{"id":88452,"date":"2024-10-08T05:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88452"},"modified":"2024-10-09T06:55:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T11:55:30","slug":"while-awaiting-kanyes-two-cents-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88452","title":{"rendered":"While Awaiting Kanye&#8217;s Two Cents Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a rule, I treat the axiom &#8220;government is the things we do together, stupidly&#8221; like a well-tested law of physics.\u00a0\u00a0 Politics &#8211; which is what drives government &#8211; is the worst possible way to allocate limited resources <em>of any kind<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And FEMA&#8217;s record is&#8230;checkered.<\/p>\n<p>But some of the stories coming from the Carolinas, Georgia and Virginia seem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;stretchy?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a POV.\u00a0<\/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=\"Lies about Hurricane Helene\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/brDbMhkxVd4?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\n\n<p>As grandma used to day,\u00a0 &#8220;trusting anyone is always a sucker bet, especially online&#8221;.\u00a0 Since Grandma died 15 years before anyone but Algore had the internet, she was pretty savvy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a rule, I treat the axiom &#8220;government is the things we do together, stupidly&#8221; like a well-tested law of physics.\u00a0\u00a0 Politics &#8211; which is what drives government &#8211; is the worst possible way to allocate limited resources of any kind.\u00a0 And FEMA&#8217;s record is&#8230;checkered. But some of the stories coming from the Carolinas, Georgia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88452","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=88452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88466,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88452\/revisions\/88466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}