{"id":71970,"date":"2019-08-19T17:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T22:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71970"},"modified":"2019-08-18T17:41:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T22:41:59","slug":"sovereign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71970","title":{"rendered":"Sovereign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Biden, reacting to Israel&#8217;s decision to deny entry to people who advocate its destruction, said:<br>&#8220;<em>I have always been a stalwart supporter of Israel\u2014a vital partner that shares our democratic values. No democracy should deny entry to visitors based on the content of their ideas\u2014even ideas they strongly object to. And no leader of the free world should encourage them to do so.&#8221;<\/em><br>But Joe, if you support Israel&#8217;s right to exist as an independent nation, then you concede it has the right to manage its own internal affairs, including deciding who to admit and who to deny.\u00a0 Otherwise, if Israel lacks that power, then it&#8217;s not an independent nation, it&#8217;s a colony and you&#8217;re playing the role of emperor, telling the locals what they can and cannot do.\u00a0 Which is precisely what you accuse President Trump of doing.\u00a0 <br>So why should I vote for you, and not for him? <br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The extent to which the Democrats need their supporters to be uninformed morons is frightening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden, reacting to Israel&#8217;s decision to deny entry to people who advocate its destruction, said:&#8220;I have always been a stalwart supporter of Israel\u2014a vital partner that shares our democratic values. No democracy should deny entry to visitors based on the content of their ideas\u2014even ideas they strongly object to. And no leader of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[403],"class_list":["post-71970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-world","tag-ilhan-omar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71970","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=71970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71971,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71970\/revisions\/71971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}