Tag: Winkler
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Perspective Needed
Former representative Ryan Winkler has led us down a twisty, turny path with some surprises over his legislative and extra-legislative careers. He’s swerved from the ridiculous to the, well, occasionally admirable, and back, and forth and back and forth, and backandforth… And, well…: Denying the industralized murder of 11 million people, versus Legitimate questions and…
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Urban Progressive Privilege Means Never Needing A Moral Compass
Erin Maye Quade – who, you may recall, came within an epic suck up to the progressive movement of being Minnesota’s lieutenant governor – had this to say about Tim Scott’s rebuttal to the presidents… whatever that was Wednesday night: This, on top of Ryan WInkler’s “Uncle Tom” jape at one of the most accomplished…
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Hand To Hand Combat
What would this blog do without Representative Ryan Winkler? Not spend nearly as much time mocking and taunting, that’s for sure: Of course I’m selling Winkler short. He knows that after a year of squatting on small businesses, levying the worth of families by “essential”, non-essential or just plain above it all, and putting kids’…
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And Just Like Magic
After a year of hysteria, of gaslighting, of “Karen” nagging you from behind four masks, of plush-bottom public union employees telling unemployed waitresses “we’re all in this together” via Zoom from their ranch houses in Apple Valley, suddenly, after one barely coherent speech in the wake of the signing of an immense power grab disguised…
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To Recap
We had a thorough discussion about Ryan Winkler’s tweet and establishedthat Democrats have a strong personal belief, perhaps even a moralconviction, that public safety is a government responsibility. We had a thorough discussion about a lawsuit against the City andestablished that when citizens suffer because government abandoned itsresponsibility, the citizens have no recourse against the…
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The Walk
Our thorough discussion of Ryan Winkler’s tweet established thatDemocrats have a strong personal belief, perhaps even a moralconviction, that public safety is a government responsibility. Our thorough discussion of the lawsuit against Minneapolis establishedthat when citizens suffer because government abandons itsresponsibility, the citizens have no recourse under existing law. You must rely on us; but…
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Virtue-Signal To Virtue-Noise Level = 0
Ryan Winkler takes a strong moral stand: About time Ryan Winkler took a strong, courageous stand against corporate prisons… …of which there are zero in Minnesota. Remember when I said DFLers can count on the fact that DFL voters are overwhelmingly badly-informed and lousy at critical thought? Any questions? .
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It’s Reform Time
Imagine this: you are walking through downtown…er, Brainerd. It’s dark out, with a tinge of fog in the air. A car full of rural youth with mischief on their minds rolls up and jumps out. One has a gun, another a baseball bat. They are making loud, rural-youth-y noises. In a split second, you discern:…
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Riddle
Who’s got two thumbs, and is the only person in the world who can’t call Donald Trump’s Twitter feed “an ill-advised mass of ready/fire/aim malaprops?” Why, that’d be Representative Ryan Winkler, if he were pointing two thumbs at himself: 50-90% of Covid patients are asymptomatic. For many others – myself included – it felt like…
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If He Didn’t Exist…
I’m pretty sure the Minnesota GOP would have to invent Ryan Winkler. This was him over the weekend on social media: So in other words, our House Majority Leader stands for the abolition of Federalism – one of the things our country got completely right. Oh, he’s not done yet: He went to Harvard, you…
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The Worst Thing Ever
Ryan Winkler, the House Majority Leader, isn’t thrilled with President Trump stealing Joe Biden’s thunder: Then the Majority Leader has had a pretty sheltered life. Know what’s the worst thing I’ve ever heard? Other than the Holocaust, the Great Leap Forward, the Gulag, the Holodomor, the Rape of Nanking, the subjugation of Tibet, the history…
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He’s Baaaaack
Ryan Winkler, Minnesota’s House Majority Leader – let that thought rattle around in your head a bit – replies to Senate Majority Leader Gazelka yesterday: “Trump’s America is deadly!” But the Tim Walz and Peggy Flanagan’s Minnesota is the part that is rioting, burning, looting, shedding businesses and jobs, boarding up, moving to the burbs…
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Open Letter To House Majority Leader Winkler
To: Rep. Ryan WInkler, House Majority LeaderFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Timing Rep. Winkler, Yesterday you tweeted in re the shooting in Kenosha: Rep Winkler, I say the following with all due respect. I’m just spitballing, here, but maybe a white, suburban Harvard grad who called one of the leading jurists in the nation an…
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This Is Today’s DFL
This is DFL-endorsed candidate for the MN House, Bob Thompson, this past Saturday in Hugo, outside the home of Lt. Bob Kroll. It certainly didn’t end there: Additional footage of Thompson’s speech showed him wondering why protesters “were so peaceful.” He then told a man holding a blue lives matter sign to “take that sign” and “stick…
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This Is Today’s DFL
The GOP-controlled Senate passed an Insulin bill yesterday… …but apparently they didn’t give House Majority Leader Ryan “Uncle Tom” Winkler the adulation he so craves: My son has Type 1 diabetes. It was poor form to express myself as I did, and for that I am sorry. But after months in which Senate Republicans blocked…
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These Are The Barricades
The similarities in demographics in population between Virginia and Minnesota are inescapable. Both states are large, solid red expanses of land and people, surrounding small, densely populated democrat dominated Metropolitan areas. And of course, both states have Democratic parties prone to going wild on orgies of spending and power grabbing whenever they get unfettered power.…
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Now, Let’s Watch The Saint Cloud Times And Star/Tribune Hyperventilate
A proposal to make Sherburne County a “Second Amendment Sanctuary” has been floated. If you live in SherbCo, your mission is clear. The proposal, from State Rep. Shane Mekeland, from the “New House Republican Caucus”, would commit SherbCo and its law enforcement to defying any future oppressive gun restrictions: The Saint Cloud Times has Mekeland…
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Other Than Bring One Of The World’s Great Countries Back From The Brink Of Suicide, I Mean…
The Smartest Woman Ever and her daughter, Chelsea “The Ryan Winkler Of New York” Clinton, wrote a book about great women. And of course – you could see this coming – they left out “arguably” the greatest woman of the 20th Century. Hillary and Chelsea Clinton haven’t included Margaret Thatcher in their book of “gutsy”…
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Paragraph 10
Maybe it’s just me – but I think I sense some backing away going on. I’m referring to the faint air of “we got dragged into this” in Melissa Hortman’s op-ed about the just-ended legislative session in the Strib. Remember – in 2018, the DFL wrapped itself around gun control, claiming that the issue flipped…
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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
In the wake of the session, the Pioneer Press ran a letter to the editor – “Democrats offered plenty of compromises on gun bills” – from one Jo Haugen. I wrote a response. It never got printed. Shocking, right? Well, that’s one of the reasons I started this blog, now, isn’t it? My response to…
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Pile On
For all of their bluster between the election and the beginning of session, it seems the DFL doesn’t have enough votes to pass their Registration and Red flag Confiscation bills on their own. Not even close. Which is weird. You would think a bill with “90% public support“ would be a cakewalk. Apparently not his;…
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I, Problem Solver
There is a proposal making the rounds to change the name of Saint Croix State Park to honor former Minnesota Senator and Vice President, Walter Mondale. Of course, there’s some pushback. The park already has a perfectly good name with history that matters to the area and the state: People who live near the park,…
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How I Spent My Saturday
About 1,000 of my closest friends turned out for the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus’ “2019 Rally To Protect The 2nd Amendment” on Saturday. Bear in mind – the weather on Saturday was inclement at best. I think the good guys expected half this number for turnout. Compare this to “Protect” Minnesota’s turnout on a beautiful…
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Comforting The Comfortable, Afflicting The Afflicted
I don’t know about you – but these days, when a accusation of a “hate crime” gets massive, immediate coverage, I’ve started to assume it’s a hoax until proven otherwise. Don’t get me wrong – hate crimes exist. But the more publicity the unproven allegations get, and the more lurid the charges against someone in…
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Democrats
For when exploiting cheap labor, physical abuse of partners and subordinates, emotional sadism, sexual harassment from entitled juvenilia to entitled imposition, racism (old and not so old), rape, moving government into back rooms out of sight of the hoi polloi, and control of government by the highest bidder is always wrong, except when it’s Democrats,…