{"id":99904,"date":"2020-05-20T07:19:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T11:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=99904"},"modified":"2020-05-20T07:19:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T11:19:01","slug":"a-pair-from-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=99904","title":{"rendered":"A Pair From Poe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-99905 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/we-double-barrel-1911-6-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/we-double-barrel-1911-6-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/we-double-barrel-1911-6-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/we-double-barrel-1911-6-768x766.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/we-double-barrel-1911-6-334x333.jpg 334w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/we-double-barrel-1911-6.jpg 1922w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><br \/>\nDouble Trouble<\/p>\n<p>I am always, ah, interested in what the board curmudgeon sends me. That sobriquet is not given lightly, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes. It is hard earned and well deserved, no small feat in this crowd. Poe is always pushing my buttons, which can be annoying but has its benefits, too. It keeps me on my game and, as we say in the Test world, expands my envelope. I also am in awe of his prose, and take note.<\/p>\n<p>Without further ado, Poetrooper sends:<\/p>\n<h3>Media heads explode after Trump reveals he&#8217;s taking hydroxychloroquine<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Thomas Lifson<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Trump reignited the media firestorm over his endorsement of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a prophylactic against and treatment for coronavirus, revealing in response to question that he is currently taking the drug and has been doing so for about two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>To my eyes, he appeared to relish the bewilderment and outrage that immediately started brewing among the media facing him. Watch all four minutes for yourself:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1I9Bb8Fbui0\" width=\"480\" height=\"539\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/media_heads_explode_after_trump_reveals_hes_taking_hydroxychloroquine.html\">Media Heads Explode<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this.<\/p>\n<h3>AOC Discovers America<\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for voluntarism and mutual aid\u2014as if these were new traditions in our history.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Howard Husock<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here\u2019s a revolutionary idea for a post-Covid-19 America: neighbors helping neighbors, delivering meals to shut-ins, and strengthening common bonds. According to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, this voluntarism\u2014called \u201cmutual aid\u201d\u2014would represent a stunning break from American tradition. \u201cThere are two ways this can go for us,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez recently told The New Yorker\u2019s Jia Tolentino. \u201cWe can buy into the old frameworks of, when a disaster hits, it\u2019s every person for themselves. Or we can affirmatively choose a different path. And we can build a different world, even if it\u2019s just in our neighborhood, even if it\u2019s just on our block.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though it may come as news to Ocasio-Cortez\u2014an avowed democratic socialist\u2014and her progressive supporters, \u201cthe old frameworks\u201d in America included precisely the kinds of assistance she\u2019s touting. The tradition of American mutual aid long predates the welfare state championed by the Left. The choice that she maps out reflects the decidedly nonsocialist views of none other than Alexis de Tocqueville, who celebrated America\u2019s capacity for spontaneous association to address local problems nearly 200 years ago. Any progressive celebration of mutual-aid networks is a welcome, if ironic, acknowledgement of America\u2019s self-help muscle memory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This article may be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/ocasio-cortez-discovers-voluntarism-and-mutual-aid\">City Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Poe. Keep on, Brother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double Trouble I am always, ah, interested in what the board curmudgeon sends me. That sobriquet &hellip; <a title=\"A Pair From Poe\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=99904\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Pair From Poe<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,6,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-media","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99906,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99904\/revisions\/99906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}