{"id":79346,"date":"2021-08-26T07:06:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T12:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79346"},"modified":"2021-08-26T07:06:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T12:06:57","slug":"hear-me-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79346","title":{"rendered":"Hear Me Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John Thompson sprang to prominence threatening to burn down Hugo, MN. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was elected to the Minnesota House with an overwhelming margin of victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was pulled over a month or so back with no license plate and an invalid Minnesota license, but a valid Wisconsin one &#8211; he denounced the officer as &#8220;Racist&#8221; &#8211; apparently leading to a trail of investigation pointing to possible fraud and a background of other unsavoriness.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He followed up the episode with a dreadful non-apology apology&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;followed by a few perfunctory demands from the DFL that he resign &#8211; which have been followed up with all the alacrity of a Joe Biden foreign policy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet he just becomes more prominent:<\/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\">DFL State Representative John Thompson spoke at a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/line3?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#line3<\/a> protest today at the Minnesota State Capitol with other DFL legislators. DFL party leaders and elected officials have called on Thompson to resign from office, but he has refused. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnleg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mnleg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l5MNc0GznW\">pic.twitter.com\/l5MNc0GznW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Michael Brodkorb (@mbrodkorb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mbrodkorb\/status\/1430643575839207428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My theory:   Thompson will just become more and more prominent.  His early issues, spun into meaninglessness with the active connivance of a metro media machine that serves mostly as a DFL public relations apparatus, will get romanticized &#8211; or at least bowdlerized &#8211; into more an &#8220;origin story&#8221; than a record. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 2025, he will have Ryan Winkler&#8217;s job.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 2030, Ken Martin&#8217;s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Thompson is the MNDFL&#8217;s leading public intellectual.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Thompson sprang to prominence threatening to burn down Hugo, MN. He was elected to the Minnesota House with an overwhelming margin of victory. He was pulled over a month or so back with no license plate and an invalid Minnesota license, but a valid Wisconsin one &#8211; he denounced the officer as &#8220;Racist&#8221; &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79346","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=79346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79347,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79346\/revisions\/79347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}