{"id":72799,"date":"2019-12-11T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72799"},"modified":"2019-12-11T06:56:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T12:56:16","slug":"the-simple-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72799","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Simple Fact&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Start running down the list of bald-faced lies &#8211; stuff no rational person believes &#8211; that Democrat politicians say with a straight face, straight into the camera, over and over and over.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a long, long list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8220;Trump&#8217;s election was illegitimate!&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got more &#8216;gun violence&#8217; now than ever before!&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;The &#8216;Republican War on Women'&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;Nixon won because all the racists came over to the GOP, and stayed&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;Nobody&#8217;s coming for your guns!&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got <em>twelve years <\/em>to solve manmade global warming!&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;Increasing public school funding directly benefits The Children!&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;Children!  In cages!  It&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s fault!&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;90% of the people want &#8220;universal&#8221; background checks on guns!&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;Abortion is about womens&#8217; health!&#8221;<\/li><li>&#8220;Trump attacked women!&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve only scratched the surface, of course (Indeed, I should start compiling a master list). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why is this?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This tweet really explains it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;ve said it before, but it bears repeating: the Left has read-only memory.<br><br>Once a &quot;fact&quot; has been written to memory, it can never be overwritten. No matter how many times you tell them Mary and Joseph were citizens responding to a census. Their programming says &quot;immigrants.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HB6ciYmkDp\">https:\/\/t.co\/HB6ciYmkDp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Eric Spencer (@JustEric) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustEric\/status\/1204451132594102272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the Dems&#8217; leadership knows it to be a fact.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is why they keep flooding the zone with so much utter twaddle.   If their &#8220;market&#8221; weren&#8217;t buying, they wouldn&#8217;t be selling.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start running down the list of bald-faced lies &#8211; stuff no rational person believes &#8211; that Democrat politicians say with a straight face, straight into the camera, over and over and over. 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