{"id":88138,"date":"2024-08-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88138"},"modified":"2024-08-13T10:03:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T15:03:29","slug":"new-opportunity-for-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88138","title":{"rendered":"New Opportunity For Republicans!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was &#8220;yesterday years old&#8221;, as the kids say, when I learned about this:<\/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\">NEW: This election is my time for choosing. As a Republican, I choose to proudly support <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHarris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KamalaHarris<\/a> for president and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tim_Walz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Tim_Walz<\/a> for vice president. Read why here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D2QtBJisaE\">https:\/\/t.co\/D2QtBJisaE<\/a> @RepsForHarris <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RepublicansForHarris?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RepublicansForHarris<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Michael Brodkorb (@mbrodkorb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mbrodkorb\/status\/1823062051570208842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Truly we live in a time of miracles; there is now a pro-skyrocketing debt, pro-foreign-policy collapse, pro-Middle East war, pro-weaponization of the institutions against political opposition, pro-censorship, pro foreign policy of &#8220;losing slowly&#8221;, pro packing the SCOTUS, pro-crime, pro firearm confiscation, pro collapse of education, anti-federalism, pro redefinition of bedrock societal institutions, anti free speech, pro-rule-by-executive-decree, pro-open border, anti-sovereignty, pro-untrammeled bureaucracy, pro-<em>socialism <\/em>wing of the GOP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We truly live in a time of wonder.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, for <em>those<\/em> of you for whom &#8220;Duck Hunters for Gun Safety&#8221; isn&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 I see Michael appropriated Reagan&#8217;s &#8220;A Time For Choosing&#8221; title.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among the choices Reagan put forth in his speech, Michael chose the wrong one.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ronald Reagan&#039;s &quot;A Time for Choosing&quot; speech October 27, 1964\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_VBtCMTPveA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The wrong choice 60 years ago, the wrong choice now, the wrong choice always.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was &#8220;yesterday years old&#8221;, as the kids say, when I learned about this: Truly we live in a time of miracles; there is now a pro-skyrocketing debt, pro-foreign-policy collapse, pro-Middle East war, pro-weaponization of the institutions against political opposition, pro-censorship, pro foreign policy of &#8220;losing slowly&#8221;, pro packing the SCOTUS, pro-crime, pro firearm confiscation, [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88138","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=88138"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88151,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88138\/revisions\/88151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}