{"id":87549,"date":"2024-05-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87549"},"modified":"2024-05-17T11:26:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T16:26:46","slug":"a-stylish-little-stiletto-boot-on-your-neck-forever-apple-valley-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87549","title":{"rendered":"A Stylish LIttle Stiletto Boot On Your Neck Forever:  Apple Valley Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Among Big Left&#8217;s great crimes against history is the complete devaluation they have achieved against the term &#8220;Fascist&#8221;.  To much of the parts of society that routinely use the word, it now means &#8220;anyone not on board with today&#8217;s left&#8217;s narrative&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, really:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fascist Passions | Judith Butler responds to questions\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xWkd7U4m--c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And Big Left knows what it&#8217;s doing, since the other options have also been hijacked.  Call someone a Nazi, and you&#8217;re overwrought.  Call someone a Communist, and people start jabbering about the Red Scare.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Authoritarian&#8221; works, but it doesn&#8217;t have quite the same emotional impact &#8211; and Big Left has been diluting that one by associating it with Trump &#8211; a demonstrably less authoritarian president than Obama or The Potato.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So given the options, what does one call a political figure or party that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Their ends justify their means &#8211; including the use of government force to secure compliance <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tries to co-opt the institutions of society to further their political ends, starting with government and schools and ending with the family itself?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aggressively &#8220;sorts&#8221; society into &#8220;good guys&#8221; and, especially, &#8220;others&#8221; to use as scapegoats and deflections from one&#8217;s own actions &#8211; up to and including creating an official version of &#8220;reality&#8221; that may or may not have much in common with the real thing. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a thoroughly educational look at a politician who seems to check off all the boxes for&#8230;well, the &#8220;A&#8221; word.  And maybe some definitions of the &#8220;F&#8221; word.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Real Authority<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maye Quade is a fully-fledged creation of leftist institutions &#8211; and pays obeisance to them:<\/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\">SW is being required to attend a training by a literal, designated hate group for firing an employee who was harassing her co-worker. Apparently, harassing a co-worker is now protected religious liberty? I can&#39;t even <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zf6mV68eTk\">https:\/\/t.co\/Zf6mV68eTk<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Erin Maye Quade (@ErinMayeQuade) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErinMayeQuade\/status\/1688968336061640705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Maye Quade pays obeisance to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which was once a legitimate civil rights group but has been nothing but leftist shills for the past three decades. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But she certainly has no love lost for society&#8217;s <em>actual <\/em>institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like parenthood. <\/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\">\ud83d\udea8 WOW: Minnesota Senator Erin Maye Quade just said she wants parents to stop teaching their kids about abstinence.<br><br>Why are Democrats so obsessed about sexualizing our kids?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LDPUdl2vh5\">pic.twitter.com\/LDPUdl2vh5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrageDustin\/status\/1765783902348611667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She wants to nullify parents trying to teach their children morality and ethics, so her side doesn&#8217;t have to work quite so hard to uproot them. j<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is, of course, on top of her very casual relationship with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62240\">telling the truth<\/a>  if it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66188\">not in her political interest<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Might Makes Right<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maye Quade may not actually have the executive power to sicc government and its monopoly in the use of force on her political (and finanncial?) enemies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genderjustice.us\/podcast\/exposing-fake-clinics\/\">she sure thinks about it<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI would love to eminent domain all 98 of these crisis pregnancy centers and turn them into affordable housing for people who do have children,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genderjustice.us\/podcast\/exposing-fake-clinics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> Sen. Maye Quade. \u201cI would love to turn them into food banks and diaper banks and formula banks. Like, these are things that actually support people having children when they decide they would like to have children, and everything that crisis pregnancy centers are doing is not that. None of it is that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aggressively Sorting <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maye Quade has a staffer who&#8217;s got a bit of a &#8220;virulent anti-Semite&#8221; vibe. <\/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\">The fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErinMayeQuade?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ErinMayeQuade<\/a> employs, at taxpayer expense, a virulent anti-Semite is not particularly noteworthy, as that is the mainstream DFL position now. <br><br>But the fact that the staffer remained employed after publicly attacking a fellow Senator is noteworthy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xOcFiaSn5y\">pic.twitter.com\/xOcFiaSn5y<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jeff Kolb (@jpkolb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jpkolb\/status\/1790768660082008345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is, of course, shocking in that the aide is <em>more antisemitic <\/em>than Maye Quade&#8217;s own equivocating weasel-word-larded antisemitism:<\/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=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0QxsNp4LrW\">pic.twitter.com\/0QxsNp4LrW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Erin Maye Quade (@ErinMayeQuade) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErinMayeQuade\/status\/1730297238696452596?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Your tax dollars are paying for this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should go without saying Senator Maye Quade, like all leftists, is more aggressively yet casually racist about &#8220;othering&#8221; apostates &#8211; in this case, Senator Tim Scott, a Republican and African-American:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"726\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-4.png 726w, https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-4-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-4-500x241.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;which is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=70815\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"70815\">perfect invocation of Berg&#8217;s 11th Law<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76986\">every good gaslighting abusive partner, it&#8217;s all really <em>your fault<\/em><\/a>:<\/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\">People who rail against \u201ccancel culture\u201d are actually just upset about a culture of consequences. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rskxTfQyMx\">https:\/\/t.co\/rskxTfQyMx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Erin Maye Quade (@ErinMayeQuade) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErinMayeQuade\/status\/1361476181300809728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hard to miss the fact that the &#8220;consequences&#8221; in her &#8220;culture&#8221; are entirely one-sided.  But that&#8217;s the nature of the abusive gaslighter.   But then, I did mention creating an alternate, &#8220;official&#8221; reality, didn&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, really &#8211; an actual alternate reality&#8230;<\/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\">Trans girls are girls and trans boys are boys. When trans girls compete in girl\u2019s sports, there are no boys competing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O5nAnbMPHA\">https:\/\/t.co\/O5nAnbMPHA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Erin Maye Quade (@ErinMayeQuade) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErinMayeQuade\/status\/1357031872988069893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">That settles it, then. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;deviance from which is considered heresy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, a Republican with a similiar record of shilling for naked authority, advocating the co-option of instutions and relentlessly cutting out &#8220;others&#8221; to use as enemies would be called an &#8220;authoritarian&#8221; at the very least. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet it&#8217;s Senator Maye Quade that walks the walk <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among Big Left&#8217;s great crimes against history is the complete devaluation they have achieved against the term &#8220;Fascist&#8221;. To much of the parts of society that routinely use the word, it now means &#8220;anyone not on board with today&#8217;s left&#8217;s narrative&#8221;. No, really: And Big Left knows what it&#8217;s doing, since the other options have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,79,421],"tags":[430],"class_list":["post-87549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl","category-slander-files","category-snappy-answers-to-casual-gaslighting","tag-erin-maye-quade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87549","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=87549"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87568,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87549\/revisions\/87568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}