{"id":77014,"date":"2021-02-25T06:32:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T12:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77014"},"modified":"2021-02-25T06:32:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T12:32:53","slug":"our-genius-ruling-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77014","title":{"rendered":"Our Genius Ruling Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rep. Eric Swallwell &#8211; &#8220;Duke Nuke &#8217;em&#8221; of yore, who is trying to be his own honky Squad &#8211; may be, along with the Squad, one of the great boons to the GOP in 2022.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This, about Neela Tandon whose Twitter feed got her booted from a cushy appointment as Biden&#8217;s budget director:<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/RepSwalwell\/status\/1364573929034121218\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I dunno, genius &#8211; maybe tell them to look at the sitting VP?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then for a <em>good <\/em>example, the former governor of South Carolina, former UN ambassador and possible future president, Nikki Haley?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally about this point when a Democrat politician or talking head said something this daft, I&#8217;d throw in something about them really knowing better, but being able to count on the typical Democrat voter <em>not <\/em>knowing the difference, and being so bereft of any critical thought after years or decades of &#8220;progressive&#8221; reductionism that it makes no difference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;m genuinely not sure Swalwell is actually smart enough to qualify for that exception. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Eric Swallwell &#8211; &#8220;Duke Nuke &#8217;em&#8221; of yore, who is trying to be his own honky Squad &#8211; may be, along with the Squad, one of the great boons to the GOP in 2022. This, about Neela Tandon whose Twitter feed got her booted from a cushy appointment as Biden&#8217;s budget director: I dunno, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,18,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-pc","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77014","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=77014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77015,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77014\/revisions\/77015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}