{"id":4174,"date":"2023-06-24T08:27:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T13:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4174"},"modified":"2023-06-24T08:27:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T13:27:43","slug":"they-were-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2023\/06\/24\/they-were-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"They Were Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The experts in Libertarian Party&#8217;s Russia Caucus said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Russia wasn&#8217;t going to invade Ukraine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Well, even with the invasion, it&#8217;d be over very quickly<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The oil disruptions, would result in the complete collapse of the &#8220;Petrodollar&#8221; because Russia will start selling its oil in other currencies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>So, haven&#8217;t slept a ton, but Elon captured it well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VHZpjEBcuS\">pic.twitter.com\/VHZpjEBcuS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1672547614691147777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Elon&#8217;s take<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As I write this a little after 0900EDT, they&#8217;ve taken the military headquarters where Russia was managing its efforts in Ukraine, and is headed towards Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vaunted corporate press was really slow to start following things last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cable News is dead, Jim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the primetime shows aren&#8217;t hitting 500K in-the-demo (so adults 25-54) with their primetime shows.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chick on CNN who hosted the townhall with President Trump has similar career prospects to those who bought the correspondence course on TV repair around 1990.  Or travel agents.  Or Microsoft Exchange administrators.  Or&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So might I, though not necessarily because I have no more useful skills.  Medical things might justify heading towards private disability.  Pffft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imma go see what I can see about what&#8217;s going on overseas.  Will probablyend up flipping around channels&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The experts in Libertarian Party&#8217;s Russia Caucus said: So, haven&#8217;t slept a ton, but Elon captured it well: As I write this a little after 0900EDT, they&#8217;ve taken the military headquarters where Russia was managing its efforts in Ukraine, and is headed towards Moscow. The vaunted corporate press was really slow to start following things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-4174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174","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=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}