{"id":89684,"date":"2025-06-03T09:25:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89684"},"modified":"2025-06-03T09:25:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:25:31","slug":"opportunity-knocks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89684","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity Knocks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Members of the German Parliament have been talking tough about Trumps tariffs.The tariffs will hurt Americans worse than Germans. America doesn&#8217;t make anything anymore.\u00a0 There&#8217;s nothing they need from us.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Excellent. High tariffs are gone. And so are our soldiers, airmen, Marines.\u00a0 Germany can have those empty bases to fill with their own soldiers to stare down the Russians.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Peace, friendship, and honest commerce with all; entangling alliances with none. Wise words from one of our founders. Glad we have the opportunity to get back them.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Joe Doakes<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">For whatever\u00a0 &#8211; I say,\u00a0<em>whatever<\/em>&#8211; reason, the Euros always back away hard when we talk about bringing the rest of the troops home.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails: Members of the German Parliament have been talking tough about Trumps tariffs.The tariffs will hurt Americans worse than Germans. America doesn&#8217;t make anything anymore.\u00a0 There&#8217;s nothing they need from us.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Excellent. High tariffs are gone. And so are our soldiers, airmen, Marines.\u00a0 Germany can have those empty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,73,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-western-civilization","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89684","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=89684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89685,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89684\/revisions\/89685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}