{"id":52980,"date":"2024-11-03T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=52980"},"modified":"2024-11-02T10:09:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T14:09:55","slug":"qotd-minutemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/11\/03\/qotd-minutemen\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Minutemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Ten years ago, America&#8217;s right-wing paramilitaries were so anti-government, they thought that driver&#8217;s licenses were an unbearable infringement on their liberties. Now they&#8217;re out on the border HELPING THE FEDS ENFORCE THEIR REGULATIONS. What the hell&#8217;s up with that?<\/p>\n<p>Granted, there&#8217;s not necessarily much overlap between the two groups. But one has supplanted the other in the mass media, the public imagination, and the affection of the right-wing radio hosts &mdash; and so help me, I think I miss the days when I felt a certain kinship with the crazies.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Walker, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/hitandrun\/2005\/07\/more_90s_notalg.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;More &#8217;90s Nostalgia&#8221;, <em>Hit and Run<\/em><\/a>, 2005-07-28.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, America&#8217;s right-wing paramilitaries were so anti-government, they thought that driver&#8217;s licenses were an unbearable infringement on their liberties. Now they&#8217;re out on the border HELPING THE FEDS ENFORCE THEIR REGULATIONS. What the hell&#8217;s up with that? Granted, there&#8217;s not necessarily much overlap between the two groups. But one has supplanted the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10,53,41,13],"tags":[1079,316,299,795],"class_list":["post-52980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-liberty","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-altright","tag-borders","tag-paranoia","tag-radio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dMw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92220,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52980\/revisions\/92220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}