{"id":69675,"date":"2019-01-10T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69675"},"modified":"2019-01-10T12:45:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T18:45:01","slug":"consequences-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69675","title":{"rendered":"Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:  Senator Scott Jensen<br>From:  Mitch Berg, Obstreporous Peasant<br>Re:  Quitcherbeefin&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Jensen, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in 2016, you ran as a gun-friendly candidate.  You gladly accepted the endorsement of the MN Gun Owners PAC.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then you turned around in the 2018 session, when Everytown for Gun &#8220;Safety&#8221; started pumping money into the state, and stabbed you pro-human-rights supporters in the back.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And judging by this Facebook post, you don&#8217;t seem to get why what&#8217;s left of your &#8220;base&#8221; is  upset with you today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"487\" height=\"854\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-09-at-9.10.43-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69676\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-09-at-9.10.43-PM.png 487w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-09-at-9.10.43-PM-171x300.png 171w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For the benefit of those not following along at home, the Senator is talking about this photo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Image-from-iOS-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69677\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Image-from-iOS-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Image-from-iOS-1.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was taken the opening day of the MN State Legislature, on Tuesday.  It&#8217;s Jensen, spooning with a couple of suburban gun-grabber soccer moms from Moms Want Action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, Senator Jensen, you&#8217;re upset that your <em>real&nbsp;<\/em>supporters&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;well, former supporters &#8211; are taking umbrage at you for cuddling up with the Criminal Safety movement.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, it&#8217;s not you.  It&#8217;s <em>us<\/em>, naturally&#8230;:  &#8220;Mean spirited pushiness has halted discussion of important issues&#8221; you say.  No &#8211; the illiteracy, cowardice and inherent bullying nature of the gun grabber movement has halted discussion, Senator Jensen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You&nbsp;picked&nbsp;the&nbsp;wrong&nbsp;side<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, seriously &#8211; remember Dario Anselmo?  The Republican who spoke at the Moms Want Action rally last fall, trying to ingratiate himself with the gun grabbers?   Who went and endorsed an <em>actual&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>Democrat who wound up riding into office on a wave of out-of-state money that Anselmo never had the faintest shot at, anyway? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ringing any bells, Senator? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Repent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Senator Scott JensenFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Quitcherbeefin&#8217;. Senator Jensen, Back in 2016, you ran as a gun-friendly candidate. You gladly accepted the endorsement of the MN Gun Owners PAC. And then you turned around in the 2018 session, when Everytown for Gun &#8220;Safety&#8221; started pumping money into the state, and stabbed you pro-human-rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69675","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=69675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69683,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69675\/revisions\/69683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}