{"id":603,"date":"2012-10-06T23:27:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T05:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=603"},"modified":"2012-10-06T23:27:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T05:27:43","slug":"603","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Debates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, presidential debating has appreciably lower truth standards than high school debate club debating. I&#8217;m sure the Romney handlers give their deepest thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/rationalwiki.org\/wiki\/Gish_Gallop\" title=\"Gish Gallop\">Duane Gish<\/a>. It&#8217;s a brilliant tactic. If you consider &#8220;infantile&#8221; and &#8220;brilliant&#8221; as synonyms, then it is brilliant. But it works with the mouthbreathers, so I guess it&#8217;s OK. (Caveat: If your annual salary is greater than $250,000, you can be excused for failing to understand that you are still among the filthy peasantry when it comes to who is on the &#8220;screwer&#8221; and &#8220;screwee&#8221; side of the equation. It would take actual effort on your part to notice otherwise.) Just FYI, though, here is your Jesus-cursed-the-lesser-races-with-dark-skin Messiah&#8217;s tax plan, worked out so even the laziest of lazy fucks can get it:<\/p>\n<p>Step 1: Cut revenue (tax increases for the wealthy)<br \/>\nStep 2: Increase defense spending<br \/>\nStep 3: Cut no benefits (or only trivial ones, such as Big Bird)<br \/>\nStep 4: ?????<br \/>\nStep 5: Balanced Budget!!!<\/p>\n<p>Sounds legit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, presidential debating has appreciably lower truth standards than high school debate club debating. I&#8217;m sure the Romney handlers give their deepest thanks to Duane Gish. It&#8217;s a brilliant tactic. If you consider &#8220;infantile&#8221; and &#8220;brilliant&#8221; as synonyms, then it is brilliant. But it works with the mouthbreathers, so I guess it&#8217;s OK. (Caveat: If [&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-603","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\/603","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=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}