bill that the DFL had crammed together at the literal last minute, dropping a printed copy on the floor with a half hour remaining (as the online version “unexpectedly” went down).
Representative Engen put it well:
“We did what we had to do”.
How are people not seeing this is every bit as destructive as “January 6?”
So – they continued squashing freedom and the economy.
But the accomplishments!
In the past two sessions, they squandered $19B in surpluses, jacked up taxes, set up a speech database and gun registration, turned on a firehose of funding for the fraud-prone non-profit/industrial complex, and trashed the rideshare market, among many other sins.
But hey. Junk fees.
What’s next session? Banning “shrinkflation” in potato chips?
May 23rd, 2024 at 12:35 pm
Ooh, lookie there! An equivalence is drawn between a bunch of yahoos running around the US capitol for a few hours and DemoCommies in the MN Legislature squander[ing] $19B in surpluses, jack[ing] up taxes, set[ting] up a speech database and gun registration, turn[ing] on a firehose of funding for the fraud-prone non-profit/industrial complex, and trash[ing] the rideshare market, among many other sins
Totally the same.
May 23rd, 2024 at 1:30 pm
Of course, we need to pass the bill to find out what’s in it. You’ve got to admit that there’s some pretty prominent precedent for that.
May 23rd, 2024 at 3:01 pm
The best part about this debacle, was watching fake woman Leigh Finke running around like a scalded dog trying to get the ERA monstrosity passed. These people suck!
Then, retired, lefty Red Star jack weed Lori Sturdevant, writes a hilariously false opinion piece, blaming the GOP.
May 24th, 2024 at 12:36 am
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