{"id":14994,"date":"2024-01-16T09:20:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T09:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=14994"},"modified":"2024-01-16T20:08:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T20:08:36","slug":"betteridges-law-again-shots-fired-at-colorado-supreme-court-after-they-booted-trump-from-the-ballot-coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2024\/01\/16\/betteridges-law-again-shots-fired-at-colorado-supreme-court-after-they-booted-trump-from-the-ballot-coincidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Betteridge&#8217;s Law Again: &#8220;Shots Fired at Colorado Supreme Court after They Booted Trump from the Ballot. Coincidence?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is no evidence the fired shots were connected to the Court ruling: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/shots-fired-colorado-supreme-court-191200063.html\">Shots Fired at Colorado Supreme Court after They Booted Trump from the Ballot. Coincidence? (yahoo.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second example of Betteridge&#8217;s Law within days: <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2024\/01\/14\/betteridges-law-amid-a-new-covid-19-surge-should-we-all-be-wearing-masks-again-experts-weigh-in\/\">Betteridge\u2019s Law: Amid a new COVID-19 surge, should we all be wearing masks again? Experts weigh in \u2013 Social Panic (coldstreams.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When they ask a rhetorical question in the headline, the answer is usually no. The question is used to &#8220;set up&#8221; your thoughts and expectations &#8211; the reporter knows the connection is bullshit, so they phrase it as a question. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betteridge&#8217;s Law strikes again. The answer to the headline is No, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-media-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}