{"id":1070,"date":"2014-08-28T21:59:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T03:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2014-08-28T22:09:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T04:09:25","slug":"recent-twitter-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"Recent Twitter Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is interesting in that most of it is mindless garbage.  Occasionally, however, I add to the festering pile. A selection of my recent contributions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s a reason most people are loath to leave their children unattended around gun nuts.<\/li>\n<li>Ronald Reagan died for your sins. Repent, liberal!<\/li>\n<li>At press conferences, sartorial choices are far worse than, say, using disproven reports as justification to invade a country.<\/li>\n<li>If a corporation is a person and it possesses a fundamental inability to feel empathy or remorse, isn&#8217;t it a psychopath?<\/li>\n<li>In my state, &#8216;alleged manhandling&#8217; isn&#8217;t a &#8216;summary execution&#8217; offense.<\/li>\n<li>If Obama had a pretend ranch, RWNJs would call him a poser and not a real cowboy like terrified-of-horses Bush Jr.<\/li>\n<li>If the computer evolved from the calculator, why are there still cash registers?<\/li>\n<li>I thought the armed wing of the John Birch Society called themselves the &#8220;Tea Party.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The human brain only uses 10% of it gullibility inhibitor.<\/li>\n<li>It sounds like the Socialist Takers don&#8217;t even want the US to become a tax-free capitalist paradise like Somalia.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s telling that only three of the last three US Presidents are known to have smoked pot.<\/li>\n<li>Tea Party 1773: &#8220;No taxation without representation!&#8221; Teap Party 2009: &#8221; No taxation if the guy I voted for lost!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, regarding the inexplicably &#8220;hero-to-anti-government-loons&#8221; pile of excrement Snowden:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m so old I remember when stealing secret documents and absconding to Russia was considered espionage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I remember a word for people who require a mere 140 characters to express themselves, but what was it?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, right. Simpletons.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is interesting in that most of it is mindless garbage. Occasionally, however, I add to the festering pile. A selection of my recent contributions: There&#8217;s a reason most people are loath to leave their children unattended around gun nuts. Ronald Reagan died for your sins. Repent, liberal! At press conferences, sartorial choices are far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}