{"id":89184,"date":"2025-01-31T07:28:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89184"},"modified":"2025-01-31T07:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:28:54","slug":"failure-to-unpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89184","title":{"rendered":"Failure To Unpack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p><em>SCENE:\u00a0 MInnesota DFL headquarters.\u00a0 Inga &#8220;Lucky&#8221; CARROLL (acting assistant chair of the DFL while on temporary leave from her day job as Head Meme-Buffer at \u201cMinnesotans United for All Liberal Causes\u201d), Secretary of State SIMON, House Minority Leader Melissa HORTMAN, progressive influencers Edmund DUCHEY, Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK, Gutterball GARY and Avery LIBRELLE, and Senate DFL Communications manager Evan Micah BRYAN are gathered in a conference room as undocumented domestics fetch beverages and change garbage bags. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>CARROLL:\u00a0\u00a0 So &#8211; not much went right in this last Presidential cycle.\u00a0 Orange HItler even got within four points in Minnesota (<em>group looks angrily at a sheepish SIMON<\/em>).\u00a0\u00a0 So &#8211; before we get to what we did wrong, let&#8217;s talk about what we did <em>right. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>HORTMAN:\u00a0 Well, we called them &#8220;white supremacists&#8221; a lot.<\/p>\n<p>CARROLL:\u00a0 Good.<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Racists, every one of them!<\/p>\n<p>BRYAN: Anti-LGBT!<\/p>\n<p>DUCHEY:\u00a0 Misogynist!<\/p>\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK: And Fascists! (<em>Murmurs of assent<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>GARY:\u00a0\u00a0 Nazis! (<em>Thrum of excitement<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>CARROLL: So &#8211; Republicans are all racist sexist misogynist Nazi fascists.\u00a0 So &#8211; did it work?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BRYAN:\u00a0 And, most importantly, do we continue using this as our primary, if not only, messaging going forward?<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Mixture of skepticism and assent from the group<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE:\u00a0 Wait &#8211; this just came in from the national party.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Video comes up on the<\/em> screem)<\/p>\n<p>BRYAN:\u00a0 Hey, its Ken! (<em>points at Ken MARTIN, chair of the MNDFL, currently running for chair of the Democrat National Committee<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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\">Every single candidate for DNC Chair just blamed their loss in 2024 on racism and misogyny <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T8shvrRhUn\">pic.twitter.com\/T8shvrRhUn<\/a><\/p>&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1885179049745473753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CARROLL:\u00a0 OK, so that&#8217;s a solid &#8220;Yes&#8221; on the &#8220;message going forward&#8221; thing.\u00a0 Next order of business&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Papers<\/em> rustle)<\/p>\n<p><em>And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE:\u00a0 MInnesota DFL headquarters.\u00a0 Inga &#8220;Lucky&#8221; CARROLL (acting assistant chair of the DFL while on temporary leave from her day job as Head Meme-Buffer at \u201cMinnesotans United for All Liberal Causes\u201d), Secretary of State SIMON, House Minority Leader Melissa HORTMAN, progressive influencers Edmund DUCHEY, Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK, Gutterball GARY and Avery LIBRELLE, and Senate DFL Communications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89184","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=89184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89185,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89184\/revisions\/89185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}