{"id":72349,"date":"2019-10-09T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72349"},"modified":"2019-10-08T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T02:29:07","slug":"what-do-you-want-a-cookie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72349","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Want, A Cookie?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The media is gushing &#8211; not inappropriately &#8211; over Ellen DeGeneres&#8217; defense of her friendship with Dubya.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To which I, and the vast majority of middle America who actually have to live in this world, respond &#8220;this is real life for most of us, the ones who don&#8217;t live in progressive cocoons.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, Urban Progressive Privilege is all about living in a cocoon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lots sharing this, but missing the broader point. Yes, Ellen and GWB can agree to disagree, great. The bigger issue is the only people who can\u2019t do that these days are woke progressives. No conservative, libertarian or true liberal was upset by this. It\u2019s not a two way street. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mPcNuZBAzp\">https:\/\/t.co\/mPcNuZBAzp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RubinReport\/status\/1181577945464201217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Urban Progressive Privilege means feeling entitled to feel upset that cognitive dissonance exists, and feeling you&#8217;ve got the right to make someone <em>pay for it<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media is gushing &#8211; not inappropriately &#8211; over Ellen DeGeneres&#8217; defense of her friendship with Dubya. To which I, and the vast majority of middle America who actually have to live in this world, respond &#8220;this is real life for most of us, the ones who don&#8217;t live in progressive cocoons. Of course, Urban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72349","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=72349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72350,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72349\/revisions\/72350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}