What does Tim Walz fantasize about?
Well, not in a debate, he can’t.
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It Is An Unassailable Fact Of Human Nature…
…that the people who most need to read articles like this (I’m not going to pull-quote it; it deserves a quick read) will be the last to actually read it.
Of course, those who have been through the history of the various characters in this blog’s comment section know that while the tendency flowered under Trump, it didn’t start in 2015.
An Escalator With No Top
It’s become a bit of an easy trope on the right:
- Star with “You think you hate the media?”
- Add some bit of loathsome leftymedia depravity
- Button it up with “You really don’t hate them enough”.
It’s a progression with no end; every day brings new loathsomeness. It’s entirely possible it’s a barrel with no bottom to scrape.
But Nicole Wallace has to be getting close to that metaphorical nadir:
So let’s break it down: Wallace:
- Condescendingly snarks about a kid with brain cancer, in order to
- spread the fiction that “right wing terror is the real danger facing the US”- a horse they’ve been trying to flog into a slow trot for sixteen years, now.
So maybe you can hate Big Leftymedia more than you do. But beyond this, doesn’t it all kind of blur together?
Battlespace Preparation III
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:
Why is Trump in such a frantic rush to issue executive orders, fire employees, deport people, surrender Ukraine to Russia? Is he out of his mind?
No, he’s out of time. Congress’ most recent continuing budget resolution runs out March 14th. Trump has three more weeks to set the stage for the budget showdown. He knows every Democrat will vote against spending cuts to balance income against outgo. He knows at least some Republicans will join them. He needs to act fast to get public support on his side so he can stand up to Congress and say, “No more.”
Elon Musk and his team of auditors continue to find examples of fraud and waste that piss off normal people. Why are we paying for stupid stuff like that? The judges who refuse to let the auditors do their job and who halt layoffs, piss off normal people. Why are you leaving the thieves in charge of the checkbook? The politicians screaming about deporting illegal alien criminals piss off normal people. Why are you putting scum ahead of citizens? Why not put Americans first?
And it’s working. Trump has extraordinary approval numbers. He is going to need that public support when he tells Congress, “No more,” and when he tells Ukraine, “No more,” and when he tells rogue federal employees (including some judges), “No more.”
It’s all coming to a head in a few weeks. The media will scream. Democrats will scream. Europeans politicians, Catholic bishops, liberal judges, and Hollywood celebrities will scream. Let them. Elections have consequences. It’s our turn now.
Get ready.
Joe Doakes
More tomorrow.
Battlespace Preparation II
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:
A federal government shutdown is coming in three weeks. Democrats and the media will have a meltdown and will try to frighten the public, claiming the sky is falling and we are all going to die. Get ready for it. The shutdown will be tough but it is neecessary.
The federal budget is … unknown. We don’t have a budget. We haven’t had an actual budget where expenditures are debated and prioritized since 2019, when Trump was last in office. Every year of the Biden administration, Congress simply spent money without caring what it was spent on or how much was spent. The money runs out March 14.
The federal government spends about $6 Trillion but only takes in about $4 Trillion so it borrows the other $2 Trillion. That’s the deficit – the amount we are short – $2,000,000,000,000. That is how much fraud and waste Elon Musk is hoping to cut, just to get income and outgo to break even. That’s how much Democrats (and, to be fair, some RINOs, too) are trying to protect.
Come March, Trump must either cave in to Congress and continue to let them have a blank check, or he must stand up to Congress and refuse to sign more blank checks. If he refuses and Congress does not come up with a budget acceptable to him, the government shuts down until an acceptable deal is made.
Trump is a deal maker but he is not a quitter. The showdown is coming and the shutdown is his only leverage. Get ready for it.
Joe Doakes
Part III coming up tomorrow.
Battlespace Preparation I
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:
We should start warning people now to expect bad news so they’re not upset and disheartened when it comes
We’ve known for years that Biden was senile but everybody in the establishment, administration and media lied to us to hide it. We know they tried to blame the price of eggs on Trump when they are the ones who killed all the chickens. We know they are liars. Keep that in mind.
Every quarter the Biden administration triumphantly released figures showing the Biden economy was growing and there were record numbers of new hires. And every quarter they would quietly release a few revisions and corrections which showed that there were practically no hires and if you discount the lies, the economy was in a recession heading for depression.
It’s going to get worse. Economists talk about gross domestic product as a measure of success of the economy but one of the numbers in the formula to calculate GDP is government spending. Take out the 2 trillion dollars of fraud and waste that Elon Musk’s team has identified and the problem will be obvious. We’re definitely in a recession and have been for years, probably a depression.
Get ready for headlines screaming Trump depression, Trump ruins economy, worst economy in years. No, it’s an honest look at the economy. And now that we have the real figures, we can start making changes necessary to fix it.
Get ready. It’s coming.
Joe Doakes
Two more parts to come. I’ll save my comments for after Part III.
Whatever You Do…
…don’t you dare claim there’s intrinsic bias in Twin Cities media:
So many ways to word that: “uphold federal immigraiton law”, “stop abuse of the healthcare system”, “drop non-qualified non-citizens from taxpayer-funded healthcare”, among others.
But they just have to imply malice.
You think you hate the media enough? You…well, you know where this goes, right?
The High Horse
MInnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon apparently shares a platitude writer with Tim Walz:
Same person? Different? hard to say – but they share a certain – uh…
…factual incoherence?
Behold #BlueAnon
It must be a tough time to be Erin Maye Quade – Senator from Apple Valley, and Big Left’s attack poodle in the Senate.
In the past couple of years, she’s voted for a thoughtcrime data base, and openly fantasized about using government power to keep parents from teaching their kids about abstinence…
…and about “Eminent Domaining” and bulldozing the crisis pregnancy centers try to keep people out of the Planned Parenthood clinics that spend so much on her campaigns and will presumably be her post-politics career.
Because suddenly, she’d discovered that big powerful government can be scary, when you’re not at the controls.
Even if you have to conjure those threats out of thin air:
Further evidence of Berg’s Seventh Law; QAnon was a fantasy, but BlueAnon is very, very real.
Buzzsaw
Yesterday, I was trying to remember – how long has it been since the inauguration? Was it three weeks, or four?
Nope. Two weeks.
Seemed so much longer than that.
Day 1, Part 2
The last time I watched a Presidential inauguration live on TV was when Jimmy Carter was inaugurated. I was in junior high, and they wheeled a TV into our history classroom.
I missed Reagan’s (twice), Bush I, Clinton (twice), Dubya (twice), Trump’s first, and Obama (all three times).
I may break my streak today. Partly to see history. Partly because I’ve become an accidental, skeptical Trump supporter. Partly because, let’s be honest, I suspect some lefty is going to try something stupid.
And I don’t mean just this guy:
Speaking of danger: remember when George W Bush took office? And the departing Clinton staffers, in a fit of juvenility, pried the “W” keys off of all the computer keyboards in the west wing?
Biden’s pardons, and some of his other efforts to stymie Trump from the great political beyond, are like that – only actually damaging, as opposed to juvenile and spiteful.
So much so that even the elder statesman of “Never-Trump” is sounding off:
Side note: “Incandescently stupid” is going into my quick-reference lexicon.
Method
SCENE. Avery LIBRELLE is wandering the aisles at Barnes and Noble in Maplewood, when h…er, sh…er, Avery notices Mitch BERG poring over the German book aisle. LIBRELLE pounces.
LIBRELLE: Merg!
BERG: Uh, Schoiße…, er, I mean, hey Avery…
LIBRELLE: Shut up. Why is Trump obsessed with taking over Canada, Greenland and Panama?
BERG: What do you mean?
LIBRELLE: I’ll turn it over to the world’s most courageous person to explain:
BERG: Oh, yeah. That. Well, for starters, did you catch McBride’s last quote…
LIBRELLE: Miss McBride’s quote.
BERG: Representative McBride’s quote…: “If this president is serious about an America first agenda, he should be focused on domestic economic issues, not some weird obsession with invading Greenland or Panama”
LIBRELLE: Yeah. So?
BERG: So the Representative is talking about “Putting America First”, even if only sarcastically.
LIBRELLE: Cheap shot!
BERG: Uh, right. But tell me – what’s the latest news about Pete Hegseth?
LIBRELLE: Who?
BERG: Kash Patel? RFK Junior?
LIBRELLE: What did they have to do with invading Greenland.
BERG: Huh. RIght. I think it’s on The View right now.
LIBRELLE: Oooh! The View! (Abruptly turns and scampers eagerly away).
BERG: Huh. Where what that trick when I needed it?
And SCENE
How It Started
NPR’s token Aztlani, Maria Hinojosa, yelling “SLAY, QUEEN GIRLBOSS!” as Mexico’s socialist female president briefly flexed on Trump’s border plans:
How it’s going:
Yep. The whole world witnessed it:
That’s A Bold Strategy, Cotton
Berating voters didn’t work well for Royce White.
And not finishing thoughts didn’t do Giggles a lot of favors (you’ll have to hunker down and get to the “end” of the video to get the reference, and I can’t blame you if you don’t).
But…
…maybe this time it’ll work.
PS: What is the “Right to be Happy?”
Detente
Are Brzezinsky and Scarborough trying to save their jobs?
Or are they trying to belatedly act like “journalists?”
It’s a coin toss as far as I can tell.
But one things’ for sure – while good deeds might not go unpunished, failing to “denormalize” the “Literal Hitler” certainly won’t:
(Side question: Why is it that everyone who comes to leftist punditry after a career of yapping about grown men chasing balls around fields and courts inevitably such an idiot?)
But there are some – what do I say – “leaks” on the left:
But their purity police never sleep.
Watching today’s Left self-immolate is the perfect Christmas gift
It’s A Simple Question, Mr. Stelter
To: Brian Stelter, CNN
From: MItch Berg, obstreporous peasant
Re: Brendan Carr
Mr. Stelter,
You tweeted this about Brendan Carr, President-Elect Trump’s pick to head the FCC:
Just curious – what is it you think Carr is wrong about?
That is all.
It’s A Family Thing
Progressives – in this case, a guy who was telling us Joe Biden was stronger and more with it than Chuck Norris in his prime until two hours before Giggle defenestrated him – are not cool with RFK Junior running the DHHS:
So – RFK Jr. is driving his uncle’s car off the bridge and leaving the NIH and Medicaid to drown slowly?
I can’t be the only one to think that, can I?
Lying Liars Lying Again
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:
Biden administration undercounting murders, revising history, setting the stage for a “murder surge” when Trump takes office and murders are honestly reported.
Joe Doakes
Let’s not think for a moment that Big Left is giving up after the November 5 landslide.
Two Degrees Of Cabinetry
So, among Trump’s current Cabinet nominees:
- I’ve interviewed designated Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth 2-3 times.
- The wife of Doug Burgum (who by some reports has the inside track for Secretary of Energy) is a high school classmate.
- One of my dad’s students in Rugby, ND was an incredibly ambitious young guy named “Donnie” Gaetz. He won the state debate championship, went on to win the national championship in college, moved to Florida and became a Republican mover and shaker and eventually president of the State Senate, and was a somewhat frequent guest at my parents’ house through the seventies and into the eighties, and who went on to have a son you may have heard of.
So, Matt Gaetz for AG.
As happy as I am with all the other nominees, the only upside I can see to this nomination is it’ll get him out of the House, in time for him not to get confirmed…?
He’d be a reliable Trump ally, and he’d likely go at the DOJ with a blowtorch. Surely we’ve got better people for both jobs?
Stakes
After a senseless tragedy, people – almost invariably conservatives – are told to never, ever dare to “politicize” it [1]
46 year old Anthony Nephew of Duluth apparently politicized his family’s tragedy for us over the weekend, murdering his wife and son, his ex-partner and son, and checking himself out afterward.
According to the London Daily Mail (far and away the best rouce for Minnesota news that doesn’t kiss the DFL’s ass):
[Nepohew] also appeared increasingly concerned about the prospect of a Trump-led government.
‘My mental health and the world can no longer peacefully coexist, and a lot of the reason is religion,’ he said in July.
‘I am terrified of religious zealots inflicting their misguided beliefs on me and my family. I have intrusive thoughts of being burned at the stake as a witch, or crucified on a burning cross.
‘Having people actually believe that I or my child are Satan or, the anti-Christ or whatever their favorite color of boogie man they are afraid are this week.’
He had also accused Republicans of ‘making it harder for women to leave’ domestic violence relationships, writing ‘Gilead here we come.’
Gilead is an apparent reference to the Handmaid’s Tale, a dystopian republic which overthew the United States and stripped away women’s rights.
Huh. So you mean a decade of saying a political candidate is the plague makes the least stable among us think he’s…a plague?
[1] Spurious references to Naziism and Fascism apparently excepted.
I’m Only Human
After being called a “Nazi”, a “misogynist”, a “fascist” and a “Racist”, it’s hard not to indulge in a little schadenfreud.
Maybe a lot.
And when God throws an opportunity like this in your way, who am I to argue?
A licenced “poiltical analyst”, last Tuesday before the results started rolling in:
I asked the universe – there has to be an “after” video.
And the universe answered:
In addition to misogyny and racism, she blamed “Republicans moving to urban areas” .
That’s right – she’s the only “expert” in the US who hasn’t heard of the “Great Sort”.
Election Week Bonus: Other progs predictions, saved for posterity (click for a very long thread):
Not Going Back
Trump won. Perhaps you saw it in the papers.
So now what?
David Strom’s got the prescription at HotAir. One of a huge list of pullquotes:
Trump didn’t run to be a modest correction to the status quo, and he didn’t win because of any particular policy proposal. He won because a majority of Americans are disgusted by our establishment and how it has abused us.
Trump has a mandate. He must use it to remake the power structure in society.
Squishy Republicans in the House and Senate will hem and haw, squirm and squeal, and they will speak of caution and the midterms.
Don’t let them betray the millions of Americans who genuinely voted for the Trump Vance Musk Kennedy Shanahan Ramaswamy team. You don’t assemble a dream team to play T-ball.
Bureaucrats must be fired. The military leadership must be changed. The Department of Education should be axed. The FBI should be moved out of Washington. Entire agencies should be ejected from Washington and dispersed to the states. Anthony Fauci should be investigated, and when it is proven he committed perjury before Congress he should be jailed.
It’s time to clean the Augean stables, drain the swamp, or whatever metaphor you like to use for cleaning up a huge mess. It’s not just the policies that were bad; the entire system has been corrupted and must be replaced. If a #resistance exists, as it did in Trump’s first term, it must be rooted out and destroyed.
Trump’s first win reminded me of Jesse Ventura – nobody, least of all he, expected it. He governed creditably – even estimably – but there was the impression he was winging it.
Not this time. It can’t go that way.
Burn the swamp.
Because to borrow a phrase – I’m not going back.
Burning Daylight
While I don’t endorse Bono’s threat to “drive a car off a cliff” after a Trump election, nor Rob Reiner’s to “set himself on fire” (and doubt Cher get a bullet into her head with all her various, uh, augmentation), I do believe that if Trump plans to be a “dictator”, one useful act would be to make sure the celebs who promised to “move to Canada” and/or “leave the US” if Donald Trump were elected to actually deliver on it.
To wit:
- Alec Baldwin
- Whoopi Goldberg
- John Legend
- Chrissy Teigen
- Rob Reiner
- Barbara Streisand
- Cher
- Nancy Pelosi
- Hillary Clinton
- Megan Rapinoe
- Tom Hanks
- Amy Schumer
- AOC
- Lady Gaga
- Bill Gates
- Jane Fonda
- Madonna
- Mark Ruffalo
- Kim Kardashian
- George Clooney
- Hunter Biden
- Oprah
- Robert De Niro
- Samuel L Jackson
- Miley Cyrus
- Travis Kelce
- Bobbi Althoff
- Rashida Talib
- Stormy Daniels
- George Soros
- Diddy
- Eminem
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Sean Penn
- Sharon Stone
- Ashley Judd
- Tommy Lee
- Bryan Cranston
- Billie Joe Armstrong
Furthermore? I’ll volunteer to serve a cabinet-level (albeit temporary) “Undersecretary of Transportation fo Relocation”
“He’s Gonna Sic The Army On Citizens!”
Democrats are shocked, shocked, that Trump is talking about using the guard “on citizens” (who are rioting and destroying cities).
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:
Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock to keep order while they integrated the schools.
He used the military against segregationists, the enemy within, his political foes.
Was that wrong? Was Eisenhower also Hitler, same as Trump?
Kennedy also sent the regular Army to help quell anti-desegregation riots at the University of Mississippi. To be fair, modern Democrats, at least the ones in MInneapolis, likely think of Kennedy as a fascist today, too.
Just Another Day
Another assassination attempt on Trump yesterday.
Donald Trump was the target of what the FBI said “appears to be an attempted assassination” at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday, just nine weeks after the Republican presidential nominee survived another attempt on his life. The former president said he was safe and well, and authorities held a man in custody.
U.S. Secret Service agents stationed a few holes up from where Trump was playing noticed the muzzle of an AK-style rifle sticking through the shrubbery that lines the course, roughly 400 yards away.
Looks like eight years of “denormalizing Trump” is bearing fruit.