Urban Progressive Privilege: This Is Today’s #MNDFL
By Mitch Berg
Briana Rose Lee is the chair of the Minneapolis DFL.
She tweeted this yesterday.
She spent the next couple hours defending her assertion to a mass of revulsion before, one presumes, Ken Martin cut off her Victory Gin.
Remember all the MNGOP leaders who partied ’til dawn when Paul Wellstone died?
No, you don’t. There were none.
Lee is 37. years old; she’d have been 2 when Ronaldus Magnus left office. She can have no impression what life was really like before Reagan ,so I take most of her opinion with a block of salt.
But I get the impression that Lee is one of those kids who, back in college, read The Gulag Archipelago and thought the NKVD were the good guys.
How dumb was the tweet? After doubling and tripling down that she was never going to do it, the tweet disappeared because it was dumb enough that even Ken Martin had to yank her leash:
But in a statement, DFL Chair Ken Martin said her tweet about Reagan did not “reflect the values of the DFL Party.”
“While there is nothing wrong with debating the policies and legacies of elected officials, mocking the passing of an American president is beyond the pale,” Martin said. “We expect better of leaders within our party, and we will continue holding ourselves to the high standard that Minnesotans deserve.”
Oh, yeah – Senator Jen McEwen, who actually is coming for your guns, agrees:
Gotta feel or Ken Martin: In the past couple years, he’s had to deal with:
- His staffer calling Navy ships “Murder Boats”
- A state representative candidate (who would to on to serve a term in the House) calling for the destruction of Hugo and the murder of its citizens
- Another staffer calling for Republicans to be guillotined
- Two cities destroyed by his voters
- Another staffer trying to go all Sonny Corleone on…a friendly MinnPost reporter
- Another comms staffer with a habit of tweeting like a sixth-grader who stole Mommy’s instagram password
- This.
Turns out there’s some dissent within the DFL’s ranks – between the “The only good Republican is a Dead Republican” set and the “Don’t tell the Hoi-Polloi the whole truth” crowd (read the whole thread), which exposes the full depth of the DFL’s internal squabbling…:
…although don’t get too excited: Democrats, being basically intellectual herd animals, will all fall in line and obey orders come election time.
As Dennis Prager notes, conservatives think leftists are wrong. Leftists think conservatives are evil.
June 6th, 2023 at 11:43 am
This ” conservatives think leftists are wrong. Leftists think conservatives are evil. “ used to be my point of view also but after the last 3 years my point of view is:
conservatives are largely just wishful thinkers, while leftists have fully embraced the ideology of evil.
change my mind!
June 6th, 2023 at 12:21 pm
Mitch, thought you would appreciate the irony of this article in Minnpost:
https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2023/06/reflecting-on-one-minneapolis-two-realities-as-a-friend-plans-a-move-outside-the-city/?fbclid=IwAR2qr8WyZIjTjSuHt3xiilHeVdCbdF7WhLYBqGSb158jUtkbgQVnW5nXDs0
The guy moving out of Minneapolis obviously voted for the politicians who created this nightmare and he’s bringing those exact same values to where ever else he moves to.
June 6th, 2023 at 12:22 pm
DFL: On this day, an extremist group of armed White men violently invaded and systematically murdered a mostly peaceful assembly of reformers gathered on the French coastline, who were bravely defending their vision of a more equitable distribution of prosperity and religious diversity in their society and eventually, throughout the entire world.
GOP: Today is D-Day.
June 6th, 2023 at 12:41 pm
^ Bigman FTW!
June 6th, 2023 at 12:58 pm
Readers here might be surprised to learn that Ms. Lee owns three cats and supported Bernie Sanders for President. Of course she hates Reagan, because Reagan ended (or at least temporarily suppressed) Russian Communism.
I’d recommend she read some Solzhenitsyn, Valladares, and Orwell, but I’d be afraid she’d see their work as a policy prescription instead of a warning.
June 6th, 2023 at 1:26 pm
bike – she wouldn’t read anything (or have anyone read it to her) by white guys. (And Hispanics are now classified as “white” by proggies). Checkboxes are more important than real life experiences, and besides, only transsexual Furries have any real insight into how the world really works.
June 6th, 2023 at 2:16 pm
Not even Engels or Marx?
You may be right, but smiling because she’s fishbelly white herself. And you would figure that eventually, even white liberals would figure out that the majority of people killed by Lenin and Stalin were white as well. Ah, well, ideology trumps identity at some point.
June 6th, 2023 at 3:44 pm
Bettyboop;
That article cracks me up.
You are correct on your assessment. The writer is wallowing in the muck that the people he continually votes for, but he can’t see it.
June 6th, 2023 at 4:39 pm
Betty,
Hmm. Interesting.
June 6th, 2023 at 6:11 pm
Reagan was the right president for the US in the 1980s. Reaganism is dead. This is not the 1980s.
Imagine a 1980s Reagan and a 1990s Clinton running for prez in 2024: Reagan going on about free trade and amnesty for illegals, Clinton talking about keeping abortion safe, legal, and rare, and saying that the era of big government was over.
June 6th, 2023 at 8:05 pm
Tucker Carlson posted his first show on Twitter. 13.5 million views in 45 minutes.
He called Zelensky a “sweaty, rat faced grifter” and mocked Lindsay Graham.
Millikns of neocons could be heard falling down and couldn’t get up.
June 6th, 2023 at 8:51 pm
Carlson got about 3.5 million views for his program on Fox. Don’t think he ever cracked 4 million.
FYI, I am not a Carlson viewer, except for the occasional Youtube snippet that catches my attention, usually because of the guest. Nothing against Carlson, he just is not “must view TV” for me.
June 7th, 2023 at 6:22 am
MMP.
That sums it up nicely!
I think I’ll set up a burner TWITter account to respond to illiterate DemoCommie’s like McEwen. What a dope!
June 7th, 2023 at 9:24 am
BH, make sure you also set up a burner email account with Gmail or Hotmail or Yahoo or something. You don’t want weaponized lefty autists digging into your burner twitter and finding your real email that can be traced to you in real life.
June 7th, 2023 at 9:28 am
Imagine a 1980s Reagan and a 1990s Clinton running for prez in 2024: Reagan going on about free trade and amnesty for illegals, Clinton talking about keeping abortion safe, legal, and rare, and saying that the era of big government was over.
The issues have changed.
The message – government needs to get out of our lives – still resonates.
Could it still work?
I say yes.
Exhibit A: The Tea Party was an updated echo of Reaganism. It punched way above its weight.
Reaganism the Gray may be dead. Reaganism the White? We’ll see.
June 7th, 2023 at 9:46 am
Being great at twitter is a real skill set — it should not be confused with subject matter expertise.
June 7th, 2023 at 10:01 am
A dhimmicrap party official celebrates the death of an American president (that he was the greatest president of the 20th century is immaterial). Her friends and colleagues, also party officials, come to her defense.
This country is done, over and out, no reconciliation possible.
June 7th, 2023 at 10:24 am
Ronald Reagan was a poorly educated actor who shilled for anyone who would pay him. His greatest role was US President. “Tear down that wall” was a line he delivered. He and Nancy looked good on camera. He didn’t know how to respond to the Challenger accident. Under his leadership, it was decided to tax social security. Nancy’s astrologist frequently made decisions for the country.
MITCH ADDS: Every single word you wrote is either bullshit or has context so mangled as to be in effect a lie.
You and Ms. Lee deserve each other..
June 7th, 2023 at 10:45 am
Reagan and his administration was never held accountable for the Iran Contra debacle. It’s easier to understand the amateurishness and secrecy of Iran-Contra given Reagan’s lack of administrative discipline. While individuals with conservative agendas successfully pushed for national change, the lack of clarity and focus allowed corruption to creep in and policy energy to dissipate.
It was Reagan’s shortcoming, first and foremost. In his first term, he believed old myths and cronies that a strong dollar was good for Americans. With the Volcker recessions, a drastic drop in exports, and the failure of American export businesses, it took years to end the economic pain. Treasure Secretary Jim Baker interceded with the Plaza Accord of September ’85 to rebalance the dollar. Still, under Reagan the deficit ballooned and unemployment did not fall below 6% until 1988.
SDI, Star Wars, got political support with the Washington approach of spreading funding to as many states as possible, but amateur as a security program. The administration announced that everything it did would be shared publicly. Still, executives within the Pentagon could not find out what it was doing. Nobody truly in charge except for the guys making big, big bucks on the program.
June 7th, 2023 at 10:57 am
Bot Boy, once again, your stupidity is showing.
Tell us about the penalties paid by the Kenyan Clown and his feckless AG for Fast and Furious, the consequences of which are still being felt today.
Butt wipe!
June 7th, 2023 at 11:03 am
Emery, you ARE aware that there are actually “data” on things like the inflation rate, unemployment rate, and the like during the Reagan administration, right? Data which contradict what you said, right?
And you ARE aware that it was significantly “Star Wars” or the “Strategic Defense Initiative” that has improved the Patriot missile system (among others) to where it (and other NATO anti-terrorism systems) has basically shut down the Russian Air Force and their missile/drone terrorism efforts, right?
Finally, you appear to have forgotten that it was the Reagan defense buildup that triggered the collapse (at least temporarily) of the Soviet empire. Really, where are you getting your lines? Bernie Sanders or something?
June 7th, 2023 at 11:13 am
Reagan didn’t end the cold war. The Soviet Union collapsed primarily due to self-inflicted political and economic problems. The USSR collapsed of its own weight, primarily the dislike of its constituent ethnic groups for the empire and each other. But Reagan certainly gave this rotten structure a push that accelerated the process. Without Gorbachev it doesn’t happen. But without Reagan, Gorbachev might not have happened.
SDI didn’t really lead to any achievements in the ’80s. It consisted of plans, most that haven’t been realized.
June 7th, 2023 at 11:32 am
Give rAT a couple G&T’s, wind him up and watch him goooo!
Has the city sent you a warning about cutting down the weeds in front of your shitty little bungalow yet, rAT? Better get to it, lad. They charge about $400 to do it, and we all know you don’t have it to spare.
June 7th, 2023 at 11:39 am
Carlson ended up with >75 million views. That’s 25% of the country (not counting 75 IQ Guatamexidorian invaders).
There isn’t a media outlet that comes anywhere close to that in a month.
Legacy media is BTFO, and they know it. So today, CNN is mocking him for poor production value on his first segment. LMAO…fucking pathetic.
Also, #Antifa is trending on Twitr, because they were providing “security” at a school board meeting in Glendale, California…that is California. The board was voting on recognizing “Pride” month….about 200 parents showed up and fucked the degenerates up, bigly.
Once again, this happened in California.
The worm has turned, lads. But like a worm; you cut the head off and it grows back.
June 7th, 2023 at 11:40 am
BTW, rAT…how many US Federal District Courts are there?
June 7th, 2023 at 11:44 am
Just another beautiful day on Ten Mile. Both rentals on Woman Lake are rented May-October by two families who’ve leased them for nearly 8 years. Remember Tom — Boone Pt Rd NW is where I’m at. Get to the Morton building and hang a left into my driveway — stop by.
June 7th, 2023 at 12:39 pm
“Tear down that wall” was a line he delivered.
One that many of his senior advisers didn’t want him to include in his speech, for fear of embarrassing Gorbachev. The line was a challenge to Gorbachev: “Put your money where your mouth is.”
He didn’t know how to respond to the Challenger accident.
How so? What would you have done differently?
Under his leadership, it was decided to tax social security.
We’ll just leave out the Democratically-controlled House of Representatives under Tip O’Neill, then.
By the way, Emery, all this waving of your hands about Reagan’s political record doesn’t detract from the topic of this blog post: That a prominent DFL official celebrated the death of a former president. There are some folks out there who can’t “turn it off” and be human beings. Ms. Lee is no different than the clowns who booed Republicans and Gov. Ventura when they attended the Wellstone funeral, turning an easy win for Mondale (running on the sympathy vote) into a win for Coleman. She’s no different than the clowns who went after teenage Chelsea Clinton, or after Michelle Obama, on their looks.
June 7th, 2023 at 12:45 pm
There is something similar in the way that American Lefties hate Reagan and Brit Lefties hate Thatcher. It is a deeply emotional response, impervious to reason. The sheer hatred is unmatched on the right. I don’t know any righties who harbor a deep hatred for Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter or Obama.
What do Brit Lefties think would have happened w/o Thatcher? Britain was literally falling apart in the late 70s, crippled by strikes and labor unrest, they literally could not keep the lights on.
I suppose for many of them, the fact that she was the daughter of a green grocer had something to do with it.
Despite being hated by labor, fed bureaucrats, and the media and intellectual classes, Reagan was voted into office twice by large margins. American Lefties hate the Americans who voted for Reagan, for them Reagan was just a proxy for the regular Americans that they despise.
June 7th, 2023 at 12:58 pm
He didn’t know how to respond to the Challenger accident.
That evening, he gave one of the great eulogies in Presidential history. He proceeded to lead the nation beyond the tragedy.
You really have a problem with parroting risible bullshit, Emery.
June 7th, 2023 at 1:17 pm
Ian,
Thanks for pointing out that in typical lying DemoCommie fashion, fat boy Tip O’Neill stabbed Reagan in the back on the budget. Further, we owe the taxes on Social Security and the subsequent increase in those taxes, to one loud mouth, lying POS Senator that now, allegedly, runs the country, despite the fact that he has no clue where he is at any given moment. Proof positive that once a lying Democrat, always a liar. Funny! Just like Bot Boy.
June 7th, 2023 at 1:39 pm
Reagan was an FBI informant too—how he got his job as actor’s guild President.
REAGAN PLAYED INFORMANT ROLE FOR FBI IN `40S
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-08-26-8502250710-story.html
But Bush was likely shadow President as Reagan declined, just like Cheney for Bush’s son.
But how can this be? According to Republicans, Reagan was the best president ever! Including Trump, who was also the best president ever! And still is!
June 7th, 2023 at 1:51 pm
Got a cite on that “Bush was Shadow President” tale?
Because I have a hunch I know where you (or the person you’re parroting) got it, and if so, I’m going to torch you up like a gas-soaked rag.
June 7th, 2023 at 1:58 pm
⬆️ having issue with my link?
June 7th, 2023 at 2:22 pm
People tend to get into real trouble when they “Dog Gone” an issue. You Dog Gone an issue when you decide you are going to enter a debate online about which you know nothing, so you quickly scan the internet (or use chatgpt) and dredge up a few factoids, which may or may not be true, to back up whatever position you have taken w/o doing the proper research.
Reagan wrote extensively about his role as pres of SAG. He said when he got the job, he was convinced that SAG was a good ‘ol patriotic American Trade Union. Instead Reagan found that many of the union’s officers and rank & file were hard core Stalinists. So he purged them.
Supposedly Reagan was “triggered” when a SAG member lectured Reagan on the wonders of Russian Communism under Stalin. As Reagan recalled it, after the lecture was over, he told the union member “Maybe so, but I know if the Russians attacked us, you’d join up & on the side of your fellow Americans.” to which the SAG member responded “Are you kidding? I’d grab a rifle and fight on the side of my Russian comrades.”
There was a lot of going on at the time. The UAW purged its commies in the late 40s, so did the CIO. In 1948 Hubert Humphrey purged the commies in Minnesota’s DFL.
June 7th, 2023 at 2:57 pm
Sure am glad that Fluffy and his pointless, witless, ignorant jabs still have free rein on SItD. In the interests of well rounded discussions, doncha know.
June 7th, 2023 at 3:03 pm
Who else recalls the story told at the time that Reagan’s people would vie to meet and push their agendas, knowing that he usually followed the advice of the last person to talk to him?
Le plus ça change…
Change the dates and president and this could have been about the Trump years.
June 7th, 2023 at 3:06 pm
Just for fun — here is a Youtube of Reagan giving one of his his last pressers, in December, 1988: https://youtu.be/t_puNc2MpCA
Compare Reagan’s sharpness to Biden’s in any of his recent press conferences, if you can find one. Biden doesn’t do many unscripted press conferences.
BTW, Biden has taken almost as many vacation days in his first two years (311) than Reagan took in 8 (335).
June 7th, 2023 at 3:46 pm
Regarding Reagan being an FBI informant, absolutely. The FBI was investigating Communist infiltration of the Screen Actors’ Guild, of which Reagan was the President at the time, if memory serves. Given that Stalin was completing the purges that killed something like 25 million people, I think the FBI (and Reagan) were in the right at that point.
Again, Emery, maybe….try and appeal to something that’s….you know….actually objectionable?
June 7th, 2023 at 3:46 pm
Twitter’s lawyers told a federal court on June 1st that nothing in the “Twitter Files” cited by Trump [Woolly] actually show that the social media platform was a tool of government censorship.
/“Twitter’s lawyers also point out the problem with claims — echoed by the company’s CEO — that the government was paying it to censor people. (The government was paying it to comply with search orders, which it is required to do by law.)”/
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.387133/gov.uscourts.cand.387133.195.0.pdf
June 7th, 2023 at 3:55 pm
We are now at the stage where to troll, his frauds exposed, attempts to change the subject.
FYI, whenever the troll mentions a comment made by someone else, and does not provide a link to that comment, you can be assured that he is just making it up as he goes along.
June 7th, 2023 at 4:43 pm
Mike Norton is unintentionally ironic. In his string of profanity laced tweets, he has this to say:
(T)rying to sort out blatant fraud in the delegate credentialing process with no f(—)ing support from the state party other than polite emails saying “that’s the process, do your best”
It’s hilarious that a DFLer would complain that people lie about their identity, residency, or citizenship in order to vote in a party election, while at the same time shoving it fown our throats in the general elections!
If it weren’t for double standards, then the DFL wouldn’t have any.
June 7th, 2023 at 5:14 pm
Who else recalls the story told at the time that Reagan’s people would vie to meet and push their agendas, knowing that he usually followed the advice of the last person to talk to him?
“Story”. Enough said.
Just a distraction from the FACT that a prominent DFL official celebrated the death of a former president.
June 7th, 2023 at 5:40 pm
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June 7th, 2023 at 7:08 pm
Chris Christie announces his candidacy.
Is there anyone left among Republicans to support Christie? The party has been turned inside out since the sun shined on Reagan Republicans. Christie. Trump. DeSantis. That presidential run is going to look like a circus.
Watching again the low-level drivel of Trump matched with the seemingly unending flow of gaffes due to stuttering from Biden is going to be mildly depressing, even if at times funny.
June 7th, 2023 at 7:20 pm
Some things never change-Emery gets challenged, he storms off and changes the subject. Great debate technique, son
June 7th, 2023 at 8:46 pm
No choice, a Gamma cannot admit he was wrong, he must lie or run away.
June 7th, 2023 at 10:11 pm
I may have mentioned this before, but beware of using ChatGPT to research a topic. ChatGPT cannot tell what is real and what is not real, it can only try to return a best response to whatever you have asked it to do. It will happily provide a technically correctly written research paper, but it’s citations might be garbage.
This may be because it is a Large Language Model (LLM) rather than a true Artificial General intelligence (AGI).
I admit that I am fascinated by the search for an AGI. With a true AGI, you could use it as an agent, telling it, for example, to make sure your monthly bills were paid on time & it would be done, poof! It would be done the same way a trusted friend would do it, alerting you if any monthly bill was larger or smaller than usual, checking the balance in your checking account so you didn’t make an overdraft, etc.
But so far the attempts to create an AGI have resulted in a thing which is more like a “genii in a bottle” (aka a demon) rather than a close friend. It doesn’t understand human context.
Over the weekend, there were reports that an American military AI conference had produced an admission that a simulated AI targeting system had attacked its human controller (since the controller could abort the mission), and, when instructed not to attack the human controller, had attacked the communications network that the human controller could potentially use to potentially abort the mission. The US has denied that this was the case, calling the discussion a “hypothetical.”
June 8th, 2023 at 5:23 am
Who else recalls the story told at the time that Reagan’s people would vie to meet and push their agendas, knowing that he usually followed the advice of the last person to talk to him?
That was a Saturday Night Live sketch.
June 8th, 2023 at 5:54 am
Same as Tina Fey saying she could see Russia from her house. Liberals actually believe Sarah Palin said it. 🙄
June 8th, 2023 at 8:31 am
….just as the left believed that Dan Quayle actually said he would have to brush up on his Latin for going to Latin America–in reality, it was a jibe from Pat Schroeder, who actually did suggest lighter grenades when told why women couldn’t be in the infantry because they couldn’t throw a grenade past its blast radius. Oh, well, when you get your way, facts don’t matter to the left.