{"id":83737,"date":"2022-11-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83737"},"modified":"2022-10-31T09:47:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T14:47:41","slug":"straws-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83737","title":{"rendered":"Straws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since some prog will bleat &#8220;Why aren&#8217;t you condemning the attack on Paul Pelosi?&#8221; if I don&#8217;t say it &#8211; violence is bad.   Don&#8217;t hit people with hammers, or anything else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of people trying to exploit the episode&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Star Tribune:<\/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\">The violence was the latest jolt to an increasingly splintered political system that is riven with extremism.<br>Here&#39;s a look at what is known about the attack and the suspect: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zf9AT14bED\">https:\/\/t.co\/zf9AT14bED<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune\/status\/1586711438843957248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rob Reiner, the intellectual thought leader of the modern Democrat party?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"876\" height=\"900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-17.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83739\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-17.png 876w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-17-292x300.png 292w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-17-768x789.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And look &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN\/status\/1586352697107783680\">here&#8217;s Ilhan Omar<\/a>, on the attack on Paul Pelosi:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A far right white nationalist tried to assassinate the Speaker of the House and almost killed her husband a year after violent insurrectionists tried to find her and kill her in the Capitol, and the Republican Party\u2019s response is to either ignore it or belittle it.<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s Angie Craig:<\/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 was shocked to hear of the brutal attack that occurred last night against Speaker Pelosi\u2019s husband, Paul. Political violence is never acceptable. I wish Paul a speedy recovery and am thinking of the Pelosi family at this time.<\/p>&mdash; Angie Craig (@RepAngieCraig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAngieCraig\/status\/1586115794421043200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/10\/january-6-did-not-attack-paul-pelosi\/\">Here&#8217;s Amy Klobuchar<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>On&nbsp;<em>Meet the Press<\/em>, Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar rued how Pelosi \u201chas been villainized for years, and big surprise, it\u2019s gone viral, and it went violent.\u201d She said we have \u201cto make sure we\u2019re not electing more election deniers who are following Donald Trump down this road,\u201d and \u201cwe have to do something about this amplification of this election-denying hate speech that we see on the Internet.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect Dems to be familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66365\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"66365\">Berg&#8217;s 18th<\/a> Law &#8211; but there may be no better case of it in all of history.  Indeed, there might be a corollary to the the law &#8211; if the Democrats can use the story for political gain, 48 hours is waaaaay too short.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The facts?   Much more prosaic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>All of this requires imposing a coherence on David DePape\u2019s mind that simply doesn\u2019t exist, which would be obvious to anyone who paused for a minute to consider and absorb the evidence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Listen to the person who perhaps knows him best \u2014 the mother of his two children, a woman named Oxane Taub (a.k.a. Gypsy), herself a whack-job serving jail time for trying to abduct a 14-year-old boy she was infatuated with.<\/p><p>(As a&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/gypsy-taub\/amp\" target=\"_blank\">press release from the local DA\u2019s office<\/a>&nbsp;put it: \u201cOver the course of 14 months, she sent him numerous obsessive emails, created blogs directed at him, used his friends to send him messages and eventually tried to abduct him a few blocks from his school in Berkeley. While the case was pending, Taub also tried to dissuade the victim from testifying.\u201d And she was the rational half of the couple.)<\/p><p>In an interview from jail, conducted by a local TV station, Taub said, \u201cHe is mentally ill. He has been mentally ill for a long time.\u201d She said he was missing for a year and then showed up again \u201cin very bad shape.\u201d According to Taub, \u201che thought he was Jesus.\u201d She added, \u201cHe was constantly paranoid, thinking people were after him. And it took a good year or two to get back to, you know, being halfway normal.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>My theory?  Democrats &#8211; especially Minnesota DFLers &#8211; are looking at next week&#8217;s election, and figure painting themselves as victims of MAGA, and the &#8220;wave of conservative\/white supremacist terror&#8221; they&#8217;ve been promising for the past 15 years, can&#8217;t hurt.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since some prog will bleat &#8220;Why aren&#8217;t you condemning the attack on Paul Pelosi?&#8221; if I don&#8217;t say it &#8211; violence is bad. Don&#8217;t hit people with hammers, or anything else. Speaking of people trying to exploit the episode&#8230; The Star Tribune: Rob Reiner, the intellectual thought leader of the modern Democrat party? And look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-democrats","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83737","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=83737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83741,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83737\/revisions\/83741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}