Watching The Astroturf Grow: Nuts and Bolts And More Nuts

Today at 10AM, “Protect Minnesota” and a coalition of mostly white, mostly upper-middle-class, entirely left-of-center groups will meet, as we discussed yesterday, to try to figure out how to suppress the Second Amendment for the law-abiding Minnesotan. 

Yesterday, we discussed the invitation – and how they’re really not interested in any solution that doesn’t involve infringing on the law-abiding, having rejected the RSVPs of Second Amendment activists.

But what about the agenda itself?

The invite – from “Protect Minnesota” The Brady Factory – says:

Find out what’s next in this important work and what your role can be. Sessions include:

— Changing the narrative around gun violence prevention

— Developing effective media strategy

— A deep dive on gun policy in Minnesota

— Grassroots lobbying

— Creating change with personal stories

What are they talking about?

Let’s turn this into real English:

Changing the narrative around gun violence prevention:  Whose narrative are we talking about, here?  The one in the media?  That one is certainly gun-grabber friendly.  Or are you talking about the one out there in the larger society – the one that keeps answering “guns in the hands of the law-abiding are a good thing” at the ballot box?

Developing effective media strategy:  I presume this means “expanding on their current strategy of having their plutocrat benefactors sponsor friendly media and pay for sympathetic “news” coverage”.

A deep dive on gun policy in Minnesota:  “Deep Dive?”  You don’t need no stinkin’ deep dive.  I’ll tell you what you need to know; for the past 40 years, our self-appointed “elites” have been trying to set gun policy.  From 1974 through 1994, it worked.  Then Minnesota’s gun owners got organized.  Since then, the “elites” have been shut down, and haven’t won a battle that wasn’t handed to them by a judge.

Take that time you were going to spend in your “deep dive” and do something useful.  Maybe take a walk.

Grassroots lobbying:  This should be a fun session.  The gun-grabbers have no “grass roots”

White, upper-middle-class, NPR-listening, Volvo-driving, free-range-alpaca-wearing, white-liberal-guilt-stricken perma-scowling Saint Olaf alums from Linden Hills, Crocus Hill and Saint Louis Park. These are the closest the gun-grabber movement gets to “grass roots”.

They have astroturf.  They have a few activists (see photo above) and a lot of money from liberals with deep pockets.

And that’s it.

Creating change with personal stories:  Go ahead.  Bring your personal stories.  We’ll bring ours.

The meeting should be fun.  And by “fun”, I mean “clogged with self-righteous but badly-informed bobbleheads”.

If any of you Real Americans attend as ringers, please send me your report.

4 thoughts on “Watching The Astroturf Grow: Nuts and Bolts And More Nuts

  1. Got to love that smug, self-satisfied facial expression.

    Going to be a meatier Christmas letter this year … “Here’s Grammy … she’s a protester … now, will you call more often?”

  2. “White, upper-middle-class, NPR-listening, Volvo-driving, free-range-alpaca-wearing, white-liberal-guilt-stricken perma-scowling Saint Olaf alums from Linden Hills, Crocus Hill and Saint Louis Park.”

    Please update your meme. These days, bolsheviks drive Subarus.

  3. I attended the Minnesota Weapons Collectors’ show on the State Fairgrounds in the Coliseum on Saturday. As I headed west on Como from Snelling, I noticed a young woman standing on the south side of Como, slightly west of Snelling, with a camera, taking pictures of westbound cars. Actually, all the few and far between cars were westbound, so I shouldn’t say that was all she was shooting.

    My suspicions of anti-gun foolishness peaked and declined since what she was doing made little sense, except to her. No signs, banners, or real purpose to shooting cars far enough from the event to be certain they were even gun show attendees.

    She was quite young and lovely, which pretty much excludes her from the above pictured group. Anyone else attend and notice this? Perhaps a college photography assignment? Who knows. Logic doesn’t always apply to those who would have us disarmed … Nice show in any event.

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