{"id":89559,"date":"2025-04-24T08:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89559"},"modified":"2025-04-24T08:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:02:16","slug":"if-they-held-a-state-of-the-state-and-there-were-no-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89559","title":{"rendered":"If They Held A State Of The State, And There Were No Donald Trump&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;could Tim Walz have just skipped the whole thing?<\/p>\n<p>After squandering an $18B surplus and, by the way, governing like a dictator (and not even a competent one), Walz&#8217;s state of the state mostly tried to gaslight the viewer into thinking Donald Trump caused the state&#8217;s problems:<\/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\/GrageDustin\/status\/1915205361075728847\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;not to mention trying to haul another bid for national office slowly, painfully off the ground. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smart people were not fooled:<\/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\/HarryNiska\/status\/1915368559934324870\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;but DFL messaging isn&#8217;t aimed at the smart people.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;could Tim Walz have just skipped the whole thing? After squandering an $18B surplus and, by the way, governing like a dictator (and not even a competent one), Walz&#8217;s state of the state mostly tried to gaslight the viewer into thinking Donald Trump caused the state&#8217;s problems: &#8230;not to mention trying to haul another bid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89559","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=89559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89560,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89559\/revisions\/89560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}