{"id":3865,"date":"2018-11-12T08:17:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T16:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2018-11-12T08:17:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T16:17:01","slug":"and-here-we-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3865","title":{"rendered":"And Here We Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The baseless accusations against the counting (and, in Florida, recounting) is already well underway. Now Trump himself is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-calls-for-halting-recounts-in-florida-races-for-governor-and-senate\/2018\/11\/12\/15a7c98a-e628-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html\">getting in on the game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=3843\">I told you so<\/a>, and it&#8217;s probably only going to escalate.<\/p>\n<p>Part of it is going to unfortunately help distract from (and establish a false equivalence with) the place where there almost certainly <em>has been<\/em> an actual fraudulent election: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2018\/11\/7\/18071438\/midterm-election-results-voting-rights-georgia-florida\">Georgia<\/a>. This is unfortunate, as there is no equivalence between bogus election fraud and actual election fraud.<\/p>\n<p>I certainly hope Stacey Abrams realizes this and refuses to give a standard concession speech to Brian Kemp. By choosing to use his role as Secretary of State to compromise the election, Kemp forefit any entitlement to a gracious concession from his opponent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The baseless accusations against the counting (and, in Florida, recounting) is already well underway. Now Trump himself is getting in on the game. I told you so, and it&#8217;s probably only going to escalate. Part of it is going to unfortunately help distract from (and establish a false equivalence with) the place where there almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}