{"id":89916,"date":"2025-09-16T05:41:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89916"},"modified":"2025-09-17T06:07:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:07:57","slug":"administrivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89916","title":{"rendered":"Administrivia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCENE:  Cat SCAT is out patrolling for Republican lawn signs to rip down when he sees Mitch BERG weed-whacking his row of barberry bushes.  It’s too late for BERG to evade. <\/em><\/p>\n

SCAT:  Hey, Nazi. <\/p>\n

BERG:  Oh, great…<\/p>\n

SCAT:  Shut up.  We’re flying flags at half staff nationwide for the Nazi Charlie Kirk, but we didn’t for Melissa and Mark Norton. <\/p>\n

BERG:  Hortmann. <\/p>\n

SCAT:  I fact check you.  Norton.  <\/p>\n

BERG:  OK.   So as with so much of what’s wrong in Minnesota, it’s Governor Walz’s fault.  <\/p>\n

SCAT: I fact-check you and prove you false. <\/p>\n

BERG:  Because…<\/p>\n

SCAT:  I’m a fact-checker.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERG: OK, so how about this<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During the afternoon news conference, Trump said Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz never asked him to have flags at the nation\u2019s capitol be placed at half-staff after Melissa and Mark Hortman were fatally shot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That same morning, Minnesota lawmaker John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot several times at their Champlin home in a politically-motivated attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Trump said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Well if the Governor had asked me to do that, I would\u2019ve done that. But the Governor of Minnesota didn\u2019t ask me. I wouldn\u2019t have thought of that, but I would\u2019ve if somebody had asked me. People make requests for the lowering of the flag. Often times you have to say no because it would be a lot of lowering, the flag would never be up. Had the Governor of Minnesota asked me to do that, I would\u2019ve done that gladly.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flags at the Minnesota State Capitol were placed at half-staff after the shootings.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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BERG:  Which fits with Walz’s pattern of not really paying attention to the administrivia of running a state – like sending in the National Guard during riots, or paying attention to the tsunami of corruption on his executive branch’s watch, or , well, this. <\/p>\n

SCAT:  LIke I always said, Walz forgot and Trump didn’t do it for <\/em>him because he’s a Nazi.  <\/p>\n

BERG:  Huh.  So what you said earlier…<\/p>\n

SCAT:  I never said anything earlier. <\/p>\n

BERG:  Ah.  Gotcha. <\/p>\n

And SCENE. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s with all the flags and stuff?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[482,236],"class_list":["post-89916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89916","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=89916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89923,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89916\/revisions\/89923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}