{"id":88716,"date":"2024-11-11T05:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88716"},"modified":"2024-11-11T06:25:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T12:25:14","slug":"not-ready-to-make-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88716","title":{"rendered":"Not Ready To Make Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governor Walz came back to Minnesota late last week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And at a rally &#8211; is that the right word? &#8211; in Eagan, he started the process of&#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\">&quot;Maybe when we get a little break from this campaign that we&#39;re in, we&#39;ll be able to look at each other not as enemies but as neighbors.&quot;<br><br>Gov. Walz offers a message of unity when speaking to his supporters <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eYgkCqzVOl\">pic.twitter.com\/eYgkCqzVOl<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MSNBC (@MSNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC\/status\/1855003299725881514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking for myself?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Govenor, you called me and half this state &#8220;Nazis&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You will never be my &#8220;neighbor&#8221;.&nbsp; There will be no forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>More generally?&nbsp; Call me cynical, but no, he&#8217;s not extending an olve branch. He&#8217;s rebooting &#8211; from two years of absolute power (&#8220;When you have political capital, you use it!&#8221; was his line when the trifecta started its ravages) to trying to set the stage for having to convince Repblicans to work with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, if I may be even more cynical, to set himself up as the plucky, peace-seeking victim when they shoot down his agenda in total.<\/p>\n<p>And just to be clear &#8211; the MN GOP had\u00a0<em>better <\/em>shoot down the Walz\/DFL agenda like Capone&#8217;s guys bouncing the rubble of Bugsy Moran&#8217;s crew at the Valentine&#8217;s Day Massacre.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve waited a long time to be shown an alternative.\u00a0 It&#8217;s time.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Walz came back to Minnesota late last week.&nbsp; And at a rally &#8211; is that the right word? &#8211; in Eagan, he started the process of&#8230; Speaking for myself? Govenor, you called me and half this state &#8220;Nazis&#8221;.&nbsp; You will never be my &#8220;neighbor&#8221;.&nbsp; There will be no forgiveness. More generally?&nbsp; Call me cynical, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,72],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-88716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl","category-mngop","tag-walz-for-vp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88716","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=88716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88721,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88716\/revisions\/88721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}