The Strib’s Orgy of George Floyd and Other Lies

WARNING–Reading about the Strib’s stories may cause severe vomiting, intense headaches and induce anxiety and depression.

I always like to wait a bit before commenting on items that truly enrage me.  To mark the 5th anniversary of George Floyd’s drug overdose death and the subsequent rioting and promulgation of multiple racist schemes, the paper had a bunch of articles.  None of which told the truth, especially the truth about how chickenshit Walz hid and refused to do anything about the destruction of Minneapolis for days.  Nor about the evisceration of the law enforcement community in Minnesota and the subsequent rise in crime and decline in safety.  Not one word about what George Floyd really was and really represents.  The most hilarious of the articles was about how a supposedly “revisionist” account of what occurred has arisen and is accepted by many people.  This is the Strib whining about how no one believes their lies anymore.  It doesn’t matter how many front page lies you print, people know they are lies.  This is not journalism, it has not even the slightest veneer of objectivity or fact-finding; it is purely viewpoint advocacy, and that is all the Strib is, not a source of news, but a partisan, ideological rag, from story selection to editorial page.  It even infests the business page and entertainment and comics.  And the owners must wonder why they have no advertising and have to raise the price of the paper by 50%.

Constant articles on illegal immigrants’ stories of woe, how bad their home countries are, how traumatic being deported will be, etc.  You want to come to the US, there are legal ways to do so and we are one of the most welcoming countries in the world to immigrants.  You come illegally, you deserve whatever happens.  Banning international students will cause economic pain to Minnesota’s universities and would limit cultural diversity.  You mean we wouldn’t have so much anti-semitism?  You mean China wouldn’t be able to steal intellectual property and continue its subversion of our society?

The state GOP might cut state transit funding–you mean like the incredibly wasteful light-rail project.  Trains to nowhere that no one rides.  Minnesota is rife with fraud and waste and facing an ever-increasing deficit, cut it all is the solution.  And another day, a story about how unsafe one of the existing light-rail lines is.  Meanwhile, Fatso Timmy Walz is taking his wannabe Rockette act around the country in a futile pursuit of the next Dem presidential nomination, instead of attending to the state’s budget mess.  I take this as a clear sign that he knows he can’t win re-election as Governor.  It is a sign of just how stupid Little Timmy is that he is so blissfully ignorant of what a complete clown even Dems think he is.

So in recent business section articles we learn that tariffs may be a “blow” to US-made batteries.  Huh?  I thought tariffs just protected US businesses and allowed them to raise prices and make more money.  The same article, which of course actually comes from the NYTimes, expresses concern about the end of tax credits.  Furniture could be a harbinger of tariff inflation.  This one is from the Washington Post.   Tariffs are hurting Minnesota businesses.  $37 billion Program to Aid Businesses Targeted.  What a misleading headline.  The administration is going to end the racist federal programs that do contracting not by qualifications of the vendors but by race or other irrelevant criteria.

Federal budget bill could kill state solar industry.  Let’s see, we are continually told by this paper that solar energy is cheap and reliable and environmentally friendly.  If it is so cheap why do we need subsidies for it?  Oh, maybe because no one really wants it and it isn’t really cheap, as Minnesotans electric bills demonstrate, and it isn’t reliable and it is horrible for the environment.  Rolling back regulations will cause consumers to pay more?  Just insane logic, once again from the NYT, since the Strib doesn’t have any reporters of its own.  Another big business moves out of Minneapolis and the Strib tries to paint it as a positive.  And of course the George Floyd angle–a backslide on black prosperity.  The whole racist premise of that article is that African-Americans could not be successful if government doesn’t constantly favor them.  That is just the business section contributions.

Canadians might stop visiting the US.  So what, is that our loss or theirs?  Canada can put up a brave face and Trump has behaved obnoxiously, unnecessarily so, but Canada needs the US way more than we need them and Canada and Canadians should get their own house in order instead of worrying about Trump says or does.  That country has its own bad trade policies and a myriad of economic and other problems.  Americans are moving to Britain because of Trump.  Good riddance.  Trying to distract the public isn’t going to fix those.  A law firm is suing to stop the state’s policy of allowing men to participate in women’s sports–a policy which is causing injuries and unfair wins.  And of course the obligatory climate hysteria–get ready for several years of warmth.  The good news on that one is that it ensures we will have some record cold.

You really can’t hate this paper enough.