{"id":81058,"date":"2022-03-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81058"},"modified":"2022-03-04T07:03:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T13:03:35","slug":"bureaucratese-translated-into-english-while-you-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81058","title":{"rendered":"Bureaucratese Translated Into English While You Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The curiously omnipresent Lt. Governor Flanagan:<\/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\">I was grateful to be in St. Louis Park \u2013 my community \u2013 to discuss how we can be good partners to keep all of our neighbors safe and cared for.<br>\u00a0<br>We know public safety needs look different across the state, which is why we&#39;re empowering communities to lead with state support. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vM1jbcISmY\">pic.twitter.com\/vM1jbcISmY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan (@LtGovFlanagan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LtGovFlanagan\/status\/1499534717489659910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s translate: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Empowering communities to lead with state support&#8221; = &#8220;transferring public funds to &#8216;community&#8217; non-profits who do nothing bout crime, but who do serve as the DFL&#8217;s farm team and &#8216;enforcers&#8217; in the community&#8217;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Be good partners&#8221; = keep transferring state money to that political class.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you understand the language, it gets so much easier. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The curiously omnipresent Lt. Governor Flanagan: Let&#8217;s translate: &#8220;Empowering communities to lead with state support&#8221; = &#8220;transferring public funds to &#8216;community&#8217; non-profits who do nothing bout crime, but who do serve as the DFL&#8217;s farm team and &#8216;enforcers&#8217; in the community&#8217;. &#8220;Be good partners&#8221; = keep transferring state money to that political class. Once you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,320,123,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-mndfl","category-taxes","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81059,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81058\/revisions\/81059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}