{"id":78576,"date":"2021-06-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78576"},"modified":"2021-06-29T07:16:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T12:16:23","slug":"the-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78576","title":{"rendered":"The Asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MInneapolis City Councilor Andrea Jenkins, presumably feeling herself swaddled in Urban Progressive Privilege and Intersectional Armor, went to a demonstration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And was promptly out-lefted:<\/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\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Minneapolis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Minneapolis<\/a> city council member blocked in and held hostage by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BLM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BLM<\/a> &quot;protestors&quot; until she signed a statement agreeing to their demands.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1HVacKQ3TA\">pic.twitter.com\/1HVacKQ3TA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; AntifaWatch (@AntifaWatch2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AntifaWatch2\/status\/1409728587062779904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;BLM&#8221; blocked her car, demanding she sign a list of their demands:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which, naturally, happened. <\/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\">Here&#39;s the signing of the statement<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s71dSc70mU\">pic.twitter.com\/s71dSc70mU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; AntifaWatch (@AntifaWatch2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AntifaWatch2\/status\/1409730196664639491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s assume for a moment that this whole spiel isn&#8217;t staged, to give Jenkins&#8217;a whiff of the intersectional activist&#8217;s most important commodity, victimhood &#8211; and the fact that &#8220;BLM&#8221; put a dorky white kid in front of the car, allowing Jenkins to bellow about &#8220;white suprmacy&#8221; just loudly enough for the camera to pick it up, lends at least casual credence to the theory&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and the more I think about it, the more I think &#8220;staged&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But let&#8217;s pump the brakes.  What if it was legitimate and organic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember &#8211; if anyone replaces the clown car that is running Minneapolis &#8211; Frey, Jenkins, Cunningham, Alondra Cano, Jeremiah Ellison &#8211; it&#8217;s going to be someone to their left.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MInneapolis City Councilor Andrea Jenkins, presumably feeling herself swaddled in Urban Progressive Privilege and Intersectional Armor, went to a demonstration. And was promptly out-lefted: &#8220;BLM&#8221; blocked her car, demanding she sign a list of their demands: Which, naturally, happened. Let&#8217;s assume for a moment that this whole spiel isn&#8217;t staged, to give Jenkins&#8217;a whiff of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78576","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=78576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78581,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78576\/revisions\/78581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}