- We're now at the 3-week mark where elected MN House Democrats have not shown up for the 2025 legislative session. And given the special election in House District 40B will not be resolved until next month, we're looking at possibly six more weeks of absent House Dems.
My friend as well as my home area's State Rep. Harry Niska (R-Ramsey) shared his perspective on Fox 9 recently.
House Democrats are threatening to drag out their SHUTDOWN for another six weeks, and making taxpayers foot the bill.
— MN House Republicans (@mnhousegop) February 3, 2025
Watch Leader Harry Niska on Fox 9: 👇📺 pic.twitter.com/W1hCayicS8
I've been absolutely stupefied by the Dems' ploy here since it's a loser politically, but then Harry offered a valuable nugget in this clip. If Dems showed up before they seat their 67th member next month, Republicans would have the majority. If that happened, a GOP majority would use its power on committees to investigate the more than half billion dollars in waste, fraud and abuse which has occurred in Minnesota over the past number of years. But if Dems hold out until their preferred candidate wins in 40B (very likely to happen), that would deny the GOP a majority and thus such committee hearings would never see the light of day.
It's still a bad play politically for the DFL but at least they've prevented more Minnesotans from hearing additional details about their sacred cows (i.e. non-profits and entitlement programs) being utterly corrupted.
- A close family member of mine works in a field which is overwhelmingly occupied by leftist politicos. While overhearing conversation among colleagues recently, said family member heard someone declaring the U.S. Supreme Court was about to hear a case seeking to overturn the legality of same sex marriage. As someone who consumes a generous amount of news, I had literally heard nothing in relation to this, so I wrote it off as little more than progs making a mountain out of a molehill in an effort to gin up more outrage (as if their "shit fit" meter wasn't already at a Spinal Tap-esque 11).
Turns out, I was right on the money.
Stop panicking over things that aren't happening. pic.twitter.com/MJCcdqETiO
— Brad Polumbo 🇺🇸⚽️ (@brad_polumbo) February 4, 2025
When it was rumored Roe v. Wade was going to be overturned, the originalist justices on the Supreme Court were subject to threats of violence, including Justice Brett Kavanaugh being the target of a literal assassination attempt. Can you imagine what the reaction would have been had this literal fake news hit the mainstream? For a collective who claims "speech is violence," leftists sometimes act as if that's a feature, not a bug.
- It appears NFL virtue signaling may not be on display in the world's premier sporting event.
According to two league sources, Sunday’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles will mark the first time since February 2021 that “End Racism” is not included as a message in the back of a Super Bowl end zone. Instead, “Choose Love” and “It Takes All of Us” will be stenciled onto the back of the end zones at the Caesars Superdome.
The linked piece from The Athletic was penned by Michael Silver, a San Francisco area sports writer. This is the same guy who once hijacked an NFL Network panel discussion on Tom Brady &"Deflate-gate" and turned it into a screed about Senate Republicans not doing their jobs due to forgoing confirmation hearings for then President Barack Obama's SCOTUS nominee Merrick Garland. As such, you can probably surmise his view on why the NFL is making this move.
The switch, conveyed internally to high-level employees earlier this week, could be perceived as a nod to the current political climate. Following the lead of recently inaugurated President Donald Trump and his administration, many corporations and institutions are abandoning their diversity, equity and inclusion programs. While Goodell said Monday he was “proud” of the league’s diversity efforts, the decision to do away with “End Racism” as a slogan led at least one high-ranking league official to express concern in light of Trump’s divisive words on the subject.
I feel the rationale conveyed by a league spokesman makes more sense.
“We felt it was an appropriate statement for what the country has collectively endured, given recent tragedies, and can serve as an inspiration,” said (NFL spokesperson Brian) McCarthy, who noted that “Choose Love” and “It Takes All of Us” also appeared in the end zones for this year’s AFC Championship Game in Kansas City. The NFC Championship Game in Philadelphia included “End Racism” as an end-zone slogan.
C'mon, progs. Y'all already claimed a scalp by ginning up an outrage campaign over the Redskins nickname, which resulted in the name going away. Let this one go.
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