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The Upper Midwest used to be associated in the public mind with a slightly boring level of competence and functionality. For example, from the opening page of A Confederacy of Dunces:
Was it possible to repair the machine in New Orleans? Probably so. However, it might have to be sent to some place like Milwaukee or Chicago or some other city whose name Ignatius associated with efficient repair shops and permanently smoking factories.
Perhaps the most low profile state of all was smoothly functioning Minnesota. But, lately, Minnesota has gone all out to edge ahead of Wisconsin as an iSteve Content Generator. Just this week, to commemorate the third anniversary of the death of George Floyd, they’ve taken bold new steps into Intended and Unintended Consequences:
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Meanwhile, in Chicago, chaotic mobs of fatherless primitives exercise their “Negro Privilege” during their informally declared festival of mayhem, originally intended to be a children’s carnival:
https://twitter.com/NYCASPERFLA/status/1660573750402613250?s=20
“I was told not to tweet this until houses adjourned…for fear of jinxing it….”
Can’t have an informed public opinion influencing our elected unrepresentatives can we?
I think I got AIDS reading that guy’s Twitter thread.
They don’t get too many tornados and no hurricanes up there, but this is the Perfect Story of political stupidity in Minnesota, if I may use that annoying term.
Because for more than a century, they’d dealt with their own kind, the hardworking, ethical, staid, descendants of Germans and Scandinavians, etc, these people figured everyone else was hardworking, fair and nice too.
The voters were so nice that they supported generous welfare benefits that ended up nicely being used by Black! welfare kings and queens from further south who were hopefully going to be very nice too, of course. You betcha’!
The Minnesota Church ladies were so nice that they brought in 10’s of thousands of hopefully nice Black! people from highly-foreign lands. If everyone were nice to them, they would learn to be good nice Minnesotans too, don’tcha’ know.
Now, the land of Mary Tyler Moore is turning to shit so fast that being nice is going to get your ass killed. The remnants of the nice guys and girls are going to finish last. You betcha!
"Staid" defined as "Characterized by sedateness and often a strait-laced sense of propriety" is the key word here. They will not admit what the problem actually IS as long as the mass media keeps telling them that admitting the evidence of their own eyes and experience is "simply not done, don'tcha know?"
Something tells me the Coen Bros. will not be making an edgy film about this new Minnesota.
Steve
Off topic:
Jason Hayden who murder a 75 year White Vet in a nursing home…walks free today….Open season on Whites…coming up this summer…black yoot recreational activity….
I observed something recently that I’m sure Steve could explain.
I was recently in the emergency room with my elderly mother who was having chest pains. I noticed that the other 10 families in the emergency waiting room were mostly black (in a 90% white rural community).
Two days later I was back at the hospital with my mom for a scheduled cath procedure during working hours and not a black to be seen in the crowded waiting rooms. Just a bunch of old white people making a bunch of foreign born doctors rich.
So you were probably at the only public, nonprofit-qualified hospital in a substantial radius, which had an open emergency room and which the guests whom you noticed used as a free clinic, likely for non-acute conditions. What happens in urban areas is that the public hospitals get inundated with demand at the emergency room level and charity care (which is to say forgiving the costs of care rendered to uninsured, negative net worth patients) combining to create a vicious cycle. Eventually there aren't enough paying patients (Medicare/Medicaid, mostly) to bill creatively to makeup budgetary short falls. The hospital collapses under the weight of its own patients - then there is no public hospital in the urban core, and the former patients move on to the next public hospital to meet their needs.
Because for more than a century, they'd dealt with their own kind, the hardworking, ethical, staid, descendants of Germans and Scandinavians, etc, these people figured everyone else was hardworking, fair and nice too.
The voters were so nice that they supported generous welfare benefits that ended up nicely being used by Black! welfare kings and queens from further south who were hopefully going to be very nice too, of course. You betcha'!
The Minnesota Church ladies were so nice that they brought in 10's of thousands of hopefully nice Black! people from highly-foreign lands. If everyone were nice to them, they would learn to be good nice Minnesotans too, don'tcha' know.
Now, the land of Mary Tyler Moore is turning to shit so fast that being nice is going to get your ass killed. The remnants of the nice guys and girls are going to finish last. You betcha!Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @From Beer to Paternity, @Inquiring Mind, @Diversity Heretic, @Joseph Doaks
Even the worst of those beat what came up out of Chicago. The imported blacks stuck out in Rochester, Owatonna, and St Cloud. The native-US blacks gave them some cover in the Cities.
This one looks like an evil space alien to me.
https://twitter.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/1659687831495688196Replies: @silviosilver, @duncsbaby
It was not to be so easily charmed,
That we sent you to school, to be harmed.
— Frank O’Hara
Here’s a video about black crime in Minneapolis in the early eighties. Seems the blacks had a penchant for murdering white women. Two black male on white women homicides are mentioned in just this one news report.
I read that Stancil thread with astonishment. MN’s really going all-in, aren’t they?
Does anyone know if their voter system (like ours in Oregon) is 100% fixed, or are most Minnesotans actually stupid enough to fall for this stuff?
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Minnesotans for Fair and Equitable Sentencing
The Felony Murder Law Reform (#FMLR) seeks to change the outdated and deeply unfair felony murder rule, which had allowed people who did not kill to nonetheless be charged, convicted, and sentenced as murderers. The current felony murder laws allow prosecutors to charge all accomplices to a crime with first degree murder. It does not matter if there was no intention to kill, if the death was accidental, or if the accomplice had no knowledge that someone else would kill. Everyone is just as responsible, as if they had planned and committed the murder themselves. In practice, this means that even if one was unaware that a killing would or did take place, they could still face a murder charge and receive a sentence equally or in some cases more severe than the actual perpetrator. This doctrine has been abolished for decades in all other common law countries, but many states still have these laws in place, including Minnesota.
https://fmlr.org/
That's what I would want if the teller were a member of my family.
Clearly, Mr. Sailer is being selective in his outrage. Let us do some NOTICING.
They created a huge new statewide paid family and medical leave program, raising the number of workers receiving paid leave from 25% to 100%.
They made school lunches free for all students, leading to Governor Tim Walz being adorably mobbed by elementary schoolers.
They created new protections for Uber and Lyft drivers, leading to State Senator Omar Fateh being adorably mobbed by Uber and Lyft drivers.
They funded the replacement of all lead pipes in the state.
They banned noncompete agreements and created statewide paid sick leave.
They made public college free for the majority of Minnesota families—those under 80k.
Dems raised Minnesota education spending by 10%, or about 2.3 billion.
Minnesota Dems created an energy standard for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040.
Minnesota already has some of the strongest election infrastructure (and highest voter participation) in the country, but the legislature just made it stronger, with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots.
Minnesota Dems gave the state AG the power to block the huge healthcare mergers that have slowly gobbled up the state’s medical system.
As usual, the question is can you get to Denmark without a very high fraction of Danes?Replies: @LP5, @ColleenMac
Maybe Steve will follow up with another post on how Minnesota is also accelerating the rush to bankruptcy with their disconnected from reality fantasy legislation. Apparently the members of the Minnesota legislators are predominantly five year olds. Everybody gets a pony, and Mommy can just go to the ATM and get all the money she needs.Replies: @JR Ewing
https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1661018551225032707For those who want to see all of the great ideas these people came up with as well as footage of the cringey photo-ops with the kiddies, here's the Twitter feed you plagiarized all that from. Are you Mr. Stancil?Replies: @Patrick in SC
Some rather Orwellian language in this one.Replies: @James J. O'Meara, @ic1000, @Skyler the Weird, @Corvinus
They won’t raise the standards for either, for much the same reason: “disparate impact.” Raising the standards for teachers would result in fewer black teachers. Raising the standards for students to graduate would help those students who need a little extra incentive to do better, but by far the hardest hit (in terms of graduation rate) would be black students. The dumbing down of graduation standards is the reason a high school diploma means absolutely nothing anymore.
So all Minnesota Democrats have done is waste $2.3 billion of taxpayer money. The money spent on free college will largely be a waste, as well.Replies: @Corvinus, @Colleenmac
Wall Street and foreign-connected corporations provide overpackaged, OVERPRICED, garbage “food” to kids.
Tiny amounts of trash, such as sugary,cheap, corn slop “cereal,” in large plastic containers.
Most other industries would get charged with fraud for those practices alone.
But then the taxpayer is overcharged and gouged by the wealthy, and a large percentage of the “food” goes in the trash.
The kids aren’t stupid.
They know it is worse than animal feed.
All the “Marxists” who support these programs simply help the corrupt rich get richer.
No one benefits.
Which is what Marxism is.Replies: @Corvinus
JLWOP abolition = Juvenile Life Without Parole
Clemency reform seems to mean they created a 9 person board to review and recommend pardons.
Changes to Board of Pardons would bring more efficiency and more mercy, bill sponsor says
https://www.house.mn.gov/sessiondaily/Story/17196
None of the stuff I looked up seems crazy.
They created a huge new statewide paid family and medical leave program, raising the number of workers receiving paid leave from 25% to 100%.
They made school lunches free for all students, leading to Governor Tim Walz being adorably mobbed by elementary schoolers.
They created new protections for Uber and Lyft drivers, leading to State Senator Omar Fateh being adorably mobbed by Uber and Lyft drivers.
They funded the replacement of all lead pipes in the state.
They banned noncompete agreements and created statewide paid sick leave.
They made public college free for the majority of Minnesota families—those under 80k.
Dems raised Minnesota education spending by 10%, or about 2.3 billion.
Minnesota Dems created an energy standard for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040.
Minnesota already has some of the strongest election infrastructure (and highest voter participation) in the country, but the legislature just made it stronger, with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots.
Minnesota Dems gave the state AG the power to block the huge healthcare mergers that have slowly gobbled up the state's medical system.Replies: @Gabe Ruth, @Alfa158, @John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan, @Johnnie Skywalker, @Yancey Ward, @Patrick in SC, @Redneck Farmer, @HammerJack, @res, @tyrone, @Wilkey, @ColleenMac
Thanks brother, some good things there, some howlers too though.
As usual, the question is can you get to Denmark without a very high fraction of Danes?
Feature, not bug.
Which was exactly the intent of those who want to destroy the working poor and middle class.
A third world jungle is easier for totalitarian oligarchs to ransack and loot.
And
New Minnesota license plate slogan:
“The State Where the White Race Commits Suicide”
Sad.
One of my great grandfathers was a conservative, hardworking, frugal and staid German Wisconsin dairy farmer in the early part of the 20th century. My mother told me once I reminded her of him. That means I’m really out of place a hundred years later in 2023. I’m a Coolidge Republican with no Coolidge to vote for. Most of the midwestern states, including my state of Indiana, have slowly been drifting to the left. A lot of this is due to demographic changes. Indianapolis went from 1% Hispanic to over 10% Hispanic in just twenty years. Around 22% of students in the Indianapolis Public Schools now need to be taught English after entering school. If you add blacks, Hispanics, government workers and rich white liberals all up together it now gives the Democrats enough voters to have permanent control of the largest city in the state.
Americans know something is wrong. A recent Pew poll found 58% of Americans think life in America was better 5o years ago than today versus only 23% who believe the opposite. This is in spite of almost monolithic control of the mass media by a left that wants to portray Biden America as a wonderful place. Federal tax revenues dropped by 26% in April 2023 compared to April a year ago. The country is now entering a serious recession which the mainstream media is barely reporting on at all.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/24/americans-take-a-dim-view-of-the-nations-future-look-more-positively-at-the-past/
More there, but the part which struck me was the party split for that question.
https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sr_2023.04.24_america_4.png
This 2017 poll asks a similar question worldwide and looks at the results by country broken out in various ways. This allows comparing Dec 2017 with Jul 2021 and Apr 2023 from above. So early Trump, early Biden, and mid-Biden. Better 50 years ago went from 37% to 36% to 23%
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2017/12/05/worldwide-people-divided-on-whether-life-today-is-better-than-in-the-past/
US only version from March 2016 (with presidential candidate splits) was 34%.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/03/31/campaign-exposes-fissures-over-issues-values-and-how-life-has-changed-in-the-u-s/
This Dec 2009 poll did not ask that question, but has an interesting breakdown of views of each decade from 1960s to 2000s.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2009/12/21/current-decade-rates-as-worst-in-50-years/
They know this without even knowing why: 1970 - Non-hispanic Whites 83% of the population vs 2020 - Non-hispanic Whites 57% of the population.
Any bets that Trump would actually deport Biden's millions of illegals? Remember, he promised to deport Obama's "dreamers" during his first term "on the first day." We're still waiting...
We're screwed.
They created a huge new statewide paid family and medical leave program, raising the number of workers receiving paid leave from 25% to 100%.
They made school lunches free for all students, leading to Governor Tim Walz being adorably mobbed by elementary schoolers.
They created new protections for Uber and Lyft drivers, leading to State Senator Omar Fateh being adorably mobbed by Uber and Lyft drivers.
They funded the replacement of all lead pipes in the state.
They banned noncompete agreements and created statewide paid sick leave.
They made public college free for the majority of Minnesota families—those under 80k.
Dems raised Minnesota education spending by 10%, or about 2.3 billion.
Minnesota Dems created an energy standard for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040.
Minnesota already has some of the strongest election infrastructure (and highest voter participation) in the country, but the legislature just made it stronger, with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots.
Minnesota Dems gave the state AG the power to block the huge healthcare mergers that have slowly gobbled up the state's medical system.Replies: @Gabe Ruth, @Alfa158, @John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan, @Johnnie Skywalker, @Yancey Ward, @Patrick in SC, @Redneck Farmer, @HammerJack, @res, @tyrone, @Wilkey, @ColleenMac
Good points.
Maybe Steve will follow up with another post on how Minnesota is also accelerating the rush to bankruptcy with their disconnected from reality fantasy legislation. Apparently the members of the Minnesota legislators are predominantly five year olds. Everybody gets a pony, and Mommy can just go to the ATM and get all the money she needs.
Yay democracy!
Because for more than a century, they'd dealt with their own kind, the hardworking, ethical, staid, descendants of Germans and Scandinavians, etc, these people figured everyone else was hardworking, fair and nice too.
The voters were so nice that they supported generous welfare benefits that ended up nicely being used by Black! welfare kings and queens from further south who were hopefully going to be very nice too, of course. You betcha'!
The Minnesota Church ladies were so nice that they brought in 10's of thousands of hopefully nice Black! people from highly-foreign lands. If everyone were nice to them, they would learn to be good nice Minnesotans too, don'tcha' know.
Now, the land of Mary Tyler Moore is turning to shit so fast that being nice is going to get your ass killed. The remnants of the nice guys and girls are going to finish last. You betcha!Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @From Beer to Paternity, @Inquiring Mind, @Diversity Heretic, @Joseph Doaks
Now, the land of Mary Tyler Moore is turning to shit so fast that being nice is going to get your ass killed. The remnants of the nice guys and girls are going to finish last. You betcha!
I’d like to return to the church of my forebears. But they’ve gone quite mad.
Evangelical Churches are fully cucked on race issues but not usually on sex roles and the newest forms of stupidity.Replies: @silviosilver
They created a huge new statewide paid family and medical leave program, raising the number of workers receiving paid leave from 25% to 100%.
They made school lunches free for all students, leading to Governor Tim Walz being adorably mobbed by elementary schoolers.
They created new protections for Uber and Lyft drivers, leading to State Senator Omar Fateh being adorably mobbed by Uber and Lyft drivers.
They funded the replacement of all lead pipes in the state.
They banned noncompete agreements and created statewide paid sick leave.
They made public college free for the majority of Minnesota families—those under 80k.
Dems raised Minnesota education spending by 10%, or about 2.3 billion.
Minnesota Dems created an energy standard for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040.
Minnesota already has some of the strongest election infrastructure (and highest voter participation) in the country, but the legislature just made it stronger, with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots.
Minnesota Dems gave the state AG the power to block the huge healthcare mergers that have slowly gobbled up the state's medical system.Replies: @Gabe Ruth, @Alfa158, @John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan, @Johnnie Skywalker, @Yancey Ward, @Patrick in SC, @Redneck Farmer, @HammerJack, @res, @tyrone, @Wilkey, @ColleenMac
Unless this is a troll, where do they find lightbulbs as dull as you?
And, yes, Minnesota’s “voter participation” measures, historically, are stupid and extremely vulnerable to fraud.
https://www.americanexperiment.org/magazine/article/steve-stonewalling-simon
They created a huge new statewide paid family and medical leave program, raising the number of workers receiving paid leave from 25% to 100%.
They made school lunches free for all students, leading to Governor Tim Walz being adorably mobbed by elementary schoolers.
They created new protections for Uber and Lyft drivers, leading to State Senator Omar Fateh being adorably mobbed by Uber and Lyft drivers.
They funded the replacement of all lead pipes in the state.
They banned noncompete agreements and created statewide paid sick leave.
They made public college free for the majority of Minnesota families—those under 80k.
Dems raised Minnesota education spending by 10%, or about 2.3 billion.
Minnesota Dems created an energy standard for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040.
Minnesota already has some of the strongest election infrastructure (and highest voter participation) in the country, but the legislature just made it stronger, with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots.
Minnesota Dems gave the state AG the power to block the huge healthcare mergers that have slowly gobbled up the state's medical system.Replies: @Gabe Ruth, @Alfa158, @John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan, @Johnnie Skywalker, @Yancey Ward, @Patrick in SC, @Redneck Farmer, @HammerJack, @res, @tyrone, @Wilkey, @ColleenMac
Given that Minnesota will never ever vote for a meany Republican their voters should be shunned and forced to return when they flee from their paradise.
Because for more than a century, they'd dealt with their own kind, the hardworking, ethical, staid, descendants of Germans and Scandinavians, etc, these people figured everyone else was hardworking, fair and nice too.
The voters were so nice that they supported generous welfare benefits that ended up nicely being used by Black! welfare kings and queens from further south who were hopefully going to be very nice too, of course. You betcha'!
The Minnesota Church ladies were so nice that they brought in 10's of thousands of hopefully nice Black! people from highly-foreign lands. If everyone were nice to them, they would learn to be good nice Minnesotans too, don'tcha' know.
Now, the land of Mary Tyler Moore is turning to shit so fast that being nice is going to get your ass killed. The remnants of the nice guys and girls are going to finish last. You betcha!Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @From Beer to Paternity, @Inquiring Mind, @Diversity Heretic, @Joseph Doaks
There is an article on Watts Up With That about the theft of expensive heat pumps in Germany and home owners not being covered for this by their insurance.
The angle worked on that Web site challenging the orthodoxy on Climate Change is that the Germans have gotten too Green spending their money on pricey heat pumps. That and the Ukraine War cutting off their access to Russian natural gas.
Could one suppose that Watts Up With That is missing the immigration angle? The people who post and those who comment over there are narrowly focused on whether Climate Change is a scam and that the gadgets invented to fight Climate Change are a bigger scam.
In a country populated by Germans (Germany!) one could assume that stealing someone’s outdoor unit of their heat pump doesn’t cross anyone’s mind (a heat pump works like an airconditioner in reverse, so yes, it has an outdoor unit containing coils, a fan and motor and a compressor)? So heat pumps are a rational response to being cut off from inexpensive natural gas and being Green at the same time?
So heat pumps are a rational choice in a Germany populated by actual Germans. In a Germany that admitted masses of “Syrian” immigrants, not so much?
The Germans foolishly shuttered their nukes and have been building coal burning power plants to the keep their lights on and to keep their homes warm in winter. their us not enough wind and solar energy available, no wondef Germans pay more for electricity than any place else and triple the rates we have in the US.Replies: @Inquiring Mind, @Bardon Kaldian
Fargo 2: “Now look here! I don’t like being called a liar! I don’t mean to raise my voice, but it was a gang of…youths…that stole that there Hyundai.”
And to think that KTMA gave us Mystery Science Theater 3000, the ultimate Minnesota Nice TV comedy
Delaware is always the most low profile state. most people forget it even exists. if it wasn’t for the incorporating in Delaware thing (which must be some kind of deliberate ploy the state did to attract ANY attention or business at all), EVERYBODY would forget it exists.
99% of people have zero contact or even peripheral experience with incorporating a business so it’s only the 1% of above average people who know or even think about that kind of stuff who ever even say the word “Delaware” in their head, let alone say it out loud.
not sure i’ve ever seen a Delaware plate and i’ve lived in PA on and off for 25 years. i’m sure you would see them in Philadelphia, but that’s a place i avoid. for reference, i’ve seen 2 Rhode Island plates, 4 Hawaii plates on the mainland and 8 Alaska plates in the lower 48. seen enough Wyoming plates i lost count. most rare plate that’s sort of in circulation? maybe Mississippi. unless you live south of North Carolina, you probably aren’t seeing that one even if you drove across the country a dozen times. i’m not counting Cherokee Nation plates and stuff like that.
I've seen Mississippi tags occasionally, more frequently the Carolinas, but even Alaska, and an occasional California. As for Delaware, almost never on the Western Shore, but frequently when I go to the Eastern Shore. I guess you're not a beach goer!Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home)
Not to discount the “migrant” hilarity here in NY, it actually looks like Steve’s own California is generating even more content than usual
https://babylonbee.com/news/dodgers-summon-satan-to-throw-out-first-pitch-at-pride-night
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/university-california-moves-toward-hiring-illegal-immigrants-violation-federal-law
They created a huge new statewide paid family and medical leave program, raising the number of workers receiving paid leave from 25% to 100%.
They made school lunches free for all students, leading to Governor Tim Walz being adorably mobbed by elementary schoolers.
They created new protections for Uber and Lyft drivers, leading to State Senator Omar Fateh being adorably mobbed by Uber and Lyft drivers.
They funded the replacement of all lead pipes in the state.
They banned noncompete agreements and created statewide paid sick leave.
They made public college free for the majority of Minnesota families—those under 80k.
Dems raised Minnesota education spending by 10%, or about 2.3 billion.
Minnesota Dems created an energy standard for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040.
Minnesota already has some of the strongest election infrastructure (and highest voter participation) in the country, but the legislature just made it stronger, with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots.
Minnesota Dems gave the state AG the power to block the huge healthcare mergers that have slowly gobbled up the state's medical system.Replies: @Gabe Ruth, @Alfa158, @John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan, @Johnnie Skywalker, @Yancey Ward, @Patrick in SC, @Redneck Farmer, @HammerJack, @res, @tyrone, @Wilkey, @ColleenMac
I agree- Minnesotans about to get what they voted for good and hard.
They created a huge new statewide paid family and medical leave program, raising the number of workers receiving paid leave from 25% to 100%.
They made school lunches free for all students, leading to Governor Tim Walz being adorably mobbed by elementary schoolers.
They created new protections for Uber and Lyft drivers, leading to State Senator Omar Fateh being adorably mobbed by Uber and Lyft drivers.
They funded the replacement of all lead pipes in the state.
They banned noncompete agreements and created statewide paid sick leave.
They made public college free for the majority of Minnesota families—those under 80k.
Dems raised Minnesota education spending by 10%, or about 2.3 billion.
Minnesota Dems created an energy standard for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040.
Minnesota already has some of the strongest election infrastructure (and highest voter participation) in the country, but the legislature just made it stronger, with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots.
Minnesota Dems gave the state AG the power to block the huge healthcare mergers that have slowly gobbled up the state's medical system.Replies: @Gabe Ruth, @Alfa158, @John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan, @Johnnie Skywalker, @Yancey Ward, @Patrick in SC, @Redneck Farmer, @HammerJack, @res, @tyrone, @Wilkey, @ColleenMac
They made school lunches free for all students, leading to Governor Tim Walz being adorably mobbed by elementary schoolers.
For those who want to see all of the great ideas these people came up with as well as footage of the cringey photo-ops with the kiddies, here’s the Twitter feed you plagiarized all that from.
Are you Mr. Stancil?
https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1661018551225032707For those who want to see all of the great ideas these people came up with as well as footage of the cringey photo-ops with the kiddies, here's the Twitter feed you plagiarized all that from. Are you Mr. Stancil?Replies: @Patrick in SC
They also passed this:
Child mutilations, er “trans care”.
These must be the first "far-right governments " where people are flooding into; both illegal immigrant and fed-up White folks.
They must be doing something right!
Note: Democrats/liberals think people are moving into FL and TX, despite being "far right" and also think "the best and brightest are fleeing Putin's Nazi government". As always, Who/Whom trumps logic.
Maybe Steve will follow up with another post on how Minnesota is also accelerating the rush to bankruptcy with their disconnected from reality fantasy legislation. Apparently the members of the Minnesota legislators are predominantly five year olds. Everybody gets a pony, and Mommy can just go to the ATM and get all the money she needs.Replies: @JR Ewing
You forgot the part about why the only reason none of this had not been done before was because those former legislators were MEAN! And racist!
Yay democracy!
You do have a lotta love for Somalis.
This one looks like an evil space alien to me.
They created a huge new statewide paid family and medical leave program, raising the number of workers receiving paid leave from 25% to 100%.
They made school lunches free for all students, leading to Governor Tim Walz being adorably mobbed by elementary schoolers.
They created new protections for Uber and Lyft drivers, leading to State Senator Omar Fateh being adorably mobbed by Uber and Lyft drivers.
They funded the replacement of all lead pipes in the state.
They banned noncompete agreements and created statewide paid sick leave.
They made public college free for the majority of Minnesota families—those under 80k.
Dems raised Minnesota education spending by 10%, or about 2.3 billion.
Minnesota Dems created an energy standard for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040.
Minnesota already has some of the strongest election infrastructure (and highest voter participation) in the country, but the legislature just made it stronger, with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots.
Minnesota Dems gave the state AG the power to block the huge healthcare mergers that have slowly gobbled up the state's medical system.Replies: @Gabe Ruth, @Alfa158, @John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan, @Johnnie Skywalker, @Yancey Ward, @Patrick in SC, @Redneck Farmer, @HammerJack, @res, @tyrone, @Wilkey, @ColleenMac
Will the supporters of carbon-free energy be the first to lose their electricity when the grid doesn’t have enough juice?
White Minnesotans are basically white Canadians. They’re extremely worried about what the country – and, by country, I mean the Cloud people – think about them.
As a result, they will literally destroy themselves to follow the new religion.
White Canadians and Minnesotans make the Eloi look like thugs. They deserve everything that’s coming to them. They can’t be overrun soon enough.
They deserve no sympathy.
It’s time to leave Minnesota.
In a related story, Sweden now leads Europe in gun homicides.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-peaceful-sweden-became-europes-gun-murder-capital-a5b500a7
How ever do these things happen?
They created a huge new statewide paid family and medical leave program, raising the number of workers receiving paid leave from 25% to 100%.
They made school lunches free for all students, leading to Governor Tim Walz being adorably mobbed by elementary schoolers.
They created new protections for Uber and Lyft drivers, leading to State Senator Omar Fateh being adorably mobbed by Uber and Lyft drivers.
They funded the replacement of all lead pipes in the state.
They banned noncompete agreements and created statewide paid sick leave.
They made public college free for the majority of Minnesota families—those under 80k.
Dems raised Minnesota education spending by 10%, or about 2.3 billion.
Minnesota Dems created an energy standard for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040.
Minnesota already has some of the strongest election infrastructure (and highest voter participation) in the country, but the legislature just made it stronger, with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots.
Minnesota Dems gave the state AG the power to block the huge healthcare mergers that have slowly gobbled up the state's medical system.Replies: @Gabe Ruth, @Alfa158, @John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan, @Johnnie Skywalker, @Yancey Ward, @Patrick in SC, @Redneck Farmer, @HammerJack, @res, @tyrone, @Wilkey, @ColleenMac
In the interest of mental hygiene, I don’t usually read Corvy posts much less respond to them. But this looks like so much fun!
100% of workers on paid leave. Sounds like a plan, Minnesota! Since you said workers rather than employees this must extend to the private sector.
Perv! But sure, free lunches for the richest students in the state. Now that’s progressive!
Wtf are you talking about?
Even the ones in the game of Clue? Can’t be too careful you know.
Didn’t we cover this already? Got it, everyone’s on leave. We approve.
Including illegal aliens, but not citizens from Iowa or Wisconsin. I mean yecch, right?
Dems raised spending? Seriously?
Why not make electricity itself free, instead of just carbon-free? What are you, Republicans?
Preregistration for minors?? And how on earth could access to ballots be made easier? Are they going to staple them to people’s foreheads? People of Color, I mean.
None will help children in any way.
The kids are just conduits for more stolen cash.
I just knew a lot of them. Do you?
A lot of them go crazy because they are out of their element. However, this guy has a Rwandan surname, and would look right at home on one of Paul Kersey’s mugshot posts.
Invading and desecrating Roman Catholic churches is in fact an old American tradition. (This guy is assimilating!) These two in Louisville were attacked in 1855, when they were still new:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre
This one looks like an evil space alien to me.
https://twitter.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/1659687831495688196Replies: @silviosilver, @duncsbaby
Looks like a negroid version of Kurtwood Smith (the Clarence Boddicker character in Robocop).
A lot of them go crazy because they are out of their element. However, this guy has a Rwandan surname, and would look right at home on one of Paul Kersey's mugshot posts.
Invading and desecrating Roman Catholic churches is in fact an old American tradition. (This guy is assimilating!) These two in Louisville were attacked in 1855, when they were still new:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Cathedral_Assumption_Louisville.jpg/500px-Cathedral_Assumption_Louisville.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/St._Martin_of_Tours_Catholic_Church%2C_Louisville%2C_Kentucky.jpg/440px-St._Martin_of_Tours_Catholic_Church%2C_Louisville%2C_Kentucky.jpgReplies: @silviosilver, @Ghost of Bull Moose, @The Germ Theory of Disease
What kind of a cuck question is that? Why would anyone want to or need to know any in order to consider them completely undesirable candidates for sharing one’s living space?
A lot of them go crazy because they are out of their element. However, this guy has a Rwandan surname, and would look right at home on one of Paul Kersey's mugshot posts.
Invading and desecrating Roman Catholic churches is in fact an old American tradition. (This guy is assimilating!) These two in Louisville were attacked in 1855, when they were still new:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Cathedral_Assumption_Louisville.jpg/500px-Cathedral_Assumption_Louisville.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/St._Martin_of_Tours_Catholic_Church%2C_Louisville%2C_Kentucky.jpg/440px-St._Martin_of_Tours_Catholic_Church%2C_Louisville%2C_Kentucky.jpgReplies: @silviosilver, @Ghost of Bull Moose, @The Germ Theory of Disease
I don’t know about that, but it’s an even older Muslim tradition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre
A lot of them go crazy because they are out of their element. However, this guy has a Rwandan surname, and would look right at home on one of Paul Kersey's mugshot posts.
Invading and desecrating Roman Catholic churches is in fact an old American tradition. (This guy is assimilating!) These two in Louisville were attacked in 1855, when they were still new:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Cathedral_Assumption_Louisville.jpg/500px-Cathedral_Assumption_Louisville.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/St._Martin_of_Tours_Catholic_Church%2C_Louisville%2C_Kentucky.jpg/440px-St._Martin_of_Tours_Catholic_Church%2C_Louisville%2C_Kentucky.jpgReplies: @silviosilver, @Ghost of Bull Moose, @The Germ Theory of Disease
https://allpoetry.com/The-Steeple-Jack
They created a huge new statewide paid family and medical leave program, raising the number of workers receiving paid leave from 25% to 100%.
They made school lunches free for all students, leading to Governor Tim Walz being adorably mobbed by elementary schoolers.
They created new protections for Uber and Lyft drivers, leading to State Senator Omar Fateh being adorably mobbed by Uber and Lyft drivers.
They funded the replacement of all lead pipes in the state.
They banned noncompete agreements and created statewide paid sick leave.
They made public college free for the majority of Minnesota families—those under 80k.
Dems raised Minnesota education spending by 10%, or about 2.3 billion.
Minnesota Dems created an energy standard for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040.
Minnesota already has some of the strongest election infrastructure (and highest voter participation) in the country, but the legislature just made it stronger, with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots.
Minnesota Dems gave the state AG the power to block the huge healthcare mergers that have slowly gobbled up the state's medical system.Replies: @Gabe Ruth, @Alfa158, @John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan, @Johnnie Skywalker, @Yancey Ward, @Patrick in SC, @Redneck Farmer, @HammerJack, @res, @tyrone, @Wilkey, @ColleenMac
And we shall see how all of that works out. For example, see Alfa158’s comment.
Some rather Orwellian language in this one.
Does "strong election infrastructure" have any kind of approachable limit, or is it like "diversity" or "equality" where it's never enough, so that the lib/pols can boast about extending it ever more, each election cycle?
I recall a Penguin book on logic that said some concepts were scalar, and other not. You could be tall, but someone else could be taller; by contrast, if a line is straight, it can't be "straighter", it's either straight or not; it makes no sense to say another line is "straighter" than it. Apparently libs think "diverse" and "equal" are like "tall" not like "straight".
Americans know something is wrong. A recent Pew poll found 58% of Americans think life in America was better 5o years ago than today versus only 23% who believe the opposite. This is in spite of almost monolithic control of the mass media by a left that wants to portray Biden America as a wonderful place. Federal tax revenues dropped by 26% in April 2023 compared to April a year ago. The country is now entering a serious recession which the mainstream media is barely reporting on at all.Replies: @res, @James J. O'Meara, @Joseph Doaks
Thanks. That Pew poll is here.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/24/americans-take-a-dim-view-of-the-nations-future-look-more-positively-at-the-past/
More there, but the part which struck me was the party split for that question.
This 2017 poll asks a similar question worldwide and looks at the results by country broken out in various ways. This allows comparing Dec 2017 with Jul 2021 and Apr 2023 from above. So early Trump, early Biden, and mid-Biden. Better 50 years ago went from 37% to 36% to 23%
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2017/12/05/worldwide-people-divided-on-whether-life-today-is-better-than-in-the-past/
US only version from March 2016 (with presidential candidate splits) was 34%.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/03/31/campaign-exposes-fissures-over-issues-values-and-how-life-has-changed-in-the-u-s/
This Dec 2009 poll did not ask that question, but has an interesting breakdown of views of each decade from 1960s to 2000s.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2009/12/21/current-decade-rates-as-worst-in-50-years/
This one looks like an evil space alien to me.
https://twitter.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/1659687831495688196Replies: @silviosilver, @duncsbaby
“You do have a lotta love for Somalis.”
Reg’s point is that any mayhem caused by Somalis right now pales in comparison to the mayhem caused by ADOS blacks. The future doesn’t look bright though as those Somalis and their very numerous African compadres’ descendants become Americanized.
The twin cities had a problem with black crime in the 80’s and 90’s before there were any Somalis imported after Clinton’s foreign policy fiasco.
Heat Pumps are not logical in Germany. They cost $12,000 to install yet fail to work when temperatures fall below 30 degrees…..forcing home owners to use electricity to heat their homes when it gets cold.
The Germans foolishly shuttered their nukes and have been building coal burning power plants to the keep their lights on and to keep their homes warm in winter. their us not enough wind and solar energy available, no wondef Germans pay more for electricity than any place else and triple the rates we have in the US.
“Voting rights for prisoners”.
The EU tried to impose that particular piece of insanity on the UK a few years ago – as if persons incarcerated have any ability whatsoever to participate in ordinary life, let alone civic life.
Anyhow, the topic came up in conversation with a friend. His immortal – and highly accurate – response was ‘All they will do will be to draw dicks on the ballot paper”.
The problem with democracy is that not enough chads hang.
https://images7.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED811/5e9f1ce350a28.jpeg
A mind virus epidemic is sweeping the country. As others here have said, we can’t vote our way out of this. Ideally we could get ceded an autonomous territory or country. You’d think the progs would be glad to get rid of us.
Because for more than a century, they'd dealt with their own kind, the hardworking, ethical, staid, descendants of Germans and Scandinavians, etc, these people figured everyone else was hardworking, fair and nice too.
The voters were so nice that they supported generous welfare benefits that ended up nicely being used by Black! welfare kings and queens from further south who were hopefully going to be very nice too, of course. You betcha'!
The Minnesota Church ladies were so nice that they brought in 10's of thousands of hopefully nice Black! people from highly-foreign lands. If everyone were nice to them, they would learn to be good nice Minnesotans too, don'tcha' know.
Now, the land of Mary Tyler Moore is turning to shit so fast that being nice is going to get your ass killed. The remnants of the nice guys and girls are going to finish last. You betcha!Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @From Beer to Paternity, @Inquiring Mind, @Diversity Heretic, @Joseph Doaks
I think that it was commentator Citizen of a Silly Country who observed that Midwest Nice is a hothouse flower.
Minnesotans for Fair and Equitable Sentencing
The Felony Murder Law Reform (#FMLR) seeks to change the outdated and deeply unfair felony murder rule, which had allowed people who did not kill to nonetheless be charged, convicted, and sentenced as murderers. The current felony murder laws allow prosecutors to charge all accomplices to a crime with first degree murder. It does not matter if there was no intention to kill, if the death was accidental, or if the accomplice had no knowledge that someone else would kill. Everyone is just as responsible, as if they had planned and committed the murder themselves. In practice, this means that even if one was unaware that a killing would or did take place, they could still face a murder charge and receive a sentence equally or in some cases more severe than the actual perpetrator. This doctrine has been abolished for decades in all other common law countries, but many states still have these laws in place, including Minnesota.
https://fmlr.org/Replies: @James J. O'Meara, @Dan Smith, @Harry Baldwin, @Yancey Ward, @rebel yell
Oh, boo hoo. Your nice “reform” — to help out, how many dozen or so felons over a century or two — may make you feel good, and get your a pat on the back from Yahweh, but won’t get you any brownie points from the feral African who rapes your wife or daughter and posts it on TikTok.
Americans know something is wrong. A recent Pew poll found 58% of Americans think life in America was better 5o years ago than today versus only 23% who believe the opposite. This is in spite of almost monolithic control of the mass media by a left that wants to portray Biden America as a wonderful place. Federal tax revenues dropped by 26% in April 2023 compared to April a year ago. The country is now entering a serious recession which the mainstream media is barely reporting on at all.Replies: @res, @James J. O'Meara, @Joseph Doaks
Could Mencken have imaged that “democracy” would sink so low, that Coolidge would become a hero?
If they do, you betcha the psycho killer will be a blonde Nordic type, a la Fargo.
The heroes are almost all Midwest Germanic police officers. Ted Danson plays one of them really well. Not many TV shows have middle class rural white policemen portrayed positively, both individually and collectively as part of a non-corrupt department.
The two Jewish characters I remember are a greaseball mafioso and a dopey Mr. Smithers type 2nd in command businessman.
“far-right governments in places like Florida and Texas,” LOL and LMAO as the kids say.
These must be the first “far-right governments ” where people are flooding into; both illegal immigrant and fed-up White folks.
They must be doing something right!
Note: Democrats/liberals think people are moving into FL and TX, despite being “far right” and also think “the best and brightest are fleeing Putin’s Nazi government”. As always, Who/Whom trumps logic.
Some rather Orwellian language in this one.Replies: @James J. O'Meara, @ic1000, @Skyler the Weird, @Corvinus
Where they lying before, when they boasted about it?
Does “strong election infrastructure” have any kind of approachable limit, or is it like “diversity” or “equality” where it’s never enough, so that the lib/pols can boast about extending it ever more, each election cycle?
I recall a Penguin book on logic that said some concepts were scalar, and other not. You could be tall, but someone else could be taller; by contrast, if a line is straight, it can’t be “straighter”, it’s either straight or not; it makes no sense to say another line is “straighter” than it. Apparently libs think “diverse” and “equal” are like “tall” not like “straight”.
Minnesotans for Fair and Equitable Sentencing
The Felony Murder Law Reform (#FMLR) seeks to change the outdated and deeply unfair felony murder rule, which had allowed people who did not kill to nonetheless be charged, convicted, and sentenced as murderers. The current felony murder laws allow prosecutors to charge all accomplices to a crime with first degree murder. It does not matter if there was no intention to kill, if the death was accidental, or if the accomplice had no knowledge that someone else would kill. Everyone is just as responsible, as if they had planned and committed the murder themselves. In practice, this means that even if one was unaware that a killing would or did take place, they could still face a murder charge and receive a sentence equally or in some cases more severe than the actual perpetrator. This doctrine has been abolished for decades in all other common law countries, but many states still have these laws in place, including Minnesota.
https://fmlr.org/Replies: @James J. O'Meara, @Dan Smith, @Harry Baldwin, @Yancey Ward, @rebel yell
That’s what happened to Derek Chauvin and the other cops who tried to deal with overdosing George Floyd, who repaid them by dying and setting into motion the deaths of thousands of black people at the hands of their peers.
I did that last August.
99% of people have zero contact or even peripheral experience with incorporating a business so it's only the 1% of above average people who know or even think about that kind of stuff who ever even say the word "Delaware" in their head, let alone say it out loud.
not sure i've ever seen a Delaware plate and i've lived in PA on and off for 25 years. i'm sure you would see them in Philadelphia, but that's a place i avoid. for reference, i've seen 2 Rhode Island plates, 4 Hawaii plates on the mainland and 8 Alaska plates in the lower 48. seen enough Wyoming plates i lost count. most rare plate that's sort of in circulation? maybe Mississippi. unless you live south of North Carolina, you probably aren't seeing that one even if you drove across the country a dozen times. i'm not counting Cherokee Nation plates and stuff like that.Replies: @deep anonymous
Here in the People’s Republic of Maryland it’s a little different, even near Baltimore around 40 miles or so from the heart of the evil empire. Probably because the center of the empire (and secondarily universities, a satellite arm) attracts people from far and wide.
I’ve seen Mississippi tags occasionally, more frequently the Carolinas, but even Alaska, and an occasional California. As for Delaware, almost never on the Western Shore, but frequently when I go to the Eastern Shore. I guess you’re not a beach goer!
One year we were down there and the forecast called for rain on the Sunday. We debated going somewhere else on the way back - I advocated for Annapolis, my buddy for Baltimore. He was driving so I lost that debate, and I saw Baltimore for the first time in maybe 25 years - the Harbor waterfront was dead except for herds of white people moving in unison to and then from Camden Yards for a game, and people lining up for the aquarium. Most of the stores in the mall there were derelict. We had a few drinks outside and then went into Phillips for dinner at the bar and the bartender advised us not to go North under any circumstances, and to get out of there before dark. We absolutely would have been better off in Annapolis.Replies: @deep anonymous
And the heroine of “Fargo” is the blonde Protestant wife of one of the Coen Brothers.
The Coens are probably the last guys in America to take Protestant theology seriously.
Personally, I’m pretty good at noticing people’s unconscious prejudices, but the Coen Brothers have always been several steps ahead of me. Anytime I assumed I’ve got them figured out, they’ve confounded me.
Confirmation bias. Furthermore, how good are you at NOTICING your own, and then making changes in your behavior as a result?
Of course Coolidge should be a hero as the exemplar of the American republican politician. Mencken was a lot of fun, but he had most of the prejudices of the pre-Nazi Germans that contributed to the Great War.
Some rather Orwellian language in this one.Replies: @James J. O'Meara, @ic1000, @Skyler the Weird, @Corvinus
> Some rather Orwellian language in this one.
All of us who truly love Big Brother have no idea what you’re talking about.
AGREE!, and surprised but glad to see you wrote that.
EVERY! SINGLE! INSTITUTION! I almost always mention the Feral Gov’t, the Lyin’ Press, the universities, and Big Business, but, yes, the Commies have fully infiltrated the main denomination churches too.
Evangelical Churches are fully cucked on race issues but not usually on sex roles and the newest forms of stupidity.
Some rather Orwellian language in this one.Replies: @James J. O'Meara, @ic1000, @Skyler the Weird, @Corvinus
Some Democrats love voting so much they vote 8 or 9 times in the same election. Some love it so much they continue voting long after they were dead and buried.
Presumably without nuclear energy, right? If they follow the South African model (i.e. destroying their electricity infrastructure through vandalism, incompetence and neglect), it just may be possible.
Evangelical Churches are fully cucked on race issues but not usually on sex roles and the newest forms of stupidity.Replies: @silviosilver
My impression is they’re bastions of resistance to racial wokesterism. Although that stance still leaves a lot to be desired, it’s certainly not what I would describe as fully cucked.
There is a useful lesson here – when you have complete control of the executive and legislature, use that power. Obviously a lot of the MN legislature’s new laws come with a pretty big price tag, but the social democratic aspect of it probably appeals to a lot of centrist Minnesotans, or at least enough that they won’t be champing at the bit to demand repeal of the new taxes.
What a lot of them don’t realize however is that their state just passed a raft of new welfare policies that will have near 100% participation from their Somali and black populations, and a lot less for the legacy whites. The DFL people understand this perfectly well and are understandably jubilant, not to mention with the relaxation of laws that come down on criminals. They really delivered for their base and they won’t forget it. The GOP may be on the outside looking in for quite awhile.
Dunno. Evidently Minnesnowda has done the ol’ 180–from nondescript white bread Scandanavian (nailed forever in the Coen Bros. “Fargo”) to off-the-wall Woke Left. Foucault and Derrida would love it there.
Because for more than a century, they'd dealt with their own kind, the hardworking, ethical, staid, descendants of Germans and Scandinavians, etc, these people figured everyone else was hardworking, fair and nice too.
The voters were so nice that they supported generous welfare benefits that ended up nicely being used by Black! welfare kings and queens from further south who were hopefully going to be very nice too, of course. You betcha'!
The Minnesota Church ladies were so nice that they brought in 10's of thousands of hopefully nice Black! people from highly-foreign lands. If everyone were nice to them, they would learn to be good nice Minnesotans too, don'tcha' know.
Now, the land of Mary Tyler Moore is turning to shit so fast that being nice is going to get your ass killed. The remnants of the nice guys and girls are going to finish last. You betcha!Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @From Beer to Paternity, @Inquiring Mind, @Diversity Heretic, @Joseph Doaks
“Because for more than a century, they’d dealt with their own kind, the hardworking, ethical, staid, descendants of Germans and Scandinavians, etc, these people figured everyone else was hardworking, fair and nice too.”
“Staid” defined as “Characterized by sedateness and often a strait-laced sense of propriety” is the key word here. They will not admit what the problem actually IS as long as the mass media keeps telling them that admitting the evidence of their own eyes and experience is “simply not done, don’tcha know?”
Minnesotans for Fair and Equitable Sentencing
The Felony Murder Law Reform (#FMLR) seeks to change the outdated and deeply unfair felony murder rule, which had allowed people who did not kill to nonetheless be charged, convicted, and sentenced as murderers. The current felony murder laws allow prosecutors to charge all accomplices to a crime with first degree murder. It does not matter if there was no intention to kill, if the death was accidental, or if the accomplice had no knowledge that someone else would kill. Everyone is just as responsible, as if they had planned and committed the murder themselves. In practice, this means that even if one was unaware that a killing would or did take place, they could still face a murder charge and receive a sentence equally or in some cases more severe than the actual perpetrator. This doctrine has been abolished for decades in all other common law countries, but many states still have these laws in place, including Minnesota.
https://fmlr.org/Replies: @James J. O'Meara, @Dan Smith, @Harry Baldwin, @Yancey Ward, @rebel yell
I agree with this change. As commenter Dan Smith noted, the felony murder law was used against the police officers who were with Derek Chauvin. I don’t believe Chauvin should have been convicted and I sure as hell don’t believe the officers accompanying him should have been either. A similar fate befell William Bryan under a felony murder law that gave him a life sentence for videoing the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery.
When you’re judging a law, think about it being applied to you.
Minnesotans for Fair and Equitable Sentencing
The Felony Murder Law Reform (#FMLR) seeks to change the outdated and deeply unfair felony murder rule, which had allowed people who did not kill to nonetheless be charged, convicted, and sentenced as murderers. The current felony murder laws allow prosecutors to charge all accomplices to a crime with first degree murder. It does not matter if there was no intention to kill, if the death was accidental, or if the accomplice had no knowledge that someone else would kill. Everyone is just as responsible, as if they had planned and committed the murder themselves. In practice, this means that even if one was unaware that a killing would or did take place, they could still face a murder charge and receive a sentence equally or in some cases more severe than the actual perpetrator. This doctrine has been abolished for decades in all other common law countries, but many states still have these laws in place, including Minnesota.
https://fmlr.org/Replies: @James J. O'Meara, @Dan Smith, @Harry Baldwin, @Yancey Ward, @rebel yell
Minnesota going to relearn the old legal lesson- a group of more than one person commits a murder, and the killer gets away with it because it can’t be proven which of the members of the group committed it.
Mencken wrote that most Americans were numbskulls. The only exception were those who appreciated Beethoven.
The Germans foolishly shuttered their nukes and have been building coal burning power plants to the keep their lights on and to keep their homes warm in winter. their us not enough wind and solar energy available, no wondef Germans pay more for electricity than any place else and triple the rates we have in the US.Replies: @Inquiring Mind, @Bardon Kaldian
Brother-man, the fine folks at Watts Up With That have made all of the points you enumerate.
The point they did not think to make or would not think to make is that if someone in Germany wanted to purchase a $12,000 lawn ornament, they could once-upon-a-time count on no one stealing it from them for the value of scrap copper and other metals. This once-upon-a-time is not that long ago, either. Could it date back to what iSteve calls “Merkel’s Boner?”‘
Am I wrong in stating that the preponderance of suburban home owners in the US have a type of central air conditioning that has an outdoor unit, that differs little from a heat pump apart from the direction of the heat flow, although the outdoor unit of an air-sourced heat pump of the type they are installing in Germany may have a substantially higher scrap metal value owing to German energy efficiency rules?
Would you agree that the US will have achieved a major milestone in decline if thieves start stripping those neighborhoods of their central air conditioner outdoor units?
Americans know something is wrong. A recent Pew poll found 58% of Americans think life in America was better 5o years ago than today versus only 23% who believe the opposite. This is in spite of almost monolithic control of the mass media by a left that wants to portray Biden America as a wonderful place. Federal tax revenues dropped by 26% in April 2023 compared to April a year ago. The country is now entering a serious recession which the mainstream media is barely reporting on at all.Replies: @res, @James J. O'Meara, @Joseph Doaks
“Americans know something is wrong. A recent Pew poll found 58% of Americans think life in America was better 5o years ago than today”
They know this without even knowing why: 1970 – Non-hispanic Whites 83% of the population vs 2020 – Non-hispanic Whites 57% of the population.
Any bets that Trump would actually deport Biden’s millions of illegals? Remember, he promised to deport Obama’s “dreamers” during his first term “on the first day.” We’re still waiting…
We’re screwed.
No. There is a huge debate in Protestant theology right now over dispensationalism. This has tremendous political consequences, as dispensationalism is a major root cause of white Protestant self-hatred as well as white Protestant support for globalism, neocon wars, zionism and jewish supremacism.
The Germans foolishly shuttered their nukes and have been building coal burning power plants to the keep their lights on and to keep their homes warm in winter. their us not enough wind and solar energy available, no wondef Germans pay more for electricity than any place else and triple the rates we have in the US.Replies: @Inquiring Mind, @Bardon Kaldian
The US is one of the culprits (Greens, Petra Kelly- American stooges). Of course, that doesn’t absolve the German public.
I was recently in the emergency room with my elderly mother who was having chest pains. I noticed that the other 10 families in the emergency waiting room were mostly black (in a 90% white rural community).
Two days later I was back at the hospital with my mom for a scheduled cath procedure during working hours and not a black to be seen in the crowded waiting rooms. Just a bunch of old white people making a bunch of foreign born doctors rich.Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home)
In order to qualify for nonprofit status under the IRC, two features that a hospital must have are an open emergency room and to offer a proportion of its services at reduced or no cost (so-called “charity care”). The “charity care” figures are accounted for in order to support the hospital’s nonprofit status in the case of IRS inquiry.
So you were probably at the only public, nonprofit-qualified hospital in a substantial radius, which had an open emergency room and which the guests whom you noticed used as a free clinic, likely for non-acute conditions. What happens in urban areas is that the public hospitals get inundated with demand at the emergency room level and charity care (which is to say forgiving the costs of care rendered to uninsured, negative net worth patients) combining to create a vicious cycle. Eventually there aren’t enough paying patients (Medicare/Medicaid, mostly) to bill creatively to makeup budgetary short falls. The hospital collapses under the weight of its own patients – then there is no public hospital in the urban core, and the former patients move on to the next public hospital to meet their needs.
I've seen Mississippi tags occasionally, more frequently the Carolinas, but even Alaska, and an occasional California. As for Delaware, almost never on the Western Shore, but frequently when I go to the Eastern Shore. I guess you're not a beach goer!Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home)
A buddy and I used to go to a golf tournament (AT&T National/Quicken Loans National) held around D.C. for a couple of years. We got into the habit of staying in a hotel in Rockville for a few of those years. In the first year, our daytime Uber driver was a white guy who just got out of the military (enlisted), and worked for FeEx I think with a pregnant wife. Very strong Maryland accent, with the Calvert/Crossland flag pattern tattooed around his arm from mid forearm to at least his short sleeve. He regaled us with the story of how what we saw in Rockville (mixed use condominiums, new town “center,” etc). wasn’t there about five years before. The new “town” seemed to be full of second tier young college educated types who couldn’t afford DC but could afford to live in a sort of senior open air college dorm setting along the Metro. I don’t think many were raised in Maryland. I don’t recall the year, but it was still more or less at the end of the hangover of the 2008 housing collapse (meaning, there wasn’t much building going on anywhere else). Lots of cranes putting up lots of parking garages, mixed use condos and office space nonstop. The evening Uber driver was a woman from China who spoke little English and was unsafe behind the wheel. This was just a taste of life near the Imperial Capital.
One year we were down there and the forecast called for rain on the Sunday. We debated going somewhere else on the way back – I advocated for Annapolis, my buddy for Baltimore. He was driving so I lost that debate, and I saw Baltimore for the first time in maybe 25 years – the Harbor waterfront was dead except for herds of white people moving in unison to and then from Camden Yards for a game, and people lining up for the aquarium. Most of the stores in the mall there were derelict. We had a few drinks outside and then went into Phillips for dinner at the bar and the bartender advised us not to go North under any circumstances, and to get out of there before dark. We absolutely would have been better off in Annapolis.
Annapolis has a mini-'hood that's well away from the tourist areas, which are generally safe and still SWPL. You were right.
As usual, the question is can you get to Denmark without a very high fraction of Danes?Replies: @LP5, @ColleenMac
Gabe Ruth writes:
If the Danelaw payments are too high, you’ll never be able to save enough for the trip.
Feature, not bug.
The Fargo TV series was very good. Better than the movie at many points.
The heroes are almost all Midwest Germanic police officers. Ted Danson plays one of them really well. Not many TV shows have middle class rural white policemen portrayed positively, both individually and collectively as part of a non-corrupt department.
The two Jewish characters I remember are a greaseball mafioso and a dopey Mr. Smithers type 2nd in command businessman.
In other words, defacto state-sponsered urban swarming attacks as performed by utes!
They created a huge new statewide paid family and medical leave program, raising the number of workers receiving paid leave from 25% to 100%.
They made school lunches free for all students, leading to Governor Tim Walz being adorably mobbed by elementary schoolers.
They created new protections for Uber and Lyft drivers, leading to State Senator Omar Fateh being adorably mobbed by Uber and Lyft drivers.
They funded the replacement of all lead pipes in the state.
They banned noncompete agreements and created statewide paid sick leave.
They made public college free for the majority of Minnesota families—those under 80k.
Dems raised Minnesota education spending by 10%, or about 2.3 billion.
Minnesota Dems created an energy standard for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040.
Minnesota already has some of the strongest election infrastructure (and highest voter participation) in the country, but the legislature just made it stronger, with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots.
Minnesota Dems gave the state AG the power to block the huge healthcare mergers that have slowly gobbled up the state's medical system.Replies: @Gabe Ruth, @Alfa158, @John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan, @Johnnie Skywalker, @Yancey Ward, @Patrick in SC, @Redneck Farmer, @HammerJack, @res, @tyrone, @Wilkey, @ColleenMac
…..happens to Trump all the time !.I know you can’t wait till Nov. ’24 to vote for Trump again.
Thanks to ballot harvesting, Minnesota is now in a permanent state of Leftist hysteria. Their fat dolt governor will sign off on any insane Prog legislation that hits his desk. Trust me, Minnesota is maybe in the second inning of their Progressive freak out.
Since the voting is entirely rigged, there’s no way for Minnesotans to vote their way out. Coming soon: reparations for blacks. Specific white taxes to pay for it. Trannies everywhere all the time. Crime spiking in ways the poor white schlubs can’t even begin to imagine. Minneapolis will be Detroit in ten years.
“I was told not to tweet this until the houses adjourned for fear of jinxing it, but the Minnesota legislature just completed what is probably the most productive session anywhere in the country since probably the New Deal. Sweeping bills and reforms across every area of life.”
Run for your lives.
Some rather Orwellian language in this one.Replies: @James J. O'Meara, @ic1000, @Skyler the Weird, @Corvinus
“Some rather Orwellian language in this one”
How about elaborating to support your assertion.
2. Voter registration in person only.
3. ID requirements for voting.
4. Background checks to confirm citizenship and no other active registrations before voter registration is approved.
5. Paper ballot voting only.
6. Simple majority/plurality to determine results. KISS principle is necessary to avoid widespread feelings of “disenfranchisement by over complication of the voting process.”Replies: @Corvinus
Since the voting is entirely rigged, there’s no way for Minnesotans to vote their way out. Coming soon: reparations for blacks. Specific white taxes to pay for it. Trannies everywhere all the time. Crime spiking in ways the poor white schlubs can’t even begin to imagine. Minneapolis will be Detroit in ten years.Replies: @Corvinus
“Thanks to ballot harvesting, Minnesota is now in a permanent state of Leftist hysteria.”
And your proof is what?
“Since the voting is entirely rigged”
Again, where’s your evidence? Don’t you think if Mr. Sailer felt the same way you do, he would have made a posting about it now? So put up or shut up.
OK, agreed, Silvio, not fully. They don’t do the Black! worship, but they sure would not be seen dead in front of a Steve Sailer page on their computer, or even J.D.’s “The talk”.
One year we were down there and the forecast called for rain on the Sunday. We debated going somewhere else on the way back - I advocated for Annapolis, my buddy for Baltimore. He was driving so I lost that debate, and I saw Baltimore for the first time in maybe 25 years - the Harbor waterfront was dead except for herds of white people moving in unison to and then from Camden Yards for a game, and people lining up for the aquarium. Most of the stores in the mall there were derelict. We had a few drinks outside and then went into Phillips for dinner at the bar and the bartender advised us not to go North under any circumstances, and to get out of there before dark. We absolutely would have been better off in Annapolis.Replies: @deep anonymous
Unfortunately, the Inner Harbor now is even worse than it was around 2008-10. Marauding bands of “youths” endanger anyone foolhardy enough to venture there, especially on Sunday evenings. Law enforcement is powerless to stop them because of the post-Freddy Gray consent decree imposed on the City Police that ties their hands, under the observation of a federal judge and a cadre of leftist lawyers/monitors.
Annapolis has a mini-‘hood that’s well away from the tourist areas, which are generally safe and still SWPL. You were right.
Looks like Corvinus doesn’t either. Shocking, I know.
Hey, wait a minute, Steve . . . .
Do you realize you just implied that millions of rebel soldiers were “cucks”? After all, they were fighting to the death for a régime that was forcing them to share their living space with even more undesirable “candidates”. While exempting those same undesirables from the conscription laws that bound the desirable!
I was just responding to Pixo’s snarky rejoinder. But apparently I violated one of the two fundamental rules here on Unz.com: never say anything bad about a Palestinian, and never say anything good about a Somaliman.
(I will, however, be the first to admit that Iman showed terrible taste in musicians.)
(And to get technical with you, if we examine the terms on which confederates wanted to keep blacks around, it should go without saying they had no intention of sharing living space with them. Nice try though.)Replies: @Reg Cæsar
The EU tried to impose that particular piece of insanity on the UK a few years ago - as if persons incarcerated have any ability whatsoever to participate in ordinary life, let alone civic life.
Anyhow, the topic came up in conversation with a friend. His immortal - and highly accurate - response was 'All they will do will be to draw dicks on the ballot paper".Replies: @Reg Cæsar
I want to be in the counting room when they try to determine which candidate that is a vote for!
The problem with democracy is that not enough chads hang.
They created a huge new statewide paid family and medical leave program, raising the number of workers receiving paid leave from 25% to 100%.
They made school lunches free for all students, leading to Governor Tim Walz being adorably mobbed by elementary schoolers.
They created new protections for Uber and Lyft drivers, leading to State Senator Omar Fateh being adorably mobbed by Uber and Lyft drivers.
They funded the replacement of all lead pipes in the state.
They banned noncompete agreements and created statewide paid sick leave.
They made public college free for the majority of Minnesota families—those under 80k.
Dems raised Minnesota education spending by 10%, or about 2.3 billion.
Minnesota Dems created an energy standard for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040.
Minnesota already has some of the strongest election infrastructure (and highest voter participation) in the country, but the legislature just made it stronger, with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots.
Minnesota Dems gave the state AG the power to block the huge healthcare mergers that have slowly gobbled up the state's medical system.Replies: @Gabe Ruth, @Alfa158, @John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan, @Johnnie Skywalker, @Yancey Ward, @Patrick in SC, @Redneck Farmer, @HammerJack, @res, @tyrone, @Wilkey, @ColleenMac
There is almost no link between per pupil education spending and better outcomes for students – especially if you don’t raise the standards for teachers, and raise the standards for students to graduate.
They won’t raise the standards for either, for much the same reason: “disparate impact.” Raising the standards for teachers would result in fewer black teachers. Raising the standards for students to graduate would help those students who need a little extra incentive to do better, but by far the hardest hit (in terms of graduation rate) would be black students. The dumbing down of graduation standards is the reason a high school diploma means absolutely nothing anymore.
So all Minnesota Democrats have done is waste $2.3 billion of taxpayer money. The money spent on free college will largely be a waste, as well.
https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/dfl-controlled-legislature-has-agreement-on-2-3-billion-boost-in-education-spending/
The kids always lose.
The criminals hide behind the kids and take the money.
They won’t raise the standards for either, for much the same reason: “disparate impact.” Raising the standards for teachers would result in fewer black teachers. Raising the standards for students to graduate would help those students who need a little extra incentive to do better, but by far the hardest hit (in terms of graduation rate) would be black students. The dumbing down of graduation standards is the reason a high school diploma means absolutely nothing anymore.
So all Minnesota Democrats have done is waste $2.3 billion of taxpayer money. The money spent on free college will largely be a waste, as well.Replies: @Corvinus, @Colleenmac
Clearly you didn’t the provisions of the bill.
https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/dfl-controlled-legislature-has-agreement-on-2-3-billion-boost-in-education-spending/
That’s okay, we all make mistakes. But in future, please try harder.
(And to get technical with you, if we examine the terms on which confederates wanted to keep blacks around, it should go without saying they had no intention of sharing living space with them. Nice try though.)
I’m sure you are trolling but this quote from your comment is orwellian:
“Minnesota already has some of the strongest election infrastructure (and highest voter participation) in the country, but the legislature just made it stronger, with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots.”
(Hm, when I board an airplane I do not look forward to a “strong” flight. I look forward to a secure flight.)
We do not need “strong” election infrastructure. We need secure election infrastructure.
Some non-orwellian ways to help ensure secure elections:
1. Voting in person on election day only.
2. Voter registration in person only.
3. ID requirements for voting.
4. Background checks to confirm citizenship and no other active registrations before voter registration is approved.
5. Paper ballot voting only.
6. Simple majority/plurality to determine results. KISS principle is necessary to avoid widespread feelings of “disenfranchisement by over complication of the voting process.”
Not in the least. res made a statement without any subsequent evidence to back it up. And you deem it to be a fact that “with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots” equates to “being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society and a brutal policy of draconian control by propaganda, surveillance, (and) disinformation”.
That is quite a position to take. So where is your argument? Lay it out for us. What are recorded instances of perpetual voter fraud in Minnesota elections? How have these three reforms been directly attributed to that voter malfeasance, and, in turn, led our society to be unfree and closed off, i.e. a consistent threat to democracy?
“Some non-orwellian ways to help ensure secure elections”
There’s no argument being made here on your part. How exactly are your suggestions non-Orwellian?
“ 1. Voting in person on election day only.”
What about invalids, those in hospitals, the elderly, veterans overseas, and other people, both Democrat and Republican, who have exercised the franchise other than appearing directly on election day?
“2. Voter registration in person only.”
You mean new voter registration in person only. Individuals who have already voted in past elections are already registered.
“3. ID requirements for voting.”
We already have those things in place.
“4. Background checks to confirm citizenship and no other active registrations before voter registration is approved”
Again, we already have those things in place.
“5. Paper ballot voting only. 6. Simple majority/plurality to determine results.”
Absolutely. We agree on both points. Of course, you do realize that the accusations against Dominion by Fox News were completely bogus. Electronic voting in and of itself is not inherently fraudulent nor does it leas to widespread fraud.
Furthermore, how do you account for this trend?
https://www.kgw.com/amp/article/news/politics/elections/oregon-election-security-ballots-fraud-voter/283-a0529d07-2f2b-4814-bf39-b92608bc7a8fReplies: @Colleeman
Minnesotans for Fair and Equitable Sentencing
The Felony Murder Law Reform (#FMLR) seeks to change the outdated and deeply unfair felony murder rule, which had allowed people who did not kill to nonetheless be charged, convicted, and sentenced as murderers. The current felony murder laws allow prosecutors to charge all accomplices to a crime with first degree murder. It does not matter if there was no intention to kill, if the death was accidental, or if the accomplice had no knowledge that someone else would kill. Everyone is just as responsible, as if they had planned and committed the murder themselves. In practice, this means that even if one was unaware that a killing would or did take place, they could still face a murder charge and receive a sentence equally or in some cases more severe than the actual perpetrator. This doctrine has been abolished for decades in all other common law countries, but many states still have these laws in place, including Minnesota.
https://fmlr.org/Replies: @James J. O'Meara, @Dan Smith, @Harry Baldwin, @Yancey Ward, @rebel yell
Disagree. The current felony rule is not outdated and it is very fair. If you are driving the getaway car in a bank robbery, and expect it to just be a bank robbery, but your doofus partner kills a bank teller, then you should be charged with murder too. You ride with outlaws, you die with outlaws. The fact that you knew violence was possible, as it always is in a robbery, makes you responsible for any violence that results. Each participant in the robbery should be held 100% responsible, both for the robbery and the murder.
That’s what I would want if the teller were a member of my family.
That cuts both ways. The law impacts you as a crime victim as well. If a member of your family is murdered in a bank hold up, do you want only the shooter to be charged with murder? What about the guy who was watching the front door and the guy who drove the get-a-way car? I would want the whole gang charged with murder.
(And to get technical with you, if we examine the terms on which confederates wanted to keep blacks around, it should go without saying they had no intention of sharing living space with them. Nice try though.)Replies: @Reg Cæsar
I go with the broader definition of “living space” used by the American Colonization Society. As in, the entire North American continent. At least that part north of the Panamanian isthmus, as a certain politician proposed in the 1850s.
2. Voter registration in person only.
3. ID requirements for voting.
4. Background checks to confirm citizenship and no other active registrations before voter registration is approved.
5. Paper ballot voting only.
6. Simple majority/plurality to determine results. KISS principle is necessary to avoid widespread feelings of “disenfranchisement by over complication of the voting process.”Replies: @Corvinus
“I’m sure you are trolling”
Not in the least. res made a statement without any subsequent evidence to back it up. And you deem it to be a fact that “with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots” equates to “being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society and a brutal policy of draconian control by propaganda, surveillance, (and) disinformation”.
That is quite a position to take. So where is your argument? Lay it out for us. What are recorded instances of perpetual voter fraud in Minnesota elections? How have these three reforms been directly attributed to that voter malfeasance, and, in turn, led our society to be unfree and closed off, i.e. a consistent threat to democracy?
“Some non-orwellian ways to help ensure secure elections”
There’s no argument being made here on your part. How exactly are your suggestions non-Orwellian?
“ 1. Voting in person on election day only.”
What about invalids, those in hospitals, the elderly, veterans overseas, and other people, both Democrat and Republican, who have exercised the franchise other than appearing directly on election day?
“2. Voter registration in person only.”
You mean new voter registration in person only. Individuals who have already voted in past elections are already registered.
“3. ID requirements for voting.”
We already have those things in place.
“4. Background checks to confirm citizenship and no other active registrations before voter registration is approved”
Again, we already have those things in place.
“5. Paper ballot voting only. 6. Simple majority/plurality to determine results.”
Absolutely. We agree on both points. Of course, you do realize that the accusations against Dominion by Fox News were completely bogus. Electronic voting in and of itself is not inherently fraudulent nor does it leas to widespread fraud.
Furthermore, how do you account for this trend?
https://www.kgw.com/amp/article/news/politics/elections/oregon-election-security-ballots-fraud-voter/283-a0529d07-2f2b-4814-bf39-b92608bc7a8f
They will continue to wring what they can out of the poor, the underclasses, the working class, and the unwitting and complicit alike.
Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer and AOC and Adam Schiff and the rest of the Wall Street puppets represent the 1 percent, masquerading as “social justice” benefactors.
But please keep on supporting the Wall Street fraud machine, because arrogance and stupidity have amusing consequences.
The “free school lunch and breakfast” giveaway is to Wall Street-and foreign-connected CORPORATIONS.
They make billions more providing overpackaged, garbage, unhealthy food to kids.
That mostly gets thrown in the trash. And the corporations gouge the taxpayers for that trash food by many percentage points.
It’s a swindle for the wealthy.
Not in the least. res made a statement without any subsequent evidence to back it up. And you deem it to be a fact that “with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots” equates to “being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society and a brutal policy of draconian control by propaganda, surveillance, (and) disinformation”.
That is quite a position to take. So where is your argument? Lay it out for us. What are recorded instances of perpetual voter fraud in Minnesota elections? How have these three reforms been directly attributed to that voter malfeasance, and, in turn, led our society to be unfree and closed off, i.e. a consistent threat to democracy?
“Some non-orwellian ways to help ensure secure elections”
There’s no argument being made here on your part. How exactly are your suggestions non-Orwellian?
“ 1. Voting in person on election day only.”
What about invalids, those in hospitals, the elderly, veterans overseas, and other people, both Democrat and Republican, who have exercised the franchise other than appearing directly on election day?
“2. Voter registration in person only.”
You mean new voter registration in person only. Individuals who have already voted in past elections are already registered.
“3. ID requirements for voting.”
We already have those things in place.
“4. Background checks to confirm citizenship and no other active registrations before voter registration is approved”
Again, we already have those things in place.
“5. Paper ballot voting only. 6. Simple majority/plurality to determine results.”
Absolutely. We agree on both points. Of course, you do realize that the accusations against Dominion by Fox News were completely bogus. Electronic voting in and of itself is not inherently fraudulent nor does it leas to widespread fraud.
Furthermore, how do you account for this trend?
https://www.kgw.com/amp/article/news/politics/elections/oregon-election-security-ballots-fraud-voter/283-a0529d07-2f2b-4814-bf39-b92608bc7a8fReplies: @Colleeman
The Wall Street hustlers behind the voter fraud care nothing for your specious arguments.
They will continue to wring what they can out of the poor, the underclasses, the working class, and the unwitting and complicit alike.
Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer and AOC and Adam Schiff and the rest of the Wall Street puppets represent the 1 percent, masquerading as “social justice” benefactors.
But please keep on supporting the Wall Street fraud machine, because arrogance and stupidity have amusing consequences.
They created a huge new statewide paid family and medical leave program, raising the number of workers receiving paid leave from 25% to 100%.
They made school lunches free for all students, leading to Governor Tim Walz being adorably mobbed by elementary schoolers.
They created new protections for Uber and Lyft drivers, leading to State Senator Omar Fateh being adorably mobbed by Uber and Lyft drivers.
They funded the replacement of all lead pipes in the state.
They banned noncompete agreements and created statewide paid sick leave.
They made public college free for the majority of Minnesota families—those under 80k.
Dems raised Minnesota education spending by 10%, or about 2.3 billion.
Minnesota Dems created an energy standard for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040.
Minnesota already has some of the strongest election infrastructure (and highest voter participation) in the country, but the legislature just made it stronger, with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots.
Minnesota Dems gave the state AG the power to block the huge healthcare mergers that have slowly gobbled up the state's medical system.Replies: @Gabe Ruth, @Alfa158, @John Burns, Gettysburg Partisan, @Johnnie Skywalker, @Yancey Ward, @Patrick in SC, @Redneck Farmer, @HammerJack, @res, @tyrone, @Wilkey, @ColleenMac
The “free school breakfast and lunch programs” are corporate welfare.
Wall Street and foreign-connected corporations provide overpackaged, OVERPRICED, garbage “food” to kids.
Tiny amounts of trash, such as sugary,cheap, corn slop “cereal,” in large plastic containers.
Most other industries would get charged with fraud for those practices alone.
But then the taxpayer is overcharged and gouged by the wealthy, and a large percentage of the “food” goes in the trash.
The kids aren’t stupid.
They know it is worse than animal feed.
All the “Marxists” who support these programs simply help the corrupt rich get richer.
No one benefits.
Which is what Marxism is.
The “increases in education spending” will just go to the gangsters who already gouge the system and rob it.
None will help children in any way.
The kids are just conduits for more stolen cash.
As usual, the question is can you get to Denmark without a very high fraction of Danes?Replies: @LP5, @ColleenMac
You will be seeing an increase in juvenile, gang mob murders.
Which was exactly the intent of those who want to destroy the working poor and middle class.
A third world jungle is easier for totalitarian oligarchs to ransack and loot.
And
They won’t raise the standards for either, for much the same reason: “disparate impact.” Raising the standards for teachers would result in fewer black teachers. Raising the standards for students to graduate would help those students who need a little extra incentive to do better, but by far the hardest hit (in terms of graduation rate) would be black students. The dumbing down of graduation standards is the reason a high school diploma means absolutely nothing anymore.
So all Minnesota Democrats have done is waste $2.3 billion of taxpayer money. The money spent on free college will largely be a waste, as well.Replies: @Corvinus, @Colleenmac
Increases in education spending ALWAYS go to the adult criminals running the education system.
The kids always lose.
The criminals hide behind the kids and take the money.
“The Wall Street hustlers behind the voter fraud care nothing for your specious arguments.”
What voter fraud? You make a claim, now back it up. Just because you say it doesn’t mean it’s true or accurate. Remember, Fox News admitted it lied regarding Dominion.
“because arrogance and stupidity have amusing consequence”
As evident by your baseless accusation.
“Personally, I’m pretty good at noticing people’s unconscious prejudices”
Confirmation bias. Furthermore, how good are you at NOTICING your own, and then making changes in your behavior as a result?
Wall Street and foreign-connected corporations provide overpackaged, OVERPRICED, garbage “food” to kids.
Tiny amounts of trash, such as sugary,cheap, corn slop “cereal,” in large plastic containers.
Most other industries would get charged with fraud for those practices alone.
But then the taxpayer is overcharged and gouged by the wealthy, and a large percentage of the “food” goes in the trash.
The kids aren’t stupid.
They know it is worse than animal feed.
All the “Marxists” who support these programs simply help the corrupt rich get richer.
No one benefits.
Which is what Marxism is.Replies: @Corvinus
“The “free school breakfast and lunch programs” are corporate welfare.”
No. It’s ensuring that all kids get a good head start with nourishment.
“Wall Street and foreign-connected corporations provide overpackaged, OVERPRICED, garbage “food” to kids.”
You have no idea what you’re talking about.
https://education.mn.gov/MDE/dse/FNS/SNP/qual/
Now fetch me my meal and shut up. I’m watching the ball game. If you complain about my tone, we’ll, you’re a feminist and a Marxist to boot.