Tag: The Endless Emergency
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Declaring The Causes That Impel Us, 2025 Edition
The below is an update of a piece I first wrote almost five years ago. It was at that moment about the time when people – smart people, anyway – were starting to realize that Covid wasn’t the new Bubonic Plague, that the sky was not falling, and that whatever “model” Governor Klink was reading…
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Declaring The Causes That Impel Us, 2024 Edition
The below is an update of a piece I first wrote almost four years ago. It was at that moment about the time when people – smart people, anyway – were starting to realize that Covid wasn’t the new Bubonic Plague, that the sky was not falling, and that whatever “model” Governor Klink was reading…
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Junetwentieth
Goivernor Klink on Twitter over the weekend, commemorating Juneteenth: “…work to dismantle unjust systems of oppression” Like open-ended emergency powers that can be extended endlessly at the whim of a political party in power? Like arbitrary authority that allows a governor to crush businesses at a whim, but spare the ones that donate to his…
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Taking Business Elsewhere
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Governor Walz has ordered restaurants closed for dine-in service. So on Saturday morning, I buzzed over the new Highway 36 bridge to eat breakfast at a cafe near Somerset. Dine-in service. Normal table separation. Packed with customers. Cheerful wait staff running non-stop. Generous portions. Reasonable prices. No masks required.…
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Orders!
Governor Walz [last Tuesday] announced a new Executive Order intended to save Minnesotan lives from the deadliest virus ever known, Covid-19. “More than 100 people died of Covid-19 the day after Thanksgiving. It’s sad, but it’s their own fault. They failed to follow my instructions to cancel Thanksgiving and they paid the price for it. …
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Yet Another Order
Saint Paul, MinnesotaNovember 22, 2020For Immediate Release Dictator-for-Life Walz today announced a new Executive Order intended to save Minnesota lives from the deadliest virus ever known, Covid-19. “Some have questioned the wisdom of my Executive Orders, citing downstream consequences as reasons why the Orders should not have been issued and should not be obeyed. These…
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More Orders
Joe Doakes from Como Park emailed, again, about a week or so ago: Saint Paul, MinnesotaNovember 21, 2020For Immediate Release Dictator-for-Life Walz, Peace Be Upon Him, today announced a new Executive Order intended to save Minnesotan lives from the deadliest virus ever known, Covid-19. “Shocking new evidence has been discovered which completely changes our strategy…
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Orders
Joe Doakes from Como Park emailed a week or so back: Saint Paul, MinnesotaNovember 20, 2020For Immediate Release Dictator-for-Life Walz today announced a new Executive Order intended to save Minnesotans from the deadliest virus ever known, Covid-19. “It is well documented that Black people are more susceptible than Whites,” he said. “It stands to reason…
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Leading From The Rear
Governor Walz was a National Guard noncommissioned officer. As such, it’s not unreasonable to believe he knows one of the key principles of leadership – never ask those you’re leading to do something you’re not willing to do yourself. I thought about that when I read this… …the latest in an eight month series of…
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Covid Theatre
Testing reveals the Covid virus is spreading rapidly throughout the state; therefore, we must lock down again to prevent a Surge of Covid cases resulting in a huge number of hospitalizations which will overwhelm the medical system, leaving patients to die untreated in hallways and parking lots. So claims the Walz Administration. Someone should tell…
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Intended Consequences
Remember President Obama’s Cash for Clunkers program? Trade in an oldcar for a more fuel-efficient one, get up to $4,500 in federal rebatemoney. Your clunker was crushed. The effect of the program was todistort the used car market, driving up prices of starter vehicles forthe young and poor, making it harder for them to get…
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You Have Questions. They Have No Answers.
Governor Walz, I have some questions. In your press conference announcing the Stay Home order, you said theCovid virus would kill 75,000 Minnesotans if we did nothing but only50,000 if we implemented the strictest lock-down. We needed to do thatto ‘flatten the curve’ so ICU rooms wouldn’t be overwhelmed. Two weekslater, you announced we had…
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“Science”
Last week, Dictator-for-Life Walz assured us rising numbers of Covid cases was due to 18-35 year olds not following appropriate mask and social distance procedures. He issued Executive Order 20-96 which limited gatherings to 10 people for two weeks, then 50 people for two more weeks, then 25 people thereafter. That Order was based on…
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Surge!!!!!
Governor Walz’ team of experts confidently predicted a Surge of Covid cases so large it would overwhelm hospitals. Patients would die on gurneys in hallways and parking lots, untreated. Bodies would lie in streets, uncollected. Everyone was at risk, from 6-month-old infants to 91-year-old seniors. 75,000 people would die, unless we ‘flattened the curve.’ To…
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End Game
Let’s assume Governor Walz’ response to Covid-19 is not part of a largerDemocrat hoax, not an attempt to frighten voters into believingPresident Trump has failed them, not a coordinated attack on theAmerican way of life. Let’s assume Governor Walz truly has Minnesotans’ best interests atheart. That’s why he declared a Peacetime Emergency. That’s why heimplemented…
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For The Children
As this is written, the general trend in research indicates that children – under 10-ish – suffer exceptionally mild symptoms of Covid, frequently none at all, and may not even transmit it when infected (which may or may not be related to the observation that asymptomatic people may not spread it, either). At the same…
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The Line That Needs To Be Drawn In The Sand. Stat.
Republicans agreed to police reform bills in the second special session. This is a mistake. There should be NO legislative action, on ANY proposal, until Dictator Walz relinquishes his totalitarian control over the entire state back to the peoples’ elected representatives in the legislature. Otherwise, it never ends. Ever. And in that case, why do…
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Contingency
Joe Doakes from Como Park emailed…er, mid-last week: Governor Walz is set to announce a state-wide mask order. It’snecessary, to prevent the spread of Covid-19 virus. He hasn’t said soyet, but he’ll be cancelling the elections soon. Why? Isn’t it obvious? If the Covid-19 virus is so deadly that we mustwear masks at all times,…
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The Most Heinous Crime Of This Heinous Year
The “Mask Mandate” – which, as of a week ago, was of such crucial “scientific” importance that it was on the table in negotiations about the bonding bill – will become official policy as of Friday midnight. Not only long after Covid peaked in Minnesota, but long after most Americans led the world in voluntarily…
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Governor Waaaaaaaahlz
Governor Walz, during his presser yesterday: And yet, somehow, the four states surrounding us, with the same exact federal government, managed to avoid a complete slaughter in their long-term care facilities. Weird. Y’know what’d be cool? If we had some institution that’d probe a little further with the Governor on questions like this. Perhaps an…
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This Is Our Ruling Class
My MN House rep, Rena Moran, on Twitter yesterday: The part Rep. Moran is missing, of course, is that Florida has over four times as many people as Minnesota has. And that when you look in terms of fatalties per million people, it boils down (as of today) to: Minnesota: 276 fatalities per million Florida:…
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The Triumph Of Karen’s Will
While browsing about for thought material the other day, I tripped across this: “… The higher the proportion of infectious diseases, the greater the trend towards totalitarian politics at the local level“. Huh. Presented without any conscious reference to any state or local government, or legions of fear driven, but supremely entitled, Karens or anything…
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Endless Emergency
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Governor Walz extended the Peacetime Emergency for another thirty days by Executive Order 20-78. This extension ends August 12, 2020, after which it can be renewed again. The justification for the extension is the increasing number of Covid cases in Minnesota. “On May 12, 2020, Minnesota had over 12,000 confirmed COVID-19…
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Dear DFL: You Own This Town
The feds turn down Governor Klink’s disaster funding request: The federal government has denied Gov. Tim Walz’s request for aid to help rebuild and repair Twin Cities structures that were damaged in the unrest following George Floyd’s death. Walz asked President Donald Trump to declare a “major disaster” for the state of Minnesota in his…