Seer In The Headlights

A friend of the blog emails:

This woman has had 2 scary incidents

She tries to say in the op-ed that there are solutions. She doesn’t name any.

It doesn’t appear as though she called the police at all over either incident, so she is complicit, in my opinion, to allowing these criminals to terrorize others, maybe even kill someone next time. She doesn’t seem to care.

If she found herself visiting a small rural town, where several white rural stereotypes were shooting at each other and pointing their guns at her and her children, would she have the same beliefs? I don’t know.

But, in either case, she should be calling the police. Fine, believe in, advocate for early interventions. But, when someone is actively engaged in criminal activity, early intervention is too late. They are criminals. We have laws. Why is that so hard for people to understand? Does half the country have Stockholm Syndrome? 

I saw this morning that Peggy Noonan wrote that crime might elect a Republican in New York. And it is possible here in Minnesota, as well. I’m not going to win any friends by saying this, but I’ll say it anyway- I hope Republicans are truly prepared for that possibility.

Yeah, that’s kind of (pun incoming) elephant in the room: the GOP is going to need to deliver on a lot if they win significant enough majorities…well, anywhere.

17 thoughts on “Seer In The Headlights

  1. Popular discourse inadequately reduces their lived experiences to individual poor choices, we leave no room for real solutions.
    When you can only conceptualize matters of life and death in stultifying bureaucratese, you are the problem.
    Take out the words “inadequately,” “individual,” “lived,” and “real,” Does it change whatever meaning it might have had?

  2. Just think, if we only had proper gun control, we wouldn’t have to bother with trying to control feral thugs.

    Uh, for those of you who have a hard time recognizing snark, that was snark.

  3. Yeah, that’s kind of (pun incoming) elephant in the room: the GOP is going to need to deliver on a lot if they win significant enough majorities…well, anywhere.

    Democrats everywhere richly deserve defeat. It does not follow that Republicans deserve to win, especially wholly-owned subsidiary Republicans of the Mitch McConnell ilk. As others have said, this election is less of a mandate for corporate Republicans than a temporary restraining order against Donk depredations.

  4. ^ From Rodney Dangerfield’s Back to School
    Professor Terguson: Good answer. Good answer. I like the way you think[, Mr D]. I’m gonna be watching you.

  5. bike;
    Makes one wonder which left wing organizations are paying her for “organizing?”

  6. newt gingrich convinced republicans to state their principles objectives in their campaign so people would know what they stand for

    not the platform that’s too long and messy just a summary of a few good points

    liberals hated the contract for america but people who read it loved it and voted for it

    republicans should have that every election

    no voter should ever have to ask

    if you are elected what exactly will you do to crack down on black youth stealing cars and shooting up the town

    will you will buck the strib and blm calling you a raciss to impose law and order

    how will you over come democrats in the legislature blocking every move

    why should i believe you can make a difference

  7. She’s a community organizer

    Good find. That whole article smelled like a dwelling amongst the natives, “white man’s burden” sort of personal crusade. One might think she’s incredibly brave, but redirecting the culpability of those shooting at her and her family to “society” seems more indicative of some kind of mental distress, if not outright insanity.

  8. she had blue and green lasers on her shirt
    the vibrantly diverse youth were aiming at her
    i have never shot a blue laser
    i see they are on amazon for 39
    anybody tried them
    how well do they work
    better than green or red

  9. big, z-bolt makes blue laser pointers, but indeed, I have not encountered any blue laser sights.

  10. I was laughing so hard while reading that my wife yelled up “Whatever you’re doing up there, just stop!” (she knows that laugh).

    The comments are even better than the story!

    I wouldn’t waste a minute trying to educate those reprobates, for 3 reasons:

    1. They’re mentally ill.
    2. It’s their city, and I don’t go there. If they’re happy dodging bullets and tossing their kids over the fence for cover while negroes shoot it out, who am I to complain? Carry on.
    3. Every reprobate that takes a bullet is one less we need to worry about. What is it they like to say? Oh yeah…Darwin’s law.

  11. Makes one wonder which left wing organizations are paying her for “organizing?”

    Better question: which silicon valley divorcee, billionaire widow or oil fortune trust baby is financing the left wing organization who pay her for “organizing?”

  12. “Take out the words “inadequately,” “individual,” “lived,” and “real,” Does it change whatever meaning it might have had?”

    It’s a tactic educated, but low IQ slobs use to ape their intelligent betters, UMMP. They add words to fill in where the insightful observation should be.

    Once again I lean on the venerable William Hannibal Thomas to describe the phenomenon.

    “Vague speech…indicates misty, incoherent conception, just as clean-cut expressions show that the speaker has in his mind clearly defined mental images. [Leftist nitwits] have very meagre conception of the import of words, and are influenced more by sound than sense in their use. .. With him it is a vocal sound, and not a significant symbol representing actual, visible, living qualities… The [leftist nitwit’s] idea of conversation is a fluent use of words, uttered without any regard to truth or facts.”

  13. it occurs to me we might be making an unwarraned assumption
    maybe the shooters were not young black males in rival gangs

    maybe they were amish girls up from lanesboro looking for some action

    or maybe they were mennonites from cottonwood county spreading gods love one round at a time

    at least we can be thankful none of the law abiding citizens in the park were permitted carry holders who could have shot back at the rat pack to scatter them before they could kill the little children

    somebody important might have been hurt

  14. What really get me is, the way they avoid naming the problem, as if butter wouldn’t melt in their mouths at a rap concert. “Youths”; “teens”; “group of kids”…please.

    The “gun violence” problem is black violence problem. Say it at every opportunity.

  15. She’s full of BS. Do I think what she describes could happen? Certainly it’s the Near Northside she asserts. But the whole article seems too contrived, and it’s the Minnpost.

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