{"id":89171,"date":"2025-01-29T08:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89171"},"modified":"2025-01-29T08:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:12:05","slug":"lets-be-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89171","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Be Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk about moral myopia for a moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been interesting watching DFLers who two years ago were chanting &#8220;when you&#8217;ve got political capital, you <em>use <\/em>it&#8221; with a one-vote Senate majority, suddenly&#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\">MN Gov. Tim Walz says the Trump administration attempt to freeze federal funding to states is \u201cnot leadership. It\u2019s stupid. Buffoonish. Childish\u2026\u201d AG Keith Ellison says Trump forces him \u201cto figure out ways to sue him almost every day.\u201d The story at 6 on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KSTP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KSTP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8mSRkYzUOW\">pic.twitter.com\/8mSRkYzUOW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tom Hauser (@thauserkstp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thauserkstp\/status\/1884387685856350391?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 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;whinging like stuck cats now that President Trump is, y&#8217;know, using political capital.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did I say &#8220;interesting&#8221;?\u00a0 I meant <em>funny.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost as funny as watching people who set up badthink databases and Covid snitch lines, who cheered Twitter and Meta censoring opposition and demanded that the unvaccinated people lose their jobs and get hauled off to camps and be shunned from society at large&#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\">As chilling a meme as I have seen. But I agree. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K6z78fKFwV\">pic.twitter.com\/K6z78fKFwV<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethAbramson\/status\/1884378473646678225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 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;pretend that they wouldn&#8217;t have turned in Ann Frank for a Starbucks gift card.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s talk about moral myopia for a moment.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been interesting watching DFLers who two years ago were chanting &#8220;when you&#8217;ve got political capital, you use it&#8221; with a one-vote Senate majority, suddenly&#8230; &#8230;whinging like stuck cats now that President Trump is, y&#8217;know, using political capital. Did I say &#8220;interesting&#8221;?\u00a0 I meant funny. Almost as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89171","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=89171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89174,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89171\/revisions\/89174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}