{"id":72444,"date":"2019-10-21T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72444"},"modified":"2019-10-20T11:46:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T16:46:22","slug":"decision-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72444","title":{"rendered":"Decision Point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>With all the ominous news about President Trump lately, I&#8217;ve been considering whether to vote Democrat.\u00a0 But who to choose?\u00a0<br>Beto O&#8217;Rourke supports the<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetoORourke\/status\/1185566053981708288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1185566053981708288&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpjmedia.com%2Ftrending%2Fbeto-orourke-announces-support-for-menstrual-equity-act-on-nationalperiodday%2F\">\u00a0Menstrual Equity Act<\/a>\u00a0to guarantee women everywhere have access to feminine products during their &#8220;time of the month.&#8221; And he&#8217;s outspokenly in f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/09\/12\/politics\/beto-orourke-hell-yes-take-ar-15-ak-47\/index.html\">avor of banning certain guns,<\/a>\u00a0the Second Amendment be damned. Bold positions, those.<br>Marianne Williamson, who warned of Trump&#8217;s dark psychic forces, assures voters<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadlinedetroit.com\/articles\/22930\/democratic_candidate_marianne_williamson_i_am_not_a_kook\">\u00a0she&#8217;s not a kook.<\/a>\u00a0 Every politician should have learned the lesson from Richard Nixon &#8211; that never works, it only confirms what we all suspected.\u00a0<br>Kamala Harris seems nice.\u00a0 She was a prosecutor who may have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2019\/05\/kamala-harris-feels-awful-about-role-in-keeping-apparently-innocent-man-on-death-row.php\">refused to let an innocent man off death row<\/a>.\u00a0 And she started her climb up the ladder of success the old fashioned way &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/former-san-francisco-mayor-addresses-past-relationship-with-sen-kamala-harris\">on her back<\/a>.\u00a0 Plus, she&#8217;s Negro so she has the moral authority to address the shameful legacy of slavery.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/02\/14\/why-some-african-americans-are-questioning-kamala-harriss-blackness\/\">Well, nearly.<\/a>\u00a0 She&#8217;s certainly as much a descendant of African slaves as Elizabeth Warren is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2018\/10\/16\/elizabeth-warren-angers-prominent-native-americans-with-politically-fraught-dna-test\/\">descendant of Native American Indians<\/a>.\u00a0<br>Hillary Clinton says<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2019\/10\/18\/hillary-clinton-pushes-theory-that-russia-is-grooming-tulsi-gabbard-for-third-party-run\/\">\u00a0Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein are Russian mole<\/a>s, planted in the primaries to help Trump win.\u00a0 Hillary&#8217;s an expert on Russian collusion, she would know.\u00a0 Plainly, I can&#8217;t vote for either of them.<br>I dunno, it&#8217;s almost as if all the people calling Trump&#8217;s pot black have black kettles of their own.\u00a0 Maybe stick with the devil I know?<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>As with all current Democrat messaging, it&#8217;s about gulling the gullible, not convincing those who check their facts.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the ominous news about President Trump lately, I&#8217;ve been considering whether to vote Democrat.\u00a0 But who to choose?\u00a0Beto O&#8217;Rourke supports the\u00a0Menstrual Equity Act\u00a0to guarantee women everywhere have access to feminine products during their &#8220;time of the month.&#8221; And he&#8217;s outspokenly in favor of banning certain guns,\u00a0the Second Amendment be damned. Bold positions, those.Marianne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-20","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72444","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=72444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72445,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72444\/revisions\/72445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}