Administrivia
By Mitch Berg
SCENE: Cat SCAT is out patrolling for Republican lawn signs to rip down when he sees Mitch BERG weed-whacking his row of barberry bushes. It’s too late for BERG to evade.
SCAT: Hey, Nazi.
BERG: Oh, great…
SCAT: Shut up. We’re flying flags at half staff nationwide for the Nazi Charlie Kirk, but we didn’t for Melissa and Mark Norton.
BERG: Hortmann.
SCAT: I fact check you. Norton.
BERG: OK. So as with so much of what’s wrong in Minnesota, it’s Governor Walz’s fault.
SCAT: I fact-check you and prove you false.
BERG: Because…
SCAT: I’m a fact-checker.
BERG: OK, so how about this:
During the afternoon news conference, Trump said Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz never asked him to have flags at the nation’s capitol be placed at half-staff after Melissa and Mark Hortman were fatally shot.
That same morning, Minnesota lawmaker John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot several times at their Champlin home in a politically-motivated attack.
What Trump said:
“Well if the Governor had asked me to do that, I would’ve done that. But the Governor of Minnesota didn’t ask me. I wouldn’t have thought of that, but I would’ve if somebody had asked me. People make requests for the lowering of the flag. Often times you have to say no because it would be a lot of lowering, the flag would never be up. Had the Governor of Minnesota asked me to do that, I would’ve done that gladly.”
The flags at the Minnesota State Capitol were placed at half-staff after the shootings.
BERG: Which fits with Walz’s pattern of not really paying attention to the administrivia of running a state – like sending in the National Guard during riots, or paying attention to the tsunami of corruption on his executive branch’s watch, or , well, this.
SCAT: LIke I always said, Walz forgot and Trump didn’t do it for him because he’s a Nazi.
BERG: Huh. So what you said earlier…
SCAT: I never said anything earlier.
BERG: Ah. Gotcha.
And SCENE.
September 16th, 2025 at 10:47 am
Mitch,
I have logged into SItD, and obviously can comment on this post. However, I am not able to comment on the previous post, “Options”. Granted, I’m doing this from my work computer, so there is an additional variable in this equation. However, never in the 19 years I have been associated with this company, have I ever had a problem logging into SItD from my work computer. Never has the firewall or any of the security packages in our corporate image ever blocked me from reading or commenting
The comment I placed yesterday was done from my phone because I could not log in to comment from my work computer. While I can’t be 100% sure because I am not in the security side of things, I am reasonably sure nothing much has changed on my company’s end of the copper line in the last couple weeks.
That said, and going back to the actual post content, I think the appropriate response to “Hey Nazi” would have been “Hi Fascist” or maybe even “Hi Retard”.
September 16th, 2025 at 11:57 am
And I cannot log in using my phone, but didn’t have any trouble using my work machine (Which I never have done before now)!
This platform (WordPress) is old and busted, leaking from the seams. Time to find the new hotness.
September 16th, 2025 at 2:58 pm
Arthur & Bill;
occasionally I am not able to log in to SitD with Firefox [my preferred browser] so I try Opera, and if that doesn’t work I try Brave and if all else fails I resort to Edge. However some days none of them work.
I think it has something to do with this being a http site and not a https site, because I encounter similar behavior on other http sites
September 17th, 2025 at 6:03 am
Guys,
Sorry about the access problems.
I’m not entirely sure what the problem is – I can’t reproduce it, although I’m finding some of my own.
I’ll figure it out. Eventually.
September 17th, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Mac, since I only browse SItD from my work computer, I am locked down to only Chrome or Edge. I haven’t tried Edge because I’ve never had a problem with Chrome before Monday. Chrome on my phone (with far fewer security restrictions than on my work computer) worked fine. I’ll test Edge on the other day’s post to see if it makes any difference.
September 17th, 2025 at 2:17 pm
Never mind. Whatever Mitch might have done fixed the problem. I can now comment on the Dumbest Kirk Takes post.
Goofiness only on days that end in Y.