{"id":34382,"date":"2023-11-19T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34382"},"modified":"2023-11-19T06:42:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T11:42:27","slug":"deep-state-deep-pockets-dark-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34382","title":{"rendered":"Deep State < Deep Pockets < Dark Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up dreaming about that and felt I had to immediately write about that. My next thoughts > I don&#8217;t have time to blog it. I don&#8217;t blog anymore. I study French two or three hours a day now instead. (I was practicing chiffres the other day) I&#8217;m writing weekly again in the Duluth Reader. Some rich Duluthian gave the Reinert Campaign $40 grand so deep pockets have been unleashed locally. We have no damn newspaper in town. I have a plan to challenge any Republican group &#8211; &#8220;republican&#8221; with quotation marks to debate me on the subject of: <em>Is Donald Trump our greatest President ever of the dumbest one? <\/em> while pointing out to them that our (their) congressman Pete Stauber is too chicken to dare debate me or anybody else on the subject. I think they should be called<strong> the &#8220;Vermin debates.&#8221; <\/strong>To Jon Krakauer is one heck of a writer glad I picked up his book &#8220;Into the Wild&#8221; from the lit class I substituted in Thursday and Friday. Gosh these chocolate covered dried banana slices are pretty good and almost a decent substitute for the malted milk balls that Mt. Royal was out of the other day when I walked their because Claudia took the car to take our grandson to a concert in the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n<p>But like I said I have French a new Reader column and Into the Woods to finish so it will all have to wait. I have a million things to write&#8230;..all over my office which is spilling over with stuff to write&#8230;&#8230;like how paranoid rational Republicans were about students voting when I was still a student at Mankato State in 1972&#8230;..lots of stuff like that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up dreaming about that and felt I had to immediately write about that. My next thoughts > I don&#8217;t have time to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34392,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34382\/revisions\/34392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}