{"id":82859,"date":"2022-07-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82859"},"modified":"2022-07-19T09:25:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T14:25:35","slug":"pauline-kael-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82859","title":{"rendered":"Pauline Kael Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:  Lieutenant Governor Flanagan<br>From:  Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant<br>Re:  This&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lieutant Governor Flanagan, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About this appearance, on a local, uh, livestream, I guess?<\/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\">On <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LovettOrLeaveIt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LovettOrLeaveIt<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonlovett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jonlovett<\/a> is joined by Lt. Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peggyflanagan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@peggyflanagan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayorCarter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MayorCarter<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theeashleyray?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@theeashleyray<\/a> to rant about professional clothing expectations for women, airplane bathrooms in first class, and more. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qYaLzy27kF\">https:\/\/t.co\/qYaLzy27kF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9uCEqR1ZbI\">pic.twitter.com\/9uCEqR1ZbI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Crooked Media (@CrookedMedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrookedMedia\/status\/1548749731735691264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have so many questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Baaaaaaaaaaahb:  <\/strong>For starters:  Does anyone <em>really<\/em> care how you dress?  And by &#8220;anyone&#8221;, I don&#8217;t mean &#8220;Baaaaaaahb from FRIDley&#8221; &#8211; although we&#8217;ll come back to him, and to there.  You&#8217;re a public figure.  You&#8217;re going to get, uh, &#8220;Feedback&#8221;.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you are one of the four most powerful people in MInnesota; you are arguably the most powerful Lieutenant Governor in recent Minnesota history, since the Governor only serves at the pleasure of the extreme &#8220;progressive&#8221; caucus you lead.  Beyond that, yoiu&#8217;re a member of the political class, from a social echo chamber in you can do pretty much anything you want, without any consequences whatsoever (and, in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80547\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"80547\">deed, have done just that)<\/a>.  You (and your family) have a lifetime sinecure, on the taxpayer&#8217;s dime.  You could wear aluminum foil pants and a 2LiveCrew t-shirt, or pretty much anything but a MAGA cap, with complete impunity.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Indeed &#8211; given that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peggy_Flanagan\">you&#8217;ve never, not once in your life, worked in the private sector<\/a>, you are in the very rare position of never having <em>had <\/em>to obey any sort of conventional dress code, outside whatever rules the MN House of Representatives imposes &#8211; and if you had any problems about any rules you had to follow on that steppingstone to power, the record is silent). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So even <em>if <\/em>some (fictional?) &#8220;Baaaaaaaaaahb from FRIDley&#8221; dunks on your attire &#8211; so what? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does it affect you, your life, your living, your <em>power<\/em>, in any way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because if not, it isn&#8217;t unreasonable to think you&#8217;re doing it to drum up some phony grievance, a bloody shirt of phony victimization for one of the most powerful, <em>entitled<\/em> people in Minnesota to wave about. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FRIDley?<\/strong>:  I was struck by the contempt you clearly felt for Baaaaaaaaahb from Fridley.  I was more struck by the laugn your audience shared with you about the reference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You seem to feel a palpable contempt for people who aren&#8217;t like you and your neighbors in the leftist echo chamber, and to feed off the contempt you, plural, feel for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why is that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Lieutenant Governor FlanaganFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: This&#8230; Lieutant Governor Flanagan, About this appearance, on a local, uh, livestream, I guess? I have so many questions. Baaaaaaaaaaahb: For starters: Does anyone really care how you dress? And by &#8220;anyone&#8221;, I don&#8217;t mean &#8220;Baaaaaaahb from FRIDley&#8221; &#8211; although we&#8217;ll come back to him, and to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,320,79],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-82859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entitled-america","category-mndfl","category-slander-files","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82859","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=82859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82861,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82859\/revisions\/82861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}