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The Anti-Strib, Weeks of April 6 and April 13, 2026, Part I

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The Strib’s, or really the NYTimes’ and AP’s schizophrenia over the Iran conflict continues.  The Strib doesn’t write anything, it just selects the most anti-Trump, anti-US stories it can find from sources that make a minimal attempt at actually reporting on events.  Tracking any major metropolitan newspaper is useful because it helps you see what themes the national media, which is essentially an arm of the Democrat Party, is using to attack Trump and conservatives, usually in a hilarious and futile manner.

April 6–as we will see repeatedly, the media/Democrats are having a fit trying to figure out an Iran message to hurt Trump.  It is hurting consumers, it is hurting farmers, it is hurting other countries, it isn’t achieving its objectives, on and on.  And we see the ongoing effort in every section of the paper to continue to demonize federal immigration law enforcement efforts and make illegal immigrants into saints.  The federal government is using military lawyers to enfor4ce the immigration laws–so what, nothing illegal about it, but in the Strib it gets a front page headline.  Electric car sales decline when subsidies disappear.  Just shows you how much consumers hate them.

April 7– More ICE bashing on the main headline.  Trump threatens Iran, I would hope so.  King Walz wants legislators emails made public, while he uses secret phones to hide his.  The AP is moving away from “journalism” so the Strib will lose a source of its whacked, extreme leftist “news” stories.  The AP hasn’t done journalism for decades.  Citizens across the country are upset as they realize how much the renewable energy scam is raising electricity prices.   Israel is targeting health care resources in Lebanon; no, Hezbollah is using hospitals and clinics as cover for its operations, turning them into military targets.  George Floyd square work will begin in Minneapolis; as a reminder George Floyd was a scumbag who died from a drug overdose and who once stuck a pistol in the stomach of a pregnant woman–a perfect hero for King Walz and the idiot mayor of Minneapolis.

April 8–Iran is defying Trump.  Yeah, we’ll see how that works out and of course most of the residents of Iran, contrary to Strib, or should I say NYTimes, reporting, would love to see the Islamic regime disappear.  The top employers in Minnesota had few job gains last year, with the private companies cutting the Minnesota work force and only government-supported ones like health care showing increases.  The Trump administration won’t protect delusional transgender students, but Children’s Hospital in the metro area is resuming child mutilation because they want the money and don’t give a shit about children’s health.  Local governments are unsure about using license plate cameras to stop crime, the unstated reason is because it catches illegal immigrants.

April 9–Climate terror, hottest March “on record” which only goes back maybe 100 years, so not the hottest March at all.  And when we have a cold month, you can be sure it won’t be reported with a front page headline.  More Iran terrorism, the Strib is getting whiplash from predicting disaster and then it not happening.  Minnesota has to pay to be in a travel guide, which is pointless, the reputation is established and no one wants to come.  The Strib is terrified that Michelle Tafoya might actually win a Senate seat, so it covers a non-event where no-name loser candidates trash her.

April 10–the Minneapolis City Council is literally composed of lunatics, so crazy they don’t like the equally crazy Mayor’s policies or law enforcement picks, including an African American public safety commissioner.  A federal judge who is a whacked Biden pick tries to force the feds to give evidence on ICE activities to the state but he will be overturned.  Democrats might impeach Trump because he is crazy for successfully conducting military activity against a terroristic nation.

April 11–inflation surged in March, but it really didn’t.  While overall prices rose, that was all due to the energy price spike from the Iran conflict, other prices grew slowly or declined, including food, shelter and medical care.  The debate continues over Minneapolis’ continued descent into decadence over allowing sex in public bathhouses.  It is hilarious that this is even being discussed.  Judges are being pressed to deport people here illegally.  “Pressed”?  They are here illegally, what else should we do with them unless and until the law is changed.  The Pope, who heads the most disgraceful church in history, is not happy about war in Iran.  Apparently he prefers a regime that slaughters its own citizens by the tens of thousands.  The CDC is delaying reports on CV-19 vaccine effectiveness.  Dr. Bhattacharya, who is now in charge, is an outstanding and well-respected health researcher, and he is absolutely right to insist that these studies be done in a methodologically solid manner and we shouldn’t be releasing studies with misleading levels of effectiveness.

April 12–Safety net cuts hurt rural Minnesota; the Strib knows that outstate Minnesotans hate the DFL and Walz so they are trying to convince these people that Reps are bad for them.  Dylan wannabe and absolute hack Bruce Springsteen continues the myth-making about Minnesota and ICE.  After desperately trying to hide the misbehavior of yet another Dem politician, Eric Swalwell, the media now does an about face when it can’t be denied.

The most hilarious trend is the Strib regularly printing op-eds about the importance of local news and begging for donations or government aid.  If they actually did real reporting or had a rational editorial policy, might not have to beg for handouts.