{"id":79456,"date":"2021-09-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79456"},"modified":"2021-09-10T10:16:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T15:16:58","slug":"do-you-remember-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79456","title":{"rendered":"Do You Remember&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;20 years ago, right after 9\/11, when some on the left said the overreaction to the terror attacks 20 years ago tomorrow would actually give the terrorists the win they wanted?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t have been the only one thinking Joe Biden&#8217;s speech yesterday must have made Mohammed Atta smile in whatever part of the Great Beyond he&#8217;s in now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1078\" height=\"1502\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_2041.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79463\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_2041.jpg 1078w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_2041-215x300.jpg 215w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_2041-735x1024.jpg 735w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_2041-768x1070.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1078px) 100vw, 1078px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The nuts and bolts of the speech, to the extent there were any?  The &#8220;president&#8221; wants to use OSHA to enforce a vaccine mandate on companies with more than 100 employees &#8211; as if forcing a medication on employees (and the forced sharing of medical records, and the inevitable shielding of employers from liability when those records are inevitably. misused) is the same as safety shields in ripsaws.  We&#8217;ll await future presidents using the same precedent to force inoculations against smoking, obesity, and, eventually and inevitably, barring some outbreak of sanity, ideas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also &#8211; not a single mention of natural immuinity.   50 mllion Americans are <em>known <\/em>to have been infected and recovered (myself included); that natural immunity is at least as effective as any pharmaceutical &#8211; but is being pointedly ignored. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to honestly say what was the most concerning part of our &#8220;chief of state&#8217;s&#8221; speech yesterday.  I&#8217;m not the only one to whom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/09\/bidens-desperate-covid-overreach\/\">it sounded like a desperate muddle of authoritarian knee-jerks<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His little shot at the governors who are pushing back at his misbegotten authority &#8211; how he&#8217;s going to use the power of the Federal Government and the Presidency to show them who&#8217;s boss?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It sounds like he wants to crush the idea and practice of federalism; like separation of powers is the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of it was peoples reactions to the &#8220;President&#8221;.  For example, this weasel:<\/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\">Enjoying the angry dad vibes from this Biden speech. He is turning the damn car around.<\/p>&mdash; Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewamiller\/status\/1436074579768774664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>People on the left have a frightening propensity to see government as a &#8220;Parent&#8221;, rather than the custodian elected by the &#8220;Free Association of Equals&#8221; in the Declaration of Independence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, if you can&#8217;t get timeless wisdom from Joy Reid and Steve Schmidt of &#8220;The Lincoln Project&#8221;, where <em>can <\/em>you get it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"761\" height=\"589\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_2040-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79455\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_2040-1.png 761w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_2040-1-300x232.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_2040-1-388x300.png 388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The scapegoating of the unvaccinated &#8211; who, notwithstanding the left&#8217;s propaganda machcine, are largely the young, the poor, and Black males from 20-40 years old &#8211; was perhaps the most chilling thing about the, er, &#8220;speech&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thing is, a real leader &#8211; I&#8217;m looking at you, Ron DeSantis &#8211; could get a lot of mileage out of something that&#8217;s been pushed to the sidelines throughout this pandemic &#8211; the truth.  John Hayward has a draft of a part of the speech that could have been:<\/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\">&quot;Vaccines don&#39;t prevent the Wuhan virus from spreading, but they largely neutralize its effects. Get vaccinated and life returns to normal as this becomes a manageable disease. We&#39;ll stop obsessing over &#39;cases&#39; and focus on reducing hospitalizations.&quot;<br><br>How hard was that to say?<\/p>&mdash; John Hayward (@Cobretata) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cobretata\/status\/1436314312101015570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>20 years after 9\/11, we have government by decree, an out of control bureaucracy that governs more or less as it wishes unless and until someone musters the numbers or. money to try to clip it, a plutocrat sector that buys its own boutique version of freedom, and a population that&#8217;s being conditioned to accept a dystopian shredding of freedom as &#8220;the new normal&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;20 years ago, right after 9\/11, when some on the left said the overreaction to the terror attacks 20 years ago tomorrow would actually give the terrorists the win they wanted? 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