{"id":85820,"date":"2023-08-24T05:37:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T10:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85820"},"modified":"2023-08-24T10:30:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:30:38","slug":"bergs-24th-law-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85820","title":{"rendered":"Berg\u2019s 24th Law In Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>In writing this, I realize I may have a case for another Berg\u2019s law &#8211; in a place run by progressive, every alternative to your current politicians is worse than the one you have.<\/p><p>People might\u2019ve thought \u201cwhat could be worse than having Al Franken as a senator?\u201c. I give you\u2026 Tina Flint Smith.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>But I digress.This was him on Twitter, yesterday, apparently either watching the debate, or having someone feed him, factoids about it:<\/p><\/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\">No one is trying to allow abortions right up to birth. You asshole, DeSantis. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GOPDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GOPDebate<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Al Franken (@alfranken) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alfranken\/status\/1694524787647823906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 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 mean, it is ignorant enough to be something Senator Smith might say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-lifenews-com wp-block-embed-lifenews-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"LRnKULKkCY\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2023\/01\/31\/minnesota-governor-tim-walz-signs-bill-legalizing-abortions-up-to-birth\/\">Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Signs Bill Legalizing Abortions Up to Birth<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Signs Bill Legalizing Abortions Up to Birth&#8221; &#8212; LifeNews.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2023\/01\/31\/minnesota-governor-tim-walz-signs-bill-legalizing-abortions-up-to-birth\/embed\/#?secret=AAhLmMcMcC#?secret=LRnKULKkCY\" data-secret=\"LRnKULKkCY\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But I think it does the truth a disservice to just chalk it up to ignorance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In writing this, I realize I may have a case for another Berg\u2019s law &#8211; in a place run by progressive, every alternative to your current politicians is worse than the one you have. People might\u2019ve thought \u201cwhat could be worse than having Al Franken as a senator?\u201c. I give you\u2026 Tina Flint Smith. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85820","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=85820"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85829,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85820\/revisions\/85829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}