This comes up every couple of years. It usually founders when people remember how ghastly young people are – why “we” have raised age limits for drinking, buying tobacco and renting cars.
But determining the future of a democracy most of them don’t understand and many have been indoctrinated to hate?
Why, it’s almost like there’s a malicious plan…
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Hi, I’m from the CDC and I’m here to ask you to take a free Covid test. If we detect Covid antibodies, you will be forced to skip the next two weeks of work, banned from restaurants and stores, your kids’ school be closed, and everyone you know will be under the same quarantine. Would you like to take the test?
No, get the hell away from me.
It’s because I identify as Black, isn’t it? Hater.
Joe Doakes
Why, it’s almost as if those expeditions were testing for social compliance more than Covid.
Amy Alkon’s piece in Quillette, “LA’s Failed Homeless Policies Turned My Home Into A Prison“
And here’s the Legislative Evaluation Assembly’s annual report.
The flotsam and jetsam of the left’s social media legion of the invincibly depraved has legs so tingly this morning at the news the POTUS and FLOTUS have Covid, they had to drag themselves hand over hand to the kitchen to make their avocado toast.
Of course, they were in Duluth before the news broke, so the Twin Cities media has jumped into high gear to investigate, not ballot harvesting (oh, good heavens, no) but just how close Minnesota’s GOP congresspeople and candidates actually were to the President.
Strib columnist Jennifer Brooks:
Don’t worry, Jen. John Thompson is on it.
If the FCOTUS recover without complications – fingers crossed, prayers being prayed – I’m almost tempted to send all these “journalists” sympathy cards.
A whole bunch of general counsels for a whoooole bunch of media outlets are changing their drawers right about now:
I’m smelling panicky settlements in the air.
One of them thinks the other is wrong, and a little crazy – in both the “annoying” and, increasingly, “dangerous” senses of the term.
The other hates the other America. Also America itself.
The longer this goes on, the less I think there’s any point in trying to preserve a union, barring some unforeseeable commitment to radical federalism.
The first requirement of an orderly society is order which must be imposed by an impartial judiciary. That cannot happen when the judicial system is afraid of violence.
***
Old:
From: Chief Judge
To: All Employees
You may have read or heard that the Court House was locked down today for about 15 min. After a sentencing hearing on a homicide, the families of the defendant and victim engaged in a dispute that was broken up by deputies. Soon after, gun shots occurred on Wabasha and 6th St. Deputies locked down the courthouse as a result of the gunfire. It is not clear to me if the events were related.
Based on information I have received, no one was injured and bullet casings were collected. The matter is under investigation. It appears that at no time was our courthouse security compromised. The deputies took swift and appropriate action throughout this disturbing incident.
New:
From: Chief Judge Joe Doakes
To: All Employees
In the past, when the judicial system was subject to violence, we hid and hoped to be killed last. From now on, when a violent situation arises, all employees shall report to the nearest Arms Locker where the Master at Arms will distribute restraints, gas masks, and weapons, at which time use of deadly force to protect both judicial property and employee lives is authorized. Employees may stand their ground to do so; the requirement to retreat is suspended.***
That ought to help. Now, let’s talk about the George Floyd trial, and about Supreme Court nominees.
Joe Doakes
The policies that’d go into effect if Mitch Berg were in charge – suffice to say it’d be more than judicial branch employees.
Once the governor declared “state of emergency” related to the breakdown of public order, the order to retreat would go the way of the Hibbing chopstick factory, and the sign of a weapon in the hands of a violent mob would serve as reasonable threat of death or great bodily harm, and one’s property would be every bit as defensible as lives.
Make me Governor, and this, I promise.
This past weekend on the NARN I talked about Carson v. Simon – a case that’s been filed with the Supreme Court of Minnesota over the Secretary of State’s plan to allow up to a week work of counting of ballots, including mail-in ballots with no postmarks – which as we saw earlier this week, could scarcely be better-designed to facilitate fraud.
The case, by the way, went a little like this:
Now, word comes that this same pattern – leftist activists getting sweetheart consent decrees from friendly judges and election authorities – intended to warp the election systems toward unrestricted, unverifiable mail balloting.
We’ll be talking about this on the NARN on Saturday.
My wife as a 40-year history of low back pain. It’s been good lately,
but she stumbled and fell the other day. Now, she’s in intense pain,
can barely move. We’ve been icing and heating, ibuprofen and Tylenol,
not helping.Because of the opioid crisis, she cannot get stronger pain medicine
without a diagnosis. She can’t get a diagnosis without imaging (MRI).
She can’t get imaging without a doctor’s order. She can’t see her doctor
because she’s out of town. So today we’re going in at 6:00 p.m. to see
some new doctor hoping for an imaging order and some temporary pain
relief, a couple of Vicodin, just to get through the night.It’s insulting, it’s shameful, it’s infuriating that a senior citizen
must lie in pain because some bureaucrat is worried about junkies
getting high. If I knew where to get black-market Vicodin, I’d buy it
in a heartbeat. And don’t even get me thinking about sticking up – I
mean, peacefully protesting – my local drugstore. I’ve already got the
mask.Joe Doakes
I had some exposure to this issue during the session – I was involved with some friends, drumming up phone calls to help reform the “Reforms” that led to the situation Joe describes, “reforms” that made it possible for the authorities to destroy the careers of doctors who prescribed painkillers out of line with untrained bureaucrats’ recommendations.
Talking with Representatives on the subject – including my own “representative”, Rena Moran – was a truly horrifying experience. One got the impression that the original “Reforms” had been pure ass-covering for the legislators (and neither party was blameless, not that I’m going to give Moran any slack), and with asses covered, they were done discussing the issue.
I used to joke that for Ron Paul to achieve the goals for which he campaigned in 2008 or 2012, he’s have had to have staged a libertarian coup d’etat, and imposed liberty by force via an absolute libertarian dictatorship.
That’s becoming less and less facetious over time.
My take on the debates:
BIDEN: “Trump [as opposed to Democrat governors and their idiotic lockdowns] tanked the economy”
THE LEFT AND MEDIA (PTR): (Bobs heads approvingly)
BIDEN: “He let the Russians put bounties on our troops!”
THE LEFT AND MEDIA (PTR): (Bobs heads approvingly)
BIDEN: “He said the Nazis at Charlottesville were perfectly fine people!”
THE LEFT AND MEDIA (PTR): (Bobs heads approvingly)
BIDEN: “I was brought in to solve the 2008 recession, and I did it!”
THE LEFT AND MEDIA (PTR): (Bobs heads approvingly)
BIDEN: “Trump inherited massive job gains [not a dead cat bounce, nosirreebob]!”
THE LEFT AND MEDIA (PTR): (Bobs heads approvingly)
BIDEN: “He called the military ‘losers’!”
THE LEFT AND MEDIA (PTR): (Bobs heads approvingly)
BIDEN: “Hunter was completely exonerated!”
THE LEFT AND MEDIA (PTR): (Bobs heads approvingly)
BIDEN: “
THE LEFT AND MEDIA (PTR): (Bobs heads approvingly)
BIDEN: “Nobody has ever established that there has ever been any election fraud!”
THE LEFT AND MEDIA (PTR): (Bobs heads approvingly)
BIDEN: “Climate changed causes stores that ahve already wiped away entire counties!”
THE LEFT AND MEDIA (PTR): (Bobs heads approvingly)
BIDEN: “Trump didn’t do anything about Covid!”
THE LEFT AND MEDIA (PTR): (Bobs heads approvingly)
BIDEN: “Antifa doesn’t really exist, but roaming gangs of White Supremacists do!”
MITCH: Trump needed to shut up and let Biden talk more. The more Biden talked, the more Wallace had to step in to rescue him. He was meat on the hoof, especially about forty minutes into the debate.
Mr. President, for your own good, practice shutting the front door up.
Once upon a time, I got some great life advice.
“Find what you’re good at, and run with it”.
John Thompson, would-be DFL rep from District 67A, the East Side, apparently got and practices the same advice.
He does seem to like burning down suburbs. Or at least talking about it.
Sure, that’ll solve police overreach against blacks. Run with it.
Hey, DFLers – this is the mainstream of your party.
A friend of the blog emails:
Downtown St Paul does need some improvement. It has been pretty lifeless for a while.
But, I don’t think collecting more money from the few businesses that remain there is quite the way to improve it, though I guess it is better than burning it down as they did for the Midway Improvement Project.
If you see both projects as glorified transfers of wealth from whatever private sector remains in Saint Paul to the political class, it all makes perfect sense.
Netflix is taking heat for a show about young girls dancing. They dress in skimpy outfits, wear makeup, do sexually suggestive dance moves like running their hands over each other, twerking their little behinds and thrusting their tiny pelvises. People are outraged at the implicit pedophilia.
Bad news, people, you’re about 30 years late. Dance teachers were putting kids in these costumes and teaching them the same moves, when my daughter was a kid. At that time, all the sophisticated people assured me it was adorable, not perverse.
Of course, that was before Pizzagate and #metoo and Epstein. Has the pendulum begun to swing back?
Joe Doakes
When you’re in the middle of a bad swing, it’s hard to remember that pendula do – or at least can -move both ways.
These tweets have made the rounds of conservative social, cable and broadcast media.
Which doesn’t mean they don’t need to be splattered far and wide.
Berg’s Seventh Law is omnipresent:
“Irony” – Judge Coney Barrett is already one of the nation’s most powerful jurists, even if she never gets on the SCOTUS (and here’s hoping she does, and soon). She’s accomplished more in her life, so far, than any of the people yapping on Twitter about “The Handmaids Tale” “parallels” in her faith life.
Just saying – if “People of Praise” preaches “subservience for women”, they’re doing a terrible job of it.
Oh, yeah – Berg’s Seventh Law”
If the left didn’t have double standards…
…well, you know where we go from here.
Nearly every American partisan voter will tell you one presidential candidate is not of sound mind.
Half of us have documentary evidence:
Freedom is slavery.
Truth is lies.
And, to Los Angeles Democrats – in this case, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti – homelessness is prosperity:
Babylon Bee can’t keep up anymore.
June – Minneapolis City Council President on CNN – expecting police to prevent crime comes from a place of white privilege.
June, July, August – Minneapolis City Council to all Minneapolis Police Officers: You’re horrible people and we’re going to de-fund your entire department, to start from scratch and reinvent public safety.
September – Minneapolis City Council to Minneapolis Police Chief: Crime is out of control and residents are terrified. Why aren’t police officers doing a better job of preventing crime?
The Minneapolis Chief of Police is Medaria Arrando, a Black man. When the Council fires him, he’ll join the ranks of other Black police chiefs fired as scapegoats for White city council virtue-signaling gone wild including Le’Ron Singletary, Carmen Best, and U. Renee Hall.
But firing the Black police chief flies in the face of a study claiming to prove that police departments run by Black police chiefs have Fewer shootings.
It’s almost as if Liberals don’t care about actual results, only about looking good to the media.
Joe Doakes
Among “progressives”, participation trophies are good enough.
Also mandatory.
I joke, fairly often, that satire is more like the news than the news is, these days – and that’s not necessarily a good thing.
But sometimes, actual journalism is the best journalism there is.
The latest from Project Veritas:
And it’s in Minneapolis.
This is what Republicans face in the Metro.
If this were a Republican plot to stuff ballot boxes, the Justice Department would have both Cities wrapped up in a consent decree faster than you can say “l’etat c’es mon mére“
#ShockedFace
Any bets on whether the Strib can be shamed out of its smug indolence?
A friend of the blog emails:
Do I have this right? The pandemic has reduced commuter travel as employees and students work from home. The buses all say “essential travel only” and are not allowing the crowds they once had. Honestly, they probably don’t even have the crowds- fewer people are using the bus right now. I haven’t been on a bus lately, but I still get the texts about reduced service. Several times a day, buses aren’t running for all sorts of reasons.
Yet, despite all of this, Metro Transit employees were set to get a 2.5% raise and a $1500 bonus? The hospital where I work cancelled raises, eliminated CEU money, and cancelled the Holiday parties and meals because elective surgeries were cancelled for 2 months. Yet, these transit employees think their bonus and 2.5% raise are “crappy offers” and rejected the offer, voting for a strike?????
I rarely use such language, but seriously, WTF is wrong with these people? I mean, look around- they ought to be happy with being employed, let alone a raise this year.
If Metro Transit struck now, who would know?
Other than the people the DFL and their public employee union enablers want to keep miserable anyway?
Fans booed the players in the Kansas City – Texas NFL game [a week or so back – Ed]. Players, announcers, coaches and owners insist the fans are wrong. No live anthem, anti-racism messages on the scoreboard, players kneeling instead of standing for the flag, banning fans from cheering with the tomahawk chop and war paint, NFL allowing “victim” names on helmets . . . it’s all justified and necessary and the fans should just get over it.
The NFL is already worried about losing billions of dollars if the fans can’t attend because of Covid. But what happens if the fans won’t attend because they’re insulted?
What’s that saying again? The customer is always . . . racist? The customer is always . . . wrong? The customer is always . . . it’ll come to me. It’s on the tip of my tongue. Gimme a minute.
Joe Doakes
The customer, whatever their politics, is always conservative – at least when it comes to spending their entertainment dollar.
Which the NFL is.
Well, used to be.
When law-abiding citizens realize they can’t count on their government for justice – and they are – they’ll establish order for themselves. As we noted earlier, that isn’t always a “good” thing in any sense a modern American would understand.
But for the first time since the thirties – the seventies, in some quarters – people are thinking about it:
NSSF president and CEO Joe Bartozzi spoke at the 2020 Gun Rights Policy Conference over the weekend where he delivered the news on the surge in ammunition sales. He also noted that gun sales were 95 percent higher in the first six months of 2020 than they were during the same time period in 2019.
Bartozzi noted there were nearly five million first-time gun buyers in the first part of the year. He explained that “of all firearms sold to first-time gun buyers, 40 percent were sold to women and personal protection was by far the main purchase driver.”
He suggested there are a few driving factors behind the current surge in gun and ammo sales — one of the key ones being the anti-gun rhetoric of Joe Biden. He suggested Biden looks at gun makers as “the enemy” and recounted Biden’s vow “to bring them down.” He observed that the talk of “mandatory buybacks” of certain firearms is a driving force as well.
We noted some time ago that in most of the country – geographically, at least – gun rights have long since gone viral, and stand to win the parts of the culture war that’s taking place there.
Has the last six months moved the needle in Blue America? We’ll see.
Just remember – according to the mainstream media, Andrew Cuomo is the smart governor.
Nearly 90% of New York bars and restaurants didn’t make their rent last month:
Eighty-seven percent of bars, restaurants, nightclubs and event spaces in the five boroughs could not pay their full August rent, according to data from 457 businesses surveyed between Aug. 25 and Sept. 11, in a new study released Monday by the nonprofit NYC Hospitality Alliance.
It’s a 7 percentage-point increase from June and a four-point jump from July, darkening the dire picture for eateries desperately seeking relief following six months of partial — and in some cases total — closure due to COVID-19 shutdowns.
Some 34 percent of this group said they could not pay rent at all last month, and only 12.9 percent were able to meet full payments.
With winter coming up, and an administration of Karens running things, NYC’s restaurant and night life scene may just start looking like the proverbial “cold Omaha”.
Although Omaha is faring much better these days.
I watched Family Feud last night. Joe Biden told me he’d impose a national mask mandate to save us all from Covid, so I should vote for him.
Now, it seems he won’t.
So . . . no reason to vote for you, then, Joe? Might as well stick with the devil we know?
Good by me.
Joe Doakes
He’s vamping.
Well, no – the people feeling him his lines – they’re vamping.
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