In one legislative session with a Democrat trifecta in 2023, ie MN Senate, House and Guv— the Democrats passed all of the laws you list w virtually no Rebublican support. In the process, they also :
— took a onetime unprecedented $17 B budget surplus, mainly due to federal covid funds, and STILL managed to INCREASE state taxes by $ 10 B.
—they thereby increased the state budget by 40 PERCENT in one legislative session
—they passed a costly family leave mandate on businesses of up to 12-20 weeks financed by payroll taxes. The law was vaguely worded with few restriction or protections against fraud. It created another huge bureaucracy to administer the program.
One lesson of California (there are so many) is that the politics matter. You can have the best weather, abundant natural resources, impressive human capital - and you can still get things very wrong and make a mess of things with bad politics and stupid, weak leaders.
90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18.
Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.
Failed former Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara called Minneapolis voters "extremely detached bourgeois." Probably the only true thing he ever said. Part of not fixing things is being extremely detached liberals.
Like have you ever noticed that their response to anything wrong in the city is hey look at the lake that I'm sitting next to and the croissant that I'm eating with my dog next to my bike?
Illogical. A total rejection of truth. We can no longer excuse this kind of thinking. Leftwing victimhood has warped the minds of too many black Americans.
Maybe Kao’s decision — the one she made not to prosecute protesters who without consent entered a church and shut down an ongoing religious service through intimidation and disruptive noise—was a cynical wink and nod to the Minnesota left. But I suspect she and her underlings really believe their decision is a correct interpretation of law, and are just too blissfully dense and ignorant to believe otherwise.
It appears that Minnesota politicians and prosecutors have a type of mob blindness, where they cannot see crimes committed by the far left. That was evident when City Attorney Irene Kao tossed all charges against demonstrators from the City Church. https://t.co/Nx0LJGlPVu
It appears that Minnesota politicians and prosecutors have a type of mob blindness, where they cannot see crimes committed by the far left. That was evident when City Attorney Irene Kao tossed all charges against demonstrators from the City Church. https://t.co/Nx0LJGlPVu
@InezFeltscher Yes. Fascists always argue for more specific standards of proof and due process protections when evaluating public allegations of misconduct or domestic assault. 🤷🏽♂️😵💫
It's all in "Adios, America!" The two groups LEAST likely to go back were British and Jewish immigrants.
About half of the rest couldn't make it and went home BECAUSE WE WEREN'T A GIANT WELFARE STATE. Laissez faire got us the best people -- and it sure cost a lot less.
LA is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, in the most beautiful state in the world. Only a Democrat could wreck it — and they did. @MarkSimoneNY
EXCLUSIVE: Honduran drug gangs have taken over the streets of San Francisco. We spent three nights documenting "the Hondos," who have cornered the market for fentanyl and meth—and who will slash you with a machete if you oppose them.
Libs fervently believe that every institution in America exists to serve the liberal cause. If one doesn't, it must either be destroyed or captured. But the worst scenario for them is when a captured institution is freed from liberal control. History is only supposed to move in one direction. That's when you get the big tantrums:
Elon Musk perfectly summarized the woke mind virus
It is an artificial mental civil war designed to divide us. It actively amplifies racism and sexism while claiming to do the exact opposite. It makes people hate each other and hate themselves
It is completely anti-merit and anti-fun. It is just pure evil