{"id":88596,"date":"2024-10-28T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88596"},"modified":"2024-10-28T10:09:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T15:09:21","slug":"evil-adjacent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88596","title":{"rendered":"Evil-Adjacent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I don&#8217;t need a lot of reasons not to vote for Kamala Harris next week.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve documented many of them.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s vapid.<\/p>\n<p>World leaders &#8211; the ones that aren&#8217;t really just French or British or German version of her, anyway (including the Cartel leaders, who are the de facto leaders of Mexico and are world leaders in a sense in their own right) &#8211; have contempt for her, and are clearly drooling at the things they&#8217;ll be able to get away with if the American people screw this up.<\/p>\n<p>The policies she <em>does <\/em>support are disasters, for the economy, liberty and the American republic.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s not a lot better at assembling a coherent thought than Biden, or go offscript without screwing up than Trump.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s enough. <\/p>\n<p>But it ain&#8217;t everything.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s got a pretty tenuous grasp of right and wrong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The LIttle Girl Who Cried &#8220;Hitler&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Out of useful ideas, the Giggles\/Piglet camaign is resorting to perhaps the Dems&#8217; most loathsome trope:&nbsp;&nbsp; their opponents are &#8220;Nazis&#8221; and &#8220;Fascists&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/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\">Auschwitz Survivor, Jerry Wartski: \u201cI know more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in a thousand lifetimes. For her to accuse President Trump of being like Hitler is the worst thing I&#39;ve ever heard in my 75 years of living in the United States.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KXwCr9Gz8L\">pic.twitter.com\/KXwCr9Gz8L<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dan Scavino Jr.\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83e\udd85 (@DanScavino) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanScavino\/status\/1849878810306461765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I stay pretty relentlessly civil &#8211; but there is nothing more loathsome, in part because it trivializes one of the most evil ideologies in history to try to win votes from stupid people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For which she should rot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the little matter of her own little problem with authoritarianism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;My Authoritaaaaaaaaah&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giggles clearly enjoys the perks &#8211; the power &#8211; of being in office.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And flexing that power &#8211; especially against those who can&#8217;t defend themselves against her:<\/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\">One of the most brutal ads you\u2019ve ever seen against a politician. Wow. Just watch. \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pPhtYARzwJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/pPhtYARzwJ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robbystarbuck\/status\/1850210241255772667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not that I needed more reasons.\u00a0 But those are more reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t need a lot of reasons not to vote for Kamala Harris next week.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve documented many of them. She&#8217;s vapid. World leaders &#8211; the ones that aren&#8217;t really just French or British or German version of her, anyway (including the Cartel leaders, who are the de facto leaders of Mexico and are world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,20,426,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-democrats","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88596","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=88596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88605,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88596\/revisions\/88605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}