{"id":89260,"date":"2025-02-18T07:24:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89260"},"modified":"2025-02-18T07:24:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:24:50","slug":"the-problem-is-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89260","title":{"rendered":"The Problem Is Families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dunking on the MNDFL&#8217;s social media intern isn&#8217;t &#8220;punching down&#8221;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s &#8220;squishing something with my foot&#8221;.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>But this one tells us a lot about the DFL.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The intern is looking at something in the GOP platform:<\/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\">Fact check: Your own party platform calls for a total abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest \u2014 and for allowing men to force women to give birth. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OsxGZ2jz3W\">https:\/\/t.co\/OsxGZ2jz3W<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S04r8iC56Z\">pic.twitter.com\/S04r8iC56Z<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Minnesota DFL (@MinnesotaDFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MinnesotaDFL\/status\/1891660251511853502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Forget for a moment that they deflected from the GOP&#8217;s correct assertion that the DFL calls post-partum care &#8220;anti-abortion&#8221; &#8211; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87244\">crisis pregnancy center may be as <em>noir <\/em>of a <em>b\u00e9te <\/em>to the MNDFL as<\/a> Trump himself.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But look at the bit the intern highlighted:\u00a0\u00a0 it&#8217;ll show you <span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">how depraved the DFL is. The highlighted bit in the GOP platform asserts that *fathers should have rights* as well as obligations&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The DFL&#8217;s position is that not just the fetus, but the father, is just a clump of cells.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Every time I think I hate the DFL enough, I find out I&#8217;m not even close. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dunking on the MNDFL&#8217;s social media intern isn&#8217;t &#8220;punching down&#8221;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s &#8220;squishing something with my foot&#8221;.\u00a0 But this one tells us a lot about the DFL.\u00a0 The intern is looking at something in the GOP platform: Forget for a moment that they deflected from the GOP&#8217;s correct assertion that the DFL calls post-partum care &#8220;anti-abortion&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,27,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-family-law","category-men-and-women","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89260","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=89260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89261,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89260\/revisions\/89261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}