{"id":77166,"date":"2021-03-12T07:01:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T13:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77166"},"modified":"2021-07-14T14:33:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:33:51","slug":"and-just-like-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77166","title":{"rendered":"And Just Like Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a year of hysteria, of gaslighting, of &#8220;Karen&#8221; nagging you from behind four masks, of plush-bottom public union employees telling unemployed waitresses &#8220;we&#8217;re all in this together&#8221; via Zoom from their ranch houses in Apple Valley, suddenly, after one barely coherent speech in the wake of the signing of an immense power grab disguised as a pork barrel bill&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;everything is OK?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Minnesota is ready. The President\u2019s announcement tonight is the shot in the arm we all need. With a strong federal partner, and the work we have done in Minnesota to prepare, we are ready to meet this moment and end this pandemic.<\/p>&mdash; Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz\/status\/1370223944612126730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So let&#8217;s get this straight &#8211; after a <em>year <\/em>of dictatorial control, <em>now <\/em>Minnesota is &#8220;ready?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And &#8220;we&#8221; are &#8220;ready&#8221; <em>after <\/em>a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/us\/states-reopen-map-coronavirus.html\">near majority have re-opened<\/a>, without their governors publicly rolling around in the glory and majesty of their own omnipotence like Scrooge McDuck cavorting about in a vault full of quarters?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes.  Yes, they are.  Suddenly, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/12\/briefing\/biden-speech-astrazeneca-vaccine-beeple-nfts.html\">hope&#8221; is acceptable<\/a>.  Quadruple-masking?   Scary new variants?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pish-tush!  The only thing to fear is fear itself!  Happy Days Are Here Again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The House majority leader, as if on cue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Help is on the way. <br><br>Basic competence matters. Believing that government can and should help people matters. Elections matter.<\/p>&mdash; Ryan Winkler (@_RyanWinkler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_RyanWinkler\/status\/1370194848003756034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally, Ryan Winkler tells (the second cousin of) the truth.   While the pandemic was and remains real, the Minnesota government&#8217;s response has been entirely contrived to sway the election, and to give the political class a &#8220;big win&#8221; (they&#8217;ll let the media handle that for them) to use to evangelize transforming society into Big Left&#8217;s vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a year of hysteria, of gaslighting, of &#8220;Karen&#8221; nagging you from behind four masks, of plush-bottom public union employees telling unemployed waitresses &#8220;we&#8217;re all in this together&#8221; via Zoom from their ranch houses in Apple Valley, suddenly, after one barely coherent speech in the wake of the signing of an immense power grab disguised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,51],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-77166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-winkler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77166","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=77166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77170,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77166\/revisions\/77170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}