{"id":88335,"date":"2024-09-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88335"},"modified":"2024-09-17T11:08:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T16:08:44","slug":"schools-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88335","title":{"rendered":"School&#8217;s Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During Covid, I spent a lot of time driving between Minnesota and North Dakota. <\/p>\n<p>And I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75977\">listened to both governors&#8217; press conferences<\/a>, back when those were a daily or weekly thing &#8211; in one case, back to back, Walz and Burgum.&nbsp; And the contrast could not have been more stark: listening to Walz felt like I was back in elementary school, with a history teacher who was really more of a football coach talking, slowly, like he thought you were as dumb as one of the jocks on his offensive line.&nbsp; Burgum, on the other hand, sounded like he knew he was addressing not just adults, but people he had to treat with some basic adult respect.<\/p>\n<p>And after seeing this&#8230;<\/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\">Tampon Tim and his wife have to talk to their voters like a bunch of kindergarteners at their rallies<br><br>This is brutal<br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NGVM2YusbT\">pic.twitter.com\/NGVM2YusbT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrewHLive\/status\/1835055210101977153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 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>&#8230;it&#8217;s all starting to make sense to me.<\/p>\n<p>Side note:\u00a0 a joint press conference with Kamala Harris and Gwen Walz would drive the suicide rate into double digits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Covid, I spent a lot of time driving between Minnesota and North Dakota. And I listened to both governors&#8217; press conferences, back when those were a daily or weekly thing &#8211; in one case, back to back, Walz and Burgum.&nbsp; And the contrast could not have been more stark: listening to Walz felt like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,20,320,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-democrats","category-mndfl","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88335","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=88335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88369,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88335\/revisions\/88369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}