{"id":88190,"date":"2024-08-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88190"},"modified":"2024-08-20T08:24:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T13:24:34","slug":"the-klink-administration-in-one-clip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88190","title":{"rendered":"The Klink Administration In One Clip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have a hard time describing the contempt this bit here makes me feel:<\/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\">Did you know that Tim Walz married Gwen Whipple [Walz] on the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre?<br><br>Yeah, she even told a local newspaper that Tim \u201cwanted to have a date he\u2019ll always remember,\u201d<br><br>The burning tires interview makes so much more sense now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eZiLTKCJSg\">pic.twitter.com\/eZiLTKCJSg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrageDustin\/status\/1825513718496551270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She left the windows open (presumably at the Governor&#8217;s mansion, safely dug in down on &#8220;old money&#8221; Summit Avenue, miles from the actual rioting) and &#8220;smelled the tires burning&#8221;, because it was a &#8220;touchstone to what was happening&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I smelled it a little closer up.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_0720-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Riot Lloyd\" class=\"wp-image-74268\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_0720-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_0720-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_0720-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_0720-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_0720-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_0720-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was less a &#8220;touchstone&#8221; than it was my neighborhood &#8211; the one I&#8217;ve invested a few decades in &#8211; getting looted and burned by DFL voters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like all communists, Gwen Walz sees everything in <em>theoretical <\/em>terms.\u00a0 She&#8217;s one of the ones who is literally <em>in <\/em>the dacha, now.\u00a0 She can afford to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rest of us?\u00a0 Not so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a hard time describing the contempt this bit here makes me feel: She left the windows open (presumably at the Governor&#8217;s mansion, safely dug in down on &#8220;old money&#8221; Summit Avenue, miles from the actual rioting) and &#8220;smelled the tires burning&#8221;, because it was a &#8220;touchstone to what was happening&#8221;.\u00a0 I smelled it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,320,51,374,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-mndfl","category-liberal-tyranny","category-social-justice","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88190","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=88190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88191,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88190\/revisions\/88191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}