{"id":80509,"date":"2022-01-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80509"},"modified":"2022-01-05T21:34:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T03:34:15","slug":"stuck-on-stupid-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80509","title":{"rendered":"Stuck On Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With Denmark and Sweden tripling down on the free market and abandoning draconian Covid regulations, the longing eyes of the world’s “Social Democrat” noodlers have turned to New Zealand’s. Jacinda Ardern. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She ran a very hawkish “Lockdown” regime in 2020, drawing the admiration of a lot of Mascists – as if they could replicate the lockdown of a country with a population 20% smaller than Minnesota’s, with land area 25% larger, isolated from all other land by a thousand miles, able to cut itself off from the world by closing a couple ports and a few gates at the Wellington airport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has it worked? Time’ll tell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But she’s got more government gigantism in mind:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/bopinion\/status\/1470504692627263497\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So – if you’re a smuggler, run an organized crime syndicate, or just like making money off of government-induced shortages? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opportunity is knocking!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d respond “these people never learn from history”, but assuming they would would paradoxically mean I haven’t learned from history. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Denmark and Sweden tripling down on the free market and abandoning draconian Covid regulations, the longing eyes of the world’s “Social Democrat” noodlers have turned to New Zealand’s. Jacinda Ardern. She ran a very hawkish “Lockdown” regime in 2020, drawing the admiration of a lot of Mascists – as if they could replicate the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80509","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=80509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80510,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80509\/revisions\/80510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}