{"id":8891,"date":"2025-02-04T08:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=8891"},"modified":"2025-02-04T08:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:14:36","slug":"invader-says-this-is-our-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/invader-says-this-is-our-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Invader says &#8220;This is our shot&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mucks is not an American. He is a man without a country now in control of ours. #resist\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/february-3-2025\">February 3, 2025 &#8211; by Heather Cox Richardson<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 19px;\">The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup. &#8230;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 19px;\">But Republicans are allowing Musk to run amok.<\/span><span style=\"color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 19px;\">\u00a0&#8230;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 19px;\">But permitting a private citizen to override the will of our representatives in Congress destroys the U.S. Constitution. It also makes Congress itself superfluous. And it takes the minority rule Republicans have come to embrace to the logical end of putting government power in the hands of one man. &#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #363737; font-family: Spectral, serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 19px;\">On a livestream last night, Musk said of his destruction of the federal government: \u201cIf it\u2019s not possible now, it will never be possible. This is our shot, This is the best hand of cards we\u2019re ever going to have. If we don\u2019t take advantage of this best hand of cards, it\u2019s never going to happen.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mucks is not an American. He is a man without a country now in control of ours. #resist\u00a0 February 3, 2025 &#8211; by Heather Cox Richardson The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup. &#8230;\u00a0But Republicans are allowing Musk to run amok.\u00a0&#8230;\u00a0But permitting a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/invader-says-this-is-our-shot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Invader says &#8220;This is our shot&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-8891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada","tag-resist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8892,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891\/revisions\/8892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}