{"id":89074,"date":"2025-01-17T04:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89074"},"modified":"2025-01-17T06:41:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:41:01","slug":"the-bullets-we-dodged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89074","title":{"rendered":"The Bullets We Dodged"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law has been getting a workout this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For starters &#8211; as I pointed out<em> <\/em>all through the run-up to the election &#8211; the Democrats and DFL jabbered relentlessly about voting to &#8220;save democracy&#8221;, while promising to gut free speech, freedom of conscience, the right to self-defense, privacy and separation of powers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And perhaps it&#8217;s good news for 2026 that they seem to have learned nothing:<\/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\">LEFT: Biden calls for free speech crackdowns on social media.<br><br>RIGHT: Kamala calls for free speech crackdowns on social media.<br><br>If Trump didn\u2019t win, this is what would\u2019ve been in store for free speech in America. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oehMDB4kYo\">pic.twitter.com\/oehMDB4kYo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WesternLensman\/status\/1879706507887116392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, notwithstanding the 16 years of babbling about &#8220;impending waves of right-wing violence&#8221;, it is inevitably the left that leans into it:<\/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\">Several times during my first term, Democrats pulled me aside, pearls firmly clutched, asking me to stop describing what their legislation does because they feared for their &quot;safety.&quot;<br><br>Those same people are now targeting my family and capitol staff as participants in a coup. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fBNoEm7vID\">pic.twitter.com\/fBNoEm7vID<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Walter Hudson (@WalterHudson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalterHudson\/status\/1879516099332694425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a Trump skeptic all along.\u00a0 But if I&#8217;d known that Trump&#8217;s win eight years ago were going to bring out Big Left&#8217;s true inner nature <em>this <\/em>hard, I might have opened my mind up a little earlier.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law has been getting a workout this week. For starters &#8211; as I pointed out all through the run-up to the election &#8211; the Democrats and DFL jabbered relentlessly about voting to &#8220;save democracy&#8221;, while promising to gut free speech, freedom of conscience, the right to self-defense, privacy and separation of powers. 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