{"id":89346,"date":"2025-03-05T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89346"},"modified":"2025-03-05T08:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:12:39","slug":"the-dfl-on-relentless-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89346","title":{"rendered":"The DFL &#8211; On Relentless Patrol!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE:&nbsp;&nbsp; Mitch BERG is checking out after a meal at an Indian restaurant in the north &#8216;burbs.&nbsp; Hostess Elora BANNERJEE is running BERG&#8217;s card, as he notices Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK, Cat SCAT and LEAKEY the Beagel climbing out of an Uber.&nbsp; BERG frantically drums his fingers, waiting for the card-reader to approve the transaction &#8211; which it does, just as the three progressive activists walk through the door. <br><\/em><\/p>\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK:&nbsp; Merg!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:&nbsp; Oh, hey, Moon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK:&nbsp; Shut up.&nbsp;&nbsp; The MNGOP just voted to for bullying!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:&nbsp; You mean, for a bigger, stronger person being able to use their size and power to exert their will over others?<\/p>\n<p>SCAT:&nbsp; Yeah!&nbsp; They votes for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\">Only 8 feet longer than the 2nd pl girl <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IHHUmwG8hh\">pic.twitter.com\/IHHUmwG8hh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Footjab (@Bepahmema) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bepahmema\/status\/1896812341939048634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SCAT:&nbsp; Hey!&nbsp; You&#8217;re interrupting!<\/p>\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK:&nbsp;&nbsp; That was rude! How dare you use size and volume to yell over someone who&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Disruption to Legislative Committee in Minnesota  - Unedited\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kP8Ij1T22YM?start=3&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LEAKY:  Zat vas anozzer interrrrhuption!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK: How <em>dare<\/em> you!<\/p>\n<p>BERG:&nbsp; OK, so glad to see you disavow people interrupting other&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK:&nbsp; Shut up.&nbsp;&nbsp; So while you Republicans were pushing a bill that legalized bullying&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BERG (stifling a yawn, badly) by stopping the erasure of women in their own sports by men who&#8217;ve in many cases not even begun the years-long process of hormonal transition, which never actually completely erases mens&#8217; physical advantages&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK: SHUT UP!&nbsp; What were you doing to fix the economy?]<\/p>\n<p>BERG:&nbsp; I bet this is the point where you drop some kind of tweet from the DFL&#8217;s social media intern&#8230;ope, there you go&#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\">BREAKING NEWS: Democrats just defeated HF 12, a dangerous Republican bill that would put the power to bully and harass kids in state law.<br><br>Now, let\u2019s focus on solving real problems that people care about, like making life more affordable for our constituents.<\/p>&mdash; Minnesota House DFL (@mnhouseDFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mnhouseDFL\/status\/1896712563259478229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG: So the party that squandered a $19B surplus, hiked taxes, blew up the budget, raised fees on everything from tabs to parking, and shrugged their shoulders and said there&#8217;s nothing they can do about an acceptable level of fraud and corruption, and participated in the ruinously inflationary spending binge of the past four years, has done exactly what to &#8220;make life more affordable?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(<em>The three look back and forth.\u00a0 SCAT produces a bullhorn from a capacious MPR tote bag<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>BANNERJEE:\u00a0 (<em>Pulling a bottle of mace from under the<\/em> desk) Oh, no you don&#8217;t.\u00a0 Put that thing away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SCAT:\u00a0 But&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BANNEREE:\u00a0 <em>Now!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(<em>The three sheepishly comply as BERG makes his escape<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em>And SCENE.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE:&nbsp;&nbsp; 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