{"id":88272,"date":"2024-09-03T08:40:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88272"},"modified":"2024-09-03T08:40:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:40:03","slug":"that-pesky-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88272","title":{"rendered":"That Pesky Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Freedom.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s such a big deal, our &#8220;elites&#8221; don&#8217;t think you can be trusted with it:<\/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\">They assured us they cared about the Constitution <br><br>I guess they lied <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hl4XxuJyBD\">pic.twitter.com\/hl4XxuJyBD<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BasedMikeLee\/status\/1830746524537479474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Keith Ellison thanks the authoritarian socialist government of Brazil for threatening to criminalize Twitter:<\/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=\"pt\" dir=\"ltr\">obrigado Brasil!<\/p>&mdash; Keith Ellison (@keithellison) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keithellison\/status\/1830720700019028109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kamala Harris thinks free speech is a privilege, and needs supervision. <\/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\">\u201cThey are directly speaking to millions &amp; millions of people without oversight.\u201d <br><br>Exactly. That\u2019s free speech. No oversight by government bureaucrats. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jaketapper<\/a> looks genuinely dumbfounded that this could possibly be her actual position. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yOSMq0rMfx\">pic.twitter.com\/yOSMq0rMfx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenniferSey\/status\/1830830413725786135?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Democrats are warning me democracy itself is at stake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess they&#8217;re right.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom. It&#8217;s such a big deal, our &#8220;elites&#8221; don&#8217;t think you can be trusted with it: Keith Ellison thanks the authoritarian socialist government of Brazil for threatening to criminalize Twitter: Kamala Harris thinks free speech is a privilege, and needs supervision. Democrats are warning me democracy itself is at stake. I guess they&#8217;re right.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,30,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-liberty","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88272","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=88272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88273,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88272\/revisions\/88273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}