{"id":90226,"date":"2026-05-21T06:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90226"},"modified":"2026-05-21T06:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:25:08","slug":"if-this-state-were-my-screenplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90226","title":{"rendered":"If This State Were My Screenplay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>But I have a hunch if the GOP ticket has a major chance of turning things around in Minnesota, it might just start here:<\/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\">Several top U.S. officials, including HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, will be in Minneapolis on Thursday for an announcement about &quot;major law enforcement action involving fraud&quot; in the state. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pd7KfGWnSm\">https:\/\/t.co\/Pd7KfGWnSm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; KSTP (@KSTP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KSTP\/status\/2057222352144851111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have no idea if any of this is true &#8211; but if I were writing this as a movie, then the Republicans in the legislature, knowing full well that the law enforcement apparatus in the state reports to Keith Ellison and that one might as well report fraud to the state&#8217;s cattle herds as the Attorney General, bypassed state authorities completely and went to the Feds. \u00a0\u00a0<\/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\">Two Minnesotans shared their experiences with fraud and retaliation in Minnesota\u2019s Department of Human Services during a U.S. Senate hearing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AKHIByvbzR\">https:\/\/t.co\/AKHIByvbzR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FOX 9 (@FOX9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOX9\/status\/2057412381580341585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And as the extent to which the DFL-dominated executive branch is riven with crime becomes known and more and more DFL officials are frog-walked to Leavenworth, even the densest &#8220;soccer mom&#8221; in Eden Prairie stats to realize the depravity they&#8217;ve been abetting and repents at the polls this fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A guy can dream. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I have a hunch if the GOP ticket has a major chance of turning things around in Minnesota, it might just start here: I have no idea if any of this is true &#8211; but if I were writing this as a movie, then the Republicans in the legislature, knowing full well that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[483,2,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90226","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=90226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90227,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90226\/revisions\/90227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}