{"id":90136,"date":"2026-02-05T06:58:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90136"},"modified":"2026-02-05T06:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:58:35","slug":"where-theres-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90136","title":{"rendered":"Where There&#8217;s Smoke&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most of Secretary of State Simon&#8217;s, and his defenders&#8217;, responses to questions about election irregularities come off as some variant of:&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Because I\u00a0<em>said\u00a0<\/em>so<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s the law, no take-backsies<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t make me turn this car around.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not convinced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Either is Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park:s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/ljagilamplighterwright.substack.com\/p\/election-fraud-101\">those who don&#8217;t think it could happen<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I the only one who thinks thar either:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>All the posturing about ICE is to deflect attention from the fraud, or<\/li>\n<li>if the focus turns to the fraud, all those protesters will switch from casing ICE agents to hassling auditors and FBI agents?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People need to trust institutions for democracy to survive.  So&#8230;do you?<\/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-90136","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\/90136","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=90136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90137,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90136\/revisions\/90137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}