{"id":84020,"date":"2022-12-06T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84020"},"modified":"2022-12-09T09:51:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T15:51:15","slug":"be-still-and-know-that-we-are-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84020","title":{"rendered":"Be Still, And Know That We Are Government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:  Minnesota Peasants.  Er, Citize&#8230;Subjects.  Let&#8217;s go with Subjects.<br>From:  Minnesota State Government<br>Re:  Take Comfort<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your paycheck is worth 8% less than it was last year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The price of food and gas is waaaay up.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your rent is going up.  Lots.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cost of borrowing has more than doubled.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The schools are failing &#8211; and your government blames you for it, and for everything else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But don&#8217;t trouble your hearts, simple peasants.  Because while you may suffer, your government is doing just fine. <\/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\">The massive forecast will shape early budget conversations as Democrats take complete control of government. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UklVvbGRZ2\">https:\/\/t.co\/UklVvbGRZ2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune\/status\/1600152989825732609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Because while peasants like you come and go, State Government is forever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in that, you should take comfort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Signed<br>Minnesota State Government<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Minnesota Peasants. Er, Citize&#8230;Subjects. Let&#8217;s go with Subjects.From: Minnesota State GovernmentRe: Take Comfort Your paycheck is worth 8% less than it was last year. The price of food and gas is waaaay up. Your rent is going up. Lots. The cost of borrowing has more than doubled. The schools are failing &#8211; and your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,320,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84020","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=84020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84050,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84020\/revisions\/84050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}