{"id":76468,"date":"2021-01-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76468"},"modified":"2021-01-15T06:49:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T12:49:06","slug":"%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76468","title":{"rendered":"\ufffc#Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <em>couple of days ago, I urged application of Berg&#8217;s 18th Law of Media Latency to the events at the Capitol.   I was right.  The FBI has charged a Leftist for the Capitol riot.  He was running a false flag operation, dressing as a Trump supporters to infiltrate the crowd to commit violence.<br><br>Still, I&#8217;m seeing bloggers and columnists on the Right saying that even though President Trump did not urge his supporters to commit violence; and even though Leftist infiltrators did commit it; it&#8217;s still President Trump&#8217;s fault.<br><br>Look, I expect the Left to blame the victim of its false flag operation &#8211; that&#8217;s the point of running a false flag operation.  I expect Never-Trumpers to do it too, because they hate Donald Trump and want him gone by any means.<br><br>I wasn&#8217;t expecting it from people nominally on our side.  It&#8217;s disappointing.  There&#8217;s a flavor of Saint Peter&#8217;s Denial about it, of throwing the man under the bus to avoid denunciation by the Liberal mob, of saving one&#8217;s own skin at the expense of one&#8217;s own principles.<br><br>In terms of fighting the system, I think Donald Trump may have been the greatest American President since Andrew Jackson.  I think his reelection victory was stolen from him.  I think he has received shabby treatment from his friends and allies, people I thought were my friends and allies.<br><br>Monday is a federal holiday to remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., another man who fought the system and lost.  I&#8217;m taking a few days off to think about things.  Take care, everyone.<br><br>Joe Doakes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a lot to think about this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A couple of days ago, I urged application of Berg&#8217;s 18th Law of Media Latency to the events at the Capitol. I was right. The FBI has charged a Leftist for the Capitol riot. He was running a false flag operation, dressing as a Trump supporters to infiltrate 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":[20,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76468","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=76468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76470,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76468\/revisions\/76470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}