{"id":71036,"date":"2019-04-12T06:35:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71036"},"modified":"2019-04-12T06:35:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:35:57","slug":"libre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71036","title":{"rendered":"<i>Libre<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Democrats want to give more money to Puerto Rico to rebuild from a hurricane that occurred two years ago.\u00a0 Trump says we already gave them plenty\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/washington-secrets\/pushback-white-house-cites-91-billion-for-puerto-rico-hits-corruption-incompetence\">and they pissed it away<\/a>(not specifically in those words, more&#8217;s the pity, but that&#8217;s the idea).<br>Isn&#8217;t the US constantly being criticized as an imperial power?\u00a0 Shouldn&#8217;t we liberate the people on that island from our domination?\u00a0 Why aren&#8217;t they as independent and self-sufficient as their neighbors on Haiti and Cuba? <br>Free Puerto Rico.\u00a0 Fly, little bird.\u00a0 Spread your wings and make your way in the world . . . on your own dime.\u00a0 No backs.<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Freedom&#8221; isn&#8217;t very cost effective for professional bureaucrats.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats want to give more money to Puerto Rico to rebuild from a hurricane that occurred two years ago.\u00a0 Trump says we already gave them plenty\u00a0and they pissed it away(not specifically in those words, more&#8217;s the pity, but that&#8217;s the idea).Isn&#8217;t the US constantly being criticized as an imperial power?\u00a0 Shouldn&#8217;t we liberate the people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71036","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=71036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71037,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71036\/revisions\/71037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}