{"id":65547,"date":"2017-12-28T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65547"},"modified":"2017-12-28T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T15:00:41","slug":"when-even-the-left-is-dinging-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65547","title":{"rendered":"When Even The Left Is Dinging On You&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;as <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/dianne-feinstein-will-be-85-when-she-runs-for-re-election-next-year-e550f67be824\">this writer does to Dianne Feinstein<\/a>, for being not merely &#8220;too old&#8221;, but too\u00a0<em>militaristic\u00a0<\/em>to serve in the Senate&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dianne Feinstein was\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/theyoungturks\/demanding-regime-change-while-claiming-you-actually-arent-dianne-feinstein-edition-260feaa6577b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/theyoungturks\/demanding-regime-change-while-claiming-you-actually-arent-dianne-feinstein-edition-260feaa6577b\">recently seen at a town hall<\/a>\u00a0doing some truly remarkable mental contortions advocating regime change in Syria while simultaneously trying to distance herself from the politically unpopular phrase \u201cregime change\u201d itself. She has supported US military interventionism at every turn, has advocated all new cold war escalations with Russia, at a time in her life when she should really be leaving potentially world-ending decisions like that to the people who will still be here to deal with their consequences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;well, you know what&#8217;s gonna happen, right?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.\u00a0 Seniority equals power.\u00a0 She, like Robert Byrd before her, will be &#8220;serving&#8221; in the Senate until her the jar holding her brain falls over and breaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;as this writer does to Dianne Feinstein, for being not merely &#8220;too old&#8221;, but too\u00a0militaristic\u00a0to serve in the Senate&#8230;: Dianne Feinstein was\u00a0recently seen at a town hall\u00a0doing some truly remarkable mental contortions advocating regime change in Syria while simultaneously trying to distance herself from the politically unpopular phrase \u201cregime change\u201d itself. She has supported US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65547","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=65547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65548,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65547\/revisions\/65548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}