{"id":83404,"date":"2022-09-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83404"},"modified":"2022-09-20T09:02:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:02:26","slug":"dont-forget-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83404","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Forget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s about six weeks until the election. And with polls showing Governor Klink seven points up on Scott Jensen, it\u2019s time to remind minnesotans, with their famously short attention span\u2018s, about what this last couple of years have been like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Twin Cities media desperately wants to memoryhole this episode:<\/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\">Your periodic reminder that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovTimWalz<\/a> attended the packed funeral of a stranger (who I&#39;ll argue he had a hand in killing) along with an unmasked <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenAmyKlobuchar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenAmyKlobuchar<\/a>  &#8211; while you were not permitted to have a gathering of any size to mourn your dead child, parent, sibling or spouse. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PavvNt3jh4\">pic.twitter.com\/PavvNt3jh4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ann Bauer (@annbauerwriter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/annbauerwriter\/status\/1571564179470909440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Governor Klink created a three class society:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cEssential\u201c workers \u2013 people whose stores and businesses had to be kept open at all costs; grocery stores, gas stations, pretty much any big box store, and the worlds largest candy store, in Jordan, which just happens to be owned by a big DFL campaign donor.<\/li><li>\u201cNonessential\u201c workers &#8211; people who worked at frivolous hustles like oncology clinics, cardiologists, and all manner of surgeons.<\/li><li>\u201cThe Laptop Class\u201c &#8211; everyone who could work at home, including most government union employees.  and pretty much any big box store<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>But then, his administration added injury to insult.  while you couldn\u2019t visit your family in hospitals or nursing homes, or whole funerals if they passed, somehow the Klink administration made a \u201cscientific\u201c exception for demonstrations and riots &#8211; which, according to the \u201cparty of science\u201c, were actually good for health, since science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Twin Cities media is going to go out of its  way not to remind you of any of this, or of the prosecutions of business that, desperate to stay solvent, defied the ham fisted and unscientific emergency orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t let this go down the memory hole. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s about six weeks until the election. And with polls showing Governor Klink seven points up on Scott Jensen, it\u2019s time to remind minnesotans, with their famously short attention span\u2018s, about what this last couple of years have been like. The Twin Cities media desperately wants to memoryhole this episode: Governor Klink created a three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,416,130,189,320,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-22","category-covid19","category-tc-media-bias","category-minnesotas-ministry-of-truth","category-mndfl","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83404","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=83404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83423,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83404\/revisions\/83423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}