{"id":74841,"date":"2020-07-30T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74841"},"modified":"2020-07-30T06:20:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T11:20:12","slug":"74841","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74841","title":{"rendered":"Masquerade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Went to dinner at friend&#8217;s house, no masks or distancing, and got to admire his M1 from the CMP program. Solid people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>His wife is afraid Democrats will never let us take off our muzzles but I explained the marks silliness will only last through the recount.<\/p><p>Last January, impeachment was a ploy to get Trump out of office. It failed.<br>Covid is a ploy to prevent Trump from getting re-elected. When it fails, they will drop it and move to a different play to get him removed from office. I suspect it will be another attempt at impeachment, this time based on tax returns.<\/p><p>Masks are temporary. Does not make them less annoying, but the end is in sight.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if mask mandates are as effective at disease prevention as they are at logrolling compliance, this whole episode points out that when the people get terrible information, the rumor mill &#8211; and its high-tech analog, &#8220;fake news&#8221; &#8211; fill in the gaps.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yes, it <em>is <\/em> all Governor Klink&#8217;s fault. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to dinner at friend&#8217;s house, no masks or distancing, and got to admire his M1 from the CMP program. Solid people. His wife is afraid Democrats will never let us take off our muzzles but I explained the marks silliness will only last through the recount. Last January, impeachment was a ploy to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74841","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=74841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74843,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74841\/revisions\/74843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}