{"id":29443,"date":"2022-01-10T08:46:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T14:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29443"},"modified":"2022-01-10T08:46:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T14:46:25","slug":"grift-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/10\/grift-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Grift Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to make a long title with a clever pun on &#8220;Drift Away&#8221; by Dobie Gray, but, c&#8217;mon man, ain&#8217;t nobody got no time for that, and, besides, it probably would not have been that clever.<\/p>\n<p>But, c&#8217;mon:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/columns\/tony-messenger\/messenger-beer-hall-project-aims-to-counter-jan-6-disinformation-protect-american-democracy\/article_9a833f9d-eb42-5f6f-a656-6a24d5fcfdc8.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Messenger: Beer Hall Project aims to counter Jan. 6 disinformation, protect American democracy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s some mind-changing grassroots right there.  Let&#8217;s see, it&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A former executive director of The Lincoln Project;<\/li>\n<li>A former campaign worker for Claire McCaskill;<\/li>\n<li>Founding an organization that explicitly calls people who disagree with its point, purpose, or mission Nazis<\/li>\n<li>Starting with a video called &#8220;Parallels&#8221; narrated by that one guy who played the Hulk in one of those Hulk movies no one watched (no, he did not play Cameron in <em>Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off<\/em>, that was some other guy)<\/li>\n<li>Of which Tony Messenger of the <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em> glowingly approves.<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s some straight-up Republican grassroots there.<\/p>\n<p>I am pretty sure that we can all see that it&#8217;s an organization (non-partisan, or Republican, in future reporting!) designed to get money from left wing donors, pay its founders and employees and consultants, and irritate Josh Hawley, although I am not sure how many people it will persuade.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully enough left wing donors to keep the founders in kibble for a couple of years until the next one comes along (or springs fully formed like Athena from the founders&#8217; heads).<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and in Parallels news, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ominous_Parallels\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">The Ominous Parallels<\/em><\/a>, the book by Ayn Rand&#8217;s intellectual heir Leonard Piekoff, which very carefully explained how modern American politics and governance is <em>just like Nazi Germany<\/em> is going to be 40 years old this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to make a long title with a clever pun on &#8220;Drift Away&#8221; by Dobie Gray, but, c&#8217;mon man, ain&#8217;t nobody got no time for that, and, besides, it probably would not have been that clever. But, c&#8217;mon: Messenger: Beer Hall Project aims to counter Jan. 6 disinformation, protect American democracy Yeah, that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29446,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29443\/revisions\/29446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}