{"id":23329,"date":"2017-03-27T11:56:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23329"},"modified":"2017-03-27T11:57:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:57:23","slug":"march-to-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23329","title":{"rendered":"March to Default"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"art-postheader\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to March to Default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/?p=48924\" rel=\"bookmark\">March to Default\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"art-postmetadataheader\">\n<p class=\"art-postheader\"><strong>Style Over Substance<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"art-postcontent\">\n<p>\u201cMay you live in interesting times,\u201d says the ancient Chinese curse.\u00a0 No doubt about it, we live in interesting times.\u00a0 Hardly a day goes by that we\u2019re not aghast and astounded by a series of grotesque caricatures of the world as at devolves towards vulgarity. Just this week, for instance, U.S. Representative Maxine Waters\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxineWaters\/status\/844170858159636480\">tweeted<\/a>, \u201cGet ready for impeachment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FRTYm5Y3mWQ?ecver=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"365\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, Maxine Waters is obviously right \u2013 impeaching the president is an urgent task of the utmost importance. As everybody knows, he is best friends with Vladimir Putin, the shirtless barbarian who rules the Evil Russian Empire (they were seen drinking\u00a0<em>kompromat<\/em>\u00a0together in Moscow, a vile Russian liquor that reportedly tastes a bit like urine. Senator McCain has the details on that story). And as Maxine Waters has just disclosed,\u00a0<em>Putin\u2019s armies are recently advancing into Korea!\u00a0<\/em>We cannot let this stand, or he\u2019ll invade Kekistan next (note that he already\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9YnWr5FQTPY\">controls Limpopo and Gabon<\/a>). Who knows where it will end?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We assume this was directed at President Trump.\u00a0 But what Waters meant by this was sufficiently vague.\u00a0 There was no guidance as to how President Trump should be getting ready.<\/p>\n<p>Should he pack his bags?\u00a0 Should he double knot his shoelaces?\u00a0 Should he say a prayer? Naturally, the specifics don\u2019t matter in the darnedest.\u00a0 Rather, these days, it\u2019s style over substance in just about everything.\u00a0 This is why Waters \u2013 a committed moron \u2013 rises to the top of class in the lost republic of the early 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the individual has been displaced by the almighty aggregate.\u00a0 Economists pencil out the unemployment rate, with certain omissions, as if it represents something meaningful.\u00a0 Then lunkheads like Waters repeat it as if it\u2019s the gospel truth.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, through all of this, our representatives are oblivious to what\u2019s really going on; that the U.S. government is just months away from a possible default.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March to Default\u00a0 Style Over Substance \u201cMay you live in interesting times,\u201d says the ancient Chinese curse.\u00a0 No doubt about it, we live in interesting times.\u00a0 Hardly a day goes by that we\u2019re not aghast and astounded by a series of grotesque caricatures of the world as at devolves towards vulgarity. Just this week, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5728,200,11763,827],"class_list":["post-23329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-acting-man","tag-default","tag-mn-gordon","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23330,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23329\/revisions\/23330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}