{"id":41214,"date":"2014-01-21T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41214"},"modified":"2014-01-21T06:39:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T12:39:07","slug":"its-just-unknowable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41214","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Just&#8230;Unknowable!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is at the neighborhood hardware store. \u00a0As he examines a some hardware for a household project, Avery LIBRELLE steps around the corner and sees BERG, and engages him before he can react.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0 Blogger Berg! \u00a0You&#8217;ve been lying about Democrats!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Um, OK. \u00a0How so?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0 You&#8217;ve been saying on your blog that Minnesota Democrats favored banning guns!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Well, yeah &#8211; Alice Hausman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34329\">introduced a bill that called for confiscating guns<\/a> with magazines larger than seven rounds.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0But did any guns get confiscated?<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Well, the bill got shredded and then withdrawn!<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0So no guns got confiscated! You totes can not say that Democrats favor confiscating guns if no guns were confiscated!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0But they introduced the bill&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0 You also keep saying the DFL supports what you call the &#8220;daycare union jamdown&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Yep. The DFL voted on straight party line to compel daycare and home healthcare providers who get government subsidies to vote on joining the union. And before you say anything &#8211; yep, it&#8217;s &#8220;Just a vote&#8221;. \u00a0A vote the Democrats have already rigged with &#8220;daycare providers&#8221; who haven&#8217;t been in the business for years, but support the union.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0But have any daycare providers been pushed into a union?<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Um, no&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0 Hah! \u00a0There is no forced unionization!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Er, only because the courts slapped an injunction on it. \u00a0The DFL supported it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Nya nya nya, can&#8217;t hear you! \u00a0You also keep saying the DFL pushed through a &#8220;Senate Palace&#8221; at the last minute, spending &#8211; you allege &#8211; 90 million dollars on a Senate Office Building.<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0They did!<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0So where&#8217;s the building?<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0It hasn&#8217;t been built yet.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Ah\u00a0<em>hah<\/em>! \u00a0So there\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>no Senate Palace!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0So what you&#8217;re saying is that until a Democrat policy is actually implemented, we can&#8217;t hold the DFL accountable for it?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Obviously you hate womyn!<\/p>\n<p><em>(And SCENE)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(The above exchange was closely modeled after several actual conversations with real DFLers)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is at the neighborhood hardware store. \u00a0As he examines a some hardware for a household project, Avery LIBRELLE steps around the corner and sees BERG, and engages him before he can react. LIBRELLE: \u00a0 Blogger Berg! \u00a0You&#8217;ve been lying about Democrats! BERG: \u00a0Um, OK. \u00a0How so? LIBRELLE: \u00a0 You&#8217;ve been saying on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,18],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-41214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-pc","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41214","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=41214"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41224,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41214\/revisions\/41224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}