{"id":71570,"date":"2019-06-18T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71570"},"modified":"2020-12-30T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T14:14:09","slug":"this-is-todays-dfl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71570","title":{"rendered":"This Is Today&#8217;s DFL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If it could be said the MInnesota DFL party has three intellectual standardbearers &#8211; the people who define the full depth and breadth of today&#8217;s DFL&#8217;s worldview, belief structure and moral parameters &#8211; they&#8217;d be Minneapolis Congressoman Ilhan Omar, Minneapolis city councilwoman Alondra Cano, and William &#8220;Robespierre&#8221; Davis.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might recall Mr. Davis from before the 2018 elections, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70122\">he &#8220;joked&#8221; about hauling Republicans &#8220;to the guillotines&#8221;<\/a>, the sort of thing that would have gotten a Republican staffer fired and exiled, but seems to have only cemented Davis&#8217; reputation as a (ahem) thought leader. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you know what they say &#8211; thought leaders&#8217; gonna lead thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cOpe, sorry about that cruise missile\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f1TuT8jNuE\">https:\/\/t.co\/f1TuT8jNuE<\/a><\/p>\u2014 William Davis (@WilhelmDavis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WilhelmDavis\/status\/1140015329353056261?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cOpe, sorry about that cruise missile\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f1TuT8jNuE\">https:\/\/t.co\/f1TuT8jNuE<\/a><\/p>\u2014 William Davis (@WilhelmDavis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WilhelmDavis\/status\/1140015329353056261?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Murder boats&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Got that, veterans?   Forget Tim Walz&#8217;s hopey-changey; this is what the Minnesota DFL actually thinks about you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vote accordingly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way &#8211; I think it&#8217;s fascinating how every time an elected DFLer is in a self-inflicted jam, some DFL staffer says something dissociative and inflammatory.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it could be said the MInnesota DFL party has three intellectual standardbearers &#8211; the people who define the full depth and breadth of today&#8217;s DFL&#8217;s worldview, belief structure and moral parameters &#8211; they&#8217;d be Minneapolis Congressoman Ilhan Omar, Minneapolis city councilwoman Alondra Cano, and William &#8220;Robespierre&#8221; Davis. You might recall Mr. Davis from before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[355],"class_list":["post-71570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl","tag-alondra-cano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71570","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=71570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71587,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71570\/revisions\/71587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}