{"id":88647,"date":"2024-11-04T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88647"},"modified":"2024-11-04T13:11:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T19:11:30","slug":"symbolic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88647","title":{"rendered":"Symbolic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two stories emblematic of what tomorrow&#8217;s election means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In New York City, a Marine veteran is on trial for murder for defending innocent bystanders against a man who was very blatantly threatening them:<\/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&#39;s sadly being drowned out by election coverage, but subway hero Daniel Penny is on trial right now in New York for protecting passersby from a dangerous maniac. <br><br>Today, bombshell evidence went public for the first time: Even though Penny is facing decades in prison for\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charliekirk11\/status\/1852512828856635790?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 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>The city has actively abjured enforcing <em>public order<\/em>;  if you want to crap in public, mug or bully or terrrorize or attack people, close streets, run roughshod over the rights of others, the city could scarcely care less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Misgender someone?\u00a0 Exercise &#8220;bodily autonony&#8221; against Big Pharma? Own an unconventional pet?<\/p>\n<p>Or try to protect innocent bystanders from the breakdown in order?<\/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\">The owners of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Peanut?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Peanut<\/a> the squirrel are going nuclear on government officials in New York, accusing the state of abusing power and wasting taxpayer funds to seize and kill their pet. Watch their full interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TMZLive?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TMZLive<\/a> here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1rXzVTABx1\">https:\/\/t.co\/1rXzVTABx1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rtHpBOl14x\">pic.twitter.com\/rtHpBOl14x<\/a><\/p>&mdash; TMZ (@TMZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TMZ\/status\/1852464692331155966?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Suddenly they&#8217;re interested.  Very, very interested.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many things at stake tomorrow.  This is a big one.  <\/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>Two stories emblematic of what tomorrow&#8217;s election means: In New York City, a Marine veteran is on trial for murder for defending innocent bystanders against a man who was very blatantly threatening them: The city has actively abjured enforcing public order; if you want to crap in public, mug or bully or terrrorize or attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88647","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=88647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88658,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88647\/revisions\/88658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}