{"id":65485,"date":"2017-12-20T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65485"},"modified":"2017-12-19T18:15:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T00:15:02","slug":"steinenfreude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65485","title":{"rendered":"Steinenfreude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>is it bad that I take so much joy in <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/mccarthyite-witch-hunt-comes-for-jill-stein-236c6c4dcd5c\">watching the Left eat its&#8217; own<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"8712\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--figure\">Two days ago I happened to\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/russiagaters-still-think-the-green-party-ran-a-presidential-candidate-due-to-kremlin-conspiracy-8bc13ef92052\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/russiagaters-still-think-the-green-party-ran-a-presidential-candidate-due-to-kremlin-conspiracy-8bc13ef92052\">write an article<\/a>\u00a0about the amazingly stupid conspiracy theory that the Green Party, which has run a presidential candidate\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_Party_of_the_United_States#Electoral_results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_Party_of_the_United_States#Electoral_results\">every election since 1996<\/a>, ran a presidential candidate in 2016 because of a Russian plot to sabotage American democracy. Today,\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/emmaloop\/the-senates-russia-investigation-is-now-looking-into-jill?utm_term=.it20L32QyG#.kr3VwqokPO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/emmaloop\/the-senates-russia-investigation-is-now-looking-into-jill?utm_term=.it20L32QyG#.kr3VwqokPO\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Buzzfeed News<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that the Senate Intelligence Committee has asked Jill Stein\u2019s campaign to comply with a document search.<\/p>\n<p id=\"fa83\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">This is what Russiagate has come to. This psychotic conspiracy theory is now so desperate to turn this endless fountain of nothing into something that it is rifling through the documents of a campaign which received one percent of the popular vote because its candidate had dinner in Russia two years ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jill Stein &#8211; who took the same one percent from Democrats that the Libertarians took from Trump &#8211; is coming in for some of the same weaponized wrath that befell the Greenies in 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is it bad that I take so much joy in watching the Left eat its&#8217; own? Two days ago I happened to\u00a0write an article\u00a0about the amazingly stupid conspiracy theory that the Green Party, which has run a presidential candidate\u00a0every election since 1996, ran a presidential candidate in 2016 because of a Russian plot to sabotage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65485","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=65485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65486,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65485\/revisions\/65486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}