{"id":85186,"date":"2023-05-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85186"},"modified":"2023-05-22T11:11:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T16:11:38","slug":"the-little-mussolinis-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85186","title":{"rendered":"The Little Mussolinis Among Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Representative&#8221; Andy Smith, DFL-Rochester, is so <em>annoyed <\/em>by having to deal with dissent:<\/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\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnleg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mnleg<\/a> HD25B DFL Rep. Andy Smith complains that he has to hear the minority party&#39;s opposition to the legislative session and work through the night. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlphaNewsMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlphaNewsMN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/action_liberty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@action_liberty<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonJustice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JonJustice<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathanmhansen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nathanmhansen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMaryFranson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepMaryFranson<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elliottengenMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elliottengenMN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A3vI5bCzgT\">pic.twitter.com\/A3vI5bCzgT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; LeftistsofMN (@LeftistsofMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeftistsofMN\/status\/1660622130931814401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 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;m not saying DFLers are all totalitarians at heart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m just saying when they elect hamsters like this, their &#8220;hearts&#8221; are irrelevant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE:  Smith&#8217;s legislative priorities seem to be, in order:  Taking selfies, getting his hair just <em>perfect<\/em>, jumping off things the Teachers Union tells him to jump off of, and eating donuts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Representative&#8221; Andy Smith, DFL-Rochester, is so annoyed by having to deal with dissent: I&#8217;m not saying DFLers are all totalitarians at heart. I&#8217;m just saying when they elect hamsters like this, their &#8220;hearts&#8221; are irrelevant. UPDATE: Smith&#8217;s legislative priorities seem to be, in order: Taking selfies, getting his hair just perfect, jumping off things the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85186","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=85186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85187,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85186\/revisions\/85187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}