{"id":89692,"date":"2025-06-05T06:48:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89692"},"modified":"2025-06-05T06:48:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:48:38","slug":"taco-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89692","title":{"rendered":"Taco Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s the new Democrat line about tariffs &#8211; Trump Always Chickens Out.\u00a0 He proposes high tariffs then reduces them when the other side offers concessions. He chickens out<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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\">\ud83d\udea8 news you can use: The DNC is serving free tacos outside the RNC building on Capitol Hill from 12-2pm today as a play on the &quot;Trump Always Chickens Out&quot; slogan.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UCrGTFA7Tx\">https:\/\/t.co\/UCrGTFA7Tx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewSolender\/status\/1929923639211684197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I get that Democrats have no experience in high-stakes real estate negotiations so they have no idea how The Art of The Deal is done.\u00a0 But have they never been to Mexico?\u00a0 Never bargained over a souvenir?\u00a0 Hell, never bought a used car or anything at a garage sale?\u00a0 The seller <em>always<\/em> starts high and comes down in order to make the deal, exactly as Trump has been doing with tariffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Democrats think that means he&#8217;s chickening out?&nbsp; How stupid are they?&nbsp; No, how stupid do they think WE are, that we don&#8217;t understand how the game is played?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unbelievable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails: That&#8217;s the new Democrat line about tariffs &#8211; Trump Always Chickens Out.\u00a0 He proposes high tariffs then reduces them when the other side offers concessions. He chickens out<\/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-89692","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\/89692","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=89692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89693,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89692\/revisions\/89693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}