{"id":71038,"date":"2019-04-12T07:02:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T12:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71038"},"modified":"2019-04-12T07:04:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T12:04:13","slug":"when-the-hail-mary-pass-falls-incomplete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71038","title":{"rendered":"When The Hail Mary Pass Falls Incomplete"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ever have a friend who&#8217;s pinned their hopes on something that, to the outside observer, seemed unlikely if not impossible?  A &#8220;big investment opportunity&#8221;, the &#8220;house flip that&#8217;s gonna set &#8217;em up on easy street&#8221;, the &#8220;girl way out of his league saying yes&#8221;, the &#8220;can&#8217;t miss deal&#8221;, or any one of life&#8217;s hail mary plays?   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re not an animal &#8211; so you may have some sympathy, or at least empathy, for them &#8211; but that&#8217;s tempered with the realization that the dumbass pinned all his hopes in life on a long shot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m reminded of that watching my Democrat friends responses to the collapse of the expectations of the Mueller Report. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I saved a dozen file-gallon jerry cans of tears to water my &#8220;Hahahaha&#8221; plants this spring from the opening day alone:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ecG8qlDijuM?start=195\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p> I know, I know &#8211; too much Hannity.  Work with me, here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The impact on their psyches, as manifested on social media at any rate, seemed to be&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewneo.com\/2019\/04\/11\/at-what-democrats-thought-would-be-their-time-of-triumph-instead-they-fear-a-day-of-reckoning-may-come\/\">disproportionate<\/a>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Democrats seem both angry and frightened, and their kneejerk and perhaps even somewhat panicked response right now is to try to destroy Barr.<br>You can feel the frisson of fear they emanate. They waited two years for the blow of the Mueller report to fall on Trump, and now other investigative blows may fall on them. The Mueller report combined with Barr\u2019s appointment could end up being a sort of ironic boomerang (whether or not boomerangs can be ironic I leave to you to decide).<br><em>How could this have happened<\/em>? they must be thinking.\u00a0<em>How could the worm have turned?<\/em>\u00a0But they are spinning in the usual manner, hoping that\u2014as so often has happened in the past\u2014their confederates in the press will work their magic to make all of it go away and boomerang back to\u00a0<em>Republicans<\/em>\u00a0instead.<br>But whatever comes of it all, if anything, Democrats cannot believe that at least right now their dreams have turned to dust and they taste, instead of the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat.<br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I try to stay sympathetic, on one level &#8211; but on another, it&#8217;s hard to cut too much of a break for people who put that much of their emotional well-being in long shots, especially the ones that seems so transparently stretchy, over and over and over.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever have a friend who&#8217;s pinned their hopes on something that, to the outside observer, seemed unlikely if not impossible? 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