{"id":98336,"date":"2016-12-10T14:11:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T21:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=98336"},"modified":"2016-12-10T14:11:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T21:11:48","slug":"lifes-little-ironies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/12\/lifes-little-ironies.html","title":{"rendered":"Life’s Little Ironies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A reader writes:<\/p>\n

Ironic, innit, that the party obsessed with preserving the inviolate integrity of American elections against voter fraud by non-citizens trying to vote in our elections should be so indifferent to Russian interference in our presidential election. The main difference being that the former is an urban myth propagated by a delusional conspiracy monger on InfoWars, while the latter is only the consensus of our intelligence community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A reader writes: Ironic, innit, that the party obsessed with preserving the inviolate integrity of American elections against voter fraud by non-citizens trying to vote in our elections should be so indifferent to Russian interference in our presidential election. The main difference being that the former is an urban myth propagated by a delusional conspiracy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-98336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mailbag"],"yoast_head":"\nLife's Little Ironies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A reader writes: Ironic, innit, that the party obsessed with preserving the inviolate integrity of American elections against voter fraud by non-citizens\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/12\/lifes-little-ironies.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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