{"id":89983,"date":"2025-10-20T06:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89983"},"modified":"2025-10-20T06:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:59:08","slug":"late-to-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89983","title":{"rendered":"Late To The Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s fair to say I was a &#8220;No Kings&#8221; protester back in 2020-2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We protested against unconstitutional government overreach and abuse of the bureaucracy &#8211; 16 months of &#8220;emergency powers&#8221; for a three month emergency, snitch lines, shutting down businesses and churches, declaring rioting &#8220;good for public health&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh,&nbsp;<a><\/a>you might have missed it. Partly because the government colluded with Facebook, Twitter and big media to censor us. To shut us up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Y&#8217;know. Stuff that kings do. Actually, more &#8220;dictators&#8221; than &#8220;Kings&#8221; these days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, stuff they did in 2020-2021. But, oddly enough, not Saturday, where not a single protest was culled from social media or blocked by public health authorities. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I drove past one of the &#8220;protests&#8221; in Eagan on Saturday. \u00a0Lots of American flags. \u00a0It&#8217;d seem someone at &#8220;No Kings&#8221;&#8216;s non-profit HQ got the word that Palestinian flags were not polling well.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were &#8220;No Kings&#8221; before it was cool. <\/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-89983","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\/89983","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=89983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89984,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89983\/revisions\/89984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}