{"id":89072,"date":"2025-01-16T06:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89072"},"modified":"2025-01-16T06:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T12:42:11","slug":"the-election-denier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89072","title":{"rendered":"The Election Denier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governor Piglet added his calm voice of non-partisan statesmanly leadership to Minnesota&#8217;s constitutional crisis yesterday:<\/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\">\u201cThe governor is not prepared to accept any formal communications from the House that is not constitutionally organized,\u201d said Walz Deputy Chief of staff Leah Montgomery when GOP lawmakers visited today to inform the governor they were ready to do business<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/enqCHdZDl2\">https:\/\/t.co\/enqCHdZDl2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Peter Callaghan (@CallaghanPeter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CallaghanPeter\/status\/1879646302285484446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just kidding.\u00a0\u00a0 He&#8217;s doing exactly what the DFL in the House are doing.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the term?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah &#8211; election denialism:<\/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=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">A literal election denier. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4cgY6JDTYJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/4cgY6JDTYJ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rep. Harry Niska (@HarryNiska) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HarryNiska\/status\/1879858365184332202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Piglet added his calm voice of non-partisan statesmanly leadership to Minnesota&#8217;s constitutional crisis yesterday: Just kidding.\u00a0\u00a0 He&#8217;s doing exactly what the DFL in the House are doing. What&#8217;s the term? Oh, yeah &#8211; election denialism:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,320,51],"tags":[473],"class_list":["post-89072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-mndfl","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-the-dfl-power-grab-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89072","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=89072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89073,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89072\/revisions\/89073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}