{"id":89985,"date":"2025-10-21T05:40:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89985"},"modified":"2025-10-21T05:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:51:57","slug":"public-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89985","title":{"rendered":"Public Image"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I drove by one of the “No Kings” “protests” on Saturday – a little one, on Yankee Doodle Road near Pilot Knob, in what probably passes for “downtown” in Eagan.   <\/p>\n

It almost fooled me.  There were a whole bunch of flags – all of them American, none of them Palestinian or BLM.   They didn’t completely fool me – the average age was probably 65, and they all had ELCA hair, so I had them made before I actually read any of their signs.  <\/p>\n

But it got me thinking – perhaps Big Left spent some time getting the “No Kings” people to try act a little less crazy<\/em>?   Maybe they figured out that Palestinian flags and guys in assless chaps aren’t polling well in the provinces? <\/p>\n

I wasn’t wrong<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What came next was the real kicker. When Austin asked about the protest’s peaceful vibe, the woman didn’t hesitate. “We’ve all been told to be peaceful,” she explained matter-of-factly. “We’ve had training on how to be peaceful and to deescalate.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As in organized, structured instruction on how to behave at a protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austin didn’t get the chance to follow up on who exactly provided this training or which organization bankrolled it, but the admission alone punctures the myth that these movements are leaderless and organic. When the protester was asked to show her Antifa-marked sign more clearly, she refused. Funny how that works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If true? \u00a0No, it’s not something to welcome: \u00a0Big Left is trying to cater to the\u00a0less-<\/em>insane Democrat constituency, whatever and wherever it is. \u00a0They’ll be sliding into the same hungry maw as all the insane ones. They will be assimilated, or disposed of when able.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All the left has to do is not appear crazy,. It’s just crazy enough to work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,435,321,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-activism","category-big-karen","category-big-left","category-big-leftymoney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89985","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=89985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89994,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89985\/revisions\/89994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}