{"id":69719,"date":"2019-01-16T23:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T05:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69719"},"modified":"2019-01-15T18:07:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T00:07:16","slug":"unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69719","title":{"rendered":"Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Beto O&#8217;Rouke &#8211; flirting with the idea of running for president with all the grace of an elementary school choir singing a medley from <em>Les\u00a0Miserables\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/em>discusses his take on the Constitution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caveat:  I did not make this up.  Emphasis added by me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI\u2019m hesitant to answer it because I really feel like it deserves its due, and I don\u2019t want to give you a \u2014 actually, just selfishly, I don\u2019t want a sound bite of it reported, but, yeah, I think that\u2019s the question of the moment: Does this still work?\u201d O\u2019Rourke said. \u201c<strong>Can an empire like ours<\/strong> with military presence in over 170 countries around the globe, with trading relationships .\u2009.\u2009. and security agreements in every continent, can it <strong>still be managed by the same principles that were set down 230-plus years ago?<\/strong>\u201d<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>More and more, I&#8217;m starting to believe those who do believe we can, and must, govern ourselves by those principles should seek an amicable divorce from those who can&#8217;t. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beto O&#8217;Rouke &#8211; flirting with the idea of running for president with all the grace of an elementary school choir singing a medley from Les\u00a0Miserables\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0discusses his take on the Constitution. Caveat: I did not make this up. Emphasis added by me. \u201cI\u2019m hesitant to answer it because I really feel like it deserves its due, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,30,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-20","category-liberty","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69719","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=69719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69720,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69719\/revisions\/69720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}