{"id":19930,"date":"2020-03-21T09:58:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T13:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=19930"},"modified":"2020-03-21T09:58:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T13:58:30","slug":"its-all-wishful-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=19930","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all wishful thinking.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;it appears that you are going to get a bunch of these every day since I have time on my hands as I wait for the weather to get better so I can start on the outside of the house&#8230;have been seeing stories about conservatives who are getting the virus and appearing to change their ways from the selfish, conspiracy theory morons that they have been for decades&#8230;yeah, I don&#8217;t believe a bit of it&#8230;it&#8217;s all wishful thinking on the part of the media that they have the capacity to be compassionate human beings and to put aside their hate if even for a little while&#8230;.after all, 95% of repubs think the idiot trump is going a &#8220;great&#8221; job of handling this crisis and how can you square that with the facts on the ground that his 6 week delay on doing anything and his lying press conferences are getting people killed as we speak? This whole thing is just the typical conservative&#8217;s behavior to hate people and programs that enhance the public good until they personally are affected by a crisis and then it&#8217;s a miracle&#8230;.and they make a big show of &#8220;changing&#8221; until the spotlight is off them and then they just go back to their anti science, hate filled lives&#8230;so, media, spare me the &#8220;foxhole conversion&#8221; stories about conservatives&#8230;they are and will always be terrible people and no virus is going to change that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;it appears that you are going to get a bunch of these every day since I have time on my hands as I wait for the weather to get better so I can start on the outside of the house&#8230;have been seeing stories about conservatives who are getting the virus and appearing to change their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=19930\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s all wishful thinking..<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1880,2447,2481],"class_list":["post-19930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-conservatives","tag-coronavirus","tag-wishful-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19931,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930\/revisions\/19931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}