{"id":89813,"date":"2025-07-29T05:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T10:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89813"},"modified":"2025-07-29T05:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T10:52:11","slug":"pick-yer-poison-or-peggy-will-pick-it-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89813","title":{"rendered":"Pick Yer Poison.  Or Peggy Will Pick It For You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lieutenant Governor Flanagan [1], one of the MNDFL&#8217;s leading public intellectuals, on the economics of healthcare:<\/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\/peggyflanagan\/status\/1949906484697190488\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So much better to have some dude with a public employee union card, behind a desk at a for-corruption state agency, deciding it for you.\u00a0 Amirite?<\/p>\n<p>Former Senator Sean Nienow pointed out the inconvenient facts:<\/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\/SNienow\/status\/1949910556208746764\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[1]\u00a0<em>Although<\/em> have you noticed how the social media accounts of Governor Walz, Senator Smith, Lt. Governor Flanagan and, frequently, Senator Klobuchar sound like they&#8217;re written by the same person, or at least some people who sound like 20-something guys (I said what I said) interning in the DFL Comms office?<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lieutenant Governor Flanagan [1], one of the MNDFL&#8217;s leading public intellectuals, on the economics of healthcare: So much better to have some dude with a public employee union card, behind a desk at a for-corruption state agency, deciding it for you.\u00a0 Amirite? Former Senator Sean Nienow pointed out the inconvenient facts: \u00a0 [1]\u00a0Although have you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89813","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=89813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89814,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89813\/revisions\/89814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}