{"id":87993,"date":"2024-07-31T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87993"},"modified":"2024-07-30T08:09:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T13:09:53","slug":"chanting-points-memo-little-robots-full-of-ticky-tack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87993","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Points Memo:   Little Robots Full Of Ticky-Tack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Remember &#8220;Journo-list?&#8221;\u00a0 The top-secret, hush-hush chat room for &#8220;journalists&#8221; from fifteen years ago?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t remember, that&#8217;s OK, because:<\/p>\n<p>a) This bit here summarizes <em>and <\/em>parodies it pretty aptly, and<\/p>\n<p>b) There&#8217;s no need to remember, because it&#8217;s happening today, again.<\/p>\n<p>This time, it&#8217;s about the term &#8220;weird&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Every Democrat and media (ptr) figure has suddenly started using it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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\">Supercut of NPC\u2019s being programmed to say \u201cweird.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ehOg48ZiJZ\">pic.twitter.com\/ehOg48ZiJZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RubinReport\/status\/1818083579445866884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is intended to go viral among the clubby environs of local blue-city media &#8211; in this case, the <em>Star-Tribune&#8217;s &#8211; <\/em>what&#8217;s a good adjective &#8211; <em>pointless <\/em>Jennifer Brooks, whose column about the issue&#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\">Brooks: GOP melts down after Walz calls Trump and Vance weirdness &#39;weird&#39; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BqRIHUb0eM\">https:\/\/t.co\/BqRIHUb0eM<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune\/status\/1818078163840205187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Melts Down?&#8221;   Hey, we found where the &#8220;Dump Bachmann&#8221; people went when they molted!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;shows us what happened to those people who were writing all those &#8220;FIX INDIGESTION WITH THIS ONE WEIRD [!!!] TRICK&#8221; copywriters from ten years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Did I say &#8220;clubby&#8221;?<\/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\/stribrooks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@stribrooks<\/a> coming in hot!!! Not quite channeling the ghost of Nick Coleman yet, but on the same half of the bell curve.<br><br>Tim Walz &#39;weird&#39; quote has Republicans on defense <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DM6oiici4t\">https:\/\/t.co\/DM6oiici4t<\/a><\/p>&mdash; John Reinan (@johnnyasheville) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnnyasheville\/status\/1818100066290135191?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 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;ll unpack <em>that <\/em>statement in another post.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is, of course, a classic instance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=70364\">Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law<\/a> .\u00a0 They&#8217;re calling Republicans &#8220;weird&#8221; to deflect away from their very, very weird &#8211; no, bizarre &#8211; presidential candidate, at the head of a party that believes a <em>lot <\/em>of things that go way beyond &#8220;weird&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once you understand that&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember &#8220;Journo-list?&#8221;\u00a0 The top-secret, hush-hush chat room for &#8220;journalists&#8221; from fifteen years ago?\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t remember, that&#8217;s OK, because: a) This bit here summarizes and parodies it pretty aptly, and b) There&#8217;s no need to remember, because it&#8217;s happening today, again. This time, it&#8217;s about the term &#8220;weird&#8221;.\u00a0 Every Democrat and media (ptr) figure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,20,37],"tags":[277],"class_list":["post-87993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-democrats","category-language","tag-bergs-seventh-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87993","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=87993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87994,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87993\/revisions\/87994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}