{"id":89053,"date":"2025-01-14T06:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89053"},"modified":"2025-01-14T06:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:47:17","slug":"a-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89053","title":{"rendered":"A First"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, for the first time in history, I can say &#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to watching the first day of the new Legislative session&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 As in, watching the livestream to see the fireworks or even better lack of them as the DFL takes their toys and flees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since Melissa Hortmans stunts&#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\">Minnesota House Democrats swearing their allegiance to Baal, 2025 (colorized) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qIFa3mkzvy\">pic.twitter.com\/qIFa3mkzvy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrageDustin\/status\/1878862149189267967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;appear to be landing like the concept of &#8220;Vice President Walz&#8221;, and she doesn&#8217;t dare back down now, I have to figure she&#8217;s gotta find <em>some <\/em>way to double down and to avoid losing face. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I have a hunch &#8220;losing face&#8221; is the most charitable interpretation; I have a hunch the DFL&#8217;s panic has more to do with &#8220;GOP control of committees and the power to hold public hearings when they start investigating DFL fraud&#8221; than quora.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; I&#8217;ll be tuning in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, for the first time in history, I can say &#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to watching the first day of the new Legislative session&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 As in, watching the livestream to see the fireworks or even better lack of them as the DFL takes their toys and flees.\u00a0 Since Melissa Hortmans stunts&#8230; &#8230;appear to be landing 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":[320,51,349],"tags":[473],"class_list":["post-89053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl","category-liberal-tyranny","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny","tag-the-dfl-power-grab-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89053","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=89053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89054,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89053\/revisions\/89054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}