{"id":82611,"date":"2022-06-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82611"},"modified":"2022-06-27T06:32:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T11:32:16","slug":"lets-be-honest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82611","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Be Honest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Look &#8211; believe what you want to believe.  Let a thousand lights shine . The founding fathers intended for this to be a pluralistic society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I do get tired of <em>preening<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To wit:<\/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\">Do these look like women who are ready to back down? <br><br>At the Minnesota State Capitol on Dobbs with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PPFA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PPFA<\/a> Sarah Stoesz, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenTinaSmith?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenTinaSmith<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LtGovFlanagan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LtGovFlanagan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovTimWalz<\/a> <br>Photo by Aaron Lavinsky <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StarTribune<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/38ANK3aqJF\">pic.twitter.com\/38ANK3aqJF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amyklobuchar\/status\/1541043211593973762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Why, no, Senator Klobuchar.  None of them do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But not for the reason you are thinking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of you came up through the bureaucracy in one-party, one-view organizations either in government or the non-profit industrial complex &#8211; the Henco Attorney&#8217;s office, Planned Infanticide and the Minnesota Council of Churches.   Three of the four of you were or are executives, meaning you&#8217;ve long since got out of the habit of taking orders from anyone.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith and Ms. Granola Frightwig, coming up through Planned Parenthood as they did, have never had to recognize any such thing as dissent or opposition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flanagan has a sinecure in a one-party district; Klobuchar and Smith are the beneficiaries of incumbency, neither of whom are up for election this year (for which their staffs must be thanking their lucky stars).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of you can do pretty much anything you want without fear of media scrutiny of any kind.  For Senator Klobuchar, it&#8217;s a matter of generational fealty to &#8220;one of their own&#8221;, but the other three can operate immune from all scrutiny as well.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of you have amply manifested this sense of entitlement; Senator Klobuchar for exhibiting the sort of behavior as a boss that only women can get away with (by bleating &#8220;if a man would do it, they&#8217;d just call him &#8216;tough'&#8221; loudly enough to make people believe this &#8220;Mad Men&#8221;-era stereotype); Lt. Gov. Flanagan by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80547\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"80547\">sending a mob to tear down a statue<\/a> that she didn&#8217;t have to bother removing via due process, even though she runs the committee that manages the capitol&#8217;s statuary.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So no, Senator.  None of you look like you are going to &#8220;back down&#8221;.  None of you have ever had to develop the facility to do <em>anything <\/em>&#8220;across the aisle&#8221;.  It&#8217;s a foreign concept to all of you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s a stupid thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look &#8211; believe what you want to believe. Let a thousand lights shine . The founding fathers intended for this to be a pluralistic society. But I do get tired of preening. To wit: Why, no, Senator Klobuchar. None of them do. But not for the reason you are thinking. All of you came up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[408],"class_list":["post-82611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","tag-abortion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82611","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=82611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82612,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82611\/revisions\/82612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}