{"id":62374,"date":"2017-03-08T05:18:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T11:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62374"},"modified":"2017-03-08T06:22:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T12:22:01","slug":"my-brain-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62374","title":{"rendered":"My Brain Hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Parks emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Liberal:\u00a0 There is absolutely no voter fraud; therefore, we do not need an investigation or voter ID law and you\u2019re a hateful racissss for saying so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">Conservative:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/news\/20170227\/non-citizens-are-voting-illegally-in-ohio-but-number-is-tiny\"><span class=\"s3\">Dozens of non-citizens voted illegally in Ohio.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 There were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2016\/12\/12\/records-many-votes-detroits-precincts\/95363314\/\"><span class=\"s3\">more votes than voters in Detroit<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Liberal:\u00a0 There is voter fraud; but we do not need an investigation or voter ID law and you\u2019re a hateful racisss for saying so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">As always, Monty Python anticipates real life, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montypython.net\/scripts\/pahoe.php\"><span class=\"s4\">\u201cExpedition to Lake Pahoe\u201d<\/span><\/a> sketch:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201c . . . there is no \u2013 I repeat, no \u2013 cannibalism in the British Navy.\u00a0 Absolutely none.\u00a0 And when I say none, I mean that there is a certain amount, more than we are prepared to admit, but all new ratings are warned that if they wake up in the morning and find any toothmarks at all anywhere on their bodies, they&#8217;re to tell me immediately so that I can immediately take every measure to hush the whole thing up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p3\">I think it&#8217;s hilarious that George Orwell&#8217;s\u00a0<em>1984<\/em> has re-entered the best-seller list &#8211; since it was written about the Western far-left. \u00a0And it still may as well be; \u00a0the ease and fluency with which the left&#8217;s chanting points bots went from &#8220;Our electoral system is perfect, and you&#8217;re a racist misogynist transphobe traitor to suggest otherwise&#8221; to &#8220;our electoral system is a shambles&#8221; after November 8 would have beggared Orwell&#8217;s imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Parks emails: Liberal:\u00a0 There is absolutely no voter fraud; therefore, we do not need an investigation or voter ID law and you\u2019re a hateful racissss for saying so. \u00a0Conservative:\u00a0 Dozens of non-citizens voted illegally in Ohio.\u00a0 There were more votes than voters in Detroit. \u00a0 \u00a0Liberal:\u00a0 There is voter fraud; but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-integrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62375,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62374\/revisions\/62375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}