{"id":83023,"date":"2022-08-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83023"},"modified":"2022-08-07T08:27:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T13:27:08","slug":"stare-decisive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83023","title":{"rendered":"Berg’s Law: Stare Decisive<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been a while since we inaugurated a new Berg’s Law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it’s high time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berg’s 24th Law Of Rhetorical Predictability<\/strong>: Democrat politicians can, and routinely do, say anything they want, regardless of honesty or even factuality, confident that their audience, while theoretically “educated”, has no capacity for critical thought”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ve seen this writ large…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…well, no. We’ve seen this writ small, venial and a little bit pathetic this past week or so, as Governor Walz has gone out of his way to take credit for a “Middle Class Tax Cut”…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…that he fought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The only <\/em>reason Governor Flanagan and Mr. Walz have “never raised a tax” is because of that single-vote, and later 3-5 vote, MNGOP majority in the Senate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Flanagan and Walz made the claim in the Farmfest debate, and it’s on their TV ads that have been inundating local TV this past few weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because they know local media will never check them on it, and DFL voters can’t think critically anyway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They could say “2+2=Abortion”. and every ELCA-haired crone at every coffee shop in Crocus Hill and Kenwood will nod their head and chant it back in response. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s why it’s called a “Law”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a while since we inaugurated a new Berg’s Law. But it’s high time. Berg’s 24th Law Of Rhetorical Predictability: Democrat politicians can, and routinely do, say anything they want, regardless of honesty or even factuality, confident that their audience, while theoretically “educated”, has no capacity for critical thought”. We’ve seen this writ large… […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,320],"tags":[451],"class_list":["post-83023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-22","category-mndfl","tag-bergs-24th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83023","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=83023"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83033,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83023\/revisions\/83033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}