{"id":73450,"date":"2020-03-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73450"},"modified":"2020-03-03T09:24:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T15:24:38","slug":"tuesday-night-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73450","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Night Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ufffcI&#8217;m pondering on what to do tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Voting in the GOP primary is relatively pointless \u2013 I&#8217;ve got my choice of President Trump or The Donald. Hardly worth a trip to the neighborhood high school gym, is it?\ufffc<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand \u2013 paying a visit to the DFL primary it would give me a fairly pivotal choice in affecting the candidate the Democrats put on the ballot this November.<\/p>\n<p>And the choices are enough to get you giddy with excitement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A woman whose relationship with the truth makes Donald Trump&#8217;s Twitter feed look like a Jordan Peterson video<\/li>\n<li><del>Another woman who&#8217;s never faced a hostile press question, much less Hillary Clinton&#8217;s celebrated &#8220;3 AM phone call&#8221;\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del>The mayor of the fourth or fifth largest city in Indiana (oops \u2013 missed the boat on that one)<\/del><\/li>\n<li>A 78-year-old man who has always been a walking political joke, and he seems to be into the first stages of senility\ufffc\ufffc<\/li>\n<li>Bernie Sanders, a man whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/03\/01\/just-how-radical-bernie-sanders-is-foreign-policy\/\">formidable foreign policy acumen <\/a>has to elide confidence in even the most ardent skeptic, yessirreenob.\ufffc\ufffc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hugh Hewitt says he plans on voting for Sanders, to do his bit to make sure that there is the Starkist possible choice this November \u2013 Between a candidate who has been a deeply imperfect president who has actually done an unexpectedly good job, and someone who is an active, enthusiastic apologist for a system that murdered 100 million people.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s tempting. It really is.\ufffc\ufffc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufffcI&#8217;m pondering on what to do tomorrow. Voting in the GOP primary is relatively pointless \u2013 I&#8217;ve got my choice of President Trump or The Donald. Hardly worth a trip to the neighborhood high school gym, is it?\ufffc On the other hand \u2013 paying a visit to the DFL primary it would give me a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,20,370],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-20","category-democrats","category-the-bernie-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73450","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=73450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73479,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73450\/revisions\/73479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}