Shot in the Dark

Tag: january 6

  • The Case Against Justice Thomas…

    …in re his wife’s alleged prompting him to support the January 6 rioters, as viewed by his wife’s text, could be fairly described as ten dollars worth of hype wrapped around a quarter’s worth of evidence.

  • Lit

    SCENE: Mitch BERG is trying out an ethiopian restaurant. Avery LIBRELLE, wearing two masks and a face shield, walks in, and notices BERG before he can hide his face behind a menu. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Oh, fuuuu…get about finding better Ethiopian food than… LIBRELLE: All Republicans are at fault for supporting the overthrow of the…

  • Gurgitation On Cue

    SCENE: Mitch BERG is looking for a new heat gun at a hardware store when Kirk THUNT, used car salesman and chairman of The Arne Carlson Project, an anti-Trump organization based in Forest Lake, walks around the corner. THUNT: Merg. BERG: Er…hi ,Kirk… THUNT: You routinely refuse to condemn Donald Trump for trying to overthrow…

  • Drunk Teenagers With Keys To Dad’s Bulldozer

    We’ll allow for a moment that ‘Medium.com”, when the subject is race, criminal/social “justice” or the economy, is like Tumblr for people with unsupportably high self-esteem . With that being said, this happened this morning: Now, for whatever reason it’s not loading for me at the moment, or I’d be llinking to it. I’ll try…

  • Of Platforms And Campaigns

    I speak only for myself. That’s pretty much a given But speaking for myself – and, I suspect, not a few conservatives – I’m going to give Republicans a little unasked-for advice on approaches not to take in the upcoming midterms. “Covid is a Hoax” – Of course it was ineptly handled by two different…

  • Not Exactly Omaha Beach

    The Feds released the specifics on the suspects charged with “armed insurrection” on January 6. Some knives, none of which were used. Some baseball bats and clubs and various chemical irritants. Five guns – only two of which were found on the Capitol grounds, one of which was a government issued piece in the hands…

  • The New Lubyanka

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Been reading claims that the US holds political prisoners to punish Trump supporters.  Here’s a list of everybody arrested in the Four Hour Insurrection with their charges and detention status. A lot of them are out, either on bail or personal recognizance.  A few  haven’t had their bail set…

  • Over The Target

    The Center for the American Experiment has had to reschedule a “Critical Race Theory“ event in Duluth. Due to threats. Three times: For the fourth time in a month, a Duluth venue was pressured into canceling the Raise Our Standards event put on by Center of the American Experiment. Within minutes of the announcement yesterday…

  • Let’s Cool Things Down

    SCENE: A conference room at “Minnesotans for All Progressive Causes” – a non-profit group financed by progressives with deep pockets – for the weekly message coordination meeting. MyLyssa Silberman, reporter for National Public Radio’s Saint Paul bureau, covering the “Fake News” and “Diversity” beats, waits in the conference room along with Betty Rae Torstengaardsen, senior…

  • Know Them By Their Actions

    Never forget this: And when your “progressive” friends and relatives bleat “what about January 6?” There was never any chance that riot, stupid and despicable as it was, was going to damage, or even significantly interrupt, our democratic process. None. On the other hand, dismantling trust in our institutions – the legal system, in this…

  • I Think I Figured It Out

    An allegory in three acts: Act 1 SCENE: An elementary school classroom.BULLY is sitting at the desk next to KID. A half dozen pencils lie strewn about the floor around KID’s desk. BULLY: Throws a pencil at KID. KID looks annoyed, but shakes it off. BULLY: (Sotto Voce) Hey, kid! (KID looks over as BULLY…

  • Things Big Left Can Still Learn

    As a history geek, I can still be amazed by historical patterns. As someone who treasures Western Civilization, those same patterns can be pretty terrifying. Reading through the list of “terrifying facts” about the East German Staatssicherheitsdienst, “State Security Service” ( the “Stasi”), it’s fascinating how many of them describe, or are rapidly starting to…

  • Off Message

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Hundreds of shots fired. St. Paul experienced an increase in both violent crimes (up 25%) and property crimes (up 14.9%) last year, which Police Chief Axtell attributed to the “global pandemic, historic levels of rioting and very real economic pain.” Not January 6th?  Get on message, dude. Joe Doakes I’d say…

  • In A Linden Hills Household, I Bet

    DAD (to son): “Bevyn? What’s the matter?” BEVYN: “Dad, this mean guy is writing satire about “January 6”, apparently mocking “Progressives” constant deflection of all accusations of their own bad behavior with “what about January 6″ . What does it all mean?” DAD: “First, Bevyn, satire is racist…” MOM: “Unless Steven Colbert does it.” DAD:…

  • In A Newsroom Earlier This Week, Almost Certainly

    REPORTER: “Maxine Waters called for violence” EDITOR: “Did she do it on January 6?” REPORTER: “No” EDITOR: “Then it wasn’t violence”.

  • In A School, Somewhere In California, Most Likely

    TEACHER: “Marco, can you gell us what the ‘Holocaust’ was? MARCO: “Er…January 6?” TEACHER: “Correct…”

  • Somewhere In Kenwood

    MOM: “Why isn’t your homework done, Junior?” JUNIOR: “January 6” MOM: “Fair enough”.

  • Somewhere In Highland Park, Probably

    GUY A: “Who was that woman who got arrested here in Highland a few years back for being a terrorist?” GAL B: “Sarah Jane Olson. She was arrested for being involved in January 6″. GUY A: “I thought it was from in the Symbionese Liberation Army, back in the seventies?” GAL B: “Couldn’t be. There…

  • One Day, Driving Through The Eastern Ukraine

    TOUR GUIDE: “Welcome to Volgograd – formerly Stalingrad”. TOURIST:”Excuse me – will we see any monuments to the Battle of Stalingrad?” TOUR GUIDE: “What?” TOURIST: “The epic battle between the Nazis and Soviets, in 1942-43?” TOUR GUIDE: “I don’t understand. There was no war or violence of any kind before January 6”. KOMMISSAR (yelling from…

  • A Press Conference, Someday Soon, Most Likely

    GOVERNOR WALX: “Any questions?” REPORTER: “Tell us why you moved people with Covid into nursing homes?” WALZ: “It was January 6. It was responsible for everything“. REPORTER: “Thanks!”

  • It’s More Or Less Inevitable

    BOSS: “Er, let’s talk. You’ve turned in no work yet this year.” PROGRESSIVE EMPLOYEE: “After January 6, how could I?” BOSS: “Fair point”.

  • In A Blue-City School, Somewhere, Probably

    TEACHER: OK, Chad, what do the Gulf War, World War 2, World War 1, the Civil War, the War of the Roses, and the French Revolution have in common? CHAD: Um… TEACHER: Besides being called wars. CHAD: Um…I don’t know? TEACHER: None of them existed. Because there was no violence of any kind before January…

  • Too Good To Fact-Check

    COP (PULLING WOMAN OVER): “Do you know how fast you were going, ma’am?” WOMAN: “After January 6, does it even matter?” COP: “Good point. You’re free to go”.

  • Heard, I Suspect, In Every Progressive Home

    PROGRESSIVE PARENTS: “Now, Barack, eat your lima beans… CHILD OF PROGRESSIVE PARENTS: “After what happend January 6?” PROGRESSIVE PARENTS: “Damn. He’s right”.

  • Incomplete

    The press “reports” on Maxine Waters’ weekend trip to Brooklyn Center: Did they cover everything? Miss anything? Like…the incitement to violence? From the party (and media) that seems to think that there was no political violence in this country before (or apparently after) January 6? UPDATE/BUMP: Oh, yeah – like Lisa Bender and Philippe Cunningham,…