People on the lefter side of the political spectrum tend to represent blogs like Daily Kos as representing something like mainstream serious political and social thinking.<\/p>\n
Now I normally wouldn’t dignify Kos with a link, but recently they’ve been discussing whether Bush will refuse to step down in 2009<\/a>, and begin rounding up dissenters into camps.<\/p>\n These people are so utterly sheltered. I grew up in a brutal dictatorship, folks, and for any thinking person to even remotely consider such things of Bush or the USA — in terms of grubby reality on the ground, not even considering the ideals on which the US is based — is from where I stand proof of irretrievabe dementia.<\/p>\n Tell you what. If Bush refuses to step down in 09, I will personally pay a dollar to every single member of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People on the lefter side of the political spectrum tend to represent blogs like Daily Kos as representing something like mainstream serious political and social thinking. Now I normally wouldn’t dignify Kos with a link, but recently they’ve been discussing whether Bush will refuse to step down in 2009, and begin rounding up dissenters into … Continue reading “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Over?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}