{"id":87149,"date":"2024-03-11T07:34:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87149"},"modified":"2024-03-12T08:17:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:17:55","slug":"i-have-seen-much-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87149","title":{"rendered":"I Have Seen Much Stupidity…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

…in my career as a self-appointed political observer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many candidates for the title of “dumbest thing I’ve ever seen”; the Kenilworth Tunnel, evacuating the Third Precinct, going logarithmic on the national debt, “shrinkflation” – I could go on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But after the Potato’s State of the Union, really, the polls can close; the contest is over<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A floating pier<\/a> and causeway that will be used to deliver critical humanitarian aid by sea to Gaza is expected to take at least one month or possibly as long as two for the US military to build and become fully operational, Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder said on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We’ll be counting on the Israelis to keep the huge fat juicy target for drones, rockets and suicide bombers…er, I mean the pier <\/em>secure, on top of actually, y’know, carrying out their mission<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d say “I’ll never mock and taunt a government idea quite like this”, but Americans are going to get killed in pursuit of literally no national interest whatsoever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, it fits right in with the rest of Biden’s foreign policy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…in my career as a self-appointed political observer. There are many candidates for the title of “dumbest thing I’ve ever seen”; the Kenilworth Tunnel, evacuating the Third Precinct, going logarithmic on the national debt, “shrinkflation” – I could go on. But after the Potato’s State of the Union, really, the polls can close; the contest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87149","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=87149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87154,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87149\/revisions\/87154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}