{"id":82557,"date":"2022-06-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82557"},"modified":"2022-06-21T22:18:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T03:18:34","slug":"wag-the-vegetable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82557","title":{"rendered":"Wag The Vegetable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:Joe Dokes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/10\/a-would-be-school-invader-in-alabama-failed-when-the-doors-were-locked-and-police-werent-cowards\/\">incidents like these<\/a> which make people look at Uvalde and say, &#8220;Hmmmmm.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>An attempted mass shooting at a school was thwarted when the shooter found doors were locked, the school had an armed officer on scene, and responding police officers took prompt, effective action to end the threat.  In other words, the system worked exactly as it should, exactly the way  Conservatives have spent the last two weeks saying it would, because the people responsible for school safety did their jobs.  Give them all a medal, they deserve it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Which makes us wonder &#8211; why didn&#8217;t it work in Uvalde?  An incredibly long string of coincidental but accidental failures, or a glow-in-the-dark operation intended to stir up public support for gun control just when the &#8216;President&#8217; needs a wag-the-dog distraction from the unfolding disaster that is the Lesko Brandon administration?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Hmmmmm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the craven depravity with which the Lesko Brandon administration is running things, it seems simultaneously like a conspiracy theory and documentary evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:Joe Dokes from Como Park emails: It&#8217;s incidents like these which make people look at Uvalde and say, &#8220;Hmmmmm.&#8221; An attempted mass shooting at a school was thwarted when the shooter found doors were locked, the school had an armed officer on scene, and responding police officers took prompt, effective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82557","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=82557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82558,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82557\/revisions\/82558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}