{"id":89275,"date":"2025-02-21T06:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T12:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89275"},"modified":"2025-02-21T06:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T12:49:06","slug":"stragegy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89275","title":{"rendered":"Stragegy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>So, somewhere, in some market research or PR firm, once upon a time, apparently some political marketing executive figured out that&#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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/LtGovFlanagan\/status\/1892681608609603625\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;an eternal diet of photos of politicians was all DFLers needed to provide to keep winning elecitons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not giving press conferences. <\/p>\n<p>Not debating. <\/p>\n<p>Not engaging with voters.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Not actually solving problems or, y&#8217;know, doing anything but taking pictures of themselves with food.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, wait&#8221;, you might say.\u00a0 &#8220;What about those photos Republican politicians do, with the swimsuits&#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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/RealTrump2020_\/status\/1823843494198174196\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and the shooting&#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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/GuntherEagleman\/status\/1856907362625335317\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>OK, sure!\u00a0\u00a0 The GOP is to self-defense and flirtatious PG-rated sexuality that seems borderline prudish on TV today, as the DFL is to stuffing their faces.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m good with that.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The real question is &#8211; how is Tim Walz going to raise the steaks?<\/p>\n<p>Er, stakes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No, wait&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, somewhere, in some market research or PR firm, once upon a time, apparently some political marketing executive figured out that&#8230; &#8230;an eternal diet of photos of politicians was all DFLers needed to provide to keep winning elecitons. Not giving press conferences. Not debating. Not engaging with voters.\u00a0 Not actually solving problems or, y&#8217;know, doing [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89275","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=89275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89276,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89275\/revisions\/89276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}