{"id":87827,"date":"2024-07-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87827"},"modified":"2024-07-04T07:51:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T12:51:40","slug":"stay-the-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87827","title":{"rendered":"Stay The Curse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Democrats apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/david-strom\/2024\/07\/01\/democrats-have-chosen-long-slow-death-march-n3791231\">believe Biden is the lesser of the various available evils<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Expect that the folks who want to be convinced will feel relief, even get a sugar high from Biden&#8217;s best moments. Biden supporters will be on an emotional rollercoaster. Until the roller coaster pulls back into the boarding station, it will appear that the campaign is moving fast along the track.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes. It really will take a while for Biden&#8217;s poll numbers to show that his campaign cannot recover. And even more surprising, expect that many Democrats will commit to voting for him no matter what, even were he in a coma&#8230;[and speaking of which] The professional Democrats all know that this is a disaster, and all of us should, too. Short-term ups and downs mean nothing for one simple reason: no number of good moments or days will be able to hide the fact that the number of bad moments, hours, and days will only increase as time goes on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is how dementia works. It is inexorable and an ugly process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>My <em>schadenfreud <\/em>at the Dems being committed to a sinking ship is tempered by what should be human compassion.  As I&#8217;ve noted elsewhere, Biden appears to be suffering from the early stages of some kind of dementia.  I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81887\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"81887\">lost my Mom to Alzheimers two years ago<\/a>, and it is a merciless, remorseless bitch.  I wouldn&#8217;t wish it on anyone short of Kim Jong Un.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bad &#8211; or worse &#8211; news? Expect the social gaslighting to become intolerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed &#8211; we only needed to wait til mid-day yesterday for it to symphonically swell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More on that mid-day today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats apparently believe Biden is the lesser of the various available evils: Expect that the folks who want to be convinced will feel relief, even get a sugar high from Biden&#8217;s best moments. Biden supporters will be on an emotional rollercoaster. Until the roller coaster pulls back into the boarding station, it will appear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,425,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biden-campaign-defenestration","category-campaign-24","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87827","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=87827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87838,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87827\/revisions\/87838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}