{"id":88893,"date":"2024-12-16T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88893"},"modified":"2024-12-20T09:11:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:11:33","slug":"what-a-difference-two-years-makes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88893","title":{"rendered":"The Real Victim, Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governor Klink &#8211; who two years before had arrogated emergency powers that Francisco Franco would have envied, who sicced the Attorney General on anyone who defied him &#8211; as the trifecta started marauding:  &#8220;You got political capital, you gotta <em>use<\/em> it&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years later and facing two years of tie votes in the House:  &#8220;I hear NOTH-ing!  I see NOTH-ing&#8221;:<\/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\">As another fraud scandal unfolds in Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz tells MPR News: &quot;In some cases, we&#39;re pretty certain these people are doing it, but we don&#39;t have the authority to stop it.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WkPvipfbVQ\">pic.twitter.com\/WkPvipfbVQ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Anthony Gockowski (@AntGockowski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AntGockowski\/status\/1868020734292799858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 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>But wait &#8211; it gets worse. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You may think this is just a matter of the Governor and his media noise machine working to transfer the DFL&#8217;s little massive fraud problem to the House, abetted by the DFL&#8217;s noise machine and the subservient media.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And you&#8217;d be partly right.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s worse than that:<\/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\">They don&#39;t have the authority because they &#8211; Democrats and Walz &#8211; gave it away in the legislation they passed and he signed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pgSwT2reQI\">https:\/\/t.co\/pgSwT2reQI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Walter Hudson (@WalterHudson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalterHudson\/status\/1868415298455441893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s right &#8211; the governor who arroraged to himself the power to cancel Thanksgiving, to pack nursing homes with sick people, and to sort Minnesotans into &#8220;essential&#8221; and &#8220;nonessential&#8221;, apparently gave away the power to actually control his own executive branch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Looking to get someone to explain this madness on the show after Christmas.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Klink &#8211; who two years before had arrogated emergency powers that Francisco Franco would have envied, who sicced the Attorney General on anyone who defied him &#8211; as the trifecta started marauding: &#8220;You got political capital, you gotta use it&#8221;. 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