{"id":78788,"date":"2021-07-16T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78788"},"modified":"2021-07-16T13:23:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T18:23:50","slug":"unexpectedly-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78788","title":{"rendered":"Unexpectedly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wasn\u2019t living here in 1980. I\u2019m not sure how Minneapolis\u2019s Loony Left reacted to the \u201cSolidarity\u201c protests in Poland &#8211; where the Polish \u201cSolidarity\u201c trade union led a year of demonstrations against Poland\u2019s communist government.   The demonstrations &#8211; which newly elected President Ronald Reagan supported morally, symbolically and materially &#8211; were the beginning of the end of the communist bloc, and the Soviet Union with it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have vague memories, arriving in the Twin Cities years later, of sensing that an awful lot of Minnesota  leftists had bet on the wrong side in that particular episode. I mean, two decades later some of them still did, in my comment section. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, 40 years later, as a similarly benighted country protests for similar reasons, a Democrat government is lending the Cuban demonstrators a bit of rhetorical support from a senile president, along with an executive branch that is, as we noted yesterday, laying down the law hard in favor of the regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>And the Minnesota left?<\/p><p>They are s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/amp\/s\/www.fox9.com\/news\/protesters-gather-in-minneapolis-in-support-of-cuban-people-amid-economic-crisis.amp\">howing themselves to be as morally depraved  and intellectually bovine as ever:<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Facing an economic crisis, food and medicine shortages and rising prices, the Cuban people are demanding that the communist regime give up power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;We have to see the larger context of the pandemic, COVID-19. The economy has also collapsed, Cuba depends on tourism,&#8221; said Nimtz. The Minnesota Cuba Committee is also calling for an end to the U.S. trade embargo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;What we are doing here is to demand, demand that the Biden administration end the embargo, lift the embargo, and do as he promised,&#8221; said Nimtz.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Minnesota Progressives; reliable communist useful idiots for 60 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn\u2019t living here in 1980. I\u2019m not sure how Minneapolis\u2019s Loony Left reacted to the \u201cSolidarity\u201c protests in Poland &#8211; where the Polish \u201cSolidarity\u201c trade union led a year of demonstrations against Poland\u2019s communist government. The demonstrations &#8211; which newly elected President Ronald Reagan supported morally, symbolically and materially &#8211; were the beginning 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":[20,426,374,370,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-social-justice","category-the-bernie-bros","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78788","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=78788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78790,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78788\/revisions\/78790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}