{"id":2112,"date":"2022-04-14T12:56:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T12:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/14\/the-bootless-max-boot\/"},"modified":"2022-04-14T12:56:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T12:56:59","slug":"the-bootless-max-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/14\/the-bootless-max-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bootless Max Boot on Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/bootless\">bootless<\/a> Max Boot has torpedoed his own boat. (<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/german-english\/boot\">Boot<\/a> in German means boat.) I used to read him and had a good opinion of him, but that was before he lost his mind as so many did when Donald J. Trump was elected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02942fa4e372200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Boot tweet\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c02942fa4e372200c image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02942fa4e372200c-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Boot tweet\" \/><\/a>An excellent tweet if you replace &#39;democracy&#39; with &#39;institution-wide hard-left hegemony.&#39;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Musk understands how to battle the Left. You cannot reason with leftists and you cannot appeal to their nonexistent or ill-formed consciences.&#0160; You have to outspend them and defund them. The &#39;lean green&#39; is the currency of political warfare. And don&#39;t imagine it is not a war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The Musk takeover of Twitter is the best thing thing that could happen to Twitter and the noble cause of free speech and open inquiry.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bootless Max Boot has torpedoed his own boat. (Boot in German means boat.) I used to read him and had a good opinion of him, but that was before he lost his mind as so many did when Donald J. Trump was elected. An excellent tweet if you replace &#39;democracy&#39; with &#39;institution-wide hard-left hegemony.&#39;&#0160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/14\/the-bootless-max-boot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Bootless Max Boot on Elon Musk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,468],"tags":[537,538,536],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-useful-idiocy-and-idiots","tag-elon-musk","tag-max-boot","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}