{"id":79873,"date":"2021-11-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79873"},"modified":"2021-10-31T21:15:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T02:15:47","slug":"central-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79873","title":{"rendered":"Central Casting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last Friday, heading into the closing weekend of the Virginia Gubernatorial contest, a group of &#8216;white supremacists&#8221; showed up &#8220;in support&#8221; of GOP challenger Glenn Younkin, in full Charlottesville regalia, lest anyone miss the reference. . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was something a little fishy, though:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/mgcs4fF_j62HF5O9MQtzSA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTQxMTtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/uu\/api\/res\/1.2\/_YmnCAp2KxSUQOh9IituwQ--~B\/aD00NjQ7dz03OTU7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/the_national_review_738\/13ecde821c05701b7e5c5ff6e5d972ed\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After they were thoroughly busted, the &#8220;Lincoln Project&#8221; &#8211; the group of &#8220;never-Trump&#8221; &#8220;republicans&#8221; that seems to always work toward Democrat Party interests [1] &#8211; admitted they were behind the stunt:<\/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\">Lincoln Project claims credit for the &quot;white supremacist&quot; stunt at Youngkin&#39;s campaign event today. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h18Sfk5AUC\">pic.twitter.com\/h18Sfk5AUC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McCormackJohn\/status\/1454196150177783811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;But wait!  Macauliffe and\/or his staff weren&#8217;t involved!&#8221;   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/mcauliffe-staffers-dems-pushed-lincoln-232238956.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall\">Yes they were<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Shapiro noted last week that Macauliffe&#8217;s campaign has boiled down to &#8220;Trump!&#8221;, which is odd considering Trump isn&#8217;t in the race. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it a stupid, desperate stunt, intended to deflect attention away from Macauliffe&#8217;s catastrophic performance this past few weeks, along with the fact that h<a href=\"https:\/\/r.search.yahoo.com\/_ylt=AwrCwDPRRH1hNmYA0gIPxQt.;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny\/RV=2\/RE=1635628369\/RO=10\/RU=https%3a%2f%2fthefederalist.com%2f2021%2f10%2f27%2freport-mcauliffe-linked-law-firm-fights-against-virginia-students-who-say-theyve-been-sexually-assaulted-at-school%2f\/RK=2\/RS=2Gvct5wcfRjQdwtXH3ePOYciatQ-\">e&#8217;s tied to the coverup of sexual abuse claims in Loudon County<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it&#8217;s worse than that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a less-polished episode from a campaign that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4589\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4589\">been going on since 2009<\/a> at the very least, from Obama and Biden&#8217;s cabinets (ptr) all the way down to failed &#8220;fact-checker&#8221; Dog Gone, who used to promise in this comment section that there was a wave of white supremacist terror that&#8217;d dwarf 9\/11 coming up, any day now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tne notion that, notwithstanding the fact that actual &#8220;white supremacist&#8221; groups have been shrinking by roughly an order of magnitude roughly every generation, that white American society is building a militant arm that is just acheing to go out and take over.  Every event of recent history, and even distant history, is bent to support that narrative &#8211; from the <a href=\"https:\/\/r.search.yahoo.com\/_ylt=AwrCxGEGRn1hdBgAnQMPxQt.;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzQEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny\/RV=2\/RE=1635628679\/RO=10\/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.nytimes.com%2finteractive%2f2019%2f08%2f14%2fmagazine%2f1619-america-slavery.html\/RK=2\/RS=7_qFPstqYbVAS474n6Cd9OBIQks-\">very founding of this nation<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/man-helped-ignite-george-floyd-riots-identified-white\/story?id=72051536\">Minneapolis riots<\/a> to Emmanuel Goldstein&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;schwoops.  I skipped narratives, there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, not like the narrative was ever subtle, but how stupid do you have to be to miss it?<\/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\">I know today&#39;s stunt was hilarious in the &quot;Holy hell, they&#39;re really bad at this&quot; sense, but what gets lost is that there was a coordinated effort to smear all Youngkin voters as white supremacists, and they shouldn&#39;t be allowed to move on from this. Don&#39;t ever let them forget.<\/p>&mdash; Joanne Mason (@JoanneMason11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoanneMason11\/status\/1454296320173395968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is just another chapter in the left&#8217;s attempt to slander half of our nation.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact is was.a flailing and incompetent attempt doesn&#8217;t make things better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[1] Perhaps it should be called the Tom Horner Project?<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, heading into the closing weekend of the Virginia Gubernatorial contest, a group of &#8216;white supremacists&#8221; showed up &#8220;in support&#8221; of GOP challenger Glenn Younkin, in full Charlottesville regalia, lest anyone miss the reference. . 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