{"id":1660,"date":"2023-01-26T09:58:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T09:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/the-american-kakistocracy\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T09:58:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T09:58:58","slug":"the-american-kakistocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/the-american-kakistocracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Kakistocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">A kakistocracy is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. (Wikipedia) This is what we have under the current bunch of Dems.&#0160; The worst have risen to the top. &#39;President&#39; Joe Biden should come to mind as leader of the pack. But can a puppet <em>preside<\/em> over anything? The question answers itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Biden is surely one of the worst in point of truthfulness. I used to say that Barack Obama was a master of the multiple modes of mendacity, but it appears that Joey B. has him beat. <a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/articles\/ann-coulter-george-santos-would-have-to-lie-for-40-more-years-to-catch-up-biden\">Here<\/a> is a (partial) catalog of his sins against truth.&#0160; HT: <a href=\"https:\/\/anthonygflood.com\/\">Tony Flood<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">And <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/12\/towards-a-typology-of-untruthfulness.html\">here<\/a> is a stab at a typology of untruthfulness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">On the bright side, Speaker McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c5054213\/speaker-mccarthy-heated-exchange-intel-committee-assignments\">here<\/a> demonstrates the fine art of political demolition as he shuts down a PBS wonkette politely, but decisively. The C-SPAN video runs for 3:33.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A kakistocracy is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. (Wikipedia) This is what we have under the current bunch of Dems.&#0160; The worst have risen to the top. &#39;President&#39; Joe Biden should come to mind as leader of the pack. But can a puppet preside over anything? The question &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/the-american-kakistocracy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The American Kakistocracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-morality","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}