{"id":85121,"date":"2023-05-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85121"},"modified":"2023-05-16T14:36:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T19:36:40","slug":"a-couple-bucks-in-the-proverbial-tip-jar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85121","title":{"rendered":"A Couple Bucks In The Proverbial Tip Jar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sure, it&#8217;s entirely plausible that an entire &#8220;white supremacist&#8221; group without a single inbred-looking morbidly overweight guy among &#8217;em might march through DC without a mob of &#8220;counterprotesters&#8221; howling for their blood.  It&#8217;s a crazy world, anything can happen. <\/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\">99% Feds\u2026 Don\u2019t fall for it\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GGI46w2lee\">pic.twitter.com\/GGI46w2lee<\/a><\/p>&mdash; @amuse (@amuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amuse\/status\/1657469581508714501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What makes this whole thing seem just a <em>tad <\/em>lessplausible is&#8230;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;watching the police let them <em>all <\/em>march into the subway, in perfect order, while keeping anyone else from following them. <\/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\">Feds are done\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5Ed5eyAYcS\">pic.twitter.com\/5Ed5eyAYcS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; @amuse (@amuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amuse\/status\/1657476866184282113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As we saw in Minneapolis and Charlottesville, cops are vastly more likely to just let &#8220;counterprotesters&#8221; and &#8220;white supremacists&#8221; duke it out.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying they&#8217;re all feds, nosireebob. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m just saying the market for &#8220;white supremacy&#8221; in this, Barack Obama&#8217;s third term, so vastly exceeds the supply that the government needs to do the equivalent of putting a couple bucks in the tip jar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, it&#8217;s entirely plausible that an entire &#8220;white supremacist&#8221; group without a single inbred-looking morbidly overweight guy among &#8217;em might march through DC without a mob of &#8220;counterprotesters&#8221; howling for their blood. It&#8217;s a crazy world, anything can happen. What makes this whole thing seem just a tad lessplausible is&#8230;:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slander-files","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85121","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=85121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85129,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85121\/revisions\/85129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}