{"id":76428,"date":"2021-01-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76428"},"modified":"2021-01-13T10:30:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T16:30:17","slug":"76428","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76428","title":{"rendered":"The Usual Suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><\/p><p>Trump supporters on the Mall<br><\/p><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1385.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76431\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1385.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1385-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1385-1024x538.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1385-768x403.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1385-500x263.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Trump Supporters&#8221; who stormed the Capitol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"392\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1384.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1384.jpg 580w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1384-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1384-444x300.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We&#8217;ve seen the horned-hat guy before:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"471\" height=\"483\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1383.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1383.png 471w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img_1383-293x300.png 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Wasn&#8217;t there a famous incident a centuray ago, a fire blamed on innocent people which gave a certain politician the excuse to seize power?<\/em><br><em>Are we absolutely certain the troublmakers were ordinary Trump supporters, same as the rest of the crowd outside, and not infiltrators hoping to cause a backlash against President Trump and his supporters protesting the stolen election<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether the riot was launched by <em>provocateurs <\/em>or not, plenty of Trump supporters <em>did <\/em>participate with great glee.  There&#8217;s a dilemma, of course &#8211; if there&#8217;s one thing we learned during the Tea Party, at gun rights and pro life and tax-protest rallies, it&#8217;s that conservatives need to behave <em>impeccably, <\/em>because the media and the Dems oppo research staff (pardon the redundancy) will pick over every utterance, visual and thought for wrongthink).   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(If there&#8217;s another thing we learned it&#8217;s that the left&#8217;s slander machine and control of the administrative state makes perfect behavior irrelevant.  Lefty social media today is awash in claims that the Tea Party was racist, violent, and a tool of the Koch Brothers, who (we&#8217;re told) bought all of American politics for a few years).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But whoever turned the demonstration into a riot, and whatever the reasons, the left is responding to last week&#8217;s events with a technique they&#8217;ve mastered; <em>not wasting a crisi<\/em>s<em>.  <\/em>Whoever did what, it will be spun relentlessly to their advantage.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump supporters on the Mall &#8220;Trump Supporters&#8221; who stormed the Capitol. We&#8217;ve seen the horned-hat guy before: Wasn&#8217;t there a famous incident a centuray ago, a fire blamed on innocent people which gave a certain politician the excuse to seize power?Are we absolutely certain the troublmakers were ordinary Trump supporters, same as the rest of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,326,321,323,130,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-activism","category-big-alt-media","category-big-left","category-big-leftymoney","category-tc-media-bias","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76428","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=76428"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76444,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76428\/revisions\/76444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}