{"id":88164,"date":"2024-08-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88164"},"modified":"2024-08-15T10:40:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T15:40:56","slug":"walz-artifice-all-the-way-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88164","title":{"rendered":"Walz:  Artifice All The Way Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Long ago, there were a couple of regular-ish commenters who felt the need to reinforce their claims by invoking information &#8220;from neighbors&#8221; living nearby them, who <em>just happened <\/em>to be world-class experts on the subject &#8211; but couldn&#8217;t be named, because they didn&#8217;t want to get pelted with questions from people from a blog. So we&#8217;d just have to take their word for it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easier than looking up data to support your case, and it sounds more credible than just saying &#8220;in my opinion, yadda yadda&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It comes, I think, from being either being insecure in one&#8217;s own capability to hold up their end of the argument, or a need to stretch six square feet of factual tablecloth to over ten square feet of table.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Governor Walz has been having a week of it.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88161\">We talked yesterday<\/a> about his episode butting his time in the MN Guard up against a trip to Afghanistan he took as a congressman, without adding that little change of context in there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But it goes on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<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\">Governor Tim Walz on JD Vance going to Yale University:<br><br>\u201cNone of my Hillbilly cousins went to Yale, or went on to become venture capitals, that\u2019s not who people really are.\u201d<br><br>Walz enrolled into a Harvard University teaching program abroad in China. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vvRSqN90rf\">pic.twitter.com\/vvRSqN90rf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrageDustin\/status\/1823792222736691503?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like Walz, I grew up on the Great Plains.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are plenty of terms for &#8220;a blue-collar or ag-class person from a physically and\/or socially isolated place&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That term is never &#8220;Hillbilly&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 That term doesn&#8217;t occur organically on the Plains.\u00a0\u00a0 It comes via the media (&#8220;Beverly&#8230;&#8221;, &#8220;&#8230;Elegy&#8221;, dozens of country songs), or from the occasional transplant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But not organically.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Walz is trying to appeal to the blue-collar white guy vote with which Harris is incredibly weak, and doing it with all the grace of an Australian break-dancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long ago, there were a couple of regular-ish commenters who felt the need to reinforce their claims by invoking information &#8220;from neighbors&#8221; living nearby them, who just happened to be world-class experts on the subject &#8211; but couldn&#8217;t be named, because they didn&#8217;t want to get pelted with questions from people from a blog. 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