{"id":6765,"date":"2013-05-19T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T19:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=6765"},"modified":"2013-05-19T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T19:17:10","slug":"ignorance-certainty-and-meanness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=6765","title":{"rendered":"Ignorance, certainty, and meanness&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.the only thing I&#8217;ve been doing today is thinking&#8230;and reading some too, and one of the things that popped into my head was the three words that describe the modern repubs&#8230;ignorance, certainty, and meanness&#8230;.if you just listen to these folks for one minute (I know that&#8217;s hard), you will hear their ignorance all day, every day&#8230;ignorance in economics, ignorance in science, ignorance in biology&#8230;hell, ignorance in everything and they are damn proud of it&#8230;.one example of their certainty is on global warming where 97% of all science done over the past 20 years confirms that we are changing our planet by burning fossil fuels&#8230;.but, you still have the repubs all saying that they are certain that climate change is a &#8220;UN sponsored fraud&#8221; and that all of the studies that say the climate is changing are done by liberal tree huggers&#8230;.then, there is the meanness for no reason&#8230;the latest budget that Paul Ryan is proposing cuts off food stamps for 20 million Americans I guess since eating is a character flaw that the poor need to be taught is their fault&#8230;.and these thugs are still using the fake study by Rogoff to justify cutting programs that keep people alive&#8230;even though the deficit is projected to be over 200 billion less than initially projected&#8230;.just plain meanness and that is all it is&#8230;.geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.the only thing I&#8217;ve been doing today is thinking&#8230;and reading some too, and one of the things that popped into my head was the three words that describe the modern repubs&#8230;ignorance, certainty, and meanness&#8230;.if you just listen to these folks for one minute (I know that&#8217;s hard), you will hear their ignorance all day, every &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=6765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ignorance, certainty, and meanness&#8230;<\/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":[37],"class_list":["post-6765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765","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=6765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6766,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions\/6766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}