{"id":79742,"date":"2021-10-14T06:32:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T11:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79742"},"modified":"2021-10-14T06:32:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T11:32:18","slug":"taking-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79742","title":{"rendered":"Taking Stock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So let\u2019s take stock of where were at in the Biden administration so far:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Our shelves are getting kinda bare.  &#8220;But Merg &#8211; you couldn&#8217;t find toilet paper during the last year of Drumpf&#8217;s regime&#8221;. Yep &#8211; for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73762\">free market reasons that actually made sense<\/a>.  Try again. <\/li><li>The borders are in effect open.<\/li><li>We have a <em>de facto <\/em>hostage crisis <\/li><li>The Taliban in back in control in Afghanistan<\/li><li>Fuel costs aren&#8217;t just rising, they&#8217;re skyrocketing. <\/li><li>Public education is getting even worse. <\/li><li>The social divides that erupted in violence during the Obama regime have escalated. <\/li><li>Indeed, inflation is back for the first time since my freshman year of college. <\/li><li>The executive branch, which as been too poiwerful for a long time, is starting to act on that fact. <\/li><li>After a year of government acting like a scolding &#8220;Karen&#8221; of a neighbor and &#8220;two weeks to flatten the curve&#8221;, not only has Covid gone nowhere, but the economic effects of lockdowns are getting worse. <\/li><li>The workforce &#8211; one of the four key pillars of the economy, along with land, capital and management &#8211; has been &#8220;unintentionally&#8221; distorted far out of whack, with dire consequences. <\/li><li>China is ratting its sabers as never before. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>What am I missing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So let\u2019s take stock of where were at in the Biden administration so far: Our shelves are getting kinda bare. &#8220;But Merg &#8211; you couldn&#8217;t find toilet paper during the last year of Drumpf&#8217;s regime&#8221;. Yep &#8211; for free market reasons that actually made sense. Try again. The borders are in effect open. We have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,24,30,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-culture-war","category-liberty","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79742","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=79742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79744,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79742\/revisions\/79744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}