DFL: Walz runs the most transparent administration in history.
Normies: His administration us utterly opaque, hides information, and communicates only in giggly selfies.
DFL: Our HR office will be in touch.
In a tweet related to this morning’s post, Rep. Koslowski wrote:
Rep. Koswlowski: You are an elected official, part of the non-profit/political/industrial complex who will likely spend the rest of your life earning a comfortable living at least, at taxpayer and donor expense.
OK, that’s the system.
However, logic gives you a choice:
You get to pick one, and only one.
There’s sure been a lot of aggressive rhetoric from the DFL, especially its “LGBTQ” caucus, for the past (checks watch) 24 hours or so.
Here’s Alicia Kozlowski, elected representative from Duluth and, as such, person witih a lifetime sinecure of living on the public dime ahead of her:
Wow. That sounds serious.
It’s certainly got Rep Kozlowski’s dudgeon up:
And then there was Rep Leigh Finke with, curioiusly, the exact same type of rhetoric:
Wow. Two marquee members of the LGBTQ caucus making “defiant” noises.
I wonder what’s up with that?
Oh:
A Republican lawmaker was verbally accosted by a Democratic colleague on the House floor Wednesday because she shared a tweet from the organization Gays Against Groomers, she told Alpha News.
Rep. Dawn Gillman, R-Dassel, retweeted a post regarding legislation that would have removed existing language in Minnesota law stipulating that pedophilia is not a protected sexual orientation.
The bill was sponsored by Rep. Leigh Finke, DFL-St. Paul, who confronted Gillman about the retweet. Gillman said she was “yelled at and intimidated” by Finke, who apparently shouted “no!” when a colleague suggested moving the conversation off the floor.
“My interaction on Wednesday evening with Rep. Finke left me shaken and fearing for my personal safety. Instead of coming to talk to me, I was yelled at and intimidated on the House Floor,” Gillman told Alpha News. She said that this type of behavior wouldn’t be tolerated in other workplaces.
The incident was corroborated by multiple representatives who were there. Gillman asked to be escorted to her car after session.
Finke reportedly upbraided [1] Gillman over circulating this article.
Several questions, here:
Speaking of Social Credit policy, I’ll be talking about that, the Giillman/Finke incident, and much. more on the show tomorrow. Tune on in.
(more…)DFL: The surplus is immense, and a monument to DFL wisdom.
Normies: It’s mostly one-time money. You turned it into permanent spending. It’ll be a deficit next session.
DFL: We ALWAYS said it was one-time money!
DFL: the police are in occupying force of oppressors, and must be defunded!
Normies: we oppose defunding the police.
DFL: hey, we never said anything about defunding the police!
DFL: we will make Minnesota a safe place for children to get gender affirming care
Normies: we oppose allowing children who can’t rent a car or consent to getting a tattoo to opt for life changing gender altering surgery.
DFL: hey, who said anything about altering gender!
DFL: it’s good for children younger than 13 to attend a highly sexualized drag shows.
Normies: we oppose children attending highly sexualized drag shows
DFL: don’t you DARE call us groomers!
DFL: it’s time to ban magazines larger than seven rounds, as well as “assault weapons”
Normies: so, do you want to confiscate firearms?
DFL: how dare you say anybody’s coming for your guns! You’re paranoid!
Every high school homeroom seemed to have that one guy – usually a little maladroit, introverted, not especially socially adept. The guy – it was always a guy – tried to cultivate the impression there was some sort of threatening undercurrent – unspecified after-dark activities, unnamed associates, vague hints that there might be some kind of hidden danger about him, so you’d better not push him too far.
We talked last week about Matt Roznowski – the House DFL Communications director who reported MInnPost reporter Peter Callaghan to House HR, notwithstanding the fact that Callaghan doesn’t work for the DFL .
Maybe Roznowski figures reporters actually do work for the DFL, It’s explain a lot.
Gotta wonder if Roznowski was that guy in high school. Current signs look pretty close.
It’s worth noting that the DFL doubled down to support their guy flexing on…a reporter for a publication supported by Big Leftymoney.
Oh yeah – their communications office apparently doesn’t like peasants criticizing them:
I need to keep reminding myself – drapes don’t have shoes.
BTW, Brian – Lech Wałęsa fought Communists. So yeah, it kinda fits.
To: MN Democrat Something Something Labor Party
From: Mitch Berg, Stochastic Moderate
Re: Truth In Advertising
All,
Many of us have been talking with you for years about removing the “farmer“ from your official party name.
With this speech by Rep. Lucy Rehm?
“Solar panels are the new corn?”
Its time. Lose it.
That is all.
SCENE: December 2020.
THE DFL: “The state has a $17.5 billion dollar surplus. This is a monument to the wisdom of the Walz/Flanagan Administration, and will be used to move forward as One Minnesota…
NORMIES: Uh, the “surplus”” is a combination of one-time or shor-time stimulus money from the Feds, and tax revenue driven by people spending all that stimulus money. It’s not permanent. But I bet you people are going to turn all this one time money into permanent spending, aren’t you?
THE DFL: The answer is, go forward, inclusive equity one people one leader one Minnesota!
NORMIES: That’s not an answer…
SCENE: March 2023
THE DFL: The “surplus” was always one time money, and we need to raise taxes”
NORMIES: Uh, that’s what we said.
THE DFL: As always, let’s go forward, inclusive equity one people one leader one Minnesota!
Up until 2020, DFLers could respond to conservative concerns about the state of the Twin Cities with “Hey, at least they’re growing”.
And yes, both Minneapolis and Saint Paul grew, after a fashion, between 2000 and 2020.
But all that has come to a screeching halt, and reversed:
Unstated: most of the people hitting the doors are the productive, taxpaying ripe suck class. Whatever growth is happening is among the class that consumes government revenue – in particular, the non-profit industrial complex and its clients.
Former Crystal city councilman and slap target emeritus Jeff Kolb responds, as usual, economically and precisely:
The Met Council has been running a demographic ponzi scheme, trying to plump up the numbers of the productive class to justify spending, taxing and playing infrastructure games like the cities are healthy and growing.
Like Detroit, I suspect Minneapolis and Saint Paul are about to find out what happens when the productive class hits the exits.
It’s a gloomy, cloudy Monday morning.
And yet my heart is dancing.
Because it’s another day alive in God’s creation? Sure. Goes without saying, but needs to be repeated anyway.
But beyond that? There’s this:
It’s the Anoka County Attorney slapping down Jamie Becker-Finn over the proposed “safe storage” bill, which would have required all guns to be stored unloaded, with ammo locked up separately from the guns, and required a carry permit to have an uncased, loaded gun in the home, allowing police wide latitude to barge in and check on the above.
It’s fairly clearly a Fourth Amendment shortcut. It would disproportionately affect Black and Latino gun owners. It’s patently unconstitutional.
And any day that starts with Rep. Becker-Finn getting water squirted on her nose is a good, glorious day.
Last December 8, when the DFL was crowing about having a “$17.6 Billion Surplus”, I noted tha the so-called “surplus” was nothing but bIllions of dollars in federal Covid stimulus dollars, routine Minnesota DFL overtaxation (plumped up by receipts driven up by inflation in the cost of the goods being taxed, and that all of that that taxation and inflation was going on over an epipandemic surge in stimulus-swollen consumer spending that would end with the subsidies.
And I predicted:
I think it’s fair to say the first bullet is in the 10 ring:
“Seemingly”.
Of course, some are taking this as a cue to celebrate:
No word from Rep. Stevenson if making the trains run on time is next.
My ultimate prediction – billions in deficits – is now inevitable.
No, it’s not just me. Walter Hudson:
This is how they describe the free lunch bill:
A “tax cut”.
I suppose public education is a “tax cut” because parents aren’t doing teaching at home, too?
A regular reader sent me this:
Social services get funding based on how much need exists – which means it’s in their interests to make sure people know to get their needs out, front and center.
No stone left unturned.
Senator Smith took to Twitter to shill for “ESG“ – rules that require businesses to make decisions based on “Environment, Social Credit, [woke corporate] Governance l”practices.in other words, replacing fiduciary responsibility with “woke“ “social justice“ (read: Marxist) values.
there are really only two possibilities:
Given the last few elections in Minnesota, #2 isn’t the dumbest strategery .
Never let it be said the DFL isn’t on top of the important issues.
Democrats have introduced a bill in the Minnesota Legislature that would ban the sale of bottled water in the state.
Introduced earlier this month by Rep. Sydney Jordan, a Democrat from Minneapolis, the bill would prohibit manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers from “selling or offering for sale bottled water in Minnesota.”
The bill defines bottled water as “water contained in a formed or molded container” that is “comprised primarily of plastic resin, sealed, and holds less than two liters when full.”
They’re not on top of them.
But the powers that be will never let it be said.
To: Senator Omar Fateh
From: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous Peasant
Re: Bad Look
Sen. Fateh,
You said this:
I suspect you, like all DFLers, know your voters don’t know any better, and wouldn’t think about it critically if they could, which they can’t, but perhaps you’re not the one to be yapping about your colleagues’ propriety.
That is all.
I guess everyone is just finding ways to economize, these days.
I suspect that’s one of the radionaliztions batted around the Strib, WCCO and MPR newdsrooms after learning that questions about the ethics of pouring “consulting“ money into a firm owned by her husband, Omar has been spending a lot less on consultants:
A lot.
Fox News is reporting that Rep. Ilhan Omar’s campaign has paid out comparatively little in consulting fees after cutting ties with a firm co-owned by her husband.
According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings reviewed by the outlet, Omar’s payments to political consultants fell to around $1 million during the 2022 midterm election season.
That is a two-thirds decline from the nearly $3 million she had paid to E Street Group, a firm co-owned by her husband, Tim Mynett, during the 2020 election cycle, when she faced a far less competitive primary challenger.
By the way, they’re referring to her current husband. Not the guy who was no way, no how her brother, you racist.
Whenever your “progressive“ friends condescendingly coo “nobody’s coming after your guns“, just remember that career bureaucrat and St. Paul, representative Dave Pinto is out there plying his trade:
School counselors.
Leftist ministers at “progressive“ churches
Marriage counselors, with six hyphenated last names.
These are a partial listthe people that today’s DFL wants to give control over your civil rights.
By the way – where to fight that mental health crisis, making half the population distrust the mental health industry.
Democrats in Minnesota and nationwide are switching into enforcement mode.
The legal persecution of Jack Phillips continues…
Phillips’s public expression of his faith had placed a target on his back, and the narrow Supreme Court ruling in his favor had the two-pronged effect of further inflaming activists while simultaneously depriving the baker of decisive, precedent-setting protections against their agitations. In 2017, “the very day the Supreme Court agreed to hear Phillips’s case, Autumn Scardina, a transgender activist in Denver, called Masterpiece Cakeshop and requested a custom cake with a blue exterior and a pink interior to symbolize a gender transition,” David Harsanyi wrote. Scardina was allegedly a member of the Church of Satan, and court documents alleged the activist had also sought Phillips’s services for charming depictions such as a cake celebrating Satan’s birthday, which would feature “a large figure of Satan, licking a 9″ black Dildo,” with the requirement that the dildo must necessarily be “an actual working model that can be turned on before we unveil the cake.”
Phillips, of course, politely declined Scardina’s requests. Scardina, of course, proceeded to file a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The commission, of course, ruled against Phillips. In August 2018, two months after his initial Masterpiece Cakeshop victory, Phillips was back in court.
Last week, a panel for the Colorado Court of Appeals upheld an earlier court decision requiring Phillips to bake Scardina’s transgender cake. No surprise there — the same court had also upheld the state’s original injunction demanding that Phillips bake the same-sex wedding cake. What should be abundantly clear at this point is that “civil rights,” in this context, are more about power — wielded against disfavored groups, and in favor of privileged ones — than any neutral conception of legal protection. Even as it ruled against Phillips, the Commission upheld the right of bakers to refuse to make a Bible-shaped cake inscribed with the message: “Homosexuality is a detestable sin. Leviticus 18:2.” This double standard is a feature, not a bug, of how these bureaucracies function. As NR’s editors noted today, the practical effect of the Left’s weaponization of anti-discrimination laws “is to demand that the faithful kneel before favored identity groups.”
…and is so hamfistedly symbolic that a sophomore-year English prof would send it back for rewrite if it were fiction.
The process is the punishment.
Of course, the MNDFL does its darnedest to make it difficult, even impossible, to run as a Republican. I’ve heard more than one GOP legislator who’d been pondering running for higher office without having spent their teens and twenties as cloistered monks say they were going to demur on running , because the DFL’s opposition research crowd would make not only their lives, but their family’s, a living hell.
WIth that in mind?
Keith Ellison is going to show Scott Jenson that running against the DFL has consequences. Via David Strom:
…the Attorney General of the State of Minnesota has taken it upon himself to step up the harassment of Dr. Jensen based upon already adjudicated charges that should never have been brought in the first place. It is disgraceful and can be explained by nothing other than politics.
It is a political hit job–punishment not for what he has done, or even said, but for who he is. A well-respected Republican who dared to challenge Tim Walz in the last election. They are sending a message that taking on the Democrat establishment will ruin your life.
I said above that the process is the punishment. At some point, the determination that he may continue to conduct medicine will not exonerate him, nor return the time, effort, and money that he has to spend to defend himself. They have turned him into a doctor who has faced 5 investigations. How many potential patients will avoid him for that alone? Countless.
No matter how bogus the charges are, the punishment has taken place simply by making the charges and forcing him to defend himself.
Politics ain’t beanbag, and it is usual for people in the midst of campaigns to hurl charges at each other. But this goes way beyond that. They are mobilizing all the power of the state to destroy Jensen.
This is what tyranny looks like in America.
When all your oppoonent cares about is gaining and consolidating power, “democracy” is just a decorative verbal sprig of parsley on top of whatever horrors our new Leninists are hoiking up.
Remember last year, in the immediate aftermath of the Dobbs decision, when Kansas referred a constitutional amendment banning abortion to a popular vote…
…and it lost?
In deep-red (but for Wichita and Kansas City) Kansas?
Big Left took it as a bit of great news – “Even Red America is pro-choice!”
Smarter Americans read it this way: America is divided on abortion:
The DFL, dominated by that first 15%, has jammed down the most extreme interpretation of “choice” this side of California. Will the people lash back from the extremes, the way they (arguably) did in Kansas?
Well, if I have anything to do with it.
One group that should, doctrinally, be in the second 20% – or at least the most moderate parts of the larger 60% – is Catholics. Of course, we know Catholics oppose abortion, because Catholics never get divorced or eat meat on Fridays, either…
…but if there was ever a time for a hypothetical archdiocese to get serious about doctrine, one might think this would be it.
Ten Catholics in the House, and three in the Senate, voted for the “PRO Act”.
Now, at least a few Catholic bishops and priests have invoked ecclesiastical sanctions against some “pro-choice Catholics”, so it’s not without precedent.
So the question remains – is Archbishop Hebda going to do his job, or find some artful and obtuse grounds to evade it?
A. send your goons after businesses, trying to survive your administrations unconstitutional lockdown. Openly sided with rioters against law abiding people.
Or
B. Yap about “upholding the dignity of every Minnesotan”.
Pick one.
Lieutenant, governor Flanigan – who is known to wear an Anishanabe costume when it suits her, politically – was crowing about Minnesota being on the brink of adopting, the most radical abortion law in the country., and one of the worst in the world:
Former senator Matt Dean caught her on the facts.
But Representative Donna Bergstrom – also an Ojibwe – had the burn that we’ve been looking for:
I bet the Ojibwe had words for “murder”, “outsider who’s not supposed to be among us without some scrutiny”, and “petty tyrant”.
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