{"id":86664,"date":"2023-12-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86664"},"modified":"2023-12-17T09:58:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T15:58:24","slug":"there-must-be-some-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86664","title":{"rendered":"There Must Be Some Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was reliably informed that the DFL&#8217;s spending spree was going to &#8220;reduce poverty by 30%&#8221;, and that &#8220;Bidenomics&#8221; was a new golden age. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet&#8230;:<\/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\">Record-level homelessness across the U.S.  People becoming homeless for the first time fueling the trend. Rents are way out of whack with incomes. Whether they\u2019ve gone up, down or stayed flat, the rent is too damn high\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KjY0LaVVOh\">pic.twitter.com\/KjY0LaVVOh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Frederick Melo, Reporter\/Axolotl (@FrederickMelo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrederickMelo\/status\/1736080297832149253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently the (checks scorecard) <em>Mainstream Media <\/em>are now spreading Russian disinformation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reliably informed that the DFL&#8217;s spending spree was going to &#8220;reduce poverty by 30%&#8221;, and that &#8220;Bidenomics&#8221; was a new golden age. And yet&#8230;: Apparently the (checks scorecard) Mainstream Media are now spreading Russian disinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86664","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=86664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86665,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86664\/revisions\/86665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}