{"id":87772,"date":"2024-06-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87772"},"modified":"2024-06-24T14:43:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:43:19","slug":"the-first-off-the-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87772","title":{"rendered":"The First Off The Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:  All of Congress<br>From:  Mitch Berg, Obstreporous Peasant with kids, grandkids<br>Re:  Your (pl) Cowardice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Political Weasel Class (Democrat <em>and <\/em>GOP)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I&#8217;ll start with the low-hanging rotten fruit:  Eric Swalwell continues to pay dividends on China&#8217;s investment:<\/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\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a> There you have it. If Donald Trump is president say GOODBYE to your social security and plan to work into your 70s. This is their plan. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1czuTDb1ek\">https:\/\/t.co\/1czuTDb1ek<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepSwalwell\/status\/1803560923728322905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re headed toward a $50 Trillion debt.  Already our debt service costs more than defense, and will soon start to suck money way from it.  No matter &#8211; soon it will outstrip Social Security and Medicare.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No system can survive this.  This is Venezuela-level irresonsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And none of you Democrats, and precious few Republicans, are taking this seriously.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swalwell is a cartoon &#8211; but no better than most of you, when you get right down to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone&#8217;s gotta be the first to tackle this thing, because it&#8217;s definitely going to tackle us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: All of CongressFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous Peasant with kids, grandkidsRe: Your (pl) Cowardice Political Weasel Class (Democrat and GOP) So I&#8217;ll start with the low-hanging rotten fruit: Eric Swalwell continues to pay dividends on China&#8217;s investment: We&#8217;re headed toward a $50 Trillion debt. Already our debt service costs more than defense, and will soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-entitled-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87772","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=87772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87773,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87772\/revisions\/87773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}