{"id":84203,"date":"2023-01-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84203"},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:31:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T16:31:42","slug":"opportunity-drifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84203","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity Drifts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A friend of the blog emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>With this most recent snowstorm, there has been lots of discussion about snow removal. Reasonable people look at the streets of Minneapolis and Saint Paul and say no wonder people are moving to suburbs-the cities are just incompetent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Leftist urbanists look at the state of the streets of Minneapolis and Saint Paul and giggle saying ha ha car drivers. We hate you and get out of our city so we can drive it all ourselves. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The really clueless look at the condition of the streets of Minneapolis and Saint Paul and say, hey! Let&#8217;s charge people even more so we can mess up sidewalks (alleys in the case of Saint Paul) the same way we mess up the streets. You people don&#8217;t really need to be anywhere for the winter anyway, right? Just let us take good care of you. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/screenshot_20230108-092559_twitter-269x300.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-84207\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/screenshot_20230108-092559_twitter-269x300.jpg 269w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/screenshot_20230108-092559_twitter-768x857.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/screenshot_20230108-092559_twitter.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything from cradle to grave is an opportunity to transfer money and power from people to the institutions of big left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you internalize that, you understand the goals of the DFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog emails: With this most recent snowstorm, there has been lots of discussion about snow removal. Reasonable people look at the streets of Minneapolis and Saint Paul and say no wonder people are moving to suburbs-the cities are just incompetent. Leftist urbanists look at the state of the streets of Minneapolis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84203","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=84203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84208,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84203\/revisions\/84208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}