{"id":59984,"date":"2016-08-16T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59984"},"modified":"2019-05-07T07:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T12:27:00","slug":"more-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59984","title":{"rendered":"More Smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Power Line broke the story of Ilhan Omar&#8217;s apparent sham marriage to her brother (which we touched on yesterday), Channel 9 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/politics\/191617665-story\">notes that there seems to be no divorce on file <\/a>between Ilhan Omar and the man who is apparently her brother.<\/p>\n<p>Omar&#8217;s response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt matters that I am a woman. It matters that I am a Somali-American woman. It matters that I am a Muslim and immigrant woman&#8230;I know deeply that the people of District 60B oppose Donald Trump-style misogyny, racism, anti-immigration rhetoric and Islamophobic division.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Absent from the response: \u00a0any\u00a0<em>response<\/em>, other than &#8220;you&#8217;re teh racist&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Which will be fine in the DFL cesspool that is 60B, where a pair of novelty wind-up chattering teeth would get 65% of the vote if it had a &#8220;DFL&#8221; sticker on it.<\/p>\n<p>(And today&#8217;s award for meaningless political chatter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We stand together to build a more prosperous and equitable district and <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">state<\/span><\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As usual, in 60B as in most of Minneapolis, the only &#8220;prosperity&#8221; to come from the political process will be to politicians and their hangers-on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Power Line broke the story of Ilhan Omar&#8217;s apparent sham marriage to her brother (which we touched on yesterday), Channel 9 notes that there seems to be no divorce on file between Ilhan Omar and the man who is apparently her brother. Omar&#8217;s response: \u201cIt matters that I am a woman. It matters that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,320],"tags":[403],"class_list":["post-59984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-mndfl","tag-ilhan-omar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59984","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=59984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59986,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59984\/revisions\/59986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}