{"id":3211,"date":"2020-11-04T15:21:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2020-11-04T15:21:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:21:20","slug":"four-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2020\/11\/04\/four-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Four"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Election Day reactions (if we know the winner\u2026.) Other things in the week, relatives\u2019 birthdays.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided on Monday 26 October that I was going to vote for Dr. Jorgensen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every candidate I supported lost. I kind of expected that going in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A “winner” in the Presidential contest really still hasn’t been named as I write this after 1500 the day after the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Am I suprised? A little. Am I upset? No. It doesn’t look like the Democrats will be able to go full-on stupid. Yes, there’ll probably be a different party in the White House. There may be a new Senate Majority Leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I think some of the more off-the-wall ideas that were coming out over the weeks leading up to the election may have died the death they so desperately deserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There will still be a filibuster rule in the Senate. DC and Puerto Rico won’t be states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The economy will probably collapse once the Federal Reserve can’t create digits (not print money….that’s so antiquated!!1!), but things will survive. I wasn’t so sure about that with the potential of folks like Chuck Schumer acting with reckless abandon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will still have the right to private property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will still have the right to speak. Maybe not online, but, whatever. TCP\/IP isn’t something the government can shut completely. No matter who tries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have little doubt that if I had the misfortune of being in Best Korea, I’d figure out how to get a VPN connection through to Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s akin to the stupidity of government backdoors to encryption. You can mandate it, but, short of killing people, you can’t enforce it; it’s math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Election Day reactions (if we know the winner\u2026.) Other things in the week, relatives\u2019 birthdays. I decided on Monday 26 October that I was going to vote for Dr. Jorgensen. Every candidate I supported lost. I kind of expected that going in. A “winner” in the Presidential contest really still hasn’t been named as I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month","tag-nojomo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}