{"id":85491,"date":"2023-07-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85491"},"modified":"2023-07-06T09:02:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T14:02:28","slug":"life-is-full-of-ironies-if-youre-not-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85491","title":{"rendered":"LIfe Is Full Of Ironies, If You&#8217;re Not Smart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To. Governor Walz<br>From:  Mitch Berg, obstreperous peasant<br>Re:   SInce you put it that way&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Governor Klink.   Er, Walz.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, you &#8211; or, let&#8217;s be honest, the chirpy little intern from Macalester who manages the flood of selfies and donut shots that is your Twitter feed &#8211; twote this:<\/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\">As we celebrate our Independence Day, we\u2019re reminded that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness aren\u2019t guaranteed.<br>\u00a0<br>Let\u2019s keep striving to protect fundamental rights for all.<br>\u00a0<br>Happy Fourth of July, Minnesota!<\/p>&mdash; Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz\/status\/1676248806445162496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You &#8211; either of you, I guess &#8211; are right.  Freedom isn&#8217;t guaranteed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, society might &#8211; <em>just might<\/em> &#8211; have a leader who:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Arbitrarily shuts down most social and business interaction<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sics the state&#8217;s law enforcement on dissenters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tries to strong-arm people into complying with untested experimental procedures, on pain of losing their jobs, businesses and life&#8217;s savings.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hides the evidence of your errors and, as time progressed, your error turning into downright perfidy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lies to the people to panic the gullible into voting for them<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Positions himself, with the aid of a compliant and docile media, in a position of complete opacity to the public . <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So yeah.  Gotta watch out for those tyrants.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To. Governor WalzFrom: Mitch Berg, obstreperous peasantRe: SInce you put it that way&#8230; Governor Klink. Er, Walz. On Tuesday, you &#8211; or, let&#8217;s be honest, the chirpy little intern from Macalester who manages the flood of selfies and donut shots that is your Twitter feed &#8211; twote this: You &#8211; either of you, I guess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85491","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=85491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85492,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85491\/revisions\/85492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}