{"id":89301,"date":"2025-02-26T13:43:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T19:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89301"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:43:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T19:43:58","slug":"comforting-the-comfortable-afflicting-the-afflicted-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89301","title":{"rendered":"Comforting The Comfortable, Afflicting The Afflicted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m old enough to remember when <em>Rolling Stone <\/em>was vividly counter-culture.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But only barely .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/amy-klobuchar-spent-three-weekends-012505367.html\">this piece on Amy Klobuchar<\/a>.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Pressed for a message to viewers, the Democratic senator cited her own disenfranchised feelings since the inauguration, saying it\u2019s important, \u201cTo not give up, to not look down [and] to not end up in The Container Store like I did for three weekends in a row cause I decided I wanted to bring order to my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Klobuchar added that one interaction in particular at The Container Store made her feel less alone in her frustrations. \u201cThis constituent comes up and says, \u2018I know why you\u2019re here,\u2019 the senator reccounted. \u201cIt\u2019s cause you feel like everything\u2019s out of control and you\u2019re trying to control it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Klobuchar told a similar story in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/this-democratic-senator-is-finding-control-amid-the-chaosat-the-container-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent podcast interview<\/a> with <em>The Daily Beast<\/em>. As the publication notes, the four-term senator \u201cwas on the hunt for baskets to organize her coffee and tea collection\u2014and, in retrospect, the broader sense of satisfaction that comes with things being the way they\u2019re supposed to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I the only one who thinks is reads like an ad for the Container store woven not-all-that-cleverly into a piece on Klobuchar&#8217;s (checks notes) stunnng courageous boss-lady journey over the past month?<\/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\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MitchBerg_Radio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MitchBerg_Radio<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonJustice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JonJustice<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shabbosgoy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Shabbosgoy<\/a> <br><br>Has anyone ever had the media write such caustic articles about them as Senator BakeSale?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OWFP3ml9tC\">https:\/\/t.co\/OWFP3ml9tC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Daniel Savage (@TheLastSavage1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheLastSavage1\/status\/1894243625841668211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Does she need to moisturize, with all the tongue-baths she gets from BIg Media? <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m old enough to remember when Rolling Stone was vividly counter-culture. But only barely . Read this piece on Amy Klobuchar. Am I the only one who thinks is reads like an ad for the Container store woven not-all-that-cleverly into a piece on Klobuchar&#8217;s (checks notes) stunnng courageous boss-lady journey over the past month? 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