{"id":87242,"date":"2024-03-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87242"},"modified":"2024-03-27T09:19:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T14:19:31","slug":"its-raining-walz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87242","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Raining Walz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Governor&#8217;s &#8220;State of the State&#8221; was last night. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=83026\">Berg&#8217;s 24th Law<\/a> was in full effect:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Progressive politicians can, and routinely do, say anything they want, regardless of honesty or even factuality, confident that their audience, while theoretically \u201ceducated\u201d, has no capacity for critical thought\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The gaslighting was, as with all things Walz, pretty ovewhelming:<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz\/status\/1772784968382443602\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Better schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Safer streets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Governor Klink says this with a straight face, counting on &#8220;his&#8221; voters being too gullible and uncritical to know he&#8217;s whizzing on their legs and calling it &#8220;rain&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Governor&#8217;s &#8220;State of the State&#8221; was last night. And Berg&#8217;s 24th Law was in full effect: Progressive politicians can, and routinely do, say anything they want, regardless of honesty or even factuality, confident that their audience, while theoretically \u201ceducated\u201d, has no capacity for critical thought\u201d. The gaslighting was, as with all things Walz, pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,2,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87242","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=87242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87243,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87242\/revisions\/87243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}