{"id":61090,"date":"2016-11-25T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61090"},"modified":"2016-11-24T11:59:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T17:59:27","slug":"what-a-difference-eight-years-makes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61090","title":{"rendered":"What A Difference Eight Years Makes"},"content":{"rendered":"

November, 2008: \u00a0Many conservatives, yours truly included, were disappointed at the election of Barack Obama, an unqualified junior senator and “community organizer”, to the presidency. \u00a0Not\u00a0surprised,\u00a0<\/em>at least in my case, but disappointed. \u00a0(Our disappointment was amply justified, but that’s a separate, upcoming post).<\/p>\n

In the interest of civility, Obama supporters responded with their primary form of non-televised communication (in the days before industrialized photomemes, anyway), the bumper sticker:<\/p>\n

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(Which, if you think about it, is the first industralized photomeme).<\/p>\n

And we did, indeed, get over it – and, for many of us, that involved spending a few years in the Tea Party which, before a coordinated assault by Democrat Media\/Industrial Complex and the GOP Establishment neutralized it, kicked Democrat ass in a way that, to a smart person, should have been seen as a foreshadowing of Trump; if you stand for something, you win.<\/p>\n

(The sum total of “violence” after the Obama election involved a “riot” at Ol Miss that lasted an hour, involved no property damage or arrests and a little naughty language; one church burned in Massachusetts for which the perps were arrested, convicted and sentenced to\u00a0long\u00a0<\/em>prison terms, a couple of minor assaults, maybe, and a few grandiloquent gestures that damanged nobody else or their property)<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

It’s been two and a half weeks since Trump’s near-landslide electoral victory (and, if you leave California and its millions of useless voting mouths out of the equation, popular victory as well). \u00a0Democrats have responded with petulant name-calling, bitter declarations, social barbarism<\/a>, and rioting. \u00a0 The Democrat movement in America has made itself look like the petulant, entitled children so many of them in fact seem to be.<\/p>\n

So it’s only fair:<\/p>\n

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Deal with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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