{"id":88385,"date":"2024-09-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88385"},"modified":"2024-09-24T11:11:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T16:11:43","slug":"never-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88385","title":{"rendered":"Never Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Few things have made me cringe quite as hard as &#8220;White Dudes for Harris&#8221; &#8211; the bunch of man-buns, ex-celebs, non-profit staffers and other walking caricatures that showed up on a struggle session on Zoom over the summer&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-5.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-5-300x167.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-5-768x427.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-5-500x278.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;to a fairly universal &#8220;ick&#8221;.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why ,yes &#8211; I thought the whole thing was cloying and patronizing.<\/p>\n<p>How cloying and patronizing?\u00a0 You know when Tim Walz puts on his Elmer Fudd costume and grabs his entourage of photographers and social media dinks and waddles around the fair taking pictures of himself eating donuts and hugging piglets?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<em>That <\/em>cloying and patronizing.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8220;they&#8221; were just getting started:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;White Dudes for Harris&#039; Call Out Men in New Ad\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OJbIMF8dTVA?start=4&#038;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>&#8220;Every time you go online, it&#8217;s the same story &#8211; the people who are paying me to read this script telling people like me that I suck.  Well, if you vote for Kamala Harris, because reasons we&#8217;ll give you someday, maybe, then maybe you and I don&#8217;t suck&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whoever wrote this has never met an actual male of any race. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few things have made me cringe quite as hard as &#8220;White Dudes for Harris&#8221; &#8211; the bunch of man-buns, ex-celebs, non-profit staffers and other walking caricatures that showed up on a struggle session on Zoom over the summer&#8230; &#8230;to a fairly universal &#8220;ick&#8221;. Why ,yes &#8211; I thought the whole thing was cloying and patronizing. 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