{"id":84118,"date":"2022-12-22T10:56:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T16:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84118"},"modified":"2022-12-22T10:56:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T16:56:35","slug":"im-old-enough-to-remember-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84118","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Old Enough To Remember&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;when dissenting from forced civil rituals was considered the height of Patriotism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why, it was only Kaepernick years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How things have changed:<\/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 couldn\u2019t imagine looking at myself in the mirror if i was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattgaetz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mattgaetz<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laurenboebert?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@laurenboebert<\/a>.  Smugly sat on their hands while history was made and a real hero addressed us.  Imagine caring more about performance art than actual human lives.<\/p>&mdash; Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@AdamKinzinger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamKinzinger\/status\/1605764805200994305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">There are so many reasons I&#8217;d go on strike if I were one of Kinzinger&#8217;s mirrors&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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\">Caption This: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nI48mXVJHD\">pic.twitter.com\/nI48mXVJHD<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Eric Swalwell (@ericswalwell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericswalwell\/status\/1605793066467704832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I&#8217;ll go with &#8220;Three people that weren&#8217;t sexual puppets of Chinese spies&#8221;.  How&#8217;d I do?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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\">For any Members of Congress who refused to clap for Zelenskyy, we need to know from them exactly why.<\/p>&mdash; Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeschlossDC\/status\/1605730371001323521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Michael Beschloss is to historians what Taylor Swift is to guitarists.  Only without the integrity. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Look &#8211; as someone who supported Ukrainian independence back when Democrats universally said the USSR was here to stay, I have one request:  Show the share of the money that actually goes to weapons, logistics and training.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because I&#8217;ve seen estimates that 2\/3 of the money we &#8220;send to Ukraine&#8221; ends up in the pockets of consultants and special interests in the US <em>that don&#8217;t include <\/em>building weapons (or replacing them in US units and inventories), shipping them, or training Ukrainians to use them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what better way to avoid that accounting than to hold yet another ongoing witchhunt against &#8220;badthink?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;when dissenting from forced civil rituals was considered the height of Patriotism. Why, it was only Kaepernick years ago. How things have changed: Look &#8211; as someone who supported Ukrainian independence back when Democrats universally said the USSR was here to stay, I have one request: Show the share of the money that actually goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,426,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84118","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=84118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84119,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84118\/revisions\/84119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}