{"id":86385,"date":"2023-11-06T11:16:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T17:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86385"},"modified":"2023-11-06T11:24:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T17:24:27","slug":"history-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86385","title":{"rendered":"History Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wish more American &#8211; especially Minnesota DFL &#8211; politicians could speak with the moral clarity that German vice-chancellor Robert Habeck does:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich 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\">I have never agreed with every single word a politician has said in a speech.<br><br>Until now.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hyxDLfy3lD\">pic.twitter.com\/hyxDLfy3lD<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Heidi Bachram \ud83c\udf97\ufe0f (@HeidiBachram) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeidiBachram\/status\/1720357114621669546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While allowing that the Germans have a tighter definition of free speech than we do &#8211; when you let the depraved speak out loud, you can see what they&#8217;re doing in a way you can&#8217;t in Europe, and I vastly prefer the American way &#8211; this would still be considered pretty daring in the US.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And he&#8217;s a Green.o. Talking like a classical liberal, on this issue at least. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is apposed to the avatar of modern left-liberal left-center-leftism, President Obama&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/YonahLieberman\/status\/1720816170792562947\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;who is right at the top of the short list for worst president ever, with Woodrow Wilson, and far and away the worst of my lifetime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Germans out-do Amercan pols on this subject, it&#8217;s time for some electoral bells to be rung.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Links bogarted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2023\/11\/obamas-subtle-tactics-of-division.php\">Powerline<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish more American &#8211; especially Minnesota DFL &#8211; politicians could speak with the moral clarity that German vice-chancellor Robert Habeck does: While allowing that the Germans have a tighter definition of free speech than we do &#8211; when you let the depraved speak out loud, you can see what they&#8217;re doing in a way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[458,25,131,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaza-2023","category-history-and-its-making","category-war-and-peace","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86385","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=86385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86389,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86385\/revisions\/86389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}