{"id":89978,"date":"2025-10-17T09:34:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89978"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:34:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:34:53","slug":"protests-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89978","title":{"rendered":"Protests Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To: Governor Walz<br \/>From: Mitch Berg, Ornery Peasant<br \/>Re: \u00a0Good People<\/p>\n<p>Governor,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You wrote this earlier:<\/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\">Most Republicans are good people. Most Democrats are good people. <br><br>The White House says outrageous things to make you hate your neighbor. <br><br>Your neighbor isn\u2019t the problem. The White House is. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pkjrafRaEk\">https:\/\/t.co\/pkjrafRaEk<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tim_Walz\/status\/1978895980108861933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 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>That would be a great message, if you hadn&#8217;t spent the past year calling Republicans &#8220;Nazis&#8221; and &#8220;Fascists&#8221; on four occasions, and repeatedly referring to the Feds as &#8220;The Gestapo&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m worried that if I criticize you for being a hypocrite for going all &#8220;let&#8217;s bget along&#8221; <em>now<\/em> that you&#8217;re embroiled in scandal, I&#8217;ll wind up in your thoughtcrime database.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You see the conundrum, here?<\/p>\n<p>That is all. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An open letter to Tim Walz. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,2],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-89978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89978","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=89978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89980,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89978\/revisions\/89980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}