{"id":88654,"date":"2024-11-04T04:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88654"},"modified":"2024-11-04T06:13:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T12:13:15","slug":"not-on-my-bingo-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88654","title":{"rendered":"Not On My Bingo Card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gotta confess, I didn&#8217;t see this coming:<\/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\">\ud83d\udea8Breaking in Minnesota!<br><br>A coalition group of several Somali leaders, Imams, Muslims, former Bernie Sanders supporters, and other former Democrats have come out to endorse President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a><br><br>Let&#39;s go! Vote! Let&#39;s Turn MN Red!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MAGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MAGA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SwampTheVote?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SwampTheVote<\/a> <br>\ud83d\udcfd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlphaNewsMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlphaNewsMN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mngop?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mngop<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T0ngzObKjx\">pic.twitter.com\/T0ngzObKjx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; AK Kamara (@realakkamara) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realakkamara\/status\/1852761295826588063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But knowing some of the people involved, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87003\">and even some recent history<\/a>, perhaps I should have expected at least some Somali to take umbrage at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86400\">sense of entitlement the DFL feels re their votes<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;d have to wonder if this endorsement happened after the vast majority of the local Somali population voted early.<\/p>\n<p>Still &#8211; if the 5th CD and Minneapolis GOPs can keep this dynamic going &#8211; and I have confidence that they can &#8211; this could make the municipal elections next year a lot more interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta confess, I didn&#8217;t see this coming: But knowing some of the people involved, and even some recent history, perhaps I should have expected at least some Somali to take umbrage at the sense of entitlement the DFL feels re their votes. Of course, I&#8217;d have to wonder if this endorsement happened after the vast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,72,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-mngop","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88654","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=88654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88657,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88654\/revisions\/88657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}