{"id":86149,"date":"2023-09-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86149"},"modified":"2023-09-29T07:12:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T12:12:43","slug":"addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86149","title":{"rendered":"Addiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governor Klink apparently came to love the way he got to govern while he had \u201cemergency powers\u201d [1]:<\/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\">Funding child care? Done.<br><br>Paid leave? Affordable housing? Public transportation? Done, done, and done.<br><br>These are just a few ways we&#39;ve positioned Minnesota as a leading destination for workers in the United States.<\/p>&mdash; Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz\/status\/1707015036491718742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, none of it is &#8220;done&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s mandated.  It&#8217;s on paper.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Businesses have scarcely started paying for &#8220;Paid Leave&#8221;, or absorbing the impact of the unfunded mandate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Affordable Housing&#8221; is exquisitely unaffordable.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public transportation?   They&#8217;re throwing around plans for trains.  That&#8217;s about it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the sort of performative posturing that we&#8217;d call &#8220;virtue signaling&#8221; if it were talking about social hot buttons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since it&#8217;s about spending and building, we&#8217;ll need a new term. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bureauvirtue signalling?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[1] Or at least the twerp who handles his social media. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Klink apparently came to love the way he got to govern while he had \u201cemergency powers\u201d [1]: Of course, none of it is &#8220;done&#8221;. It&#8217;s mandated. It&#8217;s on paper. Businesses have scarcely started paying for &#8220;Paid Leave&#8221;, or absorbing the impact of the unfunded mandate. &#8220;Affordable Housing&#8221; is exquisitely unaffordable. Public transportation? They&#8217;re throwing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86149","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=86149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86151,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86149\/revisions\/86151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}