{"id":85302,"date":"2023-06-06T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85302"},"modified":"2023-06-06T10:33:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T15:33:31","slug":"this-is-todays-mndfl-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85302","title":{"rendered":"Urban Progressive Privilege:  This Is Today&#8217;s #MNDFL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Briana Rose Lee is the chair of the Minneapolis DFL.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She tweeted this yesterday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"303\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-1-1024x303.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85303\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-1-1024x303.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-1-300x89.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-1-768x228.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-1-500x148.png 500w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-1.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She spent the next couple hours defending her assertion to a mass of revulsion before, one presumes, Ken Martin cut off her Victory Gin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember all the MNGOP leaders who partied &#8217;til dawn when Paul Wellstone died?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, you don&#8217;t.  There were none.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee is 37. years old; she&#8217;d have been 2 when Ronaldus Magnus left office.  She can have no impression what life was <em>really <\/em>like before Reagan ,so I take most of her opinion with a block of salt.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I get the impression that Lee is one of those kids who, back in college, read <em>The Gulag Archipelago <\/em>and thought the NKVD were the good guys.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How dumb was the tweet?  After doubling and tripling down that she was <em>never <\/em>going to do it, the tweet disappeared because <em>it was dumb enough that even Ken Martin had to yank her leash:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p id=\"0moK9v\">But in a statement, DFL Chair Ken Martin said her tweet about Reagan did not &#8220;reflect the values of the DFL Party.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"Pm9i5m\">&#8220;While there is nothing wrong with debating the policies and legacies of elected officials, mocking the passing of an American president is beyond the pale,&#8221; Martin said. &#8220;We expect better of leaders within our party, and we will continue holding ourselves to the high standard that Minnesotans deserve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, yeah &#8211; Senator Jen McEwen, who actually <em>is<\/em> coming for your guns, agrees:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"473\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-2-473x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-2-473x1024.png 473w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-2-139x300.png 139w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-2-768x1663.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-2-710x1536.png 710w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-2.png 946w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gotta feel or Ken Martin:  In the past couple years, he&#8217;s had to deal with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>His staffer calling Navy ships &#8220;Murder Boats&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A state representative candidate (who would to on to serve a term in the House) calling for the destruction of Hugo and the murder of its citizens<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Another staffer calling for Republicans to be guillotined<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two cities destroyed by his voters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Another staffer trying to go all Sonny Corleone on&#8230;a friendly MinnPost reporter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Another comms staffer with a habit of tweeting like a sixth-grader who stole Mommy&#8217;s instagram password<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out there&#8217;s some dissent within the DFL&#8217;s ranks &#8211; between the &#8220;The only good Republican is a Dead Republican&#8221; set and the &#8220;Don&#8217;t tell the Hoi-Polloi<em> <\/em>the <em>whole <\/em>truth&#8221; crowd (read the whole thread), which exposes the full depth of the DFL&#8217;s internal squabbling&#8230;:<\/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\">In a midnight thread defending the Mpls DFL chair who wrote the Reagan joke yesterday, the Mpls DFL vice chair refers to Ken Martin and Gov Walz as assholes <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mOYui08qH0\">https:\/\/t.co\/mOYui08qH0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LouRaguse\/status\/1666045175142010882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;although don&#8217;t get too excited: Democrats, being basically intellectual herd animals, will all fall in line and obey orders come election time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Dennis Prager notes, conservatives think leftists are wrong. Leftists think conservatives are evil.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Briana Rose Lee is the chair of the Minneapolis DFL. She tweeted this yesterday. She spent the next couple hours defending her assertion to a mass of revulsion before, one presumes, Ken Martin cut off her Victory Gin. Remember all the MNGOP leaders who partied &#8217;til dawn when Paul Wellstone died? No, you don&#8217;t. 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