{"id":18470,"date":"2021-09-12T07:17:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T14:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18470"},"modified":"2021-09-12T07:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T14:17:53","slug":"overnight-news-see-atlas-shrug-shrug-atlas-shrug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18470\/overnight-news-see-atlas-shrug-shrug-atlas-shrug\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: \u201cSee Atlas shrug? Shrug, Atlas, shrug!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cPuppies bark or snore. When they go silent, that means\u00a0trouble.\u201d<\/p><\/div>Legitimacy, ultimately, is a bargain: In exchange for my not<\/em> fighting City Hall, City Hall agrees to do its deal as efficiently as possible and to stay out of my business otherwise.<\/p>\n

What happens when City Hall gradually reneges on the deal? Not rebellion out right, certainly not right away, but mutiny \u2013 graduated rebellion \u2013 instead.<\/p>\n

This does Fiasco Joe invite.<\/p>\n

Job-separations are hard to tally, easy to obscure over time. Watch retail sales: Everyone whom Fiasco Joe has taxed of the confidence of future income just stopped spending.<\/strong> That news, too obvious to hide, will hit America around Columbus Day.<\/p>\n

The actual, objectively-discernible sound of Atlas shrugging? That would be the sound of silence. “Brother, you asked for it.”<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rob Hahn:<\/strong> On the 20th Anniversary of 9\/11.<\/a><\/p>\n

Mark Steyn:<\/strong> The Years We Wasted.<\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Post:<\/strong> Biden\u2019s disastrous handling of Afghanistan cast a cloud over this 9\/11 anniversary.<\/a><\/p>\n

Suzy Weiss:<\/strong> American Homeschooling Goes Boom: Meet the parents yanking their children \u2014 some five million of them \u2014 from schools that they say aren’t working.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cPuppies bark or snore. When they go silent, that means\u00a0trouble.\u201dLegitimacy, ultimately, is a bargain: In exchange for my not fighting City Hall, City Hall agrees to do its deal as efficiently as possible and to stay out of my business otherwise. What happens when City Hall gradually reneges on the deal? Not rebellion out right, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18437,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18437\/overnight-news-what-a-great-day-for-fiasco-joe-biden-to-resign\/","url_meta":{"origin":18470,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: What a great day for Fiasco Joe Biden to\u00a0resign.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 31, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I expected Fiasco Joe's resignation a week ago tonight. 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