{"id":3237,"date":"2021-06-11T19:59:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T23:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2021-06-11T19:59:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T23:59:42","slug":"auditioning-for-qanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3237","title":{"rendered":"Auditioning for QAnon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/qanonaudition\/qanonaudition.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/qanonaudition\/qanonaudition650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This time last year, <\/strong>it was Tom Cotton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/20\/business\/media\/steve-bannon-china.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Bannon<\/a> and those doorknobs at the Epoch Fail \u2014 uh, sorry, Epoch <em>Times<\/em> \u2014 pushing the 100% evidence-free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2021\/05\/29\/pers-m29.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Wuhan Lab Leak&#8221;<\/a> conspiracy batshittery, and the Washington <em>Post<\/em> \u2014 along with anyone else with two synapses to rub together \u2014 were laughing that shit right outta the room.<\/p>\n<p>So, this past week, it was with more than a little begrudging awe that I watched the Democratic Party, the Washington <em>Post,<\/em> CNN, Wall Street <em>Journal<\/em> and friends slam on the brakes, jerk the wheel around, kick in the afterburners and execute a full 180\u00b0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2021\/05\/31\/wuha-m31.html\" target=\"_blank\">Emergency Bat-Turn<\/a> on the Wuhan Lab Leak zaniness. China&#8217;s the new Enemy Of The Month, and Gropin&#8217; Joe needs some dirt on China, so they&#8217;re dragging Steve Bannon&#8217;s dirty hot mess <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/qanonaudition\/wapo_weekMay2621_wuhanlableak.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">out of the dumpster.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>9&#215;17 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/qanonaudition\/qanonaudition.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 840kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time last year, it was Tom Cotton, Steve Bannon and those doorknobs at the Epoch Fail \u2014 uh, sorry, Epoch Times \u2014 pushing the 100% evidence-free &#8220;Wuhan Lab Leak&#8221; conspiracy batshittery, and the Washington Post \u2014 along with anyone else with two synapses to rub together \u2014 were laughing that shit right outta the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,1037,20,10],"tags":[1175,248,1128,1174,1173,1172,1171],"class_list":["post-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bidenism","category-coronavirus","category-health-care","category-media","tag-kung-flu","tag-biden","tag-qanon","tag-steve-bannon","tag-who","tag-wuhan","tag-wuhan-lab-leak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3240,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions\/3240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}