{"id":19510,"date":"2022-08-17T00:14:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T07:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=19510"},"modified":"2022-08-17T00:14:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T07:14:14","slug":"weaponized-government-is-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/08\/17\/weaponized-government-is-here-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaponized Government Is Here To Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Why have responsible and limited government when you can use it as a cudgel against your political enemies?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They&#39;ll just try to weaponize it for themselves, be completely incompetent about it, and leave the Democrats with an even more and bipartisan powerful tool that will be used against the GOP with the GOP&#39;s prior endorsement of the &quot;new rules&quot;. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fO3221ogto\">https:\/\/t.co\/fO3221ogto<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Sizzlin&#39; Summer Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/1557085477257166848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No one in the GOP wants to fix it. They want to co opt it and use it against their enemies (i.e. not fighting back with one arm tied around their back and instead using the &quot;new rules&quot;). They&#39;ll screw it up like the Hungarians in The Usual Suspects.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Sizzlin&#39; Summer Hat (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/1557085941289758720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The smart thing to do it to change or abolish things so they can\u2019t be used by your enemies. \u00a0 Politicians are anything but smart.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/51191Metallica-Justice-for-All-Posters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/51191Metallica-Justice-for-All-Posters.jpg 291w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/51191Metallica-Justice-for-All-Posters-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Weaponized Government Is Here To Stay\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Why have responsible and limited government when you can use it as a cudgel against your political enemies?\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/51191Metallica-Justice-for-All-Posters.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Why have responsible and limited government when you can use it as a cudgel against your political enemies? They&#39;ll just try to weaponize it for themselves, be completely incompetent about it, and leave the Democrats with an even more and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/08\/17\/weaponized-government-is-here-to-stay\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[15,33,24],"class_list":["post-19510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-uncategorized","tag-democrats","tag-gop","tag-leviathan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19511,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19510\/revisions\/19511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}