{"id":89851,"date":"2025-08-18T07:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89851"},"modified":"2025-08-18T07:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:04:15","slug":"hennepin-by-gaslight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89851","title":{"rendered":"Hennepin By Gaslight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The smartest woman in the world, decided to sound off about crime in the District of Columbia:<\/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\">On one hand, Republican officials call themselves &quot;warfighters.&quot;<br><br>On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident.<br><br>Real macho stuff.<\/p>&mdash; Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton\/status\/1956144209309917648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 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> we\u2019re starting to see this, along with \u201ca little bit of crime is one of the things you put up with to live in a major city\u201d \u2013 the kind of gaslighting rationalization used by the class that ran New York City before Rudy Giuliani took over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it\u2019s really very Orwellian: convincing an entire population that crime = normality, and seeking normality is the aberration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> and you\u2019re seeing plenty of this from the Minneapolis booster crowds, in between their videos of crowds of people at street fares and families riding around the placid lakes far from the centers of crime; here you go, I\u2019m a Republican tough guy from Maple Grove with your F350; here\u2019s crime-ridden Minneapolis\u201d, as if two things cannot only be possible, but be possible around the corner from each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I pity the next Democrat moron, who tries any of this with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smartest woman in the world, decided to sound off about crime in the District of Columbia: we\u2019re starting to see this, along with \u201ca little bit of crime is one of the things you put up with to live in a major city\u201d \u2013 the kind of gaslighting rationalization used by the class that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89851","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=89851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89852,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89851\/revisions\/89852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}