{"id":75141,"date":"2020-08-31T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75141"},"modified":"2020-08-27T10:15:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T15:15:29","slug":"messaging-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75141","title":{"rendered":"Messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week, the Administration posted this photo &#8211; of Vice President Pence, looking across the DMZ at the Norks. <\/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\">This is my favorite Pence image, when he walked out at the DMZ in a bomber jacket and glared at the North Korean military. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LWP5DzxSOn\">pic.twitter.com\/LWP5DzxSOn<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DLoesch\/status\/1298822097351909376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You know the old saying, &#8220;Never, Ever Read the Commennts?&#8221;  It&#8217;s even more true on Twitter.  &#8220;Progressives&#8221; romped and cavorted with the image.  One -well, probably a lot more than one &#8211; snaked &#8220;I&#8217;m sure this made all the infantry on both sides of the DMZ crap their pants&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>G&#8217;huck g&#8217;huck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Progrssives&#8221; never <em>get <\/em>tyranny.  They never do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The photo is not aimed at the soldiers on the DMZ.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s aimed at the people in the &#8220;Democratic Peoples&#8217; Republic of Korea&#8221; (DPRK) that will, inevitably, see it one day.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And think &#8220;Someone over the wall is taking our plight seriouslyl&#8221;.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember &#8211; this is the same crowd that giggled like eighth-graders telling &#8220;Fart&#8221; jokes when Reagan gave his Brandenburg Gate speech, which kept the Jimmy Kimmels and Conan O&#8217;Briens of the day chuckling for a news cycle or two. &#8220;Mr. Gorbachev declined to come out with a pickaxe&#8221;, indeed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the speech wasn&#8217;t aimed at Michael Gorbachev.   It was aimed at his subjects &#8211; who took it to heart.   And in four years, the Berlin Wal did, indeed, fall &#8211; an effectual relationship the left only acknowledged backhandedly, the way they usually do, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiz5o2q1rvrAhXRX80KHUzgBwAQFjAAegQIGxAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0472062%2F&amp;usg=AOvVaw2v1Pcrl__teomAfhn7TSnv\">trying to take credit for it themselves<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Administration posted this photo &#8211; of Vice President Pence, looking across the DMZ at the Norks. You know the old saying, &#8220;Never, Ever Read the Commennts?&#8221; It&#8217;s even more true on Twitter. &#8220;Progressives&#8221; romped and cavorted with the image. One -well, probably a lot more than one &#8211; snaked &#8220;I&#8217;m sure this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75141","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=75141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75142,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75141\/revisions\/75142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}