{"id":74464,"date":"2020-06-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74464"},"modified":"2020-06-16T06:45:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T11:45:33","slug":"steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74464","title":{"rendered":"Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>&#8220;All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others&#8221;<br><\/em>&#8212; &#8220;Animal Farm&#8221;, George Orwell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So let me get this straight:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lt. Governor Flanagan, who chairs the Capitol Architecture Committee, who is a &#8220;progressive&#8221; (koff koff) who has made her displeasure with the Capitol mall&#8217;s statue of Christopher Columbus amply known in the past, and whose entire place in the Walz administration is to placate the MN DFL&#8217;s ever more extreme left wing (who rejected Walz for endorsement at the 2018 convention, and certainly could do it again in 2022 if he doesn&#8217;t kiss up to the Left sincerely and often enough), may well have been involved in interfering with the response by the State Patrol who, despite six hours&#8217; warning (according to Channel 5&#8217;s Tom Hauser) got the the Capitol juuuust too late to do anything about the illegal destruction of state property, which amounted to a de facto nudge and wink by the Walz Administration to people (who were, we&#8217;re told, &#8220;Frustrated&#8221; by their inability to get the statue removed, even though there was no record of any petition to remove the statue on record)&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;who were, in the most supreme of ironies, protesting government &#8220;overreach and unaccountability&#8221; in the Floyd case?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to be a genius to see that there really are two Minnesotas, when it comes to the law; those who are in the favor of those in power, and those who aren&#8217;t. The state government deploys its full weight and might to go after bars in rural areas with no Covid problem, but allows Lake Street and University Avenue to burn (mostly at the hands of the sort of white leftists whom the administration can&#8217;t afford to offend or, really, discomfort in any way); some groups, favored by the DFL establishment, can block freeways with impunity while others, not so favored, get penned into &#8216;free speech zones&#8217; at best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is &#8220;progressive&#8221; government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Totally* unrelated, honest &#8211; you need to watch this classic animated version of &#8220;Animal Farm&#8221; before the cancel culture gets it removed and disappeared:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XXkicQRl6vg&#038;fbclid=IwAR124-vrhh9a1Icsx9X1AnwdmBp7VUcUTwxyNknIaSZJ4n931mD03_J9x3k\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others&#8221;&#8212; &#8220;Animal Farm&#8221;, George Orwell So let me get this straight: Lt. 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