{"id":80826,"date":"2022-02-03T11:07:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80826"},"modified":"2022-02-03T11:07:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:07:23","slug":"its-always-a-national-holiday-when-youre-a-fact-checker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80826","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Always A National Holiday When You&#8217;re A Fact Checker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I write this, not because I think <em>my <\/em>audience needs to see it, but because it illustrates something that&#8217;s right on the verge of being a Berg&#8217;s Law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To something like wit:  Democrats can tell their audience anything they want, because they know that their voting base &#8211; whether they have a Masters in Education or are non-profiteers from Linden Hills &#8211; are ignorant, devoid of facility in critical thinking, and basically intellectual herd animals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The White House is crowing about the &#8220;economic growth&#8221; under Brandon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_2489.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80825\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_2489.jpg 756w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_2489-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You know as well as I do &#8211; it&#8217;s a dead cat bounce, up from the government-induced trough at the end of the Trump term:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"844\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_2490.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80824\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_2490.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_2490-300x264.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_2490-768x675.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_2490-341x300.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If American public education taught critical thought, the Democrats would poll somewhere below the Legal Marijuana party. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I write this, not because I think my audience needs to see it, but because it illustrates something that&#8217;s right on the verge of being a Berg&#8217;s Law. To something like wit: Democrats can tell their audience anything they want, because they know that their voting base &#8211; whether they have a Masters in Education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80826","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=80826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80829,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80826\/revisions\/80829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}