{"id":83967,"date":"2022-12-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83967"},"modified":"2022-11-29T09:38:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T15:38:02","slug":"two-americas-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83967","title":{"rendered":"Two Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the late Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards said, there are two Americas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both of them might look at this video, of Chinese cops searching peoples cell phones for signs of anti-regime badthink.<\/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\">Shanghai police grabbing, checking phones up and down the subway <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dvVZRzJ1tW\">pic.twitter.com\/dvVZRzJ1tW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jack Poso \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1597578114770829312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One America thinks &#8220;get a warrant, bitch&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other America gets a tingle down its leg and thinks &#8220;imagine what we could do for vaccine, mask and distancing compliance!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That second America is the one that&#8217;s nattering at the first America about &#8220;democracy&#8221;.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the late Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards said, there are two Americas. Both of them might look at this video, of Chinese cops searching peoples cell phones for signs of anti-regime badthink. One America thinks &#8220;get a warrant, bitch&#8221;. The other America gets a tingle down its leg and thinks &#8220;imagine what we could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83967","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=83967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83968,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83967\/revisions\/83968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}