{"id":89404,"date":"2025-03-18T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89404"},"modified":"2025-03-18T08:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:13:33","slug":"astroturf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89404","title":{"rendered":"Astroturf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Notwithstanding the fact that Governor Walz was an imaging disaster during the past presidential campaign&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;there seems to be a convenient &#8211; dare I say, <em>too <\/em> convenient groundswell of social media support for him this past few days.  <\/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\">Tim Walz is the antidote for what ails America and I\u2019m putting my money on  The Coach.<\/p>&mdash; Stella Parton (@StellaParton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StellaParton\/status\/1901251457778639189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\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\">Another Tim Walz town hall. On a Saturday. Energy is palpable. There is something happening across America. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y9nyZz4sIe\">pic.twitter.com\/y9nyZz4sIe<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Victorshi2020\/status\/1900994551114068209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\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\">THIS IS WILD: An unfiltered Governor Tim Walz goes off on Fox News &quot;bung holes&quot; in the morning shows, saying &quot;They know who their leader is because their lips are chapped from butt kissing one person.&quot;<br><br>Walz is all out of f*cks. \ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oaeX2rskQu\">pic.twitter.com\/oaeX2rskQu<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Really American \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ReallyAmerican1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReallyAmerican1\/status\/1900676270234517847?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So with that in mind, it&#8217;s well and good to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88046\">remember the real Tim Walz<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notwithstanding the fact that Governor Walz was an imaging disaster during the past presidential campaign&#8230; &#8230;there seems to be a convenient &#8211; dare I say, too convenient groundswell of social media support for him this past few days. So with that in mind, it&#8217;s well and good to remember the real Tim Walz.<\/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-89404","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\/89404","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=89404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89406,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89404\/revisions\/89406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}