{"id":69821,"date":"2019-01-29T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69821"},"modified":"2019-05-07T07:26:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T12:26:05","slug":"so-proud-to-be-a-minnesotan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69821","title":{"rendered":"So Proud To Be A Minnesotan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ilhan Omar &#8211; perhaps the most powerful person in Minnesota today in terms of foreign policy &#8211; twote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A US backed coup in Venezuela is not a solution to the dire issues they face. Trump&#8217;s efforts to install a far right opposition will only incite violence and further destabilize the region. We must support Mexico, Uruguay &amp; the Vatican&#8217;s efforts to facilitate a peaceful dialogue.<\/p>\u2014 Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN\/status\/1088599057981943809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>She was basically parroting the Maduro regime line &#8211; that the Trump administration was imposing a &#8220;far right&#8221; government on the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/11\/09\/us-sanctions-venezuelan-officials-alleging-election-fraud.html\">democratically elected<\/a>&#8221; government of Venezuela. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A congressman who isn&#8217;t actually an active disgrace to his state, Carlos Curbelo, responded:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jguaido?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jguaido<\/a> is actually from a center left party. He supports human rights &amp; the fair treatment of all people. He was also legitimately &amp; democratically elected. You\u2019d think a progressive would be a little more supportive. But no, the sick obsession w <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> is blinding <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Eh96qanAE4\">https:\/\/t.co\/Eh96qanAE4<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Carlos Curbelo (@carloslcurbelo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carloslcurbelo\/status\/1088632314383478784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>In her own way, Omar may be a dumber, more toxic sign of the times than <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\">Tide Pod Evita<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilhan Omar &#8211; perhaps the most powerful person in Minnesota today in terms of foreign policy &#8211; twote: A US backed coup in Venezuela is not a solution to the dire issues they face. Trump&#8217;s efforts to install a far right opposition will only incite violence and further destabilize the region. We must support Mexico, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[403],"class_list":["post-69821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-world","tag-ilhan-omar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69821","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=69821"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69839,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69821\/revisions\/69839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}