{"id":88398,"date":"2024-09-24T07:18:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T12:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88398"},"modified":"2024-09-24T07:18:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T12:18:53","slug":"false-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88398","title":{"rendered":"False Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to imagine the depths of Kamala Harris&#8217;s, er, <em>nuance <\/em>when it comes to civil liberties.\u00a0 Perhaps&#8230;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a false choice to say you support free speech, or censorship. I am in favor of the First Amendment, and I support a disinformation ban, licensing the press, and Governor Walz&#8217;s thoughtcrime database, like when I was born into the middle class!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Or maybe&#8230;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a false choice say say you are either for or against the Fourth Amendment. I support the 4th Amendment &#8211; and I think cops shouldn&#8217;t have to ask for search warrants before tossing your house and car, unburdened by what has been.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Hmmm.  How about&#8230;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s wrong to say you either support or oppose the 5th Amendment. I support the 5th Amendment &#8211; but it makes life easier for our First Responders in the County Attorneys office if we presume people guilty until proven innocent, abolish juries and defense counsel&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, was there even a need to guess?<\/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\">It is a false choice to suggest you are either in favor of the Second Amendment or you want to take everyone\u2019s guns away.<br><br>I am in favor of the Second Amendment \u2014 and I am in favor of an assault weapons ban, universal background checks, and red flag laws.<\/p>&mdash; Vice President Kamala Harris Archived (@VP46Archive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VP46Archive\/status\/1837953835937288403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Her principles are, in fact, as convenient as her ethics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to imagine the depths of Kamala Harris&#8217;s, er, nuance when it comes to civil liberties.\u00a0 Perhaps&#8230;: &#8220;It&#8217;s a false choice to say you support free speech, or censorship. I am in favor of the First Amendment, and I support a disinformation ban, licensing the press, and Governor Walz&#8217;s thoughtcrime database, like when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,20,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-democrats","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88398","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=88398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88399,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88398\/revisions\/88399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}