{"id":75589,"date":"2020-10-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75589"},"modified":"2020-10-15T07:45:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T12:45:59","slug":"blue-fragility-it-never-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75589","title":{"rendered":"Blue Fragility:   It Never Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is not the Babylon Bee. <\/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\">Through the spring and summer, as President Trump essentially ignored the coronavirus, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYGovCuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NYGovCuomo<\/a> played a kind of alternate-reality president for information-hungry liberals nationwide. He spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwallacewells?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dwallacewells<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TFzIrXd6aZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/TFzIrXd6aZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; New York Magazine (@NYMag) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYMag\/status\/1316002310301061121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Alternate reality&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New York still has a per capita death toll <em>triple <\/em>the national average.  New York City&#8217;s economy &#8211; off Wall Street, anyway &#8211; is in the tank.  It&#8217;s school system is saved from being a shambles only by having been a shambles before the epidemic.  Fredo Cuomo and Ratzo DiBlasio spent the last six months playing out petty intra-party political squabbles as New Yorkers died in box lots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Progressives do, indeed, exist in an &#8220;alternate reality&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not the Babylon Bee. &#8220;Alternate reality&#8221;. New York still has a per capita death toll triple the national average. New York City&#8217;s economy &#8211; off Wall Street, anyway &#8211; is in the tank. It&#8217;s school system is saved from being a shambles only by having been a shambles before the epidemic. Fredo Cuomo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,416,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-fragility","category-covid19","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75589","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=75589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75591,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75589\/revisions\/75591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}