{"id":89191,"date":"2025-02-03T07:07:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T13:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89191"},"modified":"2025-02-03T09:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:16:30","slug":"congratulations-dnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89191","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, DNC!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>And congratulations to Ken Martin on his election as head of the Democrat National Committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democrats &#8211; you&#8217;ve made a great choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Provided, of course, that the national media is as compliant, even sycophantic, as the MInnesota media (although I fully expect to start seeing &#8220;Another Look at Tim Walz&#8221; pieces in the WaPo any day now).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And provided, of course, you have an efficient-enough machine for laundering billionaire and public employee money into your campaigns (although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17821\">Martin excels at that<\/a>).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good news for Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi, though &#8211; he&#8217;s the kind of leader they need, if you catch my drift:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin has endorsed RIchard Carlbom to replace him.   Carlbom was one of the architects of the Same Sex Marriage amendment &#8211; successful mainly by turning the debate from a moral and ethical one to an emotional one.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40001\">But he&#8217;s not always been successful<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the vice chairs is David Hogg.  Who is<em> <\/em>going to get right on the business of tackling the cultural and moral malaise that has brought so many young people to Trump:<\/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\">what kind of sad and pathetic childhood must one have had to think like this? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v4qNjFRKoF\">pic.twitter.com\/v4qNjFRKoF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; vittorio (@IterIntellectus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IterIntellectus\/status\/1886223290588393973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;m gonna guess&#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\">What are your honest thoughts on David Hogg? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rjwbvQAiv8\">pic.twitter.com\/rjwbvQAiv8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Emily DeLuca \ud83d\ude08\ud83e\udd8b (@MAGAgirlEmily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MAGAgirlEmily\/status\/1886036995547525608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 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;.that all that &#8220;Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute!&#8221; yapping is gonna stop.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And congratulations to Ken Martin on his election as head of the Democrat National Committee.\u00a0 Democrats &#8211; you&#8217;ve made a great choice.\u00a0 Provided, of course, that the national media is as compliant, even sycophantic, as the MInnesota media (although I fully expect to start seeing &#8220;Another Look at Tim Walz&#8221; pieces in the WaPo any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,320,460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-mndfl","category-the-nonprofit-industrial-complex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89191","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=89191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89194,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89191\/revisions\/89194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}