{"id":82918,"date":"2022-07-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82918"},"modified":"2022-07-25T07:55:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:55:11","slug":"uncancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82918","title":{"rendered":"Uncancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week, after a brief campaign by the DFL\u2018s noise machine too spin remarks by GOP lieutenant governor candidate Matt Birk out of context, to local restaurants – the nook and Shamrocks, both owned by the same company – removed the \u201cMatt Birk\u201c burger from their menus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The petition reportedly got 176 signatures. And the restaurants caved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think it\u2019s high time they realized that the vast majority in Minnesota does, in fact, stand for a free market of ideas, where everyone can and should be heard without having to worry about having their livelihoods clobbered by the mob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first step of pushing back? What the heck – a counterpetition<\/a>. If they got 176 signatures? We are going to get 352.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a pretty good chance this is going to be followed by a group of people who like burgers, and who tip well, going down to one of those restaurants just to make sure they\u2019re getting the message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go ahead Dash sign up. And pass the link around to everyone who is sick and tired of cancel culture and doesn\u2019t want to take anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, after a brief campaign by the DFL\u2018s noise machine too spin remarks by GOP lieutenant governor candidate Matt Birk out of context, to local restaurants – the nook and Shamrocks, both owned by the same company – removed the \u201cMatt Birk\u201c burger from their menus. The petition reportedly got 176 signatures. And the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled","category-minnesota-politics","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82918","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=82918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82919,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82918\/revisions\/82919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}