{"id":74430,"date":"2020-06-12T07:03:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T12:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74430"},"modified":"2020-11-09T07:26:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T13:26:03","slug":"ken-martin-and-the-legion-of-smug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74430","title":{"rendered":"Ken Martin And The Legion Of Smug"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>May 14:   Ken Martin, chair of the DFL, makes a bold prediction and a really dumb statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/kenmartin73\/status\/1261132820132618242\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward nearly a month:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/coronavirus\/country\/us\/\">as of June 12, Wisconsin&#8217;s death rate per million is half that of Minnesota<\/a>.  Its active cases are a solid 40% lower than Minnesota&#8217;s.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that was after Wisconsin started out &#8220;leading&#8221; Minnesota in both categories.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t suspect it&#8217;s that Ken Martin believed anything he wrote in his May 12 tweet (least of all about the useless and idiotic Steve Sack).   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is that Martin can count on his DFL voter base &#8211; bovine herd animals with the critical thinking skills of a <em>Teen Vogue <\/em>reader &#8211; to know the difference, or care if they can.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 14: Ken Martin, chair of the DFL, makes a bold prediction and a really dumb statement: Fast forward nearly a month: as of June 12, Wisconsin&#8217;s death rate per million is half that of Minnesota. Its active cases are a solid 40% lower than Minnesota&#8217;s. And that was after Wisconsin started out &#8220;leading&#8221; Minnesota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,426],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74430","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=74430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74434,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74430\/revisions\/74434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}