{"id":74730,"date":"2020-07-22T06:47:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T11:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74730"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:38:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:38:23","slug":"governor-waaaaaaaahlz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74730","title":{"rendered":"Governor Waaaaaaaahlz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governor Walz, during his presser  yesterday:<\/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\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gov. Walz responds to questions about why MN didn\u2019t address LTC deaths and outbreak sooner&#8230;and says lack of PPE and other tools were lacking because there is \u201cno national strategy.\u201d Worries about that when it comes to making decision whether to open schools. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nNqpoeO1yw\">pic.twitter.com\/nNqpoeO1yw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tom Hauser (@thauserkstp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thauserkstp\/status\/1285663299284209665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet, somehow, the four states surrounding us, <em>with the same exact federal government<\/em><sub>,<\/sub> managed to avoid a complete slaughter in their long-term care facilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weird. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Y&#8217;know what&#8217;d be cool? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we had some institution that&#8217;d probe a little further with the Governor on questions like this.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps an institution with printing presses and transmitters.  Staffed by people who see themselves as a monastic cult of truth-seekers<sup>1<\/sup>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naaah.  That&#8217;s just crazy talk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also &#8211; if all the specifics of the state&#8217;s Covid response depend on federal action, then there&#8217;s really no need for the Governor to maintain emergency powers, is there?    Tangent &#8211; isn&#8217;t that a curious combination?  Decisively seizing emergency power, and then whining about how he as no&#8230;power?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> All due respect to Tom Hauser, who seems to be the closest thing the Twin CIties media has to a genuine journalist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Walz, during his presser yesterday: And yet, somehow, the four states surrounding us, with the same exact federal government, managed to avoid a complete slaughter in their long-term care facilities. Weird. Y&#8217;know what&#8217;d be cool? If we had some institution that&#8217;d probe a little further with the Governor on questions like this. Perhaps an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,130],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-tc-media-bias","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74730","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=74730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74733,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74730\/revisions\/74733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}