{"id":76508,"date":"2021-01-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76508"},"modified":"2021-01-19T07:05:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T13:05:10","slug":"playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76508","title":{"rendered":"Playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Big Left has been openly salivating about a &#8220;wave of &#8216;white supremacist terror&#8217; that&#8217;ll <em>dwarf <\/em>9\/11&#8243; for years, now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No &#8211; seriously.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4589\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4589\">Years<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does it seem like they&#8217;re wishing it to be so? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re not alone:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Step 1: Use the Fake News to sell White Supremacist terrorism as the #1 threat facing the country.<br><br>Step 2: Use Fake New to conflate &quot;Republican&quot; with &quot;White Supremacist.&quot; <br><br>Step 3: Use private censorship, boycotts and public shaming to punish any GOP thought leaders.<\/p>&mdash; Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottAdamsSays\/status\/1351506326275276801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Need an Orwell reference?   Authoritarians always need a boogieman. And like Orwell&#8217;s Eurasia and Eastasia, or Hitler&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Reichstag <\/em>arsonists&#8221; or the &#8220;Polish soldiers who attacked the Gleiwitz radio station&#8221; or &#8220;Jews&#8221;, or generations of Soviet &#8220;wreckers&#8221; and &#8220;counter-revolutionaries&#8221;, having a conspiracy to flog can certainly take peoples&#8217; minds off of the bread lines or endless mask mandates, wouldn&#8217;t it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the Democrats chose half the country for their boogieman.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seems&#8230;self-limiting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If so, the good guys have two years to prove it. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Left has been openly salivating about a &#8220;wave of &#8216;white supremacist terror&#8217; that&#8217;ll dwarf 9\/11&#8243; for years, now. No &#8211; seriously. Years. Does it seem like they&#8217;re wishing it to be so? You&#8217;re not alone: Need an Orwell reference? Authoritarians always need a boogieman. And like Orwell&#8217;s Eurasia and Eastasia, or Hitler&#8217;s &#8220;Reichstag arsonists&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,51,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-liberal-tyranny","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76508","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=76508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76511,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76508\/revisions\/76511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}