{"id":6624,"date":"2013-04-18T12:15:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T16:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=6624"},"modified":"2013-04-18T12:17:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T16:17:03","slug":"republicans-are-just-bullies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=6624","title":{"rendered":"Republicans are just bullies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as I was sitting here thinking a little this morning, a thunderbolt hit me&#8230;well, maybe some static electricity, not sure, but the idea that crystallized was that you can reduce all repub behavior to one thing: they are just bullies and love bullying people that can&#8217;t fight back. They bully gay people by trying to deprive them of their rights, they bully voters by making it harder and harder to vote, they bully 90% of the country when they gloat (I&#8217;m talking to you McConnell you dick,), that they have defeated Obama again on sensible gun regulation, they bully all minorities when you have ole Scalia saying voting rights are a &#8220;racial entitlement&#8221; and they bully the entire country when they ignore the will of the people and vote to reward their corporate owners at every turn. When this popped into my head, I immediately went to what happened here in Michigan when they stole the retirement income of seniors to give to corporate ceos and they just didn&#8217;t give a damn that a large majority of the state didn&#8217;t want them to do it&#8230;.they take politics not as a way to better the lives of all people here in the US, but a game to be &#8220;won&#8221; by being the pricks and bullies that they are&#8230;I am tired of this crap and I think the majority of the people (except for other bullies) want it to stop&#8230;and I think we can stop it in 2014&#8230;I can&#8217;t wait&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as I was sitting here thinking a little this morning, a thunderbolt hit me&#8230;well, maybe some static electricity, not sure, but the idea that crystallized was that you can reduce all repub behavior to one thing: they are just bullies and love bullying people that can&#8217;t fight back. They bully gay people by trying to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=6624\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Republicans are just bullies&#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":[829,37],"class_list":["post-6624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-gun-control","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6626,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions\/6626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}