{"id":32238,"date":"2013-01-18T17:36:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T00:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/18\/the-stupid-is-strong.html"},"modified":"2013-01-18T17:36:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T00:36:53","slug":"the-stupid-is-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/18\/the-stupid-is-strong.html","title":{"rendered":"The stupid is strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do all conservatives or opponents of gun control plans think in this lunatic fashion? Of course not.<\/p>\n<p>But there are those who do. And they are rarely shouted down by their co-politicists, but are instead encouraged by zany pundits and conservative media outlets and dominionist preachers all willing to (rhetorically, if not actually) \u00a0demonize the Democrats, Liberals, and most especially That Man in the White House, as well as anyone who simply disagrees with them, as Spawn from the Pit willing to do anything and everything to impose Communist Sharia United Nations Homosexualist Muslim Atheist Tyranny upon our great nation.<\/p>\n<p>And with that encouragement, the crazies not only get heard, but supported and promoted\u00a0and even become part of the normalized universe of ideas. \u00a0And so we slip further into hatred and chaos and madness &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112557653998844629535\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"112557653998844629535\">Wendy Cockcroft<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/111635150542674847021'>Armando Lioss<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>This is the kind of people going against the President&#39;s gun control measures&#8230;.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111635150542674847021\/albums\/5834911613630495857\/5834911623234683826?authkey=CMXHiOS15ZjxrQE'><img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-_TVQdolc3M0\/UPnFNOazg7I\/AAAAAAAB_zY\/eTZWqDdjEHM\/59894_491058627602245_1068447552_n.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/L5s6mAHwZ39' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do all conservatives or opponents of gun control plans think in this lunatic fashion? Of course not. But there are those who do. And they are rarely shouted down by their co-politicists, but are instead encouraged by zany pundits and conservative media outlets and dominionist preachers all willing to (rhetorically, if not actually) \u00a0demonize the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/18\/the-stupid-is-strong.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The stupid is strong&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26634,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/22\/okay-if-i-had-ten-hours-to-sleep-each-night-id-be-willing-to-do-4-asleep.html","url_meta":{"origin":32238,"position":0},"title":"Okay, if I had ten hours to sleep each night, I&#39;d be willing to do 4 asleep,&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 22-Feb-12 3:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, if I had ten hours to sleep each night, I'd be willing to do 4 asleep, 1-2 up, and then another 4 asleep.My problem, is that I too often just end up with a single 4-hour sleep. :-P #ddtb Embedded Link The myth of the eight-hour sleep Sleeping in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133436,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/09\/you-know-im-willing-to-wait-another-decade-for-a-hellboy-reboot.html","url_meta":{"origin":32238,"position":1},"title":"You know, I&#039;m willing to wait another decade for a &quot;Hellboy&quot; reboot","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-May-17 5:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I mean, I lurves me some Hellboy, but the 2004 \/ 2008 movies were so spot-on and delicious that seeing the franchise restarted without del Toro or Perlman, and presumably for a lower budget than what del Toro wanted, just doesn't fill me with much joy. 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