{"id":87303,"date":"2024-04-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87303"},"modified":"2024-04-08T10:29:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:29:11","slug":"how-do-you-put-lipstick-on-a-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87303","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Put Lipstick On A Pig?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Easy.  Lie about how the pig has <em>always <\/em>had bright red lips. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s the tactic CD8 DFL candidate Jen Schultz is using to try to convince voters President Potato is somewhere north of worthless.  <\/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\">Interesting comparison of economy under Reagan &amp; Biden. Many believe economy under Reagan was remarkable. (Graphic from Real Time) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MN08?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MN08<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xVBikfwNoW\">pic.twitter.com\/xVBikfwNoW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jen Schultz (@RepJenSchultz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJenSchultz\/status\/1776975363039535454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By picking numbers from the <em>beginning <\/em>of Reagan&#8217;s era, rather than, say, 1985, and assuming that people susceptible to voting for Jen Schultz either don&#8217;t remember the truth or are too intellectually bovine to question her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=83026\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"83026\">Berg&#8217;s 24th Law<\/a> notes, it&#8217;s not a <em>bad <\/em>assumption. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easy. Lie about how the pig has always had bright red lips. That&#8217;s the tactic CD8 DFL candidate Jen Schultz is using to try to convince voters President Potato is somewhere north of worthless. By picking numbers from the beginning of Reagan&#8217;s era, rather than, say, 1985, and assuming that people susceptible to voting for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87303","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=87303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87304,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87303\/revisions\/87304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}