Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Quick Hits: Volume CCLXXX

 - In addition to using her late husband Jim Hagedorn's legacy in Minnesota's First Congressional District, Jennifer Carnahan's candidacy in CD1 has consistently featured her inflating her record as Republican Party of Minnesota chair. One of the more dubious assertions she's made is under her MNGOP leadership, Minnesota flipped three Congressional Districts (CDs 1, 7 and 8) to the red column (she conveniently leaves out the fact that the 2nd and 3rd flipped blue on her watch). While that's technically correct, the fact is state political parties have very little (if any) impact on Federal races.


The current officeholders in the Seventh and Eighth would concur. 


“Minnesota Congressional Members U.S. Rep. Michelle Fischbach (MN-7) and U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber (MN-8) today endorsed Brad Finstad for Congress in MN-1.”


Upon hearing this, I suspected that Carnahan would declare these endorsements as some sort of "establishment conspiracy" against her. 


Sure enough.... 


"After tonight, it has become clear that I am the America First candidate in this race. While other candidates were bashing President Trump or even working against Republicans in Minnesota, I was working alongside President Trump and my husband, Congressman Jim Hagedorn, to Make America Great Again. Nothing has changed. I have taken on the Establishment and won three times before. It will soon be four.”


If indeed Carnahan is defeated in the GOP primary on May 24, I'm giving you an ironclad guarantee she's going to declare the election was "rigged" or outright stolen. Book it. 



- A scary scene Monday afternoon on Hwy 10 eastbound in Blaine.  





It was downright frightening to see the cab of that truck dangling over the bridge above Hwy 65. There would have undoubtedly been multiple fatalities had it gone over. Thankfully no one was killed in this whole quagmire. 

I am very familiar with that stretch of Hwy 10 since I drive over that bridge every weekday morning en route to my workplace. In fact, I was heading home on the westbound side of 10 as the remnants of the accident were being cleared. As you can imagine, the truck appeared as though it was caught in a nuclear blast when all was said and done. 


- Inflation numbers released Tuesday indicate the highest year-over-year CPI increase (8.5%, including a whopping 48% hike in gasoline) since 1981. Naturally, the Biden administration is dismissing this as a direct result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has been taking place over the past month. 

A couple of simple graphs show how that take is complete bull pucky. 


 



To be fair, there were trillions of dollars of emergency "COVID stimulus" passed during the Trump administration, which is certainly not an innocuous factor in what's happening today. That said, those progs who wanna jump around like poo flinging monkeys with their "BUT TRUMP!" what-aboutism most certainly didn't object to said legislation being jammed through two years ago. If anything, leftists' biggest beef was the already outlandish spending wasn't enough. And the left's continued obsession with climate orthodoxy prevents utilizing our own natural resources which could mitigate skyrocketing fuel costs. 


I'll leave ya with this. 




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