{"id":71254,"date":"2019-05-07T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71254"},"modified":"2019-05-06T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T12:50:14","slug":"lets-get-this-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71254","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Get This Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So what we have here is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A bunch of shrill, upper-middle-class, white, college-miseducated &#8220;feminists&#8221;, duking it out with&#8230;<\/li><li>People who actually survived, or have relatives who are trying to survive, the socialism-driven implosion of what was once a prosperous nation.  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Yep, that&#8217;s what we have:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Liberal activists from the anti-war group\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/venezuelans-clash-with-pro-maduro-activists-embassy-in-dc\" target=\"_blank\">Code Pink<\/a>\u00a0are refusing to leave the abandoned\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/topic\/venezuelan-political-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuelan<\/a>\u00a0embassy in Washington, vowing to protect the building from a \u201chostile takeover\u201d as the U.S. State Department labels them \u201ctrespassers\u201d and calls on them to leave.<br>About 50 pro-regime activists have been living inside the building for several weeks in support of embattled socialist President Nicolas Maduro. In recent days, they\u2019ve clashed outside the embassy with supporters of opposition leader\u00a0Juan Guaido, who\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/topic\/venezuelan-political-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">has called for a military uprising in Venezuela\u00a0<\/a>and has the support of the Trump administration.<br><br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Can there be a better example of Urban Progressive Privilege than people like Media Benjamin  progsplaining actual Venezuelans?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s sort of the logical extension of former MN State Senator Larry Pogemiller saying on the record that he didn&#8217;t believe people knew how to spend their money better than government does.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tax money, freedom, survival &#8211; all pretty much the same, isn&#8217;t it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what we have here is: A bunch of shrill, upper-middle-class, white, college-miseducated &#8220;feminists&#8221;, duking it out with&#8230; People who actually survived, or have relatives who are trying to survive, the socialism-driven implosion of what was once a prosperous nation. Yep, that&#8217;s what we have: Liberal activists from the anti-war group\u00a0Code Pink\u00a0are refusing to leave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71254","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=71254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71255,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71254\/revisions\/71255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}