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<\/a>Although we urge our actual state legislators not to be doing the game-drinking while working<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\nAt any rate – since the DFL has a legislative minority and an incredibly weak governor, their best shot at eking a victory out of this session is to convince The People that 2+2=”Blue”.\u00a0 And so the DFL has unleashed a wave of DFL propagandabots in the media, the alt-media, the press and in government itself, repeating the same series of lines, and lies, over and over and over – not so much repeating the Godwin-fodder “Big Lie” often enough as repeating a wide swathe of little lies – along the lines of “Tom Emmer tried to lower penalties for drunk drivers” – until the dim-witted and not-very-savvy (aka “The DFL’s swing voters”) start to think they’re true.<\/p>\n
And we might as well have fun with ’em!<\/p>\n
So it’s time to turn all the bile, the ire, the vitrol and the waterboarded context into…<\/p>\n
The Chanting Points Drinking Game<\/strong>!<\/p>\n You need the following to play:<\/p>\n Here’s how you play:<\/p>\n 1. Before viewing, give the bobblehead to a random particpant<\/strong>. 4. After each drink line, the holder of the Dayton Bobblehead passes it to the next person in the circle.<\/strong><\/p>\n 5. If anyone says “The GOP plan will [throw Grandma into the street\/freeze the children\/etc]”, the holder of the Dayton Bobblehead must drain his\/her glass immediately before passing it on to the next person. <\/strong><\/p>\n Feel free to add “house rules” for other Chanting Points – mentions of “Wall Street”, “Koch Brothers”,\u00a0 variations on the term “Neocon” or “Mubarak”, or whatever works for you!<\/p>\n Your entire party will be passed out in puddles of vomit within the hour.<\/p>\n Just like the Senate DFL caucus on the last night of the session, come to think of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nothing in state government is so sacred that you can’t link it to a drinking game. Although we urge our actual state legislators not to be doing the game-drinking while working. At any rate – since the DFL has a legislative minority and an incredibly weak governor, their best shot at eking a victory out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,2],"tags":[115,436],"class_list":["post-18296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chanting-points-memo","category-minnesota-politics","tag-abm","tag-esme-murphy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18296"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47805,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18296\/revisions\/47805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n2. Turn on the TV<\/strong>.
\n3. Whenever anyone says any variation of the following, everyone take a hit from your glass<\/strong>…<\/p>\n\n