{"id":76845,"date":"2021-02-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76845"},"modified":"2021-02-13T08:15:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T14:15:17","slug":"joe1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76845","title":{"rendered":"Facts:  Growing In Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I feel so stupid.\u00a0 I completely fell for the tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory that the election was stolen.\u00a0 But as this article makes clear,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210205034403\/https:\/\/time.com\/5936036\/secret-2020-election-campaign\/?amp=true\" target=\"_blank\">the election actually was SAVED<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p><p>All those unsubstantiated Republican claims that an informal alliance of left-wing activists and business titans got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding; fended off voter-suppression lawsuits; recruited armies of poll workers; successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line; helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks; and after Election Day, monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not challenge the result including pressuring state legislators to certify dubious election results &#8211; they&#8217;re all true.\u00a0 They did all those things and more.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s a Good Thing.\u00a0 Because they saved the election from Trump winning.<\/p><p>I wish I&#8217;d understood this last Fall.\u00a0 I wasted so much time fretting over laws of statistics and suitcases of ballot and cardboarded-over windows but none of it mattered.\u00a0 Things went exactly as planned.\u00a0<\/p><p>So I&#8217;m embarrassed at my credulity but one good thing came of it &#8211; I won&#8217;t have stand in line to cast my vote ever again, not when the big-shots have decided what the outcome should be and taken steps to ensure it.\u00a0 So that&#8217;s nice.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week on his podcast, Ben Shapiro noted something I&#8217;d picked up when late, long-banned, forever-exiled commenter Dog Gone was trying to act as this blog&#8217;s &#8220;fact checker&#8221; &#8211; the difference between &#8220;true&#8221; and &#8220;false&#8221; usually boils down to whether a conservative or a progressive said it, regardless of the veracity of the fact itself.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel so stupid.\u00a0 I completely fell for the tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory that the election was stolen.\u00a0 But as this article makes clear,\u00a0the election actually was SAVED.\u00a0 All those unsubstantiated Republican claims that an informal alliance of left-wing activists and business titans got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds 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":[369,119,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-20","category-election-integrity","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76845","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=76845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76863,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76845\/revisions\/76863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}