{"id":90001,"date":"2025-10-27T06:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90001"},"modified":"2025-10-27T06:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:20:53","slug":"french-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90001","title":{"rendered":"French Kiss-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>David French was once a conservative, in the same sense that David Brooks was &#8211; someone with a solid sense of the principles, but a serious problem with application.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But somewhere along the line, French&#8217;s capacity for critical thought eroded away to nil.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed 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\">In hindsight, the anti-vax movement will be seen as one of the most destructive and nonsensical mass fads of a destructive and nonsensical era. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J1mPQfPvVX\">https:\/\/t.co\/J1mPQfPvVX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; David French (@DavidAFrench) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidAFrench\/status\/1982561734864064969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now &#8211; let&#8217;s talk about the destructive and nonsensical application of public health procedures during Covid, which destroyed and rendered nonsensical the respect for what had been until 2020 the most indestructible and sensible of the nation&#8217;s instititutions, the CDC? \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That might&#8217;ve had something to do with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What coulda been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90001","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=90001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90003,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90001\/revisions\/90003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}