{"id":86911,"date":"2024-01-29T11:04:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86911"},"modified":"2024-01-29T11:04:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T17:04:40","slug":"regrettably-unbecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86911","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Regrettably Unbecoming&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Listen to this clip of a speech from Ilhan Omar.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, seriously. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when you read the translation of this speech, in your mind, translate it into German, or at least repeat the words in iyour mind, or out loud, in a German accent.  <\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/MarinaMedvin\/status\/1751751864167661750\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tell the truth &#8211; doesn&#8217;t it sound like a clip from <em>Trumph of the Will<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, not the bit about representing Somalis in America; in politics, you dance with the ones that brung you.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And no, I don&#8217;t care that she&#8217;s talking Somali.  She&#8217;s talking to a Somali audience.  Latino Republicans talk Spanish at rallies.  Back when there were German and Norwegian speaking towns, politicians spoke those languages.  I don&#8217;t care.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, it&#8217;s just that you can all but hear he say &#8220;<em>Blut und Boden<\/em>&#8221; if you listen just right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Heeeeeey, you conservatives are <em>pouncing<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conservatives&#8230;like the Somali deputy foreign minister?<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/AmbRhodaJElmi\/status\/1751669533171994655\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We <\/em>are pouncing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God knows the <em>Strib <\/em>won&#8217;t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to this clip of a speech from Ilhan Omar. No, seriously. But when you read the translation of this speech, in your mind, translate it into German, or at least repeat the words in iyour mind, or out loud, in a German accent. Tell the truth &#8211; doesn&#8217;t it sound like a clip from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86911","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=86911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86920,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86911\/revisions\/86920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}