{"id":88256,"date":"2024-09-03T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88256"},"modified":"2024-09-03T08:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:00:39","slug":"the-minnesota-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88256","title":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kamala Harris&#8217;s campaign has been hiding her and Governor Walz from unscripted public view for over a month.\u00a0 They&#8217;re content to led the media do their mythmaking for them, and so are able to slop the trough with an endless stream of chanting points.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Look familiar?<\/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\">Kamala\u2019s interview last night was a reminder that we\u2019re not running against a candidate. We\u2019re running against a *system*. They require a candidate they can control, which means having original ideas is a disqualification. That\u2019s exactly why we get Biden, then Kamala, and so on.<\/p>&mdash; Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VivekGRamaswamy\/status\/1829494766276350173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you live in Minnesota, it sure should. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My theory &#8211; Democrats in Minnesota have figured out that you don&#8217;t really need candidates; you need figureheads; moderate-ish looking people who serve as social media conduits for chanting points.\u00a0 Mark Dayton was one &#8211; he barely poked his nose out of his office fior eight years.\u00a0 He was irrelevant; Ken Martin and Tina Smith did all the thinking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Walz is a little more active &#8211; in a social media sense.\u00a0 \u00a0He&#8217;s no less opaque than Dayton was, but is a more bald-faced conduit for the state&#8217;s non-profit\/industrial complex.\u00a0 \u00a0He&#8217;s nothing but a stream of Tweets about the State Fair and &#8220;full bellies&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And it worked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And Democrats are trying the same thing nationwide; take an empty skirt, wrap it in platitudes and social media imagery, and blow enough &#8220;joy&#8221; up peoples pant legs to move enough numbers into the &#8220;D&#8221; column.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Forget &#8220;forever chemicals&#8221; &#8211; this\u00a0 system may be Minnesota&#8217;s most toxic export.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamala Harris&#8217;s campaign has been hiding her and Governor Walz from unscripted public view for over a month.\u00a0 They&#8217;re content to led the media do their mythmaking for them, and so are able to slop the trough with an endless stream of chanting points.\u00a0\u00a0 Look familiar? If you live in Minnesota, it sure should. My [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88256","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=88256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88271,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88256\/revisions\/88271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}