{"id":85627,"date":"2023-07-31T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85627"},"modified":"2023-07-31T07:48:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:48:24","slug":"behold-the-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85627","title":{"rendered":"Behold The Flood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <em>Strib <\/em>is trying to wag the state&#8217;s proverbial dog:<\/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\">&quot;What&#39;s life like in Minnesota?&quot; On the social media site Reddit, the questions have been flooding in lately from people pondering a move. In some circles, at least, Minnesota is having a moment. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8ukTIyoIVr\">https:\/\/t.co\/8ukTIyoIVr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune\/status\/1685454913122471936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Flooding in&#8221; to a Reddit thread?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why, it <em>sounds <\/em>good, doesn&#8217;t it?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The kind of good news that an undistinguished meat puppet of a governor can&#8217;t be expected <em>not <\/em>to try to make hay of it&#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\">The good life in Minnesota.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4Wv5sjVEMr\">https:\/\/t.co\/4Wv5sjVEMr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz\/status\/1685824965105397760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That stupid 1971 headline is set to pass &#8220;&#8230;on a <em>stick<\/em>!&#8221; as the ultimate Minnesota cliche, by the way.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what&#8217;s the truth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why, let&#8217;s see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"909\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-7-909x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85628\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-7-909x1024.png 909w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-7-266x300.png 266w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-7-768x865.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-7.png 1065w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 909px) 100vw, 909px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>240 comments and 36 upvotes, <em>in a month.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This blog has many posts with much more activity than that in a day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; why all the ado about that modest little, uh, flood?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh:<\/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\/PatGarofalo\/status\/1685793865280757760\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Minnesota has the eight-worst net outmigration among the productive class in the country.  One suspects the &#8220;flood&#8221; comprises a lot of people looking for taxpayer-funded abortion and chemical castration of minors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while it&#8217;s hard to believe it&#8217;s not by design, one has to think the DFL doesn&#8217;t want the news to get too big, too fast&#8230; &#8211; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strib is trying to wag the state&#8217;s proverbial dog: &#8220;Flooding in&#8221; to a Reddit thread? Why, it sounds good, doesn&#8217;t it? The kind of good news that an undistinguished meat puppet of a governor can&#8217;t be expected not to try to make hay of it&#8230; That stupid 1971 headline is set to pass &#8220;&#8230;on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85627","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=85627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85629,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85627\/revisions\/85629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}