Last Days of the Strib

I am heading south again today so I will do a last catch up for a couple of weeks.  I won’t miss it.  The delusional nature of the paper’s publisher and editors is astounding.  The new theme for Minnesota is that we are “Good Neighbors”.  The reason for this is that we stood up to legitimate law enforcement and protected criminals.  Can you be more tone deaf.  And more broadly, does the Strib really not understand what has happened in the state over the last 20 years–the steep decline in the experience of living here?  Super high taxes, worsening services, no protection against crime, rampant waste and fraud in government spending, the fastest declining school system in the country?

March 6–Minnesota needs reimbursement for all the costs incurred in regard to the ICE enforcement “surge”.  You broke it, you pay for it and pound sand is the federal response.  The Minneapolis police are under fire for not protecting people from ICE–seriously, they should be chastised for not doing more to help ICE rid the city of criminals.  The Strib breathlessly repeats the fraudulent study claiming sea level rise is worse than we thought due to global warming.  The asshole state employee who keyed Teslas, causing thousands in damage, was suspended for one day.  That is good neighborism in Minnesota.

March 7–The US lost jobs in February, with no explanation of the subtleties of this report that make it not so negative, but hey the Strib’s job is to bash Trump on everything all the time.  Still trying to link Trump to Epstein.  Working hard to find something negative in the attack on Iran’s military and government.

March 8–still desperately trying to keep the ICE surge story alive with any bizarre angle and running it in every section of the paper.  Bounty hunters tracking down illegal immigrant criminals are also really bad.  Minnesota has to protect its reputation as a high-crime state.

March 9–Fraud in Medicaid is probably even worse than the federal government has shown it to be, as the state has completely ignored what has happened in health plans serving Medicaid.  The state finally acknowledges that earmarking grants to supposed non-profits is likely to lead to even more fraud.  Trump’s economy is doing so great–actually it is chugging along pretty good, jobs are better than the headline shows, real wages are rising, we will have good economic growth.  The Mayo clinic is making record profits–it is a non-profit–and abandoning clinics in small towns in Minnesota.  And you wonder why health care spending is so high.  International travelers aren’t coming to Minnesota–why would they; what would bring them.

Over and out for now.