{"id":71878,"date":"2019-08-05T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71878"},"modified":"2019-08-04T17:13:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T22:13:50","slug":"misery-loves-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71878","title":{"rendered":"Misery Loves Company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Progressives, being fundamentally miserable people, see misery as a tool to their ends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big Left today is exercising &#8220;Recession Porn&#8221;, hoping for an economic downturn to get rid of Trump. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/bill-maher-ive-been-hoping-for-a-recession-to-get-rid-of-trump\/\">Bill Maher<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s amazing what liberals daydream about. While many of us might imagine wealth, fame, or attractive women (sorry, Zsu-Zsu), Bill Maher dreams of a recession that would lead to massive job losses and foreclosed homes.<br><br>Maher: \u201cI\u2019ve been hoping for a recession \u2013 people hate me for it \u2013 but it would get rid of Trump.\u201d<br>Josh Barro: \u201cRecessions are really bad. People lose their jobs and homes and we shouldn\u2019t wish for it.\u201d<br>Maher: \u201cI know. It\u2019s worth it.\u201d<br><br>Actually, it&#8217;s only &#8220;worth it&#8221; if Maher loses his job.<br><br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And Maher isn&#8217;t even the most depraved among &#8217;em. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Usually. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressives, being fundamentally miserable people, see misery as a tool to their ends. Big Left today is exercising &#8220;Recession Porn&#8221;, hoping for an economic downturn to get rid of Trump. Bill Maher: It&#8217;s amazing what liberals daydream about. While many of us might imagine wealth, fame, or attractive women (sorry, Zsu-Zsu), Bill Maher dreams of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337,51,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privilege","category-liberal-tyranny","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71879,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71878\/revisions\/71879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}