{"id":3106,"date":"2020-08-26T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T20:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2020-08-26T12:24:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T20:24:58","slug":"wot-no-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=3106","title":{"rendered":"wot no platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They literally could not be bothered to have a platform for the Republican National Convention. How lazy do you have to be not to type out ten simple words?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFreedom from consequences, for white conservatives, and absolutely nobody else.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I mean, what else could the message be? When you have a series of blowouts with badly blended makeup &#8211; some actual criminals, some only crime-adjacent &#8211; blathering about nepotism on a night where two Tr*mp spawn were speaking and blathering about corruption on a night when the Third Lady wiped her ass with the Hatch Act.<\/p>\n<p>The thing that makes me scared about this election is the extent to which <em>they aren\u2019t even hiding it anymore<\/em> &#8211; and nobody in the GOP cares, and no one in the news media will hammer the topic. Shut down the post office to occlude postal voting? Sure. Give a political speech from the Rose Garden? Why not. And the constant bleating of the Sabbath Gasbags: \u201cno one outside the Beltway cares.\u201d No, nobody <em>inside<\/em> the Beltway cares, and nobody <em>outside<\/em> the Beltway realizes what is happening because the White House press corps is too hip and inside to explain it. The willingness of Washington elites to shrug and say \u201call in the game, yo\u201d will destroy American democracy in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They literally could not be bothered to have a platform for the Republican National Convention. How lazy do you have to be not to type out ten simple words? \u201cFreedom from consequences, for white conservatives, and absolutely nobody else.&#8221; I mean, what else could the message be? When you have a series of blowouts with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=3106\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;wot no platform&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3108,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions\/3108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}