{"id":84551,"date":"2023-02-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84551"},"modified":"2023-02-27T15:29:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T21:29:14","slug":"so-many-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84551","title":{"rendered":"So Many Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The   <em>Strib <\/em>notes that the DFL is going on exactly the orgy of &#8220;progressive&#8221; legislating I (and everyone with a brain and a useful education) knew they would. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I come not to talk policy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I come to take optics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look at the photo:<\/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\">After years of gridlock, we\u2019re making progress on issues well supported by Minnesotans. We won the election, promising to act. We came into session, ready to lead. We are moving a powerful agenda for people. We didn\u2019t come to play. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JoyFightWin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JoyFightWin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7bNWQM9FTP\">https:\/\/t.co\/7bNWQM9FTP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Erin Murphy (@epmurphymn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/epmurphymn\/status\/1629955749450326019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a couple of questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Is this the most badly posed &#8220;joy&#8221; photo you&#8217;ve ever seen?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What&#8217;s Lt. Governor Flanagan doing, not in costume?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Am I the only one who thinks these dailiy photo ops, with staged crowds of grinning rent-a-constituents, are starting to look just a <em>liiiiitle <\/em>North Korean?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why does the governor look like his endoscopist told him he&#8217;s going to have to do the two-day cleanout process for his next colonoscopy?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strib notes that the DFL is going on exactly the orgy of &#8220;progressive&#8221; legislating I (and everyone with a brain and a useful education) knew they would. But I come not to talk policy. I come to take optics. Look at the photo: I&#8217;ve got a couple of questions:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84551","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=84551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84552,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84551\/revisions\/84552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}