{"id":89712,"date":"2025-06-16T06:56:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89712"},"modified":"2025-06-16T06:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:56:06","slug":"boelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89712","title":{"rendered":"Boelter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Berg&#8217;s 18th Law got<\/a> its biggest workout ever over this past weekend.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Nothing the media writes\/says about any emotionally charged event \u2013 a mass shooting, a police shooting, anything \u2013 should be taken seriously for 48 hours after the original incident. \u00a0It will largely be rubbish, as media outlets vie to \u201cscoop\u201d each other even on incorrect facts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting with the first roujnd of tweets at 6AM, the story morphed from:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>A rabid Trump supporter must have done it<\/li>\n<li>An insane narcissist who wanted to go out in a misguided blaze of glory did it.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A DFL irate over the vote over the &#8220;healthcare for illegals&#8221; vote last week (which Senator Hoffman\u00a0<em>didn&#8217;t\u00a0<\/em>buck the DFL on)<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<em>Dayton and Walz appointee\u00a0<\/em>did it!<\/li>\n<li>A guy whose non-profit got gutted by USAID cuts did it.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<em>Pro-Lifer\u00a0<\/em>did it!<\/li>\n<li>A guy with a bizarre and incongruous resume did it.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I started at #2, and due to the 18th Law, gravitated back there by late Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 I just hoped we&#8217;d catch the guy alive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And they did:<\/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: Vance Boelter is in custody. He was arrested minutes ago near Green Isle. Developing story,,,stay with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KSTP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KSTP<\/a> for more details. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y2i2hYKKQ6\">pic.twitter.com\/Y2i2hYKKQ6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tom Hauser (@thauserkstp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thauserkstp\/status\/1934435483720847555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But the questions are just starting.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This take seems very plausible, given what we know&#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\">You aren&#39;t going to like this post, but it needs to be said about Vance Bolter.<br><br>At first, I assumed Vance Boelter was just another grifter in the NGO\/activist space. He built a fake resume, floated around volunteer gigs, and set up shell organizations for clout. His &quot;Red Lion\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kdIFCOfSHS\">https:\/\/t.co\/kdIFCOfSHS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EbphTJRM4c\">pic.twitter.com\/EbphTJRM4c<\/a><\/p>&mdash; DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DataRepublican\/status\/1934256121394712998?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With the qualifier &#8220;given what we know&#8221; doing a <em>lot <\/em>of lifting.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And again, knowing what we know now, if I had to guess (and I don&#8217;t, but I will), I&#8217;m going to guess the Boelter is a grab bag opportunist with some vague right-wing trappings, a history of grifting, and a building wave of mental illness.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One thing I don&#8217;t have to guess about:\u00a0 he won&#8217;t be to the right what Luigi Mangione is to the left:<\/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\">The cowardly attack on my legislative colleagues, resulting in death and critical injury, is heartbreaking to us all.<br><br>Disagreements on policy do not justify violence. Let this moment bring us together rather than drive us further apart. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VioZdx4wAe\">pic.twitter.com\/VioZdx4wAe<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Walter Hudson (@WalterHudson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalterHudson\/status\/1933952288965497153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 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>I might have met Speaker Hortman twice, and didn&#8217;t form much of a personal opinion &#8211; but although I disagreed with 150% of her policies, by all accounts she was a perfectly wonderful human being:<\/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\">Minnesota awoke this morning to news of a heinous attack and unimaginable tragedy that took the lives of Speaker Emerita Hortman and her husband Mark. <br><br>Pray for Melissa &amp; Mark&#39;s loved ones. Pray for Senator Hoffman &amp; Yvette. Pray for our law enforcement. Pray for Minnesota. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4YNrjM4y6Z\">pic.twitter.com\/4YNrjM4y6Z<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lisa Demuth (@LisaDemuthMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LisaDemuthMN\/status\/1933929308353175951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 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>The boundaries of Berg&#8217;s 18th Law are arbitrary &#8211; 48 hours was a good place to start.\u00a0 \u00a0With Boulter in custody, we may start getting things in order.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speculation later.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berg&#8217;s 18th Law got its biggest workout ever over this past weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 Nothing the media writes\/says about any emotionally charged event \u2013 a mass shooting, a police shooting, anything \u2013 should be taken seriously for 48 hours after the original incident. \u00a0It will largely be rubbish, as media outlets vie to \u201cscoop\u201d each other even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[424],"class_list":["post-89712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minnesota-politics","tag-bergs-18th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89712","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=89712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89713,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89712\/revisions\/89713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}