{"id":86967,"date":"2024-02-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86967"},"modified":"2024-02-07T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T13:06:09","slug":"86967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86967","title":{"rendered":"Action Creates Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, yesterday the DFL told us that &#8220;People like getting &#8220;free&#8221; stuff&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Er, wait. Sorry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t <em>technically <\/em>the DFL.  It was the &#8220;Minnesota Reformer&#8221;, aka &#8220;<em>MInnesota Independent v 2.0<\/em>&#8220;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, there was a <em>poll<\/em>:<\/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\">More than 70% of Minnesota voters \u2014 including majorities across every ideological and demographic category \u2014 say they approve of the Legislature\u2019s decision last year to provide free school meals to all students, regardless of income. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WocoEJg8Yd\">https:\/\/t.co\/WocoEJg8Yd<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Minnesota Reformer (@MNReformer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MNReformer\/status\/1754957323121107141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Someone needs to photoshop Stalin and Beria&#8217;s heads into this.  Or maybe just find the smiliar photo that simply <em>must <\/em>exist in Soviet history. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What an odd little thing to report on.  People like &#8220;free&#8221; stuff?  Stop the proverbial presses.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And on a Tuesday, just before the session, in an election year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wonder why?<\/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\">Another batch of indictments in the Feeding Our Future case<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/37wbveBmE3\">https:\/\/t.co\/37wbveBmE3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; American Experiment (@MNThinkTank) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MNThinkTank\/status\/1754922654367179063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Aaaaaah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Makes <em>perfect <\/em>sense now. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, yesterday the DFL told us that &#8220;People like getting &#8220;free&#8221; stuff&#8221;. Er, wait. Sorry. It wasn&#8217;t technically the DFL. It was the &#8220;Minnesota Reformer&#8221;, aka &#8220;MInnesota Independent v 2.0&#8220;. Anyway, there was a poll: What an odd little thing to report on. People like &#8220;free&#8221; stuff? Stop the proverbial presses. And on a Tuesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86967","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=86967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86970,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86967\/revisions\/86970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}