- Minnesota Democrats personify the spoiled child. After getting whatever they wanted for the previous two legislative sessions, they are presently throwing a full-fledged tantrum now that they're no longer getting their way.
In essence, DFL House members are looking to take their ball and go home.
House Democrats are mulling not showing up for the first two weeks of the legislative session to prevent the chamber from achieving a 68-member quorum, according to lobbyists who’ve spoken to members and confirmed by two DFL legislative sources. Doing so would effectively shut down the House as Democrats seek to block Republicans from using their temporary, 1-seat advantage to elect a GOP House speaker.
The gambit would attract national media attention and likely lead to a political and legal firestorm.
State Rep. Melissa Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor leader, declined to comment except to say that House Democrats “want a power sharing agreement we’ve spent 60 days negotiating, and we’d like Republicans to honor their agreement. Sixty-seven is not a majority.”
Leave it to attorney extraordinaire (and my state rep) Harry Niska to throw cold water on that assumption.
So if indeed DFLers follow through on their "threat?"
Because the Dems needed literally zero GOP input to implement their radical agenda over the past two years, it's almost as if their political acumen "muscle" has completely atrophied. Not sure why they believe this is a smart play politically, but far be it from me to warn them that they're about walk into a buzz saw.
- Speaking of unearned righteousness.........
Uhh.....despite a handful of idiots having a temper tantrum on 1/6/2021, Joe Biden's 2020 victory was ultimately certified by the Vice President on 2020's losing ticket. Now, if you're suggesting that certification should be little more than a rubber stamp, then Democrats have hardly lived up to that standard the over the past 32 years when faced with confirming a GOP victor (See: George W. Bush's 2000 & 2004 victories and Donald Trump's 2016 triumph).
Despite suggestions that Monday's certification was a ho-hum affair, there was actually a history making moment.
Given what happened four years earlier, a ceremonial shattering of glass might've been too triggering.
- Over the summer, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave sort of a mea culpa for acquiescing to the Biden administration's demands that Facebook posts which they believed contained "COVID-19 misinformation" be flagged as such.
Then this week he announced that his company will be taking it a step further.
Meta will replace its fact checking program with the “community notes” system pioneered by Elon Musk’s X as part of the tech giant’s move to revive free speech on its social media platforms, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday morning.
Over the years, Meta has been found to have engaged in censorship of conservatives at the behest of the Biden administration. The company is now moving away from those dubious practices less than two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The change will affect Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
“We’re gonna get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms,” Zuckerberg said in a five-minute video. “More specifically, here’s what we’re going to do. First, we’re going to get rid of fact checkers and replace them with Community Notes similar to X, starting in the U.S.”
Despite progs gaslighting us into thinking that Twitter "X" is dying, the fact of the matter is there's been more engagement there than similar platforms such as Threads as well as the prog safe space cesspool known as Bluesky. And obviously Zuck has noticed the bad rap Facebook has gotten. combined with the fact the Biden administration's desire to regulate social media platforms played no small role in his presidency cratering.
Just as fact checkers were about to awaken from their 4-year slumber, they get hit with this. Ya love to see it.
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