{"id":89926,"date":"2025-09-18T05:53:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89926"},"modified":"2025-09-18T05:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:59:33","slug":"stay-the-curse-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89926","title":{"rendered":"And That Curse Is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder if the DFL really thought this through?<\/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\">We\u2019ve seen what\u2019s possible with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tim_Walz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Tim_Walz<\/a> leading the way. Now let\u2019s keep building together. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hPkrcmHdD4\">pic.twitter.com\/hPkrcmHdD4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Minnesota DFL (@MinnesotaDFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MinnesotaDFL\/status\/1967949880988762614?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 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>We&#8217;ve seen what is possible, all right.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Squandered surpluses. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Erased civil liberties &#8211; snitch lines, thoughtcrime databases, and a precedent of abusing emergency power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Burned neighborhoods, including mine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A productive class that&#8217;s fleeing the state.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A per capita state product that was in the top 10 nationwide that has fallen to the middle and isn&#8217;t done dropping.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Catastrophic social division. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>A collapsing Minneapolis\u00a0 once called &#8220;the Athens of the 20th century&#8221;, now just another blighted city with nice lakes.<\/p>\n<p>Educational outcomes that just keep getting worse and worse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Contempt for the rule of law &#8211;\u00a0<em>by prosecutors<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">The worst Covid aid fraud in the country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>An emerging reputation for corruption.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Humiliation after his awful VP run.\u00a0 At least Walter Mondale wasn&#8217;t an embarassment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eight years of sloganeering and double-talk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yes, MNDFL.\u00a0 We have indeed seen what is possible.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I, for one, would love to get unburdened by what has been.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, MNGOP.  Third time&#8217;s the charm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89926","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=89926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89928,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89926\/revisions\/89928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}