{"id":88188,"date":"2024-08-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88188"},"modified":"2024-08-20T07:35:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T12:35:50","slug":"open-letter-to-americas-dumbest-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88188","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To America&#8217;s Dumbest Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To: Senator Tina Smith<br \/>From:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, Obstreporous Peasant<br \/>Re;\u00a0 Democracy<\/p>\n<p>Senator,<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday you (via\u00a0 your social\u00a0 media intern) tweeted 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\">Mark my words: History will remember Joe Biden as the statesman who saved America during one of our darkest hours.<br><br>I certainly will. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FcQcIcgjbb\">https:\/\/t.co\/FcQcIcgjbb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/59tbIh5BXF\">pic.twitter.com\/59tbIh5BXF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tina Smith (@TinaSmithMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TinaSmithMN\/status\/1825753635910766801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;History&#8221; may mark those words, if it&#8217;s written by someone dumb enough to be a Tina Smith voter.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But &#8211; and saying for sake of argument that Donald Trump was in fact any way a threat to &#8220;democracy&#8221; between election day and Joe Biden&#8217;s coronation &#8211; the big story is <em>our constitutional system worked<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 It easily dealt with whatever &#8220;threat&#8221; Trump might have been.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Your personality cultism is more appropriate for a Maoist dictatorship&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but I suspect you know that, and are OK with it, since you will likely be one of the people in the dachas rather than the gulag, at least for a while.<\/p>\n<p>But stop calling it democracy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Senator Tina SmithFrom:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe;\u00a0 Democracy Senator, Yesterday you (via\u00a0 your social\u00a0 media intern) tweeted this: &#8220;History&#8221; may mark those words, if it&#8217;s written by someone dumb enough to be a Tina Smith voter. But &#8211; and saying for sake of argument that Donald Trump was in fact any way a threat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,51,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-liberal-tyranny","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88188","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=88188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88189,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88188\/revisions\/88189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}