- Minnesota State Rep. Walter Hudson (R-Albertville) signals what the aftermath of the most recent Legislative session may bring.
We're only a week past the end of the 2023 #mnleg session. Yet I've already heard several anecdotes of people working less as a result.
🔹️Rejecting a summer job offer because unemployment is now available
🔹️Moving from full to part-time to avoid PERA clawbacks
🔹️Plenty of moving out of the state, more looking to
All this translates to less production across the board. If people aren't working, work isn't getting done, and value isn't being created, which means we ALL have access to less.
Of course, it isn't just that work doesn't get done. In many cases, we're *paying* people to not work, and thereby losing twice the value.
In 2022, the state's GDP was $350 billion dollars. We just passed a $72 billion budget. That's around 20%. Twenty percent of everything we produce in the state. That's just the state government, not accounting for federal and local.
What do you think is going to happen as less is produced? What will be left over for people to live on? For investment? For savings? For future orientation?
Minnesota is being run into the ground. The consequences of poor choices this session are already manifesting. And it's just the very tip of a deep and treacherous iceberg.
... and that's just the economy. The damage to our children, our parental rights, our culture, that runs even deeper. And reports are they're not done yet. The debauchery continues in 2024, full speed ahead, targeting your children directly.
Repent and organize.
Unfortunately, there will be immediate consequences felt as a result of these disastrous fiscal and social policies. With that in mind, if MNGOP House candidates can't make hay out of that and thus flip four of the chamber's seats in next year's election, then it will be a dereliction of duty.
- Get ready for yet another GOP entrant into the presidential race.
Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie is expected to announce his entry into the 2024 Republican presidential primary as soon as next week, according to multiple reports.
Christie is expected to formally enter the race next Tuesday, June 6, during a town hall discussion held at Saint Anselm College, a liberal arts school in New Hampshire.
The former governor plans on running “a non-traditional campaign that is highly focused on earned media, mixing it up in the news cycle and engaging Trump,” one adviser told Axios on Wednesday morning. “Will not be geographic dependent, but nimble.”
Christie was one of the most popular governors in the country back in 2012, which was more than halfway through his first term as New Jersey gov. The GOP presidential field wasn't particularly strong that year, so that would have been an ideal time for him to indulge in his White House aspirations. Obviously he declined to do so, instead focusing on his 2013 gubernatorial reelection in which he easily prevailed with 60% of the vote.
While his 2016 POTUS candidacy devolved in his being a henchman for frontrunner Donald Trump (i.e. blowing up the candidacy of the popular Marco Rubio), Christie has now soured on the former POTUS. So could it be that Christie's strategy is to devour Trump to benefit another GOP candidate in the field? Maybe unwittingly, but I get a sense Christie considers himself a viable alternative to Trump and Ron DeSantis. As such, he's delusional enough to believe he's got a shot at the nomination.
- Kudos to Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Blake Treinen for calling out the organization's decision to include in its "Pride Night" an actual hate group (Yep. I said it.).
My friend and @MLB pitcher Blake Treinen asked that I post this statement for him in regards to the @Dodgers honoring of the sisters of perpetual indulgence. #HoldTheLine pic.twitter.com/jIDeDJF8ke
— Sean Feucht (@seanfeucht) May 30, 2023
And props to Clayton Kershaw, arguably the face of the Dodgers franchise, for not staying silent.
“I don’t agree with making fun of other people’s religions,” the Cy Young winner told the Los Angeles Times in a recent interview that aired Monday. “It has nothing to do with anything other than that. I just don’t think that, no matter what religion you are, you should make fun of somebody else’s religion. So that’s something that I definitely don’t agree with.”
“As a team between my wife and I and different people that I respect, we talked a lot about the right response to this,” Kershaw added. “It’s never an easy thing, because it felt like it elicited a response.”
There is absolutely zero doubt in my mind that if there was an LGBTQ+ group skewering Imams, they wouldn't have even been considered for this event.
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