{"id":85036,"date":"2023-05-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85036"},"modified":"2023-05-02T06:23:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T11:23:22","slug":"open-letter-to-rep-vang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85036","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Rep. Vang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:  Rep. Samantha Vang<br>From:  Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant<br>Re:  Gaslighting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Vang,  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You wrote the &#8220;Social Credit&#8221; bill (you call it &#8216;Stop Hate&#8217;, but my title is more accurate) that I talked about on my show over the weekend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You got a storm of criticism &#8211; almost all of it justified.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was your response:<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/RepSamanthaVang\/status\/1651983286929858561\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well,no.   That&#8217;s not what it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Y&#8217;see, the market for hate crime far, far outstrips the supply, notwithstanding the DFL&#8217;s &#8220;Reichstag Firing&#8221;.  For example:<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/LiishKozlowski\/status\/1651996187753426971\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The mosque fires were set, not just by one guy, the the one criminal in Minneapolis dumb enough to actually commit a crime that Minneapolis&#8217;s city government still gives a sh*t about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No &#8211; Rep. Vang&#8217;s bill will essentially collect statemens about &#8220;microagressions&#8221; reported by protected classes.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bumper sticker they don&#8217;t like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something overheard in a cafe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Trump sign?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody knows.  The bill allows no scrutiny, no Data Practices requests, no accountability or transparency of any kind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is, in every respect, a &#8220;social credit&#8221; bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is a key part of the Communist system, Rep. Vang, that your parents and her people fled.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Rep. Samantha VangFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Gaslighting Rep. Vang, You wrote the &#8220;Social Credit&#8221; bill (you call it &#8216;Stop Hate&#8217;, but my title is more accurate) that I talked about on my show over the weekend. You got a storm of criticism &#8211; almost all of it justified. This was your response: Well,no. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,320,426,18,51,421],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-85036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-mndfl","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-pc","category-liberal-tyranny","category-snappy-answers-to-casual-gaslighting","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85036","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=85036"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85046,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85036\/revisions\/85046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}