{"id":87569,"date":"2024-05-20T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87569"},"modified":"2024-05-20T10:27:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T15:27:08","slug":"the-party-of-crime-and-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87569","title":{"rendered":"The Party Of Crime And Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:  DFL Parents<br>From:  Mitch Berg, Obstreporous Peasant<br>Re:  Your Kids<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DFL comms guy Ryan Faircloth [1] had himself a chuckle in the lobby of the GOP convention last Friday:<\/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\">A list of prohibited items at the Minnesota GOP convention includes \u201cwrist rockets,\u201d \u201cflamethrowers\u201d and \u201cdry ice bombs,\u201d among many other things. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cu3tICSIBE\">pic.twitter.com\/cu3tICSIBE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ryan Faircloth (@RyanFaircloth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanFaircloth\/status\/1791475748995232224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The sign, naturally, is a just a tad tongue-in-cheek.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the MNDFL &#8211; the party of &#8220;comedians&#8221; who aren&#8217;t funny and people with no sense of humor, to sa nothing of the party of Judd Hoff and Nicole Mitchell &#8211; forgot about Judd Hoff, Nicole Mitchell and &#8220;Anti&#8221;-Fa long enough to post this:<\/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\">How is the MN GOP supposed to protect themselves if these men try and break in? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5vYfOt48ep\">https:\/\/t.co\/5vYfOt48ep<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YjRnIJUDfX\">pic.twitter.com\/YjRnIJUDfX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Minnesota DFL (@MinnesotaDFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MinnesotaDFL\/status\/1791478710106828902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s focus on the sign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DFLer parents:  how about teaching your kids that hitting people with skateboards and shooting golf balls and frozen water bottles from slingshots <em>isn&#8217;t actually political speech<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[1] CORRECTION:  Ryan Faircloth appears to be a reporter for the <em>Strib<\/em>, not a DFL comms guy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We regret the error. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: DFL ParentsFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Your Kids DFL comms guy Ryan Faircloth [1] had himself a chuckle in the lobby of the GOP convention last Friday: The sign, naturally, is a just a tad tongue-in-cheek. But the MNDFL &#8211; the party of &#8220;comedians&#8221; who aren&#8217;t funny and people with no sense of humor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,320,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-mndfl","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87569","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=87569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87578,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87569\/revisions\/87578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}