{"id":68483,"date":"2018-11-06T06:48:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T12:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68483"},"modified":"2018-11-06T08:49:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T14:49:52","slug":"paranoia-is-merely-perfect-awareness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68483","title":{"rendered":"Paranoia Is Merely Perfect Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The King in the old joke says: \u201cI know I\u2019m paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?\u201d\u00a0 In this election, I don\u2019t think Conservatives are paranoid enough.<\/p>\n<p>We know from history that Liberals routinely cheat in elections.\u00a0 Why shouldn\u2019t they?\u00a0 The integrity of the process is secondary to obtaining the correct result.\u00a0 The ends justify the means.\u00a0 And if they can\u2019t win by cheating at the polls, Liberals litigate before Liberal judges to steal elections (looking at you, Al Franken).<\/p>\n<p>Liberals cheated in 2016 to get Hillary the nomination, to spend other candidates\u2019 money for her, and to spy on the Trump campaign.\u00a0 They stuffed enough ballot boxes that some districts had more votes than voters.\u00a0 But they were shocked to learn they hadn\u2019t cheated enough.\u00a0 Trump still won.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt that will happen this time.\u00a0 The polling places in Miami ran out of ballots on Monday.\u00a0 I suspect those ballots are already marked, sitting in trunks of cars, waiting to be counted.<\/p>\n<p>No need for you to stand in line, we\u2019ve already cast your ballot, several times.\u00a0 You can thank us later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Satire?\u00a0 \u00a0Yes, but the line between satire and fact these days is almost nonexistant.<\/p>\n<p>When &#8220;Babylon Bee&#8221; is a better source of news than CNN, you know we&#8217;ve got a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The King in the old joke says: \u201cI know I\u2019m paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?\u201d\u00a0 In this election, I don\u2019t think Conservatives are paranoid enough. We know from history that Liberals routinely cheat in elections.\u00a0 Why shouldn\u2019t they?\u00a0 The integrity of the process is secondary to obtaining the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68486,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68483\/revisions\/68486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}