{"id":73317,"date":"2020-02-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73317"},"modified":"2020-02-18T20:23:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T02:23:55","slug":"lie-first-lie-always-lie-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73317","title":{"rendered":"Lie First, Lie Always:  Lie, Finally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Has it only been four years that the &#8220;Reverend&#8221; Nancy Nord Bence took over as the &#8216;Executive Director&#8221; and one of about five actual &#8220;members&#8221; of &#8220;Protect&#8221; Minnesota?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes it seems like so much longer.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even by Twin Cities &#8220;progressive&#8221; standards, the &#8220;Reverend&#8221; Nord Bence blazed a trail of intellectual and moral depravity in which she stood nearly alone.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I being hyperbolic?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh heavens no:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>She accused the MN Gun Owners Caucus of inviting &#8220;White Supremacists&#8221; to speak at their annual rally (and this was before Big Left accused <em>everyone <\/em>of &#8220;white supremacy&#8221;)<\/li><li>She accused the Caucus of involvement in the firebombing of the Dar Al Farouk mosque.  <\/li><li>Showed herself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71698\">to be a casual racist<\/a><\/li><li>They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?cat=340\">slandered<\/a> Caucus political director Rob Doar<\/li><li>LIed about the goings-on at the Senate hearings in HIbbing a few weeks ago<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and was basically such a font of fodder that not only did I give her her own permanent tag, but she was granted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?cat=340\">nearly-personal category<\/a> on this blog.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From that first day to today, <strong>the &#8220;Reverend&#8221; Nord Bence has never &#8211; not once &#8211; made a statement about guns, gun laws, gun owners, gun crime, or anything about the Second Amendment that is simultaneously substantial, original and true<\/strong>.  Her constant &#8220;false witness&#8221; about her law-abiding fellow citizens should be regarded as an abomination by her erstwhile denomination, the ELCA.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I said &#8220;should&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But all good, loathsome-yet-risible things must come to an end.  The &#8220;Reverend&#8221; is picking up and moving along:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/PM-NNB-SOL.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73318\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/PM-NNB-SOL.png 600w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/PM-NNB-SOL-228x300.png 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, if it&#8217;s like most posts on the &#8220;Protect&#8221; MN facebook page, there&#8217;d be a better than even chance the post would be wrong, and quickly retracted, even if it <em>weren&#8217;t <\/em>a lie.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it&#8217;s apparently as legit as anything &#8220;Protect&#8221; MN ever actually writes.  The &#8220;Reverend&#8221; is going to lend her, um, &#8220;talents&#8221; to getting Democrats elected.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are only two things we can be sure of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Any campaign she&#8217;s involved in, outside safe urban areas (and by &#8220;safe&#8221;, I mean both for the DFL and for matronly unarmed white women to walk around in), is doomed. <\/li><li>&#8220;Protect&#8221; MN will hire someone even more radical to replace Nord Bence.  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Adios, Nancy.  You are a liar, and you never packed the gear to stand up to a rational debate, but&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;well, that pretty much covers it.  Swirl away down the soilpipe of history, you sad lying hag. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has it only been four years that the &#8220;Reverend&#8221; Nancy Nord Bence took over as the &#8216;Executive Director&#8221; and one of about five actual &#8220;members&#8221; of &#8220;Protect&#8221; Minnesota? Sometimes it seems like so much longer. 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