{"id":85212,"date":"2023-05-25T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85212"},"modified":"2023-05-25T09:10:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T14:10:42","slug":"this-years-breakout-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85212","title":{"rendered":"This Year&#8217;s Breakout Star"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rep. Andy Smith, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85186\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"85186\">wannabe kommissar<\/a> and ultraprogressive rep from Kim Norton&#8217;s side of Rochester, seems to see himself as a left-of-center Steven Crowder.   Or at least, that&#8217;s how he comes across. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s his ode to enabling Munchhausen Mommies:<\/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\">DFL Rep. Andy Smith uses &#39;American Psycho&#39; scene on TikTok to sing abt &quot;Trans Refuge&quot; whereby someone can bring a child to MN to start cross-sex hormones.<br><br>Patrick Bateman is listening to &quot;Walking on Sunshine&quot;.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlphaNewsMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlphaNewsMN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lizcollin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lizcollin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalterHudson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WalterHudson<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathanmhansen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nathanmhansen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/action_liberty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@action_liberty<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FoPQcrnlKG\">pic.twitter.com\/FoPQcrnlKG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; LeftistsofMN (@LeftistsofMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeftistsofMN\/status\/1647681564891926533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He truly is one of Minnesota Progressivism&#8217;s intellectual thought leaders.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyhoo, yesterday was his birthday:<\/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\/AndySmithMN\/status\/1661440406901456910\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I celebrated by tripling my monthly donation to the MN Gun Owners Caucus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/gunowners.mn\/donations\/2adefender\/\">invite you to do the same<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And anyone who wants to challenge him?  I will give you whatever airtime it takes.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Andy Smith, wannabe kommissar and ultraprogressive rep from Kim Norton&#8217;s side of Rochester, seems to see himself as a left-of-center Steven Crowder. Or at least, that&#8217;s how he comes across. Here&#8217;s his ode to enabling Munchhausen Mommies: He truly is one of Minnesota Progressivism&#8217;s intellectual thought leaders. Anyhoo, yesterday was his birthday: I celebrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85212","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=85212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85214,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85212\/revisions\/85214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}