Speaking Of Shots In The Dark: Welcome To the New Design!
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A State Of Forced Cowardice
So the Minnesota Supreme Court just ruled that a criminals life is more valuable than yours.No, literally: its A22-0432 State of Minnesota v. Earley Romero Blevins. And it says that, whereas in Minnesota until today you had to make a reasonable effort to retreat before using lethal force in self-defense (outside your home), now you…
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Tea Leaves
Two observations. First: Is this: …the cringiest photo you’ve seen since that collection of seventies family photos you got tricked into looking at? Second: She’s got no intention of leaving office, does she? She’s got a plea deal in the work with some sympathetic prosecutor, she’ll plead down to “disorderly conduct” – really, no worse…
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Kackalot
It’s not so much that the Democrats assume you’re stupid. It’s that…: …they desperately need you to be stupid. Not just a little stupid, either: If America elects this clacque, it deserves to collapse. Ron DeSantis has entered the chat:
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Chanting Points Memo: Little Robots Full Of Ticky-Tack
Remember “Journo-list?” The top-secret, hush-hush chat room for “journalists” from fifteen years ago? If you don’t remember, that’s OK, because: a) This bit here summarizes and parodies it pretty aptly, and b) There’s no need to remember, because it’s happening today, again. This time, it’s about the term “weird”. Every Democrat and media (ptr) figure…
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Whores, Cretins, Charlatans. OK!
No matter how much you hate the mainstream media, you don’t hate them enough. “Even the local ones?” Especially the local ones: I mean, it’s still right there online, for feck’s sake: The theory is, democracy can not survive without an indepdendent media. I’m starting to think that’s the point.
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A Conundrum
I got this message the other day – presumably from the people who are frantically labeling “weird”: “White Dudes for Harris”. I’m honestly torn. Should I try to troll the “meeting”? Probably won’t work – there are six digits of “attendees” in these zoom meetings. Or perhaps ignore completely? Well, I’ve clearly not done that.…
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How Every Conversation About “Fascism”, “Naziism” and “Racism” Should Go
SCENE: Mitch BERG is whacking weeds along his alley. He doesn’t notice Avery LIBRELLE, who appears to be inspecting peoples recycling bins for inappropriate material. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Oh, shiiiiiure as I live and breathe, it’s Aver… LIBRELLE: Shut up. Republicans are the worst possible combination of Nazis, Fascists and slave-owning Confederate traitors! BERG: You…
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Hey, Look – Governor Klink Is Wearing His “Regular Joe” Costume
How it went, 16 days ago: How it’s going: So it seems there was a brief moment when DFLers thought actions had consequences. Oh, so brief. Someone wanna explain how this isn’t a call to more violence?
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Open Letter To America
To: AmericaFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous Peasant and AmericanRe: Tim “Governor Klink” Walz America, Some of you – OK, most of you – may be getting your first introduction to Governor Tim Walz, as the noise machine frantically tries to position him as a viable VP candidate. “Small town regular Joe” is one of the costumes…
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What’s In A Name
(SCENE: Mitch BERG is at a kitchen store, recycling some Nespresso pods. Too late, he notices Avery Librelle.) LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Hey, Av… LIBRELLE: Shut up. JD Vance’s real name is John David Bowman. BERG: It was the name he was born with. He changed his name to his maternal grandparents name, “Vance”, when he…
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Springing Back From The Memory Hole
To: Governor Tim “Wilhelm Klink” WalzFrom: Mitch Berg, former Rock, CowRe: Your Heardland Credentials Governor Klink, putatively a Veep candidate – is burnishing his “heartland” creds: You know what it’s really not about? Calling most of “your” state “nothing but rocks and cows”. We’re really not about that. In theory, we’re not into being something…
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Walk Like A Belarussian
Last week, our intrepid news media were falling all over themselves trying to find Donald Trump’s medical records, to verify that he’d almost been shot in the head. Today? President? What President? If it happened in Belarus, Burundi, or Myanmar, Joe Biden’s blitzkrieg withdrawal from the presidential race would have inspired eye rolls. We jettisoned…
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Deja Vu Vu Vu Vu
Joe Doakes, no longer of Como Park, emails: Here we go again. The fact that they need to rig and cheat to support an (in effect) incumbent tells you how nervous they are.
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Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss
Biden is out. Harris is in. – and is the presumptive nominee… …maybe. We’ll know in three-ish weeks. So how does Trump react? My humble opinion – there’s no need to react to any of them differently, at least as individuals. they all different faces of the same machine; the same back-room figures who…
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Biden Gets the Full Torricelli
No surprise that Joe Biden has ended his campaign. He’s been a fugitive from Madame Tussauds for a long time now and even when he was at the height of his powers, he was at best a 10-watt bulb. He has been a horrible buffoon and genuine menace to the body politic for a half…
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Mostly Peaceful
British climate protesters who blocked the London beltway get seriously slammed in court: Obstructing a highway is not simple political expression, and it is far from “peaceful protest.” It involves the physical obstruction of others’ freedom of movement. It is also disruptive and potentially tortious conduct that can have severe consequences. In this case, those…
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I Heard It On The NARN
Gabriela Kroetsch is running for MN House in district 55A – Savage and parts of Burnsville. And here’s today’s music list:
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From The Upcoming Revision To The Oxford English Dictionary
“Frumming (Verb): To compare two radically different things as if they were the same, by leaving out dispositively vital context. Example: Variations: Frummery: (Noun): “It was pure frummery to compare the records of the two presidents by dishonestly leaving out the pandemic”.
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Just So We’re Clear…
The party that thinks women dressing in the ketchup bottle costumes from Handmaid’s Tale is utterly profoundly meaningful and not a little bit mawkish or cloying or hyperdramatic… …has suddenly developed scruples about costume accessories?
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Vance
There are better people to comment on the ups and downs of JD Vance’s selection for Veep. He’s got my paleocon friends riled up, and the left are certainly in a lather (which they’d have been no matter who Trump picked, so no matter). But I’ll say this: Vance is going to bludgeon Harris in…
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Flailing
Is it just me, or is Joe Biden throwing everything he can find at the wall to see what buys votes? First, its “national rent control”: President Joe Biden is ready to propose a 5% cap on annual rent increases for tenants of major landlords as he tries to show he’s doing something about the…
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There May Come A Time…
…when the left comes to realize that it was a, er, tactical error to pick people like these as their public face: But it sure hasn’t been this election cycle.
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Open Letter To Betty McCollum
To: Rep. McCollumFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous peasantRe: Civil RIghts Your Highness, Yesterday, you criticized the federal appeals court ruling that said Minnesota could not deny carry permits to qualfied adults between ages 18 and 20. Please list the other civil rights from which adults ages 18-20 should be excluded. Thanks in advance. That is all.
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Shards
Chaya Raichik, of the account “Libs of TikTok”, and her seven-digit collection of followers, have gone scorched earth on social media accounts that cheered last weekend’s assassination attempt on former president Trump: I get the urge. Perhaps more than most. I’ve had at least one job get tanked because some (very “progressive”) management found out…
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