George Will has deserved plenty of flak over the past 40 years or so.
And he’s caught some for this interview here.
And I think the flakkers got it wrong:
I think what he’s saying here is “let New York voters FA, so the whole nation can FO”.
I mean, it’s going to happen anyway.
Lets you wondered what Omar Fateh’s actual priorities might be:
Not fixing potholes.
Not making a city in economic freefall into a destination again.
Protecting illegals from the boogeyman.
Minneapolis is in the best of hands.
The good news: Bloody Mary Moriarty is not running for re-election as Henco Attorney.
The bad news? It’s so she can focus on “transforming the office” even further:
“I ran for this office to do the hard work; the work that desperately needed doing and the work the voters chose when I was elected in 2022 by 16 points,”Moriarty said in the release. “We’ve become accustomed to elected officials who don’t deliver results and end up more invested in clinging to power than doing the work of the people. That is not me. As I have weighed whether I wanted to spend the last year and a half of my term focused primarily on campaigning or continuing to transform this office, the choice became clear. I want to focus on running the office, rather than running for office.”
The worse news?
Remember – the Cano Corollary to Berg’s 21st Law is called a “law” for a reason:
In Blue city electoral politics, “blue” never gets “lighter” or less “progressive”. There is only one electoral direction – more “progressive”.
A symptom of this is when one sees people just barely to the left of a city’s Overton Window referring to the progressive politicidans and institutions in power as “Conservatives” or “Republicans”.
When Alondra Cano seems like a sane, rational stateswoman, the Frey Corollary is in effect.
Worst – ergo most likely – scenario: Moriarty spends the rest of her term gutting whatever vestiges of traditional law and order might remain her her office, turns it over to someone who will be subtly running to challenge Omar Fateh, Keith Ellison or Ilhan Omar from the left one day.
Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails:
Liberals are protesting Donald Trump for exercising his authority as President. They don’t want our country to be ruled by a king.But maybe by Lords?There are so many examples of liberal Democrats thinking they are above the law, better than ordinary people, entitled to do as they please.The governor going to a French restaurant while the rest of his state is locked down. A governor’s daughter spying for protesters burning down a city, a high official running a secret email server, a legislator getting rich from insider trading…….. the list goes on.Liberals don’t want Donald Trump to be King but they sure would like to be Lords and Ladies themselves. As for the rest of us peasants in flyover country, if we do not grovel sufficiently before the new nobility, they will replace us with illegal immigrants who will.Joe Doakes
The wages of DFL control are languishing as a backwater.
Count the zeros: that’s 90 billion in Pennsylvania…:
Google said it would invest $25 billion in the region in AI and data center infrastructure over the next two years, while investment firm Brookfield said it had signed contracts to provide more than $3 billion of power to Google from two hydroelectric dams on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.
That’s $90 billion, with a “b.” One thing these projects all have in common is that none of them are being built in Minnesota. Instead, this is what we get: from KAAL-TV:
And 33 million in Minnesota:
As KAAL reports, “This new funding is expected to reach 225 new and developing businesses.” That works out to about $147,000 per business. Meanwhile, back in Pennsylvania:
The list of participating CEOs includes leaders from global behemoths like Blackstone, Bridgewater, SoftBank, Amazon Web Services, BlackRock and ExxonMobil and local companies such as the Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics, which deploys AI to bolster energy capacity. Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, will also attend.
Some of this investment would have surely come to Minnesota if not for the many taxes, laws and policies enacted in the past three years to discourage private investment and weaken our electrical grid.
Other than the number of zeros, the big difference is that the big, Pennsylvania number comes from private investors. Ripe marks…er, taxpayers covered it in Minnesota.
So yeah – while I’m not tired of winning at the national level, I’m over it here locally.
I’ll direct your attention to the Alondra Cano corollary to Berg’s 21st Law. To wit:
Cano’s Corollary to Berg’s 21st Law: In Blue city electoral politics, “blue” never gets “lighter” or less “progressive”. There is only one electoral direction – more “progressive”.
Submitted in the affirmative:
The primary effect of Ranked Choice Voting is to protect “the establishment”, whatever “the establishment” is.
And when your establishment is basically Marxism…
Their supporters – real and automated – are rutting:
We can test whether that’s true or not.
Experiment: Put a group of cute girls in tank tops with order pads in the middle of an open field.
If a “Hooters” magically springs up, you got yourself a theory.
A leftist murders two Jews in DC. Big Left staged riots in LA and (almost, again) Minneapolis.
The mainstream media attacks…
…well, who do you think?
“White Supremacist” group membership dropped by an order of magnitude every generation over 100 years from millions in the 1920s to the single-digit thousands in 2016.
But we’re to believe that, now, all of a sudden, it’s because they think they won?
Hope Walz – a 25 year old reportedly working as some kind of social worker – on the Mamdani election:
“The top 1% that exploit all of us down below?”
She’s been the child of a Congressional representative or governor since she was five years old, and has had every form of access, power and privilege imaginable.
Like Mamdani himself – not to mention most “revolutionaries” – she’s is a “One Percenter”.
Now, if there’s a field that’s worse than teaching when it comes to requiring lots of paper credentials to advance, or hold a job, it’s social work -and Ms. Walz has decided that graduate school is a form of privilege and won’t be attending.
Which means she’s going to be going for a “job” in “public service”, doesn’t it?
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:
Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office recently hosted an all-day continuing legal education program titled, “Price, Access, and Power: Exploring Grocery Costs, Food Access, and Competition.” Several speakers advocated for breaking up grocery retailers and establishing government grocery stores in areas that don’t have them, such as high crime zones and Indian reservations.
A leading candidate for mayor of New York City favors government-operated grocery stores (and you know whatever they get, Minneapolis must have).
The next Democrat crusade is food. They want to take over your grocery store and run it “fairly,” you know, like the Post Office or the DMV.
Thomas Sowell quipped, “Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.” This sounds like more of that.
I just have one question. After Democrats have made private grocery stores unprofitable and replaced them with government grocery stores, what happens to consumers when AFSCME goes on strike??
Joe Doakes, Wal-Mart Grocery shopper
If government groceries work as well as government schools, we’ll have a raft of remedial programs and consultants and…
…aaaah. I get it now.
Cretin who apparently was spawned from the radical campus antisemitism movement murders a couple of Israeli Embassy employees in DC:
The killer shot them both in the back, and then reloaded and finished them off on the ground as disarmed, bovine DC residents milled around like stampeded cattle.
This is not an aberration. This is part of Big Left’s plan. Oh, not the one they say out loud.
But…:
Soon enough, progressive politicians would attempt to co-opt this emerging trend to burnish their own political brands. “You don’t kill people. It’s abhorrent. I condemn it wholeheartedly,” Senator Bernie Sanders told a reporter at the aptly named Jacobin magazine. Then came, as it did with every subsequent politician’s quote, the key word: But.
“But,” he continued, “what it did show online is that many, many people are furious at the health insurance companies,” presumably for making a profit in a sector that should run on altruism alone. And apparently Mangione wasn’t just representing American emotions about health care: “The campaign finance system is broken, the health care system is broken, the housing system is broken, the education system is broken. It is broken.”
Senator Elizabeth Warren followed the same “but” rule. “Violence is never the answer,” she mused. “But people can only be pushed so far” and will “start to take matters into their own hands” when the political system doesn’t cater to their demands.
“This is not to say that an act of violence is justified,” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez intoned. “But they need to understand that people interpret and feel and experience denied claims as an act of violence against them.”
Senator Chris Murphy wouldn’t condone violence, of course—“but we need to listen to what people are feeling.” The feeling Thompson’s murder exposed must be “matched by the anger over the thousands of people who die, often anonymous deaths every single day at this country at the hands of a health-care industry that mostly doesn’t give a s—t about people and only cares about profits.”
They don’t want violence, BUT if they make society so dangerous the people beg for an all-powerful government to save them, what are they supposed to do?
Ilhan Omar reacted with the states-womanly class we’ve come to expect from her:
My ongoing offer to teach any of my Jewish friends who don’t already know, how to shoot, stands.
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:
The voting public in Minnesota is almost equally divided between conservatives and liberals. To ensure our state government is ideologically reflective of its constituents, I propose all state employees in the Executive and Judicial Branches be required to respond to a short survey:
1. This nation was founded by pilgrims seeking religious freedom. The First Amendment is foremost among the Bill of Rights. Have you exercised that right by attending religious worship services within the last month?
2. This nation was secured by ordinary citizens overthrowing the British colonial government using personally owned firearms. The right to own firearms is second in the Bill of Rights. Have you exercised that right by firing a pistol, rifle or shotgun within the last month?
3. Should the Constitution be applied as the people who wrote it originally intended, or should the Constitution be reinterpreted by modern judges to suit the circumstances of individual cases and changing times?
4. Should criminal defendants be treated equally in arrest, charging, prosecution, and sentencing; or should some defendants be given special consideration based on race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, or political affiliation?
5. The laws and policies of our government affect everyone living within the United States. Should the right to vote be restricted to United States citizens, or should it extend to anyone living within the United States, whether here legally or not?
6. The state has a budget shortage. Without more tax revenue, some government programs must be reduced or eliminated. How much more are you, personally, willing to pay in state taxes to support a Better Minnesota?
I’m willing to bet a brand-new nickel the results would reveal state government employees are overwhelmingly liberal Democrats. We must replace half of them, to achieve an equitable ideological distribution. Where do we start?
Joe Doakes
By winning a governor’s race, for starters.
Pepperidge Farm does.
But the DFL seems to have forgotten it:
The DFL has staked its electoral future on giving free healthcare and education to illegals, in a state where the middle class is having a hard time affording either.
Which is something one might expect them to do for their, er, voters.
Huh.
Last fall’s election was a rough one for America’s left. Their message was rejected by a majority of Latino men, an increasing share of the black vote, an astonishing percent of GenZ (some reports say that Trump drew a third of the vote at the deep-blue University of Minnesota), and even a near supermajority of Native Americans, to say nothing of the usual suspects, white men (especially blue collar men) and married women.
And the Democrats’ woes haven’t abated with the election – with their popularity hovering somewhere below “Serbian War Criminal” and above “Journalist“.
You might be wondering if the drubbing they took caused the radical wing of Big Left to get a little circumspect? To see if they might want to change their approach, especially to the parts of their late coalition that forsook them last November? To even say “maybe we oughtta dial back the culture war schtick”?
Well, not many of them.
This sign has been popping up in Minneapolis:
For all the “All Are Welcome Here” signs in Minneapolis yards, it’s clear some groups mean “all… except you.” The dark money socialist group “Minneapolis for the Many” finally said the quiet part out loud: “When we say ALL, we don’t really mean ALL.”
— BECKA THOMPSON (@realBeckaT) March 23, 2025
I don’t have to agree with… pic.twitter.com/SspBpmHPfd
The signs are posted by a group, “Mpls for the Many“, which apparently seeks to move Minneapolis’s city government even further to the left, and appears intended to supplant some of those “In This House” signs standing in the front yards of so many white, middle-class “progressives”.
I put “progressives” in scare quotes because, well, if you read the responses to the tweet above, it just doesn’t seem very “progressive”. It’s got that whole “scarlet letter” vibe about it.
And it’s not a rare thing at all – as David (a Minneapolis inmate) points out, many on the left seem to think the social contract is, er, subject to terms and conditions (nearly a direct quote from many of the responses to the tweet above, in fact).
Tom Knighton (at our sister publication Bearing Arms) points out that the current round of “mostly peaceful” demonstrators are putting the gloves back on – so as not to get gasoline, explosive residue or any stray flames on their hands:
Now, Molotov cocktails are bad, but the nature of them tends to mean that people know good and well that there’s no one around when they use one–or, conversely, that someone is present. Using one is a violent act, but it’s still a thing that gives the user at least some control over who all is going to be hurt by the cocktail when it’s thrown.
After that, all bets are off, which is why we don’t really treat them as a nothingburger.
But bombs are an escalation. These are intended to go off at a later time. It doesn’t say if they were meant for remote detonation or on a timer, but what we know is that these aren’t necessarily controlled and can be much more destructive.
To those who believe in such things as social contracts, it appears that part of our society is conjuring up some escape clauses in the fine print.
Governor Walz, throwing Saint Paul’s ailing downtown a much-needed bone, calls state employees back to the office…
…a little:
Sure, much of the private sector never left the office (or work site), and much of the rest of the free market world has re-adapted.
But not Minnesota’s oh-so special state government union employees:
And they’re putting teeth into their whining:
My big question: how many of them need to come back, not only to the Saint Paul, but to Minnesota.
Or the US.
Or Earth?
I thought I was getting a little carried away with that last one, but the more I think about it…
So why is the DFL fighting everything so hard this year?
As we’ve noted in the past, the DFL has been in the minority before. And they never reacted like they are today.
So while acknowledging all the usual caveats – anonymous sources, citing even more anonymous connections, etc – read this entire thread anyway:
Presuming it’s true – it smacks of plausibility – then USAID is just a huge money-transfer machine, slapping altruistic facades onto over-the-top grifts to launder taxpayer money to the non-profit/industrial complex.
Looking at the freneticism and bile of the attacks on DOGE, Musk and the effort to tame USAID, it looks like it’s struck a nerve.
So – imagine what’ll happen if a Republican gets into the executive branch in Minnesota ever again? Or gets enough power in the legislature to do some serious digging and publicizing?
If a Minnesota version of DOGE – perhaps the “Office of Minnesota Internal Graft, Abuse and Waste Detection” – were to get free reign to find where Governors Dayton and Walz and their non-profit/industrial complex handlers hid the bodies?
I suspect this list would get a lot bigger -and that that is why the DFL is squawking so hard this time
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Check out this thread at Thread Reader App,
Since Threadreader may or may not launch from the link depending on your browser, I’ve provided the entry point on Twitter. It’s a long thread. Read it.
“Draining” is too good for some parts of the swamp. They need to be hit with napalm.
On January 6 a bunch of idiot rioters tried to hijack the Constitutional process for transferring power. And they failed; the process in the Constitution prevailed and, hysterics and partisan hyperbole side, succeeded fairly easily.
On January 24, at the behest of 66 petulant ninnies, seven partisans in goofy robes ruled that the legislature reports to the court on matters of its own organization; that despite the plain text of the Minnesota Constitution, a quorum is a majority of *chairs*, not the people sitting in them.
It’s almost makes comical sense for the party that thinks guns magically shoot people, and that sex is ephemeral,, and that “you can keep your doctor” means you lose your doctor, to rule that inanimate chairs, not the peole in them, are the part of a legislature that really matters.
But the laughing stops – if you care about the Constitutional order, which apparently not a single DFLer does – when you realize this decision means the Legislature reports to the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Orwell and Solzhenitzyn showed us what happens when the only objective reality is getting and holding power. Y’see, that’s the problem with democracy – everyone has to agree to the basic terms. The DFL in all three branches showed they don’t, in as many words.
(There are no doubt some in the audience who’ll say “I bet you wouldn’t be saying this if the roles were reversed!”. I most certainly would. But it’s academic, because no Republican-run institutions have ever gutted the Constitutional separation of powers quite this brazenly. ).
Berg’s Seventh Law has been getting a workout this week.
For starters – as I pointed out all through the run-up to the election – the Democrats and DFL jabbered relentlessly about voting to “save democracy”, while promising to gut free speech, freedom of conscience, the right to self-defense, privacy and separation of powers.
And perhaps it’s good news for 2026 that they seem to have learned nothing:
In the meantime, notwithstanding the 16 years of babbling about “impending waves of right-wing violence”, it is inevitably the left that leans into it:
I’ve been a Trump skeptic all along. But if I’d known that Trump’s win eight years ago were going to bring out Big Left’s true inner nature this hard, I might have opened my mind up a little earlier.
Governor Piglet added his calm voice of non-partisan statesmanly leadership to Minnesota’s constitutional crisis yesterday:
Just kidding. He’s doing exactly what the DFL in the House are doing.
What’s the term?
Oh, yeah – election denialism:
MN House livestream:
What do you suppose the odd are – a bunch of people chanting in the hallway.
UPDATE 12:30PM: Simon adjourned the house – and the separation of powers between the Executive and Legislative branches.
12: 31 PM. The House just ruled the Secretary of State out of order, and is re-convening.
Today, for the first time in history, I can say “I’m looking forward to watching the first day of the new Legislative session”. As in, watching the livestream to see the fireworks or even better lack of them as the DFL takes their toys and flees.
Since Melissa Hortmans stunts…
…appear to be landing like the concept of “Vice President Walz”, and she doesn’t dare back down now, I have to figure she’s gotta find some way to double down and to avoid losing face.
And I have a hunch “losing face” is the most charitable interpretation; I have a hunch the DFL’s panic has more to do with “GOP control of committees and the power to hold public hearings when they start investigating DFL fraud” than quora.
Anyway – I’ll be tuning in.
A bit of trivia, here.
In 2003, when the Legislature passed “Shall Issue” reform, the law required the state to honor carry permits in all state and municipal government buildings.
But there was one big exception.
The Minnesota Judicial Branch chimed in and said, in effect, that the Legislature couldn’t tell the Judicial Branch how to run its facilities. It was part of the separation of powers in state, as well as federal, government.
And so being caught with a permitted firearm in a building with a courtroom or Judicial Branch facility, no matter how deviously concealed, can still get you rung up for a felony in Minnesota.
Because Judicial Branch.
One of the predicates for the state’s current constitutional crisis is the contested election in House District 54A between Republican Aaron Paul and DFL incumbent Brad Tabke. Tabke won the initial round of voting by a 14 vote margin – but 20 ballots were “inadvertently” destroyed, and 30 more were duplicates, and you know f****ng well who those “mistakes” benefitted.
Now, Tabke was one of the DFL legislators “sworn in” at the covert “ceremony” at the History Center over the weekend. Which is getting a bit ahead of Judge Perzel.
And Aaron Paul knows it:
This is certainly a challenge to the authority of the Judicial Branch.
Here’s hoping Judge Perzell knows it as well as the rest of us do.
Retired judge.
Illegal “swearing in” (according to statute)
At the MN History Center – after hours. So somehow they got into a closed building to have an extralegal ceremony with an inactive judge, former SCOM DFL steno Kevin Burke.
And not a single DFLer has had the integrity to publicly go “uhhhh, let’s think about this, here…”
Half this state is governed by spoiled junior high kids with delusions of tyranny.
WCCO-TV “political reporter” Caroline Cummings appears to be setting up to replace Esme Murphy one day.
Her reporting on the constitutional crisis brewing tomorrow might be a little more curious than your typical Esme Murphy tongue-bath for Democrats.
But not by much.
Of course, Steve Simon’s opinion is about as useful as being able to tie a cherry stem with h is tongue – Minnesota statute is modestly clear about what the actual quorum is.
When your Democrat friends ask what the GOP thinks their legal leg to stand on is, send them this:
Or, in the words of Minnesota’s last good SOS:
And the constitutions of both Minnesota and the United States are pretty clear about the notion of separation of powers. The executive branch doesn’t control the legislative branch.
And I have a hunch the DFL knows it.
So – why is the DFL working so hard to trash the separation of powers?
I’ll drop a theory tomorrow morning.
The GOP is showing up.
Le’ts see if the DFL can read the room.
UPDATE: So, I started writing this piece on Saturday.
On Sunday, the DFL answered my final question:
No, they can not.
The party that two months ago claimed “January 6” – a riot by a bunch of unelected civilians – was a threat to democracy. Today, it’s an actual party, trying to act in its official capacity.
For my money, that’s a lot worse.