{"id":72010,"date":"2019-08-27T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72010"},"modified":"2019-08-27T08:21:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T13:21:09","slug":"the-club-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72010","title":{"rendered":"The Club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s no secret that Democrats like Ilhan Omar are openly anti-Semitic and actively seek to destroy Israel. <br>President Trump says Jews who support such Democrats are betraying their own people and the nation of Israel.&nbsp; <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2019\/08\/trumps-unwarranted-and-unwise-attack-on-jews-who-vote-democratic.php\">Paul Mirengoff, writing at Powerline, is upset the President would point this out<\/a>. Trump is not a Jew.&nbsp; It&#8217;s &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; for him to speak out.&nbsp; He &#8220;slanders&#8221; Jews.<br>Mirengoff says there are lots of reason Jews might prefer Democrats over Trump, policy reasons or domestic issues.&nbsp; True, but irrelevant.&nbsp; If Candidate A says he will give you everything you ever dreamed of, for free, and also will destroy Israel, then voting for Candidate A means you are voting to destroy Israel.&nbsp; <br>Mirengoff is the perfect stereotype of the Dave Durenberger &#8211; Arne Carlson style of Republican.&nbsp; It&#8217;s no wonder conservatives were sold out time and again while liberals advanced their agenda.&nbsp; <br>Being nice is not more important than telling the truth.<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I suspect Mirengoff (whom I&#8217;ve interviewed) is speaking more or less clinically about Jews&#8217; reasons for preferring Democrats, but Joe is correct.  It&#8217;s easy to &#8220;clinical&#8221; your way into despotism. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that Democrats like Ilhan Omar are openly anti-Semitic and actively seek to destroy Israel. President Trump says Jews who support such Democrats are betraying their own people and the nation of Israel.&nbsp; Paul Mirengoff, writing at Powerline, is upset the President would point this out. Trump is not a Jew.&nbsp; It&#8217;s &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72010","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=72010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72026,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72010\/revisions\/72026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}