{"id":30306,"date":"2020-05-22T12:14:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T12:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=30306"},"modified":"2020-05-22T12:14:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T12:14:21","slug":"our-brave-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=30306","title":{"rendered":"Our Brave New World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4840,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.britannica.com\\\/biography\\\/Erich-Honecker&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4841,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Stasi&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4842,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Erich_Mielke&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4843,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/East_Germany&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This short film by comedian Kevin James perfectly encapsulates our brave new world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A world in which power hungry politicians and bureaucrats compete with one another to see who can best replicate the former East Germany. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Erich-Honecker\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Erich Honecker<\/strong><\/a> and his head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stasi\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ministerium f\u00fcr Staatsicherheit &#8211; MfS<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erich_Mielke\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Erich Mielke<\/strong><\/a> would be so proud that their legacy lives even if the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Germany\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Deutsche Demokratische Republik<\/strong><\/a> ceased to exist in 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ufY0HmwhBKQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short film by comedian Kevin James perfectly encapsulates our brave new world. A world in which power hungry&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5144,5250,5249,4014],"class_list":["post-30306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-covid-19","tag-kevin-james","tag-snitches","tag-stasi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30307,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306\/revisions\/30307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}